j, No. 9 Z-149 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. NOVEMBER 12, 1942 PRICE THREE CENTSIgmaChixplainsF StandRiley, president of Sigma Chiijty, when contacted last nightitatement on the position of hisreported that Sigma Chi is att awaiting a written statementhe office of Dean Mort as to theof a fraternity which does notto the I-F council. He furtherthat the national office of Sig-i has studied the facts of thend has requested the same in¬ion from Dean Mort but hasd no reply.n Mort has reported that suchiment has been made to Sigmalit he has refused to make a; statement because of the com-of the problem.^’s statement was in part as“Sigma Chi is definitely notin its corner watching theside, and we would not agreeir cause is dead news. We haveDean Mort on several occasionsdefinite statement as to ourif we withdrew from the coun-t he has declined to speak in; terms or to make any state-n writing. His only statementwe would not be recognized asjrnity. Sigma Chi has been ality since 1855 and has beensnted on this campus sinceind we do not agree that anry decision made by a handfulby politicians on this campusange our status. We are a fraand will remain such regard-the outcome of this attempt tour activities,have not been idle. Our causeen taken up by our nationalarters who are thoroughly inlent with this chapter. The ex¬committee of Sigma Chi fra-wrote Dean Mort last week-ing a definite written state-lent with those of the parentnation, the National Inter-Fra-Continued on page two) You Have Asked for the Whole TruthThe Maroon's Duty Is to Print the TruthWe Present It Here-From Every ViewOn Tuesday night a party was held in Snell Hall which was destined to be the most exclusive thiscampus has ever known. Called, it is claimed by Phillip Rieff, the group was made up of twentyor twenty-five deluded souls who were under rather a strong impression that the Daily Maroonhad committed an unpardonable sin. Petitions were handed out for campus circulation along witha circulp stating the reasons and facts involved in the expulsion of Phillip Rieff from the Maroon.This is our story We think it speaks for itself.Note—This article is to be read straight across from first column to third Why YouHave ThisPaperNowTHE OPPOSITION1. Rieff has tried to represent ade¬quately every campus organization.2. To honestly express the news andviews of the campus.3. This despite the admittedly inef¬ficient Board of Associate Editors.4. A Board of Associate Editors whosee in every truth the entering wedgeof radicalism.5. We feel both the goal and theprogress made towards it is admira¬ble.6. Rieff has edited a Maroon thatfor the first time in two years hasmade money.7. He has put out a paper increas¬ingly significant and good enough totriple last year’s circulation.//.ettersehearsal3udedters to Lucerne” as previeweddress rehearsal last night givesiversity the second worthwhilef the new season. Concernedhe effects of the war on the: the girls in a school in Switz-just after the outbreak of thele between Germany and Po¬le play centers around the Ger-rl whose position in the schools increasingly difficult and her• who becomes a Nazi flyer,isillusioning his Polish sweet-ind the other girls of assortedilities who are attending theer Moellenhoff and Elainepahn as the leading charactersleir parts conviction, and DonT in his first campus appearanceitive as the German flyer. Tak-» action necessarily from the.’rom the outside world whichIs receive through their letters,rs Frank Grover and Normahave paced the action so thatds the interest throughout,irer its failings as a play, “Let-Luceme” becomes moving the-5 presented by the Universitys. Doris De Boos, Mariacarlaelli, Mary Diamond, MerleJack Solomon, Beatrice Kan-emard Frazer, Maryce Klaff,l<aura Collins, and Homer Gold-3mplete the cast. The play willisented at the Reynolds Clube Thursday, Friday, and Satur-eningi. 8. He has written consistently in¬telligent, forceful editorial pages.9. He has proffered the use ofequal space to all those who disagree.10. There are people on campus whodisagree with the policy and the goalsRieff has pursued. ..They have rightsto express their opinions in the Ma¬roon, and to membership on the Ma¬roon staff, but they insist on the Ma¬roon serving their small social pur¬poses. THE FACTS1. In the October 28 issue, 67>/^inches to politics, 28 inches to warnews, 21 inches to campus news, and40J/4 inches to faculty news.2. The above statistics app)y to sto¬ries which were written by or censor¬ed by Rieff. Come and read them.3. The Board of Associate Editorsall fulfilled their respective duties...all staff submissions were judged up¬on by Rieff.4. Any editorial written by Rieffwas one-sided to an obvious degree.Radicalism has never been broughtinto any criticism by the Board.5. The goal and rate of progressto same were determined by Rieff,above any conflicting opinions offeredby the Board.6. On Tuesday, Nov. 3, the date ofRieff’s expulsion, the Daily Maroonhad $25.00 in the bank. This repre¬sents an all-time low for the begin¬ning of the year.11. The Maroon constitution wasdisregarded. 