The San Francisco call., 1898-02-05
STILL INSIST
 ON 4 CHANGE. Students Want Faculty Athletics Committee
 Enlarged. Retraction of the Request for the Removal of Pro-
 feSSOrS.
Spirited Controversy waged Before the Athletic Difficulties
 Are Solved.

BERKELEY, Feb. 4-After almost unanimously resembling the resolutions passed last Monday requesting Presi- dent Kellogg to remove Professors Bacon and Clapp from the faculty athletics committee, the Associated Stu dents of the university this morning practically reaffirmed the principle of the right of students to suggest mem bers for the faculty committee, by re- questing the president to enlarge the committee to five instead of three mem bers.
 The meeting, which was held at Stiles Hall, was attended by nearly 400 students, and was one of the most spirited student gatherings ever held at Berkeley. The women students were conspicuous by their absence, not single coed being present.
 Discussion was precipitated by Ed itor Hopper of the Occident. who in- troduced a resolution resembling the resolution passed last Monday. Hop pers resolution, which was seconded by Editor Creed of the Californian, was as follows:
 Considering that certain resolutions passed at meeting of the Associated Students on Monday last do not repre- sent the opinion of a large number of that body, and
 Considering that question of such i'm portance should be indorsed by larger proportion of the student body, and
 Considering that the faculty athletics should be independent of the student body in the choosing of its members. and Considering that this principle was v1o- lated by the action of last Monday, pa if raco1upd That those resolutions be rescinded.
 After a spirited discussion, in which Professor William Carey Jones spoke. urging the students for the sake of the university to reach final and amicable settlement of the existing trouble, Hop pers resolutions were almost unan1- mously adopted.
 A set of resolutions which had been framed at he suggestion of Professor William Carey Jones were introduced by Leggett '98 and seconded by Haber '9S, Jarvis '98 and others. The resolu- tions were as follows
 Recognizing that we have no author ity and entertain no desire to nominate or otherwise regulate the membership Of the faculty athletics committee, we never theless, in purely cooperative splrlt, hereby resolve that a committee of three be appointed by the chair to represent to the president that it is the sentiment of the Associated Students of the Univer- sity of California that the athletic inter ests would be best subserved by the en- largement of the faculty committee 10 membership of five.
 The resolutions brought about spir- tied controversy. Allen '9S, Dickerson '9S and Hutchinson '9o wanted specific charges made to support the oft-re- peated statement that lack Of har- mony existed. Football Manager Brown was called on to specify his grievances Jo,, a d o he refused to do so. Craig '9S op- posed the resolutions, stating that they were hugely impertinent, and that the difficulty would probaly be settled anyway by Professors Bacon and Clapp reSigning.
 A warm discussion of professionalism in university athletics was begun by Instructor Harry B. Torrey, who de- tended the present committee for the firm stand it has taken to preserve amateurism. He characterized the two weeks trials taken by the football team to Del Monte last fall as an approach toward professionalism, and declared that such move would never again be tolerated by the faculty.
 Upon the final vote on the resolu-
 tions asking for an increase in the l membership of the committee the reso- lutions were carried by vote of 2l2 to l 152. President P. R. Thayer of the Asso-
 ciated Students later appointed J.
 Haber, Albert J. Brown and c. M. Dickerson to call upon President Kel- | logg and present to him the students request for an enlargement of the com
 mittee. While the names of the two
 additional members of the committee
 were not mentioned, 1t was the desire l of the students to have Professors
 Magee and Cloman added to the pres 1 ent committee.