Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-16
Iowa State College Students
Will Have No Place at School
In the Future
STARTLING FACTS ARE EXPOSED
The Past Few Weeks Many Students
Have Boon Brought Home Saturday
Night From Boone Intoxicated =
Something Had to Be Done and Elk
puIsion Of Some May BE Necessary.
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i Amss. March 16.-Liquor and liquor
drinking students are to have no place
IN the Iowa State college in the future.
This is the announcement made by
President storms today when he ad-
dressed, at special chapel, the largest
body Of students gathered together for
many weeks.
Recent escapades at Boone have pre-
c,pitated a general movement against
these practices at I. S. G., and have ted
to this declaration. DR.. Storms dld
not say SO in as many words at the
special chapel today, but it is under
stood that he reached the point where
any student brought home drunk Will
be expelled from school and those
even entering saloons will be dealt WITH
as guilty of misdemeanor.
Dr. storms was clearly wrought up
over the recent affairs and showed 1t
decidedly in his address. He expressed
more real feeling than many had ever
heard him do on public occasion.
He has set his foot down on these I'M
moral actions and intends to deal very
severely with offenders
Il il high Mime that such move
was, taken, in the minds of many OF
the college people who are acquainted
with the facts. President Storms will
have the support of the student Dody
in this move and the result will be that
no persons of questionable characters
will find refuge at L S. Q.
4 For years the practice OF gong 10
Boone on Friday and Saturday nights
has been so com mon that gong 10
Boone has become a very famlliar
phrase. If it were possible, it has been
worse in the beginning weeks OF the
present term than ever before. All the
way from two or three to dozen
students would be brought home each
Saturday night in a state of lntoxlca-
ton. Matters continued to become
! worse until they had reached state
where something had to be done, and
general cleaning up has been the re-
suit. No students have as yet been
expelled for these offenses, but it is
understood that number are now In
person having gone sponsor for them
in order that they might remain in col
le,ye. The charge is frequently made
that several of the fraternities are. not
orly implicated in the matter, but are
partially to blame for the condition of
affairs. The facts are that such con-
dtions existed to a more or less extent
before fraternities were ever known at
LIS. C.. 1t is true that such conditions
nave become worse during the last two
or three years, and that fraternities
have been rapidly growing during the
same period. A fair statement of the
3question, however, would take into ac-
count the fact that the attendance at
the college has materially increased
during a like period and the increase
OF immoral practices cannot help but
increase with the larger number of
ostudents assembled. However, it is be-
lieved that a substantial check has
been set now, and that these practices
will shortly cease They must cease,
IL at the cost Of expelling sonA-promi-
nent students who have been connected
with the affair.