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Show BYU Student Board Supports Stomping Proposal For Retention Of Stomping Passes Activities Board Vote, 7 To 5 Last Thursday the Social Activities BoaTd at Brigham Young University passed, by a 7 to 5 vote, a proposal to keep stomps in the school's activities. - THE PROPOSAL would allow "for electronic bands to play for certain dances. Other bands will be strongly supervised, and tempo and ratio of fast and slow songs regulated by the Board. Dissenters., to the proposal during the SAB debate said they felt the stomp was morally wrong in any form. THE STOMP crisis at BYU took a new swing this year when President Ernest Wilkinson declared de-clared at the semester's first assembly as-sembly that "suggestive dances such as the frug, the monkey and the swim aTe out of place on this campus." He also encour aged the students to leave behind be-hind the torrid beat of the high school surfer and move onward to the dignity of Christian modesty. mod-esty. Reactions of BYU students are mixed. Two readers of the "Daily Universe", Larry Guthrie and Ron Kachuck, wrote to the editor edi-tor that "Judging from the support sup-port given to these dances, the stompers are not a small minority minori-ty group and are certainly not wild young savages . . . but good Mormon students." ANOTHER letter signed Duane P. Shock said: "When I see the lovely young daughters of the Church engaging in the primitive contortions of the African savage, sav-age, I always wonder how they would feel if the Savior entered the room." X$lt : t S t . v. I x . r ' -:i '. - - y - I The moral value of "stomps" has been questioned on the B.Y.U. campus. Administration will allow but control them. |