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CHARLES E LEE - - - - - Editor AS Harold Prince, Mart Betty Comstock, Leo DEPARTMENT HEADS George Zuckerman, Paul Barrett, 8ports Editor; Margaret Itollins, Henderson, Ben Po Oo-ed Editor; Emily West, Society Editor; Albert Editors; Jane Orout, Rosiln, Feature Editor. Mirian Gibson, Irene Editors; Eleanor Ca Co-ed Editors; olt COURTENAY CARSON, JR. Marie Atk nsoSate Managing Editor nes Managers. Give Back Honor To The Student Body Now we may be starting something, we hope we are, but there's one question we'd like to ask: Under just what status are the eleven hundred members of the student body who have not signed the Honor Code Book? They have to sign the pledges given on the examination Blue Books. If caught cheating on examinations they are brought up before a committee, the student members of which are not of their own choosing. Just where do they fit in with this idea of honor? Last semester 60% of the students answer ing The Gamecock questionnaire stated that they did not approve of the Honor Code as it now stands. Why did they disapprove? We think we can explain. We have an Honor Code recognized by approximately three hundred and fifty stu dents. We have an Honor Council elected by three hundred and fifty students. The rest of the students are just out of it.. The University does not have an Honor Code; three hundred and fifty students at the Uni versity do. In January, 1936, when the present system was set up, it was clearly recognized as an emergency organization. At that time the regulation of conduct on examinations and quizzes was given over to a particular group. It was understood by most that regulation would eventually be turned over to the whole student body. We are still working under an emergency system. It is because of the concentration of responsibility and interest, we feel, that the campus has come to look upon the Honor System not as the duty of not all of Caro lina, but of the Honor Code signers. The Gamecock feels that it is high time that the code be put under the whole student body. That those who have not signed the code are any less honorable no one would assert. That they are just as much against cheat ing we believe to be true. That non-signers can judge whether a student is guilty of cheating just as well as signers we also be lieve. We propose that the Honor System be given back to the students in the following manner. First, the student body, if it is in favor of the code should accept it as part of the constitution. If the student body is in favor of a proctor system, let's have one. If, however, the Honor Code is ac ceptedl as part of the constitution, andl we be lieve that it will be, the Honor Council should be elected by all of us, and the stu dent body should take over the responsi bility that belongs to it. Th le main functions that the present codle signers are doing, act.ing as guarantees against flagrant open cheating andl as the builders of the spirit of the honor system, they may still continue. The new p)lanl would make tihe student b)ody honor conscious, giv'e them a responsibility that they should have, andl give them rep)resenltation on a commit tee that has dlisciplinary -power over them. Rule On Locks Needs Changing This week a student found himself called before the discilpline committee of the fac ulty. Contrary to University regulations he had placed upon his dloor a lock suf ficiently strong to keep out thieves andl bor rowers. According to the rule set down at the first of the year, he was subject to a fine of five (dollars. Going before the committee lhe explained his action in dlisregarding the rule. Hie had valuable p)roperty in his room and dlidn't want it stolen. In his tenemnent last semes ter studlents had lost $85 worth of property. The locks on the doors could be opened easily by a pass-key bought from the ten cents store. A boy who lived dlownstairs had lost his University-owned key (for which he deposited a dollar) and used a ten-cents key all the time. That's how much protec tion the boys living in the dormitory had. 'The discipline committee fined the stu dent one dollar and ordered him to 'abide by the rule. Still wishing to protect his property the student is appealing to the ad 3OCIATE8 n Hodes, Oatherine Narey, a Garety, Associate Editors; 8. o. Muckenfuas, Dan T. layes, Associate Managing Johnnie steppe, Alice Hulet, LaBorde, Associate Society Founded nnon, Jane cox, Assoclate Hendley, Paul League, Ed RORT ELLOT ports Editors; Foster Smith, inley Fiaher, Associate Buai- gnterd as second claa mat Nowsi ministration and it is there that his case rests at present. The rule about the locks was first put into effect last year when the new dormitories in Thornwell and the Student Union Building were opened. It was explained then that University authorities had to be able to en ter any student's room in case of fire or any other emergency. It was not until the first of last semester that the rule was ex tended to the old dormitories. The rule was all right for the new build ings, they were protected with excellent locks. But any passer-by can enter the old tenement rooms without any trouble. That