The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
OPPOSES
The WOMEN'S PLAN
Chaffee E. Hall Declares That
GentIer Sex Have No Place
on Executive Committee

BERKELEY, Feb 2S.-Chaffee E.
Hall. editor of the Daily Californian,
the student daily of the university.
has stirred up a controversy on the
campus by boldly announcing in the
editorial columns of the college paper
today that the proposed establishment
of the student body of >. 5. L. c.. as it
is known on the campus, advocated by
the women yesterday was Illogical and
interesting only because OF its novelty.
He said that women know so little
about athletics that their presence on
the executive committee, the govern
ing body of the students, would be
yalueless.
Miss Marguerite Ogden, editor, of
both the Daily Californian and Occi-
dent for womans day on the campus
yesterday argued that two women
should be elected to the executive COM
nlittee.
Hall, who is the son of Judge S. P.
Hall of the appellate court, believes
that the present system of government
of the student body while not ideal is
the best that could be arranged under
present conditions. He said today:
Under the head of REIMBURSEMENT" the
Woman's Day 0ecident presents and the
Woman'S Day Californian indorses, most
novel scheme for the reorganization OF the
4. ). L. {. that the executive commit
tee VIII include among its members Two
women students Coming, as it does. from
a clear sky. hardly know whether the
80 OPPOSITION is intended the first shot IN
E& smpaign having for its objective radical
N*| nge in our constitution, or whether II Is
Eserely exposition of plan interesting
because OF its novelty. We hope the latter
a. lis only significance.
Our present system of student govern
ment, while perhaps not ideal, Is the best
that could be devised for a co-educational
institution. II recognizes the SacI thSt
while in a general way the interests N
the men and women are the same. yet the
activities Of the two great divisions OF the
student body are 20 widely different taat
they must be directed by distinct orgsniZa-
lions
A. 5. L. c. and bear of its burdens ether
than the regular assessment. And for this
they not only get the same privileges as
A. ". :. as well. fifth OF every assess
ment paid by women students is given over
10 the financial support of their own Or
We believe that the present system is
far more logical than the one proposed
The principal functions OF the executive
committee Is the direction OF athietlcs,
concerning which nine women out OF ten
are 50 profusely ignorant that the judg-
ment Of their members on tie committee
in regard to it would be worse than taue-
less.
The men know just as little about the
affairs in which the women are. interested,
and surely none Of them would be pre-
sumpru0us IS 10 demand voice in the
regulation of the wonan's jinks. regatta or
basketball games.
This difference in interests and the con
sequent ineompetency of men or women to
direct the affairs OF The other make the
proposed change highly undesirable. We
are sure that IL viii never md favor with
the men, and we doubt whether il would
even receive the Endorsement of the ma
jority Of the women
We do not impute the loyalty of the
orneu mar do We he fart rhat
they the intellectual equals Of the men,
but We do hold that from the nature of
things the presence of the
executive committee would be an anomaly
and backward rather than forward step.