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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor 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, postofhce 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 i?. 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 , 1 Gamecock office phone?8123, No. 11 Executive Board William C. IIebuekt Editor J. Sam Taylor Business Manager Allen Rollins Managing Editor Associates Louise Edwabds Associate Editor J. II. Galloway ........ Associate Editor John Giles Associate Editor William I. Latiiam Associate Editor J. Mitchell Mobse ------- 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 Schafer - - - - - - - - - Sports Editor O. H. Skewes Assistant Sports Editor John C. Payne Alumni Editor Genevieve Reynolds ------- Exchange Editor Boyoe Craig Fraternity Editor Belvin Horres Y. M. C. A. Editor Katherine Cathcart - - - Joke Editor Co-Ed &? Ethel Galloway Co-ed Editor Josephine Griffin - ... News Editor W Marian Finley Society Editor Faith Brewer Feature Editor , Assistants I Bonnie Kate Barnes, Lemuel Gregory, LaVerneJ Hughes, Annie Hurrr, Donald McIntosh, Jane Shaffer, Sue Kibler, and Jean Wichman Hfl Business J. W. Brown Assistant Business Manager L. C. Grant / Assistant Business Manager Baynard Whaley - - - - - ' Assistant Business Manager Circulation R. H. Bishop - - - . .... Circulation Manager L. W. Epton Assistant Manager I Wilbur Jones - -- -- -- - Assistant Manager Leon Piokens ... - - ... Assistant Manager Kenneth Prinoe 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. Football Stadium?A needed addition to the University's equipment. Paved Sidewalks?Not only a need, but an immediate necessity. FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1932 ; i A Committee Fails To Function Many, many moons ago the student body held a meeting and a committee was appointed to draw up a constitution for the Garnet and Black to be submitted to the student body for approval. This H committee has never functioned, so far as the University students know. Why? PP This is no time for excuses of one kind or another to be advanced to explain away the inefficiency of a committee which, in good faith with the student body, accepted the responsibility of drawiug up this body of rules for the consideration of the students. Spring elections will soon turn the corner, and nothing in the wajr of having student body meetings to consider the proposed constitution may be done at such a late hour. It is now that this whole matter should be ironed out. The whole good of the student body is at stake in this matter. This will have a direct bearing on who should be and who should or could not be candidates for the high positions on the yearbook staff in a month or so. Just as sure as this matter fails to receive the attention and gain the support of the conscientious students, the same old trouble is going to bob up soon about the "dummy" candidate for the editorship of the annual, while the other man goes into office with a fake "walkaway". The Gamecock does not propose to sit idly by and see this old trouble come up this year, unless the majority of the students are willing to be duped again. It is only fitting that any organization (and the annual is an organization) should have a system of government and a statement of its purposes and objects. And since everything else around this institution has such a governing body, there is no reason under the sun why anyone who wants to see the Garnet and Black prosper should object to having black and white regulations on the working of the staff. As matters now stand, any freshman may become editor of the annual and there is no constitutional reason why a sophomore, junior, senior, law student, or graduate could not compete with him! Does the student body want to see this old election ailment arise again? Do the present members of the annual staff want to suffer criticism, if not embarrassment, and possibly disappointment due to failure to provide for eligibility rules regarding the staff positions? If "No" is the answer, then action along definite lines is highly in order right now. tt. n. o. Speaking of versatility, how about Prof. Mercer being the Chief Totem of the Shriners and assistant superintendent of .a Baptist Sunday School 1 (NSFA)?Princeton is the college 6f riots. There has been a series of them from 1800 to 1930. Lengths of prayers, poor food and unpopular presidents have been the causes for some of them. The worst upheaval occurred in 1817 when the tutors were locked in their rooms and attacked with bricks and wooden bats. .:: f' ... 