7. The year’s circulation could notpossibly be determined this early inthe year. No records of any perma-nancy are yet available. THE PUNCH1. Rieff has tried to represent anycampus organization which meetswith his personal approval; how ade¬quately, he alone decided.2. Rieff has tried to honestly expressthe news and views of the campuswhich agreed with his; all others wereignored or mocked.3. Admittedly inefficient by PhilRieff, Praise the Lord...we’ve gotthe ammunition.4. Phil is obviously just self-con¬scious.6. The goal is pretty sleazey, butwe cannot deny he was progressingtoward it.6. He must have entered our profitson the wrong side of the ledger; allwe can find is in red.7.1 guess he’s counting the ones hegave away.8. His editorialfi^are plenty forceful,and intelligent—^maybe TREND coulduse him. By a majority vote of the board ofcontrol, the DAILY MAROON ap¬pears today as an extra supplement¬ary edition to the issue of Wednesday,November 11. This paper is deemedexpedient after consideration of ananswer to, oppositionist groups oncampus. Establishment and stabiliza¬tion of journalistic policy and the pre¬sentation of an all-inclusive newscoverage of the facts, views, and opin¬ions involved in the current disputefurther prompted the members of theboard to present this extra.The student body is asked to makeallowance for the pressure underwhich a reduced staff was forced toput out this issue. Limited by thesmall number of people available toproduce it and the even greater lackof sufficient time, they attempted todo their best and it is a sincere hopeof the board that the University willaccept today’s MAROON in the samespirit as it has been issued.Members of the board who con¬curred in the decision were MinnaSachs, News Editor; Beata Mueller,Feature Editor; Betty Waters, CopyEditor; and Barbara Ortlund, Adver¬tising Manager.Phil RieffNo LiberalSays Board8. His editorials have never beencriticized.. .he was asked by theboard to remain as Editorial Writer,and member of the Board.9. The statistics in item no. 1 applyhere too.12. Werner Baum, a board member,was not allowed to vote.13. A written statement of the rea¬sons for removing Rieff was refused.14. Phillip Rieff has a right to re¬tain his position as editor-in-chief un¬til he is constitutionally removed.15. He has a right to a writtenstatement of the case against him,and the right to answer such a state¬ment.Rieff’sActionsCondemnedBy BoardIn the past few days, tke activitiesof the members of the staff of theDaily Maroon have been highlightedto such an extent that all eventsleading up to the current crisis havebeen forgotten or ignored.Last May, the outgoing Board ofControl of the Daily Maroon placedRobert Lawson in the newly createdposition of publisher of the paper, ajob which entailed the duties of ageneral overseer of the business andeditorial ends of the Maroon. Lawsonwas to have complete power to decidematters of immediate importancewhile he was to consult the rest ofthe Board of Control and request theirvotes before taking any action in af¬fairs which did not require quick de¬cision. Under this system, plans weremade to publish a paper twice a weekthroughout the school year.At the end of the summer, Lawsonleft school and Rieff took over. A,few weeks of inactivity ensued andthen with the opening of the fallquarter the Board of Control founditself excluded more and more fre¬quently from the decisions that wereassigned under the Daily Maroon 10. Any people on the Maroon whodisagreed with Phil on the matter ofcoverage have shown in the past twoissues that they are interested in amuch larger coverage than he is.11. The Maroon constitution, as reg¬istered in the Dean’s office, has nev¬er been ignored or violated.12. Werner Baum was never ad¬mitted to the Board by a unanimousvote. The vote to expel Rieff stayedin Dean Mort’s office for a full day,the only doubt being in regard toBaum’s status on the staff. Dean Mortinvestigated, and was satisfied thatBaum was not a Board member...therefore the vote was unanimous andconstitutional.13. Phil was never refused a writ¬ten statement of the reasons for hisexpulsion. He can have ont any timehe cares to call for it at the Maroonoffice. 9. Equal space in Pulse, or in theC-Shop ?10. Ninety-nine to one would be amajority to Rieff, if he were the one.11. The Maroon constitution thatPhil wrote really wasn’t salaamed to.12. Please Notice: All Board Mem¬bers of five years ago or earlier can¬not, we are sorry to say, be consideredin a Board vote.13. We’re terribly shy about poison-penning.14. I guess when Phil wants to beeditor, a mere student body can’tchange him, even with the help of thefaculty, hum?15. Have you got two weeks? Swell!Pull up a chair.ActivitiesCommittee toMeet Friday14. Phillip Rieff, as stated in sec¬tion 12, was constitutionally removed,therefore, unfortunately, he has no po¬sition to retain.16. Philip Rieff, on the day that heleft the paper, was invited to run aneditorial, to be censored only as tolength.. .limit, 30D words. Phil in¬stead wrote an editorial defaming hispet peeve, John Crosby, and tellingof the Sigma Chi-I.F. Council feud.Constitution to the board of editorsand their associates. Editorial policywas to be decided by the News Editorand the Editorial Writer in coopera¬tion with the Publisher, whose position Phil Rieff now held. Rieff, find¬ing himself with two votes in everyquestion of editorial policy ignoredthe opinions of any one else who ven¬tured to make suggestions and so theeditorial policy of the Maroon becamethe editorial policy of Phil Rieff, hisideas and his views.