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PAGE TWO MAROON AND GOLD Maroon And Gold Entered as lecood claia matter >t the reef Office at Eloa CoUefe, N. C., under the A«t o March . 1879. Delivered by ■lail. $1.50 per college year. 75 cenU the aemettar. EDITOEIAL BOARD MeWln Shreve* Editor-ln-Chlef Paul Robiiuoa Assistant E^tor Tbomaa Corbitt Sport* Editor June Reaves Girlj Sports e. Reid Alumni Editor Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advlior Bob Wicker Staff Photographer TECHNICAL STAFF Louis Jones Linotype Operator Kenneth Harper Press Operator Jerry Holmes Press Operator KKPOKTORIAL STAFF Jewelk- B.i- Joyce Howell Stanly Boone . . ... Grover Huffines Carole Boyle Ann Jennings Rebecca Brandt Judith Jones Roy Brandt Kay Lewis Kroneth Broda Bonnie McEvoy Jam‘^ Brown Bert Morrison Lynwood Brown Barbara Price Alex Burnette William Rice Joe Cote Barbara Rin Terry f'nx Andrew Rohrs Susan Fergu-son Gay Saunders Roni George James Self Louise Grabenstetter Dolan Tolbert Kenneth Harper Ken Woodruff Richard Hedrick Diane Woolard Scott Zimmerman FRIDAY. OCTOBER 30, 1964 STRE.NGTH OR WKAKMKSS? Some years ago the University of North Carolina newspaper, "The Daily Tar Heel," published an editorial concerning the merits and effectiveness of the Honor System at Carolina In speaking of the system that has been in effect at the state university in Chapel Hill for more than half a century, the editor at that time said "If the Honor System is a symbol of ('arolinii's greatness, then I would really hate to see what is the symbol of Carolina's weakness." Now we have an Honor System at Elon, ami because we believe it is a symbol of Fllon's greatness and wish that it should continue to be so, the Maroon and Gold is devoting a goodly portion of the space on its editorial page this fall to discussions of the Elon Honor System and to its imple mentation through the medium of the Honor Court operations. Individual honor, functioning through the EUon Honor System, is an important part of campus life, reaching into the social life of the students as well as the academic, and it it important to the college that everyone have a thorough understanding of just what honor means. No one is so naive as to believe that there me no violations of an Honor System, either here at Elon, at Carolina, or at any other institution, but continued effectiveness of an Honor System is in keeping with the in creased emphasis in modern times upon the judgment of the individual and the gradual removal of arbitrary rules concerning every phase of human activity. Under the Honor System, there is increased emphasis upon the ability of each individual to interpret for himself or herself what is right and what is wrong, and the Maroon and Gold hopes Ihnt by publication of various discussions of the Honor System and its in tegral parts it may be able to make honor itself and the Honor System a continuing symbol of Elon greatness. THt; IIOMKLY VIRTIT':S We liked thi,^ li.st of the so-called "homely virtues." which .some people may think to be out dated in this day and time, but the list includes some of the attributes of human characted which never grow old and which will never cease to win friends and influence people. Tnese virtues include: —To say "please." —To be kind and considerate —To respect misfortune and old age. —To be honest, even though you don't make a^ much money as the other fellow— right off. —To be slow to criticize. —To be quick to forgive. —To .see the i^ood in people. —To carry around clean thoiighu. inas much Bs "thoughts are deeds." —To cultivate a happy bearing, a low. clear voice, and a good reputation a^i a listener. —To lead but not to boast. —To keep surpassing your best. —To do one thing at a time, and that re- gardle.'s of reward. —To keep your eyes on jobs ahead and not tho.se behind. —To be calm and brave, if in the right, thoufh the big crowd walks off. It w(ll come back'' —To slick by your friends, come what may, if his heart is square. —To bear no ill will toward anyone even your enemies. 'Only big people have ene mies ' —To do the best that you know now and leave the rest — with no regrets! a View from the oak By MELVIN SHREVES Test Shot Fails A test shot for SGA President Fred Ste phenson's non-athletic bus fund was dis mantled on the launching pad by the Student Senate two weeks ago due to several faults in its construction. Hie bill, drawn up by Stephenson and his "bus manager" Allen Beales, called for ap propriations to send a bus to the Western Carolina game with an overnight stay in the Blue Kidge Mountains, a Sunday trip along the Parkway, and a visit to the Van derbilt .Mansion. The main fault was an unavoidable one. The cheerleaders were to travel on the bus to the game. They wanted to go to the game, but did not necessarily want to take the side trip. So who was to pay for their expenses 'rooms, meals, etc.i? Should the girls pay their own way if they didn't want to go? No. Should they take the money for expense.s 'approximately $100 for 11 girls) from their traveling fund? No, they will need it for later football and basketball games. So that left one of two choices; (1) pay the cheerleaders' expenses out of the SGA treas ury, which would have taken another piece ol legislation, or I2l amend the bill to delete the side trip. The bill was amended, but there were other rea.sons, too. For one, individual expenses would run between nine and fifteen dollars. If a fellow paid his date’s way. the ex penses would be double for him. The Senate agreed that it