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" r* 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 mail 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 nine o'clock 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 Circulation?2150 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 J. Sam Taylor Business Manager John A. Giles Managing Editor ASSOCIATES Frances Black - - - - ' - - - - - Associate Editor Lois Fischer ------ Associate Editor Sanders R. Guignard - -- -- -- - Associate Editor William C. Herbert Associate Editor William I. Latham - -- -- -- - Associate Editor J. Mitchell Morse - -- -- -- - Associate Edjtor Leon Keaton ------- Assistant Managing Editor Allen Rollins - - - - - *- - Assistant Managing Editor . EDITORIAL STAFF J. A. Bigham - -- -- News Editor Alan Schafer - - - - - - - Assistant Sports Editor O. H. Skewes - - - - - Assistant Sports Editor Faith Brewer Exchange Editor Frank Durham Frate#iity Editor J. H. Galloway Y. M. C. A. Editor Catherine Cathcart ------- Joke Editor ASSISTANTS Jack Payne, Frank Wardlaw, Genevievei Reynolds, Marian Finlay, Josephine Griffin, Jerry Glenn, Robert Conard, Lemuel Gregory, Donald McIntosh, LaVernf. Hughes, Anne Huiet, Belvin Horres, Theodore Ninestein, Boyce Craig, and Sue Kibi.er. CO-ED Millie Taylor - Co-ed Editor Ethel Galloway - - - - - - ' - - News Editor Jean Wichman -- - - Society Editor Louise Edwards - -- -- -- -- Feature Editor ~ BUSINESS STAFF tW. Brown - Assistant Business Manager . C. Grant - -- -- -- -- Assistant Business Manager Baynard Whaley ------ -Assistant Business Manager CIRCULATION STAFF R. H. Bishop - - - - - - - - Circulation Manager Alton Brown - -- -- -- -- Assistant Manager Wilbur Jones - -- -- -- -- Assistant Manager 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 9, 1931 Better Seats Still Wanted "My purpose in dividing the student body was not to destroy the cheering potentialities of our students, but it was done in an effort to keep from having to place them behind the goal posts," declares Dr. R. K. Foster in an open forum letter published in this issue. The Gamecock, in behalf of the student body, greatly appreciates Dr. Foster's interest in not seating the students behind the goal line, but believes he made a great mistake in not seating the students together. Why is it that you Carolina students have to sit near, on, or behind the goal line? Don't you students pay and pay heavily for your seats? Should you not be entitled to as good seats as anyone tlse on the field? The Gamecock is published for the benefit of you Carolina students . and heartily advocates that you Carolina students should have the best seats on the field. However, in this orgy of commercialism, you students are dished out seats wherever the authorities desire. The University has already collected your ticket money, and they seemingly don't care where you students sit. It has been rumored that at the Clemson game your seats will begin on the 30 yard and run to the goal line. From the seating arrangements a,t the Duke Game, it is highly probably that these rumors are true. You students should strenuously object to this and rise in a body to demand better seating arrangements. You students have a section reserved on the 50 yard for games played on Melton field. The same practices should be observed at the field at the Fair grounds. And you would get seats on the 50 yard line at the fair grounds if you would refuse to sit anywhere else. The Clemson, Furman and probably the N. C. State game will be played at the Fair grounds. If you don't object now, you will probably have to sit on the goal lines, behind the goal lines, or have the student body divided on either side of the goal line. Furthermore, before any of you students can get a ticket to the Clemson game, you have to pay $1.10 extra. What is the cause for this extra amount for this one game when you see all the others for a ticket in your athletic. Are the finances of the athletic association in such bad shape as that? With all the other expenses, each of you students have to pay 40c before you can gain admittance to thfe fair grounds. This is not such a large amount, but when you consider that all Clemson cadets are ' admitted absolutely free, it is a gross injustice. The Gamecock realises that the State Fair Association is responsible for this, and advocates pressure to be brought to bear on them to correct this injustice. - It seems that you University students are being made the goat of everything. ' ; ' ' # That Carolina Spirit ? "That group of would-be sophisticated, selfcentered and cheerless mob of upper-classmen don't even cheer at the games. ' They evidently think they're above