The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-03-18
CADETS DEMANDS
TURNED DOWN
PRESIDENT AND FACULTY SUP
PORTED.
Conditions Are Faulty.
Conditions Are Faulty.
Board ReScindS Sentence Imposed On
Grassland and Orders
New Trial.

Clemson College, March 15.-The
report of the board of trustees of
Clemson college, which has been in
vestigating the walkout last Wednes-
day of $50 freshmen and sophomores
to enforce a demand for reinstate-
ment without punishment of all un-
derclassmen and certain reforms in
methods of cadet government, was
issued late today. Threats of the
senior and Junior classmen to walk
out in sympathy with the under
classmen and general conditions at
the institution also are dealt with in
the report
The report is featured by the fol
lowing findings and recommended
tions:
Support of the president, the COM
mandant and the discipline commit
tee of the faculty.
Refusal to consider the ultimatum
from senior and junior classmen, lay
ind down of certain conditions upon
which junior and senior class men
who signed an ultimatum and sopho-
more and freshmen classmen who
walked out may reenter the college.
Acknowledgment that conditions of
the mess had not been what the au-
thorities would have them, but that
economic and other conditions the
world over are such that the situa-
ton could not have been better under
existing limitations, authorizing the
president to make improvements in
the mess and providing him with ad-
ditionals funds to cover cost of them
without raising the monthly rate of
board for cadets.
Conditions upon which junior and
senior classmen may reenter the COL
lege provided that each individual
who signed the ultimatum shall sign
and file with the president for The
trustees by 1880 p. m. March 21,
written withdrawal from their ap-
proval of the last paragraph of the
document. Those failing to comply
shall be considered in a state of sub
ordination and shall be dropped from
the rolls of the college without the
privilege of reinstatement at any
time in the future Members of
these classes who do not return in
accordance with the terms of their
present leave, without sufficient ex-
cuse in the opinion of the president,
shall be adjudged deserters and drop
ped from the rolls as such. Fresh
men and sophomores who fail to re-
turn by 1880 p. m, March 21, will
be dropped from the college rolls.
When these conditions have been
met those cadets returning will be
required to subscribe anew to the
pledge given upon their former en-
trance and to make up all work miss
ed.
Open trial for cadets, not upon de-
mands from any cadet element, but
solely to inspire more cf spirit of
confidence in the work of the disci-
pline committee of the faculty; per-
mission to be granted accused cadets
to have faculty counsel of their own
choosing at the trial; no student rep
resentative upon the discipline COM
mittee.
Appointment of committee of the
trustees to study the cadet govern
ment conditions and suggest changes
as might be deemed advisable, this
report to be submitted at the regular
April meeting of the trustees.
Consideration of the case of Cadet
Grassland, not upon the demand of
the junior and senior classmen. but
upon the petition of Cadet Grassland,
as provided by regulations. The
board, acting as an appellate court,
found that the discipline committee
erred technically in the trial of the
defendant and the case remanded to
the discipline committee for trial un-
der the proper section of the regula-
tions. If Grassland returns under the
conditions laid down by the board,
and the committee finds him guilty,
the cadet can appeal to the board,
when the board would pass upon the
actual merits Of the case.
Sure.