The San Francisco call., 1908-03-19
SPECIAL plspArcH TO THE CALI

| SPECIAL DIsPATcH TO THE CALL
STANFORD UNIV ERSITY,
March 1S.-After a series of confer
ences occupying the greater part of
the day the situation is more serious
tonight than it has been at any time
during the temperance troubles on
the campus. The relations between
the faculty committee and the stu
dents are strained to the breaking
point. There are threats of whole
sale disn1issals on. the one side and
talk of general strike OF students
on the other.
The petition signed by the 246 men
who took part in Thursday nights
parade, which brought the controversy
20 head, was presented 10 Prof. A.
B. Clark. chairman of the committee
on student affairs, today. The 246
signers state that they are equally
culpable with the l. students suspend-
ed and ask that tile II be reinstated
or the 24e suspended. Clark has an
4OOlSSO ludl uG Will TenQeT a Qecl-
sion tomorrow at noon.
At the same time petition has been
circulated on the campus, appealing to
the faculty to rescind its order sus-
pending the Il students. This petition
bears the signatures of young women
as well as the men. and represents the
sentiment of the entire student body.
This will be presented to President
Jordan tomorrow.
The faculty. committee is placed in a
peculiar position and its decision is
anxiously awaited. The order sus-
pending the II prominent members of
the student body said that they had
been selected for the reason that they
alone had been identified among the
hundreds in the parade organized as
a protest against the strict antiliquor
regulations. Now 24e other students
have confessed that they participated
in the demonstration. The faculty
committee faces two alternatives 1t
can either suspend the 24e or reinstate
the IL.
In case the 246 are suspended, stu
dent activities for the term will prac-
tically come to an end, as the most
prominent men in the university are
numbered in the list movement al
ready has been launched to induce the
entire student body to go on strike in
case the 246 are suspended.
APOLOGIES TO STUDENTS
President Jordan has left the entire
affair in the hands of the committee
headed by Professor Clark. DIR. Jor-
dan took occasion today to make public
apology to the men suspended for his
published comments on their charac-
ters. He had said that they were of
''unsavory regulations These re-
marks raised storm of protest among
the students and faculty members
alike. A representative of the II sus-
pended men called on DIR. Jordan today
to ask for an explanation. The uni
versity president made full apology.
and said:
THE statement was not made for
publication, and even had it been made
for publication was, in the circum-
stances. .unwarrantrd, as did not
know the facts of the case at the
time
Three representatives of the. student
body conferred with Professor Clark
and his associates on the committee on
student affairs for several hours this
morning and far into the afternoon.
The student representatives were A. A.
Murphy, 'os, president of the student
body; Guy Knupp, manager of the as
sociated students, and Warren Turner.
'os, assistant manager and rowing
coach.
The student delegates made every
effort to prevail upon the faculty CON-
mittee to recede from its position and
reinstate the II students. When it be-
came apparent that the faculty COM
mittee would not yield. the student
delegates presented the petition of the
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