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F. F. WILLIAMS, JR. - - Editor DEI oeorge Zuckerua ASSOCIATES Society Editor; Oharles Lee, Catherine Narey, Eal Tribble, As- Albert Rouslin, societe Editors; 8. O. Muckenfuss, Jr., Oourtenay Oarson, Associate Managing Editors: Charlie At kinson, Foster Smith, Associate Business Mana gers; Johnnte Steppe, Margaret Rollins, Asso- 8 etate Society Editors. olt Iendley, Ed Barney Beidlema HAROLD PRINCE, Managing Editor laul Barrett, B Editorial-Of The-Week (Continued from Page One) In a thorough study of this request, it is found that the actual minimum needs of the University are the only ones touched. The bottom limit in funds for effective car rying on the policies of Carolina is asked. The request was shaped after weeks of re search and meetings and it takes in the fi nances available to the state and the items were made commensurate with the econom ical conditions that prevail in South Caro lina. No abnormal accession has been made to the faculty group and the few new members given positions are in line with the increased enrollment and growth of the University. The curriculum has not been expanded be yond the needs of the people of South Caro lina and their development. All lthe new departments now at Carolina are justifiable additions. Last year, the University asked for $461,502.00 and were given $265,000.00. The 1938 budget is not such an increase in last year's figures except that new items such as a library, improvements to existing build ings were added. Of the amount requested, $575,000.00 is for permanent improvements; $250,000.00 for a chapel and religious ceniter ; $265,000.00 for a library building; $25,000.00 for a camn pus laundry and $35,000.00 for renovating and modernizing the University infirmary. Carolina has been trodden under the dust of many groups and prejudices but this hypocritical cloak is being torn asunder and the state is being allowed to see the in ner workings of our state university, to see that its needs are not covered, by far, with this new request. Our legislators hold in their hands the possible history of a state. If they give to the University the money needed to continue to grow andi expand, the state will be filled with graduates eager to carry on the fray, and equipped with an edu cation only afforded by Carolina. Something must be done to preserve the University and to push it farther up the lad der of a sulccessfuil helper to the state. Do the legislators realize all this? The New Makeup To us in the past wveek has come consider able comment concerning the new front page makeup of The Gamecock. Of course, as usual, the persons in favor of the renovation wvere not as garrulous as the dlissenters. Indicative of the comment is the remark made by one of the students of the Univer sity last week who said: "What have you fellows (lone with The Gamecock. I had to look for ten minutes before I could find out what paiper I was readling." To which we inquired: "Guess you don't like the newv makeup)?" "No," he answered. "It's too different." While we are not dliciples of the editorial (doctrines of the Hearst p)aper-s, we believe that the typography andl art of the H-ear-st journals are unexcelledl. In his book entitled "City Editor," Stanley W~alk(er statedl that the H-ear-st papers in the big cities have a tendlancy to bring the ri val dlailies up to (late, and keep them alert for further change. That our front page looked like a Hearst paper we readlily admit. And we wer-e proudl when certain readers mentionedl the similarity to us. A few inter-ested pal-ties commented that the change was too abrupt, too sudlden ,too radical. All that we admit. But it is a long step to bring a musty arid stale paper up to modlern standards. We are not yet satisfied with T'he Gamecock. But we are (doing everything we can to give the University the best possible. We do not even consider ourselves radli cal. Everything we are dloing has been done before, but not in this locality. ARTMENT READS n, Sports Editor; Leola Garety, Betty Oomstock, Co-ed Editor; Poet.1 /\ \' P'AFF WRITERS Founded: McGrath, W. A. Connolly, Jr., ROBERT ELIJOTT n, Jane Crout, Eleanor Cannon, enjamin Polayes. Entered as second class matt Novem Mid-Terms And Headaches Each semester, there is a middle period at which time the professors get down their text books, thumb through them, select a large group of complex questions and give the mid-term quizzes to the students. This period, at first one of short quizzes with little importance has evolved into a testing series exactly like the examination week. The quizzes cover