UC Sigma Chi Charges Rights Violation
IIOUUDKH, Colo (CPS) The
regents of the University of Colo
rado have been charged with vio
latiru; the U S Constitution by
placing the Boulder chapter of
Sigma Chi fraternity on proba
tion.
The change was made in a suit
filed in the U.S. Uistrict Court of
lienver by a Denver attorney
on behalf of the National Sigma
(,'lu Fraternity, its Boulder chap
ter, and their respective corporate
strucures.
According to Fred Winner, the
attorney who bled the suit, there
is no money involved The suit,
Winner said, request* an injunr
tion against any punitive action
the regents might take against
the Boulder chapter
Tin- suit also requests that the
probation status of the chapter
be ruled "to be in excess of the
defendant's jurisdiction, arbi
trary and capricious, unconstitu
tional and void, and of no force
anil affect.”
Violations Alleged
The suit lists the following al
leged violations of the Constitu
tion
• Denial of the right of associ
ation, freedom of choice, freedom
of religion, freedom of speech
as guaranteed by the First
Amendment
• Denial of freedom of con
tract under the Fifth Amend
ment.
• Denial of equal protection of
the law under the 14th Amend
ment
• Denial of due process of law
under the 14th Amendment.
• Impairment of the obliga
lions of contracts contrary to Sec
tion 10 of the Constitution
Sigma Chi also claim* that the
probation lowered the value of
Grant Finances
French Institute
The University will conduct one
of five overseas institutes for sec
ondary school French teaeiiers in
France this summer under a
$151,211 National Defense Edu
cation Act grant from the U.S.
Office of Education
Eighty teachers from through
out the United States will partici
pate in the University's nine -
week Institute for Advanced
Study in the Teaching of French,
to he held in Tours, France
David M Dougherty, head of
the University's modern and clas
sical language division, will be
director of the institute The re
cently elected president of t h e
American Association of Teach
ers of French, Dougherty has di
reeled the institute since its
founding six years ago
Objective of the institute is to
upgrade the teachers’ knowledge
of the language, methods, and
materials for teaching. Curricu
lum will focus on four areas —
civilization, methods, linguistics,
and language drill
Oregon French teachers have
been especially encouraged to ap
ply for the program, which
awards a $75 weekly stipend, a
travel allowance, and a $15 per
week allowance for each depen
dent to participants
To he eligible for admission,
a teacher must have ranged in
the upper third of one of the
first-level institutes held in t h e
United States during the past
seven summers or have had equiv
alent training, and have had a
minimum of two years teaching
experience in French.
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tl>«- houfX' by $10,000 and reduc
ed the chapter’s yearly income by I
another $10,000
Questions Authority,
Aside from testing the issues j
Involved directly in the probation
case, the suit raises a question |
seldom litigated—the exact scope
of authority of the governing1
body of a state supported institu-1
tion of higher learning.
Observers feel that more is at ]
stake for the Colorado regents in
this suit than mere ability to reg
ulate fraternity membership pol
icies If Sigma Chi, they say, has !
rights to freedom of association ;
and action which cannot be reg-'
ulated by the regents, do all stu- ■
dents have similar rights?
If a federal court finds that the j
regents cannot regulate Sigma
Chi, it would seem logical, these 1
same observers say, that the re-1
gents are without power to reg
ulate any aspect of the university i
community except academic de- -
partments and the use of the I
physical plant.
Many Implications
The implications of a Sigma
Chi victory might be broader still.
For currently Sigma Chi, and oth
er campus social organizations,
have access to myriad facilities
intramural fields, computer time,
offices and meeting rooms, the
use of auditoriums — on their:
campuses.
Bureau Chosen
For Area Study
The University Bureau of Mu
nicipal research was appointed
Tuesday to formulate a long-range
community development plan.
The Central Lane Planning
Council chose the Bureau to study
future development of cultural
and recreational needs for the
area, and emphasized study of the
North Bank area, the site of the
proposed University football sta
dium
Cost for the study, an esti
mated $20,500, will be divided
between the Dept, of Housing and
Urban Development. Lane Coun
ty, Eugene and Springfield, and
the University.
Cl.PC members asked to have
Tony Kom, a Bureau planning
consultant, head the project.
Language Classes
Offered at YMCA
Registration for the Swahili
and Hindi language courses
will continue through this
office in 318 SU.
