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Gier (!amerwrk Member of South Carolina College Press Association Published on Tuesday of Every Week by the :,iterarry Societies of the University of South Carolina. Subscription Rate-$1.50 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 Tuesday's publication. Hand in copy typewritten and double-spaced. Names must be signed to copy. Articles may be published in the Open Forum, but will be printed as submitted EDITORIAL STAFF JEssE A. RUTLEDGE . . . Lidtor-in-Chic/ SYDNEY HEYMAN . . . Managing Editor BOX SPARKS . . . . . Associate Edator BANNIE STEWART . . . Associate Editor HARRY L. HINGSON . . . Associate Editor F. L. MAY . . . .,ports Editor il.L GAINES . . . . Feature Editor MAYRE WAL. . . . . Co-Ed Editor CURTIS lRoc . . . . Joke Editaor A U..v HALSEY . . Exchange Editor ASSISTANTS Roy Gathings . . Y.M.C.A. koy STEVENSON - - - . Co-Ed O. D. BLACK . Sports REPORTERS Elizabeth Marshall, William Broughton, Ashley Halsey, J. Robert Anderson, Dorothy Penland, Ann L. New; L. M. Want; J ames \V. Pitts. BUSINESS STAFF JosEPi hOi T . . . . us:ness Manage LAWSON ScOTT . . . . . Assistant BERT KARICK . . . . Assistant WILLIAM PARRISH . . Circulation Mianagr CAR. BROWN . . . Assistant EVANS BROWN . . . . . Assistant TUESDAY; JANUARY 15, 1928 Pointed Paragraphics Democracy seems to have made the country safe for the Republicans. Pedestrians will begin to fill the hospitals, now that Leap Year is over. -use Pushing Football! Dragging-? As is true of most educational institutions, the athletic department of this University has been especially pro gressive during recent years. This is probably due to the rather excessive competition that has been so preva lent between various colleges of America. A good athle. tic department is credited with giving more and cheapei advertising to educational institutions than any othei possible means. Th Physical Education department, which is nothing less than a tangible part of the athletic division, has been somewhat neglected in comparison to the development of the latter. When an institution is as old as this one, it is almost astounding to think that is is without a swim ming pool. Some institutions even require that every student be able to swim before graduating,.a positive proof that many educators are of the opinion that it in a piecessary part of the knowledge thoroughly educated person. The present physical education director is to be con' mended for his attempts to organize a swimming team and for his efforts to substitue for lack of equipment a. well as he can. However, he cannot be expected create very m\rch interest in the new organization until the University is equipped with a swimming pool and does not have to depend on the hospitality of the publi Swimming is the leading diversion of many people Young men from the ages of seventeen to twenty-two, the typical college period of most students, probably lead a. a special class who most enjoy this kind of exercise Before this University can ever expect to have . first class Physical Educational department and to meet the competition of other institutions, it will be necessary that it be equipped with an up-to-date swimming pool No Smoking! Among the first rules that an athlete must learn when going Into training is that he must not smoke. Vetv -restriction, because it has long been known that nicotue is injurious to the lungs. At either end of the Field House, back of the basket ball goals, are large signs bearing the words "No Smok ing." Evidently a large number of those who attend the indoor games do not see these signs and if they do, prob. ably take them as mere decorations for the wall. At the recent bpxing tournament spectators were heard to remark that the hall was so filled with smoke :hat they were s,trprised at the endurance of the conte" tants. What do the visiting teams think when students are 9o disrespectful to them? It is the duty of any student body to show their hospitality in every way possible or at least be courteous to visitors. One of the main argu ments for athletics is that they advertise the college. It -s obvious that no institution is anxious to have unfavor iole publicity. U.S.C. Hibernating Why is it that basketball does not stimulate the in terest of college students and the public in general, as much as football? Some say that it is because basketball is a far inferior game, less scientific, etc.., that its pig skin competitor. Others content that they do not like in door sports because they aren't as colorful as the out door variety. Still this explanation is not satisfactory, since baseball, an outdoor sport; once the favorite of the fans has also lost its place and is gradually being pushed behind the screen and abandoned by all but the profes sionals. Fortunately, however each sport has its season and at present basketball must; of necessity, be the choice of the fans. If lack of color is its greatest defect, why it is not possible to partly correct this shortcoming? With the necessity of competing with other colleges and w'i versities nothing is left undone to make football the greatest game possible. When new equipment is needed it is only necessary to ask for it. The music furnished by the band undoubtedly adds more attraction f',r the huge crowds that attend the games, than any other feature. The cheering by oppost ing student bodies led by the cheerleaders of each sides, is an attraction classed along with the music. Since the music is such an important feature is there any reason why it should not also be a feature of basket ball gan es? The band no longer tends to serve the stu dent body, but seems to have become an organization for the exclusive use of the "Football Department," (which in itself is slowly becoming more and more commer cialized. Give one-third the effort that is given to make foot ball the game that it is, to basketball and there will be n two-third increase in the attendance of fans. OPEN FOR UM To the Editor of The Gamecock: Placed in the middle of the campus the University canteen is a convenience without which student life would not be so complete. The future light of the state scurrying from one recitation to another is some times thus provided with breakfast on the hop or can perhaps fulfill his desires for paper or other incidentals. The canteen has become an institution run by and for student support. Loyal Carolinians could with it naught but success. While wishing its success no student who trades there very frequently can be entirely ignorant of the canteen's defects. These faults, being merely in the manner of serving the student body, can be easily remedied. At certain times of the day, especially at nine in the morning there is a riush of business which one clerk, be he ever so experienced and alert, cannot serve. A crowd two or three deep stands by the counter for minutes on end waiting to secure its orders. It is a situation to test the mettle of the best of clerks. To make a bad situation even worse, the slowest of the sev eral comprising the canteen group sometimes work dur ing the busiest hours. 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