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Editorials
Friday, March 11, 1966
Whose I
Recent events raise the point-blank ques
tion: WHOSE honor system is Carolina's
honor system?
Is it the students?
Is it the faculty's?
Is it the administration's?
Traditionally, we believe it has been the
students.' It started with them with a volun
tary agreement to maintain honor on cam
pus.
Now it seems that the faculty has taken
over and is going to change, alter and con
duct the honor system as IT sees fit. The
administration as usual seems to have noth
ing to say. The faculty is calling the shots,
ordaining the changes.
All this is being done this month without
any reference to the student body, its offi
cers, or anyone, undergraduate or graduate,
who studies at Carolina. The arbitrary-seem
ing action of the faculty came last week after
an administration tangle.
Nearly two years ago the question of re
organizing the honor system to meet the new
demands of a growing university was raised.
President Thomas F. Jones appointed a
committee headed by Dean W. H. Patterson
and consisting of 13 members: four from
the student body, five from the faculty an.,
four from the administration including Dean
of Students C. H. Witten.
This committee held a lengthy public hear
ing and concluded that the honor system was
indeed in a bad way. Several proposals for
amending or mending the system were out
SLATER DECISION admiration for such an
Dear Mr. Huitt: ing contribution to sat
I submit that the decision of H N
Slater to close down the Men's
Towers Cafeteria and the South NAME 1At
Dormitory Cafeteria on Sundays
is hoth illegal and abusive to the As I understand it,
students. There should be some multi-purpoee Field Ho
act of legislation or committee of be named the U. S. C.
power to limit the monopolistic Hall. May I commend
character of Slater. This deci- which came up with
sion to close on Sunday is but original and unique nan
one of the innumerable abuses to glorious new edifice?
the students who have paid for Is this the same grc
the services that Slater is in- gave us the names of
tendedl to provide.A ,C , ,F n
As a constituent of the Caro- hadoertrnyR
lina C'ommunity, I demand that ancotuewihB
action be taken against Slater, ,I .L ,adNfro
and that they be forced to fulfill velboknensdo
the spirit of their position.DitfoSuhBidi
CHARLES R. SMITH ongorpi lcai
NAME WITHHELD(SuhTwrbsdo
Dear' Mr. Initt: ilsmoepes e
It is with great admiration and thgruisongt
esteem that I write to applaud thsrnhouhth
the incredibly well-put letter to ihSuh en le
the edito.r in the last issue of teeaeol he
The Gamecock. The letter repre- pon lcaislet
sents the peak of subtlety and gopte ute
cunning and is truly a master- matrwihBldn
piece of satire.et.an Nohas
Mr. "Name Withheld by Re- et. avnhlus
quest," undler the guise of criti- Nothgruwul
e:mm. ele'verly reveals the high ln ogtatra
caliber program of 13. S. U. here wnnwFedHu
a t U7. 8. (. By skillfully pretend- wihteuclgae
ig to take issue' with a prayer
in t he 13. S. U'. publication, "Mr........a.
By Request'' successfully pokes
fun at, poputlar mnisconceptions of .l i
Chi istian ity.*. m .
"Mr. By Request's" argument . ... . .
implying that we should not seek
to emulate Christ and that Christ Itsestrglyp
did not put other people before ta h tdnsa
him.self is trualy the mark of in- vriywihprot
ge'nious subtlety. .(e otefrue
Byv tensibly implying that sae aes itei
Peace (orps memibers andl Red teafiso hi t
(ross v'lunteetrs are se'lf-seek- Alc fitrs
ig, rather than serving in elcdofiaswh
''lowly paths of service,'' '"Mr. urin ofteef
By Re'ques;t" eleverly leads us to as paeta u
believe the opposite,.ffclyo t(et
Tlhe* skillful pretense of not afim
having consulted a dictionary to Asltweek'
see that a welf-seeker is "a person pitdotteeae6
who see(ks only to further his Caliatue, oti
own inte'rests; one( who is self- siycmu.Ytol
ish," reveals an eloquent mastery priiaei n ft
of satire.oraiainoren
Trhe tongue-in-cheek substitute oe Thsiprtc
prayer suggested by "Mr. By Re- mnal nve ft
quest" further underscores the anqutiyolesa
subtle satire. TIhe prayer urges tre u yor(
us to realize that C'hrist is only sml.Alo tt
a "tool" for living (take heed a)rpitosbiI
businessmen), Hlow subtle! How udrdbt yteG
cunning! (myshldiltat
The author of such superb sa- Foeaml,icnt
tire should be recognized and re- viontrasthsar
warded for his outstanding prose SpeeCutJsie
and his sincere and enthusiastic ttioaofcrsb
support of the II. S. U. Alas! It ya.I locnan
is to be regretted that he wrote ~o orieteslr
under the "nom de plume" jugst$2,0pe
"Name Withheld By Request." rsnigarieo
My sncer thnks nd eep udAs inerstandhit,
"Crowing for a Greatei
1Eonor Fa
lined.
One called for proctoring all freshman and
sophomore classes while still bringing young
Carolinians to learn about the honor system.
Another would have returned the honor sys
tem to colleges and schools, individually, as
a means of overcoming the problem of mass
numbers in enforcing the system. This plan
called for student honor committees of not
less than five in each college and school, with
faculty advisors if wished.
In March 1965, a year ago, a sub-commit
tee merged the two plans mentioned above,
provided for student honor committees of
upperclassmen, and added some lesser fea
tures. This scheme was adopted by the en
tire committee or so it seems. Names of all
13 appeared on a report dated March 8, 1965.
But, some members of the committee backed
down later, for reasons not clear to this day.