everything studied up to the mid-term tests and force the stu dents to review lengthily. This takes time and when multiplied by five, the problem gets larger and when it is discovered that these quizzes largely account for the mid semester grades, the problem grows larger and when all classes are continued on their regular schedule in spite of the quizzes, the situation becomes a horrible muddle. If the quizzes are to be allowed to count so much, in some classes constituting the en tire grade, then the regular system of class attendance should be suspended for the week. The students this year have cut classes with abandon in order to study for a "next-period-quiz." These cuts put the students behind in their other classes but they can't be blamed with the all-important tests scheduled for the next class. However, the quizzes shouldn't be allowed to count so much on the grades. It is an es tablished fact that the complex examinations which count the majority in a student's se mnester grades are the dominant causes for the cheating done in these periods. A Iationd-wide movement to dccmlphasize ex amination has taken hold but not at Caro lina. Here it is worse for we not only have failed to deemphasize examinations but have made the iid-term quizzes ghosts in the closets. Any editorial about the faculty or their workings is usually condemned and its writer called unpatriotic. However, we take the stand that when the situation arises that students have to sit up all nights studying for mid-term quizzes which are the basis of their marks, it is time for a howl. Regardless of a student's mental capacity, he must study for several hours for such a quiz. That is not right! Mid-term quizzes should be brief written lessons with their marks counting slightly with the stud(ent's daily work andl quizzes. If, however, tile faculty insists oin extend ing themselves to give these dlifficulit examn iniltionis which count so mulch toward the first reports, then do away wvith the classes for a week during which time we will have a regullar examination p)eriod. That will (10 away with all the cutting of classes and give the stud(ents a fair trial in the (quizzes. Pep Song Editorial Scores Last week, an editorial app)leared in these columns asking for a "fighting pep song" for Carolina, one that wvould be used at foot ball1 gammes alnd meetings of the stuldent body when the Alma Mater would not be in taste. Twenty-four hours after the paper was is suedl, Omicron Delta Kappa, national lhon orary fraternity, and Alpha Kappa Gamma, national honorary sorority, held a meeting and decidledl to take the challenge of The 4'amecock. They dlid! Already a movement is afoot to raise the $5i00 to pay for the writing and rights to such a sonmg. These groups will call on the assistance of thme Alumni Association, the Carolina Booster's club, the Alumnae group, the stud(ent organizaltions and the student body. The two groups fostering the move ment will drain their treasure chests in mov ing towardl the goal. At last, we find two groups at Carolina dloing somnethinig without hesitancy, without wvading through "redl-tape", without getting this andl that app)lroval. Trhey have acted. If their movement meets success, they (de serve the highest conmnendlations. The students have realized the need for such am song. They now need to understand that it cannot be realized without the stud(ent body's aid. They can even have a stud(ent b)ody mieeting and vote $200 of the frozen funds for thme swimming pool once collected from the studenta. 'HE '" BCOCK ranuary 30, 1908 Ntio GONZALEB, First Editor Na+C 420 M 'r at the poetofice at Columbia, 8. 0., cCAS ber 20, 1908 Lo0 AN Shadows In Space I. NAUSAUKET (1934-36) 1. EBB TIDE By Albert Rouslin I walked along the crescent of the beach Where waves came rolling into me, Then, edging white, receded out of reach, Moving slowly back again upon the sea. I plucked a reed and whistled thru the blade, And burst the blades of a thallus grown nearby, With hand against the sun to make a shade I followed sails that flew across the sky. Running on, seeking solitude beyond The soundless dunes of sand, I merged in the thunderous silent beat That swept the scene, To make a quiet isle beyond the sand Before the sea had rolled itself be tween. Congealed not yet for eons, the tide moves out, The waning sun inflames the far hori zon, And fitting its dusky cloak about . The earth as ever moved endless on. BACK TALK_ (NOTE: All contributions to this column must be signed by the author and designated as to whether or not it is to be published. These letters must not exceed 10 