Show PUNISHMENT FOR HAIR CUTTING MAY LEAD TO FURTHER TROUBLE The action of the discipline commit committee tee at att atthe t the university in making one student stand sponsor for the act of ot I about twenty students nearly nearl resulted in a T wholesale walkout of ot the engineer engineering ing students yesterday The matter has not been settled yet et but the en engineers engineers merely deferred action until the result of 0 a further investigation tion promised by b the discipline commit committee tee has been learned A sophomore S by the name of ot Borg Borgquist Borgquist quist did not join with the tile other en engineers engineers engineers of ot the school who had deter determined determined determined mined to absent themselves from reci recitations recitations recitations on election day was caught Tuesday by the committee of the engi engineers engineers engineers and as they attempted to admin administer adminIster adminIster ister the punishment of a hair hall cut which had been determined on as the penalty for attending class Bor drew a club from beneath his coat and struck H Richards a member of the committee over the head He was im un immediately Immediately mediately subdued and the punishment carried out when he proceeded to Pres President President ident Kingsbury with the story too of his wrongs Yesterday the discipline committee issued issuM an edict suspending John Loof Loofbourow Loofbourow one of the twenty boys who took part in the affair from the institution institution for one week This action which visited the punishment upon one one per person person son gon angered the engineers who imme immediately immediately held what was perhaps the most spirited meeting of oC protest ever eyer held at atthe atthe atthe the school After listening to the thc remarks of stu students students st dents as well weli as President J T Kings Kingsbury Kingsbury Kingsbury bury and Professors George M Mar tar Marshall Marshall shall Milton Bennion and R H Brad Bradford Bradford Bradford ford of ot the discipline committee the engineers voted unanimously to stand stan standby stanby standby by Loofbourow and to ask the discipline discipline discipline pline committee to reconsider the mat matter matter matter ter with all th engineering students present as equal culprits in the offense for tor which Loofbourow was suspended The committee retired and after ty minutes deliberation Chairman Bennion made the following report We e have met in company compan with Pres President PresIdent President ident Kingsbury and have hare come to our decision after atter a careful deliberation of f the tue facts One thing that has menaced the country for tor some time past and which has threatened peace and pros prosperity prosperity perit is mob law the attempt of the majority to impose their wishes upon the minority This is a case ease where a body of students has tried to 10 decide what one on of ot their number shall do A state institution should stand ly b l for moral and civil law lae la and if iC we have haYe mob law it is a tiling thing the found founders ers era of the school never anticipated The facts lead us to believe that the tue th affair was net a punishment for tor assault and battery batter but done in an attitude of menace and threat We therefore pro propose propose propose pose to abide by b our previous decision It seemed for tor a moment that an out outbreak outbreak outbreak break of ot the students was as imminent and a general walkout would result from the decision A heated discussion followed and finally finall a motion was as made to drop the matter This was voted down After deliberation the en engineers engineers engineers in consideration of ot the interest of the football team which is 13 composed almost entirely of Qt engineers agreed to defer deter action until the committee made madea a further Investigation The engineers will anxiously await the further report of tile the committee and if unfavorable action is taken they threaten a general walkout |