The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27
WIDEN PROBE
into alleged
|. U. ORGIES
Deans Quiz Students About
Fraternity Dances
Held in City.
JUNIOR PROM is SAFE
Annual Event to Be Staged
as Usual; Bloomington
Papers in Fight.
b. United Press

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, March D..
Despite denials that investigation
OF misconduct at fraternity parties
included more than handful Of
students, deans at Indiana univer-
sity today had extended their probe
to affairs sponsored by almost a
dozen Of the most prominent So
cieties on the campus.
Interrogating co-eds who attend
ed two recent fraternity dances on
the campus, a committee Thursday
delved into alleged indiscretions of
students at state dances of several
national organizations in Indianap-
oils within the last month.
Reports of this committee, which
met with Miss Agnes E. Wells, dean
Of women, and Of the student affairs
committee that met with G. E. Ed
mondson, dean of men, will not be
available probably before Tuesday.
Dean Edmondson, scoring news
papers in Bloomington, Indianapolis
and Chicago for publicity given ex-
pulSion of two cO-eds, and for Sto-
ries Of his and Dean Wells investi-
cations into rumored delinquency
Of fraternity and sorority members
at two dances here, said today his
committee might finish the probe
tonight.
Give School Bad Name.
students who get into trouble are
not nearly as bad as they are
painted" the dean said, contending
that a few students who are caught
overstepping university rules give
the institution a bad name.
Because of recent ruling that no
organization might hold social
functions in Bloomington hotels, one
fraternity today announced that its.
annual pig dinner" would be served
in the house rather than at hotel.
Fear of students that the annual
junior prom might be forbidden
this spring as the result Of the in
vestigations, was dissipated when
Dean Edmondson said it would be
held as planned next month.
The two co-eds, expelled last
week, are said to have rcappeared
at Dean Wells Office with their
fathers, seeking readmission, which
was denied.
Papers Get Into Row
An editorial today in the Indiana
Daily Student, official university
newspaper, melted a Journalistic
battle between that organ and the
Bloomington World.
Captioned "Peddling Gossip" the
Students editorial accused news
papers of relying on wild rumorS for
sensational stories, and sacrificing
the schools good name for Scare
head publicity"
THE Daily Student has not given
any space to the hog-wild rumors
that have emanated from the campus
the last fortnight" the editorial
declared. 1T has done this not be-
cause it condones any Irregularities
that might have been committed by
any student or group of students,
but because it believed that any
publicity on such cases is danag-
ing both to the university and to the
general student body.
Resents Press Inquiries
THE Daily Student further be-
lieves that the student affairs COM
mittee is capable of passing iudg-
ment on persons charged with in
fractions of university rules without
any aid from the press. Pseudo
Investigations on the part of the
press invariably tend to magnify
the issue and hinder the disciple
nary authorities in arriving at the
facts in the case"
The editorial was written by Vim
cent Fowler of Indianapolis, a CO.
editor of the Student
Replying today, the World
charged:
The Indiana Daily Student, the
mouthpiece of those in authority
at Indiana university takes a pot
shot at local, state and out-of-state
newspapers this morning because
events during recent weeks were
subjects of publicity.
AsSails Daily Student
From a pedestal and from its
holier-than-thou attitude, it is in
tereSting to read the Students
criticism of 'scandal-hungry news
paper reporters
Let any unfortunate wild Romeo
downtown stage a booze party or
go awry, and the Daily Students
reporters are on the Job to report
faithfully such fact as they may
find. There is no censorship
clamped down on these stories but
let the incident occur on the
campus, the one-half of which
never appears in print, and they
dare not report it because of CEN
Sorship."
The World further charged that
silence on the part of university
officials was responsible for publ-