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Staff Election
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Opposed By
Clariosophic
Constitution Breached
Tuesday's Joint Meeting Is Scheduled
To Decide Election
Controversy
Registering disapproval of the rccent
Gamecock election by the Board of
Publications, the Clariosophic Society
Tuesday night passed a motion inviting
the Euphradian Society over to
its hall next Tuesday to consider the
protest.
The objection has risen due to a
breach of the constitution of The
Gamecock, which declares that no two
students on the board may belong to
the same fraternity. John Bolt Culbertson
and Carlisle Roberts are members
of Blue Key fraternity, the latter
having been initiated jyhile an undergraduate
at Wofford College.
Another complication that arises out
of this is The Carolinian election which
was recently held by the same board.
Further the two members of the same
fraternity were on the board at the
time of the election of the staffs of
the two publications last April. Some
students have declared that this would
cause these elections to be classified
as "illegal" also.
"It is felt that the Euphradians are
the logical ones to withdraw their man
and clcct his successor," declared a
prominent Clariosophian. "The
Clariosophic within the last few
months have recalled two different
men in order to obviate this difficulty."j
A vote of confidence in their two'
board representatives was passed by
the Euphradian Society at its January
1 l'.? meeting. This came after that
society received a Clariosophic committee
which informed them of the
existing conflict with the constitution
and board representatives.
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Carolinian Gets
Bid To A. C. C. |
Campus Monthly Invited To Join
Association Of College Comics
'Of The East
The Carolinian, literary and humorous
magazine, has received an invitation
to join the Association of College
Comics of the East, officials of the
magazine announced today.
The Association which is composed
of the foremost college comic and
literary-humorous magazines in the
United States, is similar to the National
College Press Association in
which The Gamecock holds membership.
Announcement was not made as to
whether or not The Carolinian would
accept the invitation, but it is understood
that the magazine may decline
due to the extra expense of membership
and trip to the convention at the
Hotel Astor in New York.
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By Millie Taylor
"Man has seen fit to describe snakes
as lowly and repulsive and this opinion
has existed for ages. Yet, but a few
years ago, man discovered an instru-)
[Went that certain snakes carry which
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hypodermic needle," says Jack Crawford,
director of physical education for
mcn and probably the best authority
on snakes in South Carolina.
"All snakes originated from the
1'zard. In spite of this fact there are
Hi species of snakes in the United
States and only 07 species of lizards.
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Coker Becomes
New Head Of
Euphrosynean
Knox Is Vice-President
Sarah Cassels Chosen As Senior
Valedictorian; Frances Cardwell
Serves As Orator
Charlotte Coker will be the next
president of the Euphrosynean society,
as a result of the elections held Wednesday
afternoon in the Euphradian
hall.
Jnddie Knox was elected vice-president;
Elizabeth Moore, secretary; and
Bonnie Kate Barnes, treasurer. Jane
Shaffer was chosen critic and Betty
Payne, censor. The senior valedictorian
will be Sarah Cassels and Frances
Cardwell will serve as junior orator.
Miss Coker, who is from Hartsville,
has been an active member of the
society for several years, serving as
vice-president last year. She is a
junior in the school of Journalism
and was on The Gamecock staff during
her sophomore year. She is president
of Pi Beta Phi, secretary-treasurer
of K. S. K., a member of Alpha
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Pre-Med Studes
Discuss Thyroid
At the regular semi-monthly meeting
of the local chapter of Alpha Epsilon
Delta, national honorary pre-medical
fraternity, held Wednesday night
in LeConte- College, an interesting
program was presented, including an
informative paper on "Diseases of the
Thyroid," written by Paul Greenstcin.
Discussion was held and plans made
for sending one or more representatives
to a national convention of the
organization to be held at Howard
College in Birmingham, Alabama, on
March 25.
1 Tells Of
rpes Of Snakes
While there are seventeen species of
poisonous snakes in the United States,
there is only one poisonous lizard, the
gila monster or beaded lizard.
"Some lizards are more snake-like
in appearance than some of our snakes.
Several lizards in this country have
no vestige of limbs. Yet some of our
most snake-like snakes,- such as boas,
have pelvic girdles and movable spurs
that can inflict pain-wounds. These
spurs arc located where the hind limbs
were when they were lizards.
