RESSCINDED. I1 he Mid an ilyRESOLU TO SHOT TIONS ARE PAS 1V A BOARD'S V 1 I PRICE FIVE 1. XXIV, NO. 10. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1913. ARD OTO STILL SLEEPI ASS MADE BY THE On March 22, the Board in Control unainiously passed the following resolution, which has not been carried out as yet: "The chairman shall appoint a committee to continue negotiations with the Coufereuce of which Mr. Joh 1) .Hibbard shall be a member." JAILY TO SHOW VIEWS OF B~~OAB D ICOTL hree Queries are Submitted to Members So that Views on Conference Be Understood By The Michigan Campus Can In order to further the possibility of the opening of official and personal ne- gotiations between the Universities of the Intercollegiate Conference and the University of Michigan, The Michigan Daily interviewed the members of the Board In Control of Athletics yester- day. In order to secure action at the first meeting of the Board on Saturday night, three questions were presented which looked toward immediate con- sideration of the issues involved. The questions follow: I. Do you still favor the appoint ment of a committee from the Board in Contral to open negotiations with the Intercollegiate Conference rep- resentatives, to discover upon what terms Michigan can reentetr the Con- ference? II. Will you vote, on Saturday, for a chairman of the Board who pledges himself to appoint this committee imm ediately upon -eletionl I1. Will you favor the appointmen t, if elected chairman of persons, ex- cept any who are named specifically i n the Board of Control motion, who have not previously treatted with the Conference officially or unofficially? (We include this latter clause because we believe this method will win the confidence of the Conference Represen tatives and will show the sincerity of Michiganls intentions.) Professor R. W. Aigler: I. "Yes." II. "Yes." III. "I am not sure as to what mem- bers of the present Board in Control would be eligible to serve on 'such com- mittee, if this question were to be an- swered unqualifiedly in the affirmative. However, I have no hesitancy in stat- ing that in my opinion such committee should be so constituted as to convince the Conference Representatives that it represents the sentiments of the stu- dents, faculty, and alumni of the uni- versity." Director P. G. Bartelme: "In view of the fact that the set of resolutions passed by the Board of Re- gents of the University of Michigan at their meeting of May 29 with refer- ence to Michigan's resumption of mem- bership in the Conference, was sent to each and every member of the Boards of Regents or Trustees of Conference Colleges for their consideration and action on same, I do not feel that it is permissible of a 'member of a subordi- nate board to commit himself on the questions which your representative presents, pending the Board of Re- gents' authorization to the Board in Control to take up negotiations with Conference College representatives or autthorities." ..H. Beach Carpenter: . "Yes." II. Yes." III. "Yes, with reference to the pres- ent personnel of the Board of Control." James E. Duffy: (Special to The Michigan Daly. from Bay City, 3Iich.), Your telegram just received upon my return here and I take pleasure in answering your questions as follows: I. "If there is any reasonable doubt that terms upon which Michigan can reenter the conference have not been discovered or if there is any reasonable assurance that a committee of our I resume athletic relations with our western friends, I will be very glad to favor the appointment of such a com- mittee. II. "My vote for chairman will be cast for Professor A. S. Whitney whose splendid services on the board in the past and whose valuable experience have so largely aided in properly di- recting our athletic development in the broad sense of that term. I shall favor him for chairman so long as he can be prevailed upon to permit the use of his name for that purpose and I shall not exact of him a pre-election pledge up- on this or any other question. III. "If by this question you mean to suggest the possibility of my election as chairipan of the board I have to say that I would not take the chairmanship under any circumsttances. If such a committee as you suggest is to be ap- pointed I will favor the appointment upon that committee of members of our board whom I believe will best represent the interests of Michigan upon that question and without refer- ence to whether or not they have pre- viously treated with Conference repre- sentatives officially or unofficially and without reference to their personal opinions upon that question. "I have endeavored to answer