(Continued on page two) With PULSE in the fold, the newly-formed Activities Committee will meettomorrow afternoon to draw up acomplete draft of the activities ticketproposal, Ira Corn, head of the stu¬dent organization announced today.After announcing via handbill yes¬terday morning that they were notto be included in the plan. Pulse re¬versed its decision after a conferencewith Corn, and announV >d laterthrough Editor Hope Raynt nd thatPulse would be represented-^ on thecommittee.The idea, backed by leaders of allmajor campus activities, and tenta¬tively OK’ed by the Dean’s office, hasas its purpose increased student par¬ticipation in campus affairs. The com¬mittee hopes to offer for sale studentactivities tickets which will entitlethe purchasers to Pulse, The DailyMaroon, and Cap and Gown subscrip¬tions, entrance to all D.A., StudentSocial Committee, and Mirror-Black-friars sponsored campus activities.The meeting of the board will beheld in the Maroon office tomorrowafternoon at 4:80. Phil Rieff is being backed by liberalgroups on campus. If he is returned tothe editorship of the Maroon, it will3e because of their backing. Thoughthey are sincere in backing Rieff, theiraction is inconsistent with liberalviews.Their sole interest in backing Rieffis to see that liberal thought has achance to continue being advancedthrough the Maroon. They believe thatthat is Rieff’s sole interest, thereforethey are backing him.Facts disprove this. When Rieff wasasked to resign as Editor of the Ma¬roon, because of his inefficiency in di¬recting staff members and finances, hewas asked by the board to continue asEditorial Writer and member of theboard. In this position he could con¬tinue to dominate the editorial policyof the paper, advancing whateveropinions he chose. Rieff has refusedanything but absolute dictatorial con¬trol of the paper, and every piece ofnews in it. His object is not one ofadvancing liberal thought on campus,but one of advancing personal glory.He would be the McCormick of theDaily Maroon. “The board of the Daily Maroon ispredominately liberal. The board con¬tinues its active hate of- the Tribune,fascists here and abroad, and race andeconomic inequalities. It also detestsmen who circulate petitions stating,in essence, that there is but one manon campus capable of liberal thought,or of intelligently operating a studentnewspaper. Hitler is essential to Ger¬many, Petrillo is essential to the mu¬sicians’ union, but Rieff is not essen¬tial to the Daily Maroon.The facts you will find elsewhere inthis special edition. The conclusions,briefly, are these. Financially the Ma¬roon under Rieff was about to fold up.Campus circulation had fallen to anall-time low, and with it was goingadvertising. Rieff refused to take anysteps to increase circulation by in¬creasing the appeal of the paper. Nopaper, even an aggressively liberalone, can operate without funds.Rieff also failed in his managementof the staff. The staff had fallen to anall-time low, because of Rieff’s insult¬ing attitude. You cannot cover campusnews without a staff.Rieff wanted to use the paper to get .Rieff ahead, to express Rieff’s views, 'and to talk about Rieff’s friends. He ?had no interest in turning out a cam-,py T rpwapaper, making the Maroon_fi-:lnancially able to return to a daily^Jschedule, or reporting the news.The hims of the present staff areto represent every interest on campusin its pages, to continue advancementof liberal ideas, and to return, as soonas possible, to the schedule of a dailypaper. THE EDITORSCaiiiero Catches Prize Feofbalt Expressions — One of the big moments in thelllinois'Minnesota gome come when foul Milter, Gopher tackle, blocked the pointafter touchdown attempt of Illinois' Jim McCarthy. In one of the biggest upsets inyeors, Illinois \wnt on to win 20-13, the first Big Ten loss for the Gophers in morethan two years. Acm«Looking Aheod — This construction gang is part of o botany class at Washing^College, Chestertown, Md., making an enlargement to the greenhouse os parttheir doss project. Such work provides good training for the military job thatahead of the fcmys.Wins "Junk King" JItie — Scouring the campus for scrap. University of Alabomastudents attended an "A" Club scrap dance and dumped more than 20 tons of metalat the door . . . scrap which served the double purpose of gaining them admissionto the dance and answering the nationwide appeal for the metal. When Dugan.Calloway, above, appeared with 5,100 pounds, he was crowned King of Junk. Although It's Strictly a Girls' School the Army and Navy are well represeat Ward-Belmont College, Nashville, Tenn. All of the girls pictured above are daters of Army and Navy officers.rLWhy YouHam This43, No. 9 Z-149 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. NOVEMBER 12, 1942 PRICE THREE CENTS PaperNowHgma ChiExplainsF Standub Riley, president of Sigma Chiernjty, when contacted last nighta statement on the position of his!e, reported that Sigma Chi is atent awaiting a written statement1 the office of Dean Mort as to theas of a fraternity which does notng to the I-F council. He furtherBd that the national office of Sig-Chi has studied the facts of theand has requested the same in-iation from Dean Mort but hasived no reply.ean Mort has reported that suchatement has been made to Sigmabut he has refused to make alite statement because of the com¬ity of the problem,ley’s statement was in part asiws: “Sigma Chi is definitely notng in its corner watching ther side, and we would not agreeour cause is dead news. We haved Dean Mort on several occasionsa definite statement as to ourjs if we withdrew from the coun-but he has declined to speak inlite terms or to make any state-t in