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1 11 * 'i 1 i i mi 'i i1 1 'i i ii1 'irrr i , i i i1 11 i "i1 ve The Gamecock K.'- ' 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 j 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, 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 cf 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 Executive Board William C. Herbert Editor J. Sam Taylor Business Manager Allen Rollins - - - Managing Editor Associates Loiuse Edwards ... ... . . Associate Editor J. II. 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 It. 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 Boyce Craiq Fraternity Editor Belvin Horres Y. M. C. A. Editor Katherine Cathcart Joke Editor Co-Ed Ethel Galloway Co-ed Editor Josephine Griffin ........ News Editor Marian Finley Society Editor Faith Brewer Feature Editor Assistants Bonnie Kate Barnes, Lemuel Gregory, LaVerne Hughes, Annie Huitt, I Donald McIntosh, Jane Shaffer, Sue Kibler, and Jean Wichman Business J. W. Brown Assistant Business Manager L. C. Grant Assistant Business Manager Baynard Wiialey ..... Assistant Business Manager Circulation R. Ii. Bishop - - - - .... Circulation Manager L. W. Epton - - Assistant Manager Wilbur Jones ........ Assistant Manager Leon Pickens ....... . Assistant Manager Kenneth Prince 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, AP1UL 8, 1932 Vote! Vote! Vote! Elections at the University of South Carolina have always liad one evil factor about them: the minority of possible voters determines the successful candidate. Few elections in the past, open or secret ballot, have been carried by a majority of the eligible voters. Today begins the first big spring election, the May Queen race. You may not have a candidate in the race that you are personally interested in, but you undoubtedly will later on. If you wish your friends and acquaintances to help you put your candidate across in the future, then now is the time to go out and vote for the other man's candidate. You owe it to yourself to use your right to vote. You owe it to every candidate in the race to go to the polls and express your choice for May Queen. GO TO TIIK POLLS. VOTE AS YOU PLEASE. And, by all means, IGNORE the pleas and overtures that will be made to you by hand-shaking, snivelling, whining politicians, as well as the "interested" bystanders that will besiege you before you get within a hundred yards of the ballot box. DECIDE ON YOUR CANDIDATE BEFORE YOU GO TO TIIE POLLS AND VOTE THAT TICKET! OWN YOUR OWN VOTE?AND DON'T SELL IT ! Vive Le Faculty! The faculty made a wise move Wednesday when it reduced the number of unexcused absences permitted in a course. That pedagogic body also provided for early senior examinations and revoked its recent action to raise the requirements for the honorary graduation grade of cum laude and magna cum laude for the '32 seniors. Students at the University have been only too prone to cut eight o'clocks on "the morning after" when they did not feel like meeting classes, or were obviously lazy. Now these men and women will be allowed to cut only half as many times. A number of professors have pointed out that the good-marks student cuts class vei'y seldom. Since this is true from all reports, then by reducing the number of unexcused cuts allowed perhaps it will furnish some incentive for these low-marks students to study. At least they will have to be present oftener and show their ignorance of the assigned lesson for the day. TJ. a. o. (NSFA)?"The ideal student is always in revolt. A conforming student is a Iiourbon to start on, who never learns anything new and never forgets anything old. Conformity is death to youth. Later in life youth will learn to conform with wisdom, but at the home plate, with the bat in its hand, before the bases are run, youth should be in revolt?free, on its toes, rarin' to go," said William Allen White in a recent interview with a reporter. u, ft. o. (NSFA)?Will Cuppy, noted humorist, in an article in The Daily Tar Heel, says that he has no strong convictions on modern music other than that it should be stopped. a?BCT 1 . saaBBSSTsasrssaBmms Open Forum Dear Mr. Editor: / Prior to and during the scholastic year 1018-1919 the several ptudent activities on the campus were supported by voluntary contributions solicited from the student body independently by the various groups. What was the result? Some causes were oversubscribed, others fell considerably below the desired amount. This, however, fluctuated periodically as did student interests. Two major results occurred: (l) No activity was able to map out definite plans, being unable to estimate the pecuniary resources at its disposal. (2) The student body was over solicited and eventually, during the course of a year, contributed much more than was actually necessary. These conditions became so abhorrently obnoxious that duVing the year 1918-1919 the student body requested of the powers that were the privilege of making donations in one lump sum each semester. In March, 1919 the student body adopted a Student Association Constitution which stipulated a student activity fee of $8.00 a semester. As the student body has nearly trebled since then, the fee has of necessity, been increased. Besides providing a designated party with authority to handle funds so collected, it required the treasurer or manager of each beneficiary group to make a financial report to the student body at the end of his term of office. It also provided that beneficiaries return to the sinking fund any and all surplus derived from their apportionment of the