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A Cherishe The first class at the University asked permission to initiate a procedure whereby the students would take the responsibility for the punishment of cheaters and estab lish an atmosphere of honor among all stu dents. The result of their effort was the Honor Principle; this code is still in effect today but exists as a myth rather than a reality. Professor D. W. Hollis' History ,! the University of South Carolina refers to the by-laws of the Board of Trustee, 1853: "As the end of the University is to train a bod- o gentlemen in knowlPdge, virtue, religion, and refinement, whalever has a tendency to defeat this end, or is inconsis tent with it, shall be treated and punished as an offense, whether expressly mentioned in the laws or not. . . ." The academic pressures and competition facing today's college student necessitates strict adherence to a rigorous study sched ule thereby enabling the student to pass his courses and graduate with the key to suc cess in his hand. The effort involved and the knowledge gained while treading down the path of higher learning depends upon the self-disci pline and inner-motivation of the individual student. A college career not only develops the mind intellectually but allegedly strengthens the character of the undergrad uate. Character is a trait that is nurtured by every experience encountered in a life time. It is far easier to keep character than to try and re-build character. Looking objectively at the academic USC student, that is, the student in his class room environment, it would perhaps be harsh to say he is a Machiavellian at heart. He is struggling to maintain a "gentleman C" average and at the same time belong to numerous organizations and then have enough time to date three or four nights a week. Apparently, he will go to any lengths to create the image of the typical college man. If he pursues this epicurean life long enough he ivill find himself in grave acade mic difficulty. When he discovers himself in this situation he need only look to his fellow classmates and follow the pattern they have set. That is, he must cheat. The example cited is hypothetical but in Unscholar The Gamecock views with alarm, not an guish, the denunciation of its editorial poli cies by faculty members-notably instruc tors affiliated with the History Department, the Political Science Department and the International Studies Department. While we do not wish to raise the too often used issue of academic freedom, we believe in the principle of dlisagreeing and agreeing on the right to disagree and agree. That is, we believe we have the right as a student newspaper to set forth specific edi torial policies and our critics have the right to agree and disagree-but they should ob serve the principle of agreeing with our right to say what we wish. It has not surprised us that our faculty critics in the social science departments are (disconcerted over our conservative and pro OBLIQUE OBSER BY CRAIG HAMMOND four-point systei After attempting to please Everyone wvho everyone (?) for the last few that operates weeks, it will be my endeavor in knows that the< this issue to discuss a problem tern can he broki which strikes dearly at all Caro- (ally is for an lina men and women. This prob- a B to be 80-90; lema is of course the new grading and( a D) to be 64 system our progressive adminis- (AROLINA ! tration has had installed for us. Every i n s t Trhe Four - Point System was campus is free inauguratedl by the adlministration his nume'rical in an attempt to better the pre- he likes. The Ci vious and archaic six-point sys- no better off at tern. Their efforts are to be he was with the commended. However, the missing Until the fact link in the chain of success for agreement or ti this new system is the fact that does, out of its < the administration will not back takes the initiat it. In other words, the apparent (it will be a failure from the student point-of- minister to som view is that the officials and the the students) c faculty can't agree on the merits four-point syste of the four-point system. student will suff Thc faculty, because of no 70 in one class i direct control over their grading, however, the san is allowed to vary the system to My optimism, suit their fancy. If this is not the University unfair to the student, then the taking any ster UJ. S. Cavalry must have ridden situation is (cor Ford pickups to fight Geronimo! referring to Ger, The Carolina Community spe- ter's famous re cifically