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There Are Two Views Of It

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
December
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Student "smarties" undertook to run the Ann Arbor opera house, one evening last week, and were hooting and throwing crackers on the stage, when several of them were arrested and taken, with cracked heads, to jail, froin whicb they were released next morning on paymeut of jail fees. Such a punishment is no punishment. A hoodlum student has no more rights than a gentleman - and the problem of how to deal with him, is not a problem. The remedy is in the hands of the faculty - expulsión. But if the faculty lacks the backbone of a sturgeon, let a justice of the peace send all such bifurcated stinkpots to the workhouse and "smartieism" would cease to be funny. - Adrián Press. One of our good citizens who sometimes goes to the opera house suggests if that place of entertainment was kept up with the times, so that people who enter could feel that they were in a place that demanded their respect, the boys would feel and act differently. While he did not for an instant approve of rowdyism in any public place, especially in an auditorium of that character, where the best people of the town are supposed to congrégate, he thought the surroundings had much to do with the actions of the boys. He argued that people lose respect for a place where the proprietors have not sufficient interest or enterprise to keep it in good comiition.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier