Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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<Sln (Sautmirk 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?11.50 A YEAR. Entered as second class mail matter at the Columbia, 8outh Carolina Poatoffice 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's 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 HALSEY Editor-in-Chief LEROY M. WANT Managing Editor ASSOCIATES J. A. OATHCART Associate Editor W. FRANK TAYLOR Associate Editor N. W. BROOKElt Associate Editor WILSON O. WELDON 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 H. WALLACE News Editor MELVIN KARESH Sports Editor JOHN WHITE ... Y. M. C. A. Editor JACK FOSTER Fraternity Editor MASON C. RRUNSON Exchange Editor J. ROY PRINCE Joke Editor CO-ED DARICE JACKSON Editor CLELIA K. BLACK News Editor LOIS FISCHER Society Editor FRANCES BLACK Feature Editor ASSISTANTS W. B. King, Lester Hamilton, John A. Oiles, Ethel Oalloway, Sarah Agnes Jackson, Vera Jones, Catherine Remle.v and John McKnight J. C. I)uPre, Ray Antiey and Julius Oordin BUSINESS C. L. SCOTT Business Manager J. J. MACK Assistant Manager W. C. HERBERT Assistant Manager CIRCULATION CARL BROWN Circulation Manager R. H. BISHOP Assistant Manager J. ROY PRINCE Assistant Manager TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1930 CROWING FOR? Football Stadium?30,000 Capacity. Press Bureau?Absolutely Needed. Student Activity Building. Paved Sidewalks. Honor or Spies. The hour is approaching when every student at the University of South Carolina will be asked to vote for or against an honor system. The fate and reputation of the University depend on the good judgment of the student body. If the proposed honor plan is totally rejected, faculty action must follow to protect against cheating. A renunciation of the honor system which has been a vital part of the University of South Carolina since its founding in 1805 would not only injure the prestige of the University for all time. It would reflect upon each individual student. Without an honor system, a live honor system, the faculty has but one clearcut alternative. Being an honorable faculty, it shuns that alternative, which is?the spy system. Proctors pacing through the aisles, professors sitting at their desks with eyes glued on their classes to detect the least movement like cheating; under these conditions the Carolina student would exist in the future. There will be dissension when the honor plan is submitted to the student body, some dissension on occasions of law making is healthful, indicating that the voters are thinking before they act. Useless oratory and pompous personal display insult and injure the student body, however. Much discussion has been raised as to whether or not students should be compelled to report other students for cheating. While not final and obligatory, it is certainly necessary that the majority, the honest students, agree to inform the honor committee of cheating they see. Under the honor system proposed, professors are expected to leave their classrooms on quizzes and examinations. Unless the majority of students in each class are definitely agreed to prevent cheating, classes will become hotbeds of answer stealing, college paradises for crooks. The honor system would be a farce, hypocritical on a huge scale. Another bone for argument falls in the clause giving the honor committee power over "breaches of questions of honor." The motive of the committee in phrasing the clause thus was to make it flexible. Vices and weaknesses of mankind are not variable. The Bible names about all of them, and progressive civilization has added only refinements of sin. As now expressed, an honor committee of rigid standards might include drinking and gambling as "breaches of questions of honor" one year, and the committee succeeding it the next year would treat them as violations of personal morals, to be punished by the faculty discipline committee instead of the honor committee. This clause might be considered further. Every Carolina student with courage to stand in God's sunlight as an honest human should do three things when the honor code is placed before the student body. ATTEND THE MEETING. THINK HONORABLY OF HONOR. VOTE CONSCIENTIOUSLY. , 1 ii ib?M' I 11 Iggg^gg i?L-L Still Crowing! "What every college student paper ought to have is a definite program. The following goes regularly at the top of The Gamecock, South Carolina," says the Boston University News. A thousand miles away, the News notes us "Crowing for?Football stadium, 30,000 capacity; Press bureau, absolutely needed; Student activity building; Paved sidewalks." "And the boys will crow until they get what they want," the northern paper declares prophetically. They certainly will; and paving is one thing to evoke crowing. It reaches heights of nonsense for the State of South Carolina to appropriate $05,000,000 for highways when it does not pave a 900 foot stretch of driveway leading into its University. It is ridiculous to provide concrete bridges across small, unimportant streams, and not to build ordinary sidewalks over campus mud puddles that cause dozens of students to wet their feet and catch colds. The main highways of the State may be paved, and deservingly so, but the main highway into the University is so bumpy and rutted that students driving over it risk having their brains shaken apart