Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Published on Friday of every week during the college year ' ' by the Literary Societies under the supervision of the Board of Publications of .the re University of South Carolina. gr Entered as second class mail matter at the Columbia, South Carolina, ' w postotfice on November 20, 1908. ?v'i'.. Member of South Carolina College Press Association. , m * J? News articles may be contributed by any member of the student body, but must be ^ in by Wednesday night before Friday's publication. All copy must be typewritten, ef double-spaced, and must be signed by the writer. Articles in the Open Forum will uj be published at the discretion of the Editor and in the order in which they are fc submitted, with the name of the author signed; ?c fUv , SUBSCRIPTION RATE?$1.50 PER COLLEGE YEAR th CIRCULATION?2100 COPIES hffy * a{ Advertising rates furnished upon request (j( . th Offices in the basement of the Extension Building t Gamecock office phone?8123, No. 11 A ft STAFF \ Wilson O. Weldon - - - Editor-in-Chief J. Mitchell Morse - -- -- -- - Managing Editor so - pt ASSOCIATE EDITORS N re Lewis H. Wallace - -- -- -- - Associate Editor sti LeRoy M. Want - -- -- -- -- Associate Editor Dorothy Penland > - - - - - Associate Editor Darice Jackson --------- Associate Editor G William I. Latham ------ Assistant Managing Editor John A. Giles - Assistant Managing Editor # . EDITORIAL STAFF - wi W. B. King - - -- -- -- -- - News Editor at1 Allen Rollins - -- -- -- -- - Sports Editor Ray Antley ---- - Alumni Editor I Mason Brunson, Jr. - -- -- -- - Exchange Editor J. C. DuPre - -- -- -- -- - Fraternity Editor or Robert Rogers - - - - - - - - - Y. M. C. A. Editor ]lc Assistants: Catherine RemlEy, Sanders Guignard. t Names of heelers do not appear in mast-head. ml CO-ED . Frances Black ------- - - - Co-Ed Editor fr< Lois Fischer - ------ - News Editor Ca Ethel Galloway - -- -- -- -- Feature Editor a|J Sarah Agnes Jackson - -- -- -- - Society Editor ^ BUSINESS fo W. C. Herbert - -- - - -- -- Business Manager ne Sam Taylor - - - - - - - - Assistant Manager W J. W. Brown Assistant Manager CIRCULATION n? J. Roy Prince - -- -- -- -- Circulation Manager an Lester Hamilton - -- -- -- - Assistant Manager sp Melton Gooostein - -- -- -- - Assistant Manager th Hugh Hamilton - -- -- -- -- Assistant Manager CROWING FOR: News Bureau?"It pays to advertise." # . Student Activity Building?Student Activities are actually suffering for lack tej of such. sli Student Mass Meetings, and Voluntary Chapel?"Eventually, why not now?" th Football Stadium?Large Universities could then be included on our schedule. Paved Sidewalks?Just think of meeting classes on a rainy day, and you, too, ca will be convinced of their need. n? FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1930 V\ ar whither studying spend more of their time in develop- oi ing their minds and bodies rather nc than let them remain idle by disuse, ar As one observes the practices of 'n dissipating to an extent that th the vast majority of college students, 1S harmful. Lets think it over, atjd bt he can readily see that the student see if we are not throwing away a jq is primarily not interested in study- ^9* time in idleness and in pas- as ing, in gaining knowledge. The av- *j]a* ar^ not beneficial. as erage student is thinking of other We hope that the day will never as things. Whether or not this is a good Pon}e when the pendulum swings ^ criticism, whether or not this is sym- "ack to the other extreme where bolical of an upward trend in his students dig their heads in books all |.Q thinking, cannot be said. Whatever ?ay anc' all night long in truth, ge it may be, let us take cognizance of hookworms ; but we do believe a few facts. that there is a happy medium ; we th ^ nee(' J "st a little more emphasis on Ihere can be no denial of the fact scholarship; on individual thinking, J1 that the ambition of most college an(j a ]jttle more time spent in study- .