your questions definitely and.I trust I have done so, it must become apparent to those who are familliar with the his- tory of our conference relations that the solution of this question is a sim- ple one. .If our western friends are as sincere in their desire for resumption of athletic relations as we are and upon terms that preserve to each the fundamental principle of home rule, the abolition of conference boycott rule which is entirely within the power of tile conference will solve the question and will leave the student body of our university to resume with the student bodies of other universities those ath- letic and social relations which we all so much desire and which in the past have been so pleasant and profitable." Louis Haller, Law '14: I. "Yes." IL, "Yes." III. "Yes." Albert Fletcher, Eng. '14: . "Yes." IL, "Yes." III. "Yes." John D. Ribbard: (Special long distance Telephone.) Chicago, Illinois, Oct. 9. I. "I am strongly pro-Conference and would be glad to treat with the Confer- ence Representatives, but am firmly convinced that the Michigan Regents have taken t, matter out of the hands of the Board in Control by their recent action. The Conference will not treat with Michigan until Michigan has accepted faculty control. The Michi- gan Board of Regents is the only body that can authorize the shifting of Mich- igan's eontrol to the faculty. Person- ally I have no objections to faculty control. I feel, however, that the Board in Control can give can give no official statement regarding faculty control, now that the Regents have taken the situation in their hands. II. "At this time I will not pledge myself to vote for anyone. I have not For seven years Michigan has beeii a stranger in the west. For seven years ilichigan's athletic battles have lacked the enthusiasm that surcharges contests between natural rivals, .And during all these seven years the stu- dents and alumni of the western universities have sorely missed the Michigan teams. They have vainly pleaded for Michigan's return. And the Michigan student body, only last spring gave its unequivocal support to a movement that looked toward a settlement of the present difficulties. In vain have these thousands prayed for a settlement. All attempts to get official repre- sentation from both sides together have failed. The Conference, through well authenticated sources, has claimed that Michigan is welcome. And Michigan has been unanimous in admitting that western competition is highly desira.- ble, that western competition is necessary before the athletic ideal can be realized. Yet despite these assurances and counter assurances there has not been cone single official meeting of representatives from the Intercollegiate Confer- ence and the University of Michigan. Why? Who is to blame? Michigan has even gone further. On March 22 the Board in Control of athletics unanimnously passed the follo wing resolution: "Moved that the chairman appoint a committee to continue negotiations with the conference, of which Mr. John D. Hibbard shall be a member?" More than six months have elapsed, yet this committee remains unnam- ed. Why? Who is to blame? Some will say that the matter has been taken out of the hands of the Board in Control. Others will not agree. Many do not think that the Board ill Control has so suddenly been stripp ed of its powers. But granting that it has, is it not time that the world have official word to that effect. Is this resolution, wh ich was the opening wedge so eagerly sought for by thousamds, to (lie such a death? Are we meddlesome in asking for an answer on Saturday night? Are we, who are so vitally interested in a settlement of these difficulties, pre- sumptious in asking that we know definitely to whom we are to appeal to get official relations established between the universities of the west? The 3lichiigan Daily by asking that the resolution of March 22 either be followed out or officialy killed is criticizing no one. We are advancing no opinion as to how far Michigan should go or should not go to get back in the Conference. That is a matter for the'future to be threshed out after we have' definitely found the body to whom we may direct our appeal. The problem of the present is the problem of findin g out who is to blame that negotiations are not now being carried on. Not negotiations at arms length, but negotia- tions carried on by personal and official representatives of the parties to the differences. COMEDY CLUB WILL HOLD TRYOUT THIS AFTERNOON. Comedy club tryouts for member- ship, and not for the caste, will be held today at 4:00 o'clock in the Cercle Francais rooms in University hall. All tryouts