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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor = f 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 1 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, an$l 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 Officcs in the basement of the Extension Building Gamecock office phone?8123, No. 11 Executive Board William C. Herbert Editor J. Sam Taylor Business Manager Allen Rollins Managing Editor Associates Louise Edwards ... ... . Associate Editor J. H. Galloway ........ Associate Editor John Giles - - - - - ... Associate Editor William I. Latham ....... Associate Editor J. Mitchell Morse ....... Associate Editor Millie Taylor ........ Associate Editor Frank Durham Assistant Managing Editor R. L. Keaton, Jr. Assistant Managing Editor Frank Wardlaw ... . . Assistant Managing Editor Reportorial John A. Bioham ......... News Editor Alan Shafer - Sports Editor O. H. Skewes , - Assistant Sports Editor John C. Payne Alumni Editor Genevieve Reynolds - - - - ... Exchange Editor Boyce Craig Fraternity Editor Belvin IIorres Y. M. C. A. Editor Katherine Cathcart - Joke Editor Co^Ed Ethel Galloway Co-ed Editor l Josephine Griffin - News Editor k Marian Finley Society Editor I Faith Brewer Feature Editor Assistants I Bonnie Kate Barnes, Lemuel Gregory, LaVerne Hughes, Annie Huitt, Donald McIntosh, Jane Shaffer, Sue Kibler, and Jean Wichman Business J. W. Brown Assistant Business Manager I L. C. Grant Assistant Business Manager I Baynard Wiialey ..... Assistant Business Manager Circulation IR. H. Bishop - - - - .... Circulation Manager |L. W. Epton Assistant Manager I Wilbur Jones ........ Assistant Manager I Leon Piokens ........ Assistant Manager I Kenneth Prince Assistant Manager CROWING FOR: I 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. Football Stadium?A needed addition to the University's equipment. Paved Sidewalks?Not only a need, but an imi.iediate necessity. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2G, 1932 Will The New Sidewalks Be Used? After all the money-raising campaigns, after all the movement in favor of the new sidewalks, and the effort exhausted in many instances to carry out as much of the program as lias been done, are Carolina's students going to walk on these new walkways only when Jit rains? Already a number of students may be seen stepping carelessly on the grass which has just been planted alongside the new walks. They are, consciously or unconsciously, setting the example for many of their fellow-students. Just so long as this person or that refuses to show any regard for the front yard of his Alma Mater's, then just so long will it be impossible to accomplish anything in the way of beautifying the campus. Why should a student step on the grass, and make shortcuts over the green when innumerable paths and walks have already been lined out for him to reach a particular point in almost the shortest length of time? It is true that often a few steps may be saved by going in a straight line from one point on the campus to another, but is one's time so valuable? Some seem to think that by stepping on the grass, they heap coals upon the head of that fiery little Englishman, Mr. Tinman, who has done much toward making the campus one of the points of beauty in the city of Columbia. Yet, every student must come to realize that in trodding on the blades of grass, he shows utter disregard for his college home, not for the oral mandates of one person who cares more, it would seem, for the University's attractive campus than the students who compose the institution. Why should a student step on the grass? The students at the University of Michigan would arise in a mob against the person that would trod on their beautifully-green campus. Whether lie be fifty years old or an eighteen-year old freshman, that student understands from the very first that the grass is not made for parking his feet. Ilis feet are to be couched on sidewalks provided for that purpose, not on the velvety grass vegetation. And this has been created at a school where there are many more students than here. Call it love for the institution or respect emanating from a mind that holds proper regard for the worthwhile things, but you must admit that the University students can put this over if they will. Why should a student step on the grass? Perhaps it is because he sees certain members of the faculty trample carelessly on it. Could any student be justly arraigned before a court of justice on a charge of which one of the faculty was guilty? At the same time, if the student must lead the member of the faculty into the "straight and narrow", then perhaps the vagrant in time will come to see himself |jp.. in the wrong. Why should a student step on the grass? It is carelessness. His personal obligation to his Alma Mater is to keep on the sidewalks. He will thus be setting an example for his friends. And what student does not revel in the hope that he impresses others by his example and achievements f (NSFA)?Yale College has a sophomore who is paying much of his way through college by washing dogs. Enrollment Figures Do Not Lie In spite of the many gloomy forecasts on all sides, enrollment for the second semester has been much higher than even the most optimistic had anticipated. The announcement that the University's average enrollment for the year was slightly over 1,700 students came as a surprise to many. At a time when a financial depression has gripped the country and money is scarce, the statement released by the registrar's office last week clearly proves that parents back