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Race Requirement

A Weekly Survey of News from Campuses

By Robert M. Neer

All students at Princeton University should be required to take a course on face relations the university's International Center's Committee on Race Relations decided on February 28 after more than a month of debate.

Initial campus reaction to the committee's recommendation has been negative.

"It's a good idea, but it's unrealistic," said Michele Woods, chairman of Princeton's Undergraduate Student Government (USG). Woods added that the USG's executive committee considered a similar act last year, "but Dean [of the College Joan] Girgus encouraged moving in a more realistic direction."

The proposal will be presented to the USG at its March 10th meeting, Woods said. The Daily Princetonian

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