Over 1000 Students Sign Plea Against Segregation

The campaign for signatures on a petition against segregation in two South African universities will end today. Over a thousand undergraduates have signed during the three-day drive in house dining rooms.

The petition is directed against an attempt by the South African government to exclude non-whites from the universities at Capetown and Witswatersrand. These are the only unsegregated universities in the Union.

All United States universities are participating in the campaign. NSA officers hope for over 40,000 names. Few universities in the South belong to the NSA.

Henri DeBayle, chairman of the Student Council's NSA committee, is satisfied with Harvard's showing, but he doubts that the petition will have any real effect. A similar petition in 1952 helped stop a similar segregation drive, but De-Bayle pointed out that the current prime minister, Dirk Strijdom, has a firmer apartheid policy than his predecessor, and cares less for world opinion.