writing. His only statementlat we would not be recognized asaternity. Sigma Chi has been ajrnity since 1855 and has beenesented on this campus since, and we do not agree that an;rary decision made by a handfulletty politicians on this campuschange our status. We are a fra-ity and will remain such regard-of the outcome of this attempt toour activities.Ve have not been idle. Our causebeen taken up by our nationalquarters who are thoroughly inement with this chapter. The ex-ve committee of Sigma Chi fra-ty wrote Dean Mort last weekesting a definite written state-era ent with those of the parentnization, the National Inter-Fra-(Continued on page two) You Have Asked for the Whole TruthThe Maroon's Duty Is to Print the TruthWe Present It Here-From Every ViewOn Tuesday night a party was held in Snell Hall which was destined to be the most exclusive thiscampus has ever known. Called, it is claimed by Phillip Rieff, the group was made up of twentyor twenty-five deluded souls who were under rather a strong impression that the Daily Maroonhad committed an unpardonable sin. Petitions were handed out for campus circulation along witha circular stating the reasons and facts involved in the expulsion of Phillip Rieff from the Maroon.This is our story We think it speaks for itself.Note—This article is to be read straight across from first column to thirdTHE OPPOSITION1. Rieff has tried to represent ade¬quately every campus organization.2. To honestly express the news andviews of the campus.3. This despite the admittedly inef¬ficient Board of Associate Editors.4. A Board of Associate Editors whosee in every truth the entering wedgeof radicalism.5. We feel both the goal and theprogress made towards it is admira¬ble.6. Rieff has edited a Maroon thatfor the first time in two years hasmade money.7. He has put out a paper increas¬ingly significant and good enough totriple last year’s circulation.8. He has written consistently in¬telligent, forceful editorial pages.9. He has proffered the use ofequal space to all those who disagree./#LettersehearsalQudedetters to Lucerne” as previewedle dress rehearsal last night givesUniversity the second worthwhileof the new season. Concernedthe effects of the war on theof the girls in a school in Switz-id just after the outbreak of the?gle between Germany and Po-the play centers around the Ger-girl whose position in the schooltnes increasingly difficult and herler who becomes a Nazi flyer,disillusioning his Polish sweet-b and the other girls of assortedmalities who are attending the>1.ither Moellenhoff and Elainenspahn as the leading characterstheir parts conviction, and Donow in his first campus appearancefective as the German flyer. Tak-its action necessarily from thei from the outside world whichfirls receive through their letters,:tors Frank Grover and Norma18 have paced the action so thatlolds the interest throughout,tever its failings as a play, “Let-to Lucerne” becomes moving the-as presented by the Universityers. Doris De Boos, Mariacarlaarelli, Mary Diamond, Merlen. Jack Solomon, Beatrice Kan-Bemard Frazer, Maryce Klaff,f Laura Collins, and Homer Gold-complete the cast. The play williresented at the Reynolds. Clubitre Thursday, Friday, and Satur-evenings. 10. There are people on campus whodisagree with the policy and the goalsRieff has pursued.. .They have rightsto express their opinions in the Ma¬roon, and to membership on the Ma¬roon staff, but they insist on the Ma¬roon serving their small social pur¬poses. THE FACTS1. In the October 28 issue, 67»/2inches to politics, 28 inches to warnews, 21 inches to campus news, and401/2 inches to faculty news.2. The above statistics app]y to sto¬ries which were written by or censor¬ed by Rieff. Come and read them.3. The Board of Associate Editorsall fulfilled their respective duties...all staff submissions were judged up¬on by Rieff.4. Any editorial written by Rieffwas one-sided to an obvious degree.Radicalism has never been broughtinto any criticism by the Board.5. The goal and rate of progressto same were determined by Rieff,above any conflicting opinions offeredby the Board.6. On Tuesday, Nov. 3, the date ofRieff’s expulsion, the Daily Maroonhad 125.00 in the bank. This repre¬sents an all-time low for the begin¬ning of the year.11. The Maroondisregarded. constitution was12. Werner Baum, a board member,was not allowed to vote.13. A written statement of the rea¬sons for removing Rieff was refused.14. Phillip Rieff has a right to re¬tain his position as editor-in-chief un¬til he is constitutionally removed.15. He has a right to a writtenstatement of the case against him,and the right to answer such a state¬ment.Rieff^sActionsCondemnedBy Board 7. The year’s circulation could notpossibly be determined this early inthe year. No records of any perma¬nency are yet available. THE PUNCH1. Rieff has tried to represent anycampus organization which meetswith his personal approval; how ade¬quately, he alone decided.2. Rieff has tried to honestly expressthe news and views of the campuswhich agreed with his; all others wereignored or mocked.3. Admittedly inefficient by PhilRieff, Praise the Lord...we’ve gotthe ammunition.4. Phil is obviously just self-con¬scious.6. The goal is pretty sleazey, butwe cannot deny he was progressingtoward it.6. He must have entered our profitson the wrong side of the ledger; allwe can find is in red.7.1 guess he’s counting the ones hegave- away.