Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-28
80 sS.DAN FIRM;
GIVES NO AID
TOSTUDENTS
STANF0RD'S PRESIDENT UP
HOLDS COMMITTEE
DECLARES PARADE AN ORGAN
lied REVOLT
Mo Protest VIII Induce Board to
Reconsider It's Action in Sus-
pending Undergrad
yates
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, March
27.-The most important development
of the day in the student situation was
the issuance of statement by Presi-
dent Jordan, In which he declares the
parade was an organized revolt against
the authority of the university. He up
holds the action of the committee,
which, he says, no protest can change.
President Jordan's statement is as
follows:
'"The present difficulty at Stanford
university has had its origin in the eff
fort of the university authorities, trus-
tees and faculty to rid the institution
of the burden and disgrace of student
drunkenness The student affairs COM
mittee is the regularly constituted dis
ciplinary committee, having charge of
these matters, and it's actions are in
accordance with definite instructions
from the academic council.
1.-The demonstration of March II was
an organized expression of revolt pri-
marily against the committee. but act
ually against the university itself. 1t
was necessary that the offense should
be met squarely and definitely. Thls
the committee has done, and the uni
versty will continue to carry out its
policy without reference to opposition
or protest.
REGRETS Students Action
at is matter of regret that so
many fine young men have been drawn
into this matter by a false idea of
college spirit, the undercurrents in the
affair not appearing on the surface and
the moral issue being obscured by SYM
pathy for their fellows"
The presidents statement has not
yet been made public, but when 1t be-
comes known it will have the effect of
stopping any appeal for a reconsidera-
tion of the cases of the students dis
missed. President Jordan looks at the
affair from an entirely different view
point from the students, so there is no
possibility of conciliation.
A committee of San Francisco
alumni consisting of p. b. Downing,
DIR. A. B. Spaulding c. M. Fickert and
l.. S. Beedy, all of 98, visited President
Jordan today and later interviewed
Chairman Clark of the student faculty
committee. President Jordan, who left
tonight for Helena, Mont, where he
will remain until April Z. said that the
alumni merely sought the facts In the
case.
Trustee Declares Himself
The following telegram was received
by President A. A. Murphy today from
G. E. Crothers of San Francisco, one of
the university trustees:
'.I confirm the statement that l ad-
vised students at Stanford that there
is no appeal in individual or special
cases to the trustees. There was mere
ly a statment of fact made in the hopes
expressed at the time that the boys
would direct all efforts toward recon-
ciliation with the students affairs COM
mittee. The faculty is acting under
written constitution, the articles of in
corporation of the faculty. If it is de-
fective the trustees and faculty Will
doubtless be as anxious to remedy it
as you, but in the past the trustees
have refused to violate it in individual
cases, however important.
"As an alumnus l urge you as men,
who sincerely believe you are right, to
remain and direct your efforts toward
the accomplishment of any purposes
YOU NAV have at heart in an orderly
way and not to sacrifice yourselves to
no advantage to any one. The trust
constituting the charter of the univer-
sity provides that rules of discipline
shall be just and equitable. If they
are not, and 1 do not know anything
in which they are not so, the trustees
are expressly required to see they are
made So refer you to the articles of
organization for the proper procedure
in such matters"
This telegram, together with DR.. Jor-
dams statement, shows appeal or pro-
test are equally useless in getting the
forty-one men reinstated.
In view of this the walk-out plan
seems advisable.
What the students will do to carry
out Crothers' suggestion is unknown.
Since the adjournment of the student
body meeting yesterday distinct
change is apparent in undergraduate
sentiment, and the radical element is
now in a decided minority.
There are still many who believe that
promise to support the signers of the
parade petition is moral obligation to
go out with them if necessary, regard
less of the sacrifice involved, but the
argument that such a movement will
influence the trustees is no longer given
much credence. Student Fenton and
his followers still declare that they feel
they must leave whether the 25O others
agree to go or not, but there is an ever
increasing number believing that a
promise to support the paraders does
not extend to walking out If such action
will accomplish no good to those dis
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