THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE THURSDAY, JANUARY 6,1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE 4 Sigma Chi Chapter Probation Spurs Suit NIC Passes Viet Nam Policy Resolution The regents of the University of Colorado have been charged with violating the United States Constitution by placing the Colo- rado chapter of Sigma Chi fra- ternity on probation. The charge was made in a suit filed in the U.S. District Court of Denver by a Denver attorney representing the National Sigma Chi Frater- nity and its chapter at Colorado. According to Fred Winner, the attorney who filed the suit, it requests an injunction against any punitive action the regents might take against the Colorado chapter. The suit also requests that the probation status of the chapter be ruled "to be in excess of the defendant's jurisdiction, arbitrary and capricious, uncon- stitutional and void, And of no force and effect." No money is involved. Last April, the regents at Colo- rado charged that the Sigma Chi national had a rule which violated the university's non-discrimination ruling of 1956. On May 29, the regents ruled that the suspension of a particular chapter was in accordance with an unwritten tra- dition and practice of the National Sigma Chi Fraternity of discrim- inating against minority groups. By a four to two vote, the regents put the Sigma Chi chapter on probation. At the beginning of last fall's semester, the chapter notified both the regents and its national that it was to be considered "autono- mous" in the selection of its mem- bers. With the assurance that the local chapter would not submit its choice of members to the national for approval in the future, it was then requested that the prob;1ion be lifted. The regents voted again and this time, the vote was three to three. Under Colorado law, Uni- versity of Colorado President Jo- seph Smiley is the only person who can break a tie vote of the regents. Smiley was out of town so the motion failed. Trouble for local chapters of Sigma Chi seems to stem from an incident at Stanford University last spring. The Stanford chapter pledged a Negro and was sus- pended from the national. The national office claimed the suspension was not for taking a Negro, but for" "continual disre- gard of, and actual opposition to, the ritual requirements of the fraternity." The suspension, the national said, was based on "de- liberate violation of pledge edu- cation procedures and financial responsibility," The Stanford chapter said it paid its dues regularly and had not changed its pledge education practices for years. The Stanford' chapter had also announced its' independence of the national on membership matters before it pledged the Negro. The national fraternity requires that no chapter pledge or initiate any member "who for any rea- son is likely to be considered as personally unacceptable as a brother by any chapter or any brother anywhere." The Univer- sity of Wisconsin had prodded its Sigma Chi chapter into pushing for the elimination of a "white Christians only" clause which was replaced by the "unacceptable to any brother anywhere" clause. The probation imposed by the regents of the University of Colo- rado was based on the assumption that if the chapter was not in trouble with the national it was only because the national had reason to believe that the chap- ter would continue to abide by the "acceptable to any brother" clause. Since the lawsuit was brought by both the local chapter and the national together, some university officials feel that this assumption was well founded. These officials say that if the Colorado chapter's declaration of its independence on membership matters had been dis- tressing to the national organiza- tion, they would never have enter- ed into a lawsuit on the chapter's behalf. L o c a 11 y, the Interfraternity Council membership committee investigated the activities and policies of Sigma Chi last semes- ter and submitted a report to the IFC executive committee at the end of the semester. The executive committee will review the report early this semester. By LAURENCE MEDOW A resolution approving of inter- fraternity councils taking stands in support of efforts of the United States government to uphold free- dom and oppose aggression in Viet Nam and other areas threatened by Communist takeover was pass- ed at the 56th Annual National Interfraternity Council Conference held recently in Washington, D.C. A motion to allow national fra- ternities to establish chapters at junior colleges was defeated at the conference after a lively debate. William LeClerce, executive secre- tary of Chi Psi national frater- nity, said the proposal had a lot of strong support and the issue will probably come up again since more and more people are decid- ing to take their first two years at a junior college. The conference is divided into two segments: a house of dele- gates composed of representatives from each of the 61 national fra- ternities and an undergraduate program for delegations from in- terfraternity councils on campuses across the country. Each national fraternity has one vote in the House of Delegates and the under- graduates do not vote. LeClere said the undergraduates did not like the Viet Nam presen- tation. Though he felt that such issues should be discussed at meet- ings like the conference, it was more like the undergraduates were lectured to than participating in a discussion. Discussion Out of Place The five-member delegation representing the fraternity system at the University felt the discus- sion of the Viet Nam policies was out of place at the meeting, ac- cording to Fred Feldkamp, '68, chairman of IFC's campus proj- ects committee. "IFC is organized to work for the benefit of its member fraternities, not to take stands on political questions," Feldkamp said. Though opinions were mixed, if the undergraduates had been al- lowed to vote the junior college proposal would have probably passed, LeClere said. The conference consisted of a business meeting of the House of Delegates and a program of panels and discussions on the grass roots mechanics of running a good IFC for the 'undergraduates. The total registration was just under one thousand, LeClere said, the biggest in the history of the conference. Iron Man Trophy The University of Tennessee was announced as the winner of the NIC Iron Man Trophy for 1965, an annual award presented to the IFC carrying out the most con- structive leadership, scholarship and community relations program among the hundreds of schools with interfraternity councils. Competition for the award is based on written reports which are evaluated by a committee of executive secretaries of national fraternities, college deans and con- ference officers. Commenting on the conference, Feldkamp said the University del- egates felt the discussion groups were generally not too good. Feld- kamp pointed to the opportunity to contact national fraternities and discuss expansion of the fra- ternity system at the University as the greatest value of the confer- ence. Feldkamp said they were able to talk to representatives of Sigma Pi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Delta Phi and Phi Mu Delta. 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