The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-17
GRAFT TALK IS
RIFE AT The ~
STORIES OF OTHER SHADY DEALS
COMING TO LIGHT.
Rake-offs Have Been Received in Con-
nection with Entertainments Bust
ness Matters Loosely Handled, Giving
Every Opportunity for Crooked Work
Rebates Often Received.

Just how, far the University of Min
nesota faculty committee on student af-
fairs will 90 in it's investigation of
"graft around college, is worrying
more than one university undergradu-
ate and the tales of the CRAFTS that have
been, and the CRAFTS that are, told in the
corridors Of the, library building this
morning by students who gathered in
groups to discuss the expulsion from col
Gopher, would supply a collegiate Lin
coin Steffens with literary material ga
lore. >~
The stories must be taken with the
knowledge that tales of graft have been
handed down from class to class until
there are students who refuse to believe
that any student enterprise is being, con-
word'' is connected with various posi-
tions on student publications and is
used so frequently that it passes I'M
noticed and is looked upon as part of
the heritage following an election to a
student office. gill.
There undoubtedly is graft among the
undergraduates but it is not SO wide
spread as campus talk would lead one
| to believe, and the sentiment of the
undergraduate body is against it.
OF the three student publications at
the university, none has escaped the de-
nunciation Of the faculty and student
reformers. - IT,.
The Minnesota Magazine is published
by close corporation and the business
manager is allowed all surplus oyer the
expense Of publication, but even under
these conditions bills have often been
unpaid and irate creditors have ap
manager had been graduated and his
connection with the magazine ended. :
On the Daily the editorial force works
under a salary, but the books of the
Daily have been so badly handled al
times that it has been impossible to as
certain where money has gone. The re
cent condition of the Gopher is thu
worst in the history of that annual, bu
surplus has seldom, if ever, beer
turned over to the class.
Some Of the Graft systems T T1a
committees and patroness committees a
the large social functions at the univer
sity have been allotted certain mum
Der of tickets for free distribution. II
, many cases the newspapers and the pa
| tronesses have not received the ticket
| allotted to them and the story that on
chairman of a patroness commute
!, made $50 by selling tickets at a dls:
count is freely circulated at the uni
versity. 3, -.
7 Other committeeman have submitte
: accounts that have been denounced b.
5 outsiders as "padded," but in no cas-
: has there been an investigation. of tn
rumors Of graft connected with the un
versity parties. 81
Certain business men are implicate
in many Of the stories Of shady trans
actions thru their willingness to gran
| personal commissions to undergraduate
, in charge Of letting contracts for elias
pictures, caps and gowns, commen e
d bates to the men in charge Of the lie
!. ting Of the contracts are common, a.
+ cording to university students, altho
d many cases it is said that the rebat
: takes the form Of free trade to tt
committeeman who makes the contrac