fees. Machinery was also set up calling for a committee "which shall have charge of the auditing of all reports to be submitted to the committee one week prior to the formal report to the student body." Mr. Editor, why was this latter constitutional provision, practiced for a number of years, dropped entirely? If for no other reason than that it is a sound business principle, periodically, at the close of each semester, complete audits most certainly should be made of our fees. A half or a whole page in The Gamecock each semester devoted to these reports would set forth adequately the conditions of the fund to which we, of our own free will, contribute. What corporation or business, run as it should be, does not make public such reports? It is the students' inalienable right to know how and why its money is spent. Nathaniel Chafee Croft. P. S. By the way, why not deny ourselves the benefits derived from this voluntary fund in order to supplement the University's legislative appropriation. $30,000 to $35,000 a year would help considerably maintain our scholastic rating in the fall. u. B. o. Collegiate lippings Dr. Broadus Mitchell, professor at Johns Hopkins University, lias put into effect a system by which the latecoiner to class is distressed, as it were, into being less of a problem. Our latecomer, upon entering after the final bell, is openly declared late, and fined ten cents by the bailiff. The 1:30 section has ordained that its funds shall go to charity; hence, latecomers in this group are made to realize that through their laziness the unemployed arc kept from starving. However, the 8:30 class, being totally devoid of altrustic motives, proposes to indulge finally in a spree of some sort (ice cream cones, perhaps). ?Johns Hopkins News Letter. When President George Thomas announced that the wearing of corsages would be barred at the University of Utah junior prom, several girl students obtain ed an injunction against Dr. Thomas to prevent him from stopping them wearing the flowers if they so desired?and received them to wear. Nevertheless, when the prom was held, only three or four girls appeared with corsages. ?Technique. Graduates Yale University has reported that of its graduates five years out of college those who are selling bonds arc getting the highest salaries. The average for this group is $4,155 a year. Teachers in the class are getting the lowest pay, averaging only $2,080. Is the moral pointed? Stanford University co-eds get good grades because even sedate professors arc not proof against the wiles of Cleopatra, while the poor men students have to burn the mid-night oil and toil unceasingly to get even passing marks. So charges a recent editorial in the Stanford Daily. ?Daily Kansan. >11 IBM HI I.I . A VAk- \j, POUT IC A FORErS" I ?11Wit ?OfMIP yismNC ^9Bg^ ^ - "" By Leonard Horwin (Editor's Note?An Olympic Games story will appear as a regular feature of this column once a week.) INTRODUCING Good morning, folks. We introduce ourselves as your special news announcers on the Olympic Games, bringing to you for the next few months interesting sidelights on the "doings" as America prepares its athletic party for the world. UNCLE SAM THE HOST During the last days of July and the first fourteen days of August, the United States plays host to the world and the games of the Xth Olympiad. To date, the record number of 40 nations have announced their intention to participate. Southern California, the "Playground of America," and the scene of the events, is preparing a rip-roaring welcome. IT'S NOT SO "People think of the Olympic Games as a type of glorified track-meet." Bill Henry, famed sports writer and expert, for twenty years a leading correspondent ?n assignments to every part of the globe, now sports technical director of the Olympic Games, was telling us of his work. "They are far more than that. Besides including an international contest in almost every field of sport with several score nations represented, they are in themselves a great gesture of international fellowship and a tradition rootpd in antiquity." "This," and the athletically built sports mentor in the tan sports suit emphasized his words, "will probably be the only time in the lives of persons now living that the games will be held in America." OLYMPIA These games had a deep symbolism iti moss-covered antiquity. It is a matter of historical fact that down in ancient Greece great battles were called off when the moon reached a certain position in the heavens during the summer solstice. The homicide squads on both sides of the battlefield would then adjourn and tramp off to Olympia on the west coast of Greece to hold the games. In truth, they were not games, but athletic rites of purification dedicated to Zeus, invisible ruler of heaven and earth. The serious business over, and the victors crowned with the proper herb, the athletes would return to the horseplay on the battlefield. DEATH AND REVIVAL Although the Greeks had a word for him and more, the Roman emperor Thcodosius finished both Greeks and games in the year 394 A. D. And that was that for nearly fifteen centuries until the year 1802. In that year the athletically-minded Frenchman, Baron Pierre de Coubcrtin, then a youth of seventeen, proposed the revival of the games before the French Sports Union. Ilis dream | . Babe In The Woo PRESIDENTIAL ?