Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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: The 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 m3il matter at the Columbia, South Carolina, postoffice on November 20, 1908. ? Member of South Carolina College Press Association. Member of National College Press Association. , - : 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. SUBSCRIPTION RATE?$2.00 PER COLLEGE YEAR . Advertising rates furnished upon request ' Offices in the basement of the Extension Building Gamecock office phone?8123, No. 11 STAFF EXECUTIVE BOARD Lewis H. Wallace Editor C J. Sam Taylor - -- -- -- -- Business Manager John A. Giles - -- -- -- -- - Managing Editor ASSOCIATES Frances Black --------- - Associate Editor Norton W. Brooker - Associate Editor Sanders Guignard - -- -- -- -- Associate Editor William C. Herbert - -- -- -- -- Associate Editor William B. King - - Associate Editor William I. Latham - - ~\ - - - -' - Associate Editor J. Mitchell Morse - - - - Associate Editor Leon Keaton Assistant Managing Editor John A. Moroso Assistant Managing Editor Allen Rollins Assistant Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF J. H. Galloway - -- -- -- -- - News Editor Ray Antley - - - - - - - - - - Sports Editor Alan Schafer Assistant Sports Editor E. C. Gilmore - " Alumni Editor Faith Brewer - -- - Exchange Editor J. A. Bigham - Y. M. C. A. Editor William D. Coan - -- -- -- -- - Joke Editor CO-ED Millie Taylor -' Co-ed Editor Ethel Galloway - - - - , News Editor Jean Wichman >- - * - - - Society Editor Louise Edwards --------- - Feature Editor CIRCULATION STAFF .Melton Goodstein ~ ~ - - - - Circulation Manager Alton Brown ? - Assistant Manager Wilbur Jones - -- -- -- -- Assistant Maganer Marvin Miller - -- -- -- -- Assistant Manager Kenneth Prince 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, OCTOBER 2, 1931 CONSTITUTIONALITY OR FAVORITISM? Should a campus publication be run by a constitution or by favoritism and chance? Should an editor be allowed to name his successor at will? Should an almost-admittedly "Framed-up" election be tolerated by the student body year after year? It is not the purpose of this paper to point out the correct answers to the above queries?it considers them perfectly obvious. The GARNET AND BLACK has been a splendid annual reasonably consistently, and its editors have been excellent. There is no charge of dishonesty or incompetence to be made against them but the fact remains that they Are sitting on top of a system that is restrictive, and about which the student body knows little. THE GAMECOCK wishes that it were possible for it to describe the system in detail by which members of the annual staff are nominated, but candidly speaking, it knows little about the subject. In fact no one knows except those on the staff.N But this much is commonly known. THE ANNUAL GARNET AND BLACK ELECTION, AS CONCERNS THE HIGHER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF, IS ONLY A MERE FORMALITY. THE NEW EDITOR IS PICKED BY THE RETIRING EDITOR AND A SET-UP IS NAMED TO OPPOSE HIM, IT BEING UNDERSTOOD THAT THE LATTER WILL WITHDRAW FROM THE RACE. It is an annual fact that this set-up, in theory nominated by the staff as a whole, usually withdraws from the race before the votes are ;counted. It is reported that a minor editor last year was aca cidently elected to office against the "pet" appointee, although the . independent did not know that he was a candidate. When asked to \ resign, he quite properly refused to do so. Such a system must no longer be tolerated. Mr. President of the student body, THE GAMECOCK calls on you to call a student body meeting within the inext few days. At this meeting we ask that a committee of five?more if necessary-?be appointed by you to draw up a constitution for THE GARNET AND BLACK and to submit the said constitution to the students for their approval. Following the cow that was paraded over the football field at the Fair grounds at the Duke game were about 75 freshmen. Those that were there were very enthusiastic, but what a meagre representation of the Carolina student body, when one considers that it numbers around 1600. A STADIUM IS MBSDBD ( ...... \ . The overflowing crowd at the Duke-Carolina football game should prove to the doubters that the University of South Carlina is in dire need of an athletic stadium. Two years ago, when it was thought that Carolina was going to have a good football team, agitation for a stadium was prevalent among many alumni. However, after a rather mediocre1 season, things quieted down. People began to belteve that The Gamecocks would never play teams big enough to draw