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I ^ GAMECOCK Published on Friday of every week during the college year by the Literary Societies under the supervision of the Board of Publications of the University of South Carolina. Entered as second class mail matter at the Columbia, South Carolina, postoffice on November 20, 1908. ; ZZ Member of South Carolina College Press Association, j'; \ Member of National College Press Association & V ? 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, double-spaced, and must be signed by the writer. Articles in the Open Forum will be published at the discretion of the Editor and in the order in which they are submitted, with the name of the author signed. I SUBSCRIPTION RATE?^2.COLLEGE YEAR~ CIRCULATION?2150 COPIES Advertising rates furnished upon request ?r- ? ? Offices in the basement of the Extension Building Gamecock office phone?8123, No. 11 STAFF LeRoy M. Want - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - Editor-in-Chief William I. Latham - -- -- -- -- - - -- - Managing Editor ""associate editors Dorothy Penland --------------- - Associate Editor Darick Jackson - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - Associate Editor Lewis H. Wallace - -- -- -- - - - Associate Editor J. Mitchell Morse - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Associate Editor W. G. Jeffords ------------ - Associate Editor Allen Rollins ------------ - Associate Editor John A. Giles - -- -- -- -- -- -- Assistant Managing Editor John A. Moroso - -- -- -- -- -- - Assistant Managing Editor N. W. BrqqkER --------- - Assistant Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF W. B. King - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- News Editor Ray AntlEy - Sports Editor Leon Alumni Editor E. C. Gilmore - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - Exchange Editor Sanders Guignard - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Fraternity Editor J. H. Galloway --------------- Y. M. C. A. Editor Catherine Rem ley - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Joke Editor Assistants: Marian Finlay, J. A. Bigham, Frank Durham, Alan Schafer, I Louise Edwards, Vernon Spears, W. D. Coan, Faith Brewer, Carolyn Burnet, Earl Skidore, Harry Morse, and O. H. Skewes. Names of heelers do not appear in mast-head CO-ED Frances Black - -- -- -- -- -- - Co-Ed Editor Millie Taylor - -- -- -- -- -- -- News Editor Ethel Galloway - Society Editor Jean Wichman - -- -- -- -- -- - Feature Editor BUSINESS W. C. Herbert - -- -- -- - - Business Manager Sam Taylor - -- -- -- -- Assistant Manager J. W. Brown - v - - - - - - - Assistant Manager CIRCULATION j. Roy Prince - -- -- -- -- Circulation Manager ^ Lester Hamilton - -- -- -- - Assistant Manager Melton Goodstein ------ - Assistant Manager Hugh Hamilton -.- - Assistant Manager CROWING FOR: News Bureau?Even a great University must advertise. Student Activity Building?This is the only way by which student activities can be properly centered and administered. Voluntary Chapel?A modern tendency and a good one. Football Stadium?A needed addition to the University's equipment. Paved Sidewalks?Not only a need, but an immediate necessity. ' FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1931 EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS We never could understand how some boys won a girl?until we saw the girl. When talking to the average woman, the only way to get in a word edgewise is to start first. The remark of one faculty member concerning the "Yellow Sheet" is appreciated: "It is the best and at the same time the most innocuous yet put out." Now that the May Queen race is almost over, it is to he hoped that the girls do not become any less democratic and stop speaking to the common people. Two women talking over the telephone at the same time reminds us of nothing so much as an endurance contest?the kind that ends in exhaustion for both parties. When a girl studies on a date it might be a quiz, but it's more probably a nice way of saying, "I'm bored to death, aren't you?" And the proper answer, little children, js "No." Nowadays even triplets can be had at little inconvenience. For there are plenty of Austins just 'dying to be used for baby carriages, and they are guarranteed to hold at least three small infants. And here's a true definition of a dumb student: The one who recently received a special delivery letter and when told to put his John Hancock on the dotted line signed, "John Hancock." There's a young lady who "boasts" that she'has kissed every editorin-chief of Tine Gamecock since she entered the University. Better watch out, dear, two of them have been preachers, and one of those two is now married. These Bible discussion groups remind us of a certain definition for the honor system. In the former case, the students have the groups and the leaders have the discussions; in the latter case, the students have the system and the faculty has the honor. The "Yellow Sheet" said that Ashley Halsey's ten-minute and thirty-eight second record of profanity without repetition still stood in j.y the office. At that writing it did, but the present editor made; a new record of eleven minutes even when an assistant circulation manager opened eighteen hundred of the scandal issues and allowed some to be read before April 1. u. s. c. SCANDAL SHEETS, ASSORTED In spite of the title, this is not meant as a sarcastic reply to either of the two open forum letters printed in this issue?there is perhaps some ground for the crtiticism voiced by Doctor Smith and Mrs. King, but at the same time, the charge of the latter that the Yellow Sheet was "without doubt written by morons, 'course' thoughts from morbid minds" is going a little beyond the point warranted by the facts. During each of the past three years (the period for which the writer can speak from personal knowledge) the editor of the Yellow Sheet has endeavored to put out an edition marked by its cleverness rather than by its vulgarity. During each of those years small things have crept by the watchful eyes of the editor which he regretted afterwards but about which he could do nothing. And this year has been no exception to the rule. There are small things which, due to hurried checking, were printed in the paper that never would have been had there been more time for checking. For these "The Gamecock" would apologize, would an . 