The San Francisco call., 1906-09-11
Students
Registration Retarded
McColloch Causes Ire
by Criticising C. G.
.Lathrop.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept 10
Because he wrote vivid and trenchant
account of the damage wrought upon
the buildings of Stanford University
by the earthquake. duplicating Charles
G. Lathrop, treasurer of the institu-
ton and a member of the board OF
trustees; c. E. Hodges, former univer
sity architect, and ]. d. McGilvray head
of the large San Francisco contracting
firm, Claude c. McCo1loch, prominent
sophomore. registering from Portland,
Or, has been forced TO dodge from
pillar to post at the request OF the
authorities in a vain attempt to regis
ter for the semester.
The young collegian has taken an ac-
tive part in the university journalistic
field and has also been a writer for
metropolitan dailies. His name is In
cluded upon the staff of the Daily Palo
Alto, the official daily of the univer-
sfty, as an associate editor.
PRESIDENT JORDAN'S STAND.
President David Starr Jordan says no
official action has been taken regard
ing the matter, but admits he COM
municated with McColloch during the
summer vacation requesting that some
amicable agreement be reached with
the trustees before he attempted to
register. This request was based upon
the stand which was taken by Charles
G. Lathrop, who believed the article to
be vicious in character and radically
wrong. Although the trustee has no
hand in the discipline of the students,
the matter has been held UP pending
action upon the part of the authorities.
McColloch has not interviewed the
angry trustees. his stand being that as
member of the board of trustees
Treasurer Lathrop has no power to in
tervene in the affair.
HAS A MERRY CHASE.
McColloch has had merry chase in
the attempt to find the right place to
file protest. He has been referred
from one official to another until the
, entire system has been traversed. AS
is the custom under the university, he
first applied to the chairman of the
students affairs committee, Professor
r. L. Green, who has charge of such
matters. To his. surprise he was re-
ferred to the president of the univer-
Sity, as the request was merely in
formal and not an official edict. Pro-
fessor Green, however. in referring the
young Journalist to the head of the
university, said he believed that the
article, which appeared in a Portland
paper, possessed many facts which were
truthful and that he believed when a
story contained facts it should be
printed, regardless of the insinuations
it might lay upon any of the authori
ties.
After interviewing Professor Green,
McColloch consulted with DIR. Jordan,
who did not wish to take action in the
matter and referred him in turn to the
board of trustees Thence the applicant
journeyed and at the meeting of the
body his case was presented in due
form. The regents of the university,
after duly considering the points of the
question, turned the case over to the
students affairs committee, to which
McColloch applied at first. In taking
this step they followed the order of
business as set down in the ordinances
which control the working affairs of
the university.
PASSED UP TO LATHROP.
In accordance with the action of the
trustees the chairman of the students
affairs committee was again consulted,
with similar results, and he was again
referred to President Jordan. who in
turn passed him up to Charles G.
Lathrop in the hope that some agree
ment might be reached.
McColloch contends that this step is
unwarranted as the trustees should not
be allowed to question his registration
or any matter pertaining to the diss
cipline of the undergraduates.
McColloch's article which raised the
storm of disapproval appeared in the
issue of the Oregonian on Monday May
Z, under the students signature, under
the heading, Mortar Crushes Under
Fingers Touch 1t dealt with a gem
eral review of the situation and at
tempted to place the blame upon faulty