Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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__ - The Gamecock . 1 1 v.... . , . , , : 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. 11 11 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 1'ayi.or - - 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 Editor 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 - -- -- -- -- Fraternity Editor J. H. Galloway - - - - - - - - - Y. M. C. A. Editor Catherine Cathcart - -- -- -- -- Joke Editor ASSISTANTS Jack Payne, Frank Wardlaw, Genevieve Reynolds, Marian Finlay, Jose.v hk phine Griffin, Jerry Glenn, Robert Conard, Lemuel Gregory, Donald Mc "b Intosh, LaVerne Hughes, Anne Huiet, Bf.lvin Horres, Theodore Ninestein, / Boyce Craig, and Sue Kiblf.r. CO-ED - I Millie Taylor - ------- - Co-cd Editor T-I Ethel Galloway - -- -- -- -- News Editor I Jean Wichman - - Society Editor 'x'H Louise Edwards Feature Editor ' BUSINESS STAFF - I J. W. Brown - - Assistant Business Manager I L. C. Grant - -- -- -- - Assistant Business Manager I Baynard Whaley - - -Assistant Business Manager : I CIRCULATION STAFF I R. H. Bishop - - - - - - - - Circulation Manager I Alton Brown - - - - - - - - Assistant Manager I Wilbur Jones - -- -- -- -- Assistant Manager J Mauvin 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. i WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1931 No Broadcast of Games Considerable criticism, mostly emanating from station WIS, lias been directed toward the University athletic authorities for not allowing the Clemson-Carolina game to be broadcast. People from all parts of the State have been writing letters to the newspapers denouncing this policy. The writer has seen some of these letters and was indeed surprised SSfcW- to find that so many people are so ignorant concerning the althetic conditions at the University. Operators of station WIS have gone on the air quite a bit recently to vent their protests toward the Carolina authorities for not allowing the broadcast. They say that they want to broadcast the games because it is their duty to the people of the State who are unable to attend the games. Possibly they feel that way about it. On the other hand when a broadcasting company gets the right to broadcast a game, they sell this right to advertisers. Then the game is brought to the listeners through the courtesy of merchants so and so over station XYZ. The broadcast of games thus becomes not an affair of duty but one of money making. People have been crying that they give Carolina and Clemson nearly a million dollars a year and wondering why the games are not broadcast. The answer to this is very simple. Out of the money appropriated, the athletic association does not get one cent. It is a selfsupporting institution, builds and upkeeps its own fields, and buys its own equipment. Why should they allow games to be broadcast for people who do not pay anything for the support of athletics at the University? And when the legislature meets they fight the University with everything they have. Why should people back at home enjoy the same benefits of a game as those who come and pay the admission price, of which ten per cent goes to the state tax commission. They shouldn't. Another reason why the game was not broadcast is that the Southern Conference of which the University is a member looks with disfavor upon the broadcasts of games. We have heard rumors that a bill is going to be introduced into the next session of the legislature to compel colleges in this state to allow the broadcast of football games. However, we believe that the mem* bers of the legislature have more intelligence than to pass such a measure. The Gamecock takes this method of congratulating Dr. Foster and the athletic authorities Upon their stand in the matter. TJ. 8. O. The New High School The building which will house the University's new training school for teachers is nearing completion. It will be an added incentive for students to go into the teaching profession, and will undoubtedly increase the number of teachers on the market. There are already so many grammar school and high school teachers in South Carolina that if they were offered only fifty dollars a month they would have to take it or go elsewhere. And since the state and civic authorities almost everywhere seem determined that only the worst teachers shall remain, we can only say, "Go west, young man, or east or north or south, anywhert but South Carolina or Chicago." m . ; Sidewalks A Reality If the President of the University of South Carolina and the board of trustees will only give their consent sidewalks will adorn the campus this year. It won't cost the University one cent?only their consent. The plan as being worked out now is backed by one of the prominent faculty members and several staff editors of The Gamecock. It calls for the walks to be modeled after those on the campjis of William and Mary. They will consist of bricks, laid in picturesque patterns, and will harmonize with the ruggedness of the campus. The advantage of brick walks over cement ones is twofold. They will cost less and cement walks will look too ugly in contrast to the green campus. Funds for the materials will be raised by voluntary contributions, both of students and alumni. The faculty member guarantees that these will be raised. The task of excavating and laying the bricks will be borne by the staff editors of The Gamecock. Sidewalks is one of the greatest needs of the campus today. When it rains, they are so muddy that you ruin your clothes; when it is dry, the dust stifles you. The enterprise has already been started. Will the authorities cooperate to make it a success? It rests with you, Dr. Baker, and members of the board of trustees. U. 8. C. Orangeburg's Welcome University students go to Orangeburg Thursday to see the Carolina-Citadel game. As has been the custom in the-past, this will be a holiday in order to permit students to attend this game and the Orangeburg County Fair. Upperclassmen are well aware of what is meant by Orangeburg hospitality. To them it has become the acme of Southern generosity. Each year as the students return to the campus, they begin to look forward to that time 3G4 days in the future'when they will again be the guests of those