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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 xof the University of South Carolina 5>;., v Entered as second class mail matter at the Columbia, South Carolina, postoffice on November 20, 1908. t,j. ? T-. 111 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 m- - 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 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, Josephine Griffin, Jerry Glenn, Robert Conard, Lemuel Gregory, Donald McIntosh, LaVerne Hughes, Anne Huiet, Belvin Horres, Theodore Ninestein, Boyce Craig, and Sue Kibler. CO-ED 7~ mL Millie Taylor - -- -- -- -- - Co-ed Editor .Hk Ethel Galloway - -- -- -- -- News Editor M Jean Wichman - -- -- -- -- Society Editor . I Louise Edwards - -- -- -- -- Feature Editor ; BUSINESS STAFF | J. W. Brown ------ Assistant Business Manager I L. C. Grant - -- -- -- - Assistant Business Manager \ I Baynard Whaley ------ -Assistant Business Manager I CIRCULATION STAFF - R- H. Bishop - -- -- -- - Circulation Manager I Alton Brown - -- -- -- -- Assistant Manager ^ H Wilbur Jones - -- -- -- -- Assistant Manager Marvin Miller - -- -- -- - Assistant Manager Kenneth Prince - -- -- -- - Assistant Manager ~ CROWING FOR: V 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?rA needed addition to the University's equipment. H Paved Sidewalks?Not only a need, but an immediate necessity. I FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1931 Welcome Delegates! 1 To those students of the colleges who have passed the short time here I as delegates to the South Carolina College Press Association we offer the mythical key to the campus! Of both the University and Columbia | Such gatherings, where the future citizens of the nation and state join together to interchange thoughts and ideas, can only be for the betterment of all interested. Petty school bickerings are forgotten, age-old enemity discarded, and with clear open minds, college youth works for the advancement of literature and journalism in the college papers and magazines over the state! Cooperation seems to be fast becoming the order of a new day! Colleges are among the first to adopt the new idea wholesale. The representative students who came are the living proof that youth scoffs at tradition and custom and works for the new! Welcome to our campus and our work, students! Greetings! U. 8. C. Keep Off The Grass Visitors to the University are often heard to remark 011 the beauty of the main campus and especially the broad carpet of green that stretches from one side to the other. But all too soon a class is turned out of a building and the students hasten to walk across the middle of the campus as they wend their way to other buildings. No one can say that Carolina does not have an efficient force of ground workers who try to keep the campus in good shape and the walks in good condition. The grass is cut about every ten days, the trash cleaned off every day, and the walks packed and kept free of rocks and the like. And with the advent of brick sidewalks? A bare spot in the grassy center plot of the campus stands out like a straw hat at a football game. It just doesn't look worth a continental hoot! The student body should have more pride than to continually mar the campus green by tramping the grass down until it disappears from the earth. ^ v .V, , . A moment of thought as one starts to cross the grass would do the trick. Just pause as you start to put that clod-hopper down and think? why they've got eight foot sidewalks for you to walk on! -Boy! Ain't that something? All right! Let's use those walks and leave the grass alone! U 8 O M The New Spirit J The brick walks that are being laid on the campus, paid for out of the students' own pockets and constructed largely by the students' own hands, are an unanswerable denial to those who would say that Carolina has no spirit. Just as patriotism doe9 not consist of marching in a parade and toting a gun, so college spirit is better manifested in other ways than that of yelling ones-self hoarse from behind the goal post. It is an encouraging sign that the rah-rah idea is giving way to a real, living college spirit. VV-", . ... . A . ???I I ' - ! ' I ,m I. Ml ... . " T Iaat The Presidential Situation i % * Who will be chosen the next president of the University of Soutfr Carolina to succeed the late Dr. Davison McDo\vell Douglas still remains a mystery. The Board of Trustees of the University will meet in the next few weeks to discuss the situation. They may choose a president at this meeting or they may not and very probably not. In all likelihood, Acting-President Baker will probably be confirmed as president for the rest of the scholastic year in the event no permanent president is elected. Many names have been prominently mentioned for the position. Among them are University professors, other college beads, prominent educators, writers, and others. According to the committee of the Board of Trustees, who will present the names of the candidates at the board meeting, the field has narrowed to about five. Who these are has not been made public. It is/possible that a dark-horse may be run in at the last minute. It is propitious at this time to inquire about the qualifications.for an ideal University president. Should he be a man who will have the admiration and respect of all students, faculty members, and alumni? Should he be a man who will# have a great influence with the legislature ? Should he be a business man and a capable executive ? Should he be a university graduate? Should he be a comparatively young man, (under fifty?) Should he have the confidence of the entire State and thus create a better feeling for the University among the people of the State? Should he be an excellent speaker? Which of the possible candidates has the most of these qualifications ? C. 8. O. Conferences In Columbia "V The fact that Columbia is an ideal place for meetings and conventions of every kind is impressed upon us by the frequent meetings held here during the past month* There were meetings of the Southern branch of the Mpdern Language Association, the South Carolina Council, the South Carolina College Press Association, and the Conference On Child Health And Protection, among others; and in the near future will be High School Week, and the Student Volunteer Association. Such popularity, as the poet says, must be deserved. The reason is that Columbia, being centrally located, the home of the University and the