The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-24
SUSPENSIONS LEFT IN
 HANDS OF SOPROMORES
COLUMBIA FACULTY YIELDS TO
 DEMANDS OF STUDENTS.

Conditions Under Which the Arrange-
 ment Was aIade-Freshmen to be Under the Surveillance of Upper
 Characterization Butler Issues
 statement--University VIII Not Per
 init to Pass Unnoticed Any Attack on
 an Individual student.
 New York. Dec. 2s.-A truce has been arranged between the faculty of Co- lumbia university and the sophomore class. which resented the suspension of four of its members for participation in the Kingdom Gould hazing affair, and which had threatened to quit the uni yersity in body.
 The student board, represented by stbe presidents of the various classes, both college and science, met Dean Hutton to-day to discuss the suspension of the four sophomores. Their decision, which was announced, is that suspension will be left primarily in the hands of the student board. The conditions under which this was arranged were:
 First-The student board will prohibit hazing in obnoxious forms.
 Second-Freshmen will be under the surveillance of the sophomores
 Third-Any case of "freshness' on the part of the underclassmen wilI ba brought to the attention of the board, and they will serve notice on the stu dent that his actions have aroused the animosity of the sophomores, and they will fix a penalty which he must pay. Fourth There will be an underclass fight, and the winners will have the right to summon the officers of the de- Heated class to appear at their dinner.
 The last is expected to do away with the capturing of freshmen by the sec ond year men.
 The student board of representatives was authorized to draw up a plan en,- bodying these provisions. which is to be submitted to the students immedi- ately after the Christmas vacation. When the members of the sophomore class learned of the suspension of their classmates Aigelthinger, Doty, Chau- chois and Finch until February, 19O5, 1 the entire student body was aroused, and at the preliminary mass meeting President Browne of the college seniors had to caution the men present to keep cool and not to gossip about the sus- pension. He said that he hoped the faculty would grant the students re- quest and reinstate the men.
 President Butler held conference with Dean Hutton of the School of Ap I piled Sciences this morning, after which 1 the suspensions were announced. They were in conference until noon.
 Immediately after their conference. the student body held it's protesting mass meeting in Earl hall. About 800: students attended and expressed their I ldisapproval of the action of the faculty. A petition was drawn up and signed by all the students present, many of the names being those of prominent ath- I letes of the university. The petition read as follows:
 We, the undersigned, undergradu- ates in the university, do respectfully petition that the sophomores who have this day been suspended from the uni l yersity be reinstated."
 A formal statement issued to-day by 'i President Nicholas Murray Butler in announcing the suspension dealt at length with the enforcement of college discipline at Columbia. In this connec- tion the statement says:
 "The university will not permit to ass unnoticed any annoyance of an in dlvidual student or any attack upon him by a committee or group of other students whether this goes by the name of hazing or otherwise. There is no elaborate code of rules at Columbia, the violation of any of which will sub q ject the offender to academic discipline. Every student is treated as gentle man and is expected to conduct him ] self as gentleman. Whenever a case has been reported which involved the prosecution of an individual freshman by group of sophomores who could be identified, academic discipline has fol- lowed, and will follow with increasing ' 7rs- Llr