7, \ > ; ; Hats Off To The Biddies V Playing some of the strongest textile, independent, and high school teams in the State the Carolina Prosh basketball team recently closed one of the most successful seasons ever attempted by a basketball team at the University. Held twice to scores of 28 to 20, the Biddies came back in the return engagements and in each instance beat their opponents by larger margins, in which they scored more than 40 points. They scored at least 40 points once against every opponent they played. Their record is indeed amazing. They scored a total of 732 points in 14 games, or an average of 50.3 points per game. It is an invincible freshman team that played for the Garnet and Black this year, and, given a chance, it is well assured that they will get somewhere in the Southern Conference next year. The Biddies were successful this season because they played basketball as it should be played. Unselfishness characterized every minute of their season's performance. Not a game was played that every member of the team, at least once, passed t<f a mat? for a shot which lie could have easily made himself. In this lay their key to success and for this we should take our HATS OFF TO THE BIDDIES! (NSFA)?"We learn that Harvard has abolished Yale locks from its dormitories. In line with this rather startling policy of patriotism, it will be but a matter of time until the Vassar student body puts a ban on Smith cough drops and Ytile takes drastic action against the Harvard classics," says the Oregon Emerald. . The Advantages Of Delayed Pledging What freshman can honestly select the fraternity he wishes to be identified with in one brief rushing season of only two weeks at the very beginning of his college career? During the two weeks allotted for rushing under the present system, the rushees are carried off their feet by concentrated, high-powered rushing. They get a distorted view of college life and get off to a bad start generally. Since the rushee should base his judgment of the group on the men in it and the quality of the fraternity, he should be given an adequate time to make his selection. He has to take into consideration the fact that his whole four years must be spent within the group he selects. How can he make such a selection wisely in the short period allotted according to the present system? The young freshman who Is rushed "off his feet" by several fraternities soon acquires an exalted view of his own importance to the campus at large, and to the fraternity in particular. He likewise obtains an inadequate impression of the importance of himself to his fraternity and the fraternity to himself. What fraternity can select the material best suited to the group in the two-weeks' rushing period? What fraternity can be sure that it will not pledge someone who may later be sorry he went to a fraternity or someone it may later regret having pledged? When rushees and fraternity men are thrown together for a period of several months rather than a period of two weeks, both will be enabled to form a lasting impression of each other and greater harmony in the groups will be assured. It will do away with any feelings of regret that might arise under the short period due to unwise selection made under stress of emotion and half-formed opinions. u. s. o. (NSFA)?The class of '32 at Boston University will be the first class there to adopt the new book-form of. diploma. It will measure eight by six inches made of parchment, enclosed in scarlet leather, lined with white silk, and "Boston University" will be stamped in gold across the front. The Carolinian Is Out! The March issue of The Carolinian, semi-liumorous, semi-literary magazine, is off the press. To Editor Want The Gamecock extends its congratulations. The issue is one that any editor, collegiate or professional, would be proud to say he edited. During the last year this worthy publication has changed from a dry, uninteresting book of "literature" a la collegiate to a publication that is anticipated by the whole student body. It has LeRoy Want changed from a record of the writings of the staff, most of whom were required to contribute something, to a publication that caters to the originality and literary tastes of every student. IJ. 8. C. (NSFA)?A senior co-ed at Iowa State Teachers College is earning her way through college as a bus-driver, while a masculine member of the Sophomore class, at Montana State College accomplishes the same end by selling cakes which he bakes himself, his angel food having won a prize in a local competition. ' The Annual-Fraternity Question Pan-Hellenic authorities and officials of the Garnet and Black have indicated that there is slight possibility of any compromise being affected when the council meets Monday afternoon. If the yearbook is brought forward this year sans the fraternity pages, it will indicate one thing: that even fraternities have a limited treasury. Many would refute the statement that most of the fraternities at the Universities are on shaky financing at the present moment. FuPther, these same individuals would deny that this is the reason why the groups go on record as refusing to pay the $30 asked by the annual staff for each fraternity's page. Yet anyone who investigates the situation will eventually come to know that this is a matter of keeping down the red figures in the treasurer's books of fraternities. It is lamentable that such a situation has come to the fore, yet why should anyone or any group wish to carry the sham any further? It is no disgrace to admit lack of funds when evety big investor and Wall Street magnate is scanning the ticker tape nervously. While this yearbook is sent out to many different schools, and while many will wonder why the annual has no fraternity section, this is only a negligible factor to consider when a saving of $450 will be made by 300 students. , Excerpt from The Tiger sports editor's dictionary: unsportsmanlike, synonym for defeat. ' / / The Senior Class Gift, Sidewalks Why not make the