states that this institu- Battle of the Li tion is on a four-point system "Men of the (page 20, paragraph 3). It does Take no prisone not, however, state the numerical Yet, like the difference. This is beside the Little Big Horr point. Clemson University, Duke this scream for University, and many other of go down to defei our ACC compatriots also use the or hopes that ai d Tradition many instances it is a reality that is plag uing the Carolina campus. The Honor System has been talked about, debated over, and laughed at for years. In coming freshmen are told the fundamentals of the system and for the most part this briefing is the last serious effort made to encourage the student to help make this a functioning plan. The Honor System as it now stands has room for vast improvement. But it is only with the active participation of both fac ulty and students can this system thrive. It is an insult to the student to have a professor "monitor" the class during an ex am yet due to the students' immaturity and lack of self-discipline this "policing" becomes imperative. In many departments the professor ad ministers identical quizzes from semester to semester. In this case cheating again be comes inevitable. The Honor Court, the Honor Coard's ju dicial committee, is also subject to criticism. It stands to reason that it would be more effective if the members were hand-picked and appointed by a faculty or administrative committee rather than elected by a campus wide vote. This tends to associate the elec tion of honor court members with the May Queen and the cheerleaders. Each student and faculty member must play a vital role in raising the standards of the near defunct honor system now in op eration. The question of character, or seemingly lack of character, cannot be scoffed at any longer. Unless an effective method can be devised in the near future, the honor sys tern now employed will go by the wayside and along with it will disappear the right to appeal a case and the privilege of a fair and expedient trial. Whether the system flourishes or dies del)ends on the integrity of every man and woman on the Carolina campus. It is a deci sion that each member of the Carolina com munity must make in the near future. The Gamecock urges the support and strengthen ing of the Honor System, Carolina's most Cherished tradition. --Reardon IV Attitude American editorial policies. For the most part, a number of these critics are Fabian Socialists and ardent left-wingers. What has surprised us is the fact that many of these faculty members feel a newspaper does not have the right to form editorial opinions. As we have said-we are not anguished by derogatory comments from faculty mem bers as long as such comments are in line with fair criticism. What disturbs us, how ever, is that some "scholars" at the Univer sity have placed themselves in the un scholarly position of opposing freedom of the press. We hope in future weeks these men of learning will stand just a little taller and see the "right" side. --Reardon VA TIONS -Four Po attends a school thstdnsathedofhi on this system ya h diitainwl e mfly way thc sys- theroadcorti,juts en down nlumeri- th11 .Ctardiflown A to be 90-100; isgets I~et a C to be 70-80; Tefu on ytmi ~-70. NOT SO AT go ytm ti rgesv u c t o r on this Uk'piei h atta u to dIiffere'nti ate shO eti~ne.Hti a' ~ystemi any way wr sln seeyTn,Iik rolina student is ai lrypoesro src this stage than to'ialoetAsthsow six-point system. nueia al tthsyem lty reaches an ''i sol omnsne ec administration Cesn hk,adteohr 'xpressed powers, alhv e ueia ytm ive to administer I h tdn a ~,h a rst if they ad- ~A hr sn ob st ('One else besides ht(rteposorU(st( m)formnity to the stnmrclvleo ahlte mi, the Carolina gae h nvriyst h 'er. At present, a sse nir'uae t a C. In another, Evrprfso t(aoias ie 70 may he a D). ntdcdn rdvsn iw at this point over nueiasytmSoe(0kw administration's thtafu-on yse isA s to remedy the ,C,-0,7,0,ad0.T nparahie to one thscosiniugelenor eral George Cus- a sof o h eann mark before the shlr,i sorsneews Ltle Big Horn,. htteamnstainwl ci seventh Cavalry! sr'yu fot ordc h Hattle of the vatgtotesue,toa( ,one feels that alatae justice will also Thsnwssewaistld Lt. One only feels toaclrtthAcemctr ytrtecuhn erf thi adinistitution. wilt can ____~ i- V:___ _ The R( At the Louvre in Paris, there are twcenty - seven pictures of .Iudas Iscariot, no two of them look alike, but they all resemble George Romney. Ever since the holocaust on November 3, there have been many speculations as to