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THE S AL E M I T E
Saturday, February 1, 1930.
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REPORTERS
Honor System In
American Colleges
The Present Day Importance
of the Problem of the Hon
or System in American
Colleges
ATTENTION
Note: Tliis is the fifth of a series
of articles or* the Honor System be
ing printed simultaneously in all the
college newspapers in the United
States beginning on or about No
vember 20th. A series of four arti
cles dealing with such matters have
already been printed in this paper.
This -release is being made by the
Committee on the Honor System for
the National Student Federation of
the United States of America, with a
hope that the students of this eoi
try will give serious thought to I
problem of student honesty in (
colleges, and that they will send
the Fiftli Annual Congress of the
National Student Federation repre
sentatives who have well-thought-out
ideas concerning this matter. The
Fifth Congress met at Stanford
‘ ersity on the 1, 2, 3,
of January, 1930.
Catherine Moragne.
Lucy Woolwine
Charlotte Stair
Daisy Lee Carson
Mary Louise Mickey
Allie Mae Gerkin
Frances Douglass
Nancy Cox
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LITTLE THOUGHTS
FOR TODAY
O threats of Hell and Hopes
of Paradise!
One thing at least is certain
This I.ife flies;
One thing is certain and the
rest is Lies;
The Flower that onee has
blown for ever dies.
Strange, is it not ? that of the
myriads who
Before' us pass’d the door of
Darkness through.
Not one returns to tell us of
the Road,
Which to discover we must
travel too.
—Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Many students think that the aim
of the Honor System should be to
exclude cheaters; many believe that
an attempt should be made to rehab-
ilitatt offenders.
Secret student spies whose duty it
is to report violators of the system
have been found to be of little value.
Regardless of what individuals
may think about the salutary influ
ence of the Honor System, .it is a
fact that students are crying out
against the wholesale cheating that
is going on in some of our American
colleges which rely wholly upon the
cleverness of the instructors or proc
tors to detect cheaters. Many of
these students came to the Congress
of the N. S. F. A. last December
searching for something to substi
tute for the faculty espionage sys
tem, while some came hunting meth
ods and information that would
able them to improve their Honor
Systems. It is high time that Si
thing definite be done toward solving
'is problem of student honesty.
The N. S. F'. A. is deeply inter
ested in this question and it urges
serious thought, expression, and
tion upon it. The Association of
American Colleges is also interested
it to the extent that they are
conducting a survey of the system
exists in the United States.
Let’s Try It
The Techo Echo published a para
graph recently which includes a
suggestion that we take pleasure in
ing on to you for consideration.
Here it is:
In a certain school the student
council inaugurated a “Take-it-Back
Day” on which all borrowed articles
are to be returned to their owners.
That would not be such a bad idea
after all. Let’s have today our
“Take-it-Back” Day—don’t wait for
tomorrow. Take back that dress
you borrowed, take back that um
brella, take back that book, take
back that stamp. In fact, take back
everything you have borrowed,
whether it was with or without the
permission of the owner. We arc
sure that there would be a great re
joicing on the part of the owners if
everytliing borrowed were returned
to them. Let’s do it, girls!
Tested and True
Mrs. Gray—“Ah, Jenny, I won
der if my husband will love me
when my hair is gray?”
Mrs. Black—“Wliy not? He’s
loved you through tliree shades al-
ady.”—Tit-Bits.
The third great battle of “Bull
Run” was far more serious for New
York than either of the other battles.
—Nashville Southern Agriculturist.
Correcting His Range
The driver of the machine said he
swerved his automobile to avoid
missing the woman’s husband.
—Elgin Courier-Neu
PARAGRAPHICS
One of the neighboring drug stores
has on display a great supply of
“Noiseless Matches.” We suppose
that these are for the convenience
of ye Salem student, so that she may
smoke in the dormitories without be
ing heard. (P. S.—This is a joke,
Hammurabi.)
The Cut System matter should
arouse some interest among the Great
Asleep. We suggest that you an
swer the Questionnaire and lend
your influence toward effecting
reform. Is this not a topic which
concerns all of us?
Why not begin now to keep those
notc-books up-to-date and study ev
ery day so that we will not experi
ence that panicky feeling again ir
the Spring?
