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Rs , Bff/ *" I CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA EXTRA!| |EXTRA! I : ' ' ' UNIVERSITY OF Jj|' SOUTH CAROLINA Volume XXIV, No. 24 " COLUMBIA, S. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1931 Founded 1908 ~ CONFU Bills To / No Change 1 As Decide Free Conference Report Rejected by House; Passed by Senate By a large majority the Senate killed the bills to abolish free tuition, to increase the tuition fees, and to do away with the school of Pharmacy at the University. The. action was taken in short order by the Senate on Tuesday night, April 21. Two other bills to compel the state supported institutions to turn over their tuition fees to the state treasurer, were not voted on due to a motion of adjournment. A lengthy debate took place in regard to the abolition of the Pharmacy school, which had been characterized as a seriate finance committee economy measure. Opposition to the measure seemed to grow during the debate and the vote by which it was killed was larger than most members had anticipated, according to the Associated Press. The vote was 255 against and only 11 for the bill. Pharmacy Measure The.fight to consolidate the pharmacy schools at the Medical College in Charleston was led by Senator Jefferies, an alumnus of the University. When the tuition and scholarship bills were killed, he gave notice that he intended to call for a reconsideration of the vote. At this writing nothing further has yet been done in regard to this or the other bill pertaining to the University. The report of the free conference committee on the general appropriation bill was rejected in the House of Representatives Thursday, April 23, after being passed by the Senate Wednesday night without changes. At this writing the House had not applied the "parliamentary clindher" to the bill, and therefore, it had not become absolutely final. This is the first time in South Carolina history that the report of the free conference committee has been rejected. If the House sticks to its decision, it will probably necessitate the prolonging of the session for several weeks. Already the session is approaching a new record for a long stay in the capitol. The report was killed by a large majority. Thirty-seven voted for the bill and seventy-nine against it. It seems clear that the measures of the bill objectionable to the House are Power Ta>^ and other tax items. Before voting on the bill the House had killed thy section placing a tax on insurance companies when it was explained that the bill, probably through error, did not exempt domestic insurance companies as provided in a bill passed by the House. It is thought at present that it will be necessary to appoint a new free conference committee to bring in a new report. Definite action will probably be taken very soon. It seems that the portions of the general appropriations bill affecting the University and the other state supported schools arc no longer under discussion and will probably undergo 110 changes during the reconsideration of the free conference committee's report. University Appropriation Regarding the University anpropriation the free conference report followed rather closely the bill offered by the finance committee and passed by the House. 1 he University was voted an appropriation of $375,000, the exact amount suggested by the finance committee, but much lower than the amount that I^r. D. M. Douglas asked for. At the time Doctor Douglas stated that it would be impossible' to run the University efficiently unless he were given the amount requested. \ I The other state supported schools received approximately the sums suggested by the finance committee. Winthrop Col1 (Continued on page two) b. . /1 . V . v. .\ SION 1 Abolish Fr> In Tuition id By Senate WANT ELECTED BY EUPHRADIAN As Junior President; Other Junior Leaders Picked by Literary Society LeRoy M. Want of Darlington, a junior in the School of Journalism, was elected junior president of the Euphradian Literary society by a unanimous vote at its meeting last Tuesday night. Lewis Wallace of Kingstreq, also a junior in the School of Journalism, was elected vice-president by acclamation, and Carlisle Roberts of Columbia, literary critic. Mr. Want is president of Sigma Delta Chi, national honorary journalistic 'fraternity, a former vice-president of Phi Epsilon Pi, and a member of the German Club, the Hillel Club, the International Relations Club, and Omicron Delta Kappa, leadership fraternity. He is the first junior ever to be editor-inchief of The Gamecock, and has been prominent in debating and oratory, having served on the Debating Council. He was re-elected to the Council Tuesday night. Other officers elected are: secretary, Leonard Williamson of Aiken; treasurer, James McDuffie of Bishopville; financial secretary, Sanders Guignard of Columbia; literary critic, Carlisle Roberts