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The Washington Tribune
Washington, District Of Columbia
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Ohio legislature's codes committee approves bill by Rep. Chester Gillespie to ban racial, color, or creed discrimination in Ohio State University student rules, stemming from Doris Weaver's denied housing in home economics course.
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COLUMBUS, O.—The codes committee of the Ohio legislature has approved the bill of Representative Chester Gillespie which would prohibit the trustees of Ohio State University from making any rules discriminating between students of the university on the basis of race, color or creed.
Messrs. Clayborne George and Charles W. White, of Cleveland, appeared before the committee last week.
The bill is the outgrowth of the Doris Weaver case in which the university refused Miss Weaver residence under same conditions as white girls in a practice cottage in a home economics course.
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the codes committee approved the bill.
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The codes committee of the Ohio legislature approved Representative Chester Gillespie's bill prohibiting Ohio State University trustees from making rules discriminating between students on the basis of race, color or creed. Clayborne George and Charles W. White of Cleveland appeared before the committee last week. The bill arose from the Doris Weaver case, in which the university refused Miss Weaver residence under the same conditions as white girls in a practice cottage for a home economics course.