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(She damwnrk 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. JJews articles may be contributed by any member of the student body, but must be in by Friday night before Tuesday'# publication. Hand In copy typewritten and double-spaced. Names must be signed to copy. Articles will be published in the Open Forum as submitted, with the name of the author signed. STAFF ASHLEY HAI/SEY Editor-in-Chief LEROY M. WANT Managing Editor ASSOCIATES J. A. CATHCART Associate Editor W. FRANK TAYLOR Associate Editor WILSON O. WELDON Associate Editor N. W. BROOKER Associate Editor FOY STEVENSON Associate Editor DOROTHY PENLAND Associate Editor J. MITCHELL MORSE Assistant Managing Editor W. I. LATHAM . ... Assistant Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF LEWIS II. 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Time To Awaken It is time for the students of the University to awaken and realize that the honor system, to be replaced in its former dignity, must be appreciated and supported by every man and woman enrolled here. The honor system is not dead. It has not been abolished by the faculty, and no such action was ever seriously considered by the faculty. Despite the fact that Carolina started last school year with only 1,000 students who had had a previous acquaintance with the honor system^ and GOO newcomers who knew or know nothing about it, there is every probability of the honor instinct being reawakened. At least ninety-five per cent of the students on this campus are inherently honest to begin with, a census taken last year shows. A movement having commenced last week to arouse the student body to a full sense of honor's importance in their lives, it is not amiss to offer a concrete arrangement for its practice. The honor system, more than an aim, more than a tradition, more than an ideal, is a faith. It is a near religion, a communion between the individual student and the best that is in him. Once he is brought to recognize this, honor cannot fail to live at Carolina. The honor committee, discarded last year at the students' request, should be reinstated. Instead of having it only a mouth-piece to transmit appeals of individuals when they ask the student body to act as supreme court, the honor committee itself should be the highest court of appeal. In order to have an honor committee worthy to function as the tribunal which shall decide upon a student's fate, the class representatives upon it should be picked with the greatest care. Instead of having them elected by a handful at the end of a heated campaign for class officers, they could best be chosen at a separate meeting, when the voters had been impressed with the necessity of having for their representatives only those whose daily lives and characters personify honor. The group of men and women thus selected because of their devotion to honor would render final decision on all cases of cheating, stealing, and financial wrongdoing. The chances of their being biased against the defendant are small. Though one or two of the ten might be prejudiced, the majority would be honest enough to hand down an untainted verdict after hearing the evidence?all of it. To put into immediate efTect the honor system, members of all honorary fraternities and soj-oritics, such as Alpha Kappa Gamma, Kappa Sigma Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, and Blue Key, together with other campus leaders, could form a league to uphold the system and report violators. Men delegated from this general group by the honor committee might cope with drinking at dances by removing the heavy drinkers from the floor and keeping them outside the rest of the evening. With honor advocated by all, respected by all, and stringently upheld by the best students on the campus, it will not be long before the honor system lives again at Carolina. Hoops A Coming Vogue? With the approach of warm weather coine sweet memories of May Day; not as a day when election battles culminate and Red agitators toss bombs like bouquets, but as the one date on the calendar when freshmen walk around in humility, bare-footed. Then again, the day is not sweet, but only the recollection of it. While the big, bold masculine freshmen paraded sunwarmed paths minus their shoes and socks last year, coeds of the same lowly class performed antics of a demeaning nature but of such transient importance that the impression made by them is not lasting. This year the freshmen will again amble, ramble and shamble without shoes to greet the month of May with proper reverence. What about the dear girl co-ed? Since May marks the opening of the summer season, when boys of a bygone day discarded shoes permanently, and girls began to guard their delicate and unvarnished complexions from the sun, a worthy suggestion is that the young ladies be made to carry parasols. Parasols, umbrellas and bumbashoots appear topheavy unless they have the requisite base, however. To offset the sun shades and