Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1908 — Puts Ban On Fraternities. [ARTICLE]

Puts Ban On Fraternities.

At the weekly meeting of the school board the new fraternity which says it shall be unlawful for any pupils in the higher or graded schools to form any dub, secret society, fraternity or any other organization of a similar character, * ♦' * and it shall be the duty of any school superintendent, board of trustee in any school town or township to suspend the pupils or pupil forming such organization was discussed on reference to the local situation. The school board was reluctant to take any action against the fraternity in this high school, feeling that the boys have conducted it in a gentlemanly way, and have really done some good by bringing boys from other towns and from the country into school, but Superintendent Warren said he was in receipt of a letter from the Attorney General who said that under this new law, it was his duty to abolish this fraternity. The board has not yet decided just what methods they will employ in suppressing the boys but they do not think a suspension from school will be necessary. This law Will not only apply to the Beta Phi Sigma fraternity, but" to the Girls club, the D. H. D., to the boys E. O. 0. and to Peter Thompson’s club, the Beta Tan Gamma.