Many people may doubt that there
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Opinions Forwarded To Gamecock
By Alumnua; Conflicts Exist
On Points
What should be the qualifications of
the next president of the University of
South Carolina?
Should he be educator or business
man ?
Ought he to be a native South Carolinian?
Should he be a member of the
faculty at this University?
How old should he be?
What should be his qualifications in
respect to personality, social life,
public speaking, scholarship, and religion?
What sort of wife should he have?
Six prominent 'American educators
and three nationally-known big business
men have given their answers to
these and other questions in response
to requests from James D. Evans,
University alumnus of the class of
1901, now of the Merchant and Evans
i Company of Philadelphia. He has
sent them to The Gamecock, which
Evils Flayed
By Shepherd
Gives Inaugural Address As Euphradian
Leader; Other
Officers Installed
"Students interested in Journalism
and work on the publication staffs
should not be forced against their will
to join a literary society. We have
too many good journalists now who
have shown themselves to be poor
society members."
Thus declared M. H. Shepherd, Jr.,
newly elected president of the Euphradian
society, in his inaugural address
Tuesday night.
"The literary societies should be
careful and tolerant, not arbitrary, in
regard to our publications. We point
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Atlantan Gives
Religious Talks
Robinson Of Columbia Theological
Seminary Arrives Tuesday
For Lecture Series
Dr. William Robinson of the Columbia
Theological Seminary will deliver
a series of religious lectures here
commencing Tuesday morning and
terminating Thursday evening with the
climaxing discourse, "The Certainty of
the Gospel's Way of Salvation,?
Faith."
Dr. Robinson is a graduate of Columbia
high school and HampdenSydney
College, Virginia. He also
studied at the Columbia Theological
Seminary and Princeton University.
His brother, D. W. Robinson, Jr., is
adjunct-professor of law here at the
law school.
Kitts Will Not Be
Bird Cage Coach
The State said this morning that the
following report had no basis of fact,
and that Dr. Foster had received the
information as "news," since Coach
Laval had merely received a number
| of letters from Kitts:
"Jimmie Kitts, basketball coach at
| Athens, Texas, high school, may become
head basketball and assistant
, football coach at the University, a
report from Athens stated yesterday."
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Bernard M. Baruch, among other
national leaders, gives his opinion on
the qualities Carolina's next president
should possess.
publishes them in full in this issue.
The business world is represented
by David F. Houston, Daniel Willard,
Co-Ed Debaters
Compete Honor
Debating Team Chosen At Joint
Meeting Of Girls' Societies
Wednesday
Try-outs for the co-ed debating
team will be held Wednesday afternoon,
February 24, at a joint meeting
of the Hypatian and Euphrosynean
societies.
The University co-eds will uphold
the negative side of the debate, the
query for which is: Resolved, That a
Scaling Down of War Debts Would
Improve the Economic Condition of
the World.
According to the Debating Council,
the initial appearance of the team will
take place at Winthrop 011 March 4.
This is the only definite part of the
debating schedule to be made public.
$125 Donated
To Sidewalks
Social Cabinet Gives $100 And
Debating Council $25 To
Paving Movement
Dr. Havilah Babcock today announced
that two organizations had
given $125 to the brick sidewalks
movement during the last few weeks.
The Social Cabinet turned over $100
to the chairman of the movement after
it was decided that this was one of
the best purposes to which the money
could go.
Twenty-five dollars was recently
voted the movement by the Debating
Council as evidence of their interest
to put the brick sidewalks on the
campus.
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Mrs. Melton Not To
Seek Council Post
Mrs. William Melton, wife of the
late University President, announced
las^ night that she had reconsidered
and will not be a candidate for election
to city council, as announced last
week by The Gamecock.
Mrs. Melton has been associated for
a number of years with the University
Alumni Association.
She has played a prominent part in
Columbia social life.
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Should Yield President,
Says Baruch
and Bernard Baruch.
Those responding from the educational
field arc all deans of schools of
education in large American colleges
and universities: University of Pennsylvania,
University of Chicago, Columbia
University, Harvard University,
Pennsylvania State College, and
the University of Virginia.
Conflicts of opinion exist on some
points.
Explaining his part in the matter,
Mr. Evans says:
The impending selection of a president
for the University has elicited
my warmest interest as an alumnus
who has the welfare and growth of
the University as a living force in the
cultural life of South Carolina very
much at heart.
