Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-11-19
HITS THE "BONEHEAD."
The "ROugh NeCks" Criticised
An Audrain Boys
Opinions.


VandaliA Mail:
Columbia, Mo-, Oct, "a. '0a.-I
thought perhaps that you would
like to hear from me on some phase
OF student life at the University of
Missouri. During my sojourn
home the past summer, l heard
much unfavorable critseism on the
student body Of our state school. I
/ am sorry 10 cay that some of the
criticism is deserved and | shall try
to place the blame oh those who
are responsible.
AS we all know, state univer-
sity should be democratic; when
it becomes otherwise it has failed |
Of its purpose and no longer de-
serves the support of the state.
A student organization at state
school deserves the greatest con.
tempt when it attempts to place
itself on a plain above the common
student body, to pose as an Aris-
tocracy. l refere to the so called
Fraternities" and "Sororities."
By what right do they try 10 set
themselves up as an aristocracyi !
will bring the argument nearer
home. In lh4 Vandalia High
School, for instance, supp Ise or
gauize fraternity. | invite some
of my friends to jOiu( who have
plenty of money, of course. Brains
are not needed } Weren't a house
/ in which to live. We Immediately
commence showing money prodi-
gally aud sniffiug at tn. common
herd" Ought We TO be'tolerated
for a dayi
In organizing a local chapter of
a fraternity, the members are cho.
sen arbitrarily and the .qnalifica.
tions for membership are not based
on scholarship at this chapter
house.
AS to the proiigality of frat er.
mites ! quote the following from
the Missouri Oven. which makes a
business of saying what it thinks.
THE prices paid By students for
social diversions are ridiculous and
show extremely bad taste. One
fraternity Of some twenty odd men
recently gave a dance costing oyer
$400 and followed up by a box
party at a burlesque show fol
, which each individual member
could have expended not less than
So or so. Are these poor mems
, pricesi"
The social side of this evil is a
. small consideration as compared
! with the moral. Why is it fast be
coming a stigma to be a student oI
/ Missouri University 1t is no
!, because some students are bringing
!; discredit upon our schools fai
! uamef Who are these students
. After more than a years obssrva.
q ton unhesitately answer Fra
! ternity men, for the most part. =
. They are from most of the rough
neck" (roudy) element. The onl!
. drunken students that / have sect
1 this year were "Frats."
: Il this indictment against fra
= ternlties be true. why thea do the
a retain their influence and popular
/. ityi That is simply a matter Q
= expenditure. The fraternity mo
after having his hair "pompadoul
ed" porcures from the tailor Ii
''loudest' clothes possible an
a with his little cane aud hat !
Ie cOues sweeping down the street
& The girlsi They simply can't n
Il sist such lOveliressl They are draw
y to him as flies are to a molass'
Ig Jug
e All honor TO Bennett Clark I
10 Bowling Green. a freshman hel
5. this year. who rejected the invlti
r. tions Of half dozen fraternitiei
lr he would not do like his deInocra
.. ic old father Il be had joined
= - ~.