^0 C( B?? Sfr 1 was realized at Athens four years later ?the city which once beheld the glory that was Greece in the days of the Olympiads, now witnessing the first modern edition of the ancient games. It seems fitting that the Olympic Games, in which the physical perfection of the youth of that ancient day inspired eternal works of art, should have been revived by a youth in this modern day when the Games, with their intense competition, are an invaluable physical expression to men being dwarfted by the machine age. FROM STADE TO STADIUM It is a far cry from the Olympic stade (field) in ancient Hlis, fringed by the sacred olive groves of Aphrodite, to the Olympic Stadium in Los Angeles, fringed by a great city. Rearing its 125,000 tons of solid concrete 106 feet into the open sky, the Olympic Stadium, the focal point of activities in the Xth Olympiad, has the greatest reserved seating capacity of any stadium ever built. ^ Two editions of the old Roman Coliseum in which King Nero used to wiggle his thumbs with life or death significance could he set down with room to spare in the huge Olympic Stadium, spread over 17 acres. If the materials used in its construction were loaded in box cars they would form a train more than is miles in length. JONES AND JONES When Coach Howard Jones' gridiron warriors handpicked from lo:u Stanford, University of Southern California, and University of California teams face Tad Jones' boys from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton in the Olympic demonstration of American football, 10r>,000 hearts will leap with the opening whistle and the Olympic Stadium will blaze with illumination sufficient to light a city of 15,000 population. This epochal battle takes place on the evening of August 8, the 10th day of the Olympiad. In the great Olympic Stadium will also be held the impressive opening and closing ceremonies with President Hoover's party in attendance, the track and field events, equestrian sports finals, gymnastics, field hockey, and the three international demonstrations of Lacrosse. PHIOSOPHY OF OLYMPISM It s a grand idea, this Olympic Games; and there's a rich philosophy behind it. As the dying sun sinks into the Pacific on the afternoon of August 14th, and the age-old Olympic closing ceremony is ci.actcd in a stadium sinking in shadows, many of the oldtimers standing there will be thinking of t ic words of Baron 1-icrrc ,1c Coul.cn,founder ?f ,|lc mo(| games: "The main issue in life is not the victory but the fight; the essential is not to have won, but to have fought oWe th? thC8e precePts ? to P . the way for a more valiant humanity, stronger, and consequently more scrupulous and more generous." i I _ I ?O. JHX?? ds '11 ^44VAA-Nft ourtesy N. O. State Technician , I " ' Faculty Men Favor Fewer Honor Degrees Honorary degrees are bestowed too promiscuously, and their value is lessened accordingly, is the unanimous opinion of several prominent professors recently interviewed 011 the subject. This statement applies to the University and to educational institutions in general. "An honorary ^degree," said Acting President L. T. Baker, "is a method >' of recognizing and rewarding distinguished work in scholarship, public service, or the fields of art, literature and science. They should not be given indiscriminately if their value is not to he degraded. Honorary degrees are of course distinct from academic degrees, and in the educational world the giving of academic degrees for honorary purposes is almost universally condemned. The University bestows an average of two' honorary degrees per year. Our record is clear of any bestowals with money in view, as in most cases those who received honorary degrees from us have been men of moderate means. Bernard Baruch is the only exception, but his distinguished work during the war is sufficient to clear us of any possible charge on that score." Dr. Francis Bradley, head of the 1 German department and acting dean, said, in effect. "An honorary degree is an academic compliment to persons of note; the higher the standards of the- institution, the greater is the honor of its degrees. I see 110 other reason for the tendency to make light of honorary degrees than the fact that they are bestowed with too liberal a V hand by many institutions. No institution should curry favor, financially or politically, by selling a degree." Dr. G. A. Wauchope, head of the English department, said: "The average American university gives too many honorary degrees, frequently with poor judgment. The purpose of these degrees is to give due honor to meritorious achievement in various fields, such as' literature, science, and public service; many small denominational colleges, however, weaken their value by bestowing them 011 obscure ministers or alumni of purely local importance. On one occasion the University gave twenty-four degrees at a time. That was at the centennial commencement in 1004. The mistake was realized, however, and for a long time 110 honorary degrees were given at all. At present we give only two or three a year. It has been a source of regret to me that the University has not properly recognized the prominent literary people of the state. John Bennett, Julia Petcrkin, and DuBose Heyward have all been honored with degrees from other institutions, but not from ns, though they have brought national and international recognition to South Carolina. I think we might well use better judgment in bestowing our degrees." Dr. William Spencer Currcll, pro* fessor of English, made the following statement: "I approve heartily of v honorary degrees, sparingly bestowed. L nlcss the circumstances are very extraordinary, the University of South Carolina, in my opinion, should never give more than two or three in any one year. These degrees have been given so promiscuously that their value has been seriously impaired." ' J