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DRiVE CAREFULLY! 45TH YEAR OF 4UBL ONTHE LIFE YOU SAVE OF PUBLICATION MAY BE YOUR OWN! UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volume XLVII, No. 26 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, APRIL 15, 1954 Founded 1908 Field McNulty I May Quee Is Maid o Tena McNulty, junior frori Queen in the run-offs Monda Cg&rleston, will be her maid-oi this election. The queen will be crowned in May Day ceremonies Ma Journ. School Will Remodel This Summer The university School of Journ alism will be completely remodeled this summer in conjunction with an overall building program that is going on at the university, ac cording to Journalism Dean R. P. Schlabach, Jr. A sum of $15,000 has been allo cated to the journalism school, which is located in Legare College on the horseshoe. The interior of the building will have natural wood paneled walls anoi asphalt tiled floors. The upper patt) of the walls will be re plastered and repainted. Photo Lab The photography lab on the first floor will be enlarged and a print washer and light trap are to be added. The light trap will allow students to print their pictures with the dark rooms open. The lab is now equipped with five dark rooms and enlargers, five Graflex, one Rollaflex, three box cameras, and a revolving print dryer. New Editing Room On the second floor a new edit ing room with a specially made copy desk will be formed from the old lecture room and the front part of the room will be cut off and made into a new office for the dean. His old office will be occupied by the secretary, who is currently located in the library lounge. The lecture room will be moved to the old editing room and will have new desks installed. Other improvements include the soundproofing of the AP wire copy closet, wall slots for photo exhibits and a built-in bookcase in the lounge, new typewriter desks for the news room, and improved lighting in all the rooms. fran Schlabach said that he ex pected work to begin early in June and hoped that everything would be ready for the fall term. SEVEN NEW MEMBERS of BI night, Apr41 23. They are, bottom r< At Perry and Bob Elison. (Gamee< Is I s Elected n; Dennis f Honor i Columbia, was elected May! y. Dolly Dennis, junior from -honor.856 students voted in by President Donald Russell y 5 in front of McKissick library. May Day activities will include the presentation of awards, lunch eon on the horseshoe, the Phi Ep pie throwing contest and the coronation of the May Queen that afternoon. The coronation ball that night will feature Johnny Long and his orchestra. May Court Members of the court will be presented at this time. They in clude: Pauline Broas, Rosemary Salisbury, Marian Hill, Esther La Bruce, Barbara Richardson, Mary Jane Wood and Ann McMeekin. Also, Hazel Duke, Betty Hood, Dot Holman, Johanna Wright, Mary Ann Cole, Joyce Caudell, Mary Calhoun, Rose Truesdale, Harriet Whisenhunt, Grace Lewis and Sarette Flake. Also, Jo Utsey, June Buchanan, Ira Mae Jones, Judy Williams, Shirley Hamlet and Jackie Holt. Johnny Long Johnny Long and his orchestra will play at the May Day dance, Izzy Lourie, outgoing student body president, announced today. The dance will be May 5 from 9-1 at the Jefferson hotel. It is being sponsored by student council. Tickets may be purchased for $2.50 "stag or drag" from any student council member. Long is probably best known for his rendition of "In a Shanty In Old Shantytown," which he recorded first in late 1940. Other of his arrangements include "Blue Skies," "When I Grow Too Old To Dream," "Paradise," and "Just Like That." Long entertained at many camp bases, and hospitals during the last war. He considers the high light of his career when he was asked to play at the president's birthday ball in Washington in 1941. Applications for scholarships and the renewal of scholarships must be made by May 1, ac cording to Prof. K. L. F. De Gravelines, director of student activities. A pplication blanks may be secured at the student activities office In McCutcheon house. iie Key will be Initiated at a region aw, John Sloan, Bob Gabriel, anid Bi ek photn by Landis Petty) Lioen 10Sel TENA McNULT Geologists Will Convene Here For Annual Meet More than 200 geologists will convene at the university April 15-17 for the annual southern sec tional meeting of the Geological Society of America. The program will include tech nical sessions at which scientific papers will be presented. Sym posiums of