June 18, 2004

Catholic U. Denies Student's Bid to Start NAACP Chapter

By JOSHUA KARLIN-RESNICK

William Jawando wants to raise the flag of the nation's oldest civil-rights organization on his campus, but his university says the group has no place there.

In April, officials at Catholic University of America rejected the student's proposal to start a chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The decision has since drawn fire from Kweisi Mfume, the NAACP's president, who, at a news conference just outside the university this month, called the move

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