The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
WaShburn Frat Men Disregard
Warning of President.
Dance Last Night Despite Or
derS of DIR. Sanders.
WILL THEY BE EXPELLED?
Campus Is ThrObbing With
Excitement This Afternoon.
College Allows Dancing Only
Fridays and Saturdays.

The laughing chaps and daintily
| frocked girls who light heartedly two
| stepped at Steinberg's last evening are
plunged in the depths of gloom to-
| head sa worse fate awaits them.
| There's an old adage that inexorably
states, ''They who dance must pay
the fiddler" This morning the col
! Iege crowd is attempting to pay the
fiddler.
IAN old law In washburn," said
| President Sanders in chapel Thurs
day morning, says there must be no
ternity or sorority house. The stu
dents may dance downtown on Fri
day or Saturday night. The Varsity
club has kept this rule in most hon
orable manner for several years. Re
Gently a new dancing club was organ
lied, and promised to live up to the
time-honored Varsity rule. Never
theless, they have danced on Thursday
evening and they intend to dance to-
night. This is absolutely against the
rules of the college, as every student
knows. If the dance is held, those
who attend may expect serious trou-
ble''
After the presidents announcement,
the members of the club held colo
quies in the Railways, their hands in
their pockets, a frown on their broWs-
The girls. who had diaphanous gowns
ready for weeks, sparkling slippers,
anO yard long ScdT1Ss ILOuSII II was
a shame and said so.
The town girls who were going re-
ceived the news over the phone, ana
wondered what would happen.
All Arrangements Were Made.
The hall was engaged, and the or
chestra-that might pass, but the re-
freshments were bought. A commit
tee of two had listed the salads and
ices at the home of one of the most
popular girls in town.
"There's no use in stopping 1t now,
fellows" said one of the boys. It's
got to go on"
So taxis, eIectrics and cabs whirled
I'D to the hall, and a throng of gally
decked goods trooped excitedly up the
stairs The taste of stolen fruit was
sweet, and they had a mad whirl of
time. 80,
meekly inquired the Journal society
reporter this morning over the phone.
call up in about ten minutes, Will
you?" responded one OF the frat boys,
chap against the wiles OF reporters
and skipped off to class.
May 1 have 20 # list now" sweetly
insisted the reporter, when the ten
minutes were up.
voice over the wire, but we're not
going to give that list out"
A second reporter called up Presi-
dent Sanders and asked what he in
tended to do about the dance.
Its purely a matter of college
discipline" said. the doctor, gravely.
Several members of the society are
not college people, and I have no
authority over them. I have not had
official proof of what really occurred,
and am investigating the matter"
would the offense be serious
enough to warrant expulsion?" he was
asked.
st would rather not say DR.. San
ders responded. 81 don't know as
yet"
What will the president do? That is
the question uppermost in the minds
of the students on the campus today.
Meanwhile at a certain frat house, fif-
teen college men are awaiting the call
of President Sanders-awaiting his
decision on their future rights to wear
rah-rah caps with blue WIS.