The San Francisco call., 1910-03-26
STANFORD ACCEPTS
CALIFORNIA; RULE
Student Body Votes Against the
Breaking OFF of Relations
With Berkeley
Especial Dispatch to The CALI

STANFORD UNIVERSITY. March 25.
intercollegiate athletic relations be-
tween Stanford and the University OF
California will not be severed. Such
was the decision reached today at the
student body meeting held for the
purpose of deciding whether or not
Stanford should accede to the ulti-
matum of Berkeley for a rule estab-
fishing period of five years as the
limit of athletic eligibility. A motion
made by II. l.. Horton was lost by q
vote of 41S to $40. The meeting was
marked by heated speeches on both
sides of the question the principal
reason advanced for the refusal TO
accept being the unfairness OF the
rule to Stanford athletes. while the
feeling on the other side was that the
tve year rule was not so bad as the
lack of any scholarship requirement.
and that it was better to accept than
to sever relations with Berkeley
]. E. Shelton 10. president Of the
student body, presided at the meeting,
and in the beginning outlined the situ-
alton.
After heated debate Fl. L. Horton.
former track captain. finally moved
that we reject unconditionally the uI-
timatum of Berkeley" A division OF
and 1t was rejected by a vote of $40
to 413
President Shelton appointed a COM
m1ttee to draw up resolutions explain
ing to Berkeley StanfOrd's stand and
embodying Stanfords ideas in regard
TO scholarship requirement. A b
Roth, II. T. StOlz. L. Scott, II. v Poor
and K. L. Dole were appointed on the
committee. This committee adopted
the following resolutions, which will
be presented to California:
Resolved. that the Stanford stu
dent body took this action for the
Following reasons:
We feel that the hasty action
taken oy the students at the Uni
Verslty Of California was due to
mlsapprehenSIon as to the atti-
tude of the Stanford student body
Our executive committee has never
RhIatea +hat tseiI sll, on record as saying
any specific rule and have hence
sent our delegation to the agree
ment committee uninstructed. We
believe that the rule suggested by
California is not the fairest rule
which could be adopted, due to the
difference in the scholarship con-
ditions at the two universities.
Stanford will heartily cooperate in
any movement which will tend to
raise the standard of athletics or
exclude from competition any men
who are not in every Sence bona
fde students. 1t is for this reason
that the stanford men were un-
willing that the relations of the
two universities should come to an
end as the result of too hasty ac-
tions. where one had almost pre-
competition to five years is not the
vital question in the relations be-
tween the universities.
The point wherein the inequal-
ity lies is in the different scholar
ship requirements enforced by the
two universities, not as to the
ing of athletic relations, affecting
as it does the students and alumni
of the two universities. should not
be lightly dealt with. Relations
once interrupted are not easily re-
sumed and our many mutual In
terests would suffer severely. For
these reasons we acceded to- the
demands of California and have
accepted the rule above stated. =
which we feel works some fnjuS-
tice, but which does not strike at
the serious inequality between the
two student bodies.
On this question OF equal SchOl-
arship requirements we feel very
strongly. Until the two untversi-
ties are under the same rules in
this respect there can never be
fairness and equality as basis for
competition. At Stanford in order
to be eligible a man must make at
least two-thirds of the work which
he has taken for the first time.
The average course is is hours and
the minimum IS hours. At the
University of California a man Is
required to make eight hours. ir-
respective of the amount of work
carried and work which he Is TAX
ing for the second time may be
included in these eight hours.
The University of California has
no probation rules and hence
man is eligible to compete if he is
registered in the university. At
Stanford probation rules prevent
a large number of men from COM
peting
Because of the above stated in
equalities the Stanford student
body feels very strongly that some
rule which would eQualize the
standard of scholarship eligibility
and which would insure a high
standard of scholarship for ath-
1etes should be adopted, and Stan
ford will make every effort to
cure the adoption of some such
rule at the next and at every
subsequent suitable opportunity.