complete the symmetry of the feminine form, The Gamecock believes that each freshman co-ed should be made to construct and wear a skirt^ big, bell-shaped, and billowy in May breezes. The skirts could neutralize the horrors of bare-foot day by hiding on the girls the anatomic terminals which the boys, alas, must expose to an unoffending public. IT. 8. O. Tiger Tales, Assorted From the dense jungles of Clemson comes the Tiger, boasting that "He Roars for Clemson," and makes numerous nasty statements about The Gamecock. The Tiger, "He Roars for Soothing Syrup," is not especially concerned with the truth of these animal howls as long as they arc derogatory to The Gamecock, so he need not expect the soothing syrup his system needs so badly. It is ridiculous to accuse Carolina of having "made to suit Carolina's convenience" the Marquis of Queensbury boxing rules, several of which were violated when Clemson fought Carolina last month, though the University is old and aristocratic enough to have been associated with the Marquis. It is also ridiculous to accuse Coach Billy Laval of having laid false sidelines | along Melton Field so that by some pre-concerted miracle of football Boincau might lope along them to score 011 Clemson, but this the Tiger has done repeatedly I and reflectively. Not realizing that members of The Gamecock staff arc carcless enough to occasionally expose themselves to the virus of animosity and poor journalism with which the Tiger recks, it unctuously declares in its issue of March 5 that "The Tiger refrained from mentioning the fight mainly because it pertained only to the referee and Clemson boxer"?this with all the purity of a Bible sheet rebuking a yellow journal. But in its issue of February 20, just after the fight, that slinking jungle beast, the Tiger, roars bloodily: "Tarbaby Torchia furnished the dramatic moments of the evening. Outraged by the decision, (In which Referee Sullivan declared Pritchard winner 011 a foul) he swung a mighty left to the face of the corpulent Mr. Sullivan which landed with a thud. Policemen took charge, and escorted Torchia from the ring." The inconsistency of statements needs 110 further comment. Unable to base its insults upon any real error 011 the part of the University teams or publications, the Tiger howls 011 to say that "a row over a rotten decision is unusual for Tiger boxers, except when they trek (Dutch word meaning travel in ox-carts) to Columbia. There they expect it." When the Tigers expect "rotten decisions" they I usually get them. They have a queer knack of arranging things that way. It's an old custom which developed along with the cautious habit of putting four legs on a milking stool, a Clemson invention. Having exhausted its limited imagination, the TomI cat then turns to criticizing The Gamecock's journalistic style. This is dangerous for a paper which runs a fcaI ture on "Historic Clemson," (We said that spirit was very old), a story 011 a debate between Brenau girls' college and a Utah team, and the thrilling tale of a new dishwasher installed in the kitchen, all under "SPORTS." It was relieving to sec that the Clemson history was I not that of sports, which had better go unpublished. Baseball alone furnishes some episodes of athletic intrigue. An humble suggestion is that the Tiger be run through the new dishwasher hereafter, before being issued to its readers. The weekly editorial in the March 5 issue is devoted to explaining that the lone editorial of February 26, a surprisingly good one, was not written by a Clemson professor, but actually by a member of the staff. The closing sentences reveal the real nature of the Tiger, which snarls from its perch on the back fence that the "so-called Carolina spirit" could be described I only in the "filthy vocabulary of a butter snips." Of course the old pussy had 110 idea of butter, nor of the parsnips which are grown all over the Clemson campus. He meant "gutter snipes." But the pastoral atmosphere extends even to newspapers at Clemson, the center of South Carolina's "cow country." It's a I stable part of the place. The Gamecock is not worried, or concerned in the slightest by the Tiger, though "He Roars for Soothing Syrup" all year. In fact, it feels that it is drowning kittens every time it has to call the Tiger's attention to some little fallacy appearing in its columns. The Gamecock only likes to twist the Tiger's tail in a playful way, and sit back to hear it howl. Sweet music 1 "HONESTLY, IT'S THE BEST POLICY" WINCHESTER GRAHAM, Gen. Agt. Atlantic Life Insurance Co. 702-703 Palmetto Bldg. STUDENTS* MESSAGE TO YOU "Come on and fall In line with ut folk*. You'll find It even better than represented. We know that student* from Bowen-Connatter are given preference. You'll like It. Come on." Signed: Student* at BOWEN-CONNATSER BUSINESS UNIVERSITY COLUMBIA, S. C. Our students are boosters because they are satisfied. College Clothes Need Careful and Constant Attention. 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