Show ELIGIBILITY There is a rule in the University which says that any student not passing in at least two-thirds two of his college work at the end of I the first semester shall be dropped from the University We think that hat the above is a fair rule for in addition it makes ten hours of passing work the min minimum mum This rule in and of itself ought to be bea 0 a safeguard against loafing and its allied evils But on the other J hand the faculty thinks that hat this is not stringent enough for students students students stu stu- dents who participate in the University organizations and andl l z passes another rule to the effect that at the end of each week any ry student who has more than one condition whether the subjects give one hour or five hours credit shall be ineligible to participate in student activities J The Chronicle does not want to be misunderstood It stands for a clean student body active college organizations and a high i standard of scholarship But stop and reflect for a minute Do you 1 think that as students you ought to be barred from the Glee Club because you are aie carrying eighteen hours with with two hours conditions conditions condi condi- Do you think it just that if between the hours of four and five when all laboratories are closed and you are in the habit of watching the team practice you go over the cross country course c. c and on your return you are met by the faculty members who warn you against this If a member of the Chronicle staff is carrying extra work and has a condition and hands in Chronicle copy tHe tile I 1 L L 41 1 R t editor is morally bound by the J law faculty not to accept his hig materiaL ma- ma maJ Shall the editor refuse to publish his article and put him off ar the staff after he has earned his place If a member of the Dramatic Dra- Dra Dra J 1 matic Club has worked hard and kept up in work every week and andis is sick for a day during the week of the play and the s sickness gives him a condition do you think that the eligibility committee ought f. f n to bounce him hilTI without an explanation and spoil the play t The eligibility rule as passed on by the f faculty culty gives a man manno manno J. J no excuses and no warnings and the eligibility does committee not rt have the to its power use discretion Do you think that hat the conditions conditions con con- conditions I are just and do you think that the eligibility is taken often r enough Why not every day i j. j s The matter is now in the hands of the Executive Committee of i the the Associated Associate Students dents a and d it is hoped that they may accomplish at least a modification of this rule It |