1 / > . ' / y* I ,..: . ;.' {{ ' ? , : i lit.,:W i ... . u li i ii apology do any good. However, it trusts that the victims of such will be hurt in no manner by these indiscretions. But, on the other hand, Mrs. King, we must respectfully disagree with you when you say that the Yellow Sheet was written by morons. The contributors to it number approximately 75 and are representative students in every sense of the word. Their minds are not "course" nor are they "morbid." As a matter of fact even some of the more conspicuous student religious leaders were contributors, as were some of the cleanest boys and giyls on the campus. These are the <men and women "who are supposed to be (and are) well bred and dignified"?the Yellow Sheet gave many an opportunity to criticize "that" which imagined "itself above criticism. But you need have no fear that outsiders will misunderstand. In many cases this is prevented by the use of false names, but please remember that, as far as individuals are concerned, the Yellow Sheet means absolutely nothing to outsiders. And the present staff, by putting at the top of the first page in large type, "Entirely Unreliable ; Mostly Bull," insured that no sensible person can fail to realize that the issue in question was anything but an April Fool issue. In your letter, Doctor Smith, you have pictured the ideal which the present staff attempted to attain, "Keen wit, apt satire, and goodnatured humor." That it failed in your eyes is something which it regrets, but the fact that it sincerely tried, and in the eyes of many, succeeded, furnishes ample consolation for that regret. Your opinion is honestly held in, high respect by this staff and editor, but when you say "Never before have I seen girls written about by name so coarsely," some of us cannot help but feel that you have perhaps! scanned this Yellow Sheet much more thoroughly than previous! ones. When you say, doctor, that "the most conspicuous thing about it was this dismal and all-pervading lack of good taste and sportsmanship" we sincerely feel that you are mistaken. The staff set out to make this the best and the cleanest Yellow Sheet in recent years, and after a glance at old sheets, it feels that it succeeded in the last at least. One member of the faculty has said: "This edition of the Yellow Sheet is the best and at the same time the most innocuous yet put out." And that, Doctor Smith, was the aim striven for and the goal which the staff feels that it has almost, if not actually, attained. j . u. s. c. j THIS CHEfeR LEADING PROPOSITION . The editor of the Political Pot, in his last regular edition, charged that one. fraternity was monopolizing the cheer leading posts and that the last election was held unconstitutionally and without sufficient notice being given. Aside from whether his charges are correct or not, the fact remains that such impressions are prevalent over the campus. There is no object in digging up dead ghosts except to prevent the same things from | happening a second time. The present cheer leader, Nigel League, says that notices were given last year of the election meeting by the president of the student body at that time. This paper does not question Mr. League's veracity, but the fact remains that even many of the so-called "politicians" did not know about the impending election. This would indicate that notices were given where they would hardly be noticed. In future it would probably be a wise idea to serve notice in this paper, on the literary society bulletin boards, and to have the announcement read in chapel the two days preceeding. ' As for the questioned constitutionality of the election, the officer in charge should have watched out for that. This year and in future student body officials should feel more personally responsible that this and other elections are entirely legal. None of the three student body officials have so many duties that this would be asking too much. In regards to the fact that most of the assistants are fraternity brothers of the cheer leader, the latter claims that they are the only ones who answered his call for assistants. As a former athletic team manager expressed it, "Often a man can get only his fraternity brothers to aid him and therefore has to lay himself open to criticism by appointing them as his assistants." j It is indeed regrettable that Carolina's field from which to pick future cheer leaders is not much larger. The rewards are quite appreciable, so perhaps if tryouts for the assistantships were advertised more to the new students, the number of candidates would increase. Perhaps this policy of throwing the field open to the entire student body has been tried in the past, but regardless, it should certainly be done in the future. All fraternities are looking for fields in which their freshmen could shine, and if they were made to see that the cheer leading field was open to all on equal terms, the human law of greed would almost naturally insure that the office of cheer