giving the team a few encouraging yells. It's that kind of Carolina spirit which Olemson has always oonquered so easily. It hasn't been the fault of the teams/' The above statements are what an editor of one of the Columbia dailies think about the Carolina upper-classmen. The thing that hurts about tl^em is that they are true. When the team left for Atlanta, about two hundred fresh men and two^ftpper-olassmen gave them a rousing send-off. Where were tho rest'of the upper-classmen and freshmen? The absent freshmen Were probably imitating the upper-classmen, who, though claiming that they have as much spirit as anyone could have, felt it beneath their dignity to give the team a glad hand. * ' .' Many things have been done to revive the glorious Carolina spirit, but to no avail. And it will never be revived until the upperclassmen lead the way. Two things are the main causes for this lack of spirit; fraternities and the huge number of students living in Columbia. 4 When a student joins a fraternity or a sorority, their interests become centered around this one group. They don't give a tinker's! dam for the rest of the student body. Most of them become teahounds and forget that there was ever anything called the Carolina spirit. Society Us their every thought. The freshmen pledges evidently think that they are above wearing rat caps. 1 The great number of students living in town is a detriment rather than a help to the Carolina spirit. To the majority of students finishing from Columbia high school, the high school means more to them than Carolina does. Their every interest is tied up with the high school set and graduates. They come to Carolina in the morning, meet a few classes, hang around the wall for awhile, and then go home. It is a rare occasion when you see many of them at pep meetings. , These two things have got to be changed before the Carolina spirit, will be revived. Student leaders\will have to bring the 23 fraternities and sororities, and the town students into closer contact with the rest of the student body. , Each year the wrong view is taken toward freshmen. No one can force spirit on a new man. If the upper-classmen will set the pace, the freshmen will follow suit, and the Carolina spirit will rise to heights never before attained. U. 8. C. , Wear Those Caps "If you love Carolina, you will wear your freshman cap" is certainly true of the situation where the question arises as to why freshmen should wear caps. The new man at Carolina gradually gets the idea into his head that whether or not he should wear His cap is a matter between his class and the upperclassmen. It is true that the latter are constantly injecting their efforts into those of patriotic freshmen in an attempt to put* this across, but always it has resolved itself down to a matter (5f concern only within the freshman class. Outsidex influences may . be exerted tremendously for a time, but it is not^ long after September 20th that the freshman class unconsciously votes either for or against the wearing of the cap. President L. T. Baker has stated that "Every redblooded South Carolinian?a true South Carolinian?believes in his State and her institutions, and is never ashamed of anything4with which his State is concerned." 1 Then can it be.true that \Ve have at Carolina students who are 'Lillies", who do not believe in traditions, who care not for tl\e treasures of the Palmetto State in the form of traditions? It is inherent in the heart of every true South Carolinian to revere the name of John C. Calhoun. His name is tradition with us. Yet Calhoun was unknown when this institution' was founded. But do the students as a whole show a desire to preserve the smallest of these traditions? NO! Instead, the upperclassmen curse the rats and varsity when both show a lack of spirit at games. Much of this energy expended in destructive criticism could be turned into cooperative efforts and constructive work. One clap of the chapel bell and rats and upperclassmen alike would be out for pep meetings, the formdr displaying proudly their garnet and black caps. I The freshman class voted to support the wearing of the cap in chapel j Monday morning. It lias been explained to them that they, not the upperclassmen, will eventually bring this tradition through with flying colors, or discard it, as the case might be. The Garnet and Black No. 2 \ The credible manner by which The Gamecock and Carolinian are run under constitutions show without a doubt that The Garnet and Black should also be under a constitution. A constitution will stabilize the staff elections each year; cut down on expenses; and would probably result in a better yearbook being /published. Students pay $3.00 each