THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
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guilty of bringing liquor into the hall. A peculiar circumstance connected with this was that some of those members who voted to expel him indulged with him and with themselves a few evenings ago in the hall. The final vote showed that the scheme to expel Mr. Troxel must have been slated before the meeting In other words, it had the appearance of being a "stuffed meeting." A resolution was introduced to the effect that Mr.H.J.Myers be expelled without trial. The charges were said to be that he had an uncontrollable temper and was decidedly incongenial. The resolution was tabled, as the morning lights were about to dawn. It is understood, however, that the matter will come up again.
The Sigma Nu Chapter here has had a hard row to hoe. It has never had a good standing in the University and it has never had the choice of the best men, who come here; for when a good man came he was taken in by one of the other fraternities. There is at present no fraternity here which is on a level with the Sigma Nu Its membership is almost invariably made up of men who are the discarded offal of other fraternities.
Without making any excuses for Mr. Troxel, it is safe to say that the Sigma Nu fraternity has sounded its death knell. At one time the chapter seemed to stand a chance of becoming fairly prosperous, but the past year has been most disastrous. Mr. Troxel has been the head of the whole chapter. He was a very successful politician and it is due to his efforts that the chapter secured as much of a slice of the University political pie as they did. The chapter here is looked down upon by the chapter members of Missouri University. It is no wonder that they shun them.
W. H. H. Piatt knows Mr. Troxel very well Mr. Piatt used to be a Sigma Nu. When asked what he thought of the expulsion, he said: "Troxel is to be congratulated. He has made the chapter everything that it is, politically and socially. He has done more for the chapter than any other fellow in the d-d chapter."
Mr. Troxel was seen by a Courier man and he seemed to be in the best of spirits. In speaking of the causes and the truth, he said:
"It was a case of spite work from beginning to end. It had its origin with Hackney, Harrington and Bowen. Harrington's fight on me arose in the contest as delegate to the national Sigma Nu convention last October. The splendid notices given me by convention number of the Delta still more identified his jealousy
Hackney's opposition arose because I would not sacrafice all my interest in the Student's Journal which amounted to something over $200 and which I was depending upon to take me through school, in order to secure for him the editorship of that paper.
Bowen's was more of a personal feud and he was made a weak tool in the hands of vicious and ignorant persons"
"What about the charges?" was asked.
"The charges were preferred by Bowen. He affirmed upon his honor as a knight and gentleman that they were true. Three of the charges he made he stated upon the witness stand that he knew nothing whatever about. The great charge made was that I had been instrumental in having beer brought into the hall on the night of April 30. This charge he had to admit ignorance of.
The baseness and treachery of wild Indians is outdone by the action of Burner, Blackshire, Wick, Clarence Sears and Noves. Burner ordered beer from Kansas City, Blackshire, Noyes, and Sears came down from the Kappa party and brought friends and invited several persons who would not come to come down with them, and we drank together We expected some Sigma Nus from Kansas City."
It seems that on March 2, a resolution was passed by the chapter against beer being brought into the hall. Mr Troxel says he took the resolution to mean that strangers should not be treated to beer in the hall In regard to this,Mr.Troxel said:"A number of the members admitted that they had drank liquors in the hall since the passing of the resolution. They tried to exclude all evidence of this kind. There was no evidence given on the charge that my dealings with the Student's Journal had been crooked "
When the Courier man asked Mr. Troxe] about his feelings in the matter he drew near him and with a sly glance said: "Prev-