would be better to amend the bill so that a bus would take students to the WCC game and return on the same night rather than gel only half a busload for the full trip and have to cancel it out. So what will this mean to Stephensoa's overall plan for non-athletic bus trips? This was a strong plank in his campaign plat form last Spring, and probably helped him to get elected. It is a good program and should not be ditched if the students want it. New Telephones The College has signed a contract with a telephone company to install a new and larged switchboard to accommodate the new phones which are to be installed in the dormitories and houses soon. The plan is to have two phones on each floor of the newer dormitories including West, and one phone in each of the older dorms and houses. They will be "free phones" for local calls only. 'The pay phones which are now in the dorms will be kept for making long distance calls. The LD calls can come in on the new phones, but cannot be "called out" on any but the pay phones. This system will be a big help in inter campus communications and alleviate the problem of crowded phones after the girls' dorms close at ten thirty. Much work has gone into this program for the personal c«'.n- venience of the dorm students, and the powers that be deserve a slap on the back, a tip of the hat, and our hearty thanks. The Inauguration Parade? Anyone who has been at Elon for any length of time can fully appreciate every note played and movement made when the Elon College Marching Band takes the field at half-time. Not long ago, Elon had no band to speak of. The man who got the band moving was, of course. Jack 0. White. He came to Elon! recruited musicians from all over, got the College to fix them a band room, put them in sharp uniforms, worked everyone to his limit, and then took the band out for all the world to see and hear. Dressed in new uniforms, the> looked great. The show became a looked-forward-to event. The We thank you salute became famous in the Carolinas Conference. The music was well-received too. The band went wild playing and marching, giving Spring concerts, starting a jazz group and a dance band, and really surprising everyone with their ability and determination. Near the end of their second year. Jack 0. and the Emanons 'that's "No Name" spelled backwards I received an invitation to play a series of concerts at the New York World's Fair. .North Carolina's Governor Terry San ford appointed the band official Goodvi-ill Am bassadors for the trip. The Elon musicians had finally become world famous. And now the band is in its third year. Because of the fine work Jack 0. White has done with the band, he may be walking up Penn.sylvania Avenue beside the band in January. Sound far fetched? Actually, the po.s.sibilities are great. If one of the candidates makes it, a member n{ the Board of Trustees of Elon will head (he planning for the inauguration program for the President of the United States. If the other candidate wins, Elon has a few connections there, too. Young Repulilicans Back Goldwater By DICK PRUITT President Y.R.C. This 1964 election could easily be the most important in the century. We as voters must make a grave and serious decision: as for me. my decision has already been made For the first time in thirty years we have a chance to put in the White House a man dedicated to preserving the constitutional free doms of the republic. It may be quite some time before the elec torate will again be able to choose a candidate so committed to the cause of liberty. This candidate is my candidate and I hope yours also — Senator Barry Goldwater. Senator Goldwater. almost alone among the political figures of our time, has had the audacity to sug gest that man has the capacity for growth, that man has a mind and a spirit and a heart as well as a stomach. Senator Goldwater does not ask you to barter away one after another of your liberties in exchange for what the politician.- are wont to call “security.” There mast be a higher purpose than to retire to a future of federal hand- oute. America was formed on cer tain basic ideas and liberties. Slowly they are being taken away. I cer tainly do not want to become just DICK PRUITT YRC President a social security number. Do you? The issues boil down to whether it is the destiny of the American people to become the servants of a leviathan state at home and to cower before totalitarian aggres sors abroad. The Democrats have painted the GOP as the "warmongering" party. In this century seven Republican presidents have held office for thirty-two years and the Demo crats will have heW (rffice for thirty-two years when the present Kennedy-Johnson term expires. There has been a war under every Democratic president. During the Republicans’ thirty-two years ex cept for six months in 1953 before Eisenhower ended the Korean con flict begun under Truman — there was not a single day of shooting. Now, I ask you, on the basis of this record, who is the "warmong ering" party? Senator Goldwater has also been accused of being “trigger happy. Senator Goldwater was on active duty from August 1941 until No vember 1945. He actively partici pated in the war for four years. On the other hand. President John son was used only as an observer. ■Most of the time he was on duty, it was at a desk in San Francisco. I do not believe a man who has seen and been in a war would want to see another, much less start one. Senator Goldwater does not want to endanger himself, his fam ily, you. the American people or myself with a