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CHARLES E. LEE - - - - - Editor Harold Prince DEPARTMENT HEADS Editors; George Paul Barrett, Sports Editor; Margaret Rollins, and Ben Polaye O -ed Editor; Emily West, Society Editor; Albert Jane (rout, John Eoelin, Feature Editor. Associate Soelet and Jane Oo, Smith, Charles COURTENAY CARSON, JR. and Rosa Lee I Managing Editor agers. A LETTER FROM THE "LOAF-SLICER" "Editor, The Gamecock: "Several weeks ago there appeared in STET, Dinky Williams' column, an article entitled 'Campus Novelette' in which a one time brilliant student is discovered by two University co-eds 'in a little niche-joint around the corner ... bending over a coun ter slicing bread-a Phi Beta Kappa key dangling from his chest..' "As the -lero ( ?) of the 'Campus Nov elette', let me, with a feeling of amusement rather than of ire, correct an impression that some mental midgets among your read ers may have. "First: My place is no niche-joint. It's a nice, though small, place. (I have the landlord's word for it.) "Second: I am no loaf-slicer. (I have machinery to slice bread.) I own the busi ness. "Third : Being intelligent, honest, out spoken as a student, I was not popular. Any campus politician will tell you those qualities do not beget popularity. "I enjoy my work. I make a fair living and feel that in my particular business I have been fairly successful. I am sure that whatever shadow my station in life casts Ol the key I wear is more than offset by the lustre of others who wear it. "Sincerely, "The Ioaf-Slicer in the Niche-joint. Thank you, Mr. I.oaf-Slicer, for your re minder that everyday work well done even bread-slicing-carries with it more honor and dignity than the wearing of a Phi Beta Kappa key will ever bring. Your key, dangling "- your pots of mayonnaise and sandwich filimg, may well be proud of its owner. We wish you luck! TI'his June some hundred or so of Is will leave Carolina to "seek our fortunes." And not all of us editors and presidents of or ganizations are going to be what the world calls "successes." At commencement time, (p e r h a p s adorned with Phi Beta Kappa key) we may come "around the corner" to see you. Have you any room for another college grad Iate in your Niche-joint? A'TH!LETICS: ENTERTAINMENTT OR TRAIJNING? Out of the pockets of students through tile Student Activity fee goes $13,587 to the Athletic Association this year. In the last analysis what has this money gone for? -Entertainment. We pay $13,587 to sit back on our haunches and be amused. Now we are not pr'etending that our money fully sulpports the football team or any other p)art of the University intercol legiate program. (Were we not told in chapel this fall thlat the alumni hlad given uis a football team?) We know that much the greater part of the money for our super enltertainmient does not come from us. Neither (d0 we contendl that for our $9.80 each we have not receivedl full value. We hlave-in entertainment. What we are complaining about is thlis: While the University, the state, the alumni or the student body is paying out large suims for the big sho0w, the really impor tant part of athlletics at Carolina has been shoved to a back corner and almost comn pletely ignored. Whlere is our physical edl umcation dlepartment? The total amount being spent b)y the Uni versity on physical education this year for men and women is $8,070. And not all of this amoulnt goes to the support of phy sical education proper, because all three of the men instrulctors devote a great portion of their time to the coaching of intercol legiate teams. What is physical education at Carolina other than a fifteen minute attempt at cal isthenics thlree times a week ? Where are in struuctors to teach us to play hand ball, to be gymnasts, to play tennis, golf, basket ball? DeMars coaches intercollegiate box ing; Crawford, track; Frink, football. What good is our college training in ath letics going to do us when we get through with ollege? We will kenow how to watch ASSOIATES and Leola Garety, Associate Zuckerman, 8. O. Muckentuss, 4 Associate Managing Editors; nie Steppe, and Irene LaBorde,? y Editors; Eleanor Cannon, associate Co-ed Editors; Foster Atkinson, "Duck" Sweatman. ROERT ELLIOT rown, Associate Business Man- Entered as second class mat Novuz a football game; but we won't know how to play the games open to us in later life. In the teaching of various sports, the women's department has been much more successful than has the men's department. But while the Women's instructors do not have to coach intercollegiate sports, they, like the men, are greatly handicapped by a limited number of instructors and scarcity of equipment. In reply to the statement that intramural activities supplement the physical educa tion program sufficiently, we would point out the fact that the participants in