Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The GAMECOCK 1 ' ' ; Published on Friday of every week during the ^college year by the Literary Societies under the supervision of the Board of Publications of the University of South Carolina Entered as second class mail matter at the Columbia, South Carolina, postoffice on November 20, 1908. fe Member of South Carolina College Press Association. ' Member of National College Press Association. News articles may be Contributed by any member of the student body, but must be in by Wednesday night before Friday's publication. All copy must be typewritten, double-spaced, and must be signed by the writer. Articles in the Open Forum will be published at the discretion of the Editor and in the order in which jthey are submitted, with the name of the author signed. y, ' SUBSCRIPTION RATE?$2.00 PER COLLEGE YEAR Advertising rates furnished upon request Offices in the basement of the Extension Building Gamecock office phone?8123, No. 11 STAFF EXECUTIVE BOARD Lewis H. Wallace - Editor J. Sam Taylor - -- -- -- -- Business Manager John A. Giles - - Managing Editor ASSOCIATES Frances Black --------- - Associate Editor Norton W. Brookf.r - - - - - - ^ - - Associate Editor Sanders Guignard - -- -- -- -- Associate Editor William C. Herbert - Associate Editor William B. King -------- Associate Editor William I. Latham - - - . - - - - - - Associate Editor J. Mitchell Morse - - - - - 4 - - - Associate Editor Leon K eaton - -- -- -- - Assistant Managing Editor John A. Moroso ------- Assistant Managing Editor Allen Rollins - -- -- -- - Assistant Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF J. H. Galloway - -- -- -- -- - News Editor Ray Antley - -- -- -- -- -- Sports Editor Alan Sckafer -------- Assistant Sports Editor E. C. Gilmore - -- -- -- -- - Alumni Editor Faith Brewer Exchange Editor I J. A. Bigham - - - - - - - - - Y. M. C. A. Editor William D. Coan - -- -- Joke Editor CO-ED Mm.lie Taylor - -- -- -- -- - Co-ed Editor Ethel Galloway - -- -- -- -- - News Editor Jean Wichman - - - - j Society Editor Louise Edwards --------- - Feature Editor CIRCULATION STAFF Melton Goodstein - -- -- -- - Circulation Manager Alton Brown - - -' - - - - - Assistant Manager Wilbur Jones - -- -- -- -- Assistant Maganer Marvin Miller - -- -- -- -- Assistant Manager Kenneth Prince - -- -- -- -- Assistant Manager , i CROWING FOR: News Bureau?Even a great University must advertise. Student Activity Building?This is the only way by which student activities can be properly centered and administered. Voluntary Chapel?A modern tendency and a good one. Football Stadium?A needed addition to the University's equipment. Paved Sidewalks?Not only a need, but an immediate necessity. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1931 OUR POLICY With this issue of The Gamecock, a new staff takes charge, However, it is only new in that the members have advanced in rank on the staff. Associated with the editor is one of the most experienced group of students who have ever worked on this college paper. The Gamecock will strive this year to be truly representative of the students. No petty groups or political parties will run the paper. As it ought to be on all papers, The Gamecock editor will be the editor and will alone direct the policy of the paper. The editorial policy will center on reforms. So many things are so rotten on this campus, that they are giving Carolina a terrible reputation all over the State. The political system needs changing, The crooked elections held last spring have been censored everywhere. The student body constitution needs revising; a constitution is needed for The Garnet and Black, arid there are many other things that are too numerous to mention. Our every effort will be used to remedy this unbearable state of affairs. Some member or members of the faculty have already heard that The Gamecock is going to agitate reforms, and condemn us for it, and want instead editorials praising everything at Carolina, so that the freshmen can take them home to show to their parents, Such is fartherest from our intentions. If the foul situation can be eliminated, no one will have to write glowing editorials about the Carolina state of affairs. Its reputation will speak for itself. As or the news policy of this paper, we will print all the news that is fit for print. If a student is caught cheating and is shipped, we will print the news about it, provided the good it will do society outweighs the harm it does the individual. And so the die is cast. We may fail(in achieving our aims and ambitions, but we will go down trying. SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS With the financial assistance of its many advertisers last year THE GAMECOCK was able to step out into national prominence a! Pittsburgh and to cop an envitable honor. Had the means not been forthcoming to send representatives to the convention of the National College Press Association, such reward of merit would never have been bestowed upon the campus weekly. This heritage from the past year must be kept up. The staff has promised full cooperation. The faculty has expressed itself as desirous to insure a similar triumph for this year, and the printers are backing the paper to the utmost in producing a mechanicallyperfect publication. All that- remains now is to win the financial backing of the business men of the city and the national advertisers. This can be easily ^handled with a little cooperation and interest on the part of every student. Inasmuch as all of our advertisers are equipped to make their appeal to the student trade, we do not hesitate in recommending them to you. THE HONOR SYSTEM The most cherished of Carolina traditions is just about ready ' to pass into the. junk heap. It is the honor system and the honor principle. About a year and a half ago, it was revived here after being suspended for some time. At the time of its revival, every thing seemed to indicate that the students were behind it and it seemed destined to last a long time. But last year marked what we believe is the beginning of the end. . Cheating on quizzes and examinations was evident in all classes. Stealing became so bad that if you wanted to keep anything, you had to keep it under lock and key all the time. A typewriter was stolen from The Gamecock office and one from the Holy Sanctum of the Y. M. 0. A. During a church convention held at the University, ond of the delegates from another college had his cilothes rifled and all of his money stolen. Clothing and shoes mysteriously disappeared from dormitories. Nothing was done about it. Later in the year when the honor committee got its chance to act, it failed miserably. Such things have at last reached the faculty and they have ordered that a survey of the honor