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Member of South Carolina College Press Association Published on Tuesday of Every Week by the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina. Subscription Rate-$1.50 a Year. Entered as second class mail matter at the Columbia, South Carolina Postoffice on November 20, 1908. News articles may be contributed by any member of the student body, but must be in by Friday night before Tuesday's publication. Hand in copy typewr.tten and double-spaced. Names must be signed to copy. Articles may be published in the Open Forum, but will be printed as submitted. EDITORIAL, STAFIF Jgssr A. RUTLEDGE . .Editor-in-Chi SYDNEY HEYMAN .Managing ditor BoB SPARKS . . . .Associate Litor BANNIE STEWART Associate Editor HIARRY L. HINGSON .Associat Editor F. L. MAY . . spots Editor BILL GAINES .Feature Editor MAYRE WALL . . o-d Editor CALHOUN CLEMENT . . Exchange Editor CURTIS BROCK EJoke Editor ASSISTANTS Roy Gathings M Y.M.g.A. ko. SS sENSON o-Ed Elizabeth Marshall; William Broughton; Ashej 11al!;ey; Harold k'underburk, J. Robert Anderson, Dorothy den land, Ann L. New, L. M. Want, and Roy Gathings AUSrNESS CTA ' JosEP hi . . . . usiness Manage AWSON S o . . . . . Assistant BERT KARICK EAssistant WILLIAM PARRISH . . Circulation Manager CARL BROWN . . .Assistant EVANS BROWN . . . . . Assistant TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1928 Courtesy? It has long been the custom at the University of Vir ginia for the students when passing a professor, either on the -a:npns ir on the street, to tip their hats as a matter of ccr trtesy to him. It is not a suggestion that we absolutely pattern after any other institution or make it a guiding model which we must follow but it is al. ways a good rul- to make such changes or begin such customs as are constructive. It was in former years a custom of the professors of !the campus to wear robes as a proof of the dignity of their profession. This as everyone knows is no longer disregarded. No particular reason can be given why true only recently has the custom been absolutely disregarded. No patricular reason can be given why the robes are no longer worn, other than the gradual discarding of the custom by a few until they were ab solutely abandoned. Again it may have been because the students did not despect them-either with or wiLhout the robe. It can only be said that it is no longer the "style" for men to wear robes. Occasionally a student comes to this University and ~as a matter of habit created from the ibservance of the custom of their former college unconsciously tips his hat when passing a professor. Other students obviously do not understand. Perhaps the reason that the Vir ginia .student attempts to show respect for his professor while other students do not. -U. S.C. Tradition or Precedent? Hundreds of colleges and universities can boast >f their magnificant buildings, their large endowments, an-I their multitudinous student bodies, but fewv can claim more grand old traditions, many as old as the university itself, than this institution. It has been proved beyond a doubt that the University of South Carolina library is the oldest in the United States. One other sought to be distinguished as such, but it was found that ours was the first to be put into a building to be used for that exclusive purpose. The tradition, although important, is not the most notable thing about it. It is not a dead establishment or has not become a shrine, but Is still a growing and up to date part of this instiitution, south. It's recent improvements have done a great deal to make it such and when all the proposed equipment is added it will be even more improved. Again, we cherish the Honor Principle. Not so much because it has stood the test of time and is yet a great success, even though opinions may differ, but because this institution was one of the very first to install such a sys tem. It takes time to impress the significance of such a system upon the minds of a new student, but when he haS, become a real Carolina man and reaiizes that he is an in trinsic part of the institution, he realizes its importance and is proud of it. It is necessary that a clear distinction be made be tween traditions and preceder.ts.' Traditions cannot be lost and are a valnable part of the Institution. Certain pre cedents are a draw-back and as such should be abolished. They have been established and have never been changed although during that time the institution has greatly out grown them. The precedents cannot be stretced and they have not been altered, and as such, the functions of the University must often be -narrowed to fit the old woru oMt pattern, which should have been abandoned long ago. - -U.s.c. OPEN FORUM To the Editor of The Gamecock: Quite a number of people seem to have misunder stood the letter printed in the open forum of last week's Gamecock. The article positively was not directed against politics in general. Of course it isCunderstood that politics exists on the Carolina campus and will continue to do so in the future. It does nct appear to me that there could be any bona fide reasons why a student should object to open politics. But when a group as described in the letter in last week's Game cock get together and devise plans by which they ex pect to unscruplously direct politics and elect only those who belong to their particular group; regardless of whether they are competent or not it should be the duty of every Carolina student to see that i.' i are not allowed to perpetrate their Machiavallivn polii',. I hope that those who misconstrued the letter of last week will read it again, carefully, and see if they do not agree with me. Harry L. Hingson. To . the !Editor of The Gamecock: This is in no sense a plea for feminine deference; it is a protest against the constant asinine references to the co-eds which characterize the writings of a great many contributors to The Gamecock, and especially the column conducted by the original and scintillating per sonality, "Harry Stottle." I Nor are we poor sports n resenting this attitude that seems so perticularly attractive to the authors. No matter how little we regard it nor how well we under stand the spirit in which it is .ntended the fact remains that the people outside of Carolina do NOT know that this manner if writing is not an index to the feeling among the men for the co-eds and the status of the women student is not only considerably decreased in their opinions but likewise in the opinions of the freshmen and new students. The co-eds play fair with the men at Carelina; they support the ath1etic teams quite as loyally andi en thusiastically as the me, they encourage the Y1.M C.A. and forensic events by their cooperations and presence. They contribute to all the publications in physical ef forts as well as literaary, and in every instance they up hold the traditions and customs of the school in a man ner to warrant approval. In the face of these facts 't seems only fair to the co-eds to demand the respect to which they are entitled, and which is certainly not forth coming from the expressed feling of 'The Gamecock', whether it is an actual or assumed attitude. We have no particular objections to being called dumb, especially since we know it is not true, but it does seem ludricrously funny to us to hear ourselves called dumb by some students who hold the unchallenged repu. tation for their ability to ask useless, silly questions, and their incapacity to absorb anything in the way of intelli gen ce. iThose who have done us honor to publish theoretical qualitle may or may not approve of our sentiments but whether you do or not, the fact remains that we do NOT think we are getting a fair deal, and it is men of unquestioned culture and integrity who have stacked the cards. A Co-Ed. SYLVAN BROS. MERCHANTS JEWELERS AND DIAMOND Most complete stock of sterling silver prize cups in the Carolinas. 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