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fAe GA4ccc "Best College Newspaper in South Carolina" Member of South Carolina College Press Association Published Weekly by the Various Literary Societies Terms--$1.50 a Year Entered at the Columbia, South Carolina Postoffice on November 20, 1908, as Second-Class Mail Matter NEWS STAFF ISADORE POLIER .....................Editor-in-Chief W. LEE CROCKER ..................Managing Editor W. O. VARN .........................News Editor FaSD MINSHALL .....................Sports Editor MIss ELLtN HOUGH .................Co-Ed Editor JIMMY BALDWIN ...................Feature Editor REPORTERS Thomas Wofford, W. J. Thomas, James Hearon, Harold Hentz, A. W. Holler, Robert Ingram, E. R. King, J. L. Murden, W. A. Brunson, Elizabeth Hardy Catherine Phillips, Elizabeth Lindsday, Ora Jackson. NEws ITEMS may be handed in to members of the staff, or phoned to editorial rooms at 907 South Main Street, Phone number 4109, between the hours of 3 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, and 10 to 11 a,m. or 2:30 to 5 p.m. on Thursdays. BUSINESS STAFF C. W . SCOTT ..............................M anager J. R. PATE ...............................Assistant R. B. HILDEBRAND ......................Assistant SAM READY ..........................,Circulation FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1926 Gamecock Spurs Too much Nicotine is bad for the system, even the basketball team. Perhaps the ignorance revealed in the maiden speeches of some senators can be explained as femi nine modesty. * * * With the campus and state politicians budding can Spring be far behind? * * * Daily Dozens have gone out since the Charleston came in. * ** With the approach of exams both Hank and Percy will begin to burn the mid-night oil. * ** Evidently none of the city papers sent a reporter to "cover" Artists and Modeis. * * * Trotsky is back in the Soviet saddle. He's a better horseman than the Prince of Wales. Discovered-the world's greatest bull-session: Con gress convenes. - U.S.C. - H arken, Ye Solons Now that the State Legislature is in session, we can begin hoping that' some considleration will be given to the needl of an adequate University library. In a series of editorials The Gamecock has pointed out the limitations of the present library facilites and howv these dleficiencies cripple the functioning of the University of the State of South Carolina. \Vith the growth of the school, the p)resent space cannot provide reading room for the men and women using the library. In the crowded condition study is hampered, if not made impossible. No room is available for a large portion of the material already in the library. T1his material is as essential as the class rooms and the faculty hut it can not h)e properly filed or accessionedl. In plain wvords the State L.egislature has given us some of the mate rial needed in the work of the University but has not mlade it Ipossible for the students to utilize it. An overwvorked and inadequate number of persons are employedl to serve 1300 s 'tudenits and their ser vices can not be expectedl to b)e satisfactory. Indexing andl nilg are held up for lack of man-power and space. The entire plant is exposed to the risk of sudden and irreparable loss by fire. There are housed in a non-fireproof building the very life parts of the University. Fire would des 'roy a year's work for the University and the books could not b)e replaced even at a staggering sum. 'ro summarize : The legislature of the state has provided the state University with materials but has not provided adequate means for utilizing these materials; and lays open to sudden and almost com plete loss this investment of the people of South Car olina. This condition should be realized and remedied at once. Unwelcome Compulsion Through the efforts of college editors the question of compulsory chapel a:tendance has been given an important place in the collegiate sun. City news papers have noted the "awakening" of students and their protests against arbitratry administrative action. But in those papers that have attached a great deal of significance upon the phenomenon, few if any have sought to discover the cause. The causes are pertinent to the University of South Carolina for the same reason that they are timely matters, not for sensationalism, but for intelligent observation on other campuses. As a rule the reader off-campus comes to the conciusion that he is wi iessing merely another outburst of an over pampered set of young animals; and with that opinion he is likely to dismiss the matter. This attitude of Mr. Ordinary Citizen might be a true analysis of the students' minds-but only in the most superficial man ner. To understand the unconscious preparation and response within the minds of college men and women we must search out the principles of social groups for a chapel gathering is a social group. Four or five hundred students are brought togeth er at ten-thirty each morning (excepting Saturday and Sunday). They are brought together not by some common attraction, as is the naturai motivating force of a group, but by the orders of a distinct and separate group of individuals-the adminis'rators of the University. Individual desires are not converted into a common cause: not directed by impressive and interesting programs into a feeling of such commt: nity of interests, as might be termed unity. Before fur her explaining the conditioning of an antagonistic attitude toward compulsory chapel at tendance we should examine this apparent failure to convert individual drives into a group feeling. The majority of the students walk into the chapel with their minds concerned with other things. These mental processes continue undisturbed through th2 chapel period and are satisfied as soon as the meeting is adjourned. Consequently, the only effect of the services is to impress the student with the fact that his life is arbitrarily