of Columbia; censor, Nathaniel C. Croft of Aiken; reporter, Bill Coan of Spartanburg; recorder, Thomas Inabinett of Charleston; orderly critic, David Gressette of St. Matthews; custos forum, Bland Hammond of Columbia, retiring president of the society. Student Council representative, Bland Hammond of Columbia; Board of Publications representatives, Leonard Williamson of Aiken and Carlisle Roberts of Columbia; Debating Council representatives, M. II. Shepherd of Columbia and LeRoy Want of Darlington. PHENOMENAL MAN EVADESSCRUTINY Kershaw Walsh Finds Thompson Gone After Agreeing to Test Haywood Thompson, the man who claims to be able to respond to light with his skin, failed to keep an appointment with Kershaw Walsh, University professor of psychology, and the latter's students. Although feeling certain that Thompson's drive down Main Street while blindfolded could be explained in a more natural way than was offered, Professor Walsh determined to give him the opportunity to prove his claims before the local psychology classes. The appointment was for three o'clock Friday afternoon, but it wasn't long before the professor found that he had left Thursday evening. And it didn't take much longer to discover that his hotel reservations had been made in advance until Thursday night. "I knew the man could not do what he claimed as he claimed," declared Professor Walsh. "He plainly showed this every time he 'sees' with his skin, for he always has to look carefully at the person or thing Icing identified. It is very likely that the secret lies in the constructio'n of the blindfold. If one will notice, it is always one that could have been made under his own direction. The blind has fourteen folds, but don't think for a minute that all fourteen are really placed over his eyes." Professor Walsh accompanied Mr. Thompson on his automobile drive and was present at most of his demonstrations. ROCKS * * ee Tuition ? ' * i At the next meeting of "The Gamecock" staff, to be held Monday at 5:00 as <usual, the various editors for next year will be nominated. All editors, assistants, and heelers are urged to be present. High School Week Begins Wednesday CONTESTS TO BE HELD Babcock in Need of Rooms for Contestants; Arranges Contests High School Week, held annually at the University for the high schools of the State, will open next Wednesday, April 29, and will continue through Friday, May 1. It is conducted under the auspices of Dr. Havilah Babcock, director of the Extension Department. Contests in English, Latin, debating, declamation, elocution, typewriting, shorthand, and track will be held. Between 300 and 400 contestants, teachers, principals, and superintendents are expected to be present. Last year Dr. Babcock made arrangements to house many of them in University quarters, but this year, he regrets to say: "I find it impossible to provide accommodations for visiting students, teachers, principals, and superintendents, since the withdrawal of all appropriations from the Extension department. However, I am arranging to get special rates for them from hotels, rooming houses, and restaurants. "I would appreciate it greatly if those who have available rooms within convenient walking distance of the University would call 41>. Extension, at the University. Higli school students would not be interested in expensive rooms, from fifty cents to a dollar being usual rates." It is imperative that all contestants register in Dr. Babcock's office in the Extension Building immediately upon arrival, so that he will be able to communicate with them without difficulty if necessary. Last year Doctor Babcock obtained as judges several lawyers from town. However this year he will find it necessary to ask some of the members of the faculty to judge in the events. Class routine will naturally be affected somewhat during these three days of next week. Much Conflictit Precipita Lewis H. Who is a member of the rising senior class? What is the rising senior class? Just what part do crcdits play in determining who is a member of the rising senior class? What's a constitution between friends ? These questions descended and settled over the campus like a cloud bringing forth wide-tspread discussion among the students. Turmoil was precipitated when the student council declared two candidates for president of the student body I ineligible to run. ' The argument centered about a clause ' in the student body constitution which was interpreted by the student council to mean that a candidate for the supreme office < must be a probable senior to have rising i senior rating. In other words, the council ; ruled Troy T. Stokes and Bryant t Adair not suitable because technicalities < prevented them from obtaining the re- ? quired 96 credits in June. 1 Meeting Thursday, the student council < rejected its decision of Wednesday night < by unanimous vote, subsequent to the an- < nouncement of the registrar that both ? disputed candidates would be in posses- < sion of 96 crcdits at the beginning of the < , * ' t ^ :.. -i .