will either recite something of. their own or bring some piece to read before the committee. A prize has been offered for a student play, and six manuscripts are already in the hands of the committee. Student Contracts Chicken-pox. Leonard M. Reiser, '14, was takem ill with chicken pox yesterday. He has been confined in his home, 408 Thomp- son street. According to the state- ment of Dr. H. H. Cummings, he con- tracted the disease in Chicago, as there are no other cases in town. conferenie boycott of Michigan. If the boycoit were removed, our athletic difficulties would be at an end forever. Personally, I am prepared to doall in my power to bring about a resumption of athletic relations with our natural western competitors." Professor G. W. Patterson: . "No. I think that it is a waste of time. If we go back to the Conference, we must go back exactly as it is consti- tuted and we don not want to do that. I. "No. I will not vote for the man whom I think to be the best qualified for the position, regardless of the Con- ference question. I think that is a dead issue., III. "I do not think, at this time, that I would take the Chairmanship of the' Board. An answer to the third ques- tion is needless." ' BOARD IN CONTROL, TO ELECT A C HAIR AAND ANSWER_'WIHY'SATURDI. New Body Failed in Attempt to Cho( Head Last Spring; and Member Sleceted Must Act on Old Resolution UNION MAKES LAST CANVASS- Michigan Union membership climbed about 90 last night as the result of the house to house campaign. This makes a total gain of 286 for last night and Wednesday night in comparison with an increase of 238 in the canvass last year. Several of the committeemen had not filed th1eir reports last night and the committee expects to book many more today. The fraternity canvass under Ralph Conger, '14, indicates that com- paratively few have joined from the professional organizations, while a majority of members have joined from the general chapters. The results of the various sub-chair- men are as follows: D. R. Ballentine, 50; Edward Haislip, 40; John Lippin- cott, 37; Kenneth Baxter, 33; Harold Schradzki, 32; Edwin Wilson, 31; Paul! Thompson, 30; Howard Seward, 19; Lester Rosenbaum, 14. convictions at the meeting on Satur- day. My vote will depend entirtly up- on circumstaiices, III. "Under no conditions would I ac- cept the chairmanship of the Board in Control. My business duties are al- ready too heavy." Jf. 0. Murfin: (Special Diispatch to The Michigan Daily from ietroit, Mich.) "I favor any method agreeable to the board, which will give Michigan at the earliest possible date, proper western competion upon terms fair to all par- ties and that will be in keeping with proper ideals of intercollegiate sport." "I expect to vote for Professor Whit- Iney for chairman because of his expe- rience and his untiring efforts in be- half of athletics at the university. An analyses of his record will show that in addition to his interest and activity for the benefit of athletics in general, he has tried harder perhaps thani any other person to bring about a resumup- NOMINA TION OF " O I TINCLASS OFFICERS TO OCCUR TODAY Nominations for offices of the differ- ent classes will be held today at the following places: Junior laws-room, C, 1:00 o'clock, senior law, roo.m B, 4:00 o'clock. Senior medic-amphitheatre of the university hospital at 10:30 o'clock; junior medic-west amphitheatre of nedical building at 11:00 o'clock; sophomore medic-east lecture room of the medical building at 11:00 o'clock; senior homeop-old homeop building at 11:45 o'clock; junior hom- eop-old homeop building at 11:45 o'clock; sophomore homeop-homeop hospital 'at 11:00 o'clock; senior dents -amphitheatre of dental building at 10:00 o'clock; junior dents-lower lee- ture room at 10:00 o'clock; 1914 phar- mic-room 303, chemical building at 41:00 o'clock; senior lit-lecture room, Tappan hall, at 4:00 o'clock; junior lit -Tappan hall, room 202, at 4:00 o'clock; senior engineer--room 311 new engineering building, at 5:00 o'clock; junior engineer, room 311 new engineering building at 11:00 o'clock. Places and the time of holding the 1 nominations of the other classes was not known last night, but posters sup- plying the information will be placed on the bulletin boards this morning. Freshman classes will hold their nom- inations a week from today. tion of athletic relations between col- leges of the middle west. "I do not understand yourilast ques- tion. I cannot believe any conference representative has ever questioned the sincerity of Michigan's motives or in- tentions. I question the ability of those of us who have been working on The board in control