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Member of South Carolina College Press Association Published on Tuesday of Fvery Week by the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina. Subscription Rate-$1.50 a Year. Entered as second class mail matter at the Columbia, South Caro lina Postoffice on November 20, 1908. News articles may be contributed by any member of the stedeat 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 will be published in the Open Forum as submitted, with the name of the author signed STAFF JOHN MADISON YOUNGINER . Editor-in. Chief hARRY DEPASS. . ...., Managing Editor HAPOLD FUNDERBURKE . . . . Associate Editor EUGENE CARMICHAEL . . Associate Editor ASHLI.Y HAT.SEY Jit.. Associate Editor BILL DOUGLAS . . Associate Editor MAYRE WALL . . Associate Editor LEROY WANT . - News Editor O. D. BLACK....Sports Editor WILSON O. WELDON.Social Editor ROBERT H. ATKINSON.Alumni Editor J. R. ANDERSON . Editor JOHN WHITE . .. . . Joke Editor CO-ED EDITORS DOROTHY PENLAND... . . ,.... Editor VIRGINIA MULLER . ...... .. News Editor FOY STEVENSON . ..... Society Editor EMILY SUYDAM .... .... . . Feature Editor ROSALIE TURNER. ...... . Sports Editor ASSISTANTS WV. (7. Je ff,nrcls; .1. P. Petit; C. L.. Jones; .1 . 1. Krawchek; and Mitchell Morse. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT . JOSEPH C. HIOTT. ... . . Business Manager LAWSON SCOTT, BERT KARICK . . Assistants WILLIAM PARRISH Ci... .... Circulation Manager CARL BROWN, EVANS BROWN . . .. . Assistants TUESDAY; MARCH 12; 1928 Cutting Class is Fine The faculty of North Carolina State College has adopted a plan whereby it is hoped that the scholarship of the institution will be raised by requiring each stu dent who misses a class without an excuse to pay a fine of fifty cents. The plan also requires that all written work missed for any reason shall be made up or the student shall receive a zero. The fifty cents fee will be charged for make-ups unless the absence is excused by the dean of students. And the fee will be. doubled if the student fails to be present at the make-up hour. The Gamecock heartily agrees with the students of N. C. State College in their strenuous objection to the new system. ''here are sonic colleges in the countrv operated under the plan of voluntary class attendance. and the plan has been found to work very satisfactorily. It is the student's business whether he goes to class or not. alnI not the business of the profe.,sor. It is the busines, if the professor to teach, lecture, and present th, lessor,-and lie should be concerned only about cifec tice presentation. Class attendance is the business of the student, and if he i, absent-well aind good-that is the student's own lo's, gain, lookout, or what not. \Vhat des a student go to college for? If he wants an educa tion he will have enterpri.e enough to try and get it. t -lege is the wrong place for the inliction of child-like .lnent. And a police court is entirely out of the * H U.S.C. O)ne htmprovement calls for another-boys, wouldn" nt be a fine thing if Columbia College also had a tele phone exchange? Carolina Coaching .\ny visitor coming to watch the daily w ork-outs of the track mnen at the University of South Carolina would Iind( it dlifficuilt to (list inguishi thle coach from the squad in training. The coach irunls with his men: lie trains with thenm; laughs with them; and in this way tIhe coach not oniily gi es his menI ~ somtIlhling to work for. lbut t hey sooni -. learn that lie is as mutch initerestedl in their running as hey themselves are. Th'lis mode of coaching will bring re stdIts; t imc wvill tell thle story. T'he Unativersit y is indceedl fort itna te in securingc suchi an: able leader as Coach \'orno~'n. TIle fulftills se venal co ach - ing positiins Willh thle best of attenitiont to eacht of them. Prospects are bright fir Carolina on the einider path. ~U.s.C. The arrival of Sproig moakes the (Carliitampts on of the most beautiftul spots in the city of Coltumbia. V ari-coloredl flowers of variouis species amid their 'ative beds. lendIing a fresh fragrance to the air, create an atmnosphere that is not in accordance with books and Girls and Co-Eds We do not wish to make. a distinction between girls and co-eds-because the differenct: is too small. But, while on the