^ 8. His editorials are plenty forceful,and intelligeht—^maybe TREND coulduse him. By a majority vote of the board ofcontrol, the DAILY MAROON ap¬pears today as an extra supplement¬ary edition to the issue of Wednesday,November 11. This paper is deemedexpedient after consideration of ananswer to, oppositionist groups oncampus. Establishment and stabiliza¬tion of journalistic policy and the pre¬sentation of an all-inclusive newscoverage of the facts, views, and opin¬ions involved in the current disputefurther prompted the members of theboard to present this extra.The student body is asked to makeallowance for the pressure underwhich a reduced staff was forced toput out this issue. Limited by thesmall number of people available foproduce it and the even greater lackof sufficient time, they attempted todo their best and it is a sincere hopeof the board that the University willaccept today’s MAROON in the samespirit as it has been issued.Members of the board who con¬curred in the decision were MinnaSachs, News Editor; Beata Mueller,Feature Editor; Betty Waters, CopyEditor; and Barbara Ortlund, Adver¬tising Manager.Phil RieffNo LiberalSays Board8. His editorials have never beencriticized.. .he was asked by theboard to remtan as Editorial Writer,and member of the Board.9. The statistics in item no. 1 applyhere too.10. Any people on the Maroon whodisagreed with Phil on the matter ofcoverage have shown in the past twoissues that they are interested in amuch larger coverage than he is.11. The Maroon constitution, as reg¬istered in the Dean’s office, has nev¬er been ignored or violated.In the past few days, tke activitiesof the members of the staff of theDaily Maroon have been highlightedto such an extent that all eventsleading up to the current crisis havebeen forgotten or ignored.Last May, the outgoing Board ofControl of the Daily Maroon placedRobert Lawson in the newly createdposition of publisher of the paper, ajob which entailed the duties of ageneral overseer of the business andeditorial ends of the Maroon. Lawsonwas to have complete power to decidematters of immediate importancewhile he was to consult the rest ofthe Board of Control and request theirvotes before taking any action in af¬fairs which did not require quick de¬cision. Under this system, plans weremade to publish a paper twice a weekthroughout the school year.At the end of the summer, Lawsonleft school and Rieff took over. Afew weeks of inactivity ensued andthen with the opening of the fallquarter the Board of Control founditself excluded more and more fre¬quently from the decisions that wereassigned under the Daily Maroon 12. Werner Baum was never ad¬mitted to the Board by a unanimousvote. The vote to expel Rieff stayedin Dean Mort’s office for a full day,the only doubt being in regard toBaum’s status on the staff. Dean Mortinvestigated, and was satisfied thatBaum was not a Board member...therefore the vote was unanimous andconstitutional.13. Phil was never refused a writ¬ten statement of the reasons for hisexpulsion. He can have ont any timehe cares to call for it at the Maroonoffice. 9. Equal space in Pulse, or in theC-Shop ?10. Ninety-nine to one would be amajority to Rieff, if he were the one.11. The Maroon constitution thatPhil wrote really wasn’t salaamed to.12, Please Notice; All Board Mem¬bers of five years ago or earlier can¬not, we are sorry to say, be consideredin a Board vote.13. We’re terribly shy about poison-penning.14. I guess when Phil wants to beeditor, a mere student body can’tchange him, even with the help of thefaculty, hum?15. Have you got two weeks? Swell!Pull up a chair.ActivitiesCommittee toMeet Friday14. Phillip Rieff, as stated in sec¬tion 12, was constitutionally removed,therefore, unfortunately, he has no po¬sition to retain.16. Philip Rieff, on the day that heleft the paper, was invited to run aneditorial, to be censored only as tolength.. .limit, 300 words. Phil in¬stead wrote an editorial defaming hispet peeve, John Crosby, and tellingof the Sigma Chi-I.F. Council feud.Constitution to the board of editorsand their associates. Editorial policywas to be decided by the News Editorand the Editorial Writer in coopera¬tion with the Publisher, whofMj posi¬tion Phil Rieff now held. Rieff, find¬ing himself with two votes in everyquestion of editorial policy ignoredthe opinions of any one else who ven¬tured to make suggestions and so theeditorial policy of the Maroon becamethe editorial policy of Phil Rieff, hisideas and his views.(Continued on page two) With PULSE in the fold, the newly-formed Activities Committee will meettomorrow afternoon to draw up acomplete draft of the activities ticketproposal, Ira Corn, head of the stu¬dent organization announced today.After announcing via handbill yes¬terday morning that they were notto be included in the plan. Pulse re¬versed its decision after a conferencewith Corn, and announced laterthrough Editor Hope Raymond thatPulse would be represented on thecommittee.The idea, backed by leaders of allmajor campus activities, and tenta¬tively OK’ed by the Dean’s office, hasas its purpose increased student par¬ticipation in campus affairs. The com¬mittee hopes to offer for sale studentactivities tickets which will entitlethe purchasers to Pulse, The DailyMaroon, and Cap and Gown subscrip¬tions, entrance to all D.A., StudentSocial Committee, and Mirror-Black-friars sponsored campus activities.The meeting of the board will beheld in the Maroon office tomorrowafternoon at 4:80. Phil Rieff is being backed by liberalgroups