before they can reach classrooms. University authorities, doing their best cannot build roads without funds. Why have a $05,000,000 highway system enabling grammar students to ride the buses to primary schools, and then have the very entrance to the State University almost impassable? U.H.C. Since spring is here, every student has a sneaking sensation of disgust on remembering how much new but unused books cost, and what that sum would mean translated into cooling dopes or gas for the roadster. U.8.O. Thank You, Clemson The editor of The Gamecock acknowledges the kind invitation of the Clemson Block "C" Club to attend a dance at Clemson April eleventh. He regrets that he cannot be present. All Carolina athletes arc included in the invitation addressed to the editor by the vice-president of the Clemson club. Since the courtesy is as much to the athletes as the editor, the invitation has been posted on the bulletin board. U.8.C. Open Politics Gone? Are open politics gone? It appears so. Last year there were many candidates who came out in the open and declared their ambitions for office. This year only one or two have had the frankness to tell the campus that they planned to run for this or that. Open politics arc beneficial to any campus. As long as the candidates are recognized before hand, there is no possibility of an unscrupulous group keeping the student voters ignorant of the nominees, and then running in an incapable man amid orations and rumbles of the political band wagon. This has happened too often at Carolina. Other universities, such as Florida, have a regular two-party system of campus politics. Each party searches among its adherents for the candidate likely to make the best race and the most suitable officer, then nominates its man on personal merit. There are regular, published party tickets. Organized politics on such a scale may not uplift the University of South Carolina, but independent open politics certainly would. It is time for prospective candidates to muster their gumption and speak up for whatever office they crave. xj.H.O. The State reformatory for negro boys having been named after Gov. John G. Richards by act of the legislature, The Gamecock suggests that another fitting memorial be christened. It would have the Extension building named Babcock hall, to immortalize Dr. Havilah Babcock. U.H.O. Such Things Help. The tip of an iron pipe, about an inch long, has been driven underground. It projected above the campus path in front of the old president's home for many years, but some workman has hammered it out of the way, probably with one or two blows. By removing the iron spike from the path, an important improvement has been made. It is little enough, apparently; took only a minute to perform, required no complex machinery or carefully drawn blueprints. The spike was insignificant, but not the improvement. Hundreds of students during dozens of months stumbled over the tiny iron impedement, because it was insignificant. It must have torn and damaged shoes enough to give a pair to every one of the 1,700 students now enrolled. Whoever cleared the path of that spike did a worthy service. He made an improvement that saved, saves every person who walks around the University. There are a hundred small stumbling blocks around the campus waiting for someone who has time and thought enough to drive them out of the way. Look for one to knock out of sight?they arc in classrooms and dormitories as well as on the campus. Be a volunteer worker on the committee for campus improvements! The time-honored saying, "Its an ill wind that blows nobody j^ood," doesn't mean as much as it used to on the campus since long skirts have come back. Not a single eye was dislocated Monday. "HONESTLY, IT'S THE BEST POLICY" WINCHESTER GRAHAM, Gen. Agt. Atlantic Life Insurance Co. 702-703 Palmetto Bldg. STIKJENTS' MESSAGE TO YOU "Com* on and fall In lino with ut folk*. You'll find It even better than repretented. We know that ttudent* from Bowen-Connatier are given preference. You'll Ilk* it. Come on." Signed: Student* at BOWEN-CONNATSER BUSINESS UNIVERSITY COLUMBIA, S. C. Our students are boosters because they are satisfied. L. ??J College Clothes Need Careful and Constant Attention. Let Us Keep You Well Dressed LEAVE THEM AT CANTEEN OR GAMECOCK PRESSING CLUB Carolina Dry Cleaning Co. I CENTRAL DRUG CO. I 1204 Main Street OPEN ALL NIGHT SNOOKER, CAROM AND POCKET TABLES M. & M. Recreation Parlor 3216 MAIN STREET COLUMBIA, S. C. BURNETT'S DRUG STORE CAROLINA SEALS, JEWELRY, STATIONERY DRUGS, DRINKS, CIGARS Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Nu, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Alpha, Alpha Tau Omega, Phi Epsilon Pi?$1.00 per box?Envelopes and Paper One Block From Campus Phone 3191 Cor. Main and College One Day Service Billy Bull's Thro The Canteen A Meal A Minute 1211 Gervais Street Laundry SANDWICHES & WAFFLES SHORT ORDERS 1323 Taylor St. Phone 4954 wr , _ Ham and Egg Sandwich?16c 1- . L . Established Over 45 Years P. H. Lachicotte & Co. Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Expert Repairs 1424 Main Street Columbia, S. C. "LET ED DO IT" George Davis?Rep. Gillie Watson?Rep. Tenement 7?Room 1 SUITS CLEANED One Day Service in Cleaning ED. ROBINSON PIIONE 8187-8188 1017 GERVAIS ST. 1248 Main Street 1427 Main Street GAYDEN BROTHERS Cigar Stores [ CIGARS, CIGARETTES, PIPES AND PERIODICALS