home are struggling to put their children through school at any cost. They believe that the correct investment at this time is in education for the future, and rightly do they believe so. The cost of an education at the University today is undoubtedly much cheaper than in past years, and students today hav^ much better chances to work their way through. Board is certainly less than it has been for a long time, and so is clothes and other items. If we buy commodities, automobiles, etc., now when such is cheap, why not make a safe investment in a college education when the price is so low, and the dividends are so great? Some of the money which passed into the hands of the treasurer smelled of mothballs. Simultaneously with the government's drive against hoarding is this spirit on the part of the people of the State to take their money from hiding, and invest, it where it cannot fail to reap profits. Nineteen per cent of the student body at the University of North Dakota are affected by an increase in the non-resident tuition fee from $20 to $300. U. R. O. The Collegiate View Of Mars While the war guns boom in the Orient and militarists throughout the world view with delight the possibility of another pleasant season of massacre, one reassuring fact stands out above everything else? the refusal of the college youth to support war-like pronouncements. In past years it has happened all too often that the young men of a nation were the ones who were first swept off their feet by the slightest wave of militaristic sentiment. Such is not the case today. Eacli week brings with it new indications of student opposition to militarism. Student polls have become quite popular in the North, and the verdict in practically every instance has been overwhelmingly in favor of disarmament, abolition of compulsory military training and the extension of internationalism as opposed to nationalism. Young America demands that the bonds of nationalistic prejudices be broken and that compulsory military training be supplanted by comprehensive courses on international relations. That the college pacifist movement is genuine is attested by articles which have appeared recently in The Literary Digest and by the stream of editorials which have poured forth from the pens of college newspaper editors. That pacifism is not just a sophomoric project of under-graduates is further shown by a petition, signed by 327 college presidents, deans and professors, which was presented to Congress about two weeks ago urging that the military training department withdraw from the field of education. With such agitation going on within the ranks of both students and educators it can be hoped that Mars | may soon take his place among the forgotten gods. ?Selected -U. 8. O. Five prominent members of the N. C. University faculty have rejected tempting out-of-state offers of chairs in leading universities and colleges, according to The Daily Tar ITeel. What could happen to this institution if some of its faculty lights were blotted out by offers of positions that were secure and not continually subjected to cuts in salaries? u. s. o. Study Now For June's Torrid Examinations Now that we are through with our examinations and well up into the second semester we might wonder just why examinations are given. Why does a college find it necessary to devote two weeks of the school to nothing but examinations? The answer is that authorities are seeking as best they can to test in a comprehensive way to what extent a student has grasped, what a course has to offer. Examinations are to test the length of the student's knowledge. In many cases examinations are only an artificial test, but the present testing method is generally conceded to be the best discovered yet. It is characteristic of lazy people that they try to benefit by the activities of others rather than at their own expense*. This principle has a peculiar and particular application in the realm of thought and study. Unfortunately, though, this does not always work out to the best advantage on examination day, and a person depending solely on others is found in the same course the following semester. There is only one way to avoid last minute confusion and cramming: Study as you go along. Be prepared to pass your examinations in June, by studying a little each day in February, March, April and May. U. 8. O. ? Flunk, Dammit, Flunk! Such is the appealing and euphonic name of the nation's newest fraternity, an organization founded at 'Bama a short time ago and now threatens to become universal. It is composed of pledges of sororities and fraternities who failed to make the required grade for initiation. Charters will be granted (gratis?) to any schools desiring them. U. 8. C. A topic for a formal debate recently held at McGill University was, "Resolved, That it is Better to be Drunk than to be in Love." Credits For Bull Shooting The University of Wisconsin's Experimental College has been making the front pages pretty consistently for the past few years. Its latest bid for the headlines is its announcement that credit will be given for "bull sessions." "Bull sessions are explained as informal dormitory or fraternity house debates with subjects ranging from the desirability of redheaded sweethearts to the significance of abandoning the gold standard. > "We have felt that the conversation of college students in social rooms when the day is over is as much of an index .of the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of a college as the talk of students in the class rooms," stated Dr. Glenn Frank, president of the