subject we would like to distinguish that co-eds do as they please, and get away with it, while girls cannot. The co-eds at Carolina are, real sports. They are enlarging our school. Out of a student enroll ment of 1637 at the University, the co-eds constitute 595 of this number. They are playing a prominent role in the line of student activities. Carolina is proud of her co-eds. Taken as a whole, they are good-looking. They dress fashionably and sty lishly. They can wear overalls and carry an umbrella on a sunny day and we all think it is "cute". Some wear shorter dresses than others, and those who wear long one.s do it for their own sakes and not for the sake of their opposites. The Carolina co-eds also give the boys a race in class room work. The female, makes the higher scholastic average. When she studies, she studies only her books; but whe.n a boy studies, he studies about Juliet. If we would take our choice between girls and co-eds-give us back our co-eds. Griping Grouches Everybody dislikes a "griping grouch." There are certain people always going around griping about some thing. This class of people is never satisfied. They think they can do things better than anybody else. They are always finding fault. The only energy they ever exert is exerted by their tongues. They never speak to anybody in a friendly manner. In other words, they are just plain "griping grouches." And it would be a good thing if we could do a little sifting at the University of South Catolina. Instead of griping about something, the thing to do is "do it yourself" and do it better if you can. Things can never be made better by griping about mistakes al ready made. The only thing to do is to see what yon can do to make the situation better. U.s.c. Mixers and Book Worms 'l'he great crying need of the business world today i, the man who is a good mixer, and not the nian who has a Phi Beta Kappa key attached to his coat. A man m.y delve in books for a lifetiime, and never make a success. It takes a Imanii who is a mixer to make a success in the world. Hook knowlelge can be acqtired, nut if one is not born a good mixer, that person is at a great disad vantage. Personality is a great aid in mixing with peo ttle. It is essential to succeess. And we believe that the man with personality and the power to "mllix" is an answecr to the call of the business world as much as ed heation is. Co-Ed Follies I.ast week the ('o-ed Iol les r-i -ed from a three day enigagemnti at the Carolina Theatre at Charlotte. N. C. The G amcoc k wishes to praise this wvorthy or gaiziat ion of girl students at the University. This or ganiizaticon is well known thbroughiout theit State andl in niiany- places t hroughoui~t lie SouthI. Theiir short, snappy p)rograms~ of skits. dances, songs and jokes have never fai led to win thle a udiecec, Tisia stttleCoe F ollies is an ad vert isenient to thle University of South e rlia qa oaiva h1 cr fore nsic teamn that thle LUiversity' seiids out fromi its doors. The Follies are Planiiing to go abiroadl this~ snmier 'l'l deev'iil credlit and1( support. OPEN FOR UM| l'o thec F.ditor of Theli Gamecoc 0k Quite a niumnieir of the studenlts ha -i bee -'iin -g thout the irregular di1st ribut ion of t(an encompotlaun ribue inr altie p;it tfewv ie(ks it has niot been (lis trabmecck in all t.n ihi(bit' I \ery studenit pays for* the lii. (( c. s vh I tlii t hi i ceive a cOpy, T hb t f e el t ci r i i t -o ii g ei i r bein g a se iio r, n o tl'il't fes thant le cain shtmnk his duty as lie has very iteI liance for pr ot loln oni thle staif. W\e realIi, liiths tune is v'ery valuat ble but sinuce he hasi accep)ted' hsofce lie should per formi his (lit y to thle liest of his It is not our1 desire to entirely condi(emni thle circullat ion naiinage*r, but we (do thliink that t here shlould lie some co iperation among thle imemibers oif thle circulat ion sta ff' l-;achl of thle three has some anthlority over freshmien, so lyve it to them in detail andl let us have The Gamec ock. HI. M. Floyd. SYLVAN BROS. MERCHANTS JEWELERS AND DIAMOND Most complete stock of sterling silver prize cups in the Carolinas. Class rings and pins of the better kind, made up to suit your own ideas. Come in and let's get acquainted 1500 Main St. Columbia, S. C. R. C. 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