Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CHARLES E. LEE - - - -- Editoz A8 Harold Prince and DIPAA?N BUDS Editors; George Eoi tw Barrett, Sports Editor; Margaret Roluins, and Ben Polam Ai Oed Editor; Emil) West. Society Editor; Albeit Jane orout, Jobnnie l Roeilin. Peature Editor. Associate Society I and Jane oox. Asoc Smith, bharles Atk COURTENAY CARSON, JR. and Rosa Lee rows Managing Editor' WELCOME TEACHERS! COME AND SEE US Welcome teachers! While you are in Columbia we want you to come down to Carolina and visit us. Remembering us as the gawky innocents of high school days, you will be surprised to see the air of maturity and sophistication that we have assumed. But underneath we are the same Marys and Johns that you used to scold. Come down and scratch the veneer off of us, and let's talk over old times. But we have other reasons for having you here than that of wishing to renew old ac quaintance. You, like many others in the state, have heard many tales about the wild way in which we act here, about the drunk students falling about the campus, and our immoral ways. We want you to come see for yourself, so that when you hear these tales you may know how to answer them. Too, we want you to see our need for the support of the state. Come, and we shall show you the crowded conditions under which we work, our inadequate hundred year old buildings, our too small infirmary, our Woman's Building filled to overflowing, our administration offices scattered over the campus with no central building, our over stuffed library, and our need for more class rooms. These things you should know about your state University. In spite of our handicaps, however, we are doing good work here, and we want you to know about that, too. You should ex amine our curriculum, and meet the coin petent men and women who are teaching us. You should find out about the service that our Extension Division is offering, about the opportunities for study that our summer school gives. We want you to see our Stu dent Union Building, our modernized Stew ard's hall, the swimming pool that we are building. We are proud of Carolina and want you to be proud of her, too. Come down to the University and learn to know her, and then go home and tell the state what you have found out. NO PAPER NEXT WEEK There will be no Gamecock published next week. Mid-semester tests are with us and reporters like other students need to cram. Besides, we need a little time to glean the most succulent bits from the mass of scan dal about you that we have been gathering for the April Fool's issue. When next you see us, we will be in our worst attire, and you will learn things about yourselves that you never knew be fore, so beware ! Our one policy is going to be: if it'8 the trutth we aren.t going to prin~t it. Any reference to morals or physical de formity we 'are going to avoid. Needless to sa.y we are not going to be obscene. But we are going to rag the mischief out of every darn one of you that we can, students and professors alike. If you can't take it, or if you insist on being serious on April Fool's Day, don't read the next issue. We warn you, we're going wild ! ABSENCES MOUNT IN SATURDAY CLASSES Rumor had it this week that soon Uni versity authorities will be announcing that Saturday class absences will henceforth be counted as double cuts. The reason for the rumor is apparent. Absences in Saturday classes have mounted alarmingly during the past months; on some days up to one-third of the class is missing. Now one is not going to master a course when he is not there to take it all in. The sad thing about it all is that much of the week-end cutting is being done by fresh men. Yet many upperclassmen (cutters and non-cutters) will tell you that the hardest courses in the University are those of the first year. If the Saturday classes don't get better attendance, the authorities would be justified in applying the double-cut penalty. Week enders take notice! Iwola Gar7ty. Assocat. ean, s. C. Kuokeniw., soetate Managing Editors; foppe, and Iren aBorde, kditorn; Eteanor Oannoa, 01 e tate o-ed Eitors; Toster nson, "Duck" Sweataan, ROBERT ELLIO11 , Associate Businese Man- Se u ad oa mi Noveu WHAT POLITICAL . OFFICES MATTERP In the coming elections forget' about the ballyhoo races and turn your attention to the offices that really amount to something. It matters very little who is president of the student body or of the senior or freshman class. What does matter is, who are elected editor sand business manager of the Gar net and Black, who is elected to the Social Cabinet, and who is elected to the Student Athletic Advisory Board. That the student body offices are of small importance is evident from the fact that at no time this year has the student council been able to get enough members to conduct business, present at any one of its meet ings. Yet life at Carolina has to go on just as usual. Clearly there is nothing for the student body officers to do. Let's look upon the student body and class offices for what they are: positions to be filled, in a popularity contest, by the stu dents we like the best. Elect a good-looking boy who knows how to preside to the office of president. Choose all your celebrity-bug bitten friends to the class offices. Rest as sured that their meagre abilities will never be called upon to wrestle with weighty problems. But look at the other candidates care fully. If elected they