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"Best College Newspaper in.SowthI Carolina" Member 9f the South Carolina Collge Press Association Published Weekly by the Various Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina Terms-$1.50 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 EDITORIAL STAFF HAROLD H. HENTZ Editor-in-Chief BaUc WHITE . . Associate dior BURTON SHooK . . Associate Editor ED BALLENGER .Sorts Editor MARGUERITE JOHNSON Co-ed Editor WMUAm A. BauNsoN . . Managing Editor A SSISTANTS E. CAaR. THoMPSON . . . . - - Clubs KENNETH GRiMSLEY . . . . . Y.M.C.A. DOUGLAS JETER . . . . . Faculty JosEPH KARYEsH . . . Forensic WHITNEY THARIN . . . . - Features ARTHUR MEDLoCK . . . . . Exchanges MARY SAYS . . . Y.W.C.A. SYDNEY HEYMAN . . . . City News ERSKINE LEGETTE . . . . . . Sports H. W LINK . . . - - - - Humor REPORTERS Jack Hamilton, Ralph Lewis, James Pitth, Thomas Wofford, Gladys Lawton, Elizabeth Lindsay, Mayre Wall, Ray God shall, Elizabeth Hardy. W. B. Moore, Sura Wolff, Dixie Davis, Gene Carmichael BUSINESS STAFF JoHN R, PATE . . . . Business Manager JASPEAR 0. Doutici . . . . Assstant M. C. WHI.IAMS . Circulation Manager SYDNEY HEYMA1N . . . . Assistan: SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1927 Omicron Delta Kappa The last twenty years have seen a remarkable growth in the part which extra-curricular activities play in the life of the American college. Today, athletic and non-athletic activities are almost as important in the training and development of the average college student as scholarship itself, and in fact actually appear sometimes to overbalance scholarshiR in importance, which they should not be permitted to do. The college has practically a replica of the business world upon its campus in the many and varied activities which it supports, and in striving for these activities in the athletic, editorial or admuistrative field, the student learns much that is invaluable to him in his work after graduation. The value of these activities is now generally recognized both by the students and the alumni and the faculty; and in the majority of colleges extra-curricular activities are regarded with favor and encouraged as a supplement to strict classroom learning. As a result more and more students are striving for success in this line, fand such success is much coveted. This change in the trend of modern education has given birth to a number of honorary fraternities, all. patterned to a more or less extent after Phi Beta Kappa, and each one catering to one particular class or division of under graduate or graduate life. A number of these societies have the encouragement of scholarship in certain lines as their object, still others are devoted to the promotion of interest in definite phases of extra-curricular activities, such as journalism, athletics, debating, and literature. These organizations perfobm a useful service as far as they go, but they fail to satisfy the rapidly growing demand fosr a fraternity, membership in which wvill be significant of cam pus ieadership as such, regardless of the line of activity in which the leadership is shown. The Omicron Delta Kappa fraternity was organized for just this nurpose. The members are selected from the recognized leaders on the campus in the following five classifications: scholarship, athletics, social leadership, in cluding conspicuous service to the institution, non-sthnletic activities, other than publications, and publications. With the installation of a circle of the Omicron Delta Kappa fraternity on the campus of the University of South Carolina, the leaders, in every phase of University campus life, have been fittingly recognized. - U. B. C. - T radition vs. Democracy How long will the student body of the University of South Carolina continue to labor under the traditions that have been handed down from those who preceded us as forefathers of the University? Traditions, when demo chatic and honored are among the greatest things that aniy university or college might uphold but when tradi tions become out-of-date and antiquated it is time that they should be laid aside and something better be adopt ed in their place. The one trad:tion that The Gamecock wishes to place among the list of college or university antiquities is the control of campus publications by the literary societies of the campus. The time has come when literary socie ties still have their place but their 151ace is more con stricted than it was at'one time. It is time that every student who helps finance The Gasw6cock and Carolinian should be allowed a sa" so in newspaper. The University campus should be, above all things, democratic. Every student should have some say so as to how his alma mater shall be run. It is the priv ilege and duty to vote for the man who he thinks best fitted to edit the papers for which he pays his money each term. . Every student at the University of' South Carolina pays, each term, ten dollars as a student activity fee. A part of this fee goes to the financing of the three campus publications: The Gamecock, the Garnet and Black, and The Carolinian. Since he pays his money partly for these three important things on the campus why should he not, as well as the members of the literary societies, be allowed some say so as to who shall