huge crowds. In fact athletic officials at the University looked with disfavor upon building a stadium. One official has said, "You could never get enough people to fill 9, fairly large stadium. People would wait until the last minute to get seats, and if the weather was bad, the spectators would be meagre." Only a few of the Carolina supporters have been far-sighted enough to believe that a stadium would pay. After seeing the mob turn out for the first game of the season, one can readily visualize the enormous crowds that would come if some of the noted football teams of the nation were brought here. Army, Chicago, Navy and others have offered Carolina games, but local officials had to refuse them because of the lack of a stadium. Many people will cry hard times when "building a stadium" is mentioned. However, they can be built without asking the alumni for contributions. The University of Georgia built a magnificent structure by issuing bonds, paying for them out of the gate receipts. Why not Carolina ? 1 WATCHYOUR STEP Two incidents last Friday night proved the necessity of instructing students, mainly underclassmen, in the treatment of motorists who would break through the shirt-tail parade on Main street. One motorist, whom students allege was transporting a car load of whiskey, pulled out his pistol and threatened to shoot the first-person who touched his car. Needless to say all hands were kept off. Another driver did his best to steer his car through, over, and.under students when they did not immediately jump out of his way. Yelling that he was a^special delivery carrier, he stepped on the gas. But the milling students caught hold and almost overturned his car. The viewpoint of this motorist seems to be that "those fools have no right to annoy me in such a fashion." In his egotism he forgot that all others in Main street traffic were waiting for the parade to trail away. An intelligent man wisely requests the students to step aside if his mission is very urgent. But all of this hot headedness is not on the side of this type of car driver. Instead, many students in their over-enthusiasm forget their customary restraint and give vent to their primitive desires. And herein is found the responsibility of wiser student heads. If the fellow-student is not gentleman enough to act as becomes a Carolina man, then this person should be cautioned by his friends. It may be too late sometime when the thoughtless parader seeks to stop a drunken driver by sheer force. U. 8. O. EXPLAIN THIS! . "Everybody speaks on the Carolina campus." Do they? One of the oldest of Carolina traditions, cited to all new students and observed for over a century and a quarter by members of the student body, is about to fall into sad disuSe. The democratic custom of every student speaking, to his fellow student on the campus is boasted of by Carolina men wherever they gather. It has always been a source of pride to students to point out that this custom is observed at the^ University and at few other colleges and universities in the country. But?take a walk across Jhe main campus and count the "hellos" you receive. If one speaks to a fellow student, a startled frown is the only answer. The free cheery welcome 0/ other days seems to. have gone from our midst. Is any member of the student body too good, or in a social strata so far above the others; or any member of the faculty so aloft in the wisdom of the ages; that it is entirely impossible for either to descend to common ground and say "hello" to another he meets on the University campus? Students! Faculty members! Look to yourselves! Remember that democracy has always been an asset of the University and n. ?t another student on the grounds on which you should prefer to e met yourself! Come down off of that high horse! It might help a and there is very little hartii that can be done! U. H. O. RISE AND REBEL It's a crying shame the way authorities dish out seats to the Carolina student body whenever a game is played in the bowl at the Fair grounds. Not being-content with making students sit on the five and ten yard lines on the Carolina side, the authorities divided the Carolina student body, placing one group on the Duke side of the field and the other on the Carolina side. The division was so noticeable that sport writers in the press box remarked about it. One prominent writer wanted to know how in the world anyone could expect Carolina to have any more spirit, when the students were forced to sit in such obscure positions. To make matters worse, even the band was forced to sit in the bottom row of seats in one of the Carolina corners, while the Duke band was given much better seating