Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-09-18


ish fraternities in the state education
al institutions-the State Agricultural
college at Manhattan, the University
at Lawrence, and the State Normal
at Emporia. The opinion of the at
torney general was written in answer
to request from the chairman of the
board, Edward Hackney, for a writ
ten opinion as to just what are the
powers of the new board in dealing
with college secret societies. Chair
man Hackney denied that the board
had any intention, or ever had had
any idea, of abolishing or suppressing
the college fraternities.
I'VE just wished 90 ascertain our
powers in dealing with the students
and student activities" he declared.
80 that if the question ever should
come up we would be prepared for 1t"
In his opinion the attorney general
held that while the board had no
power to suppress the college frater-
nities,. it had the right to make rea-
sonable rules and regulations govern
| ing the conduct of the members, in
solar as their conduct affected the
well being OF the members themselves
! and of the other students at the in
| situations. In his letter to Chairman
Hackney General Dawson said:
1.-THE law makes clear distinction
between the power of administrative
school boards over private education
al institutions and those supported at
public expense. All the authorities
concede that the governing boards OF
private colleges, like Washburn col
lege in Topeka, or the Wesleyan uni
versity in Salina, may not only reg
ulate, but might suppress college fra
ternities in connection with the
schools governed by such boards. No
such powers, however, are conferred
by law upon the governing boards of
public colleges, such as those under
your supervision. While it might be
difficult in advance for an interpreter
of statutes to mark all the boundaries
and extent of your boards powers, l
would say that your board has broad
discretionary power to establish rea-
sonable rules and regulations for the
private conduct of students in state
educational institutions insofar as
necessary to see that the public funds
thus expended are not wasted upon
pupils whose conduct in or out OF
school hours is such that the best in
dividual results in the case of each
student are not attendant. IL your
board should find that student was
wasting his time in the work of a
college fraternity l think that the
board and faculty, or even his indivi-
dual teachers, would have a lawful
right to order him to rearrange his
conduct The courts will always up
hold school authorities in the making
Of all reasonable rules and regula-
lions for the proper management of
the schools and to secure good con-
duct and regularity of habits on the
part of the students enrolled therein.
D
An answer has been filed in the
supreme court to the quo warranto
proceedings filed last month by John
Connaughton, county attorney Of
Kingman county, asking that the three
members Of the township high school
board be ousted from office. The
county attorneys contention was that
the election was invalid, that proper
notice of holding the election had not
been given and that it had not been
properly advertised. He also asked
that the action of the board in levy
ing, through the county clerk, tax
of $1,000 for salaries and high school
expenses be annulled. In the answer
, the three members asserted that the
} election was perfectly legal, properly
advertised and asked that they be
, allowed to go ahead with the town
ship high school.
Shawnee county may spend $4,000
on improved roads this winter, in adj
: dition to the usual tax 1evies. F. B.
Simms, q member of the board OF
; county commissioners, will present to
I the board proposition for the county
: to borrow $4,000 for road work this
winter.
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Emmett Dalton, VINO was fined s25
for drunkenness in Joplin, Mo-, was
granted communication of his life
sentence by Governor Hoch November
, 2, 1907. 1t is the same as a pardon
and Dalton cannot be returned to
prison. Governor Hoch wanted to re-
, turn him several years ago because
, OF Dalton's drunken sprees at Bartles-
Vile, and asked the attorney general
! about it. Once he sent for Dalton and
It'd him the Communication would ie
, rcvt ked, but Dalton laughed in the
governors face and told him TO 60
climb tree The Communication could
not be revoked, and Dalton knew Hoch
was bluring.
In General Order No 2, just issued
from the department headquarters OF
: the Kansas G. A. r., official announce
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