Show v Membership Requirements Student Organizations Set The Student Affairs Committee has set up the following policy concerning membership requirements for University student Although the policy has not been officially it is ted hero so students will be of Ute organizations feelings in the discrimination In the furtherance of its educational objectives and the University gives official recognition to a large variety of student Included are special interest groups of several departmental honor recognition professional religious affiliated and social fraternities and Many of these organizations have national Standards of membership often include minimum scholastic religious andor a variety of personal qualities or With University such groups operate in the name of the University and under its Through University the aims and objectives of a group are deemed to be such as to preserve and to promote the University's academic program and its educational goals for student life outside the It is the direct responsibility of the Committee on Student subject to the authority of the Deans' Council and the Board of to invoke this criterion when evaluating the stated goals of any group seeking University It is also the Committee's responsibility to evaluate the continuing programs of recognized groups to insure that these same standards continue to be The University assumes the responsibility for the aims and objectives of its recognized student groups and supports them with its facilities and In promoting the goals of such the University must also evaluate the membership requirements of these groups to determine if these are consistent with and actively reinforce the stated The objectives of any group are best pursued by making a distinction between those eligible and those not eligible for This results in a formal statement of membership requirements that do not serve to promote the stated goals of the Such practices are deemed to constitute unauthorized discrimination on the part of the group and form a basis for withholding or revoking University In the granting of University recognition to a student group involves a two-stage the aims and objectives of the group must be such as to promote the larger aims and objectives of the University as a membership requirements of the group must serve to further the approved goals of that Unauthorized discrimination is defined as a violation of this second The educational goals of the University are not best served by restricting organizational membership on the basis of religious belief or Such membership restrictions will be recognized only for those student organizations which have as their primary and essential purpose the deepening of their religious faiths or the perpetuation of national cultural In a group may find that its membership requirements serve to foster implicit and unstated goals of the These unstated goals may or may not foster those of the University The burden of stating these goals explicitly falls upon the group involved and recognition becomes contingent upon |