why Goldwater lost. In fact, to sim ply say "he lost" would be em ploying the greatest understate ment since Noah said, "It looks like rain." There were several reasons for his defeat. Perhaps the most important was the split in the Republican Party. The liberals (Keating, Javits, Kuchel, Rocke feller, Romney) would not sup port the national ticket. As Goldwater pointed out, this was unlike the situation when the lib e'rals control the party. When the liberals have run iWendell Wilkie, Thomas Dewey and1 to an extent Eisenhower), the conservatives have fallen in hehind to work for the national ticket. This year with the con servatives in power, the liberals sat on their hands, thus bringing disaster to the party and causing a deep split between liberal and conservative elements which will he hard to, heal by 1968. Perhaps the next most imp.or int System accomplish this end if, and only if, the administration assumes its responsibility to regulate said system. Mathematically, the stu den'fts' chances to lose as many as 10) to 15 points andl a letter grade undler some -professor simp)ly be cause the University hasn't stated that we are using this new system with a numerical value of 1(0 to 100 p)oints. There has occ'urred an over sight. With all the brain-power the administration p) o s s e s s e s (plus an IBM Computer), why is it that the fact was overlooked to state, not to the students, but to the faculty, that the four-point system is . . . the grade's can only vary in this range . . . the pro fessor or instructor has no authority to establish his own gradling system? The solution can easily be' established for the students' bene fit. The four-point system will impi-ove nothing if the present Aituat'ioni is fillowed to continue to the end of this year. Carolina's acadIemie dlisenrollments wIll be increased at the end of the first year's operation simply because the faculty 'controls the system and not the administration. Carolina men andl women dle serve that which has been given them by the school, all of it, in the intended form, not altered to suit personal gradling systems of the prnfessors. Where's he going? Jami Co kfel pu lia Par.OFHI MCI so CAI-tD ALSI~J a.,s N an otermioit blockvotelgin to the Democrats. In the states of Florida, Virginia, Tennessee. Arkansas, California, N o r t h Carolina, Illinois, and New York, these minorities control the bal ance o fpow%er. In New York Negroes and 2.6; million regis there are 2.3 million registered tered Jews. When will these peo ple stop thinking of themselves as Jews, Negroes, Slavs, Italians, etc., and start thinking of themi selves as Americans and when will they stop voting as they are told? The third factor was the beatu tiful way the Democrats handled this campaign. Here we must comlientthm hghy. he wee bl o ettote eol th fale ,des>hatGodwte wol'boih soil seuiy toabowiu Cp, ckftiGldae Anpfurh,canh PartDmo cati fctory was theNerol and other mictoriy fo otseet gohe Arkansas,or Casorito reat hx Caonta, iois aon New York The mriiscnreople siml anem unable torsn efor thereare 2.3 milon cleavgi,ste tere( Jews Whe will thsbeg n pietoptinkn shap inhesee as ews Nerspi, Sys, bound;n etc, adsar tholnkawar of tm selvesand Apurican andwe, will the stopveived as thyareo Th hird togethe bau tiful wy the eoratse handledo this aman doere weko mt would abolish bocia sri tha odaer wanulry star a98wt war,ta or.dwe aeo was puinh tonblowrsit up, Sth Gaoldwatwek alyflea, ebuet in poliics itan uing thatanyt inioneesrse eek Anecorthars the 1of1 "TeGmo crtivtry to th Edirelyu an-Iete otherictoy fotr sooserved.th 1**hitor wastock ia greprate ten evictoyfr. lh F.. e ube ein ThebAscritn raeare s3.00plrye sEm unIeTo reOR o MANAGING ED1TO BUSI ER sternfreno dv 'I Fvur?uT OF IN TE RE S T9V STuDr%NT 5 y Split themselves. They allow their la bor leaders, their newspapers and their news commentators to think for them. They don't rea lize that government doles. in creased social security and medi care, and poverty programs en tail political strings to Washing ton which the politicians can pull and make us dance like puppets. For example, the Civil Rights Act (Title VI, section :3) enables the federal government to cut off aid to areas which maintain racial segregation. Naturally, people who are on social security must how to this title. It is pure -iutocracy! But we are all Americans. The majority has spoken and it has selected Lyndon Baines Johnson by an overiwhelm ing landslide. lie is our* leader, and we Re p)ublicans imust switch outr allegi a nee