Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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JeGA4COCJC "BEsT COLLEGE NEWSPAPER IN SOUTH CAROLINA" Member of the South Carolina College 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 South Carolina Postoffice on November 20, 1908 NEws ITEMS may he handed in to any member of the staff EDITORIAL STAFF BRUCE W HrrE . Editor-in-Chief BURTON S1100K Managing Editor En. BALLENGER Associate Editor SYDNEY HEYMAN Associate Editor JoSEPH KARESI Associate Editor BARRON ilIDGEs Associate Editor ERSKINE LIsGETT . Sports Editor HARRY L. HINGSON....... . . Feature iditor CURTIS BROCK . Joke Editor MAYRE WALL. . . Co-Ed Editor ASSISTANTS BANNIE STEWART . . Sports SURA WOLE . . . Co-Ed JEssE RUT.ED,E . Y.M.C.A. REPORTERS Harold Funderburke, Eugene Carmichael. Foy Stephenson, Gertrude R'gby, Kenneth Grimsley. BUSINESS STAFF JASPER I)ERRICK . . Business Afanjer JosEPZ HioTT . . . . . Assistant HENRY WALKER . . . . Assistant WI.LIAM PARRISI . . . Assis.ant JACK BATES . . . . Circulation Manager C. L. ScoTT . . . . . Assistant FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1928 Registration As the end of the present school year approaches, thoughts of next term come into mind. Everyone who has registered at Carolina in September carries a never to-he forgotten picture of the registration rush and ex citement. What a jam at the gym door! Remember how you stood in one line an hour, and about fifty minutes in an other line only to learn that lunch hour or quitting time had arrived? Do you remember how you signed up for several courses under teachers you didn't like or who were unknown to you, because other sections were crowded> And do you remember how you signed up for "crip" courses upon the advice of "friends" which later caused you pains of regret? The evils of the annual registration rush could be done away with if students were required to register before leaving school the previous June. At least temporary selection of course could b)e made at that time, wvhich would become permanent for the majority of students. Registration could be made during open clays of the examination period. Thus the student body wvould have two weeks to register and carefully select their courses instead of two days. Trhis would permit discussion of the course with professors, which would give each student an exact knowledge of the courses he will follow next year. This wouild give time for careful selection of schedule.s and the avoidance of conflicts. Freshmnen andl newv students should be compelled to rep)ort at Carolina, under penalty of fine for late regis tration, several days in advance of the rest of the stu dent body. Th'ley could be taught how to register, and learn wvhat courses are offered, as well as make the ac quaintance of the faculty. They could b)e taught the Honor System and other ideals and knowledge of Caro lina at this time. Another advantage of .June registration b)y the upper. classnmen is that the university authorities would have a more exact idea of the nm.ber of students who will at tend the following year, and also the courses they want to take, and plans and schedules made to acconmmodlate them could be made more easily. A late registration f'ee Wrould .insure that most of the student body would ~file .temp.orary -schedules in -Jun.. How about it, facutyv? Recreation House Many new buildings are needed at the University of South Carolina. Among those needed the most are a chapel and administration building large enough to seat the entire students body, a swimming pool, new woman's dormitory, new journalism building, other class-room buildings, and a students' recreational building. Of all these buildings, a students activity or recreation al building is needed the most. At the present time, over a third of the students at the University live out in the city of Columbia. There is no place at the Uni versity for their use. They have no place to study or rest, unless they go to the library or to dormitory stu dents' rooms, which are already overcrowded. Flynn hall is so hopelessly inadequate that it is negligible. \Vhen men dormitory students have women visitor:;, they have no place to entertain them. Unlike the wo man's building, the men's dormitories have no parlors. Vhen mothers, sisters, or lady friends visit the Univer sity. they have to be entertained out in town. When alumni return to Carolina for visits, there is no place for their entertainment. Thus there is a tendency for alumni to become estranged from the r Alma Mater. There are few recreational facilities at the University. When students finish studying, they have no place where they can go to relax, unless they make a trip down town to the pool halls or to movie houses and when students are broke, which is not infrequent, even these forms of questionable entertainment are out of the question. Carolina needs a recreational building where all stu dents, including co-eds, can meet in a social way. There should be a radio and phonographs.of the finest make for dancing and entertainment. There should be dress ing rooms and lockers for both men and women town students, and clean pool tables and smoking rooms for the men. There should be tables for card playing anl an adequate swimming pool. Clean recreation is essential for effective school work. At present there are few recreational opportunities at the University, and let us hope the next building to be erected will be a recreational building. The Open Forum (The editor has refrained from correcting several obvious errors in the following letter in the fear that it might detract from its vehemence. It is printed exactly as turned in.) To The Editor of The Gamecock: It goes without saying that one of the greatest evils on our campus is unauthorized proclamations made by jealous politicians in the columns of the "Game Cock" wholly without com.phrehension. In last week's "Game Cock" on of these blasphe misers very grodiloquently ploced the cognomen of "Dictator" upon the presidlent of the student body, be cause he used the authority vested in him to uphold the constitution of the University of South Carolina. If this bombastic criterion would spend a few moments reading the constitution he will discover to his amaze ment that one of the requisites for the president of the student body is that the candidates have approximately oneC hundredl andl twvo semester credits. As I see it, it was merely the endeavors of the Presi dent to enfore this regulation, which wvas his duty and one which lie could not have avoided if he had wished to. If we are go:ng to have a constitution, why not abide by it ? Or shall we be governed by a motly, jeerinig c'rowd, whV'ose leader is none other than that "Grave and August" lawv senior whose oratory--which his followers cannot understand-is secondl only to that of D)emosthenes. Although the majority of the student body is silent,. it is obvious tha' a plurality are manifesting a spirit of adhmiration for the actions taken by the president. ....R............V........ 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