On March 25, 1965, a short memorandum
was sent out to the other 11 members of the
committee by Chairman Patterson and Secre
tary Dr. Daniel W. Hollis. It contained a
one-paragraph recommendation as "the sense
of the motion" adopted during further com
mittee deliberations in which some members
abandoned the earlier plan.
The memorandum ended on this note: "If
we have not heard from you by 5 p.m. Tues
day March 30, 1965, we will assume that this
(substitute) is satisfactory with you and will
report to President Jones.
Thus, a one-page recommendation by two
administrative-faculty members replaced a
outstand- monplace name of Memorial Hall.
re. Is this the result of all our ef
SCOTT forts? Are the men and women
of Carolina going to allow our
administration to build this new
Field House with funds which
our new came directly and indirectly
use is to from our parents' pockets and
Memorial our own as well, and then name
the group it anything THEY want?
such an Nevertheless, if just cause can
he for our e shown why Memorial Hall is
a fitting name for the future
up which home of our Fighting Gamecocks'
Buildings basketball team, in whose mem
3 for our ory~ the building is dedicated, and
iw houses why this name deserves to be
Idings H, immortalized in the steel and
r modern concrete of OUR new Field
mitories? House, I will humbly withdraw
g (based my criticism.
n?!) and However, this is not the point
height?). I wish to make, for a Field House
I us what by any other name would serve
do when the purpose. My point is that
alphabet? once again the desires and even
dy in use the needs of Carolina's students
compass- have been overlooked and neg
Will the lec-ted in the shuffle of admin
omplicate istrative machinery, and concern
AA, AB, for student opinion has been ARlA, of whicd
Building, either totally lost or based on a pus is a part, I
complicated system of adminis- new record hig:
have our trative politics. It's about time earnings for t
d finally something was (lone about this ended October 1,
e dubbed executive indifference. According to
and com- PATRICIA ANN PADGETT Service, sales an<
Joy: South.Carolli
tradoxical only a 131' raise--as pointed out Rcnl u
state uni- by Senator Marshall Parker). tp2 rda
to be "an And thirdly a provision to raise Suhwsdn
Sof the the salary of legislators by $1,600 ms.Asto
iterest in per year. (The House had passed suhaliry
.a $600o annual increase but the suet vrg
is in the Senate in an "anything-you-can- stina(Nt
are the dIo-I-can-dlo-better" mood raised hoerinatd
rtunes is it to $1,600.) ''ersls
,k survey Are these primary needs? Per- t h ot
ill readlily haps they are. However, in a (Ik),ecn
state which has 300,000 func- ( .Sae
Gamecock tional illiterates above the age ouotenigl
500 South of 18, th(e nleed for major changes (mry,1h
e Univer- in the field of education would 1th (ori
a handful see'm to be indIicated. shos ot
e political The fact that the state of S. C. Wl w a
egister to ranks near the bottom of all 50
larly Ia- states in percentage of literacy U
te quality and first in the number of men 'hseflti
ion being rejected from the Armed Forces futo h
neral As- because of literacy requirements til o!A
e general should be a cause for grave con
currently cern to all S. C. citizens. And hw hy
neral As- lest we forget, kiddies, this is Rcnl h
this, the same General Assembly that atclt pk
ins a pro- repealed the Compulsory Educa- cueo dct
~of State tion L,aw. F JnS pe
and con- Now, given the~ problem of im- ae Aglt
5,000 per jproving education, how (10 you
a provi- go about it ? According to the I i eak
of circuit experts in the field of education, gaut rg
ear (rep- the place to start is at the grad- noe tati
30% for uate level. Well, bow do our suetprya
receved grauat faili.ic rae? atopro0graduate
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Culty Or S
plan drafted by a committee of 13, including
four students.
The Patterson-Hollis substitute is believed
(no student reporters allowed) to be the plan
laid before the faculty last spring and re
portedly cut to ribbons by amendments from
the floor.
It was under the amended plan that the
University began the 1965-66 school year.
This plan provided that the honor system
would be retained except that no freshman
and sophomore courses would be under the
system and that no other classroom sections
would be under the honor system unless 90%
of the students in each classroom section
indicated their willingness to abide by its
rules.
This plan quickly proved unworkable. Dis
honesty seemed widespread even before mid
term exams.
President Jones then referred the whole
amended mess to the faculty advisory com
mittee. This committee was described as
wishing advice from "a broad segment of the
University."
To judge by what happened next, students
are not included in ary "broad segment" of
our University. A special committee con
sisting only of faculty and administration
(Profs. M. G. Abernathy and G. C. Brauer
and Deans R. McC. Figg, W. H. Patterson,
and C. H. Witten-not a single, solitary
student was requested to consider the situa
tion and report back to the faculty advisory
committee.
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Commentary
Columbia, South Carolina
udents?
The report of the special committee, as un
officially reported, must have had something
of the sound of a shocker. It said the amend
ments from the floor and other actions by
faculty last May left "unsolved problems"
and "contradictory sections."
The faculty advisory committee therefore
made a recommendation to the faculty based,
reportedly, on what the "broad segment" of
faculty and administration advocated.
Substantially the new plan is one of the
plans that the original special committee
representing a truly "broad segment" recom
mended.
In short, the plan proposed's decentraliz
ing the honor system and letting each college
or school deal with it BUT with this DIF
FERENCE-for the time being, the honor
committee would consist of three faculty and
two students in each instance.
If any students were consulted in formu
lating this plan, neither The Gamecock nor
the student body at large heard about it.
The faculty is reported to have approved
the plan at its March 2 meeting by a voice
vote, with only a scattering of "no's."
The new plan upon faculty approval is
supposed to take effect "immediately."
We wish the faculty luck in administrating
TH EIR new honor system.
It will he interesting to see how Carolina
students react to an administrative pre
packaged honor plan supplanting a system
of student concurrence.
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student officers for the 196-67
school year.
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