The San Francisco call., 1908-03-22
COLLEGE STUDENTS
STAND BY PROTEST

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tions should reach the faculty by to-
morrow noon at the latest
Today the most noteworthy features
of the situation were the resolutions
passed by the students and the COM
munication posted by the committee.
This proclamation reads as follows:
Committee on Student Affairs .,
The committee on studen1 afairs is credibly
informed that the students concerned in the par
ade of March II consider that the resolutions
passed at meeting of the associated students
March 20 constitutes an apology on the part Of
the 2f1 The committee does not wish the
students to retain this msconception. The COM
mlttec believes that reflection will show that
such is not the fact, and that the committee
mus must ST. stu act upon the petition OF the 24l
men ana proceed calmly and carefully In de-
fermining what in fact was the participation OF
each Individual concerned
The students must remember that but one
statement is before the committee from the PAT
men namely. the petition. The committee will
endeayor 10 be entirely fair, will calmly and
carefully determine what Should be its hnal
lively. but it asks the students to remember that
A. B. CLARK, chairman.
EXPECT FACULTY TO GIVE IN
That the faculty will finally accede
to the request of the students for a
volved in the parade is gaining
strength among the students. 1t is be-
iieved that the committee can not step
down suddenly from the radical stand
originally adopted. but within the next
few days will take some long strides
toward reinstatement of the suspended
students This feeling is borne out by
the fact that Chairman Clark spoke
TO several undergraduates with whom
he is acquainted in Mayfieid and Col
lege terrace. where he lives. and is
said TO have practically given them
assurance that he believed that the
committee was or would soon be in
position to consider compromise.
President A. A. Murphy of the stu
dent body takes this stand. as does
4. W. Turner, Guy Knupp and j. Z.
Stewart, the student representatives.
who have been in consultation with
the committee upon all occasions so
far.
Those of the 247 who have appeared
before the committee are the least op-
timistic of any of the undergraduates.
The questions put to them are of the
same nature as those asked upon the
first day of the inquiry and all tend to
prove the guilt of the students in par
ticipating in the parade. A feature of
this inquiry is that the students are
only too anxious to appear before the
committee and tell what occurred.
The line of students today was long
and the unusual spectacle of the stu
dents impatiently waiting TO be allowed
to appear before the committee and
identify themselves with the tabooed
parade is one which will not be for
gotten in years.
At times the line has grown so long
that numbers have been given to the
men and hours fixed for their appear
ance. The faculty committee has, ac-
cording to the students, a fixed set of
questions, which are fired in regular or
der at the undergraduates as they are
brought before it,
In the greater majority of the cases
the students answer only the ques-
tions bearing upon their mere presence
in the parade and the Identification OF
their signatures on the petition, re.
fusing to go into further particulars.
1t is thought that before any fur
ther action is taken by either students
or committee the pressure of the other
members of the faculty and prominent
alumni will eliminate in a determined
stand. Many members of the faculty
have told students personally that,
while the parade is discountenanced for
the greater part, the severe action
of the committee has not met with
approval
That the alumni will be induced to
take some action is anticipated by a
great many If the students who par
ticipated in the parade are dismissed
II will mean in many cases the closing
temporarily of many of the most promi-
nent of the local fraternity chapters, for
in several instances all of the students
with but one or two exceptions, were
included in the ranks of the paraders
Furthermore. it will mean the suspen-
sion of all athletic activities for the re-
mainder of the college year.
Tomorrow the students will listen to
John r. Mott, the president of the
worlds federation of students Mott
comes at the special invitation of Presi-
dent Jordan, and in view of his intimate
knowledge of the affairs of the Ameri-
can students the undergraduates will
probably gather in large numbers to
hear him.