To the Editors of the CRIMSON:
I have been following with dismay as well as amusement the Student Council's resolutions to prohibit undergraduate organizations from having "discrimination" clauses in their constitutions.
This strikes me as an unusually foolish business. The Council's resolution is unsound in theory and unworkable in practice.
It is unsound because if people enjoying each other's company want to meet and to ask others to join them, it is neither the Student Council's nor anyone else's business to say who they should be, or why, as long as they are not a harmful organization.
It is unworkable because a constitution only reflects the general will: if an association doesn't want Nomadic members and puts that opinion in its constitution, you can burn the constitution and you still won't elect Gypsies.
Of course, I am defending here only freedom of private association, not discrimination practiced with public funds or facilities. John P.C. Train '50
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