of athletics will meet Saturday evening at 7:00 o'clocki at which time a chairman will be elect- ed, and the board will give its answei as to why and who is to blame that personal negotiations are not 'e- ing carried on between Michigami am the conference schools regarding a settlement of the present athletic diffi- culties. There is now a resolution on the minutes of the board directing the chairman to appoint a committee to continue negotiations with the west- ern conference. It is generally ex- pected that the chairman will appoint this committee on Saturday night, it that the board will make some move te wipe the resolution off the minute book. Following the election of the new members of the board last spring, agi- tation for the organization of the new board at that time resulted in the call- ,ing of a meeting just previous to the closing of the university in June. The session was called for the ex- press purpose of choosing a chairman, but the board failed to make a selec- tion; the only reason being a parlia- mentary one over which the members differed. Professor Aigler, the new faculty member from the law department, was elected chairman over Professor Whit- ney, the incumbent, by a vote of five to four; Professor Patterson receiving one vote. The members of the board voted as follows: For Professor Aigler: Messrs. Stevens, Aigler, Carpenter,Hal- ler, and Fletcher. For Professor Whit- ney: Messrs. Murfin, Patterson, Duff ey and Bartelme. For Professor Patter- son: Professor Whitney'.. Dissention then arose among the members as to whether Professor Aig- ler was legally elected, Judge Murfin arguing that a majority' vote of the board was necessary; and carrying his point. The supporters of the other candi- date claimed that as a quorum of the board was present-John Hibbard, of Chicago, being the only absent member -a majority of the members preseit was all that was necessary to elect the chairman. On the second vote the only change was in the ballot of Professor Whitney, who shifted from Professor Patterson to himself, making the result five votes each for Professor Aigler and himself. The board then decided to put over the election of a chairman until this fall. As Saturday's meeting is the first of this year, the election will be the first matter to come. before the mem- bers. REGENTS TO INVESTIGATE UNPAID NOTES OF STUDENTS Professor Patterson also made the following statement: "Personally I am unfavorable to the Conference. However I voted in favor of the resolution to go back to the Conference which the Board in Control submitted to the Regents last spring, because I felt that the students, alumni and faculty were strongly in favor of a return to the Conference." Professor Allen S. Whitney, Chair- man of the Board in Control, failed to answer the questions when they were asked him, but gave out the following interview for publication: "I am thoroughly in accord with any move which would tend to bring about an amicable adjustment of the present differences between Michigan and the Conference. .The question is one of ways and means, however, and it is uncertain which is the best way to pro- ceed. I hope that The Michigan Daily will see fit to take a conservativestand on the question.' Professor A. B. Stevens: The Michigan Daily was unable to locate Professor Stevens either yester- day afternoon or last night up to mid- night. Professor Stevens, however, this problem to make much more i has always taken a pro-Conference at- headway than we have, aid would be titude and there is every reason to be- delighted to have the problem tackled lieve that his views have not been by New blood. It has been my earnest 'changed to any marked degree.. belief for a long time that Michigan Effort will be made today to secure men as a whole are proresumption men his answer to the three questions and rather than pro conference men amdI I the replies will be published in Satur- have yet to hear a valid reason for the day's issue'of The Daily. Individual cases of studentr. have neglected to repay funds luan them by the university will be inves gated by the regents at their ne meeting, November 14. Needy students have been aided the loan funds of the university, b some have failed to reimburse t funds when their notes were due. Tt necessitates the university makii much smaller individual loans to f present requests. This depleted con tion of the fund has grown worse ea( year, until the regents feel that a thoritative action should be taken in mediately. board can discover terms acceptable and will not be pledged to any candi- to Michigan, upon which Michigan cai date, but will vote according to my