Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CHARLES L. LEE - - - - - Edito: Harold Prince, Betty Constock DEl ARTMENT HEADS George Zuckeru Paul Barrett, Sports Editor; Margaret Rollins, Henderson, Ba O.ed Editor; Emily West, Society Editor; Albert Editors; Jane C Roslin, Festnr Editor. Mirian Gibson, Editors; Eleanc Coed Editors; McGrath, Assool COURTENAY CARSON, JR. charle. Atkinea Managing Editor noes Managers. Are The Prats Better Off? That the administration was wise in re quiring that the fraternities move from out in-town houses to the campus last Sep tember must be admitted. The move has resulted in a number of advantages. From the point of view of the fraternity: Rooming on the campus has been found to be less expensive than the maintenance of rented or owned houses in the city. The more ample quarters on the campus has en abled more of the members to get together, and fuller fellowship than was possible hitherto has been obtained. Too, in the majority of cases the housing conditions of the dormitories are better than those that had been obtained by the fraternities in their houses in the city. It was predicted by some of the non-fra ternity men that placing the fraternities on the campus would cause the formation of small snooty groups, and that we would soon have "millionaire rows." Some of us feared that the non-fraternity men would be dis criminated against in the assignment of dor mitory space. None of these predictions have panned out. Fraternity men find it easier this year to take part in campus activities and mix more with the other boys on the campus. The administration, in assigning rooms to the fraternitics, carried uiit a policy which gave the non-fraternity men even more of the new buildings than their more opulent friends. More important, from the view-point of O'rolina as a whole, we now have our stu dent body together and are able to keep our affairs to ourselves. Innocent happen ings around fraternity houses in years gone by were made to appear in such a light by enemies of the University that we suffered untold harm. On the whole the new arrangement haE been successful and the administration should be praised for their deft handling of a difficult problem. One thing has not been taken care o under the present system: Fraternities are primarily social organizations. At present they have nowhere to give social functions unless they rely on some Columbia member or alumnus for the use of his home foi dlances and parties. There is no place for dlating on the campus except the lobbies ol the Student Union and the Woman's Build ing. Men who used to (late in the houses now take their friends to restaurants ox "beer joints." It is hoped that the University, possibly with fraternity aid in financing, will be able soon to build ftaternity "lodges" which ma~y be used for dlating and small social affairs. In the meantime why not clear out the bottom wing of the Student Union Building, now in use as dormitory space and1( use the rooms there for dating and so cial rooms-under supervision by a ma tron-for both fraternity and non-frater, nity men? Chapel Hour Still Bad The fact that chapel met at ten o'clocla last Fridlay insteadl of twelve did not rem edy the situation that we outlined tw( weeks ago. Classes were pushed up anm still the twelve o'clock classes met at two Those who had labs either dlidn't eat any dinnier or else cut classes. Thle only ad vantage gained was that of meeting at ar hour when mor'e students would lbe on th< campus. Proposed this week in one of the En glish classes was a plan which would pro vide for cutting each period in the morn ing by about ten minutes andl using th< extra time thus provided for a chapel hour Whether this system or the "stagger' plan prQposed by us is adopted, is imma terial. What is important is that the new. ly-formed joint student-faculty committe< adopt a plan-possibly one of these two that will assure the end of the pushing ui of the twelve o'clock classes. A88ooIA'IE8 - Martin Hode.. Ostherine Narey. Aola Oarety, Associate Editors; ian, 8. O. Muckenfu.e, Dan T. Folayes Associate Managing rout, Johnoie Steppe. Alice