words. The contents of these letters are not necessarily the sentiments of this publication.) To the Editor of The Gamecock Dear Mr. Williams: I'd like a chance to express publicly what I think of a certain type of Caro lina student-that is saying "What's wrong with McCallister? He's no coach" because of an affair with Clem son. The only answer to that question is this: if McCallister is no coach, who was responsible for the magnificent games against North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, the victories over Emory and Henry and Davidson? In Don McCallister we have not only a fine man but a good coach. In three years he and the other members of the coaching staff have worked won ders with the Carolina football team. Trhe whole spirit of athletics at the University has changed. The tension of a Carolina-Clemson game combined with some bad breaks, caused the let down of the team. But after all, that was just another ball game and, as Carolina students, we certainly aren't going to let a thing like that start us knocking. And to those perennial side line quarterbacks, those poolroom experts, those sophisticates who won.'t even attend a pep meeting, we say to hell with you, we can get along without you the rest of the season, and the team won't miss your off again, on again "support." We've still got a first class football team, a real coaching staff and over a thousand students who don't care if 1 Clemson did beat Carolina. We're still all for McCallister and the boys. ?' Betty Comstock. 14 to Editorial In t Pictoriala of SHORT EHOR~T s'Vin ROAD WON'T ~ \~4 B3UDGE ~-rfTS~ I//c2 i GREETS JUDGE c MnOMAL-flE OIX' IRAfFIC PesT AS BAD ASA ROAD H0G iS ANOTHER ROAD HOG' National Safety Council Member 1936 ANDREW JONES, uain M ckied CoIei6k Iess Dstribuor Tom Will. . CirculationY ClleIe Di45eA James H. Joyner - . 1 NTS POR NATIONAL ADVERTISINO "Y nel Advertising Service, Inc. liege Publishers Reprea.seaSee Iuued Weekly by the Literary Societes at qe WIsON AVE. NEW YORIK. N.Y. University of South Carolina during the " "OTON - IAN PRANCIsCO year except during examinations and holl )IL.I " POnTLAND " SEATTLE CAMPUS CAMERA -- PIERRE WHITING CARRIED WATER FOR M 111E FIRST BUILDING S ON THE U.OF KENIUCKY' CAMPUS MV -- #IS SnLt. -- CUStODIAN '> OF'THAT / _" yZSHO~ JUNE WORWS SMALLEST P RK SER -" (M'TON PARK, LCAED ON MOSKINGUM Al OREGON ?, c COILEGE CAMPUS, eOVERS LE55 'IAN sToMh STATE OFAN ACRE. [l IS1hE HOME OF ONE TREE , AGRICULTURAL THREE SONES AND APPRaKLAAATELY COLLEGE! 2OOOOO BILADES OF GRAS'. Italics By Tribble TRANSITION you were a mountain stream timbling falling wild abandoned gayly madly rushing downward toward the sea. But Time has worn the gradient, dear An Eon of nights-too-long; a year O f A ge-long days-too-full-somehoto; Infinitely in giudps--antd now, Embedded in the cowrse y/ou chose, A weary, sluggish river flows! "... TJUS,W1IT'!! A KISS--" For purely p)ersonal reasons and barring a change of heart, is column, with this issue, ceases to be. A few crippled minde nie i.nterpreted owr feeble attempts at cleverntess as somlfethiflg ~emnbhng the sub'consciou1s diatribe of a dope-addict in a tw00 chp) ioznt. In addition, while it has never been our intention conduct a clearing-hous1e for scandal, we refuse to omit "flash mna simplyiI because they concern some would-be bigwig 1who. ~ght get his dander up and pidi an "oh dearie me" act before dipiomnatically-receptive audience. Besides, woe're a little tird reading thi8 stuff ourselves. . . so thirty-tibble. PLA AY-PR?ETTIES Notes on Nothing in IParticudar jotted on a "Bill of DivocE ?nt" Program : This corner, despite the "II.T." byline, did NOT thor that local paper's initialed review uhich draped Miss Jets' thi se'en i'arieties of home-grown orchids and dismissed LoiStE -ye 'with a singqle adjective. Personaly, wue think the Frye lau de everything but the gate receipts. * * * * * A PENNY FOR OUR THIOU6GH'TS Prof essor Penney neglects his b>iologic doin;gs long enough to (la;re that he "reads everything else in T he (Gamicock but r-| riously skips" this coiumn. All of which is somewhat coinCtd ntal. In our univ'ersit years we have schteduled jquite afo ,sses but have always skip pedl, thougqh not "religiously", the doC r's scientific discourses. Perha'ps woe should get together ne 'Tuesday in Elysium. * * * * * A D)V E RTISEMENT 'r Sale: One chip, slightly wn'n, from a shoulder that has 1t0 further need for it. Will also e.rchange an italic-ty' typewriter for any old machine of the capital-letter s' riety. Address all replies to Hi. Tril>ble, IIiberntio A venue, and e?is thre cn for ol time's sae