system be conducted. The evidence they hope to gather, they say, will determine what is to be done. We believe that the evidence they will gather will result in the abolishment of the honor system. t The Gamecock is heartily in favor of an honor system that is an honor system. It is not the honor system's fault that it is failing at Carolina, but the blame must be laid directly on the students themselves, and on the high schools from whence* they come. A careful survey will reveal, we believe, that more cheating is done by freshmen than by any others. However, they can't help it. It is fashionable to cheat in most high schools. And you can't teach! an old ;dog new tricks. A student gets through high school by cheating, and when he comes to college, he can't get through any other way except by cheating. f Most people will say that the above statements are radical, but they are the truth and nothing but the truth. However, they don't I apply to all students, but the ones they apply to are the ones who are dragging the honor principle from something etherial to something revolting. Something drastic mtist be done. If the students will not turn up the cheaters and the stealers; if the honor committee will not convict these violaters, the honor system is doomed and will soon be abolished. YOUTH'S LOSS Davison McDowell Douglas is dead?and the University of South Carolina has lost an untiring president. This loss can be replaced; the Board of Trustees will see to that in the near future. But the youth of this University and of this State have lost a friend that cannot be forgotten. ^ College presidents have come and gone, and will continue to do so. Men with a sincere love for and belief in the youth of their day are few and far between. v It was the misfortune of Doctor Douglas to be called to the presidency of his State University during* troubled times, during times in which no president, be he ever so popular with a muchly-harrassed legislature, could secure enough money and resources to advance this school as much as will be the case in better times. It was inevitable many would misunderstand him, just as they were determined to misunderstand the heads of all state institutions. In death, however, the real esteem in which this man was held by all has become apparent. He attained success as a preacher; as an educator he has guided the University through one of the most turbulent periods in its history; as youth's friend and counselor he has gained immortality?the ideals that he has planted in the souls of this younger generation will live ' on until another generation has come and gone, and even then they will be Jianded down from father to son. It was President Douglas who thought first of the welfare of 1 "his" hundred^ of boys and girls; it was he who was a personal friend 1 to those of his students with whom he came in contact; it was he who had the respect of all, be he young or old, political enemy or friend. . Doctor Douglas believed in the student body of the University 1 of South Carolina. lie rejoiced in everything good and noble done by his students; he despised any act below the dignity of a real Southern lady or gentleman. A gentleman himself, he expected the best 1 in others, and usually got it. A preacher has died?a great educator has passed away?a splendid teacher is no more. But youth's friend, as staunch and as true as in life itself, lives on in the minds of 1800 students and in the hearts of thousands of young and not-so-young South Carolinians. FRATERNITY ROW? "Why have you no fraternity row?" 1 This question is often heard by students when a visiting brother's attention is called to this lack of centralization of fraternity houses. 5 The customary reply has been to remind the interrogator that fraternities have only recently been revived at the University. But should not these groups begin now to lay plans for the day when Carolina will l)e on a par with other comparatively large M institutions as regards a well-organized fraternity row? It is inevitable in the process of evolution, but just when the final results will be obtained will depend upon the foresight of each group. Maxcy Gregg Park has been favored by a majority of fraternities one year, and later superseded by some one of the streets near the ! campus. Which i? the more desirable will be determined eventually by ( the accessibility of each locality. 1 WELCOME* STUDENTS The Gamecock joins the other campus organizations in extending to all new students and especially freshmen a most hearty welcome to i this revered old University. We hope that you will enjoy your soi journ with us, no matter how long or short it may be. When you matriculated at Carolina, you took upon yourself the responsibility of being a Carolina student. You are no longer an individual who can do as he pleases, but you represent the University of Soutth Carolina at all times. To bring credit to yourselves and to Carolina, it behooves you to act as ladies and gentlemen shduld. You are not an infant or high school student anymore, but a Carolina student. Be sure that you always remember it. It is you who deterJmine what kind of reputation this school will have. \ I , ANTX-UNIVER8IT It is depressing to travel over severe criticism of the moral stand: by people in every line of business. 1 spoken by these people as "seat of i among the young college people/' i to the Bible," the latter accusation < Why must these citizens plant s institution of higher learning in Soi very little first hand information? body by what he sees a few "liquoi What if the men and women are at most of the other schools; does women out of them? At least it m some parental coddling. Because the University is desig woman in the upbuilding of chara< formed citizens continue to charge the handling of students. 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JS ;uch propaganda against the largest 9 nth (Carolina when they really have i9 Must one judge the whole student 1 k heads" doing at a football game? 9 given a few n>ore privileges than 1 it not tend to make real men and 9 akes them independent of unwhole- .1 ^ned to "make or break" a man or i :ter, religious fantatics and misin- 1 officials with too great laxity in * the blind be made to see! 1 SHOE REPAIRING To Students Only HALF SOLES RUBBER* HEELS All for $1.00 A Guarantee With Every Job SANDIFER & EPT1NG 1405 Assembly St. . Phone 6708 H tudents To i SWEETS , Dinner fbody Goes" v 30c and 35c Phone 9314 S BEAT DUKE! EGE SHOP I rolina Students iltiod?Soda ?Pennants Articles Phone 9283 iT 1 ARD'S JLL \ J ne Food served under iitions. tudent by patronizing berley and His Caroome// I me the new Students years we have served I seping the boys well have you drop in and I and Winter Styles. M MAIN W. IIA ?.C\^s.l IOTT, >resentative