Hniet, Irene LaBorde, Associate Society r Cannon, Jane Oo:. Associate POUfded ooit Henadley, Paul Ieague, Ed ROBERT ELLIOT1 ate Sports Editors; Foster Smith, n, Stanley Fisher, Associate Busi- recond ela.. att Norehi: Campus Trash: Clean It Up! We'll wager that our campus is one of the messiest in the state of South Carolina in respect to the trash on the grounds we mean. Last week when we were ambling across to' the Library from the canteen we came upon the remains of someone's de lightful picnic-milk bottles, cracker boxes, and newspapers all lying around in a state of abandonment. All of us who saw the litter passed by unconcernedly; it wasn't our business. It was the same thing over at the Stu dent Union Building; only here instead of milk bottles and cracker boxes it was orange skins and banana peels. It was a beautiful example of student slovenliness to show the campus visitor. And the visitor must judge Carolina by the looks of the campus. Pass ing through he sees little of the educational or cultural side of the University; what lie does see is how the grounds and buildings of the campus appear. It is not the fault of the janitors. It is our own. All the buildings are gone over daily; a man patrols the grounds constant ly trying to pick up all the paper that we threw down the day before. Or dirtiness can be cxplained in part by the fact that Carolina is also one of the most trash-basketless campuses in the state. Are there any trash cans on the grounds? We can't find any. Just what do you do with trash when you can't put it in a trash-can? Personally we, when we're feeling virtuous, carry it around in our pockets until we get to our rooms. Most of the time, however, we toss it (with a glance over our shoulder to see that no one is looking) into the shrub bery in a professor's yard, or stuff it be hind the concrete benches, giving it mental injunction to "stay where you are until our backs are turned." In the Library, where the only basket is guarded jealously behind the main desk, our favorite place for our chewing-gum wrappers and scratch paper is in tie table drawers. We wvould like to be virtuous and clean, but we would also like something to be clean and virtuous with. Come on, 0. D. K. andl Blue Key ! let's have this as your next project: Nice metal trash cans--with lit tie bronze p)laques attachled: "Donated in 1938." One could do worse than being a donator of trash-cans. It's Ladylike To Go Visiting WVill the Dean of Women, the sorority presidents, Mrs. Graham, or whoever it takes, please tell the girls of the student body that it is perfectly proper for them to come into the lobby of the Student Union Building? That one of the primary rea sons for the new building was for the estab lishing of a place where boys and girls could meet together? We have had girls hover timorously at the doors of the building and ask us to get their brothers who are inside, We have asked girls to go over with us and listen to the new music set and they have refused as if we had asked them into dens of iniquity. The Student Union lobby is not intended for the sole use of the boys living in the dor mitory space in the building. It has been vis ited by women from out in town, by Mrs. McKissick, and the faculty auxiliary. The committee that controls the building has a girl member. The YWCA council holds regular meetings in a room furnished by themselves. There is a recreation room for girls provided downstairs and a women's lounge on the first floor. We give informal dances almost every Saturday night. We have two meeting rooms open for the use of both boys and girls at any time. Come over and see us we won't bit! H E1937 Mcsbecr 193" 'H E COCK lanuary 30, 1908 R O NATIONAL ' GONE ALES, First Editor M gs'e . er at the oietC at Oohunbia, 8. O., 42 0-DO Avs. NEW YORK, N. Y. ]962. 