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ft The Gamecock , ? ? Published on Friday of, every week during the college year by the Liteoiry Societies under the supervision of the Board of Publications of the University of South Carolina i 1 ; ; Entered as second class mail matter at the Columbia, South Carolina, postofficc 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 --------- v - 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 T. Mitchell Morse - - - - - - s - - 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 ^Millie Taylor - -- -- -- -- - Co-ed Editor Ethel Galloway --------- - News Editor Jean Wichman -w - - Society Editor H Louise Edwards - -- -- -- -- Feature Editor BUSINESS STAFF I J. W. Brown ------- Assistant Business Manager L.C.Grant - -- -- -- - Assistant Business Manager L Baynard Whaley ------ -Assistant Business Manager I CIRCULATION STAFF I R. H. Bishop - -- -- -- - Circulation Manager 1 Alton Brown - -- -- -- -- Assistant Manager I Wilbur Jones - -- -- -- -- Assistant Manager I Marvin Miller - -- -- -- - Assistant Manager 1 H Kenneth Prince - - - - - - - Assistant Manager9H CROWING FOR: H News Bureau?Even a great University must advertise. I 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, JANUARY 15, 1032 Several years ago people used to say that they had so much money in a busted bank. Now they say "I lost so much." RK TOUIl AGE Many professors will leave if their salaries are cut. Maybe their absence won't hurt so much because there will hardly be enough stu dents to go around next year. j IlK YOUR AOK ? Everyone admires a person who can take his defeats without grumbling and protesting. And everyone admires a person who can win and not get the swelled-head about it. HffT RE YOUR AOK A Senior Class Grift What is the matter with this year's senior class? Only a little more than a semester remains before they will say good-bye to their alma mater, and they have done nothing by which she will remember them. But maybe they are getting ready to do what almost all graduates do? forget that there is such a thing as the University of South Carolina. The senior class last year raised $176 for a gift to the University. This money was used to further the bricklaying and will be a lasting monument to them. Why can't the present seniors do the same? The beginning of such a movement rests with the officers of the class. They might at least call a meeting of the class and find out what is the sentiment regarding such a project. # RK YOUR AOE? It is said that God helps them who help themselves. It is hardly fair to expect the State or the Legislature to do more. If the University can't help itself, it has little right to ask for the help of others. The building of sidewalks is one of the few things students have done for their alma mater in a century and a quarter. Let's carry it through. BE YOUR AGE, including your next birthday! RK YOUR AOK? The Future Of The University With bank failures and hard-times in general, the future of the State University is not what one would call rosy. Hard times have been experienced in the past, but nothing like what will be experienced in the very near future. The budget commission has recommended that the annual appropriation be severely slashed?so much that the University will start on the down grade instead of progressing. But it is inevitable. The ways and means committee of the House of Representatives has recommended a drastic reduction in the salaries of all State employees, which includes University professors. The proposed reductions will probably mean that many professors will be at other universities next year where they will draw more money. If the reductions go through, and they probably will, professors' salaries will be at the same stage they were about 25 years ago. What a come-down! Unless things change the student body will be considerably decreased when next September rolls around. Some fiavc estimated that it will fall off approximately one-third. Some are more conservative in their estimates. These are mere guesses it is true, but it seems as if the handwriting is on the wall. The recent bank failures will have a great influence on the enrollment. There is a great possibility of the tuition being increased next year. A tuition increase almost passed the legislature last year and prospects are bright for it going through this year. Vf,;. J.. 'it' 't$i li? ?' ' The Football Schedule The football schedule for next f^ll is not what most students and alumni would like. The premature schedule released sometime' ago seemed to indicate that those in authority want the Gamecocks to meet all the small teams in the State. As the schedule stands now, only three small State colleges are omitted. One vital fact that the authorities seem to fail to recognize is that you've got to make money in order to make expenses. Small State teams barely draw enough people to meet the expenses of the game. The Gamecock understands that both Tennessee and Alabama wanted games with Carolina, but they both wanted a guarantee of around $7,000 to play in Columbia. The authorities deemed that this was too much. Both of these would have packed the fair ground stadium, whereas certain teams in this State Won't half fill Melton field. Four games 011 the present schedule should not have been scheduled. DE TOUH AOK The Publication Board Ties Again For the second time in the last year, the board of publications has tied four to four in a decision between two candidates for the same office. When that occurs, one of two things must be* done: before any agreement is reached one of the