will really be faced with jobs, next year. Remember that there is a great deal of difference in quarter and dollar dances, that the officers of the Gar net and Black must have real ability to be able to put out a good annual on the insuf ficient funds alloted them, that we need two vigorous students on the Athletic Advisory Board who will secure us the sayso in ath letics that the $13,587 that we pay deserves. In the political rally on the thirteenth of the month, we expect to hear de4mite pro grame from the candidate8 for the Garnet and Black, the Social Cabinet, and the Athletic Advisory Board. If they don't give programs they don't know what they are going to do, and we aren't going to vote for them, no matter how sweetly they smile or how good-looking they are. If, by any chance, the other candidates can think up something that they can do while in office, and will give us a program of their duties, we'll support them till the last breath of hot air has flown away after elections. Otherwise, we are going to sit b)ack, enjoy the show, and vote for the ones we like the best. HIST ORIC FI RE-T RAP Yesterday University workmen were shov eling part of the Extension Building out of one of its windows. That half the ceil ing in Dean Chase's office had fallen Wed nesday afternoon was not remarkable; the building has been condemned for fourteen years. What was remarkable is that the University workmen were not also shovel ing out of the window assorted fragments of Dean Chase. It is only a matter of time until the whole of the Extension Building collapses. Last spring half of the upstairs ceiling under which several hundred students walk daily fell. Last week the back steps were con demned.as unsafe. Some day one of us is going to toss a cigarette butt into the old newspapers piled on the floor upstairs; and trapped upstairs with only one narrow wind ing wooden staircase to get down by, some of us are going to get roasted. God, in His mercy, has evidently assigned an especially able corps of guardian an gels to the University of South Carolina. We await with 'fear and trembling the day when the Extension Building burns up, or falls down about our heads. Even angels mig-ht sometime take the d1ay off ECOCK' Tanuary 80, 1908 GONZAL First Zditor tat th.pe.los at ooambla, S. ., Press Rate Collect , By George Zuckerman LIKE DYNAMITE was handled author Hal Tribble's manuscript by Carolinian Editors Rouslin and Con nolly. Tribble's short story "All Is Yesterday" will feature the second edi tion of the revived magazine, but the two editors, few hours before deadline, were dubious about publishing the story. The uncalm Connolly and the reticent Rouslin knew they had a prize package-but they thought it ticked like a time bomb. In the too near past, Tribble, they recalled, had caused -a campus explosion which, when the noise ended, found him out side the red brick walls. After much bickering and 'some advice from an interested party, Literary Editor Con nolly chose to place the dynamic tale between the Carolinian's covers... Further evidencing their bold stand, Rouslin editorialized: "... We take the liberty of predicting that Tribble will make an important impression on American Literature, and may one day be considered as Carolina's outstand ing contribution to letters.. ."Includ ed in the same issue is a guest edito rial by Dean Bradley, who some time ago penned a prognosticating editorial about Hitler for the State...At long last, after a short reign of mystery, ap pears the poem Drought by Hamlet's melancholy Cannon. She also brings forward 1ier journalistic talents and reports a mild but entertaining inter view with Mrs. J. Rion McKissick... Among others present is Poet David, who for a happy change chooses prose to confound his public. ..Keeping their policy of presenting new names each month, the editors forgot their prin ciples long enough to allow Tribble to be the only repeater...Camerartist Stevenson reveals how Carolina and its students appear pictorially. ..with out posing. IN THE SPRING Carolina's fancy lightly turns to politics: "Heys" are more clearly enunciated; countenances are curved in false smiiks; and light but heavy arms rest on your shoulder -whispering this and that about who and what. ..The famed Gedney Howe political machine, running on fewer cylinders, is being guided by Stokes Davis and Bimbo Howe...Inter-Greek relations are being tied, and strained and the best and the worst foul the campus air... One certain result of the elections is: The triumphant faction will have a celebration, and the vanquished will consume most of the refreshments. VARSITY SHOW plans are still in the uncertain stage; some of the expected talent withdrew due to con flicting interests--and some have gone over to the KSK Beauty Pageant directed by the garrulous Ed Mc Grath. . .As in any worthwhile enter prise on the campus, the group is han dicapped by lack of finances and time .Almost alone, Doug McKay still likes the idea and hasn't given up yet. WRONGLY NEGLECTED is the music room in the Student Union building, which houses the $1,000 re cording instruments and records pre sented to the University by the Car negie Corporation... Credits for secur ing this much needed campus improve ment goes to Professor William Woods, who is also putting in plenty of unpaid time in managing the ex pensive contribution. University of ficials ought not disregard the music room; they