The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-29
WANT FACULTY TO
KEEP HANDS OFF
STUDENTS DEMAND CONTROL, OF
THEIR OWN ENTERPRISES.
Undergraduates, in Mass Meeting, Vote
to Resist Usurpation Of Management
Of Athletic Association-Favor West
ern Association of Students to Man
age the Big Nine.

Raculty control Of student enter
prises was condemned in an under
graduate mass meeting at the univer-
sity last evening, and members OF the
University Athletic association voted
unanimously to resist faculty invasion
and stand by the constitution of the
athletic association, which provides for
the management of athletics by board
of nine students and two faculty mem
bers.
Provisions were made for revising
the constitution in such way that the
intricacies Of financial management
shall be made public, but the student
to enforce the present constitution until
the change is made.
In addition to determining that the
present athletic board should be sup
ported in it's rights under the consti-
tuition of the University Athletic: asso..
citation and providing for revision OF
the constitution LOCKING f9r reform tor s+ IN
dents last night went on record as
favoring the organization of western
athletic league made up Of the student
athletic boards of the different western
universities, to take the place of the
big nine faculty conference. The Min
Inesota board was authorized to take
the necessary steps for the organization
of such a league
~ In concluding the work Of the even
ing the association passed resolution
Endorsing the action Of the faculty in
adopting the recommendations of the
ANGEL conference, with the exceptions
of the clauses relating to the limiting
the games on the schedule to five, abol-
fishing the football training table, in
creasing faculty control over athletics,
making rules retroactive and faculty
change in playing rules. In taking this
action the association did not 90 on
record as favoring the reduction Of DR..
Williams salary, as the sentiment was
expressed that the board should adhere
to it's three-year contract with DR.. Will
liems. The right Of the faculty to dis
affirm the contracts of the board was
denied. A committee was authorized
to confer with the faculty council in
regard to the action Of the students.
During the course of the evening
the discussion, and of the thirty only
one ehampioned the attitude Of the
faculty. The most radical speech of
the evening was made by, DR.. Jay |;
former president IF the athletic board
e Ell 1e Evils in the athletic system We're
due to the faculty and not the stu
dents, pointing out that the eligibility
Of men to athletic teams had Always
rested in faculty hands and that the
financial management Of the ATHLETIC
s~@n es by the board of control had
n@ver been subjected to criticism. He
a'3o charged that during his incum
h..rcv Of the office of president Of the
r. ,iatic board q prominent member Of
ta. faculty had connived with an
atumnus in an attempt to secure money
from the athletic board for the sup
port of a doubtful transaction.
The university Y. NJ. c.. A. annual
iHH,Det and election Of officers took
Wire lsst evening at the varsity lunch
ro;;1sl. A2l Fourteenth avenue Sc. Ralph
4. Wheelock was toastmaster. Toasts
ere responded to as follows: 'sGet
OIL -Four Marks,' E. 8. Swenson; "The
Iiule of Three Peter Hanson; "a
square Triangle.' Professor A.. E.
Haynes: ga Friend That Sticketh, -
DIR. W. H. Jordan; ''The Brethren,' E.
W. Peck.
Officers were elected as follows: Pres
ident E. W. Swenson: vice president,
Howard Hare; treasurer, D. C. Babcock;
assistant treasurer, W. G. Rabb; secre-
tary, John r. Ray.
The board Of directors elected to
serve three years includes Professor
Hugh Willis, E. B. Pierce and E. B.
hJOhnson.