Students: Fraternities Get the Grip

How deeply does the 1964 Civil Rights Act's Title VI — the provision that empowers the Federal Government to withhold funds from recipients practicing racial discrimination — cut into the social texture of U.S. academic life? Commissioner of Education Fran cis Keppel last week provided a measurement by ruling that any fraternity's refusal to admit a Negro on racial grounds could imperil the many millions of dollars that a university might be getting from the Government.

Sweetheart of Sigma Chi. It was a sweetheart deal of Sigma Chi that spurred the ruling....

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