Swahili will be taught at 7
p.m. on Tuesday nights and
Hindi will be taught at 7 p.m.
Thursdays. The registration
fee will be $5.
If Sigma Chi can stay in good
graces with Its national while
having full access to Colorado fa
cilities, the regents might as well
be without precedent to impose
any regulation on any group
which wishes to use the univer
sity,
The Boulder chapter of Sigma
Chi first came under fire from
the regents last April when the
board charged that the national
had a rule which violated the uni
versity’s nondiscrimination rul
ing of 1056,
On May 29, the board ruled
that the suspension of a partic
ular chapter was in accordance
with an unwritten tradition and
practice of the national Sigma
Chi office of discriminating against
minority groups,
On Probation Now
By a four to two vote the re
gents put the Sigma Chi chapter
on probation on these grounds
At the beginning of the cur
rent semester, the chapter notified
both the regents and its national
headquarters that it was to be
considered “autonomous” in the
selection of its members.
The chapter then requested the
regents to lift the probation. The
regents were assured at that time
that the local fraternity would
not submit its choice of members
to the national fraternity for ap
proval in the future.
The regents voted again and
this time the vote was three to
three. University President Jo
seph Smiley is the only person,
under Colorado law, who can
break a tie vote of the regents.
Since Smiley was out of town, the
motion failed.
Began at Stanford
Trouble for local Sigma Chi
chapters seems to stem from a
Stanford University incident last
Art Center Holding
Class Registration
The Maude I Kerns Art Cen
ter at 1910 Fifteenth Ave East
will be conducting registration
for students both this week and
next week The term is ten weeks
long with classes beginning next
week. Three-hour classes are
$20 00 Memberships in the Art
Center are $5 00 and some classes
require a lab fee.
The Art Center has announced
that two painters of well renown
have joined its faculty this term
John llaugse, from Seattle, will
teach etching Wednesday night
from 7 to 10, and Vernon Witham,
from Eugene, will teach acrylic
painting Thursday night from 7
to 10 Both men have exhibited
widely on the West Coast and
both have studied at the Univer
sity of Oregon.
Anyone wishing further infor
mation should contact Ron Jan
son, Art Center director, at 345
1126
spring. The Stanford chapter
pledged a Negro and was sus- j
pended from the national organ-!
ization.
The national office claimed the j
suspension was not for taking a!
Negro, but for “continued dis
regard of, and actual opposition
to, the ritual requirements of the 1
fraternity.”
The Stanford chapter had tak j
en the same measures as the |
Colorado chapter when before!
it pledged the Negro, it an- j
nounced its independence of the
national office on membership1
matters.
The national fraternity re-i
quires that no chapter pledge or 1
initiate any member “who for any
reason is likely to be considered
as personally unacceptable as a I
brother by any chapter or any ]
brother anywhere.”
“White Christians”
The University of Wisconsin j
had prodded its Sigma Chi chap- j
ter into pushing for the elimina
tion of the “white Christians j
only" clause. The “acceptable to
any brother anywhere” clause is
the replacement.
The probation imposed by the!
regents was based on the assump-1
tion, the university said, that if'
the chapter was not in trouble
with the national it was only be-'
cause the national had reason to
believe that the chapter would
continue to abide by the “accept
able to any brother” clause.
Since the lawsuit was brought j
by the Boulder and national or- i
ganizations together, some uni
versity officials feel that this as
sumption was well founded. These
officials say that if the Colorado
chapter’s declaration of It* in
dependence in membership mat
ters had been distressing to the
national organization it would not
have entered into a suit on its
behalf >
Clause Exemption
As the suit was filed, the Fac
ulty Senate Committee on Student
AfTairs at Colorado was studying
a proposal that might go to the
Dec. 16 meeting of the regents
and would tighten regulations on
all campus organizations.
The so<alled Danielson pro
posal now under study says, “Be
ginning with the academic year
1966-67. no student organization
in which there is any regulation
or practice which denies partici
pation to any student on the ba
sis of race, color or creed will re
ceive university recognition.'’
If passed as is, the statement
would also require that member
ship selection be strictly a local
matter. \
A committee spokesman said a
portion of the proposal which
says that a religious group organ
ized “to promote, as its primari
purpose, the study of a religious
faith or the promotion of ethnic
or racial purity” may request an
exemption from the regulations is
“in debate." Committee chairman
Ned Bowler predicted that the
exemption clause will ‘undergo
some revision.”
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