war. (Continued On Page Four) over the bar Young Democrats Su[>j)ort Johnson By RUSS PHIPPS President Y.D.C. ‘Our tomorrow is on its way. It can be a shape of darkness or a thing of beauty. The choice is ours. For it will be the dream we dare to dream. ... We of the Democratic Party confidently go before the people offering answers, not retreat — unity, not division — hope, not fear We . . . offer the people a choice— a choice of continuing on the cour ageous and compasionate course that has made this nation the strongest, freest, most prosperous and most peaceful nation in the history of man. Let us now turn to our task! Let us now be on our way!” And so spoke Lyndon Baines Johnson at the Democratic Con vention at Atlantic City New Jersey when he accepted the nomination for President. Now then, let us re fleet upon some of the key achieve ments and proposals of the John son Administration. ’The Johnson Administration has declared war on poverty in Amer ica, setting as its aim to not only relieve the symptoms of poverty, but rather to cure, and above all, to prevent it. The new National Food Stamp Plan enables four million unem ployed or low-income people to get RUSS PHIPPS YDC President more adequate diets. Low-income housing is being built at an annual rate three times that of 1960. Fam ilies are being held together by aid to needy families with dependant children. Previously, an unemployed father had to desert before his poverty-stricken family could ask for aid. Through the new Manpower Training and Development pro gram. 400.000 persons are being trained to adjust to automation and technological change and ad vancement. More disabled persons are being restored to productive life _ released from dependance on public assistance — as the re sult of greater emphasis on voca tional rehabilitation. The Area De velopment Program enacted in 1961 is attracting new industries and stimulating new jobs in pockets of poverty. The number of families living in poverty has steadily de clined under the Democrats and is today lower than at any time since World War II. The biggest tax cut in history has reduced income taxes of people earning $3,000 or less by an average of forty percent. There are about 35 million Amer icans who need a chance to de velop their own skills or capacities —a chance for a good education equal opportunity, better medical care, and healthier and more at tractive environments. President Johnson's War on Poverty will give them that chance. The, Democrats through a wise and workable partnership with bus iness, labor and all of the Amer ican people are giving this country the sunniest economic skies it has ever known. Americans are enjoy ing the longest and strongest ex pansion in history. ’This compares (Continued on Pnge four/ JUDICIAL OBSERVER A View Of The Honor System Some people think the Honor Court only works when its easy. For some, college is the first great test of personal honesty. Progress is measured by tests and exams. Some schools have proctors sit in on all tests and examina tions. Other schools rely on an hon or system which places the re sponsibility to maintain honesty up on the student themselves. The mechanics of both systems vary from school to school. But when you get down to brass tacks honor has got to begin at home. How some students feel about honor. One girl says that at her school the honor system is effective even though the penalties are not severe. She says the honor system is part of the tradition of her school. The kids at her school uphold the honor system because they feel they have been given a responsibility and they should accept it. Another student says that he could leave his books anywhere on campus and when he returned the books would still be there. He at tributes this to his felkiw student’s respect for honor, a respect that he thinks will carry over into other fields of endeavor later on in life. Here is a boy from a school with an honor system that works. He thinks the reason it works may be because of the penalties that are connected with cheating and lying. TTiis tremendous penalty is expulsion and after this penalty a person can not get a decent job. He thinks this is about as bad a punishment as you can get in this country. In his opinion the honor system instills fear, not honor. One young coed believes that top students do not cheat because they are after knowledge. The middle students do not cheat because they are afraid, and the poor students cheat because they have nothing to lose. Another student feels that the honor system only works when its easy. Another student feels that the idea of an honor system is ideal istic. TTiis student believes that ab solute honor is unattainable — but he believes he can try. How Some Students Feel .