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1Ae GA 4Goc4 "Best College Newspaper in South Carolina" Member of the South Carolina Coslege Press Associat4ian Published Weekly by the Various Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina Terms-41.50 a Year Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter, at the Columbia, S.C. Postoffice on November 20, 1908 News Items may be handed in to all members of the staff NEWS STAFF W. J. THOMAS, JR. .Edior-in-Chief BRUCE W. WHITE Associate Editor W. A. BRUNSON .Associate Editor HAROLD H. HENTZ Nws Editor ED BALLENGER . .Sports Editor WHITNEY THARIN .Managing Editor ORA MAE JACKSON .Co Ed Editor 0. L. WARR "Y" Editor MARGUERITE JOHNSON . -ssociate Cio-Ed Editor H. W. LINK N Humor REPORTERS Kenneth Grimsley, Thomas Wofford, Sydney Heyman, Ted Surasky, Elizabeth Lindsay, Catherine Phillips, H. S. King, Abe Krawchech, Bob Ingram, E. W. LeGette, Ralph Lewis, Joseph Karesh. BUSINESS STAFF J. R.. . Manager M. C. WILLIAMS . . . . Circulation FRIDAY, JANUARY, 21, 1927 SPurs That game Tuesday night Cas one of the hardest losses Carolina has ever felt. It is to be hoped that all campus musicians will silence their inistrumcnts until after exams. Before these next two eeks arc past, each and every oMe of us will kovonly three words-Exam, Cram, D--I The Honor System is getting more than its share of discussion. Now is the time to prove that it is a success. South Carolina than any other state institution. - U. S.C. - Here's to You! With this issue of The Gamecock the prese staff ceases to exist and the newly elected staff takes up its duties. We take this opiortunity to thank the student body for the cooperation that it has given; and only ask for an iTcrase in the future. It is only with regret that we surrender this publication. to have becom attached to it and as Mro e as oe would be of his own offspring. We have given and sacrificed guch that Carolina's paper might be a success and the confidonce placed in us be not regretteet. To the new staff we offer our good will and promise our cooperation. We ictiars our confidence in your ability. May you maintain the trinciples orhich e have supjorted and feel the prile that has been ours. Yours is a great task which will require undividd atttion, labor and devo tion. We urge tie studeifit body to do the little things which will make the cork of the staff easicr. Repirt matters of interest. We urge every society, club, and oth organiza tion to report all activities. Ne also support the use of the Oeoumrgeas the students to taklite advange whic it for the exp)ression of .pinious. The Gamecock belongs to every studlent and alumnus of Carolina. -- U.s. C. -- Con gratulations--"P.C." It is with sincere regret for Caroiina that The Game cock learns of the appoin~tment of Prof. B. L. Parkinson of the University Extensioni Department to the Presidency of the Presb)yterian coliege of South Carolina. Th'le Uni versity will suiffer by the loss of such a great educator. Prof. Parkinson, though only iorty years old, has done outstandling work in the field of education. Th'le Extension and the University wvill find it a difficult task selecting a successor who can carry on the labors of Mr. Parkinson. Prof. Parkins<*l and P.C. have the congratulations of thec Caroiitna student body. Nothing more that we can say could b)e more complimentary to either thani the selection made. -- U. S. C. -- THE FORUM More Light on Fraternities D)ear Mr. Editor, Having had the pleasure of readling the editorial in last week's Gamecock on Fraternities, I am asking you toJ allowv me eoui'tgh space in your next issue to show you exactly where the author was wvrong in his opinioi; of Fraternal Organizations. It is very easy to see that the writer of your article is not a fraternity man and therefore not in a position to write the advantages or the disadvant ages of a fraternity. What you said about the a(lvants- a.-c all v.... true but you at-e entirely wrong about the disadvantages. Fra ternities do not tend to take the place of literary societies, debating clubs, and other literary organizations on the college campus. Statistics will very plainiy show that the majority of the men in the literary organizations are fra.. ternity men. Do you think for one minute that if a frater nity sees that one of their met% is a good debator that they will not encourage him in his best accomplishment. Why every fraternity is trying to get as many honors as they can and for this reason they will encourage men, to get out and compete for honors of all kinds. I guess that John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James K. Poik, Martin Van Buren, Franklin Pierce, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover ClevelaniA. Benja min Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, and Calvin Coolidge were pretty good debaters in coilege. Club houses are naturally more expensive than living on the campus and of course these exgenses have to oe met by the students, but your statement that "poor boys who are table to meet these requirements must therefore remain outside' 'is absoutely wrong. Fraternities are not a money making scheme seeking only the rich. What they seek are men, real metil who are going to work for the best. I have known boys in my own fraternity who could not afford to even pay their initiation fee, and not once were they ever asked for a nickel. Let me say ong thing in connection with your statement that living conditions are too good for the doing of passa bit: work. I am not in a position to say that all fraternities require this, but I know that lots of them do require state ments every month or two, with the list of the man and the grades he made, to be sent to headquarters to be check ed over. It is to this office that a man who is failing has to answer. And believe me, the authorities in this office don't fail to let you know when they are not satisfied. Do the clubs on this campus have a national organization backing them? A freshman that et4ters college makes more acquaint ances through fraternities than any other way. Every upperclassman is looking out for prospective members. They Wili put themselves out to meet the new men and entertain them. Boys will get a rush from several fraternities and will come to kqpw more older men through this way than he would perhaps know during the entire first year. Fraternities do back their men, but it is a reflexion on themselves to put a man in some office who is not fitted for the position. It is for this reason that a fraternity looks forward and trains a man for any pcsition that will mean honor to themselves. Fraternities a sa rule require every freshman to try out for either sonic kind of athletics, managership, or literary work. By doing this it gives the older men a chance to see what he is best fitted for and they will then help and encourage him int his line of activity. Don't you know that it is going to make any man work hard when he knows that twenty or thirty of his best friends are backing him. South Carolina law used to be recognized by almost every State in the union but we are the oilly state that forbids National Fraternities in our State Institutions. Are we narrow-minded or are the other forty-seven states _ of our country narrow-minded? - U. S.C. - THE WEEKLY ORACLE "Blind Dates" By BRUcE WHITE THE very BECAUSE she * * * * * * FIRSTr night WAS dlenied. 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