year for the annual through the student activity fund and then pay $1.25 to have their pictures put in it. Last year over $500 was /left over after all expenses were paid. This money was turned back in, but to what use it was put to, The Gamecock does not know. It probably went to help out athletics. Only photographs, taken by one certain company, are acceptable for the annual. If The Garnet and Black is run on a business-like basis, the different photographers in Columbia would have to submij bids to do this work, and the students (would get their pictures taken for a great deal less than what they are now paying. We do not know why, but the same photographer has1 taken the pictures for the last four years. ' * ^ A constitution must be forth-coming! To ^control election of staff editors, The Gamecock suggests a board of publication to approve the nominations of the staff. The members of the proposed board would consist of the heads of the English department and School of Journalism, and the president of each of the four academic classes and of the three law classes. The constitution should be patterned after those governing The Gamecock and Carolinian. It should be drawn up and go into effect immediately. A;" v* ', : ; ' t f . * I ? ??? OPEN FORUM ' i - October 7, 1931. Dear Mr. Editor: ? In the rush Of business matters; I have been unable to read the last issue of .The Gamecock. I have heard rumors that some severe criticism has been made concerning the seating arrangement of students at the CarolinaDuke game. My purpose in dividing the student body was not to destroy the checr^ng potentialities of our students, bui it was doqe in an effort to keep from having to place them behind the goal post. I consulted with Mr.. Smokes, presiderit of the student body, and other epres^ntative students, and they heartily agreed that this plan would be much better than having the students in one big group. I regret that this was interpreted in the wrong manner, if such is true.1' Very truly yours, I R. K. FOSTER, Director of Student Activities. TJ. s. o. I am a freshman. With many other freshmen, I attended the Orientation camp. There we heard speeches in which the phrase, "Carolina Spirit" occurred time and time again. We went to pep meetings and cheered for all we were worth. Each of Us began to build up a resolve to do our bit for our new alma mater and to help to preserve that wonderful "Carolina Spirit." We began our course at the University with the desire uppermost in our minds to do or die for Carolina. The first big pep meeting was called and we freshmen turned out in a body. We noticed that there were almost no upperclassmen present. At the football game also, we bore the brunt of the cheering. You can imagine the state of mind that we were in when the now. historic pep meeting was WE WELCOME OAS CAPITOL DRl 1213 Gcrvais Street ? " - - fColumbia SPECIAL RATES Leave Your Laundry at the Ga] See WOODROW LEWIS^ wff THE UNIVERSITY 01 WEBS1 COLLE The Best Abridged Diet IMAGINE YOUR I WHEN VOl f:> THE. RL ANJC AMKiOU IMAGINE YOUll SURPI PRINTING, Stationery, En well as Supplies for Student . THE STATI ^Printers, Sfaflanei COLUMI W$ Print The Oamecock s v I ' ' < fh?ld at which five frGsh were actually 1 :-fif?t for trying to get out of the meet- j "tIi 7 ine very next morning, the team departed, very early, for Atlanta. They were accompanied to the station by about a hundred -and fifty freshmen: and exactly two upperclassmen, the cheerleaders. We had been aroused from our beds at six o'clock and marshalled in front of the chapel where we were urged to be siient so as not to disturb the slumbers of the upper~ classmen. Some, of us had already caught the Carolina Spirit, and were only gotten out of bed by threats of dire punishment. \Ve knew that these were not merely threats. During three weeks time at the Uni versity, my conception of Carolina Spirit has changed from that of. a beautiful, all impelling force to that of a weak, farcial sort of pep, extracted by force from thfc freshmen, j Is it any wonder that Carolina teams \ don't ever seem to <^uite arrive? * ' ? - JOHN BROWN. rv. a, o.- . The' University of Kansas has re- j sponded to the stimulus of the pa- I jama vogue, by having a nightshirt pai#le after their latest football game. All freshmen are required to partici- ! ' pate, and attendance is optional for other students. After each contest j there will be a grand march through the town, followed by a meeting in South Park, where a school rally will j take' place. There will also be free ' food provided by the chamber of commcrce of Lawrence,. Kansas, where the college is situated. 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