publish these for him? At present the Garnet and Black is in the hands of the student body, a democratic and decent system of vot ing and nomination is-carried on. But on the other hand, there are two publications that are still bound by tra ditions and must be handled exclusively by the literary societies on the campus. It is time that those students who do not see fit to become a..liated with literary society rise up and speak for themselves and request that they be given a right to say who shall edit their papers. Even with the present system of their being run by the literary societies the selection is not democratic within itself. There are two co-ed literary societies. Why should they not have some say so as to what should be done concerning The Gamecock? At present they have absolutely no right to say a thing about who shall edit their papers. The one logical way of selecting the editors for the publications on the University campus is in the following manner: First of all, have the elections by secret ballot so that each man may avoid the embarrassment of hav ing to stand in a student body meeting and let every .man know for whom he is casting his vote. Quite often a man is compelled to vote for some friend of his merely because he is a friend, at the same time feeling sure that some other man will make a better editor. Second, there should be a committee, composed of the retiring editor and associate editors, and of the members of the faculty of the school of Journalism, who should nominate the men to be selected by the student body. These men should have the right to make the nominations because they know who has worked on the publications and wha is capable of handling the paper. When nominations are made for the editors of The Carolinian the faculty members to serve on the committee may be members of the department of English inste'ad of members of the journalism faculty. When the student body changes the present system of electing editors for the publications on the campus it can call itself democratic but until this is done Carolina will continue to be a place where the few are in power. Who will make this change? It is hardly probable that the literary societies will vote to take the control out of their hands so it is left to the other students on the cam pus. Ask for your rights, non-society members, and there can be no reason why you should not and will not get them. -U.s.c. Move the Dorm or the Barn? Again The Gamecock wishes to say a word about the flies that continue to annoy the students all over the campus while they are trying to study, to sleep, to eat, or what not. Flies, flies, fliesl Every class room on the campus is infested with them. Sinre the first days of spring there has been a swarm which has continued to buzz around a certain classroom in the Extension build ing. Not only are sthdents infested with the flies in the classrooms, they also have the pleasnre of malking to meals, three times per day, by the place where the pests breed. It is no riddle, p)uzzle, or conundrum as to the origin of the pests that have been handed down to us since the time of the wicked Pharoah. There is a zoo on the cam pus where all sorts of animals are bred and cared for: chickens, horses, and cows. These hover under and arouind a little green barn just west of Burney college. Besidles this little green, barn there is also a dilapidated cow stall in the back yard of one of the tenders of these animals. It is in these places that the vomints are bred by the thousands. The dairy, poultry, and horse farm on the campus af fords a pleasant, spectacle and appetizer for those stu dents who are compelled to eat at "Stewards Hall" on account of the convenience of meal hours and on account of the fact that they cannot afford to eat at some of the more expensive boarding houses that suirround the cam pus. The odor makes everyone feel more like eating, especially when one combines it with thme pleasing scene to be held on the way to the mess hall. The city oT Columbia does not allow the keeping of animals within the city limits. Yet, because of the Uni versity's being a thing not controlled by the city, the students must be' infested with flies night and day and with the miserable surroundings of a barnyard, its ani mals, and all the other unpleasant things that go with it. It is outrageous that students at the University of South Carolina must be exposed to the most deadly of disease carriers, the common house-fly. The idea of building a barn, where animals are to be kept, on one side of a tennis court and a dormitory, where young men are to be kept, on the other. WVhat will the women rooming in Burney college dur ing Summer School think? How will they rest in peace in unscreened rooms where flies are bred in profusion just outside the window and allowed to have full sway just inside the room? Why not mnake our Summer School an attractive and decent thing by removing the bannare, andt its nn;mals from teacampus? "The Huse of Q*a#Y Wilfred Cafeteria Established in 1844 The R. L. BRYAN ColumWs Newest a Most COMPANY Modem Eating Place Books, Stationery, Printing, Binding, Office Furniture "Give Us a Trial Boyi' and Specialties * Columbia, South CarMina 1324 Main St. Columbia, S. C. 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