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

1963-03-13 M.L. Huit to Willard L. Boyd Page 4

Professor Willard L. Boyd - 4 - March 13, 1963

The full report of the ad hoc committee was accepted, with a few minor changes, and on November 6, 1962, Dean Ted McCarrel appointed the following "Sub-Committee on Student Organizations" of the Committee on Student Life, charging it "to work with all student organizations, their national officers and local officers, to assist them in meeting the deadline by which they must have complete freedom to choose their own members," with the following membership: Dr. Paul Huston, Professor Allan Vestal, Charles Corwin, Mary Lockwood, M. L. Huit, Chairman. Since its appointment, the Sub-Committee has taken three steps in the direction of implementing the procedures and schedule recommended by the ad hoc committee:

   1. It has prepared and in late January of 1963 had transmitted letters to the presidents of all national organizations on the University of Iowa campus which have local affiliates, and to the president of such local affiliates. Copies of these letters, content of which was approved by the parent committee on January 3, 1963, were designed primarily to give official notification of the University's policy with respect to discrimination in approved organizations on campus. Although these letters did not specifically solicit any kind of response, I have been gratified to note that some forty organizations have provided some response to the communication and, in a number of cases, copies of constitutions and written statements were provided as attachments.

   2. The Assistant Director of the Office of Student Affairs, who is most immediately responsible for student organizations and activities, has been directed by the Sub-Committee to bring up to date the files of constitutions, bylaws, and other written material governing membership requirements in order that the Sub-Committee may have access to such materials as they may be needed from time to time.

   3. Several meetings have been scheduled by the Sub-Committee for purposes of discussion with certain organization presidents, the current policies of those organizations, but these meetings have had to be cancelled for various reasons. The next meeting of the Sub-Committee is scheduled for Tuesday, March 19, at which time the Committee will have in attendance the presidents of Sigma Nu and Sigma Chi. The Sub-Committee is processing at the outset to hold such hearings with groups which were known, as of 1958, to have had clauses existing in their national constitutions which prohibited the local groups from selecting persons of their choice.

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Professor Willard L. Boyd - 4 - March 13, 1963 The full report of the ad hoc committee was accepted, with a few minor changes, and on November 6, 1962, Dean Ted McCarrel appointed the following "Sub-Committee on Student Organizations" of the Committee on Student Life, charging it "to work with all student organizations, their national officers and local officers, to assist them in meeting the deadline by which they must have complete freedom to choose their own members," with the following membership: Dr. Paul Huston, Professor Allan Vestal, Charles Corwin, Mary Lockwood, M. L. Huit, Chairman. Since its appointment, the Sub-Committee has taken three steps in the direction of implementing the procedures and schedule recommended by the ad hoc committee: 1. It has prepared and in late January of 1963 had transmitted letters to the presidents of all national organizations on the University of Iowa campus which have local affiliates, and to the president of such local affiliates. Copies of these letters, content of which was approved by the parent committee on January 3, 1963, were designed primarily to give official notification of the University's policy with respect to discrimination in approved organizations on campus. Although these letters did not specifically solicit any kind of response, I have been gratified to note that some forty organizations have provided some response to the communication and, in a number of cases, copies of constitutions and written statements were provided as attachments. 2. The Assistant Director of the Office of Student Affairs, who is most immediately responsible for student organizations and activities, has been directed by the Sub-Committee to bring up to date the files of constitutions, bylaws, and other written material governing membership requirements in order that the Sub-Committee may have access to such materials as they may be needed from time to time. 3. Several meetings have been scheduled by the Sub-Committee for purposes of discussion with certain organization presidents, the current policies of those organizations, but these meetings have had to be cancelled for various reasons. The next meeting of the Sub-Committee is scheduled for Tuesday, March 19, at which time the Committee will have in attendance the presidents of Sigma Nu and Sigma Chi. The Sub-Committee is processing at the outset to hold such hearings with groups which were known, as of 1958, to have had clauses existing in their national constitutions which prohibited the local groups from selecting persons of their choice.