on campus. If he is returned tothe editorship of the Maroon, it will3e because of their backing. Thoughthey are sincere in backing Rieff, theiraction is inconsistent with liberalviews.Their sole interest in backing Rieffis to see that liberal thought has achance to continue being advancedthrough the Maroon. They believe thatthat is Rieff’s sole interest, thereforethey are backing him.Facts disprove this. When Rieff wasasked to resign as Editor of the Ma¬roon, because of his inefficiency in di¬recting staff members and finances, hewas asked by the board to continue asEditorial Writer and member of theboard. In this position he could con¬tinue to dominate the editorial policyof the paper, advancing whateveropinions he chose. Rieff has refusedanything but absolute dictatorial con¬trol of the paper, and every piece ofnews in it. His object is not one ofadvancing liberal thought on campus,but one of advancing personal glory.He would be the McCormick of theDaily Maroon.The board of the Daily Maroon ispredominately liberal. The board con¬tinues its active hate of-the Tribune,fascists here and abroad, and race and.economic inequalities. It also detestsmen who circulate petitions stating,in essence, that there is but one manon campus capable of liberal thought,or of intelligently operating a studentnewspaper. Hitler is essential to Ger¬many, Petrillo is essential to the niu-^sicians’ union, but Rieff is not essen-.tial to the Daily Maroon.The facts you will find elsewhere inthis special edition. The conclusions,briefly, are these. Financially the Ma- ”roon under Rieff was about to fold up.’Campus circulation had fallen to anall-time low, and with it was going ‘advertising. Rieff refused to take anysteps to increase circulation by in¬creasing the appeal of the paper. Nopaper, even an aggressively liberalone, can operate without funds. ■ >-1Rieff also failed in his managementof the staff. The staff had fallen to anall-time low, because of Rieff’s insult¬ing attitude. You cannot cover campusnews without a staff.Rieff wanted to use the paper to getRieff ahead, to expre js Rieff’s views,and to talk about R’eff’s friends. He 'had no interest in turning out a cam¬pus newspaper, making the Maroon fi¬nancially able to return to a dailyschedule, or reporting the news.The aims of the present staff areto represent every interest on campusin its pages, to continue advancementof liberal ideas, and to return, as soonas possible, to the schedule of a dailypaper. THE EDITORS itPage Two THE DAILY MAROON' We ^re putting out this paper to¬day for one reason. We made the mis¬take of not explaining to you yester¬day just what was going on with usand Mr. Rieff. You, as the people whoread the Maroon, have a right toknow.The board of control of the DailyMaroon voted Phil Rieff out of hisposition as chairman of the board, notbecause of his political views, but be¬cause of faulty administrative tech¬nique, and he resigned as editorialwriter.The legalistic controversy has beenconcerned with the question of wheth¬er the vote was actually unanimous,because noone was certain whether ornot Werner Baum was a board mem¬ber. If he was not a board member,he had no right to vote; if he was aboard member, the other members hadno right to exclude him from voting.The situation was that he had neverbeen officially voted in as a boardmember after Chloe Roth resigned asmakeup editor and he came in to re¬place her: but he had worked as aboard member, and had been listedas such on the mast head. So muchfor that.This issue, however, has long out-grrown any legalistic quibbling. It hasbecome, in the minds of many people,a question of who is running the pa¬per: the board with the co-operation(kindly and well-meant, both we andthey understand) of the Owl and Ser¬pent Boys and Interfraternity Coun¬cil ; or the paper being run on a liber¬al policy, the same sort of policy forwhich Rieff was resented by thesesame lads.Everybody wants to see the Maroona good paper. The Board has said it,Rieff has said it. Owl and Serpenthas said it. The thing is their defini¬tion of a good paper.All right. The Board says theywant adequate news coverage of thecampus. Rieff says the same thing.So does 0. and S. Rieff, however, in¬sists on a liberal political policy bothon and off campus. He does not likethe 0 and S boys. 0 and S wants lotsof representation for their ten percent of the campus who run studentactivities, because student activitiesare important. They don’t like Mr.Rieff a bit. The board is a little be¬wildered.BEATA MUELLER BazaarCondemnRieff(Continued from page one)News has always come under theauthority of the News Editor, butgradually the News Editor foundstories on varied topics appearing inthe columns of this paper which nostaff member other than Rieff hadseen before the general readers ofthe Maroon saw them. This was madea point of constant quarreling andrebellion, but yet Phil Rieff continuedto assign, write, and dominate thenews appearing in the Daily Maroon.Even the actual copy itself did notescape the comments of Rieff who feltthat the copy reader was inadequateand not up to the Phil Rieff standard.He was preparing to oust both theCopy Editor and the News Editor,not to mention the Feature Editorwho had not been able to perform anyfunction whatsoever because all fea¬tures were assigned or written byRieff and entered into the paper before any other Board Member hadbeen able to censor, approve, or disap¬prove of the wording or content