The Detroit times., 1915-02-12
s.FLUNKS' FORCE
MANY TO LEAVE
UNIVERSITY
Faculty Order Raising Scholastic
Standards Works Havoc
Among Students
NEARLY 1000 MAY
BE DROPPED FROM ROLLS
Star Athletes Among Those Hit
By Wholesale
Failures

ANN ARBOR, Mich, reb. l2.-Be;
tween 500 and 1000 students win. IL
Is expected. be forced TO leave the
University OF Michigan because OF an
order OF the faculty putting the stand
ard Of scholarship necessary TO pass
In all studies on a much higher plane
than heretofore.
The order raising the grade neces-
sary to pass went forth just before
the recent semester examinations. and
some 600 students declare that this
raising of standards will cost them
their residence in the university.
II Is expected that when the com
plete reports come In this number
will be greatly Increased.
The literary department alone num-
bers over 400 ''fiunks," while In the
Engineering department many must
have failed to keep up the former
standard, not to mention the height
ened one. The law department has
not been heard from at all, but rumor
has Il not far behind.
| Besides the unprecedented number
OF failures, there has been a general
lowering Of the values standards and
grades. placing many more men on
probation than formerly was the case.
Several OF the more prominent track
men are on probation. including Muir
ply, the quarter-miler. while Ufer, the
miller. has been given warning. which
means that he has but few weeks In
which to get up his work.
In the Pharmacy department, many
football heroes OF the 1914 season
were fiunked. but they passed enough
other hours to make them eligible for
football in the 1915 season. Maui
betsch, the sensational halfback and
all-American choice OF Camp. failed In
this course, as did Captain-elect Coch-
ran. Johnny Lyons, Huebel and many
others. No football prospect has as
yet been reported as fiunked outright,
but there are many on the doubtful
list.
The freshmen literary class perhaps
talk Of the campus that over 500 OF
school, which In very large number
despite the fact that many are Topped
on here every year.
The standings Of the fraternities
viii be ascertained later when the re-
ports are fully In, but those at the
head OF the internationally associa-
ton say that there will be many fra
|ternities lighting for the bottom place
this year, with many Of those former
|1y at the top among the lowest. The
lists Of those freshmen who have
passed enough hours to be initiated
into fraternities are also shy many
names of those who had hoped for the
necessary credit but who have been
unfortunate.
More than 40 freshmen OF the liter
airy department have been reported as
having left Michigan for Illinois uni
versity, but these are not wholly fall
ures, as there are several who stood
very high In their classes who have
left.
There is an underground sort of a
rumor that things are not altogether
ION the square" In connection with
these Wholesale nunkings, but there
seems to be no truth In the report.
Many OF the faculty say, however, that
they received notice from the heads Of
the school to cut on the lower pupils.
and that they were only following out
instructions. II Is thought that these
Instructions were to fall" the lowest
10 per cent, but though afYirmed by
some professors. this IL denied by 9TH
ers.
The ofices OF the deans OF all de-
partments have been crowded for
days with these pupils who are indis-
posed to taking the faculty judgment
as final and are making last effort
to be returned. But there seems to
be but little hope for any of them,
and they are leaving town rapidly. II
does not seem to be lowering OF the
student standard. but raising Of the
faculty standards. In the class OF
English history, but one person was
fiunked. which speaks well for those
students, but the other courses are
filling up the list.