* mj ... CAM PI and Phari THREE RECEIVE BIDS TO ALPHA KAPPA GAMMA Millie Taylor, Sara Cassels and Dorothy Marsh, Bid To Sorority Bids have been extended to Millie Taylor, Sara Cassels, and Dorothy Marsh to become members of Alpha Kappa Gamma, leadership sorority. Initiation of these and three other pledges, Rowcna Jones, Alice Prioleau, and Maude Brazelle, will take place some time next week. Miss Kircnc Mayers, Carolina alumna, who?was recently reelected national president of Alpha Kappa Gamma, will be present at the initiation services. Millie Taylor, junior coed, is news editor of the Gamecock, vice-president of the Hypatian Literary society, vice-president of Chi Omega, and a member of the Woman's Athletic Association Council. She has been society editor of The Gamecock, monitor of the literary society, treasurer of the W. A. A., and manager of four different sports. She is a member of Chi Delta Phi, literary soroity, and was recently elected to the Student Council. Sarah Cassels, junior, is president of the Y. W. C. A., critic of the Euphrosynean Literary society, secretary of Gamma Sigma, and a member of K. S. K. Dorothy Marsh, who will graduate next February, has been president of Gamma Sigma twice, president of the Euphrosynean Literary society, treasurer of Damas, and junior leader, member of the Pan-Hellenic Council, assistant senior editor of the Garnet and Black, vicepresident of the Thespian club, chaplain and vice-president of the literary society, member of K. S. K., Eta Sigma Phi, and the Quintilian club. Four delegates from the University chapter attended the third national convention held at Queens-Chicora in Char lotte April 17, 18. The Carolina representatives were Annie Laurie Mitchell, Mary B. Taylor, Saluda Reese, and Dorothy Penland. Speeches given at the convention by the delegates were "Report on the Year's Work" by Mary B. Taylor; "Conditions Met by Alpha Kappa Gamma on the University Campus" by Saluda Reese, and a toast at the banquet by Dorothy Penland. ig Opinion ted By Council Wallace next semester, provided that they succeeded in their scheduled work. Within what limits does the status of , "risinga senior" lie? The answer to this < question'can come only from the authori- 1 ties of the University, as the constitution i does not answer, and without the consti- ( tution, the students, individually, arc de- , void of the power to answer. It is possi- ] ble to assume that the students might , by constitutional amendment determine \ this issue. However, determination of , scholarship should seem to rest with the University authorities alone. 1 Any junior is rising into the senior ( class, although he may not have senior j credits during the next semester. The i above statement may not he conceded by < [he students as a whole, but the concensus seems for it. When a student has ] )6 credits, he is a senior; when a student 1 ^as 63, he is classified as a junior. Un- 1 ter the old curriculum the credits are 1 slightly higher. It cannot be conclusively c letermined whether a junior will attain I senior rank by the beginning of the next 1 semester or not, because no one can pre- J lict the future. a \ US P01 macy Schc Stokes and JRun, Dech HOT POLITICS MARK MEETING Eligibility of Stokes and Adair Questioned, Constitution to be Revised Appointment of a committee of five to rewrite the constitution of the student body of the University of South Carolina was the first step taken at a meeting of the student council yesterday afternoon to prevent a recurrence of the eligibility question concerning candidates for the student body offices. This action took place after the council had decided unanimously that Troy T. Stokes and Bryant Adair would be eligible to compete in the race for the presidency of the student body this year. The,committee as appointed by President Williams is as follows: Wilson Weldon, chairman; C. K. Grimsley, W. C. Broughton, Dorothy Penland, and : Lewis H. Wallace. The revised constitution as drawn up by this committee will be presented to the student council in two weeks. The council will make further recommendations if they deem necessary. Then it will be presented to the student body. The constitution will have to be read at three meetings of the student body, at meetings held at three day intervals. It is not voted on at the first two readings, but will take a two-thirds vote to pass it on the third reading. Two meetings of the student council were called, one Wednesday night and the other Thursday afternoon, for the purpose of discussing the eligibility of the presidential candidates. In the meeting held Wednesday night, strife and closely drawn lines were prevalent. One vote would have changed the whole situation at this time. After much wrangling, the council decided by the closest