^bout Issues A typical college student feels there it a great deal of student opinion about public issues. He be lieves what students say is not al ways rational but they do have def inite ideas and feelings about most things. Another student feels that stu dents do not take stands on public issues but only on campus issues. Here is a student who feels that students do not take issues because of fear of repercussions. Mostly fear of offending family and friends. Others hold back on taking stands because they feel their ideas will probably change by the time they are forty. Some also believe that unless an issue really burns inside of you, you might as well let life roll along. People will turn out the same way no matter what a person or an individual tries to do. One athlete can feel the apathy at his school. He thinks the stu dents have an isolated world of their own. Most of the students, he says, feel that the really big issues are none of their concern. Topical issues often hit close to home, but he says one can never get an honest opinion from a fellow classmate. The ideas for this part of the column have been borrowed from “The College Student” in “The Elon College Alumni News”, April 1961. The preceding paragraphs have dealt with opinions from students across the country. Here at Elon most of the students are too social conscious to become involved with the honor court. If you get involved you may become a witness. You may even lose some time and per haps friends and popularity. Sometimes we refrain from in volvement for fear of hurting someone we like. More often, we refrain because of the fear of get ting hurt. Sometime or other the aware individual is going to suffer the experience of an unavaidable choice. Perhaps we should give the situation some thought. By PAUL ROBINSON This column was entitled as it was for a specific reason. As stated in the first issue of the Maroon and Gold, it was the purpose of this columnist to discuss various aspects of Honor. The author assumed, perhaps pre sumptiously, that the reader would assume that these discussions were to be digested within the context of the Elon College Honor Sysem. As a matter of fact, Elon College was cited specifically at various times as being an example of where these rather pholosophical approaches to to honor could be applied. It is now apparent to this writer that the use of Elon College in such a manner was not appropriate. There seems to be a rather widespread ignorance as to how the Honor System exists on this campus. As to why so few people are not familiar with the structure of this element is explainable, but this matter does not concern us now, so such a discussion of it will be deferred until a later time. Rather, I shall attempt in the next few paragraphs to outline the structure of the Elon College Honor Sysem. The Judicial segment of the campus is a branch of the Student Government Associa tion. It exists separately from the Ebcec- utive and the Legislative Branches just as the American Supreme Court exists sepa rately in the Federal structure. This is not to say that the Elon College Judicial Branch is a supreme court. It is not. There are three major divisions in the Elon court system. The lower court is the Student Council. The Interdormitory Council and the Honor Court are above it. Each court has specific cases under its jurisdiction and a defendant tried in the Student Council cannot appeal to another of these courts. In all cases however, the decision of each court is final as far as student courts are concerned. The only appeal a student has is to the Faculty Committee on Student Gov ernment. The Student Council tries only minor of fenses against the student body, and it is composed of two men, two women and a student at large. As is true in all cases in all of the courts, a decision is reached by the vote of a simple majority of the entire membership. In the Student Council it takes three concurring votes to reach a verdict. The Interdormitory Council is composed of representatives from each dorm and is re sponsible for deciding certain violations which have occurred in the dorms. As it might be said under the colonnades, the Honor Court is the stud. The most im portant issues are brought before this court. Again I might add that it is not like the Federal Supreme Court. Its organization and procedure is quite different. First of all, it does not have the final decision in all matters. According to the Constitution, the defendant may request the Faculty Committee on Student Government to review the Honor Court decision. The structure of this court is the most complex of all the courts because it has the most responsibilities. It therefore, needs more people to carry out its purpose. There are three judges who are elected by the student body. (These are the only mem bers of the Honor Court who are elected. The rest of the positions are appointed.) There is an office of defense and an office of prosecution. The head of each of these offices is appointed by the president of the student body. These two people are rising Juniors or rising Seniors. They in turn are responsible for choosing two assistants. The jury is composed of four students and four faculty members. The student members are appointed by the president of the Stu dent Body, and the faculty members are named by the President of the College, E^ch President also appoints one alternate. There is a different jury for each term. It takes five members of the jury to reach a verdict. This is obviously a rough outline of the Elon College Honor System. Many of the fine details can be found in Article III of the Student Constitution in the Student Hand book. Do you like this organization? If not, how do you think it can be improved. Discuss it in a bull session some night and tell a mem ber of the court system what you think could be done to improve it, or write a letter to the Campus Crier. Just remember, any dimwit can find fault with anything, but it is a genuine challenge to find adequate remedies. Pointed Phrases Money talks all right, but in these days a dollar doesn’t have enough cents to say much. • * ♦ • ♦ A pessimist is the type of person who prays for rain but won’t buy an umbrella. ♦ * » » ♦ Most men need two women in their lives: A secretary to take things down and a wife to pick things up.