The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22
RULES FOR GOODS
Washburn Faculty About to
Start a Reform.
Too Much Defiance Of Rules of
Society.
SPOONING ON CAMPUS.
SPOONING ON CAMPUS.
One of Things That Will Be
Stopped-Perhaps.
DormitOry Rules to Apply in
Boarding Houses.

A wave of worry and fear has swept
over the students at washburn coll
lege because the faculty has threatened
10 issue new set of rules to govern
the student body. These rules will eff
fect practically every student in the
| institution and the student body go to
chapel every day expecting to hear the
dreaded announcement Of their sched-
ule. f
Washburn is being conducted on the
university plan this year, and naturally
the rules governing the students have
been freer and more reliance is placed
upon the students themselves. How
| ever the faculty has gained a "hunch"
that they have made a mistake and
the students are taking great advant-
age of the freedom given them.
In former years the college has al
ways relied upon the students for their
conduct and it has never been neces-
sary to renew old rules or issue new
ones. This year Washburn is much
larger than ever before and 1t is al
| most impossible to keep a watch over
possible when the attendance was
| smaller. Naturally the students have
been paying little attention to their
conduct as nothing has been said of
change or a new ruling. Everything
was running along smoothly until one
morning DR.. Wilm, professor in the
psychological department, gave his
classes gentle hint. He said that the
students of Washburn college were
getting too fresh in their actions and
dents you read about. He mentioned
the fact that the faculty as whole
had noticed it and the students would
hear about it soon.
| The little lecture by this liberal mind
| ed professor set the. students to think
I 49,, 1fw.er
and fraternity houses the whole matter
was flashed" over. DR.. Wilm has al
ways been a friend of the student body
| and has been one of their defenders in
| faculty meetings. When he was re-
quired to give such a lecture to his
students the collegians sat up and took
notice. Some of the students take the
matter as a bluff but it has developed
| that the new rules are coming.
These new DEGREES from the faculty
are hard on the girls. The pretty CO.
| eds will have to guard their polly
| foxing" on the campus. Spooning"
| on the library steps and under the
pines will no more be feature of
warm moonlighted evening. This will
not affect the students at this time of
the year but better times are coming.
The faculty thinks that the only way
to prevent this excessive cooling is to
extend the girls dormitory rules over
the girls outside the dormitories. In
girls are rooming will be put under
the same ban as Holbrook. Within,
and the other "dorms." Another rule
in regard to this outside rooming will
cause fiutter among the fair lassies-
Boys and girls shall not room in the
same house, This rule was made at
the state university this fall and it
caused quite a sensation in Lawrence.
The sensation will undoubtedly spread
to Topeka and Washburn. This rule
will cause a general exodus of trunks
and remnants from College hill room
ing houses as at the present time there
are many homes where men and girl
studnts are rooming. In putting the
rooming houses under the dormitory
rules the outside girls will not be al
lowed to stroll on the campus or over
the hill later than 1890. This means
only three nights in the week. Other
evenings the o'clock rule will hold
in the winter time and o'clock during
the warm months when spooning is at
it's highest pitch.
Since the fraternity and sorority