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Caption: Booklet - Citizenship at UI (1929)
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devouring gab centers, and in the second they provin. .ahze thenmembers and sometimes make arrant snobs out o> smallI minded bovs and girls. But, for a wholly practical reason, the deans oi discipline and their aids work in friendly cooperation v.,.1, t! fraternities and sororities. Control and guidance ol obstreperou and reckless students are more easily exercised when the university authorities can work with a strong, self respecting Maternity in helping its weaker brethren back into the path oi sense and decorum. The fraternity, for its own honor, will aid the university in this task, and it thoroughly understands that, if it employs concealment and subterfuge to protect a culprit, its whole organization will pay the penalty of deprivation of privileges. Didoes and Drink The system works well. In 1927-28 there were no cases of discipline resulting from misbehavior at dances in fraternity houses. In 1926-27 there were four cases. Mr. Turner, the celebrated Dean Clark's first aid in the dean of men's department told me that one of those four offenses was "boorish conduct" : the second and third were "unconventional arrangements, such as not enough lights in some of the rooms," and the fourth was "drinking/' In three of the cases the penalty was "no social functions in those houses for the rest of the year." The university is combating cruelty and roughness at fraternity initiations in rather an adroit way. It has somehow got the fact to yeasting in the student mind that such h odlumism is common/' that "it isn't done" in schools of learning which have come out of the juvenile squawk stage. The result is that more and more the decent boys are saying to the gangster-wits, "O, let's not be 'college'! Let's be human beings!" To fraternity gangsters who continue recalcitrant the authorities merely say, "Keep on with your antics and we'll have \ ur charter taken away." The development of a rational ideal of campus conduct at Urbana-Champaign has, as such developments mov been so rapid and so heartening that the faculty believes that fratcrnitx hoodlumism will finally go the way of hazing, which used to be flagrant at Illinois, but is now considered "just common t I A Churchly Student Body Tf the Statistics mean as much as they seen, to. which slatisti seldom do, the studenl body at Illinois is emphatically a churchh ody. Seventy-five per cent of the boys and 85 per cenl of the [16]
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