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Member of South Carolina College Press Association Published on Tuesday of Every Week by the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina. Subscription Rate-41.50 a Year. Entered as second class mail matter at the Columbia, South Carolina Postoffice on November 20, 1908. News articles may be contributed by any member of the student body, but must be in by Friday night before 'Iu.esday's publication. Contributors are requested to double-space typewrite copy. Articles may be published in the Open Forum, but will be printed as submitted. E DITO1UAL STAF1 J gss8 A. RUTLEDGE . . . Rd:tor-in-Chiel bYDNEY HEYMAN . . . Managing Editur BANNIE STEWART . . . Associate Editor JoSEPH KARESH . . . . Associate Eddtor HARRY L. HINGSON . . Associate Editor BOB SPARKS . . . . . Sports Editor BILL GAINES . . . . Feature Editor MAYRE WALL . . . Co-Ed Editor CALHOUN CLEMENT . . . Exchange Editor CURTIS BROCK . . . . Joke Editor ASSISTANTS Roy Gathings . . . . . Y.M.C.A. rOY STEVENSON . . . . . Co-Ed F. L. MAY . . . . . . Sports REPORTERS Harold r'underburk, J. Robert Anderson, Dorothy Pen land, Ann L. New, L. M. Want, and Roy Gathings BUS1NESS CTAFF JoSEPH HIoTT . . . . Business Manager LAWSON SCOTT - . . . . Assistant BERT KARICK . . . . . Assistant WILLIAM PARRISH . . Circulation Manager CARL BROW& . . . . . Assistant EVANS BROWN . . . . . Assistant TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1928 Student Tickets Recently the Athletic Association started on a drive to stop the loaning of athletic tickets by the students. Even though there has always been a rule against the \use of student tickets by outsiders, it has not always been rigidly enforced. It is not so much the idea of breaking rules of the University or the confiscation of tickets which should keep the students from loaning them, but such an action on the part of any one should be considered as disloyal ty to this institution. It is nothing less than taking funds from the treasury and putting them in the hands of some "would-be" sport. Nevertheless, we cannot always blame those who borrow the tickets. Usually they have the idea that the tickets have been fully paid for and if they are not used, will be only a loss on the part of the students because they did not attend the game. They do not realize that only three dollars of the ten paid to the UTniversity for the student activities fee, go to the .Athletic Association. To see a game on a reguular ticket would cost on the average of $2.20, or neartly .as much as the Association receives for one stuuc.ent ticket. This shows how great a bargain a student gets in seeing a game at student rates. Then is it fair to the Association, after it allows stu dents this advantage, to violate its rules in this way? The H-onor Principle should govern the action of every one in this case as much as it dloes in the class roorn. Do not let sonme friend h)e emb)arrassedl by being -driven from the gate of the athletic field and with the forfeiture of your ticket, just to save him a few dollars. TIo help him in this wvay is nothing less than stealing from the treasury of the University of South Carolina. Please! *Smece the opening of the University this year, there has been quite an effort made to prohibit students from walking on the recently planted portions of the campus lawn. In various places small signs of "please" have been conspiciously erected, in order that pedestrians ;will either make a detour around the sections designat 'ed, or, possibly "bump" into them with their lower ex trenhities before taking notice. It is not to be contended that this should not be done. Proper protection should be given these small portions of the lawn which are situated in the "busi ness" sections of the campus, such as around the post office. If necessary they should be enclosed with steel piping, or some contrivance. For the benefit of those ,that so care we must protect and beautify the campus .and force those that are less intelligent to abide by the 'rule of common sense. ? Th'Lnkrng all these things into consideration, it can not be understood who those in authority will allow the ,playing of football on the lawns of the campus. This does not apply to the main campus, but to Gibbes Green, which seems gradually to be growing into an athletic field, rather than into a landscape garden which is 6uderstood to be its final goal. The very fact that football scrimmages are held on the prized section of the campus is not, so surprising, but it becomes more surprising when it is learned that it is not so much University students that hold their practices here, but .the street urchins and town students of Columbia. They yell and scr'eam, disturbing those that are in class, damage the grass that will later result in an ac cusation made against University students, and in no way do they bring blessings to the campus. It does seem that such practice could be prohibited by campus authorities. Use OPEN FORUM To the Editor of The Gamecock: The affirmative side of the question of Open Politics has been discussed several times but it seems to no avail. It appears to me that every broad-minded stu dent should be interested in this vital question but they do not seem to be. At present we are confronted with an acute situation. The question is simply this: Is the entire student body going to stand by totally uninter ested and let a handful of unscruplous men direct and control politics? It is true that there is a group trying to run things their way not because they are interested in Carolina and wish to elect the best man to the office but because they are prejudiced against certain organizations on the campus and when a man from or in sympathy (as the "brains" of this group termed it) with these organiza tions is expected by this "unorganized organization" to be a candidate, they under cover and secretly get to gether and pledge themselves to vote for anyone who will pledge to stick by them and help them run all elections on the campus. The big man of this organization, their "brains," made statements to the effect that he was going to con trol politics in the future as he has in the past few elections and that if necessary he would use any kind of propaganda to carry out his purpose. He and his .followers have been resorting to above mentioned tactics and have made some very erreronous and unfair state ments about men and organizations on the campus. Any one who will stoop to such tactics, just for the purpose of defeating a candidate because he belongs to certain fratergities on the campus, is a detriment to Carolina sand its high purposes and ideals and we do not need him here. Tt it not necessary for me to mention the name or names of the people to whomi I refer for most of you already know who they arc. The question is: are you going to be miisled by their unscruplous propaganda andl put the control of polit,ics in their hands by lending your support ? I do not say this because I am afraid they are calpable to do such, for I know they are not even competent of putting into real practice the theory of Machiav'allian's unscrupulous and treacherous politi cal trickery. Thley try to practice this theory but I do not hel'eve they possess the brain power, or even know wvhat it is all ab)out. Therefore, personally, I am not afraid of their success and it is not fear that prompts .me to write this, but knowing they want publicity I make th's attempt to satisfy their desires I hereby, challenge "them" to prove some of the statements they have made among students. They know the propagandla they have been spreading is untrue and the v'ery fact that they are afraid to come out in the open is proof enough. If you do not possess manhood and moral courage enough to publically express or else .prove the things you have been so indiscreet as to tell numerous students to further your own infamous Machiavellian schemes, then please have enough respect for Carolina to get out and stay out I If you are in doubt as to whether this is directed towardl you or not, don't worry, because the parties to whom it is directed can have no doubt about the ques tion. The "unorganized organization" to which I have referred is not any fraternity or any campus or any SYLVAN BROS. 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