University of Virginia - Corks and Curls Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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The Honor System is a more important mat- ter. Although some of its admirers insist that the system is as strong and viable as ever, such un- fortunately is not the case. A major challenge to the system has come from the increasing num- ber of persons exposed to a different academic environment who come to Charlottesville. The University tries to assimilate them into its own unique ethos. For every graduate or transfer stu- dent for whom this assimilation is a success, there is another who rejects the University's way of doing things or regards it with a condescend- ing air. This rejection can be seen readily in the hostility a number of graduate students have shown toward attempts to orient them to the Honor System. That adjustments will have to be made in the way the System is presented and administered is clear. Already, the Honor Committee has sought to make its procedures conform with legal stan- dards of due process, and increasingly defen- ders of the System are realizing that the concept of honor must be presented in intellectual rather than emotional terms. The Honor System, we have discovered, must be presented in an atmo- sphere of open discussion rather than in terms of it has been our oldest and most cherished tradition. Whatever the changing ways, this is an ex- citing time to be at the University. There are those pessimists, of course, who see the old University giving way to the new in terms of a well-born but impoverished spinster forced to sell the family estate to greedy and un- scrupulous speculators who will trample on tra- dition as casually as they trample on the lady's nasturtiums. To such persons, any .innovation becomes suspect, any decent burial of an anti- quated tradition, impossibly radical. Such dark predictions are as short-sighted as those of the cultural anarchists who wish the University to ignore its heritage. Given as re- markable a legacy as the University enjoys, our task in the years immediately ahead is to deter- mine which of our traditions are merely quaint and which have something to offer, to enhance, to stimulate the progress of the University. We must search for our usable past.

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The University could be just as fine an academic in- stitution if no student ever wore a coat and tie again. We hope that never happens, of course. The University once turned out gentlemen who may or may not have been scholars, let us hope we never see it produce scholars who are not gentlemen. We hope instead that the ideals of the old University-honor, gentlemanly behavior, the quest for a civilized existence, well round- ed competence in a number of fields-can be happily married to the intellectual advancement of the new. Will this happen? Can the Honor System, to cite one tradition worth saving, survive the influx of thousands of more students? We think so. But rather than curse the inevitable loss of some of the old University-as pleasant and gen- teel as it may have been-we prefer to take pride in the accomplishments of the new. Our avowed pursuit of ex- cellence is showing handsome results, and one day soon we may fulfill the dream of lVlr. Jefferson when he wrote: I contemplate the University of Virginia as the future bulwark of the human mind in this hemisphere. Mr. Jefferson-how could anyone write this much about the University, new or old, without mentioning him? It is often asked, if he should ride down from lVlon- ticello one morning as he was once apt to do, would he be pleased with what his University had become? On a spring morning in 1968, with such a useful past and such a promising future, we think he would. Charles C. Calhoun Editor-in-Chief, The Cavalier Daily