80 CMICM AO M " olN LO$ A110ILA" " SAN ImA/GCSO *DCmpus Camera ber m, ARTHUR KAHLER COACHES FOCABALL AT DICK WSON COLLEGE AND BASKET BALL AT DROWN UNIVERSITY! PRESIDENT OF KNOX (XLLEGE, IIOWA srA-TE COLLEGE AT AMES'. IS THE YOUNGEST CO1..6E IOWA, IS W14E GEOGRAPHICAL PRESIDENT N THE COUNTRY. - - CENTER OF THE STATE' * ' HE IS 33 YEARS OLD! 4Question-Of-The-Week What do you think would be a good project for one of the honorary service fraternities to start on the campus? * * * BOBBY O0LLIER, Sophomore I think that one of the most beneficial projects for one of the honorary fraternities to start would be the installation of more lights on the campus. The lighting on the campus at night is very deficient, and from Sumter Street one hardly knows when he passes the University. DOT PLATT, Senior As one of the most helpful projects for the University I would suggest the forming of co-ed varsity basketball teams to compete with other schools, and the beginning of various class teams in hockey, tennis, etc., to compete in intramural sports among themselves. NED McDONALD, Law Student I think that the students should be encouraged more to begin gathering at the Student Union Building. This applies espec ially during the day and could be aided by a game room, benches in front of the building, and the moving of the Canteen with other University services. HARRIET HOLMAN, Graduate Student The University wvould benefit greatly from by the establish ment of a "College Day" which would be a holiday for a gen eital gathering of the students for a picnic. This could be easily sponsored by one of the honorary fraternities and put over every spring. to the student body, a large portiof of which does not think it cares W whether we have an Honor System or not, that minute dcterioration will set ~ K in, We will drift back in'to the de T A Jplorable situation of former days as long asHonor conditions remain what they are in the high schools. Dear Eitor:And, Mr. Editor-tritely but truly "Give Back Honor To The Stu- everybody's business soon becomes dent Body," an editorial appearing innodysbies.Adteuopn last week's Gamecock, presented thedawhneryoysgsteCe Honor Code signers as a group ofBokwlmentendfthprs hijackers who have taken away the Honor of the student body. In allensytm justice their side of the matter ought "h oo oni hudb to be presented to The Gamecock read-elcdbyalousanthsuet ers who do not have an opportunityboysultaevrthrepsi to know the facts. The Code Signers prevented the blt htblnst t"Ala c establishing of a proctorial systemcudstenwasisutceisi which the faculty was strongly. con- nt sln sh esi,wycag sidering following the examinationtoapnwhrpliclpesueil stealing episode of January, 1936. pa ati t eiin?A o There would be no student represen- tesuetbd aigoe epn tation whatsoever on any committee iity"htblnsoi."Dd' that tried accused students under athsudnl)(yavterepsi proctorial system. The Code Signers itybfr?Ddtacethtr secure a trial council, the majority of soiiiiy which is elected by students. I,a o a,tehnrCd in "We have an Honor Code recog- esaet c sa"urne gis nizedl by approximately three hundredchaigtenhymstavte and fifty students," you say. Prac-poetodsmthnabui.Yo tically the only objection the majoritytaewythiportonfcea1 of the student body has to the pres- yutk wyteHnrSse.A ent plan is the reporting of cases offomaigtesuntbdHno dishonesty. Hence the Code has thecosiu,yuwlnerdotcm tacit support in all but one phase of peey h tdnsaenwmr its program,.ota taytmei h atfv "In January, 1936, when the pres-yer.W ? ent system was set up, it was clearly IsnthepsntHorlawrk recognized as an emergency organiza- ig ehp tint10 efc tion." The present plan was not anbucodtnsaemhbterha emergency set up. It was an attemptbeoe13.Adtywilcnnu to give the University a real work- t mrv sln steeaeCd ing Honor system which it hadn't had sgesadterCuclwrst for many years before 1936. It was ipoete. WydentTa not the result of a mere flareup be- Gteoktr t eompori cause of exam stealing,.oadsuetognztosta "It was understood by most thatarntdignyhg,nsedoty regulation would eventually be turned igt idrsuetefr obte over to the whole student body." cniin fHnro h aps There was no such understanding.BilOrtn Themiutereultio i tune oer hi.,The Honor Councildb ANDREW JONES, Business Mausl STAYST WBITERS Virginia Brown, (ilotte Bureb, Jane wi .on, BaBey Beidleman, Doroth e Gunter, Lule Arnold Muir, R Thelma Thompson, lice Bryant, William Martha Newman, Phiip Wilmeth, Thomas. Tom Willis - --.