of thematerial printed.Against this, the Maroon staffstruggled and fought for sevenweeks. After seven weeks had elapsed,the three official board membersheld a long discussion and then helda unanimous vote decreeing that PhilRieff should be removed from his po¬sition as head of the Maroon Staff,Publisher, or Chrirman of the Boardof Control. It is this decision that hascreated the situation that now exists,and it is this situation that the Ma¬roon at this time is trying to combat. By BETTY FANNINGDepartment of Fair Play: SamFawley—we repeat . . . Sam Fawley—took Barbara **Duchess” Ortland tothe Phi Pd? party . . . and then“Dutch” Schultz took over the “Duch¬ess”. She did not go with CharlyCompton, who was not even there,and who, incidently, is not leaving forthe West Coast ... Janet Peacock wasthere looking pert after a week inBillings . . . Schoenfeld and DickStoughton stagging it . . . you knowthe rest . . .Saturday night there was a Phi Deltparty, too, and lots of people . . .Aileen Wiseman and Jim Bobbin . . .Gloria Robinson and prexy Fred Gus¬tafson . . . Georgia Hinchliff and BillBlackwell came late ... in fact every¬one was just leaving . . . Ray Oakleydropped in . . . Brother Bob did not... on account of a fight he had withfour Phi Delts from Northwestern thenight before . . . the scars were tooapparent.Department of War: Paul and Mar¬garet Smith (nee Peacock) are nowat home in San Francisco, where heis stationed as an Ensign . . . BlancheGraver Middleton, ’41, is also therewith her three weeks old son . . . Herensign husband does convoy duty toAustralia. Art Bethke and Cal Saw-yier are Ensigns in the Supply Corpsat Harvard . . . Lenny Senn is buckprivating it at a camp in Virgrinia. . Dink MacClellen is another em¬inent buck private—in Colorado . . .Paul Florian and Bob Reynolds leavefor Abbott Hall in the very near fu¬ture . . . The last we heard of BillMelonowski, ’41, he was sitting inTurkey with the Army Air Corps . . .waiting . . . Igor and Toto are buckprivates in the solid south . . . And sothey spread, as we never thought theywould. Sigma Chi—IF(Continued from page one)ternity Congress. Such a' council, inorder to rightfully assume this nameshould have as its aims to create co¬operation among fraternities ancstrive for the improvement of thefraternity situation. It should bement regarding the university policyon fraternities who do not belong tothe campus group known as the Inter-Fraternity Council. To date theDean’s office has entirely ignored thisrequest.“We believe that if an organizationoperates on the campus under thename of Inter-Fratemity Council, itspolicies and acts should be-in completeservice organization and serve as jclearing house for matters pertaining to' the fraternities. No suchcouncil exists on this campus. Thepresent organization, hiding l>ehindthe innocent title of Inter-fraternityCouncil, has set up an executive committee to serve as administrator, pros¬ecutor, judge and executioner. It issubject to personal prejudice and pet¬ty power politics and has allowed thegrudge of one member to direct itsfull wrath on Sigma Chi.“In a full meeting of the pseudo¬council, Sigma Chi requested: (1) Theremoval of power and control of thesmall inadequate clique'now compos¬ing the I-F committee; (2) A com¬plete reorganization of the council, itsconstitution, and statues based upon astudy of the National Inter-fratemityCongress recommendations and thesystems used on other campuses; (3)the election of the executive commit¬tee members on a merit basis ratherthan the present appointive system;and (4) a review of the circumstancesof the Sigma Chi infraction and ajust fine handed out ir line with judgments accorded the other cases.“Since Phi Psi is guilty of a rushing infraction by admission of thecommittee itself, we feel that the infiuence of Ed Nelson should not beallowed to get them oflf scot-free. IfGilinsky is not an official member ofthe committee as has been confessedby Crosby, and other members of thepower pact, we believe that every de¬cision of the committee is illegal andsubject to review.“We would remind other fraterni¬ties that it is not beyond reason to be¬lieve that they would be the victim ofsuch treatment in the future if theyallow present conditions to continue.“Sigma Chi is not fighting for it¬self alone, but in an effort to bringabout an Inter-fratemity Councilwhich will meet all the specificationsof the National Inter-fratemity Con¬gress; a council which will improveth fraternity situation on the campusand promote sincere cooperationamong our fiaternities. We have notceased our efforts, and we will notuntil it is plainly apparent that theI-F Council fulfills its obligations and. belated by a number of is free from discrimination and un¬democratic practices.” Little ColonelSpreads War toQuadranglasAt the “C” Shop Monday night ev¬erything became collegiate all of asudden . . . everyone singing ... wewould like to see more of that.Orchids to Edde Armstrong for hisswell play, “Biography” . . . BetsyKuh, and a newcomer, Steve Atwater,were terrific . . . even “Q” Moore wasexcited about it ... it was standingroom only on Friday night.Department of Pins: Joan EllenSalmon to Beta Gil Donahue . . . twovery nice people. Unpinning . . . JeanNash and Bruce Badnoch .. . Says sheof John Burridge . . . “Oh, he’s sowonderful ... He understands me sowell.”Saturday night is party night:D.U.’s, Betas, Wyverns, Esoterics andQuads all being gay. Friday will bethe