The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-12-27
WOLVERINE ALUMNI WANT
FACULTY TO TAKE CONTROL
miller Difficulty May Result in Shift.
ing Athletic Responsibility to
Shoulders Of Higher Auth.
critics at Michigan.

FACULTY control of athletics at Mich
igan instead of domination bv the
regents is now the cry OF University
OF Michigan alumni. Graduates of the
Ann Arbor school have come out strong
Tor return to the old faculty leader
snip, which 1t Is believed would mean
Mlchigan's return to the conferences
FOLLOWING the surprise and embar-
rassment caused by the revelations I'm
! regard to Captain elect ]. Joy Miller.
the alumni affirmed that faculty con-
trol, which was taken away bv the
regents before Michigan left the con-
ference, should be restored. A strong
statement To the same effect has reach
ed Wolverine alumni from Professor
Andrew c. Mclaughlin Of the Unlyer-
sity of Chicago, an alumnus and for
mer professor of Michigan.
Professor McLaughlin's opinions adj
voeating complete faculty control are
given in the current number of the
Michigan Bulletin" He saws that
9he question OF whether Michigan
should return belongs only to the
professors at Ann Arbor.
Faculty Control at Stake.
Really Shall Michigan enter the
conference? should mean Shall n
representative of the Michigan facul-
ty join with others i'm an effort 10
control athletlcs?' or Shall Michigan
refuse to act with the others and do
as she pleases?' From the faculty
point Of view, how can there be any,
thing but one answer to such a cues
ton, unless regulations adopted by
the majority seem quite unsuited to
the conditions existing at Ann Arbor?
Such a decision should be left To the
uninfluenced opinion of the faculty.
This subject has been discussed
nearly all the time as If ii were a
question solely for athletes as to
whether they preferred to play east
or west. 1t ought to be solely a ques-
ton as to whether the Michigan facul-
ty is willing to cooperate with other
faculties of the West and accept what
seems fair to the majority after fair
candid and gentlemanly consideration
Of situation.
Students Caused Change.
ITO satisfy student demands, which
probably a large part of the present
student body now thinks unwise. the
faculty was made to submit to the
proposition to withdraw from the
meetings of the faculty men of the
western colleges. The very organiza-
tion and method of appointment of
the Michigan board of control was
step decidedly retrogres-
sive-and Michigan gave up position
in which she had always been lead
er and retired from conference in
which she had held an honorable place
and i'm which she had had much in
huence in the lettering OF western
athletics.
THE idea sometimes gathered from
this late unpleasantness' that the stu
dents are unruly, headstrong and |
is quite unfounded in
fact. The students now appear to
wish to come back into Western ath-
letics. But, though no one respects
student sentiment based on sober
second thought more than the writer
of these paragraphs, it must be said
that this should not be a matter for
student decision or alumni influence.
The faculty should have full control
Of the problem of managing athletics
for the best interests of the college.
Faculty Should Decide.
"The faculty should have the right
to decide whether it desires to CO.
operate with other faculties in the
of a perplexing and trying
problem"
While Professor Mclaughlin does
not state his positive position on the
question of Michigan's return. he and
)ther prominent alumni are considered