Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-08
STUDENTS ENTER PROTEST.
Object to the Methods of the Commit
tee Investigating the NJ.
9. U. Riot.

8. U. Riot.
Columbia, No., March 7-(Special) A
secret meeting of number of -hs Mis-
souri, university students was held az Mu-
sic hall Saturday night, to denounce news
paper correspondents who published ac-
counts of the disgraceful class riot which
took place here on February Is. and to
call down the discipline committee fer in
vestigating the riot. About 2iO students
were present as participants Or spectators
out of the GOO attending the university.
Ten or fifteen took part. w. T. McNahan,
of Webster county, was made chairman,
and Giboney Houck, of st. Genevieve, sec
retary.
The university discipline committee.
which has the riot under investigation, had
suspended several students, who refused
to answer any questions concerning those
engaged in the affair. The mass meeting
adopted the following protest to thu fac
ulty:
1--WE, the students Of the university, in
mass meeting assembled, do HEREBY pro-
test against the mode which The discip-
line committee has seen fit to adopt to
force the students, under penalty Of ex-
pulsion, to betray their associates in tine
disturbance on the evening Of February
2S. We regard it as incompatible with
all established rules of honor, ard We
further believe that it is the object Of the
university, and of all other properly con-
Quoted educational institutions, ID incul-
cate rather than degrade, that sense OF
honor among the students. Therefore, we
request that those who had the moral
courage to brave the unjust penalty and
maintain their honor, at the peril Of the
severest penalty in the power Of the fac
ulty Of the university. be exonerated in
their action and restored to their former
standing in the university"
The newspaper correspondents came in
for share of condemnation for printing
reports of the disturbance. Resolutions.
however. denouncing the newspaper report
ers, failed of passage.
This protest was adopted, nobody voting
in the negative:
ITO the Faculty of the Missouri State
University, Gentlemen:-We, the student
sembled. believing that the discipline COM
mittee have been misinformed as to the
origin and intent of the disturbance on the
informing you that the meeting was not.
as some seem to believe, a premeditated
affair: that there were no leaders; that all
accord: that those recognized were no more
guilty but more unfortunate than others,
and that we believe al! equally guilty:
Therefore. we request and petition that. if
the faculty see fit TO punish any. punish
ment be meted to all alike"
The students disclaimed burning down the
frame building on the university athletic
grounds and condemned this as vandalism:
No denial was made of the breakage of
windows. the raidng of university academ-
ic hall. the drenching of the hats and
wraps of the young lady students. the
storming of the calaboose and the destruc-
ton of other property. A collection amount
ing to 1876 was taken up to defray the ex-
pense of placing the rioters side of the
case before the people and the courts:
In the meantime. the discipline committee
continues its work of investigation. About
twenty or thirty senior and junior students.
young men from q to q years OF age, are
deeply involved as ringleaders.