candidates withdraws, or a bo^Fd of members changes his vote. It is easily seen why the average second candidate will not withdraw. Often he is asked to oppose the staff-nominated man by a radical leader on the board. After he has once been promised support, has he anything to gain irom either side by withdrawing? Whereas, the staffnominated person feels that he is more justly entitled to the office at stake and has had promised him the cooperation of his colleagues which is more than the other man can say. The makers of the constitution for The Gamecock evidently failed to see that trouble would arise where the board tied in its balloting. Perhaps they overlooked the political influences which would be brought to bear against a staff-nominated man who was not friendly to certain board members, at least a man who was not politically a friend of the board member. The situation promises to be outcropping continually in the future. The best thing that the literary societies, who have ultimate charge of the matter, could do would be to amend the constitution and add the faculty chairman on publications to the board as a ninth member. BE YOUR AOE? Now Is The Time When the idea of building walks at the University was conceived it was foreseen that the successful conclusion of the project would demand the full cooperation of all agencies of the student body. Such cooperation is doubly imperative now since, owing to the financial stringency, some organization^and individuals have not found it possible to contribute their expectations. The epidemic of bank failures also caught a few checks,\ and the committee has too much of the milk of human kindness to ask these would-be benefactors to contribute twice. It is the desire of every member of the building committee, and of Dr. Babcockfcthe general chairman, to make the sidewalks a joint undertaking in which every individual at the University can participate. Nobody has a monopoly, and nobody will be given a monopoly. The insignium of 110 one group or organization will be given any more prominence'than that of another. It is of the University, by the University, and for the University. Forty thousand bricks and three hundred and fifty sacks of cement have been used already, and forty thousand more bricks and three hundred and fifty more sacks of cement will be used yet before the program is completed. And the work is not costing either the University or the State one red cent. The work is in a thoroughly solvent condition. All accounts have been paid up to date, and hll obligations met on time. There will be 110 hangovers when the walks are finished. Upon the completion of the program the committee in charge will deposit with Mr. Welbourne, Treasurer of the University, all collections, records of deposit, cancelled checks, receipts, and disbursements. " There is nothing I should like better than to have every student and employee of the University contribute a few bricks so that everybody would feel a personal and proprietary interest in the walks," commented Dr. Babcock, who is general chairman. "I hope these walks will outlast 11s who are building them, and I am inclined to think they will. It will give us immeasurable pleasure to tread them in years to come, and to reflect: 'It was along here that I cracked that finger with a trowel.' Remember what Virgil said. I should like to sec students and professors get into the HABIT of doing for the University?make it a tradition." / BE TOUH AOE Dollar For Dollar The three objectives of the sidewalk program are attractiveness, economy, and durability. The bricks are being set in a classic pattern, one that comports well with the historic walls and the general architectural scheme of the University and combines pleasing variation with simplicity. The materials being used were bought under the current market price in every case., The cement used was procured at the same price, indeed somewhat lower, than that the State Highway Department pays for it in enormous quantities. Sand was gotten at a substantial discount; and the bricks, which are the most durable that can be bought and which are accompanied by a one-hundred-year guarantee, were not only purchased at a tremendous saving but, through the generosity of the Richland Shale Products Company, seven thousand were donated to the cause. Masons have been and are working for far less than the standard wage, and in addition have voluntarily offered to work one day without pay as their contribution. Every dollar that has been contributed has been invested to the best possible advantage. % The University has had too many benefactors to permit a complete list at this time, but the building committee wishes herewith to thank Marshal Cantcy for furnishing a large quantity of sand, saving a considerable item of expense; Professor E. C. Coker, to whom the beautification of the campus is a passion, for his invaluable contributions of both time and money; President Baker for his unfailing cooperation and assistance, and Gardener Tinman, for contributing to the cause his profane vocabulary and material aid in addition. \ " ? ' Ill Favor of "Dutch" Dates -: ] ?, .. m Often the boy-friend is expected to contribute as much as five dollars to make an evening enjoyable for the girl-friend. A dance, cafe- 1 teria, corsage, and incidentals soon run the bill up to this amount. Yet Miss Blank smilingly accepts all in a spirit ignoring the wholesale spending, as if to say "You're a lucky fellow to be able to spend your money on me. Treat me nicely and perhaps we'll get together again." Whether or not the date must recognize the