Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-08
Another Attack Upon Uni
ver;ity Administration In
dicated; Exaggerated Re-
port. OF might Shirt j & I
Event Sent To Bismarck !;
Muir And Cahin Cannot
Be Located. ]. &

Robert T. Muir and J. I. Cahifl,
Nonpartisan league members of the 1
board of administration. arrived in
investigation Of the recent ''night-
shirt parade held by male students
of the University Of North Dakota.
Geo. Totten, sometime minister and
president of the board. did not come
with Mr.. Muir and Mr.. cahill, but Il
is expected that he will be here, for
this is the work he likes.
The investigation" was announced
in message from Bismarck Last
night. The Bismarck correspondent
of The Herald at that time could not
learn when the board would leave, but
today he sent the following message:
understand board left today. Sec
retary asks departure be not mem
toned"
Apparently Mr.. Totten's investt-
gators wanted to reach the city
quietly all right, for the band was not
out, but their arrival was not secreE
Their whereabouts all day have been
secret, however. The Herald made
frequent efforts to locate them. but to
no avail At o'clock they had not
appeared at the offlce of President
Kane. nor had they communicated
with him.
1t was said that they undoubtedly
were in clandestine conference with
several faculty men who have been
opposed to President Kane and who.
it is said. have been Active In getting
exaggerated reports Of the night
shirt" parade to Bismarck. It .wss
reported in Bismarck, for instance,
that the boys went into the girls DOR
mitory and deliberately pulled several
girls out of bed.
In commenting upon this report to-
day, President Kane said that it was
absolutely erroneous The boys did
not pun any girl out Of bed. They
went into the dormitory rooms during
the absence Of all but one or two girls
to overturn the beds and furniture,
just as college boys throughout the
country do in yearly pranks and just
as number of sorority girls did 10
fraternity houses some time ago dur
ing the absence of the fraternity
boys 1t happened, however. that one
or two girls were in bed, but they were
not pulled out of bed. Instead. the
beds were turned over with the girls
in them. .5 -
! Due to the fact that the girls IN
question refuse 10 make any accuEa-
tions. it has been impossible TO learn.
the names Of the three or four boys
responsible for this particular act.
When the stud ent court started its in-
vestigation boys who took part in the
parade came forward rapidly and
confessed to their participation and
aided in Strengthening the matter out.
Former Row.
! Some is months ago the league
members of the board and several
| members of the university faculty at
; tempted to force DIR. kAne's retire.
ment as president of the university
| because he refused to permit the in
stitution to be used by the league for
political purposes. This raised such a
however. that the league forces were
glad to let the matter drop, and an
apparent peace was patched up.
THE board discussed the matter
! and decided to make a personal in
veshgation, find out just what hap
! pened and where the responsibility
lies" is the statement which is said
to have been made by Charles Liees-
man. secretary of the board Of ad-
ministration following board meet
ing Tuesday afternoon.
! Handled BY students.
AS the matter stands at present the
nightshirt parade episode which oc-
CuIISu SOT1S TWO "eehS dSO mas pCVh
dealt with by the student court, a
branch of the system of student self
! government which has been put into
effect at the university.
! That body has found some 80 stu
dents guilty of having entered tho
women's dormitories on the occasion
of the parade" and punishments OF
varying degrees of severity have been
i inflicted on those thus convicted.
These punishments have included the
refusal to allow several seniors to
graduate at this time, and excluding
others from the final examinations
and placing them on strict probation.
ln The University council, consisting
J, Of the faculty members, voted their
confidence in the methods pursued By
the student court in handling the
affair. ts