the student was justified in placing a decent lock on his room was evidently recognized by the discipline committee. If they had considered the rule worthy of enforcement they would have imposed the fine set up by the regulation. It would appear that the one dollar fine was merely a gesture to save the face of those establishing the rule. Now the situation is this: The students are losing property because of the lack of adequate protection. The administration does not have the money to place new locks on the doors, but nevertheless feels that the authorities must have access to all rooms at all times. The solution is simple: Let each student who wishes to place a new lock on his door do so, and then give an ex tra key to his janitor and one to the Marshal. It's just as easy to have a student-owned key hanging on the rack in the office as it. is to have a University-owned key there. Then next fall at registration time assess each student applying for residence in the old dormitories one or two dollars and place locks on the doors that serve a better purpose than were ornamentation. The Dead Carolinian Comes Back To Life Last fall three students provided much amusement for the campus by saying that they were going to publish a. magazine for Carolina. Planning it as a successor to the faculty-abolished Caroiinian, they said that it would contain fiction, poetry, articles, and humor. Realizing something of the costs of pub lishing, and knowing that The Gamecock, in spite of partial University financial sup p)ort, was having tough sledding, we laughed. After all, two of the students were not from the South, and we dismissed their unreasoning optimism as just another example of the vagaries of the North. We took one of the students aside and advised him to confine his ambitions to a four sheet booklet published by the mimeographing office. Thus starting with a capital of zero, and with everyone telling them that what they p)lanned was impossible, they never theless wvent on their way. They obtained faculty permission. Finding two business mainager~s, almost as mnadly optimistic as themselves, they saidl that they would finance their publication through advertising and subscription proceeds. Again we took them asidle and told them confidentially, remem bering the University Players and the Sym phony Orchestra, that Carolina students (don't support cultural undertakings. WVe knew it all; we knew it couldn't be (lone; but the only thming wrong with our prmeictions was that they just weren't right. 'rie Carolinwan will come out on next Wed nesday and it will contain just what its edlitors said it would. Two hundred stu dlents out of our "culturally dleadl" student body have gambled on the fact that it will. A small group of students, One of them a Rhode Islander, one a Canadian, is giving the Uriversity of South Carolina a mnaza zine. It is up to us to keep it here. When the Carolinian comes out Wednesday, buy it. Tell towns people about it, send it home to your folks. Without circulation, the maga zine gets no advertising, without advertis ing it cannot continue. Yes, we laughed. But we do have a -Carolinian; and strangely enough in the first issue three members of The Gamecock staff are contributors! Who's laughing now? ['HE ECOCK January 30, 1906 L' GONZALE8, First Editor tet the ptonce at Oolumbis, 8. O., aber 20, Press Rate Collect By George Zuokerman NOT TO BE FOUND on the shelves of the University library's pe riodical room are three magazines Esquire, Fortune, and The New York er-which would make the library col lection more complete, if not more en tertaining and educational. ..If the Ii barian registers the old financial com plaint, it would not be a bad idea to substitute the above mentioned trio for Physical Culture and several of the Hollywood movie mags. Esquire's inclusion might draw some comment, but if the reader could detract himself from the petty cartoons, he would find some of the best stories and articles printed today. Besides, the library contains Coronet, an Esquire offspring, which is no more prude in content... Without Fortune and The New York er the periodical room is undeserving of the name...Good news from that locale was the end of the unauthorized censorship which kept several of the best modern novels under lock and key. TO DOUG McKAY is extended our best on his election to the presi dency of the Stephan-Woods dicta tored University Players. Although he is a better writer and musician, Ac tor McKay ought to ably succeed the campus departed Kaplan...Under the Players' sponsorship, two Shakes pearean dramas will be presented Sat urday at Drayton Hall by a travelling group well-schooled in the classical dramas... Popular prices make seeing the performances well worth while... Later, cigarette-cased Stephan and knife-and-chained Woods will count change, and compare royalty demands in selecting a presentation of their own...My vote still cranri PUGILIST-JOURNALIST JEN KINS must have appeared like a jack in-the-box to Clemson's Ripper Mur ray. Only time the Ripper was cer tain Jenkins was in the ring was when he (Murray) was on the receiving end of the punch...Jenkins, said J. M. Hodes, upheld the honor