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State University of Iowa Human Rights Committee first annual report and correspondence, 1963

First Annual Report of the University Committee on the Human Rights for the Calendar year 1963 Page 2

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compliance with the fair housing policy, the Student Senate has under-taken a program in which students urge their landlords to rent to persons of minority groups.
   2. Student organizations--The Committee have worked closely with the Committee on Student Life to assure to all student organizations free choice in the selection of members. Currently, two campus organizations are affiliated with national groups having written clauses restricting membership. One of these groups has secured a waiver of the clause, and recent discussions with the national and local officers of the other organization indicate that a waiver will be forthcoming within the next six months. Notwithstanding progress in the elimination of written bias clauses, efforts are being made to eradicate other forms of external pressure which might come from national headquarters, parents, or alumni. Reports of the presence of such pressures on other campuses are and will be in-vestigated to determine the effect on Iowa organisations. The Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Association are cooperation in the detection and removal of subtle pressures.
   The Committee on Human Rights also is seeking to stimulate students to develop a sense of involvement with what is the nation's primary domestic problem. It hopes to do this through assisting student organizations to develop in students a sense of continuing responsibility both as undergraduates and as graduates. Accordingly, the Committee has encouraged the student exchange with a southern Negro college now being planned by the Student Association for Racial

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2. compliance with the fair housing policy, the Student Senate has under-taken a program in which students urge their landlords to rent to persons of minority groups. 2. Student organizations--The Committee have worked closely with the Committee on Student Life to assure to all student organizations free choice in the selection of members. Currently, two campus organizations are affiliated with national groups having written clauses restricting membership. One of these groups has secured a waiver of the clause, and recent discussions with the national and local officers of the other organization indicate that a waiver will be forthcoming within the next six months. Notwithstanding progress in the elimination of written bias clauses, efforts are being made to eradicate other forms of external pressure which might come from national headquarters, parents, or alumni. Reports of the presence of such pressures on other campuses are and will be in-vestigated to determine the effect on Iowa organisations. The Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Association are cooperation in the detection and removal of subtle pressures. The Committee on Human Rights also is seeking to stimulate students to develop a sense of involvement with what is the nation's primary domestic problem. It hopes to do this through assisting student organizations to develop in students a sense of continuing responsibility both as undergraduates and as graduates. Accordingly, the Committee has encouraged the student exchange with a southern Negro college now being planned by the Student Association for Racial