directed for a half hour; and it is natural that he object. Upon finding that other students share similar opinions, his own convictions of the injustice of the procedure is stimulated and strengthened. The result is a student body opinion at the poles with the ideas of the administration. Since the processes of the student mind are nat ural and inevitable the fault iies with the administra tion: it must privide service which intrest the stu ents, and interest them ina manner that will relegate other matters to another part of the day. The ad ministrators must be conscious of this need and in telligently seek to satisfy it. We must be honesi n admitting that students, and for that matter the faculty, do not derive the all compelling drive from a hurried or lengthened but uninteresting devotional exercises. Unless the indi vidual is appealed to, the individual is not concerned with what is going on. To seek to impose an attitude upon him is as illogical and worthless as compulsory at.'ndance upon church services. Men and women go to church because they are impelled by a common (and wholly natural) drive. In the scientific light the chapel exercises are a laboratory for the student of group actions. To him the s:-udent body reaction to compulsory attendance edicts would be neithtr a mystery nor an unhealthy sign-it would be unexplainable if it were otherwis.. The scientist would point out the need of adding other a:tractions and therefore group-forming fea tures. He would point out that experiment with choral singing, band and orchestra programs have produced the desired effects. And in less complimen tary manner he would add that :hese adaptations have h)a accidlental rather than planned--have been too irregular to build up a new altitude toward chapel exerci ses. Fromi these facts lie wvould advance the conclusion that the compulsory feature would not lbe tneedled if such implellinig and attractive features were offered to counteract individual dlrives-or more correctly3 toi direct thenm. Upon this need of itntel igent dlirection of chapel exercises depends the imptlortant item of formulating a studen' body unity and consciousness of unity that will keep a university of 1300 men anid women a sensible and "alive" group. Power to those upon whom thle results depend. -- u.s.c. - Tradition Explodes What has become of the Southern gentlemen long stung of in hallad and song--we wonder. In the b)as. ketball game with D)uke Monday night a host (,i Columbia College girls stood up (luring the entire performance because tIhe men hadn't b)reedling enough to offer their places in the bleachers. In the crowded condition of the gymnasiuim this condlition might have gone unnoticed but is none the less utngentlematnly. This accusation falls upon the townspeople as well as the University students but it is for uts to criticize the students. There is of couirse no reason why a man should surrender his place to a woman it's just (lone ini this part of :he country. We shall not recall any high-soutnding tradlitionis that have b)een handed dlown by generation to generation of Southerners. Tlhe entire ma'ter reflects home train ing, and that can not b)e changed by editorial com ment ; b)ut we can comment on thle adoptioni of ant attitud(e '-oward wvomen common in other parts of the coutntry--andl we could easily suggest more desirable Criticizing Criticism Considerable discussion has been evoked among so ciety and non-society members by the letter published in The Forum of last Friday. For the most part the criticism aimed at the article is the customary rebuke administered to any student who dares to dispute the existing order of things. When pinned down the men who found the article objectionable were forced to admit the logic of the charge that literary socities have become crys:allized and are being supplanted by clubs with more limited scope of activities. In this very statement that is so obviously true lies the justi fica:ion for literary societies-a fact overlooked by both the writer of the letter and trose who disagreed with him. Granted that on the campus of the University there are a dozen clubs performing the functions once per formed by the literary societies, how would the author of the letter offer a way for a man or woman to attend all of the clubs; it is impossible. The unfortu nate incidence of preparation for half a dozen classes interferes with any ravenous appetite for club activity. While the literary societies do not offer the most intense study of any particular phase of literatur't, history, or any other subject taught in the class room, they do give their members a perspective of these subjects. They train men to think in a group and to be conscious of their ability to think in a group. The1 they offer the opportuni:y for development of public speaking, not only on the platform -but also in every day affairs. The indictment that the literary societies are poli tical stamping grounds might be counted as offering political science from the practical s'andpoint. This remark is not entirely facetious: the parliamentary practice and experiences can not be obtained through any other organization. They are a vital part of the literary society and a part of the rounding off process of a college education. Only a small propoi-tion of the student body is fitted for or bent toward the specialization offered by the different clubs-at least their interests do not coincide. The literary society in a large measure furnishes non-specialized individuals with a satis factory combination, and offers other features to members of any specific club. The sooner the literary societies realize that they have other reasons for existence than the contin uance of an eloquent histryy, the sooner these con scientious objectors will be silenced; and the sooner wili they attract more members and have be'ter meet. ings. 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