( " . students is merely to get by with jng ' d< the least possible effort. In fact, u s c - n; there are some few who consider it DfTDT T^Trpv C( bad to receive high marks, unless Jr U olul1 Y MORE they are undeserved, and unless they QJP jrp _ have succeeded in "putting one ' over" the professor. If this be the j case, then where is the student lend- With the ^passing of every week I ing his efforts, and where is he comes more clearly, evidence of the L spending his time ? Probably in tak- need of a news bureau here at Caroing part in student activities which lina. The Gamecock crowed all of cc take up a large amount of his time, last year for such a bureau, and it ti, such as athletics, dramatics, publica- is still crowing for some means of g( tions, literary societies, etc. But, con- giving our school its due publicity. tj, sidering the whole student-body here Almost every college or university q, at Carolina, only a small percentage of this size, and many that are al takes part in these activities. And smaller have made some provision nt just here is the reason for us not for sending out items for publication J having better football teams, better in newspapers. It has come to be C debating teams, and better publica- recognized that a college as much tions, because only a few do' the as any other institution or type of c work. The rest of the students sit organization needs to be put before , back and watch these few fight it the public eye. There are many out. Foreigners who have come to things that happen on a college cam- ' this country have indeed made a just pus ; many achievements that are c< criticism of America in saying that reached by its students and faculty n we are a nation of spectators rather which should be given to the outside R than players, world as information. And in the Then, if the majority are not ?/ this news bu~ ? spending their time along these lines, # lave ^e.n established in an arc; they spending their time in crea- e ?Tr ? f. suc^ puhhcity. tive thinking? We dare to say that j; . eile Carolina, very little pubif a census was taken of the student- AC,i^ ^ secured, except in the local , body that not more than forty per f.? um Papers. 1 rue, that at cent would be found reading ,,Tles> the Associated Press sends thought-provoking books beyond the out for,es concerning us, but these ? required class books. Very few stu- are efw' an^ ,n.chide only those that dents spend any of their spare time j"*,, *l>eclal '"'erest. If a bureau K in the Library. Yes, it is usually ,,b(e.. established here, and ?' crowded on nights before an exam , . bureau, much publiaty < or the day before parallel is due, ,?!,t 3,1 ?ycr !.hc stat,e: to " l$.'S but this is required. ther states, and when athletic E , teams, and other organizations repThe conclusion is that a large resenting the University were going e3 number are just flitting their time to some place to perform advance E away, doing practically nothing. We information cotild be sent to the ci are not criticising wholesome amuse- papers of those towns, the'Univer- o< ments and recreation that is really sity would become more widely D re-creating but we do believe known, and certainly others would w that some Carolina students could I kffoff that something worthwhile di "I I.I . 1 i1 1 II" as going on here on this campus. Publicity, if it is of the right kind, ;lps any organization or individual, irolina needs to be helped in many spects, but perhaps one of her eatest needs at present is the need >r publicity, and more of it. May e offer a little comparisbn? Even ifore school opened, letters giving formation about L. S. U.'s footill team were received by The amecock from that University's ficient news-bureau. And right on, ) until the day before the game, in rmation continued to come in?in?rmation that helped?information at made good reading matter. Yet, hen Carolina's team left for Durim to play Duke, had anything >out them gone on ahead? Very wbtful, and if so, very little and at through the kindness of some her agency. When they went to tlanta, had any publicity preceded em ? Yes, we need publicity. We need me means of furnishing favorable iblicity, and oh, how a news buau would help! Still crowing; yes, 11 crowing. v. a. c. HOW YOUR COLORS With the coming of next week ill be the coming of the State Fair, id everyone knows what that eans for Carolina students. An anlal tussle with Clemson will be in der, which will carry with it two ilidays. This and many other enrtainments will provide the main terests for next week. But, during all of this fun, and ee exhibition of holiday spirit, irolina students sometimes forget out wearing their colors. For any years, it has been customary r all of the students to wear gart and black colors throughout Fair eek, and especially on Thursday, it this year be no exception. Why it make it one hundred per cent, d let every student show his true irit by wearing garnet and black roughout next week? u. s. c. SUGGEST A NAME The Woman's Building is an ingral part of the University, and iould be recognized as such. All of e main buildings on the campus rry with them some particular ime, but yet the abode of the cols still goes by the name of