intra mural sports are not those who wish to learn to play a sport, but those who already know how. Another thing: Who started the idiotic system of excusing members of the glee club and band from physical education? Why should the three be interchangeable as far as requirement for graduation is con cerned? That the University should support the ballyhoo game of intercollegiate competi tion before providing adequate athletic training for each one of its students is in excusable. That the alumni should aid in putting on the show without first seeing decent physical education at the Univer sity could certainly be considered a kind of disloyalty. For the University students to give $13,587 to watch other people play, and to receive only $8,000 worth of play themselves is a situation to be remedied. ALLOV CAROLINA TO GROW The University of South Carolina is like a boy who has outgrown his short pants and still has to wear them. Although Caro lina is over a hundred and thirty years old, and is aching to expand, it is held tight by the physical accommodations that it had in the 1850's, the 1830's, in a great many cases even those of the 1810's. Take a look at these facts: There is no central administrative build ing anywhere on the campus: The president, the treasurer, and the dean of arts and sciences have their offices in one building occup1ied primarily by classrooms and dor mitories; across the way, crowded in an old residence condemnec fo#urteen years ago as a dangerous firetrap, are the offices of the registrar, the dean of women, and the business manager; down the way, some hun dIred yards, in the bottom floor of one of the (lormitories are the offices of the mar shal and superintendent of grounds. With these offices, intimately connected with one another, scattered hither and yon over the campus, and with no place for complete records to be kept, how can the adlministration hope to fulnction with max imum efficiency and economy? The condition is typical of the whole camn puis: Library materials have to be stored in tile basement of the Education Building; the Extension Division is houlsed in one of the dlormitory tenements; the Athletic As sociation is at present in an old observa tory no longer used ; the Art Department struggles along in the attic of an abandonedl p)rofessor's house; violin is taught in an o011 carriage house; there is talk of putting classrooms in the basement of Davis Col lege, below the surface of the ground. Tile only space on the campus that we can find unutilized are the slave quarters behind the house occupied by Dean Olson and Dean Rowe. What are we going to do? We are grow ing nor'mally, not spectacularly. Our whole educational facilities are affected by our lack of physical equipment. If we are not allowed to grow, we shall sink to the level of a third or fourth rate university, and will become a hindrance, not an aid, to the state. It's up~ to us as students to show South Caro lina that we are not trying to "put any thing over," that our pleas for help are legitimate, and that without expansion we shall cease to be of usefulness to either stu dent or ina ['HE 137 ECOCK January 30, 1908 """ L' GONZALES, First Editor Nati ter at the ogtofflce at Oolumbia, 8. O., CAO aber 20, 1908 PressC Hate Collect By George Zuckerman FRIDAY'S CHAPEL found amia ble Professor Derrick filibustering for uncounted minutes, taking a few quick jabs at the faculty section. Then Economist Derrick misplaced his sense of humor and oratorically re minded a good sized audience that South Carolina was not a country club, a training school for athletes, or a glorified loafing place. Prime and only purpose of the University stu dents was to study, and study hard so that we, the rising generation, can correct the crimes of our predecessors, who have pillaged our natural re sources-and left our coming June grads to face a business recession. ... First thought that came to my mind was whether Derrick's genera tion pored over the midnight oil more than we. If they did, let's raise the cry for more outside activities... Derrick's message contained fine ideal ism bound by a purpose-to rectify the ravages of the robber barons and mu nition merchants...If life's answer was as certain as a mathematical equation, there would be no rebuttal. But across the seas in China and Spain wars are raging. In dictatored Russia, Germany, and Italy war ma- I chines and puppet populances are be ing oiled. In Washington, President Roosevelt is making certain quarters wonder whether or not he will evolve to be another Woodrow Wilson-to save the world for future dictators, and veterans organizations. Lobby- WHA ists shout for bigger guns, bigger na vies. bigger air planes. Newsreels de- - pict armament plants smoking day and night. Freighters loaded with tin a cans and rusty Fords are outward bound, possibly