Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-04-04


brought to the hall or Fraternity
houses in broad daylight. 1t is paid
for and charged upon the house
bills of the organization. No bones"
are made about it, and as have al
ready stated no faculty committee
has heretofore objected to It. Many
OF the faculty members drink beer
in their homes, and have heard
them repeat many times that sAieh
form OF celebration was beneficial to
the students and to the college, as
Il prevented the men from going to
the city to celebrate an intercolle-
giate victory, as they would do II
they had no chnce to let out their
enthusiasm at home.
This may or may not be good log
ic. | am simply stating the opin-
ions of some of the faculty members
70 whom / have talked on the sub
ject.
At these beer busts" the bev-
erage is served by freshmen, who
by the way are not allowed to drink.
The "hot dogs, cheese, crackers,
and tobacco, together with enough
corncob pipes to go round are placed
on a table in the middle of the room.
The students sit around the table,
drink their beer, and give the col
lege yells. Toasts are proposed and
responded to. healths are drunk TO
tho university, the victorious team,
and the atheletic favorites. IL Is con-
sldered a disgrace for a student TO
make hog OF himself at these func-
tons. and when the entertainment Is
over the students disperse and re-
turn to their respective homes.
These functions are always held on
Friday or Saturday nights so as not
to interfere with the preparation of
the following days work.
This is practically the extent OF
student drinking on the campus. and
very little disturbance has resulte
from Il. when disturbance has re-
suited at any particular place, beer
busts" there have been promptly
forbidden. Only two such cases ore
on record. Last year the Student
Affairs Committee. that Is, the fac
ulty committee, believed that these
analrs were occurring too frequently
In Encina hall, the dormitory where
three randred men live. They put
the management OF the hall into the
hands OF a committee elected by ant
from the students living there, aud
requested the men that no more
"beer busts" be held In the hail.
Since that time practically no driak-
ing OF any sort has occurred there.
The other instance in question
was at a certain fraternity house.
The men there gave one OF the usual
"beer busts" at the beginning OF last
semester. They did not disperee II
a reasonable hour. however, and the
Student Affalrs Cimmittee thereupou
requested that no more beer be
drought intU-that house, Since then
not single drop OF beer has been
drunk there.
These examples should be snffi
cient to show that the students hav'
always been willing 20 meet the Stu
dent Anairs Committee more thar
halfway. ana that every time an!
crowd of students has been told Il
stop drinking they have sloppel
These things happened under th
old committee. men who Wer
known. loved ana respected b.
every man in the university, Thi
old COMMITTEES never considered tn
form OF student drinking objection
able when carried on in a respect
abe manner. and Il is generally cor
loeded that the federation by the un'
Q versity authorities OF mOderai
5 drinking on the campus is respons
r Bile for keeping students who live O
Q the campus away from such plact
e as Menlo; and II the rest OF the stU
e dents lived on the campus instead ,
o in Palo Alto. which is a dry tow
4 there would be absolutely no excls
j. for any one going 10 Menlo, Sa
n Jose. or San Francisco and getti1
k drunk.
r was talking with a professor
/ few days ago who is a graduate
y Princeton and he said that IL was
n prevent students from going avs
y and getting drunk, that an inn, Sc
e ing beer 10 students. was maintain'
on the Princeton campus as an i
4 tegral part of the university.
ID President Jordan, with the at