leader would not go begging for candidates. u. s. c. WHY ABOLISH THE PHARMACY SCHOOL? The School of Pharmacy is a definite part of the University; if it is lost it will be a definite loss to the University and to the State of South Carolina. Perhaps the legislature is correct in believing that one pharmacy school is sufficient for the needs of the state. Admitting that this belief is correct, Columbia is the logical place for that one school. There is no need to rehash old arguments to that end; all of them have already been stated by authorities well acquainted with the situation. However, there are one or two facts that are often overlooked in a discussion of the question. The School of Pharmacy here already has most of its overhead expenses taken care of. It uses the same registrar, the same treasurer, the same officials as other departments. Many expenses that go along with th school in any other city are already paid and settled for in Columbia. A pharmacist has as much need for cultural influences as has a lawyer or a journalist; to educate him in an atmosphere where such an influence can be obtained is certainly the logical thing to do. The pharmacist educated at a liberal arts school is in a position to get courses which he could not get elsewhere except at additional expense to the State. Columbia is the logical place for a School of Pharmacy. The host medical colleges do not cater to pharmacy students and will not educate them, due to the fact that pharmacy is undergraduate work, while medicine is the most graduate of graduate work. The school dhn be of 110 help to the Medical College in Charleston, for the fields of the two are entirely different. South Carolina's system of. higher education is far too widespread. The University was founded so as to bring the lower state closer to the upper state; why not give it a chance to accomplish that very thing? Why not centralize the state's educational system as much as reasonably possible? It would certainly be cheaper and it would be in accord with modern tendency. u. s. c. THE HONOR SYSTEM?A YEAR OF IT In a very short time the re-established honor system will pass its first birthday?now is an excellent time to briefly scan the system to find what degree of success it has attained. Thk Gamecock'was partly instrumental in bringing about the reinstallation of the system?it is still heartily in favor of it. However, to claim that it has, in its first year of existence, been an unqualified success would l>e as ridiculous as saying that the Volstead Act has been an unqualified success and is operating perfectly. The main argument used against the system was that few students j would report their fellows, and such has indeed fieen the case. But that is not necessarily a fatal fault?for the proper disciplinary machinery is at least presertt, and the faculty have their same old privilege of reporting dishonorable students. There is less cheating now than (this time last year in the writer's 'classes, but that may be due to the fact that he is in a class with older I | OPEN FORUM To the Editor of The Gamecock: It is doubtful whether individual protests do much good, especially when made by a professor in a student publication. Three reasons, however, lead me to write this communication concerning jast week's Yellow Issue of The Gamecock: first, the issue in question seems to me indefensibly crude and coarse in places, and I think some one ought to say so; second, I have been at the University of South Carolina for a long time now, during good and. bad years alil^e, and am more than a little interested in whatever concerns it; and, third, I was not personally a target in this issue, so that what I say cannot be laid to personal resentment. Keen wit, apt satire, good-natured humor are attratctive literary traits, and when well-blended make delightful reading. Some of the past Yellow Issues have had enough of these traits to raise a chuckle even from their targets. And in former years, some exceedingly clever and funny things were said and done on Class Day, which was the older oral original of the Yellow Sheet. Whether written or spoken, however, two qualities are essential to success in personal satire: cleverness and good taste. It is the lack of good taste, knowing when and where to stop, that made last week's Gamecock so objectionable. I have heard a great deal of college humor and near-humor, some crude and some clever, but never before have I seen physical defects held up to ridicule or girls written about by name so coarsely. The objects of this kind of ridicule have no defense and 110 recourse. Sheltered by complete anonymity, with absolutely no censorship, the contributors can go as far as they please. They have no restraining influence except their own native good taste and good sportsmanship. Both failed them,-as well as failed the editor in charge on this occasion. Tliere were a few conspicuously cleveV. things in the issue and, as formerly, the paper was conspicuous for its yellow hue, but incomparably the most conspicuous thing it was this dismal and all-pervading lack of good taste and good sportsmanship. There have been many times when I have been proud of what the student body of the University has done. Last April first was not one of those times. In fact I wonder how closely this Yellow Sheet mirrors the sense of humor of the student body, if it mirrors it at all. If not, and if I were a student, I think that even under the all-inclusive name of fun I should want to see to it that good taste and good sportsmanship should be encouraged to draw the line?somewhere^ Reed Smith. u. s. c. This article is intended for "Ye Editors of Yellows Sheet." For