"This election has seemed to me to
be a matter of such very great interest
and one fraught with so much importance
to its future as to demand any
assistance which could possibly be
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Troy Stokes
Takes Office
Installed As New President Of
Clariosophic Society; Succeeds
W. C. Herbert
"We must fight our way to our
former position of prestige on the campus
by not allowing other activities to
come between us and the good,of the
society," Troy T. Stokes, told the
members of the Clariosophic literary
society in his inaugural address as
president Tuesday night. He succeeds
W. C. Herbert.
Stokes, a senior from Timmonsvillc
and president of the student body, began
his address by paying his respects
to the outgoing administration and
congratulating them. He also made
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Rehearsals Begin
For Next Drama
"So This Is London," a comedy by
Arthur Goodrich will be offered by
the Palmetto Players the latter part
of this month, William Dean, director,
announced today. Rehearsals began
this week, and great progress has been
made from the first.
1 he story is one of the young
American boy who falls in love with
and becomes engaged to the daughter
of titled English parents, and the complications
which surround the bringing
together of the two families.
Local Chapte
Wins Schola
The Gallaher scholarship cup, Sigma
Nu's highest chapter award, has been
awarded to the South Carolina Delta
chapter for the 1930-1931 scholastic
year, Charles Edward Thomas, editor
of the Sigma Nu magazine, announced
through a letter to the chaptcr Saturday.
The cup which has been awarded
for six years by Edward G. Gallaher,
prominent hardware manufacturer of
Norwalk, Connecticut, was won the
first three years by the University of
North Dakota chapter, and the last
two by the chapter at the University
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Frats Fight
Fee Charged
By Yearbook
In Pan-Hel Meeting
Annual Editors Retaliate With
Threat To Go To Press
Without Section
Continued refusal to pay $30 for
cach social fraternity page in the
Garnet and Black was the consensus
of opinion of the Pan-Hellenic Council
at its Monday afternoon meeting.
'I he group meets this afternoon to
take up this and other matters.
"The council passed a resolution
some time ago to refuse to pay the
sum asked by the annual officials,"
stated President William Donclan. "If
any of the fifteen social fraternities
that compose this council go ahead
and have a page in the yearbook, they
will be subject to expulsion under the
present agreement."
Waldie Bushaw, Garnet and Black
editor, stated last night that it would
be impossible to charge less for the
page, the actual cost being $37.76.
"The annual staff would be glad
for every fraternity to pay the actual
cost of its particular page. This would
not mean a saving to the smallest
group, however, as the lowest cost
would be about $32.
"We are not in a financial position
to make any other compromise with
the fraternities, as our student activities
appropriation is much less this
year."
The council has been notified that
unless it takes definite action by
March 1, the annual will go to press
without the social fraternities section.
Another phase of the fight for lower
rates developed recently when Omicron
Delta Kappa and Kappa Sigma
Kappa agreed to await the outcome
of the Pan-Hellenic action before paying
for their page.
Fifteen Co-Eds
Join Sororities
All Sororities Get Pledges As
Short Rushing Season Comes
To Close
Fifteen girls accepted bids from the
eight sororities on the campus in the
chapel Wednesday afternoon, John A.
Chase, registrar, has announced. Bid
day came as a climax to a rather short
rush season which began last Wednesday
and ended with the beginning of
silent period Tuesday evening.
Those accepting bids were:
Alpha Delta Pi: Annie Ehrlich, and
Mary Adele Wilson, both of Columbia.
Alpha Omega: Susan Campbell,
Elizabeth Strother, Margaret Reaves,
Mary Stork, Elizabeth Harvey, and
Agnes Hughes, all of Columbia.
Chi Omega: Brownlee Hair, of Columbia.
Delta Delta Delta: Elsie Tabcr and
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r Sigma Nu
irship Trophy
of Wyoming.
In addition to the cup cach member
of the chapter will be awarded a
gold Gallaher scholarship key.
In a letter to Eugene C. Cathcart,
commander of Delta chapter, Mr.
Thomas, who is a native of Ridgeway,
S. C., and a graduate of Carolina,
states that this is the greatest honor
which can come to a Sigma Nu
chapter.
The letter, in part, follows:
"Your chapter made the highest
scholastic average Among Sigma Nti's
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