Catholic University Denies Students' Bid for a NAACP Chapter From: Washington Informer | Date: June 16, 2004| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Tesfamariam, Rahiel
Washington Informer
06-16-2004
Calling for Catholic University to rescind its decision to block students'
request to create a chapter of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights
organization on campus;

Kweisi Mfume, president and CEO of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and students from the university
held a press conference last Friday.

Mfume called the decision "outright discrimination, bigotry, prejudice and
intolerance all rolled into one" and "a double standard based on race and
social philosophy".

Victor Nakas, the university's ...

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