Sigma Alpha Epsilon Drops Bias Clause From National Regulations

"Non-aryans" are no longer barred from membership in the College's only nationally-affiliated fraternity, Charles L. Clements, Jr. '52, president of the local chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon made known yesterday.

Lead by representatives of Eastern college chapters, including Harvard's, S.A.E. voted in a national convention last month to strike from its rules a controversial bias clause. According to the old regulation only "members of the aryan race" could join the fraternity.

Attention was first drawn to the restrictive clause by a Student Council investigation two years ago. Last September's convention offered the first opportunity for changing the organization's laws. Several of the Eastern chapters, including that of the University of Connecticut, faced ouster by their college authorities in the event the clause were not removed.

"The new ruling will not affect us here," Clements said yesterday because we've never observed the restrictions anyway. If we had, we would have thrown out half our members."