magnanimous people composing the Edisto city. Many officials of the fair association of Orangeburg county are Carolina alumni. According to them, they feel that in welcoming the Carolina man to their city, it is a personal invitation to fellowstiulcnts, to men and women who will soon leave the University and take their position as full-fledged boosters of their Alma Mater. The new student has something to look forward to in experiencing the atmosphere that encircles Orangeburg and pervades the student bodies of both schools attending the holiday festival. Cordiality and magnanimity are evidenced on all sides, as one sees the Edisto pearl thrown open to them. What a sight to parade behind a garnet and black band down the "main drag" between waving banners of both Carolina and Citadel. It's Carolina great day, so, students, go down and enjoy the only too brief hours, but, above all, do not hesitate to express your enjoyment to the citizens that you will meet there. ?U. 8. O. Rotten Sportsmanship Nothing delights a spectator more than to see students show good sportsmanship at football games,'even if their team is losing.' Many, however, went away after the game Thursday with their estimation of the Clemson spirit considerably lowered. It is considered bad sportsmanship for students to cheer when the opposing team suffers a penalty. The Clemson cadet corp must not know this as organized cheering was heard from their section each time Carolina was penalized. Not only docs Clemson do this but also a certain high school in Columbia. This bad form was especially noticeable at the game Saturday. Everyone criticizes the Carolina students for their lack of spirit. But they at least do not cheer whenever their opposing team suffers a penalty. May they continue not to do so. Little Money or Much Good Will The state fair has closed. The officials have counted the admission fees paid by those who,attended. The Gamecock wonders if they made any money off the Carolina students bv charging them admission to the grounds. We estimate that less than one-third of the student body paid to gain admittance. Maybe we are wrong, but we don't think so. Those who paid were mostly co-eds, and the only reason they did was because they would have probably torn their dresses if they had jumped the fences. The state fair shows how little it is by trying to charge students admission, especially on Thursday when the big game is played. They admit all school children free Friday and why couldn't they do the same to the college students the day before. They would lose but very little money by doing so. The good will of the students gained by it would amply repay them for their courtesy. At the Orangeburg fair Thursday, the Carolina and Citadel students are not only admitted to the grounds free but are given a free dinner. No wonder the students love to attend the fair in the Edisto City. The admission fee to the state fair probably wouldn't seem too bad if the Clemson cadets and Winthrop girls were not admitted free without any charge whatsoever. The policy of discrimination is running the state fair. Unless they change their arbitrary practice, the Orangeburg fair will soon supersede it as the best fair in the State. Students Know Thy Regulations "Ignorance is no excuse. It is the duty of every citizen to know the law of his state and nation." Too many times have criminals and victims been told that it was their duty to know the regulations. Too many times have they be?n told by a judge in some such words as the above that they must pay the price of ignorance. And, in like manner, tens of students are annually made to pay the price of not familiarizing themselves with the catalogue and regulations of the University. Every year, istudents of four years' standing, suddenly discover that they have not enough credits to graduate. Each semester students are punished because they violated the disciplinary rules, perhaps unknowingly at times. In a large institution the registrar and dean cannot devote enough personal attention to each individual so that he will be guided and led through school, like a blindman. Until undergraduates learn what a diploma represents and what credits are required of the candidate, many apparently "good" students will find themselves graduating after five y<?ars. v War In 1932 V War in 1932? Preposterous you say. Why should we go to when we are already.neck-deep in debt from the War of 1918? I The nations of the world ar embroiled too deeply in economic depre^B sion, you say to be interested to any great degree in warring an expend B sivc war, and all wars are expensive. v The United States is faced with an internal ailment at the present! time, you insist, which, makes her favor a strict laissez-faire policy. ;f| Correct you are in every presumption, except in the matter of whettj this war will begin.' ' 9 The world's nationalities are reeking with the signs of bankruptcy;* the world's peoples are sending aloft a cry for relief. a Yet these same countries, these same people, would favor an intei-1 national conflict "right off the bat," if propagianda properly handled9 assured them that it was a case of "fight or perish." Just as we were taught to believe the Hun of 1917 a Frankenstein monster, so we could be mislead to consider another country's patriots I as a menace to progress in 1932. Are college students, the so-called leaders of tomorrow, to be sojl gullible? Are we to be the instruments in the hands of the propaganda dists who will send us to a needless battle-front? Are we to believe? that we must go from peace to/war in order to have peace? You ask: "How may~I be prepared for onslaughts of these under-1 handed schemers who would reap rich returns from the blood that yon! and yours would pour upon some land for 'home and country?' " READ THE NEWSPAPERS! READ WORTHWHILE JMAGA-1 ZINES1 READ EVERYTHING AVAILABLE! and judge its merits! for yourself. fiS Can one but reach the conclusion that the average college student ! is an intellectual pauper when evidence abounds everywhere to show! the utter ignorance prevading thitf campus as regards news of national 1 and international treatment? Mahatma Gandhi?one student thought it was the name of a new I brand of candy! 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