coastal plain and Pied mont geology, supplemented by an extensive field trip to geological sites in South Carolina will be fea tured. Attending the weeting will be professional geologists from in dustry and governmental agencies, and members of college faculties from throughout the nation. Dr. Stephen Taber, emeritus professor of geology and former head of the department at the university, will deliver the main address at a banquet at 7 p.m. in the Wade Hampton Hotel. His subject will be "Pleistocene and Recent Changes in the Relative Elevation of Land in Sea in South Carolina." Dr. Taber and Dr. Bennett F. Buie will conduct the field trip of the coastal plain region, and Dr. L. 1L. Smith and Thomas L. Kesler will lead the Piedmont field trip. ml banquet at the university Friday Ily Hughes. Top ro.am e Penlnd Stud (, May Queen USC Chapter To Host Blue Key Meeting The University of South Caro lina chapter of Blue Key, national honorary fraternity, will be host to the Southeastern Regional Blue Key Convention here on April 23 24, according to Bill Hawley, Blue Key president. Chapters from eleven schools will send delegates. They are Clemson, Furman, P. C., Wofford, Duke, North Carolina State, the University of North Carolina, Mercer, the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech. The convention, the first of its kind in the South, east of the Mississippi, will serve to bring about closer relations among Blue Key chapters in the Southeastern United States. The university chapter sponsored the convention plan. Beginning Friday afternoon, April 23, at 4 p.m., the meeting will end Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m. A banquet at the Market Restaurant Friday night from 7 to 9 p.m. will highlight the two-day affair. Maj. B. C. Riley, national executive officer of Blue Key. will be the guest speaker. Seven new members will be initiated at the banquet. Each school will p)articipate in the initia tions. To be initiatedl are ,Johnny Stokes of Darlington, Al Perry of Richford, Vt., Bob Gabriel of Co lumbia, John Sloan of Tampa, Fla., Bob Ellison of Montouirsville, Pa., Billy Hughes of Orangeburg, and Kim Penland of Jacksonville, Fla. The convention will begin with registration Friday afternoon in the Naval Armory, followed by the banquet that night. There wvill he a drop-in for all members follow ing the banquet. Panel discussions will begin Saturday at 9 a.m. and will con tinue until 3 p.m., with t ime outs for lunch andi coffee. Next year's Regional officers will be elected at the final discus sion. At that time Mr. Riley will deliver the farewell address. NOTICE Chief Itundrick has announced that there will be no parking after 7 a.m. on A pril 24 and May 1 ON the horseshoe or in front of the Administration Iuilding. The spacs will be reserved for visitors of Voca tional Guidance Day. Spaces also reserved are Zone C by the Field House, and the north side of the 1200 block of G reen Street. [ent Easter Holidays Begin Tomorrow Morning At Eight Easter holidays officially begin tomorrow, April 16, at 8:00 a.m. and %%ill end five days later Wednesday, April 21, at 8:00 a.m. This is to be the last official holiday of the spring term. Other important dates re miaining on the school's Calen dar of University Events are, of course, the semester examin itions which come between May 31 and June 5, the Baccalaurate Sermon which will be given on .June 6. and the semester will be terminated by the graduation exercises on Monday, June 7. Students Must Reserve Fall Rooms Soon Students mst make roomt reservations for the 1954 fall term from April 21 to May 15. the of fice of housing has announced. A deposit of $15 must be made to the trea,urer's office as a reservation fee. This reservation fee is not applied to the room rent. but is automatically transferred from year to year until the end of the period of residence. Then it is refunded provided the resident is iot indebted to the university for damage to his quarters or equip ment. After he has paid his deposit, the student inmust prlesenut his receipt at the office of housing, Room 100. Adminisitration building. A refund of $10 will be made provided notice of cancellation is received 30 days prior to the open ing of the semester fOm which the deposit was made. Law students desiring to reserve rooms on campus for summer school must pay the $15 reserva tion fee at the tireasure's office and present their ieceipts to the office (if housing. Peservations for law students will be