arrangements. People like to kick the Gamecock band and show how bad it is by comparing it to such bands as* that of Duke. However, one must remember that every student or nearly every one in the latter band has scholarships, paying their way through school, for this purpose. If the University had enough money to recruit musicians for its band... .but it can't be done. The Clemson game and probably the.Furman game will also be played at the Fair grounds. Now is the time for the students and the band to start action for better seating arrangements. You pay for your seats?nobody gives them to you?so get them. Choice seats are allotted students on Melton field and the students should have them at the Fair grounds. / f i-'A f/ . -Jite V i ri , :& v.-.-fe' fc 1 I I EXCHANGE _J Evidently the Blue Devils weren't so, at home in hell, for the Gamecocks certainly gave them plenty of it Saturday at the football game. . ___ Speaking of optimism, the alumni of Augustona College take the cake. During this period of dark depression, 1 twenty-one Augie couples ventured upon the treacherous sea of matrimony. What price fetavery! ' Edna 'Ferberj novelist and Pulitzer prize winner, says that the youth of America is "permanently twelve years old", and their reactions to serious topics of the day is summed up in the expression, "Oh, yeah!" We beg to disagree with Miss Ferber on that point because only last week we heard an extremely bright person comeback, quick as a flash, with the brilliant retort, "Sez you." That just goes to show that there are potential possibilities in the youth of America, and the right opportunity to spripg a "fast one" is all that is needed to unleash who knows what upon the world.?Clemson Tiger. All tl>e Freshmen arc required to work on the paper at Maryland University one day a/weck. Not a bad idea for the Ganiecocks. i The new home economics department of the Boston, University is teaching women ' to shop. Evidently they are teaching them what to do with the two cents left over from a "2.98" bargain. The throwing of water bags is a gross violation of the rules of the University of Maryland, and any student found guilty 6f indulging in this forbidden sport will either be suspended or expelled from school according to a recent announcement. Tar Heelers are forbidden by law to bum rides in Chapel Hill.' ( The University of Colorado annually acquaints freshmen with each other through the medium of a gala beef steak-fry. Millions of flies are lured to their death by the delicious odors which issue forth from the kitchen of the Charleston College Tea Room. The spare screen of the kitchen door is charged with 1 1-2 volts, just enough to electrocute any fly which happens to light on the shiny inviting surface. 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K. for the money, but for living they aren't worth a darn. A woman was the first publisher of a daily newspaper. That's nothing. A coed Is now editor of The Carolinian and she stands an excellent chance of being the first editor to bring it out on scheduled time. Girls, after all, do" have one use in this world. They often bring out their boy friends' musical ability?teaching i them how to play a graceful second fiddle. tr. a. o. While the Board is looking over hkely University presidential timber, we would remind them that several former and would-be student officials are out of jobs. \ , U. 8. C. In Chicago time hasn't reached the A. D. stage yet. It's still B. C.?before Capone. ? ? | The Gamecocks beat Duke for the second straight year. Tar Heels, why not try some of our iodine food? But then, if you had beaten us, it would certainly have been the devil. v. s. c.- The depression must be lifting. One Carolina student has brought a Cadillac sedan (we wonder if he's getting i free tuition). Several other under* graduates are attempting to swap in their old collegiate Fords. V. s. o. We s?*gcst that WIS change its name to I PR?Its Probably a Record. U. 8. O. ? i . Miss Evelyn Caughman of the U. S. C. is the president of the South Eastern Region of the Lutheran Stu-. ] dent' Association of America which II will hold its annual convention at New- I I berry College, Nov. 27-28. Student* (If from Virginia, North Carolina, South f I Carolina,. Georgia, and other states ofll the south will meet there. COLUMBIA OFFICE SUPPLY C0.1 I "EVERY OFFICE NEED" I Office Furniture, Filing Cabinet*, Safes I Printing and Rubber 8tampe 1112 Lady Street 'Phone 6163 I OLET!! nil erican Value" '< I 2VR0LET CO. , s. o. I IES GET DIRTY? J less and well groomed. The ;he reward great ? I imeeock are our agents I *Y CLEANING CO. 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