should make some effort to furnish the room in a suitable man ner... Already great numbers of stu dents have admitted they hav'e grown to like serious music.. .Truth to tell, if some parties withdrew their non mercenary aid, the University would become an intellectual void. TEN WORDS-PRC: Official sign in rear of Extension Building: Condemned. Unofficial crayoned re tort: Likewise the whole building... Extension Service increased Game cock circulation this week by three thousand, handing them out to the visiting teachers... Former Gamecock Editor Howard Cooper saying: "The Gamecock is not as good as it was the first ,semester.. .All-Pitkin Ave Gran off, dissatisfied with his football work, feeling low-and that's practically an excavation... Tennis Coach Wagener interrupting a challenge match to prac tice his backhand. 'Players Fisher and Price roared, unheard disapprovals... Registrar Chase, always afraid of the bottom .falling out, narrowly escaped when the ceiling fell down and went boom-and chased Chase across the hall... Now that the library is to be enlarged, there should be room for Esquire The New Yorker, and For tune. Once they evict McFadden, the libraryw ill be purged. ANDREW JONES, Busins Manser , l rhtaret M * 1e ,3P7 iNSw ~ 3 Assoced O,Is6iei I ess Vigii ow ur~~~w q sE puirti Robeit Sbaw, . ala homp.'ao;1Se Newsma Phillip Wtl.@a Tha "~ Papbl Jam iloway, Lanr ya Barry Riddi, -and Rut Hanarr. : asPwaSNt5 0ro w*tAiff~. Asvwwo Yw NstiusaIAneriase lcsu' , Iuc. T& Wflis - - - - - - - lation am A. JI. - - - - s Exchange . 4so MAO*ON Avs. Ntw YOSK. N. Y. HI yt@Ltr oIte ~~ NuCAOO " *osTN " LOS AasuS - *Ap FUani slty of -Booh n0a0 7.ss Dcet during ou.ulaatl.na and bo,~ N1 4Question-Of-The-Week Some students have suggested an increasing of the student activities fee so that all expenses for the Garnet and Black would be paid out of the Student Body Fund. While this would mean additional expense for the individual student, all students would appear in the annual since pictures, printing, distribution, and other expenses would be paid out of this fund. Would you be in favor of this? ELIZARETH WIDEMAN, graduate student I think the idea is excellent; the real value of the change would be that the entire student body would be represented. ENIE MITCHELL, senior A grand idea. I'm really in favor of it. The yearbook would then be complete and the cost distributed. In that way every. body would have one and I am sure they'd never regret it. LEONARD BERRY, junior I am in favor of increasing the activities fee to pay for the an nual, because it would mean that every student's picture would appear in it, making it more representative of the entire student body. If the cost were added to the registration fee it would not be missed. R. J. GRA.MBRELL, senior I am in favor of the expenses of the Garnet and Black being paid entirely from the student activities fee. Every student should own an annual and should have his picture in it. VIRGINIA WEBB, sophomore Yes, I think this would be an excellent plan. The small in crease in the student activities fee would not financially hurt any student, when distributed individually. This is our University and every student is a part of it; therefore, I think our yearbook should be representative of the whole student body. * Campus Camera WAS ORIGIAATED 8V MCGILL UNIVEP. SITY STUDENTS 9 1879/ KIRKPATRICK. SPETATRS A IJlNERSITY OF KENTUCKY SI1JD&NT * OOA00 10 S% HITCH.-HIKED 2A~960MLETOl 70 OLEED~M FRCW SCIoL- IN THE FAST 4YEARS'. ' AfO4 +Back TaIk Editor, The Gamecock: frtise hti sanweprec Every sprang each Clemson and t oto s htw aet er Furman student receives his Tape or b aigadcretn itks BonHomie, whichever his college year- Teojc f"h aoiin st book happens to be called. He forks gv h ieaytln ntecmu up no more money, thanks to an ade-anotefriswrkndoto C quate student activities fec.setahmrupblcio.uter This means a great deal to the av- mr,w'entrnigapltclO erage student. It means that every gno apsgsi he."h student receives an annual more cheap- Gmcc"aeutl ae aeo ly than he would otherwise be able to.thlaeriis"McinI"adou It gives the editors an assured income diyppr r oddwt oiis of an amount that will allow them to moesuntwullokpo put out a better annual. Why should "h aoiin sM.Bno i the students of the University be pen- hm n r ea ign.ta alized by not being able to do the same?asaanuancoigltrrmg Any old Carolina man would be adnta utfrdrgtr more closely drawn to his Alma Ma-joe,iculvryasybemd ter if he had somnething to bring him- 5ces l tnesi self back more vividly to ofise codntlegeol days.thtwewlgieteamaaieo Yours truly,whcevnteciiacabepod .David Aiken. Yus Dear Editor: Ae crhr Last week your newspaper carried (h aeokbg r crhr under the title "Question-of-the-Week" pro o h notnt odn the query: "What's the matter with o h Qeto fteWe"ls the Carolinian?" The question waswek RalznthtT Crliis worded in such a way that it put saf ic h iei none t "The Carolinian" at a disadvantage be- hpsfrafrtrt aaiels fore the answer was even given. ItfalhsbentebutordrgtY would have helped us very much if thejoe"weaesryhtwehul question had been, "What do you thinkapertjonheaksftescf of The Carolinian?" We could have es eaepodo aig''i gotten constructive rather than de-CaliansacoainpuiC structive criticism and perhaps some to,adws tscesfrters good ideas. The fact must be takenoftiyeradormnsucdag Into consideratintthatushIshwaswur yearstoditor.