The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-18
ENJoINING 4 COLLEGE FACULTY.

ENJOINING 4 COLLEGE FACULTY.
 Some time ago the bartenders' un- ion in New York instituted button which all of it's members were requlr- cd to wear. The union then proceeded to create public demand 0 be served only by such bartenders as wore that button, To make such demand more certain it took steps to have the mem bers of other unions who accepted drinks from bartenders without the button punished We thought at the time that the idea of individual rights seemed to be invaded little incon- gruously.
 Just now comes another prop )sai - from a Yale graduate too--wh'ch seems even a little bit more out 0t perspective It is in relation to the abolishment of football by the faculty at Coldmbia University This man pro poses that the students at that Nni- versity enjoin their faculty by an s'''-' junctio'. anu require it to allow the.l to play football "Injunctions are ob- tained daily for an increasingly wide variety of reasons" he argues They have become a weapon of growing inn portance in the maintenance of rights It may be asserted on general princi- pies of equity that neither the faculty of Columbia University, or any other collective institution Chat brings it home to Yale) has the right to forbid football. Students who engage in foot ball are nearly all of statutory age; they are citizens, the direction of whose movements is their own, pro- vided they act within the laws of the land The faculty can, of course, eX- ercise as rigid a supervision over a students scholarship as may be desir- ed, but he may come and go as he pleases, engage in athletics, business, or anything else that strikes his fancy and it is none of the facultys con- cern." He then goes on to propose in junction proceedings for the Columbia students and then adds: "lt does seem as though the situation justified tho attempt In case a petition for such restraining order is granted any at tempt on the part of a college officer to mark a man down or demerit him for engaging in any athletic contest would bring such college officer be- fore the court for contempt
 The idea is an original one. We must admit it had never occurred to us before, but we have grave doubts as to it's practicability. The Yale mans home is in Salt Lake City and perhaps that accounts for any ignor- ance Of the situation that he may dis play If indeed, as he says. college faculty has no right to interfere with a students actions in matters other than scholarship, is it to be supposed that they have no power to debar him from their institution when he falls morally or criminally? And why. in- deed, does the enthusiast from the West stop at scholarship? Has not a young man twenty-one years of age the right under the law, being a citi- zen, to allow his scholarship to stand wherever he will, high or low? A fine fix would our American college facul- ties find themselves in should they be unable to interfere at all in the ac- tions of their charges simply because the latter happened to be of age. The right or wrong of the football ques- ton at Columbia is not in question at all It is just as sensible to say that the stewards of club have not the right to prohibit the playing of cards or the admission of ladies to the club building simply because the members of the club whom they woult thus or der are Cf age and citizens.