to himn and wor-k with h im to bu ild a str-ong A mericai. But in four years we can again dis sent andI rally behind the Re publican Party's nominee in an attempt to defeat the D)emocrats and b)ring the United State.s out of this bed of mortal, social andl econotmi d'1ecay *- back on the roadl of const itut ionalI govern - men t, free' enite rprise a (1nd i dlividuat~lismi whieb have mattl. this Republ ic the grteatest na t,tn onl earth. hireici uiona bred in ume rti ng in the seed, is on idedt' parts. imoan ingless meanings, a soc(ie'ty I A GtFrEflR OIJT'I CAROINA d hev and for the students of the n on -ridys. luring the millege mniht, and letter writerg are set vk Te (Gamer~m" enlcoerage ' mus hesnd Publishin doe CInIher oif the Assoc isted Colltegiate rvi e. andt the interco(ltetiat. Prees. SIIEIL,A RElARD)ON lARRIET lhOLLAND L.ARVY n AnRET LETTERS to the EDITOR EDITOR ATTACKED Editor The Ga mecock Dear Miss Reardon: In the November 6 issue of The Gamecock that headlined pictures of a "beauty" and a "beast," your fairy-tale theme of past publishings continued to dominate. Your editorial that wishfully expressed a dream of a college paper that printed every article brought to its office was in the Mother Goose fashion. However, your plea for more finances was clearly contradicted by your flagrant waste of your present space, specifically, those feature (?) articles that coni tinually plague every issue. If the paper is as f inanci ally pinched as you stated, why can't you reduce the number of pages per issue and limit the contents to student NEWS? On the editorial page, your own editorials and Mr. Hammond's column were degraded by the other half-page of nonsensical prittle - prattle written by our supposedly "campus leaders." Miss Reardon, I will not believ that your uninspiring and often tactless editing and management of our campus paper represents the instruction you have received from the USC School of Journal ism for two reasons: 1, myself, am a journalism major with several years of publications ex perience which will not support such an idea; and secondly, I feel that your earlier apprenticeship before you became editor has greatly affected your present ad ministration. Probably, part of the obvious shallowness of The Gamcock is due to weak support within youa large staff. And yet, The Ganit cock staff is supposedly composed of many of the best-known naime on campus, names that when heard or seen convey the popular image of ability and leadershilp of the higher degrees. Miss Reardon, The Gamecock will not die from a lack of fi nances; it will die from a lack of respect and image on the campus. Begin to improve the paper's presently low image, Miss Reardon, and The Gamnecock, will gain the financial support it needs. RONALD T. ELLIOTT 0 0 0 CULITURIAL. GAP bEditori The (l Gaecock, I)euri, .1 ins lReuardon: A culturally backward area hae' numerous distinguishing chaaae teristics; among the miost abvious of these is a tendency to applaud between movements at concerts. At the beginning of the Little Orchestra's program last Thurs (lay Ma. Scherman carefully pointed ouat that the Haydn sym phony he was to c'ondluct hiad fouar mIovemen'llts, and he detscribedl each, j ust in case' somebody lost count. Near~ the end of the coan ceat he was less attentive to his duties and fa iled to iniform the audienc'e that a concerto normally has th ree' movements; the result of his negligence was aIpplauIse at the end of the first moveme'nt. This embarrassed the soloist and the conductor and left all the performers with a low op)inion (of the state of musical culture on our campus. To p)revent such emnbarrassment in the futuare, we p ropose' that a large' electaric sign reading "D1) NOT A PPILA U D"' he installed in ai con spicuous location in the Field lIIouse. The switch will be manned 1)y a member of the Music D)epartment staff, who will light the sign at the end of every mlo.emenat hut the last. A second po'ssibeility is the use of a cheering section. Me'mbers of the cheer leaeding sqluadl who can be' per suaed' to attend the conc'erts will sit in the front row. U pon~ a signal from a music parofessoar, they will rise and shout, "Away with your Roll,/Away with your RCok,/We want partitas/Hy J. S. Bach,"' or some other' gentee'l ex - prCession of cualtivated japprc ia t ion. We hope the Artist Seraies comd mlitttee will coensidetr thes' humbhle proposalIs and take action to pre se'rve th(e fair name of ('arolina. $ lDAVIID C. LUJNNEY ('hemistr'y D)epartment ANTIIONY C. DELOACII