publication or not, just as you see fit. Your obscene, base, so-called "jokes" contained in "Yellow Sheet" of. recent date, were without doubt written by morons, course thoughts from morbid minds. Just such a paper as this should be surpressed, not allowed to come off the press. Everybody enjoys a good joke at times, evci if a little smutty, but, when it comes to jokes pertaining to personal"afflictions and women of high moral character, they are on the border line of slander instead. If this disgraceful and harmful "Yellow Sheet" must come out once a year and could only be read by our students who understand its motive, there would be no criticism, all would be well and nothing said, but when it is put into the hands of strangers to read, broadcast as it is from state to state, with some not understanding its intent, then the time is propitious for the readers of this filth to demand an answer to their question of the character of those whom the editors made the target of their dirty fling. It is childish to say the least, and a thing, if I can call the Yellow Sheet a thing, should not be printed in so fine an institution as our University, when we become men we shrould put away childish things, so here is hoping another Yellow Sheet will never be issued by our students?men and women who are supposed to be well bred and dignified?should say, "hands off" of such a paper. Mrs. Mary B. King, Melton Hall. students. Be that as it may, the vcrv in existence points out that cheating With the passing of a few mor< assume that students will more and who are too weak to keep up the squarely. Rut to insure this, everyth up the honor system in the meantin Ihe Honor Committee has had If this indicated a lack of cheating hut we are fairly certain that it onh committee has had little opportunity' poses, hut that is no reason why it discussion of the situation in general This paper suggests that the Ho or person get behind the matter an representative students as was done ing," but one at which the honor criticism and at which the leading problem of continuing the solving of ' I exchanges! 1 tie* System Spreading Oglethorpe university has definitely V decided to install a new educational system with the opening of classes next fall. This system will enable a student to advance at his actual mental pace and possibly to receive his degree in two years. Students will be forced to take examinations under a board of regents, the members of which will give the student a general examination rather than one on a specific subject. This system is being used at the University of Chicago and is partly in use at Rollins college, Antioch college, and > at the University of North Carolina. The University of Georgia may install this system next fall. - ' New Orleans.?Richard Whitten, Tulane University student, wild-eyed and hair disheveled, rushed in to Prof. Earl D. Myer's law class recently with ' a red pump in his hand crying: "I'll get you for that quiz." The professor disarmed him and drew a pistol from his desk drawer as "Preacher" Roberts, football captain, and Don Zimmerman, halfback, tackled Whitten, believing him insane. Professor Myer then said: "Quiet please. Everyone sit down and write briefly exactly what happened." Afterward he cxpained it was an experiment to show "unreliability of court testimony." One student had Whitten wielding an ax, another wrote the professor fired the pistol, a third said the student cursed. # Students Pay Penalty Forty-seven students at the College of the City of New York were fined ^ $25 and costs each for the damage they .did when celebrating after a sophomore class dinner recently. For the Air-Minded A $6,000 aviation course is offered every senior at the University of Washington absolutely free. The courses will be given in the evening, and thus will not interfere with class schedules. Rudy's Request Fulfilled son of a psychology professor of v Yale has been requested to leave Harvard because he is said to have thrown grapefruit at Rudy Vallee when the latter was singing "Oh, Give Me Something to Remember You By," in a'Boston theatre. x Turning Table on the Professors Columbia students had the laugh on >, their professors last week when ten faculty members handed in their answers to a test prepared by the Spectator, student paper. The highest grade was SS.l. Only four professors completed the forty questions asked, and 43 refused to take the test at all. That the professors have a tendency to bluff as well as the students was shown by an answer to the question, "Name three Brahms compositions." The answer was' "The first, second and third Sonatas." Expensive Cuts Now if you were at the University of Maryland you would probably go to class, for when students cut they are liable to a three dollar tax. ?Mercer Cluster. Origin of Exams A great scientist recently discovered that the painful and obsolete practice of giving examinations originated in China around 1500 B. C. L,et us hope that the Chinese refrain in the future from inventing such methods of torture as giving exams and eating rice. ___ Blue Stocking. r fact that there is an honor system v is a violation of honor. s years, it is perfectly reasonable to more despise those of their ranks pace honestly and play the game ling possible must be done to build le. few opportunities to meet this year. , conditions would indeed be ideal, y indicates a lack of reporting. The to get together for disciplinary purshould not meet for a constructive I. ' nor Committee or some other group d call a meeting of prominent and last year?not a meeting for "gripsystem can be given constructive campus minds could be set to the one of their most serious problems.