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"BeRT COLLE0iE NEWSPAPMR IN SoUTH CAROLINA" Member of the South Carolina College Press Association Published Weekly by the Various Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina. Terms--$1.50 a Year Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter at the Columbia, - South Carolina Postoffice on November 20, 1908 Naws ITus may be handed in to any member of the staff EDITORIAL STAFF BRUCt WHITE. Editor-in-Ch ef BURTON SHOOK Managing Ed*tor E. BALL1ENGER Associate Editor SYDNEY HEYMAN . Associate Editor JosnPH KAR.SH Associate Editor BARRoN BRIDGES Associate Ed*tor ERSKINe LnGarTE Sports Editor CURTIs BROCK . . Joke Editor MAYRE WALL . . . . Co-Ed Editor ASSISTANTS BANNIE STEWART . . . . . Sports SURA WoIE . . . Co-Ed Jamss RUTLEDGE . . . . . Y.M.C.A. REPORTERS Harold Funderburke, Eugene Carmichael, Foy Stephenson, Gertduc R'gby, Kennth Grinsley. BUSINESS STAFF JASPER DERcK . . . Business Manager Jo1Pn HOTT . . . . . Assistant HENRY WALKER . . . . . Assista"t JACX BATZS . . . Circulation Ma;ager WuLIAM PARRISH . . . Assistant FRIDAY, MARCH 2. 1928. Spring Holidays A recent edition of The State carries a letter from a citizen of South Carolina urging the abolition of spring holidays given by the higher institutions of learning of the state. The "Citizen" objects to this practice on the grounds that there is too much time lost, and that the expense to the parents is considerable and unnecessary. It is stated that the students plan and think, days before, what they will do during the holidays. It is suggested further that the twilight zone continues for several days after returning from the vacation. However true this may. be in regard to some students it cannot be said of all. Whose fault is it that some stu dents are prone to such carelessness? It is the students own fault and not the school's. If a student has not the will power to refrain from placing his studies in a secondary position, before and after the holidays, it is his own shortcoming. Lazy students are always glad to find some excuse for not studying. The institutions themselves do nothing whatsoever to encourage such laxity; on the contrary they employ vigorous efforts to prevent it. We see no reason why a privilege should be taken fronm a large group of students just because that priv ilege gives indolent loafers an excuse for neglecting their studies. As a matter of fact the students who do that sort of thing seldomt p)lace their school wvork above a secondary position anyway., Now as for the expense that spring holidays cause we are not familiar with the situation at Winthrop Col lege. But the students of the University are not conm pelled to leave the campus. They go or remain at their pleasure. If the expense of going home is too great the students are at liberty to enjoy the same privileges on the campus as they enjoy while mneeting classes. We appreciate the "Citizen's" position; we know the expense attached to a college educationi. But a spring vacation, per se, dloes not1 create ant expenfse for the simple reetson the students (10 not have to go home. Spring vacation is dleemted proper by educators who have studied fronm ev'ery angle the problem of educating youth. TheAmerican Association of Universities and the Association of Colleges and Secondlary Schools require fronm 32- t'o 36 weeks for a year's work. Experiment has shown that this length is sufficient for the average student to complete one- fourth of the work precedent to a diploma. This number of weeks would not be de '.reased if spring holidays were cut out because several legal holidays, throughout the year, are sacrificed in order that spring vacation may be had. These legal ,holidays would be given if spring holidays were not. Wherein is the loss of time ? Now where is the great error in giving a few day for a- spring vacation ? Cheers Needed The first essential of- a good cheering section is a bunch of loyal students who will yell in whole-hearted coopera tion with the cheerleader. The prime requisite of a cheering section is a number of real peppy-spirited songs and yells. Carolira has the loyal students bi. the yells ai-d songs-there is but one other than the Alma Mater-are not as good as they could be, by far. Some of the yells can be classed as col,ege yells but the majority of them are nothing more than high school rickity-racks. Cheerleaders are not to be blamed for this. The man holding this position at present is deserving of credit. He has invented six or seven yells wi:hin the last year, be sides the other things that he has done in the furtherance of better cheering. The -purpose of this effort is neither to criticize nor com mend, bist to cadl to the Immediate attention of the students of the University the need of new and better cheers, and to urge them to help supply this need. There are plenty of.men and women on this campus who are capable of in venting just the songs and yells neeeded. With a li tle effort they could produce capital cheers. Mr. Matteson, head of the music department, has ex pressed a hearty willingness to cooperate in composing the music. All he wants is suggestions from the students. Think up some good ideas and carry them to Mr. Mat teson. Let's get off the high school s uff I The Open ForumI To the Editor of The Gaiceock: )u11 1m1 the r .s few wee!<s we have %i,:a-A much d; -cw. sion of the honor committee and its findings, and the right of the accused persons to appeal to the student court. Some of this discussion has been in the form of cons-ruct ive critici-sm, while some has taken the form of verbal broadsides hurled at certain members of the honor com mittee. It is not the purpose of the writer of this ar icle to inveigh the members of that august body with declama tory ir vectives or -:o anathematize their impeccable decis ions. It has been said by certain students that the faculty have the honor and the students have the system, bir: after what has taken place during the past few lays, I am not sure that those men were right. I have been informed by re liable persons that a more or less dis ingu.shed "member of 'the faculty" nade the remark just after the triai that if lie had been on the jury of either case he would have voted to sustain the action of the honor committee regardless of !he evidence submitted at the trial. I-e contends that the jurors owed it to the honor committee and to their Alma Mater to affirm every conclusion brought forth by them. Now the writer is of the opinion that when a juror takes an oath before Alniigh:y God to decide the case upon which he sits according to the preponderance of the evi dence submitted at the trial lie is as much bound by those high and exalted principles as is the poor fellow who is being tried for his honor. There is no man who has a greater regard for one's opinion tha,_ I have, but I must confess that I cannot see the method that the abovemen tioned professor used to arrive at his opihion. According to the time honored cus .om of th le civil and criminal courts of this ar.d all other sta:es, every defein dant is given the benenit of any dIoubts that rise as to his guilt. I Iowev'er, it seems to b)e the policy of the honor commi'tee and certauin members of the faculty to dismiss any studlent of the University who might find himself i'n a precarious situiatioin of even the s.ighites dlegree. It also seems to many members of the studler.t ho:lty that a defen dhant's social and political affiliations in a great measure determine the s:atus of his trial. It is not the purpose of the wvriter at this time to engage in a pedanitic display of sesquipedalian monstrosities on thiis suhj ect. Now with all dhue respect to ald concerned, i.t appears that for the honor system and not, as it really is, that the the honor 'onuniiittee thinks that the students were made honor r.ystem was mnade for the student body. They (do not seem to realize the seriousness of (declaring a man to be without character and casting him ou upon his fellow citizens as one not to be trusted. They seem to think that they are duty-hound to uphold lhe integrity and efficiency of their body by "shipping" ail those who come within their clutches. T contend that a man's reputation should not b)e smirched unless it catn lbe p)rovedl beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is guilty of the crime for which he is accused. -C. P. Owens. rThe contest put on by 0. D. K. offering prizes for the best four cheers is well taken. It should be a stimulus to the students to write new cheers. 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