The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-09
N. Y. u. JUNIORS SUSPENDED
F4ILTI PUNISH CLASS WITH
( THREE DAY VACATION.
other students Vote TO Remain In College
and IhPcr the Decision Bloch Kissed
and JOstled on Ills Way From Chapel
University Life Not Much Disturbed.

and cheer the DecislOn-BlOCh Kissed
and .IOstlcd on Ills Way From Chapel
University Life Not Much Disturbed.
The junior class of New York University
is on an enforced vacation for the remainder
Of the week. The eighty students com
prising the class we're suspended yesterday
for three days as the outcome Of their own
demand that the class az a whole and not
its president, A. 4. Young, captain of the
varsity crew. be punished for the hazing OF
Henry Bloch, a freshman.
The organist played Chopin's funeral
march at the professional into chapel yes
terday morning and the exercises we're
opened with the singing OF God BE with
You Til We Meet Again Prof. William L.
Waters. the recorder Of the faculty, e the
decision in an apologize tone, Here it is;
On Wednesday. April I, a member OF the
freshman class was taken by force on the
campus and thrown into the fountain.
This was an act OF ha2ing as defined by
the faculty and followed a specific warning
given hy the chancellor ia the fall.
The act was committed, according to the
evidence. primarily by the junior class, and
the president Of the class, as their represent
alive. was suspended pending action by the
faculty.
The junior class received the first aud
second technical admOnition in 1905 for
participation in an act Of hazing.
|, As a penalty for the offence Of Wednesday
the faculty suspends the junior class for
three days, viz. April 3. 2 and 10. the suspen-
sion to carry with il no disability extending
beyond the period Of suspension.
Iha r..oltFtppa pf tho gtuHaTT hndy fail
to recognize that the judgment Of the faculty
in matters Of discipline must be final. There
fore the faculty will view as wilful insubordi-
nation, to be penalized by q penalty not less
than suspension for the remainder Of the
year, the act Of any student not a member
of the junior class who shall absent himself
from classes without good cause on The days
abOve named.
Loud cheering and applause greeted the
announcement. The prospect OF a three
days acation seemed TO please the juniors.
Outside Of chapel Bloch unfortunately
encountered the juniors. He was on the
way to his classes. He was Kissed by all
the students and jostled roughly as he
rushed to Language Hall.
Arthur II. Sherin called a student organ
ization meeting for 1880 O'Clock. Many
juniors attended. John &. Brodsky, vice
wi NnIltlN VI AlAN AAAAh NNAAN1 - FNR1A
himself in favor Of the other classes re-
naming in college. Howard Huntington
made the following motion, which was
passed:
Whereas the faculty have acted l~eniently
In their punishment. having punished a repre-
sentative body and not one individual. we
make the following motion: That we rpmAin
in college and abide by faculty ruling.
The written statement Of Bloch, which
was drawn up by his attorney, Samuel W.
Levine. in which Bloch showed a willingness
to submit to any punishment that the stu
dent cabinet might mete out to him, was
laid on the table indefinitely as insulting
to the student body,
The students consider that the faculty
have backed down in the most satisfactory
manner. The making Of Frederick Van
Houten ineligible to play shortstop in the
West Point game yesterday will not be
elective for Saturdays game with Column
bia mt University Heights. The rehearsals
Of the varsity show, "Cap'n Kidd d Co.
have been held for a din erent place. The
cast and chorus, consisting mostly Of juniors,
could not rehearse on university property.
Capt. Albert Young Of the crew, the sus-
pended president Of the junior class, has the
usual number Of candidates practising on
the Harlem River of university grounds.
Dtdn NlO" hill ldbl llkuN llhN Nlt SUI
dents could have been punished in a spectac-
ular. severe and humilloting manner, or
that the faculty could have avoided any
suggestion OF venom by penalizing in such
a way as 10 minimize real injury.
THE second course was open 10 one OBJ
lection, he said. 1T might be construed that
we were afraid Of the students, We decided
| that such a view would not he long tenable.
The hazing, however popular. had beeil
recognized for What II was. The students
objection 10 the punishment Of one man
had been followed by the punishment Of an
eukire class and any further manifestation
| on the part Of the students was, according
10 our statement, to be followed by punish
ment Of individuals or Of classes anywhere
throughout the entire student body. aside
! from this we believe that the more mature
and generous policy, by which we abstain
from striking those who are 80 thoroughly
and admittedly down, will DO appreciated
IN the long run ~