existing shortage, of cold cash in the average stude's pocket is left up to her ability to play up to the lad's gullibility. The wise co-ed realizes that just so long-as she can lyake her date submissive to her expensive whims she has nothing to worry about financially. $| It is time for the social leaders to organize themselves into a Fifty., Fifty Club which would bind all members to demand reciprocity on the part of their dates where financial matters are involved. From complaints expressed by many social celebrities, one would judge that thi? organization^would be heartily supported. Co-eds, is it not proper that you take upon your shoulders enough independence to show your right to such independence by giving the boy-friend a hand ? , DK YOUR AOB The Home Stretch With only one month left before the advent of first semester examinations, the cautious soul had better take inventory and see what the chances of passing his work are. Too often the student pauses in the mad rush of student life at too late a date for redemption. Then the midnight oil is burned in a last minute effort to cram up on exams and the unwary one finds that college is only a memory. College, with its multitude of activities and studies, is no playground for modern youth. " In spite of the fact that our elders screw up their mouths and bewail this generation, there is no need for worry over the modern college student. Underneath that veneer of sophistication and knowledge (if there is such to be found), a red-blooded American may be discovered. The first semester of the present scholastic year is rapidly becoming history. Has it been in vain for the college senior or junior or the other students, who now face examinations? As the home stretch is entered, push on ahead. Do not be swerved from your course by sundry nothings, but keep plugging on and pass those exams! Remember?"that enthusiasm starts the race but perseverance wins!" | s BIC YOUR AOK Useless Frills? What place has the University in South Carolina? What place has any higher educational institution in the United States, with the economic situation as it is at present? With more than six million men out of work?according to conservative government figures?and other millions suddenly left penniless after a lifetime of saving, have we a right to give serious thought to the loves of Byron or the esthetic qual-, I ities of Greek temples? There is great need, especially among college people, of what Ezra Pound calls "awareness-to-the-present." College life is as near an j approach to Utopia as we are likely to find on this side of eternity: and by the saifte token it promotes a dangerous ignorance of the painful actualities outside the shelter of academic walls. It is hardly thinkable that our legislators go into such abstractions when figuring on ways and means to hurt the University, but it is plain that they consider education per se a waste of money. We are willing to concede that the old "cultural courses" are now a luxury and, in most cases, the alma mater of a great deal of intellectual snobbery: at the same time, however, we cannot help but feel that efforts to discourage them are shortsighted. The attitude of the legislature is purely negative. And we fail to sec in their busy figuring a real awareness of the present situation. j UK YOU It AOK Why Duplicate Education? Why Clemson and The Citadel should encroach on the fundamental purpose of the University has never been understood by thinkers. Clemson was founded with the purpose of being an agricultural and mechanical school. Today its arts and science departments dominate all others. The Citadel has likewise gone through the same evolution for which it was never intended. Designed primarily to produce engineers and mechanics, it has been bringing forth graduates who hanker after the social, economic, and political positions of the State. The University has a department of pharmacy. So has the Medical College in Charleston. Is our State so large that we should have two I such educational divisions serving the same purpose? The University has a school of engineering. Herein it encroaches upon the rights which were originally Clemson's and The Citadel's. A state university is generally conceded to l>e an institution to bring forth men and women interested in the social, economic, and political ' life of the State. It is the purpose, or should be the purpose, of the two military schools^ mentionecj to supply the State with its engineers. How Clemson or I he Citadel can make the assumption that it i5 capable of furnishing academic training that can only be found at a state university must be attributed to another of those twists of Mature. I Imagine how a journalism student would be equipped who had received a degree at one of these institutions! Yet this will take place at the rate the two institutions arc evoluting. I ELIMINATE DUPLICATION in our institutions of higher learning, and it will eliminate largely the need for salary cuts of faculties and administration. I?K YOtm AOK , The Safe Investment Over forty-five banks in this State recently closed their doors. .Thousands of depositors were left empty-handed, with nothing to show for months of hard work. About twenty-five per cent of the people who j live in South C arolina were affected by the closing of these banks in '] some way or other. Such happenings are to be regretted. But tlW truth about a college education, which once acquired can never be lost, seems to stand out in the face of such a catastrophe. Once it has been won by an earnest | seeker it can never be stolen, lost or sold for gain. S&j