- - Oirculatioa Ia James H. Joyner -.-.-.-.-Exchange Issued Weekly by the Literary Soieta atM Univenity of South Carolina during the year except during examinations and hoi Rate Collect By George Zuokerman TOO FAMILIAR LINES of Shakespeare's Macbeth, voiced with deep resonancy by Hendrickson-Luce and Co. last Saturday night at Drapp ton Hall found only a disappointingly; poor sized audience,.majority of whon were giggling high school students, present to obtain school credit. Un derlying cause of the flop was the thrilling boxing match staged two hundred yards away in the Univer. sity Field House. Two thousand cus tomers chose, perhaps wisely, the pugilists over the thespians...A hand ful of Carolinians, including J. Rion McKissick, sat through the dramatic tragedy, made somewhat comical by a. the ballet dancer antics of Lady Mac beth who continually kept her arms woodenly outstretched. Despite this visible fault and the poor settings, the play succeeded audibly; "tomorrow and tomorrow-" and other famed lines were well recited...Considering the low admission charge the per formance was very adequate and de served a better attendance. Absent were numerous Shakespearian stu dents and professors who, it seems, ought to have been there. But th'ere is a reluctance to carry education out side the, classroom, especially when no credit is given... But the fights were goad, they say...I wished I were sports editor again that night. FRONT PAGED last week in the Columbia Record was the story con- j cerning twenty-seven Carolina stu dents who made all "A's" in their courses last semester... Days later consolation came to the less academ ically successful undergraduates. With a Chicago dateline, an Associated Press story in The State had this headline: GETTERS OF A'S HAVE HARD TIME IN LIFE'S BATTLE sub head: "Star Pupils Held by Psychologists Likely to Lack Initia tive and Be Too Strongly Conform ists." note: But Registrar Chase won't bother them about honor points. UNIVERSITY LIBRARY is still without Esquire, The New Yorker, and Fortune... MacFadden's brawny bare chest still sits on the cover of Physical Culture. And the librarian makes no comment. ..Hasn't he heard of the power of the press? OBSCENITY E X IL ED, The Gamecock will publish this spring a Fun Sheet under the guardianship of Lee and Carson. And difficult is their task, due to the penalties and censor ships that hang like suspended (lag gers over the staff writers. Never theless, it ought to be interesting, especially if the faculty censors are broadminded and their sense of humor is not absent.. .On lifting the han the faculty is to be congratulated. SOMETIMES AMBIGUOUS are Gamecock headlines. Such as thiese: OAK TREE ENTERS UNIVERSITY: FEES ARE ONE DOLLAR note: Another dead head in our midst? CAROLINA STUDENTS FAT VAST QUANTITIES OF MEAT/ note: No cannib)alism, I hope? HARMON CALLS FOR LATE DATA note: Has she got a friend? CAMPUS GROUPS ARE ORGANIZED note: Since when? REID GIVEN SMITH AWARD note: Left to right, or up and down? NEXT ISSUE of the Carolinian will be editorially guided by Canada's Walter Connolly, whose views are ex pected to clash with those of Editor Rouslin, whose judgment prevaile.d in the first edition. From the magazineS quarters came news that each issue will feature an established Palmetto author. Among those who will be in vited to contribute are: DuBose Hey ward, Julia Peterkin, and H-avilahi Babcock. TEN WORDS-PRC: Itinerant Beidleman in New York-no work now heading westward.. .0 enlius Searson busy with torts instead of thoughts--unheard from.. .Conway's streamlined McCutcheon sweating out five A's in law school.. .Journalists Tribble and Evans still hunting for aimiable city editors. ..University Players considering Ernst Toller's No More Peace--good choice...Eglongat ed Hodes an announcer for University Players' radio workshop. ..Obberva tion: Similarity between voices of Professor-Author Callcott and Radio's Cheerio. .. Frank Wardlaw rehabitat ing Floyd Rodgers' office-a fourth estate hangout... Carolina's 'Facultae more than half of them, subscribed tO