to return in a more streamlined shape. ..Viewing such a world scene, it is not easy ti confine JOHZ thoughts and hours to memorizing a nature poem, translating Spanish fairy tales, or unravel the intricities of the , Federal Reserve system...With reluc tance, I believe that the old men rule " the world-and youth is their victim. sho A~y day now our short lives may be interluded by sonic nebulous mission goc whose end we know...If it happened, TOM it would be well to recall a football victory over Clemson, a few dates with ...o p.specti. May Q ueca, and a few afternoons of bull sessions... ADE) As one professor advised me, there c is happy medium between study and recreation-the "country club" is a rCa. necessary part of a university.., fun From Correspondent Barney Bcidcl man conies one answer to the problem: BEN The best advice I can give to Caro lina students is: Stay in college until you're eligible for a Social Security aro peCnsion. T'i VARSITY SHOW plans took an st unexpected twist this week when Czars JAM] Stephan and Woods decided that freshman Jerry Miller's script smelled 4 of his distant relation-Joe Miller, of r joke-book fame. So initiative Miller'spr opus was pruned down to one skit for and several of the short-haired cam pus authors were conimissioned- HEM without pay--to bang sonmething sup posedly funny. Warned were they that nothing risque would pass the her b)lue pencil... Present status of the to 1 proposed presentation is a musical. revue-a combination of several skits l interceded by songs and dances... Snagging the project is the lack of money, ab)sence of time, dearth of printed material, and redundance of oral ideas. Already contracted to pro duce a trio of prize high school plays, Maestro Stephan admits lhe will have little time for the musical... An at temipt to unite the show with the KSK Beauty Pageant failed, due to the in sistance of University Player Presi dent McKay that his group do a solo ... After minutes of pleasant repartee at Sunday's meeting, somieone brightly remarkedl that it would be best to have a Fiesta--because we had so much latent talent. STET WILLIAMS wrote his final thirty this week and ended his active career as a Gamecock journalist. A reg ular reporter on the Columbia Record, and taking but one course toward his degree in June, Williams found little time to interpret campus affairs... So the bombastic Williams remaining journalistic connection with the Uni versity will be through his USC Cam pus Chatter column in the Record. On hearing that I was writing a terse eulogy, Dinky suggested that this item be accompaniedl by a vocal ren dlition of "Hearts And Flowers"... Now Editor Lee will have added space for some free Coca-Cola ads... In ed itorial form. TEN WORDS-PRC: SidelIne Barrett taking a suggestion anid rais ing mierry hell about the Jenkins weight item... Four Clemson Cadets peep-tomming on the Gamecock's se cret football practice...Sandal Scan dal: A pair of blue high heeled shoes resting on the mantle in. Ext. 32... Don McCallister, taken off the bread line by Norwich College, visiting in town this week. ANDREW JONES, Buetnest Ma Member 193" STAFF WRITERS :kaed Cblekile P'ess Virginia Brown, Oharlotte Burel, Jape W. limo,Dorothy Roger. 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I DARAN ROGERS, Junior: I liked it all right-I read several articles in there !" L'HA MAUNEY, Senior: I think it's good-I really liked it. It ought to have more rt articles in it. next time. The short stories were especially d." WATTS, Junior: I have never read it-I wouldn't know." [AIDE COMMANDER, Freshman: The cover was really good. It needs more light stuff in it hunorous shorter short stories and a joke page with really ny jokes." fOE WILLIAMS, Junior: It's a magazine that if the interest of the student can be uised, has strong possibilities of becomning a popular issue. magazine artIcles should continue to be written by the lents with items of more current interest included." BS TOMLINSON, Sophomore: Why not interest the campus? Start panning some of the fessors-it might arouse some enthusiasm. Start a political ulm-especially at this time of the year." AN HIGGINS, Law Student: I hope they keep up the articles submitted by faculty mem s. It'll improve wvith time wvhen the student gets more used ,he idea. A few more photographs will help. The CaroliniGa I take care of itself." WAY BACK DEP''T. I N T H E- 890'9 COEDS6 W ERE REQUIRED 'TO WEA4R MORTA 80ARD CAPS AV AU.11lMES A OKLAH0A ArM APPO1m to ANNAPS C FRANK R. KING, 1RI DELT AT THE U. OF ALABAMA~ SPURNED A BONtA FIDE APPONT AENTW'f0 THE U.S NAVAL AADEM' i UGN CLEMENTS 4 f:ING THE NIAMESAKE OF: NER~ FM4ER DRE 62 MIE VH EK ?EMM. KING WHO WAS KILLED IN ' END) FROAA HIS HIOMe IN SOUTH ERVICE, SHE WAS 1I4OGHT 10 BE rr,.A10ATED AE:A HIS SON & NII/AL a rrIr- / , .., ........ (2RVU YnoRe