possible vote to declare (Continued on page Uvo) MEMBERS CHOSEN FOR SERVICE FRAT Kappa Sigma Kappa Elects Faculty Members and Twenty Leading Students About twenty students and several faculty members were elected to membership in Kappa Sigma Kappa, local service fraternity, at the regular meeting held Thursday night. The initiation will be held at the meeting two weeks from now and officers for the coming year will be chosen immediately after the initiation ceremony. The names of the faculty members clected cannot be given at this time because it is not known definitely if they :an be initiated at the coming ceremony, [f they accept and arc unable to join this time, they will be taken in at the next nidation, according to Bill Herbert, secretary. i Membership in Kappa Sigma Kappa is ' >ased on the service a student has ren lercd to Carolina. lie must have taken 1 >art in some form of athletics, or made a ? lame for himself in some other field of < :ol!egiate endeavor. 1 The men elected Thursday night were: 5. C. Gilmorc, T. C. Hank ins, Harry ' M-eeman, R. L. Keaton, Mike Brown, i Molan Raby, Cliff Brown, Francis Gra- ? iam, Marvin Miller, Allen Rollins, Gor- ? Ion Quattlebaum, D. B. Hudson, Kent ? ^wing, Herbert Bishop, Jr., Wallace Phomas, Bill Callahan, Frank Bostick, < >am Galloway, Ira Willard, Bob Wham, < md Bill Gillespie. > ' -\t. ?' v . v V.v' . . ? Hi:* si-.. . - LITICS >0/ Killed \ \dair Can ares Council Forty-Eight Hour Turmoil Subsides When Eligibility Ascertained Troy T. Stokes and Bryant Adair were declared eligible to run for the presidency of the student body this year by a unanimous vote of the student council at a meeting held Thursday afternoon in the Law building. ^ The motion, made by Wilson Weldon to declare them eligible, B is as follows: That the student council declare Troy T. Stokes 9 B and Bryant Adair and any man who has the possibility of gradu- I: H ating next year eligible to enter I H the race for presidency of the I H student body. . . , With hisses and booes reverberating I throughout the historic walls of the Uni- I ;/ versity chapel, the student body declared I ' by a vote of 87 to 90 that Troy T. Stokes I y and Bryant Adair would be allowed to . ; run for the presidency of the student H H body and also sustained the action of the I H student council in declaring the nomina- I H tions for the presidency would be reopened until 12 o'clock Saturday. Presi-1 dent Williams declared that two-thirds I vote of those present was needed to carry : the motion. Although a majority of the voters de- - clared that the two candidates be declared I H eligible, the necessary two-thirds required I H to pass an amendment was not secured. Serious question arose over the fact of I I whether or not the question was an amendment; President \\ illiams ruled I that it was an amendment. Approximately 200 or more students I packed the chapel to attend the meeting. , Scenes of the wildest disorder were pre- | valent throughout the entire meeting, which rivaled the meetings when politicians of old like Donald Russell. Tom Craig, and others were present. The student body also decided to let the candidates for the various student body offices speak in chapel Saturday night at 8 o'clock and to hold the voting for the offices Monday, April 27. The question concerning the eligibility of Stokes and Adair arose when Yates Williams, president of the student body, investigated the scholastic records of the candidates for the presidency, and Mr. Chase, registrar, declared that the two candidates would be officially enrolled at the University next year as juniors. Standings Doubtful Stokes will have 84 undisputed credits at the en.I of the semester, provided he passes all of the work he is now taking, lie has six credits which he will not be allowed until he takes two semesters of work that he lacks. He lias stated that he will come to summer school and will get off six credits, which counted altogether, will give him a total of % creditsMr. Chase declared that unofficially hewill he a senior provided he passes thiswork, but that he could not be rated officially because of the two semesters' work lacking. Adair is in the same predicament as Stokes. He will have 85 undisputed credits at the end of this semester, provided lie passes all work he is now taking. Adair, too, has stated that he is coming to summer school and will fjpt off six credits. Like Stokes again, he lias six :redits which will not be given until he masses two semesters' work he lacks. The entire question was threshed out in the student council and by an exceeditigly close vote, it decided to rule the met! ineligible. This meeting was held from 7^ mtil 8 o'clock, just before the regular neeting of the student body in the chapel. Yates Williams presided over the student body meeting. He introduced C. K* ^rimsley, member of the student council^ vho presented the action of the student