Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-23
a POOR SOLUTION.

We remarked rev uaNa dSo ''
college faculties have not frequently
disclosed much ability in dealing with
offending students The latest reports
from Stanford seem to be new EVIL
dcncc of this lack of aptitude on the
mart of the professors in handling
students in way Of discipline.
The faculty there has expelled a
number of the students. Their ofense
no doubt merlted expulsion, but the
fact is that this particular penalty uoes
not meet the Issue,
1t is said that the students were
rotous. and that some of them had
been drinking. our idea is that they
should therefore have been dealt with
by the civil magistrate. and either
reprimanded, fined. or imprisoned, as
their offense merited.
AS it is, they have been denied the
opportunity Of going on with their edu-
cation; and that, we maintain. is an
injury out of all proportion to the usual
orenses Of a crowd of hilarious stu
dents
The country does not maintain uni
versites neither do people endow in
stitutlons OF learning in order to de-
prive young men of the chance to get
I'm education If Stanford uniyer-
slty were 30 full of students that 1t
must reject some, then expulsion or
some other process Of wedding out the
less desirable elements might be re-
- tn H.z tt.k-.
but we are free TO say once more that
expulsion is the last action that ought
to be taken
The Republic cannot afford to have
some of its brightest young fellows
sacrificed in this way. There must be
other means of punishment. AS we eX-
pected the expelled students are al
ready posing as martyrs, and no doubt,
they have the sympathy of most OF
their fellow students
We suppose, of course, that the stu
dents are in the wrong In this matter
The point we make Is that our educa-
tors have not yet discovered how to
treat the condition presented in the
pranks of students.
The last issue of the student paper
at stanford shows the attitude of many
and perhaps most of the students over
the expulsion of their comrades.
In the dedication of the ''Sequola"
. to the dismissed students, the follow
ing language Is used:
ITO the students OF Stanford who
were forced out Of this university UNI
justly. we extend our sympathy. To
those men whose characaters were as
sailed by some members OF the fac
ulty. we extend our sympathy. Our
admiration goes out to the men who
can fight. who can see justice thwarted
in an American college and still have
faith in the ultimate victory of JUS
tlce; and our admiration goes out to
the men who made n manly apology
for trivial orfense, and who wero
Disseminated against In the final reck-
oning; who did not defy college au-
thority but who Joined in a protest
against the most narrowi-minded and
unfair student affairs committee that
was ever inflicted upon an American
university To all these men the
Stanford Sequoia' is affectionateiy
dedicated"
In an editorial entitled "A Want OF
ed by the student affairs COMMITTEES,
and resulting In the dismissal OF a
large number of the students who took
part I'm the memorable parade, was re-
viewed. and in conclusion it was ad-
vised that stubborn fight against the
action of the committee be continued
to the end.
Altogether, The avoidance of the
real problem involved. by the short
and easy method of expeliing the stu
dents. is not solution. 1t means only
that the faculty cannot solve the prob
lem, which must therefore be regarded
as incapable of solutions result that
the people are not Inclined to accept.