, 1908-01-25
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UNIVERSITY AND BOOMERANG

''N AAS w pass Juu6hhtuL UPON Il pa
per that has lost all sense of right
honesty or justice, but when he does
he makes 1t strong. In his current is
u the following article appears:
If the University of Wyoming ever
rises to that high standard to which
1t rightfully belongs, 1t will not be
through the influence or by the encour
agement of the Laramie Boomerang
Il newspaper issued in the city of Lar
annie, where the university Is located.
The Boomerang never allows an oppor,
tunity to pass where discord or dissen.
sion n be raised without magnlfying
the matter a hundred fold and print
ing n sensational article with u fifty,
four point tripple-deck slug head over
1t, but 1t has never yet printed an ar.
ticle that would tend to encourage
students to attend the institution OF
invite a parent to send his children
there.
Last spring when a renegade and
G~iscrcdited professor disgraced him
self by making an attack upon the
institution and false charges against
the trustees and some members of the
faculty, and attempted to bring them
down to his level, the Boomerang was
his chief support, and it made charges,
by i"nsinuation and i%nnuendo, that were
entirely groundless and without the
FEAST foundation, as was proven when
a -non-partisan committee made a thor.
ough investigation, and reported its
findings to the governor. When this
professor was called before the board
of trustees and was asked to make u
statement, he said he would not make
a statement until a reporter for the
Boomerang was present. The reporter
was sent for and he appeared before
the board with an idiotic smile on his
lace, sitting in a chair with his legs
crossed, with one of his trousers legs
drawn up to his knee, which exposed
bis pipe-stem legs and u faded green
sock, all of which was in keeping with
the general appearance of the man.
During the entire time the professor
was giving his false testimony, the re.
porter sat there like a mummy, but
as soon ds he got out, he rushed to the
print shop and wrote a lot of rot that
no one else had ever thought of, ana
that no person would believe.
After the investigation committee
made its report the Boomerang was
ailenced for awhile, but now it has
bobbed up with another sensational
article capped with its usual scare
heading, 1t says that DR.. Tisdel, presi,
cent of the university, has been asked
to resign, but he refuses to do so,
that the reason he has been asked TO
quit is because he has refused to sign
some papers transferring certain lands
owned by the university which the
governor is DESTROYS of exchanging for
some other lands which are needed by
political friends of the governor.
President Tisdel has nothing what
ever to do with the signing of papers
which would transfer university land
to the state. The trustees look after
matters of that kind, without the ad.
vice II without the knowledge of the
president That charge is not worth
discussing. But as to the resignation
of President Tisdel, the Tribune is iii
a position to say that he has not been
asked to resign by the board of trus
tee His term expires in June this
year, and the board of trustees may
vote to retain him and it may not
that is a matter to be considered by the
board. If a majority of the board con
siders that it will be to the best inter
ests of the university to retain him
and if DR.. Tisdel cares to remain, he
will be retained. If a majority of the
board are Of the opinion that a man
can be secured for the presidency who
will do the university more good than
DR.. Tisdel, that man will get the place,
and ii will not be because DR.. Tisdel
has refused to sign certain papers or
because of any personal animosity be,
tween the president and any member
of the board or any state official.
1t will be remembered that during
the past few years there has been more
or less friction n discord in the
asylum at Evanston, at the hospital in
Rock Springs, at the penitentiary at
Rawlins and at the hospital at Sheri
dan, and that the newspapers made a
n honest statement of the trou.
BILE in the case, and that the proper
authorities proceeded at once to find
the cause of the trouble and remove
the Objectionable person, and then the
was dropped. But it is not
the case with the uniyers!ty-an insti
tuition that needs and deserves the
support of every individual and every
newspaper in the state. If the student
body thinks it has a grievance. or if a
member of the faculty complains about
anything the Boomerang PUSHES in
xyifh n sensational or4foro zuI;.l + |