The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-02-28
"BOGIE'' RAPS
THE FACULTY
OF STANFORD
Anonymous Publication Makes
Slurring Remarks About Pres
ident Jordan
Certain Professors, Sororities
and Frats Are Also Tar
gets for Abuse
Stand Against Drunkenness the
Excuse for l1e yituper-
atiye fheet
spECIAL pIsPATcE no THE cALL

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STAMFORD UNIVERSITY, Feb.
27.-Contairing vicious and slurring
remarks upon the new faculty student
affairs committee cf Stanford univer-
sity as we'll as othnr members of the
faculty, and replete with raps at the
various frais, sorarities and individ-
uals and c}abs off the campus COM
munity, a small anonymous sheet
styled a eBogic' was distributed
broadcast about the campus last
night. The publication is of four
pages and is printed on plain white
paper OF medium weight 1t is fairly
well printed. but absolutely devoid of
any earmarks of the editor or place
of publishing The only mark is
water bond mark, giving the brand of
paper used.
The unknown editor or editors state
the cause for the issuance of the libel
Gus publication on the front page of
the paper and claim it is due to the
recent liquor agitation. Under the
heading "Bogie. Booze. Buns, Blum
ders," the excuse for the "Bogie" is
given as follows:
EDITOR GIVES REASONS
This publication is now necessary in
view of the recent bilious wailings
against booze 1t Is not the editors
intention to upheld drankennesss but
we feel it our duty to point out the
stupidity of regarding the students as
infants and degenerates.'
This opening statement is believed by
the undergraduates to be the keynote
for the publication. and this sentiment
has some supporters among the under
graduates. What follows is an ampli-
fcation of this policy of knocking. DR..
Jordan is first criticised for his ap-
pointment of the present student af-
fairs committee and the group OF pro-
fessors Of the faculty known and styled
in the publication as the Indiana push
are slurred.
The absence of such men as Profess
sors Ross, Abbott and Rendtorff from
the faculty is commented upon and
their vacancy attributed to the alleged
suppression of free speech in the fac
ulty.
GIBEs ARE BITTER
The knocks upon the students af-
r.;
and Professor A. B. Clark comes in for
a broadside of libelous slurs extremely
personal, while the other members are
treated in similar but tanner manner.
The knocks upon the frats. sororities
and clubs are free of such vulgarity as
was the case in former 'Bogies," but
are bitterly pers NAL in many instances.
The present "Bogie" is similar in ap-
pearance to former publications, of
which the university in the last three
years has seen a great deal. The oues-
tion Of the authorship Is the first topic
the undergraduates and faculty will
attempt to solve. Last year when a
particularly vicious and vulgar publ
cation was distributed united move
ment was made by the undergraduates
and faculty alike to attempt to find the
author of the sheet. Private Detectives
were employed and the students served
as amateur sleuths in running down
clews. Whether or not this will again
be attempted is uncertain. The task of
bringing the editors to light will de-
volve upon the new students affairs
committee.
Several hundred of the .'Bogies" were
distributed last night or early this
morning. Copies were left at the doors
of the various fraternity houses, soro-
rity houses. homes of the members of
the faculty and at Encina hall and the
eating clubs of the campus and College
terrace.