“The Woman Who Knows” will
lose no time in giving her order to
agent Phin Horton for the 1931
sport model water-wagon (body by
Fisher). “Ask the man who owns
How appropriate it was that
of the pictures up town this week
included snow scenes, igloos,
“Turn on the Heat”!
HINTS ON ORGANIZATION OF
THE HONOR SYSTEM
The term ‘Honor System’ is used
to connote the formal recognition
and adoption by students and fac
ulty of a system of mutual responsi
bility among students for honesty in
scholastic work and other college ac
tivities. However, it has been said
•ecently by an astute observer of
students and a keen viewer of the
trend of modern student thought
that “the only way in which
•oblem of student government will
•er be worked out successfully will
be to perfect a joint organization
among the students and faculty
combined.” This statement furnishes
a challenge to American students.
Is it correct? Cannot students
govern themselves successfully?
A majority of the sfudents who
discussed the Honor System at the
Fourth Congress of the N. S. F. A.
were of the opinion that the Honor
Sy.stem is more efficiently managed
when the council is composed «
clusively of students. However,
some institutions, a mixed committee
functions successfully. The compo
sition of honor councils ranges all
the way from those composed entire
ly of students to those composed
entirely of faculty members. Each
institution must work out this, prob
lem for itself.
In order to be most effectivi
onor System should be somewhat
limited in its scope. It should be
made to apply to certain definite
phases of student life, and it should
be thoroughly understood by
students tliat, when the system
violated, punishment will follow
iftly and certainly. It i
severity of the punishment that
counts; it is its certainty. The pen
alty should be as severe as the exi
gencies of the conditions demand.
)me colleges the only punish-
for the violation of the Honor
System is permanent expulsion; in
others, it consists in a deprivation
of social privileges or in a simple
reprimand. Some institutions pub-
lisli the names of the convicted stud
ents; however, a majority of them
favor withholding the name of the
offender.
Generally speaking experience has
shown that the regular student body
governing council can administer the
Honor System better than a special
Iionor committee. However,
institutions the duties of the student
officials are so heavy that a special
committee is a necessity. There
a number of notable exceptions
the general rule stated.
The system of organization should
be simple. A simple process should
be worked out whereby a student
can be given a fair and impartial
trial. .Some institutions provide for
a second trial on appeal, which
public. Few trials have been held
within the history of the Honor
System, but, when they have
eurred, they have been gruesome
things. It is generally thought best
to provide for a final appeal ' -
president of the college, or t(
designated faculty committee before
a student is permanently expelled.
THIS CONCERNS YOU
During this school term there has
been much complaint against the
Cut System. If the members
of the student . body will bestir
themselves sufficiently to let their
discontent be known and to express
their reasonable views in regard to
a revision of the prevailing system
they will no doubt win some consid
eration from the Cut Committee.
Sigma Omicron Alpha is planning
to stage a debate next week—‘ "
solved that this audience is agreed
that Salem College should be pro
vided unlimited cuts for seniors, and
cuts based on scholarship and clas
sification for under-classmen.” The
members of this debating society
have made out a Questionnaire which
they request YOU to answer
hand in to some member of Sigma
Omicron Alpha at once. (See Eliz
abeth Marx or Alice Caldwell).
Do you approve of our pres-
t system? State reasons pro
2. Do you tliink this student
body is fitted for a more lenient cut
system?
3. Would your reaction to th(
proposed plan of unlimited cuts fo
Seniors befavorable or unfavorable?
4. Do you approve of tlie policy
of determiiiing the number of cuts
for underclassmen on the bases of
scholarship and class standing?
5. Do you believe students in
curring failures in half of tlieir
work in any semester should be ex
cluded from the college for the en-
G. What suggestions have you to
make upon the subject of cuts at
As You Were!
“It says here that girls are to
truly feminine this year.”
~h, why can’t they let tis aloi
and let us be natural?”
The Bigger—The Kinder
“Lions are friendly if you treat
them well.—Newspaper Heading.
Personally we have always resist
ed, in a humane manner, our impulse
to enter their cages and kick them
around.—Dublin Opinion.
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Besides the guest of honor, the
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evening was set aside primarily for
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The Prince of Wales, who one
tested public speaking and found it
difficult to do, has buckled dow
it in earnest, and now finds it easy,
he says. As easy, you might say, as
falling off a horse.—New York Eve
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