Bomb Shelter “C” Dance . . .Come one! Come all! Also Friday, aclosed Alpha Delt shindig.Department of Engagements: RoysJeffris and Punk Warfield . . . FayHorton and Cal Sawyier . . . She’s go¬ing to Washington with him and docryptography . . . Mike Rathje to anoff-campus unknown ... to be mar¬ried in January. Barbara (Price) andJack Dryden are honeymooningNew Yorkmonths. Not satisfied with the march of theAEF across northern Africa, theUniversity is staging a private war toreinstate the once ousted editor PhilRieff. Rieff held his “beer cellar”meeting last night to commemoratehis coming return to power. The pres¬ent board of control, having usedChamberlain tactics until last weekwhen they officially voted Rieff offof the board of control, even yester¬day had decided to give the “LittleColonel” a chance to do the job whichhe could do best. One of the best edi¬torial writers on the quandrangleswas asked to relinquish his dictatorialpowers of actual control of the newsand feature staffs, and to maintainhis job as editorial writer. The basicchange which would be brought aboutwould be that a new chairman of theMaroon board would be selected whowould administer the office and theeditorial staffs. It was felt by thefraternity and club groups that Rieffdid not adaquately represent theirviews or cover the things of interestto them in the news articles of hisstaff.The staff felt that they were notpermitted to write the stories as theysaw them, but were subjugated by“Bonaparte” himself.The Colonel Fights Back NovemberSTUDENT DIRECTORY^NOW ON SALEThe University of Chicago StudentDirectory is now on sale at variousplaces throughout the campus. In ad¬dition to containing the names, ad'dresses, and phone numbers of all thestudents in the University, the direc-tory includes information concerningStudent Organizations, FraternitiesClubs, and various campus boards andcommittees. The publication also in-eludes the names and office numbersof the officers of administration in theUniversity. Published by the Univer¬sity Press, the directory sells fortwenty-five cents.Planned for Dec 2ndSwim Intra-murals‘ Coach Hebert has announced thefollowing details on the forthcomingintra-mural swimming meet. The meetwill be held on December 2 in the IdaNoyes pool. 'Only those who have not wonawards will be eligible. Those wishingto compete may practice in the IdaNoyes pool on Mondays, Wednesdaysand Fridays. They must qualify notlater than November 30.inHarriers Outrun WheatonYesterday the cross-country teambeat Wheaton College 24 to 31 on theWashington Park course. Captain RayRandall ran the distance, 3)4 miles, in19 minutes, 22 seconds. Beardsly fin¬ished behind Randall and Meyer- Oakes came in fifth for Chicago. Toz-er and Shapiro came in seventh andninth respectively.On Monday afternoon the team hasits next meet. This is the Big Tenmeet which will also be held on theWashington Park course. The issue soon became apparentthat either the paper would becomepermanent tool in the hands ofRieff or the paper had to overthrowthe Colonel and make a few changes.Nothing was said regarding theloard’s action as being one of savingtheir own necks, nothing that it waseither Phil or the board. But theColonel wasn’t through fighting.Rieff and loyalists held the once men¬tioned “beer celar” meeting last nightat which time they decided to circu¬late petitions asking the campus toauthorize as much as possible thatthe “Colonel” wasn’t really so bacafter all and that he had been stab¬bed in the back by the pawers thatbe. Today the petitions were in everynook and corner of the quadranglesseeking the support of the once Glor¬ious army. Needless to say the armydoing “a-poor-country-boy-robbed-by-city-slicker” mob psychology act hasdragged many noble Frenchmen intothe fold.The high tribune, the Dean’s office,has no statement on the state of af¬fairs at the time of this article’swriting. The Colonel still holds tohis original story, “I’ve been robbed.”The Maroon board, “We’re fighting,and we love it.” A D Phi, Phi PsisWin in TouehballIn the new Freshmen Touch Foot¬ball League Psi U defeated Pi LambdaPhi. In other pledge touehball gamesPhi Psi beat the Phi Sig’s, while theAlpha Delt team was winning fromZBT. Sigma Chi lost to the Deke’s.Today the semi-finals in the Aleague will be played. The openinggame, at 2:30, will be between thePhi Psi’s and the DU’s. The othergame features the Alpha Delt’sagainst the Deke’s at 3:30. The win¬ners of these games will meet to de¬cide the fraternity championship. 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Telephones: Wentworth 6128 and 6184.The University of Chicago assumes no re¬sponsibility for any statements appearing inThe Daily Maroon, or for any contract en¬tered into by The Daily Maroon.The Daily Maroon expressly rsserves therights of publication of any material appear¬ing in this i»aper.Subscription rates: $1.00 a year, |1.60 bymail. Single copies 8 cents.Entered as second class matter February23, 1942, at the post office at Chicago, Illinois,under the act of March 8, 1879.Memberftssocided GollGbiofe PressDUtribulor ofCblle6iale Di6estEDITORIAL BOARD:Minna Sachs—News EditorB^ta Mueller—Feature EditorElizabeth Waters—Copy EditorBUSINESS BOARD:Ned Munger—Business ManagerBarbara OrtJund—Advertising ManagerNight Editors—Rick Meana and Ned (I’mStill Here, Damn I) MungerBLACKOUTENJOY IT — THE TIME HAS COME'C DANCEROMANCEANDAIR RAID FUNFRIDAY THE 13 thAT IDA NOYESAND 75c INSURES THESE JOYS