senior class gift to the University a gift of money to the needy sidewalk fund? This will be a permanent and much needed donation. The letters ! "1932" in the brick walks will be a lasting memorial to thp present senior class. The campus has no use for a gate^an arch, or any sitfnlar ornament. The sidb walks are necessary to the beauty of the campus and the comfort of the students', while some minor article would not only be inadequate but probably unappreciated. Last year's seniors gave a large sum and had their numerals duly inlaid in the sidewalks. Why shouldn't the class of 1932 do the samet If every senior donated a negligible sum, the total would purchasey many bricks. It is the custom to leave a memorial of each departing class to live 011 after its membersJiave left the portals of their Alma Mater. The sidewalk fund is sadly in need of replenishing. Make the senior gift a sum of money to the sidewalk fund! ;Jr W.B.O. , The Art Of Conversation ?: , m Asked what his institution did for the thousands of young people who passed their four years there, a professor at one of the largest Eastern universities in the country replied after some deliberation, "We turn out, as far as I can sec, a low-grade standardized product, & like Ford cars, with just about as much thinking capacity." This . may have been unduly pessimistic, but that it was generally true may be proved by listening in on the conversations one hears about him s 011 the campus. pV5 Interspersed with vapid slang-terms and the latest current expres^ is sions, the talk of most collegians is sadly lacking in all that would be expected of a University man, an intelligent, well-educated, cultured individual. Whatever knowledge of a worthwhile nature that he may have inadvertently assimilated, the student tries most earnestly to conceal under this guise in order to escape the stigma of being designated as "high-hat" or "intellectual snob" by those who themselves adhere religiously to the collegiate standard for topics of conversation. And if the subject matter of the conversation of students is to be * taken as a criterion, it would indicate that the idea of a university as J a place where students obtain a grounding in the best thought of the [j. day, learn how to use their faculties, and as a place where they receive mental training has Clever reached realization. Yet at the other extreme are those who indulge in talk that is smart and burnished and sounds like a meeting of a literary club. Discussion of modish books, plays, and ideas is brought up with astounding solemnity which robs the conversation of all naturalness and ease. As grimly serious about the topics they take up as the average student with his flippant and uninteresting conversation, they do not derive the proper satisfaction and pleasure from this weighty talk if one is to judge from the schematic manner in which they tackle their subjects. To steer a mid-way course between the foolish and funereal types of conversation is what students who are University students in every . sense of the word should drive at. Good conversation is certainly one of the most delightful forms of leisure, and Good conversation is something between solemnity and absurdity. Is The Uniform Losing Its Lure? Oklahoma A. & M. College which was the scene of a lively fight over compulsory.drill last fall now has the honor of presenting the; ? first R. O. T. C. girl colonel to turn in her uniform. * Miss Jeanette '/i Thompson says she accepted the position as an honor with no other particular significance. Then a Y. W. C. A. conference upon dis- yj armament brought her to see that she was being used to glorify war. "It was a different tretrd of thought to what I had known. FVora g this discussion I started reading and getting people's points of view from both sides. After thinking it through, I resigned as colonel 1 \ because I couldn't possibly do anything else." The "Red Chasers" may see here a new reason for abolishing the Y. W. C. A. and other groups that try to get students to think for J themselves. We must never allow youtli to get the notion that military training, preparedness, or the uniform have anything to do with war, for bloodstained puttees do not shine. Congratulations to Miss ' Thompson! May her kind increase until every woman can look straight through the lure of military parades and see war's destrue- >' tion and folly. (NSFA)?At the University of Amsterdam, American students are awarded the highest rating 011 the campus. They are the dfily ones of the student body privileged to drink and chat after the one ^ o'clock curfew. / ? I ? 1 THE STATE BOOK STORE 1 ?? I; TTJi "I'd like to waylay in the dark these^ folks who tell me how to yBJBSm "Yeh, when I find a parking SaP> up strolls some sympathetic wKlU sap who tells me how to twist ,Jk2|HV back in order to insert my \1Twff fwfV hack. In such gaps I could park Vh |^|l blind folded, but always boobs 1 ^.hose. brains are molded stand V ii ?e?rio?sa" dircctlons' Th?y should be caged for loose con- 1 '' b? unnecessary, but you'll surely appreciate I 1: dvice?-visit the State Book Store and view their really i| Of the lading*manufacturers!6"6 PenCU8' The """" th",g" the State Gjmpany || Printers,Sfaftoners,Office furniture < I Columbians. C. j! M !; Wt prtne Tht Gamecock ' ,] :"v? \ y M