The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-06
STUDENTS BLUFF
PROMPTLY CALLED
University of Utah Faculty Still
in Saddle at Big In
StitutiOn.
PUNISHMENT ASKED FOR
AND REQUEST GRANTED
Eight Boys Are Now Under Sus-
pension for Hair-Cutting
Episode.

The faculty committee at the Uni
versiuy OF Utah, who on Wednesday sus-
pended John Loufbourow for his part in
connection with the clipping of stu
dents hair on election day, decided
Thursday to inflict the same penalty on
seven other students who were impll-
Gated in the affair The seven students
are: II. G.. Richardson, Benere Grant,
William Home and Leland Walker of the
sophomore class; and three freshmen,
Seymore, Bennion and Darwin Richard
son. All of the students, except Bon
MON, live IN Salt Lake, and all except
Seymore and Walker are members OF
the varsity football team.
Borquist, the man whose hair was
cut, reported tho affair to the faculty
and mentioned Loufbourow IS name, for
the reason that he didn t know any OF
the others. The other men gave their
names to the committee Wednesday
evening, however, with the demand that
they be given the same punishment as
Loufbourow on the ground that they
were implicated in the affair as much
as he.
Promptly Suspended.
The faculty committee. composed of
Professors Bradford, Bennion and Mar
shall, of the discipline committee, and
Professors Merrill. Cummings and
Stewart, heads of the various depart
ments, promptly suspended the boys,
their sentences TO expire next Tuesday
night,
The students, it is alleged, are great
" worked up over the matter, and it IS
quite possible that the entire body OF
engineering students will walk out Fiji
day and stay out until the faculty per
mits the suspended men to return to
school.
The hair.cutting episode was the re-
suit Of the action of the engineers In
issuing an edict Monday last that II any
student in the department was caught
working at school on election day his
hair would be clipped. The students
maintain that they are equally respon-
sihle for the episode, and claim that the
suspended men were acting as the agents
Of the whole body.
A meeting was held Wednesday, at
which it was decided to hold the matter
over until action was taken in tho cases
of men who have since been suspend"
ed. Another meeting is called for 1880
Friday, and something sensational may
develop at this time, according TO the
statements of prominent students.
View Of the Faculty.
Ono Of the most influential members
of the faculty, in discussing the affair,
said: "It is very unfortunate that the
matter was ever brought to the atten-
ton Of the faculty in the first place by
young Borquist. While we cannot sane
rion the action of the students IN declar-
ing holidays. the only result of the cpl.
sodc would have been the charging of
absences incurred to the various boys.
Being brought TO the attention of the
committee as the matter was, however,
some action was unavoidable. Possibly
the discipline committee decided the
matter without learning the full facts,
but having once made the decision they
could moi with dignity withdraw the
sentence at the demand Of the students,
The boys cannot gain anything by with
drawing from school, but they should
that what they do is i'm.
to the faculty as long as they
keep within the limit of their allow
able absences.
II seems that before any attempt was
made to cut Borquist IS hair he struck
one of the boys with heavy club. This
feet has come to the attention Of the
faculty. and il is reported that Bor-
quist has been cited to appear before
the committee tomorrow. It is doubt
ful, however, if this will in any way
affect the sentences of the men already
SUSPENDED.