of the School of Journalism. REPORTER WILLIAMS, pride of Easley, the night preceding the incep tion of his career as a member of the Columbia Record, sat through the un guarded but exciting hours with Hoyle and several of his disciples. Came and departed the dawn. At eight a. mn., Williams left the conference and hur ried to the paper's offices. Soon, while reading proof of a long list of stock quotations, his mouth dividing to a yawn, he blinked his eyes, exhaled, slept.. .Barking editors don't bite... On another tangent, Williams says: ''Writing Speculum Vitae for The Gamecock last semester was shear de light." IN BOLD FACE TYPE, Harold Prince, crown prince to Easley's pride, told a tear-jerking tale in last week's Gamecock: In the Journalism class room students find it necessary in cold wveather to stuff their coats and note book paper against the holes in the wvall to keep out the wind."... Sounds like "East Lynne" but it's the gospel. ... Although some of the students have no notebook paper, and sonme have no coats. ADVANCE REPORTS, inside facts, seem to indicate that the new Carolinian will publish a high calibre of material... Eleanor Cannon submit ted her manuscript and she was re warded with a neat rejection slip... And Cannon is a member of the mag azine's editorial board. FROM THE ELONGATED MR. HODES, Carolina's critic's critic, came this terse note--via dlesk route: "I see that Zuckerman still 'writes as he pleases' But does lie please?"... Retort: If J. Martyn Hodes permitted himself to be pleased, he would cease to be Hodes... Item: While viewing the Bird-Tiger fisticuffs Saturday night, the walking edition of The New York er found excitement pervading his super-sophistication; his hands shiv ered like front fenders of an old model T. BY-LINE TO BREADLINE Mc GRATH, the garrulous, sent this W. U. message prepaid: ''Saving your place at the end of the line."... I hope he is standing in the seedless rye bread sec tion. ERU,DITE EDITOR LEE re markedl that this column was too ad jectival. To return an opinion: The Gamecock suffered from reticence and too much of Mr. Ad Jones...Any issue now you may expect to find a Ca-C..la.ad replacing the front page 1937 Member 193$ I ssociaied CoIe6iae Iess Diser*bueor of Cofe6kile Digest IS*SSNtNSO Ow NAtIONAL AOVST$1Ne Or NaUoial AdverUsiNgSefice, Inc. couet. lash. ae..r*.sNe 420 MADISON Avs. Nsw YowK. N. Y. CSCA.O - SOITOS - Lo ANSIS. - SAN FaNCISCO * Campus Ca a lPtAR OesESnA U DER, WAS THE FIRST COL DRt1V MAJOR TO 15 % AON WER 'hE GQAt PO$TS! UNIVERSIW OF-MICHIGAN, 1914 - 4' HAL KEMP, TED WEEMS% JAN GAR ARE AL. MEMBERS OF DrAA SG RU FRAERNITY ]LQuestion-Of-T Do you approve of honorary ar of Carolina students sending inor affiliating with national groups? PROF. W. S. WOODS, Instruoti I feel that the expense connec a rule, is too great in comparisol lnnging to tuh Crganizalion. by one group on the campus rec greater than the benefits resultir up their charter. They now ha is much less. What money they. pus. I think that this will do a ing to a national organization nores the existence of its variou tion of collecting money. HARRIET 000KFIELD, Senior I heartily agree with all orgi intelligence or closer companion: rious departments; however, it were handled locally, the colleg might be furthered insteadl of 1 money out to other states. EEN JOE WILLIAMS, Junior The ideals of honorary or prol of the highest and most desirable of benefit received: the benefits r ternity, those rendered to the f whom thme work of the fraternity and also from size. I think the j posedl of Carolina students for tional groups is not excessive and success. SPEAKING TWitIGNT t\AY 3E~ THE. ROMANTic I-ouR FOR tov, T's GETDN$ D%msk- .wg ' TAKE IT -U.3 ANDREW JONES, Business -> STAFF WRITERS' Visinia Brown, Odarlotte Burh, Jane aon, Barney Befdlemnan,Dothx Ounter, l ouise Frye, Arnold Muir, R Thelma Thompson, Alice Bryant, William ; Martha Newman, Philip Wilmeth, Thomas.h4n '7m Willis - - - Oirculatio a James H. Joyner - Exchange Issued Weekly by the Wteragy BocietiN at University of South Oaoiaduring the year except during ea tions and holhly, mera A S S lae-Weelk d professional fraternities composed ey off the camplus for the purpose of ~r in Modern Languages bed with any national fraternity, as 1 with the benefits derived from hA I heartily endorse the action taken ently. Feeling that the output was g from being a national, they gave. 'e a more active group and the cost do take in is to be spent on the cam great deal more good than belong which, in the majority of cases, ig s parts, except w here it is the ques mnizations promoting either greater hihp between the students in the va appears that if the organizations ', community, or some other cause iberally and literally "dishing" the essional frtrnte are, as a whole, type, resulting in a triangular form eceived by the student from the fra raternity by the student, and thoe helps. Strength results from unity noney sent by these fraternities com) tile pulrpose of affiliating with na I certainly necessary for te greatest OF SMGFTY $ r /} THE~ INSPIRAflON VOR MAN'I SENT1MENTAL 8ALLA DS 1 THEME OF MANN F-AMOUS PA INTING S tOUR POR AqfTlD CRASHES.. si