capitol of the state, is a center of culture as well as of business activity. Its pleasant climate and hospitable people are further drawing cards. i One Sane Athlete ? In the recent decision of Merton Derryberry, stellar University of Tennessee end, to stay at home and take a Rhodes Scholarship examination rather than to accompany the team on its trip to New York we find a hope that one, at least, of our "great" athletes has some conception of the purpose of his being in college. Here was one man who realized that he was in college primarily to develop his mental and moral forces rather than only his mere physical well being. He realized that good clean sport develops one's body and one's sense of fair play and one's ability to take knocks uncomplainingly but he also realized that the body is not cultivated for its own sake but for the ability it will give the owner to enjoy other things in life. He didn't take the game too seriously. Today football is coming to be played too much for its own sake. It originated as a form of physical exercise but is fast becoming a business, a profession, a commercial venture. At one time it was means to an end. Today it is an end in itself. Football is now being played because it is football, not because it is a good builder of strength and personality. The chief purpose of a college education is to lead the student in the paths that will bring him to ultimate happiness and appreciation of life. A well body is necessary to complete happiness but a big mind in a little body is much more content than a little mind in a big body. Ordinarily the happy medium is to be preferred. , Going back to Derryberry, he realized that his body was sound. His sport had accomplished its purpose and he realized it. Since one thing had been accomplished, therefore, he felt himself free to turn to other fields. He shows a grasp on the facts of life and an ability to differentiate between relative values. s U. 8. O. Pure Hokum? Too many times have Carolina students been burned up for their lack of spirit and their refusal to cheer at football games. Now the silent observer raises the question as to whether spirit at Carolina has fallen to the low depths in which some have claimed it rested this season. Can the spirit of a college be expressed only through loud cheers of a frenzied crowd at a football game? When the mob hysteria seizes the student and he will yell for the opposing team as much as for his own? Does the wearing of college colors and a rah-rah cap show the real college spirit? Is this college spirit? What about a monument in the center of the campus, erected to the first president of the University? What about a plate beside the front door of the Library, with a list of heroes who fought in the World War? What about a row of trees around Gibbes Green, with a small stone block at the foot, dedicated to the World War dead? What about campus sidewalks?laid by the student body itself? What about noble lives and great careers?that immortalize the real Carolina spirit? - Maybe?football games are not all 1 1 ! "The Seven Against Thebes" 1 Greek drama gives us the story of the seven wtyo strove mightily to win Thebes and failed. Modern college history gives us the story 0f seven cheerleaders who were and at the same time weren't 1 What is there in quantity that a cheering corps should hold such numbers? Perfect unison of action was to be seen when the corpsvj got down to "One-Two, One-Two" but where was any real result? Curt Brock had his two and he was good! Nigel League had his. four and his name stands for cheering! Charlie Bushaw had his six and the campus still wonders what happened to the cheerleading this year! Remember! cheerleading is always the same. That yells may change and colors may change, but cheerleaders must have the student body back of them to be cheerleaders! Where was the student body this year? "The human body requires more ventilation," declares Professor Wightman. Well, gangsters in America seem to be doing their best. J ?Exchange. There is a movement abroad for the restoration of beer. Something 1 like fifty-seven million fairly expert brewers do not care much whether^ beer retupns or not.?Exchange. u. s. c. According to one who knows, coming out on the top in tne struggle for life isn't always desirable. Think of all the bald men in the world. : ?JZxchange. u. s. c. The next time you are made the "goat" of any situation, try laugh- J ing at yourself, and see how really funny you are. It's sure worth )j trying.?Exchange. Traffic Lights Needed For several years the volume of traffic that daily flows around the 'J campus has been increasing. Where just a few short years ago only i a few buggies and wagons held sway, powerful motorcars dart and huge trucks lumber along. Students who attempt to cross any of the streets that lead off the campus may have to ftee from the front of a bus or dodg^ a swift car as it hurtles down the thoroughfare. 1 Accidents are always happening at the corner of Green and Pickens, ! Streets. Cars coming along Pickens all too often fail to slow up and wait for the heavier traffic on Green Street and sometimes they crash. Co-eds are forced to abide their time to make dashes across Green Street to gain the quiet green of the campus where they may pursue their easy walk. i I Students returning from the gymnasium, the field house, the men's cafeteria, or even the infirmary, have truly to take their lives in hand as they venture across the street in the face of flying traffic. It would be a simple matter to place a policeman on some of these , corners for a few hours each day. Or to place stop lights at the Corner of Green Street and Pickens, or the intersection directly in front of the gym. These spots are really dangerous ones and Civic authorities should act before a serious accident occurs to someone less . accustomed to dodging the traffic as most of the students at Carolina have become. What about it? U* s. c. The more you study a great man's remedy for dull times, the more you wonder what made him great.?Exchange. U. 8. O. l ^^O^THAND^ I > \ \ IN |; \ 30 DAYS j ^ Written with ABC'S and familiar characters? j / Simple, rapid, accurate. Serves all purposes better. { / , Used and indorsed by many of the highest paid { ^ secretaries in America. Low cost, easy terms; I / positions secured. Individual instruction in type- * / writing, bookkeeping, filing and all secretarial sub- J \ jccts- '> ? 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