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Caption: Booklet - Citizenship at UI (1929)
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A school With more than 8.000 mettlesome bovs a„H IH,-s,;n , (XW ,.,U. and underclad gtris 0 „ its campu? h ^ ^ facts in tin iacc. Decatur is 50 miles awa.v ; Danville only 32 mil~s R« n , i q U o r is to be obtained in both places. Sequestered n o o t nd roadhouses are along the way. Via the hard roads and runnW his own car. a student could have his frolicsome party 'far from university jurisdiction in twenty minutes. Yes, it was better to look facts in the face. Two years ago the ban was placed on student operation ot automobiles except under special and tern porary permission. The university was a pioneer in this measure Other institutions have followed its lead, notably the University of Michigan, which has bettered the instruction and made the control stricter. Hundreds of parents have written the authorities of our school, thanking them for placing the ban. But here is a curious point: most of the protests against it and the pleas for special exemption came from mothers. It is, I was told, almost always so when the faculty appeals to parents for their support in enforcing discipline. World's Greatest Time-Waster President Kinlev did not fegua which the ban aims to provide, merely remarking in his compact Scotch way, ''Thus we have eliminated one of the most successful time wasters which modern science has invented." This campus is one of the most highly fraternalized in the United States. About three thousand boys live in eighty-seven fraternity houses and eleven hundred girls in thirty-four sorority houses. The total fraternity-sorority h o l d i n g s r e p r e s e n t a property value of $7,260,000. The average value of each house is $60,000 but the most expensive fraternity house cost $125,000 and the most expensive sorority house $100,000. The average sized fraternity house lodges thirty-five boys at a cost for room and tx rd not greatly \ceeding the cost of living in a private hou . Board in a private house will run about $30 a month and a room from $12.50 to $15 a month. Board, room rent, and house dues in a frafc rnity hou will come to about $55 a month. The university authorities direct the boys to build on the Champaign side of th< impus and the girls on the Urbana side. Thb gr nation was diplomatically inaugurated many years ago. The Fraternities No Unmixed Blessing uthorities ap far from considering fraternities and sororit „, ...i • d bl< ismg. In the first place they are turn ( 15)
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