The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-25
AFULL COURT AT BUTLER
STUDENT CHARGED WITH ISTOXICA-
TIOS ENUMERATED BY FACULTY.
1t Is Claimed that the Trouble Arose
Over the Rivalry Between Fra
ternities-A Peculiar Case.

Butler University is stirred deeply lover
a bitter fight that is being waged between
the different fraternities. The faculty has
had to deal with a demand for the expul-
sion of one young man on the charge of
intoxication. The charge was carefully
investigated last Friday, the decision being
withheld until yesterday, when the young
man WAS exonerated. Now the faculty has
even more difficult thing to decide, and
that is what shall be done with the six
young men who made afdavits that the
young man was guilty. good deal of
crecy has been maintained and it was i'm
possible to get all the facts. When a stu
dent was found who would talk. he refused
TO give names but told what he knew of
the trouble.
1t seems that on Oct. 81 last the second
Butler football eleven went to Anderson 10
play the Anderson eleven. After the re-
turn of the team four Phi Delta Thetas
and two nonfraternity men signed an at
fidavit charging that another young man,
who is a Sigma Chi, was guilty of getting
intoxicated on the trip and of conduct I'M
becoming a gentleman. The charge of his
fellow-students was Indignantly denied by
the Sigma Chi and his friends, who at once
set to work to secure counter afiidavits. A
from well-known men of Anderson, the
conductor and brakeman on the train and
of students who were present on the trip.
which covered the young mans entire time
and completely refuted the charges. As
stated above, q regular trial was held last
Friday. Yesterday the verdict of the fac
ulty was announced and President Butler
took occasion to deplore the unfortunate
circumstance. He said that it seemed very
strange 10 him that a boy could not take a
trip away from town without running the
risk of having fellow-students afterward
come forward with such groundlesS accusa-
lions. He said that he did not believe the
young man had been guilty.
Feeling over the episode Is very intense.
A number of students who have not taken
sides in the case are nevertheless not slow
in asserting that the men who filed the
original afldavitS against their FELLOWSHIP
breach of college ethics. member of the
faculty said that he had never heard OF
such a case before, and declared that in
any other college a man who would will
ingly make groundlesS charges against
'felloW-student would be looked upon with
contempt and would be virtually ostra-
cized by his fellows. There is a sort of
bond among stud6 ntS which binds them to
shield rather than expose one another.
Much sympathy is expressed by Irvington
people on behalf of the young man whose
character was attacked. He Is said to be
a very tstlmabl. young man, of good fam
lily. Another strange feature of the case is
disclosed when it is said that the men who
made tire affi iavits against the Sigma Chi
were total strangers to him.
The student who discussed the case said
that il was all due to feelings of jealousy.
He declared that the men who made the af-
idavits simply wanted to disgrace a rival
went a bout it. In Irvington the faculty is
compmented for its course in investigat-
ing the charge. 1t is said that in other
colleges there Is disposition to pass over
Sl,QEF occurrences.