Douglas Daily Dispatch

Filipino Student Objects to Ban Of Nebraska U

Appeals to Washington Against Dean's Rule Against Co-Ed Society.

LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 26 (AP).--A Filipino student at the University of Nebraska has appealed to Washington against what he considers a "social ban" placed upon his race, he said, by T. J. Thompson, dean of student affairs at the university.

The student is Carlos A. Cartagena and he has written Camilio Osias, Philippine islands representative at Washington.

Dean Thompson wrote the Daily Nebraskan, student paper, making it clear his position, Cartagena set forth. The letter followed disclosure of the marriage of a Lincoln girl graduate and a Chinese student. Dean Thompson pointed out there have been several similar marriages of Filipinos and American girls at the university and declared the Filipinos were not held in as high regard since those marriages as before.

Cartagena, however, declared that "activity" of Filipino students had been curtailed ever since the dean took office.

"I believe," wrote the man, "that the best purpose of the university as well as the Filipino group would be served by the Filipino boys confining their social life, insofar as it is possible, to mingling with members of their own group and with the young men of the university.

Do not understand me to say that there should be no association between Filipino students and American girls but such association should be entirely platonic and incidental and educational, whenever it occurs."