the Roman's Building. This situation carries with it many id varied inconveniences.. As some : the co-eds say, it slights them by )t giving their building some name id listing it as one of the colleges of e University. Just as the Science lilding is known as LeConte colge ; as boys' dormitories are known ; Burney, LeGare, Elliott colleges; i the Y. M. C. A. building is known i Flinn Hall, why not list the girls' jrmitory as some hall, or give it a irticular name that will lend dignity that imposing abode of the fair x ? Give the co-eds a "break"; give leir home a real distinctive *fame, id in the meantime, while every)dy is waiting on someone else to 3 something about it, suggest a ime, and send it to The Game5ck. U. S. C. OPEN FORUM On Friday, October 11, during a >nversation I had with the Dean of ie University, Dr. L. T. Baker, that :ntleman made the statement, several rnes repeated, in unequivocal and.unitalified terms that Jewish students the University of South Carolina art 3t being excused from Chapel atndance this semester. On Tuesdaj ight, October 14, in the course of i ebate on the subject of compulsorj 'hapel attendance, I was amazed tc ear from half a dozen men that mem ers of the Jewish church are no impelled to attend Chapel. On Wed esday morning, October 15, th< .egistrar of the University confirmet ie information I had received th< revious evening, giving me, upon mj jquest, a statement in writing to tha flfect. With this paper in my posses ion, I again made enquiry of the Dear s to Jewish students being exceptec om the, general Chapel attendance ile, and again Dr. Baker stated plainly iat no students are excused fron 'hapel, neither Jews nor any othei roup (except of course seniors, law tudents, et al.). Upon my asking hin ) explain Mr. Chase's^ written state lent, which flatly contradicted th< ean's oft-repeated declaration, he an vered that apparently Mr. Chase hat xcused the Jews, I next enquired o >r. Baker whether Mr. Chase had ex jsed the students in question upon hi< wn initiative and authority. Th< 'ean s reply to this last interrogator as that he and Mr. Chase togethei d the excusing, he resolutely main taming in the fame breath that he was been excepted when he gave me information to the contrary. Tq'recapitulate: The Dean said that Jews are not excused. The Registrar declared that they are. The Dean reiterated that they are not. And Dr. Bakel* ended by stating that he and the Registrar collaborated in doing the excusing. In other words, as I. see it, the Dean said that he and Mr. Chase had together excused the Jewish stu-dents and yet he, the Dean, remained -unaware of the fact that this group of students had been cxcused. Perhaps Dr. Baker possesses powers of elucidation sufficient to enable him to explain away the paradox in his position. It is beyond my mental depth. And mayhap the Dean is able to justify the philosophy discussed below. According to 'the dictum of the powers that be on and around this campus, members of an organization which holds certain tenets are, by the' very circumstance of holding membership in that organization, entitled to have thefcr convictions respected by the University authorities, and have the right to be made exceptions to a general rule prevailing at the University. But, according to the abovementioned dictum, an individual, no matter what his beliefs or tenets, because of the fatal defect of not holding membership in an organization, has no right whatsoever to have his intellectual integrity respected. In fact, he has none. This same pernicious doctrine violated the spirit of justice in 1918-19, during the period of war hysteria. For instance, a member of the Quaker sect was exempt fro^i conscription, because of the tenets of his religious group. However, an individual citizen who conscientiously objected to bearing arms in his country's defense was hauled willy-nilly to the training camp; and, if he objected too strenuously, he was thrust into prison. In these cases the Federal judiciary held, in effect, that an organization can have a conscience, but an individual can not. This vicious principle seems to have survived the madness of war, continued to exist through a decade of peace, and found its insidious way into these halls of learning. But, as I have intimated, perhaps Dean Baker's intellectual powers are of such a calibre as to enable him to penetrate to the kernel of good, hidden in the depths of the doctrine sketched above. My mind is incapable of the task. LaBruce Ward King. ( October 15, 1930. 1*. s. c. 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