Beer in the Morning

When students at the University of Detroit have an hour free from class and time on their hands, what do they do? Detroit is one of the few Jesuit universities that are co-educational and that question has lately been bothering Dean of Women Constance T. Maier and Dean of Men Joseph A. Luther, S. J. Last week Dean Luther issued a ruling: "Mixed groups who leave the campus during class hours in cars or frequent adjoining restaurants will be subject to disciplinary action."

Gasped a coed: "Why, it puts ideas into people's heads!"

Exploded another: "It's a lot of foolishness!"

Pressed for an explanation, blond, bouncing Dean Luther observed: "You know how it is--'in the spring a young man's fancy,' etc. That ruling was a warning to a few groups, intended to break up couples. I considered calling it back and making some changes in the wording, but decided to let it go through.

"Besides, they tend to congregate in restaurants just as at the University of Michigan, 'chewing the fat,' criticizing the faculty and talking about overturning the government. They go over ... to get a couple of glasses of beer sometimes, which isn't a good idea for the morning classes."

More dire than Detroit's were two other school scandal notes of the week. In Brooklyn, District Attorney William F. X. Geoghan began crusading against "racketeers" who, he charged, had induced students in six Brooklyn high schools to sell their companions 600 contraceptive devices. At Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College (Stillwater), the Student Council received a petition with 602 signatures demanding that all entering students be given the Wassermann blood test for syphilis.

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