Education: Snobs on the Midway?

At University of Chicago's Quadrangle (faculty) Club, from which President Robert M. Hutchins resigned last year when a prospective candidate was blackballed for the first time in club history (TIME, Dec. 11), 17 student-waiters last week quit in a body because of the club's "illiberal membership attitude." Other students promptly began picketing the club.

"The Quadrangle Club is for faculty, not snobs," cried one Quadwrangler.

Piped another: "What's the difference?"

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