university." * , - ; . .. *. < ' ' * v"- ' The Present And Proposed Rushing System 1 Wlien'approaclied by a reporter of The Gamecock last week, nine out of fifteen fraternity presidents or vice-presidents stated that they favored pledging a man only after he had been here four months. One advocated mid-semester pledging, and five others stated flatly ; that they opposed any change Of the present system of f-ushing. These latter base their stand on an argument that is at present quite convincing on its face. They estimate in enormous sums the cost to every fraternity that this extended rushing period would bring on. Some declare that few fraternities would be able to withstand the drain on their treasury as one party, dance, and smoker after another took up surplus and credit of the fraternity. However, have not these contentions been based on reasoning and experience of rushing a& it is done at the present? _These men seem to think that every fraternity hoping to get the "cream of the crop" would throw a dance, smoker, or some other rushing event every week in order to bring the rushee closer to the particular group. This is absurd I The fraternity that based its rushing on superficial attractions like these would soon find it utterly impossible as well as impractical to continue such a rushing program. The group would soon realize its mistake and bring its headstrong efforts to pledge Bill Whoozit down to a practicable financial plane. The whole idea behind the system proposed is to bring the rushee into close harmony with the fraternity itself, the history of that organization, and its men. This could never be accomplished by sipping from tea cups with the members, or by dancing with attractive girls. It will only be accomplished when the rushee and member are thrown ] together naturally over a period of time much longer than two weeks. The best rushee, the man who thinks and is in the long run the best member, bases his judgment of the group on the men in it and the quality of the fraternity. He enjoys and appreciates the various entertainment afforded him by the rushing season, but he is not detracted from a common-sense belief that the stem of the fraternity plant is more valuable than the attractive blossom that blooms forth during rushing season. U. 8. O. ! Raymond Pitcairn and his Republican cohorts in Philly hope to i>\ see his party push through Prohibition reform before the Demos get into power. Maybe the Demos will go into office soon, sure enough 5 with the Grand Old Party sending out propaganda saying that ] "Unless we push through Prohi reform, the Democrats will steal our 'thunder' ". Could the Republican leaders be wrong about the nation's next choice ? . <j U. S. O. J The Senior Class Gift This year's senior class seems to be taking its own good time v^j about bringing up any plans for a parting gift to the University. ) Why ? If the officers of the class expect to get anything worthwhile across, I they must realize that it will have to be accomplished over a period ^ of several months. Nothing of a permanent or worthy nature has , j ever been accomplished by sudden resolutions and last-minute at- i | tempts at vindication or efforts to cover up oversights. . Anyone will readily learn from authorities that last year's senior j class had a hard enough time raising $176 over a period of several j months. Whether or not more could have been raised if the plans had been settled upon earlier is debatable, but there is no doubt that | the odds in such an event are always in favor of the affirmative. The men who have this year's graduating class in their hands will do well to call a meeting of that body within the next few days1 j and put 011 a drive toward some particular goal. It will be no | easy matter to have committees delegated to present this plan and , 1 that, and take care of this particular work relative to invitations, i rings, caps and gowns. The class officers have unquestionably been waiting for the proper time to arise when these various matters are ready to be taken up. Now is that time; that is, if the money-raising campaign is to reach the heights. or higher than those scaled by the preceding \j graduates. N U. B. o. (NSPA)?Temple University offers credits for studies in "Social Etiquette". Barnard College grants credits to all who take the course in "Resting" on the roof of Barnard Hall. New York University i offers credits in "Personality Development". Southern California encourages students to look up their own family trees in "Gcneology"* "Waiting 011 Table" is in the curriculum at Ohio State. *J. 1. o. (NSFA)?Three Pasadena Junior college students pleaded "snow madness" as an excuse for resisting officers in a snowball riot during the recent snowfall there. The students stated that they had never seen snow before and could not refrain from tossing snowballs. They were dismissed. \ 1 -J THE STATE BOOK STORE ^ I 1 J| I <! Sherlock Holmes could not fcgfy l0?hteh 8 W<?man wel1 Ple?*sed WflRJ "There's no such animal, I know, their weights are all too WHSwgy high or low. No matter how jKjfl gsSSnSs they feel or look they all have f|Mn|ffot a diet book. My wife's a VJf ?fl perfect thirty-six?yet when she '!,$?> w ? r 1 t. rea.d? the scales she kicks. Like I > all females, I m satisfied that Venus thought she was too wide." !! <<2 I; Although no woman is pleased with her weight, everybody is J ' pleased with The State Company's printing. They also quote attractive prices on engraving as well as anything for the office. the State Company Jj Printers,Sfaftoners,Officc furniture ; | Columbian. C. \'M ' | ! W? Print Th? Gamecock Jfi :j