Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-13
The UNIVERSITY AND LIQUOR.
sVVrong Impressions Prevalent % q
Drink ing Among students.

Wr0nG Impressions Prevalent 40 to
Drinking Among students.
Iowa City. Oct. 1s.-The attempted
legislation last winter upon the liquor
& problem at the University OF Iowa
makes pertinent at this time the ques-
stion what part 10 the saloon playing in
present university life at Iowa City. A
gentleman who is spending come time In
the city and who 10 familiar with college
B life was heard to say the other day:
The University Of Iowa has repu-
u tation for drinking and general convivi-
atty much beyond that which 1t de-
serves ! wager that the drinking here
among students II not more than one
< fifth that OF such schools as Harvard,
Yale. Cornell. Princeton and Michigan.
Yet those schools are not maligned.
slandered and INSTRUCTED by their enc
mics to the extent this university Isl dis
4 credited by its avowed friends
These words express the feeling OF all
people acquainted with the situation in
,ssIowAs CITY. Student consumption OF in-
sSfoxioating liquors IA this town, either az
"a beverage or for the purposes OF pro-
4 curing jag, & is very slight. Your cor
respondent has not seen single case Of
h drunkenness. or semi and
d very rarely the evidences OF friendly
glass OF beer since the opening OF COLI
lege, month ago. Upon inquiry as to
whether It was always as quiet as this.
he was informed that 1t was. The mer-
chant questioned said suppose you
expected to find q registering lot OF reds
snosed hoodlums wandering about the
ss0treet1 That Is the reputation that for
some mysterious reasons clings to this
town, and why 1t should Isdon.t Know
However it may be, there is less
Z booze fighting this year, due to action
OF the board OF regents upon the cons
Il current resolution OF the general as
saembly published broadcast at the open
ling OF the college and announced from
the platform by President MacLean at
the convocations This resolution is as
follows:
In conformity with the concurrent
resolution OF the Twenty eighth general
i assembly the university senate has
made the following regulation: stud
4 ents Of the State University Of Iowa.
during their attendance at this institu-
+ tion are forbidden the use OF intoxicat-
ling liquorS as beverage and are also
/ forbid den to be present at places where
such liquors are sold az beverage Sus-
pension from the university IL hereby
prescribed az the penalty for the viola
ton Of this rule. This rule was APP
1 proved by the board Of regents July 49,
It is probable that this has deferred a
few from entering saloons for fear Of
detection who would otherwise go there.
Y was rumored upon the streets yes
terday that in pursuance OF the above
regulation two students had been
suspended But It was only rumor
& and 40 yet difficult OF Authorization.
President MacLean announced that he
would use no system OF spying upon
Il studente 30 1t would take pretty flag
rant abuses to be brought to the notice
Of the executive authorities.
The moral status Of the University OF
Iowa 10 such that X parents can trust
their children to 90 away to college
anywhere they can trust them at the
& University of Iowa.