made in Burney dorIiitory. Students who walt to reserve ,ooms on campus for Su1mme r school must pay a reservation fee of five dollars at the treasurer's office. They are requested to pay this fee as soon after April 21st as possible. Rooms for this ses sion will be filled in the order of reservations made. Cla riosophic Holds1 Forensic Contest Should South C'arolina outlaw the closed shop ? This was the quest ion deba ted at the annual Clarisophie D)ebate contest held recently. D)ebating the affirmative were Pat G;raysoin and Ernest Lathem. Pat WVol fe and .1 ohn Duffy sup 1)ort ed the negative. The decision was aiward(ed to the negative. Erine'st Lathem was awarded first place in the contest and will receive the annual debate medal. NEWLY ELECTED Student Bod: Field wa eetest in~ Pnefia nat we tody Berry, Tooi To Head '.5 Jack Field, junior from Ge body president in the run-offi Lourie of Columbia. He defea1 Field is the former vice-pr fraternity and is captain of th< tary of the Inter-Fraternity ( Parks To Be Presented At Public Speech Dr. Edd W. Parks, professor of English at the University of Geor gia and author of a number of books in the field of southern literature, will be presented in a public lecture on "Early Southern Humor" Friday, April 30, at 8 p.m. in the Law School auditorium by the Bain Humanities Society, Dr. John Welsh, president, an n1ounced today. Dr. Parks will speak on the writing> of Augustus B. Long street, one-time president of this university and author of "Georgia Scenes"; William Tappan Thomp son, author of "Major Jones' Court ship"; Joseph Glover Baldwin, author of "Flush Times in Ala bama and Mississippi"; and other pioneer southern humorists who provided the basis for American realistic literature. ~ ..4 Dr. Edd W. Parks Author of "Segments of South ernf Thought" and editor of "Southern Poets," Dr. Parks re ceived his A.B. at Occidental Col lege. his M.A. at Harvard, and his Ph.D. at Vanderbilt. lHe has taught English at Van derbilt and Cumberland Universi ties, andi is now teaching at the University of Georgia. Dr. Parks was a visiting professor at Duke during the summers of 1936, 1938 and 1939. He was a visiting pro fessor of American Literature at the Univ'ersity of Brazil in f'649. He served as a cap)tain in Mili tary Intelligence, U. S. Army, from 1943-1946, and was awarded the Army Commendation Ribbon. President Jack Field is congratulai Hlead fle, Clark 4 Council )rgetown, was elected student last Friday, succeeding Izzy ed Glenn Bell of Columbia. esident of Phi Kappa Sigma Pistol team. He is also secre ,ouncil and assistant business manager of the Gamecock. "I appreciate the confidence placed in me by the students of Carolina and hope that I shall prove worthy of this confidence. A very capable student council has been elected. We hope to ac complish a lot during the coming year," Field said today. Gwen Tootle of Florence was elected student body secretary, and Don Clark of Columbia, treasurer. Joe Berry, Jr., also of Columbia, was unopposed for vice president. Cheerleader elected include: Judy Anderson, Peggy O'Neall, Gwen Tootle, RIankin Suber. John Altman, Elden Dye. and Sumner Waite. Zeb Andrews, who will be head cheerleader, was tiwv, on the first ballot. Senior class officers include: lill Todd, president; Dan Mc Intyre, vice-president; Sara Bull, secretary-treasurer; ant Esther LaBruce, historian. Junior class officers are: Tom Collins, president; Bill Weston, vice-president; Sally Ruff, sec retary-treasurer; and Dave Mer line historian. Sophomore President Virgil Duffie and historian Peggy Skel ton were elected on the first bal lot. Lawrence Curry was chosen vice-president and Rankin Suber, historian, Friday. Only two student council places remained to be filled Friday. Joe Ryan was elected to council from business administration and Betsy Ehrhardt from journalism. 875 students voted in this elec tion. State High School Students to Attend Guidance Program High school students from all over the state will attend voca tional guidance days on the cam pus on April 24 and May 1. This year the program will be combined with the mental contests on those same dates. It will in clude conferences with faculty members of the various schools; exhibits and displays in the depart ments, laboratories, and libraries. Student guides will take interested groups to all parts of the campus. Student chairmen for the pro gram are Frank Boensch andl Gay Arthur. ed by outgoing president Issy Lo3Urie. In Pae...)