Project Editor: Jeffrey Miller, History 470: Digital History, Spring 2008

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SUSPENSION ORDER FOR 5 NEBRASKA STUDENTS IN RAID

Steve Hokuf Also Facing Ouster for Entire Semester.

DECISION TODAY AS BEER CHARGE FILED

Lincoln, Neb., March 24.-Whether temporary suspensions of five University of Nebraska students arrested in a beer raid Saturday night, and of Steve Hokuf, Cornhusker athlete and occupant of the apartment where the raid occurred, will be extended for a semester is to be announced Wednesday afternoon by T. J. Thompson, dean of the men at the university.

The suspensions of the five arrested students were ordered immediately after the raid, pending inquiry by university authorities into the incident, according to Dean Thompson.

Questioning of the students was finished this afternoon by Dean Thompson.

Hokuf Not Arrested.

Action of the university will precede hearing of the five students in police court Thursday morning on charges of possession of liquor.

Those facing the police charge are George Cook, 24, of Casper, Wyo., and Warren Crawford, 19, Lake City, Ia., occupants, with Hokuf, of the raided apartment; Fred Wickman, 19, of Tekamah; Jack Calkins, 18, of York, and Max Von Bargen, 20, of Lincoln.

Hokuf has not been arrested, police saying that so far as they are concerned he is not connected with the case.

Hokuf was questioned by Dean Thompson Tuesday, as was Hi Prucka, another athlete, a former occupant of the raided apartment.

May Miss Football.

Dean Thompson said that a meeting of university officials will be held in his office Wednesday to make final decision on whether the students will be suspended for the semester, or whether some other action will be taken.

Should Hokuf be suspended for the rest of the school year, it would bar him from football competition next fall, though he would be eligible again for second semester basketball if he were allowed to reenter school for the summer session and afterward.

Frat Official on Way.

He is a junior, and a member of Delta Tau Delta, as were four of the other students concerned. A national official of that fraternity is on his way to Lincoln to investigate the affair, according to members of the N. U. chapter.

Meanwhile Senator R. R. Vance of Hastings, member of the senate finance committee, said that the committee may look into the incident if the university fails to take proper action. He did not say what action he would think proper, noting that the case had not been called to attention of the legislators except through the newspapers.

Despite the temporary suspensions, the implicated students attended part of their classes Tuesday, according to Hokuf.