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COURTENAY CARSON, JR...... Editor A88001 Harold Prince. Marg DEPARTMENT EADS Lomas. Charles'iae. St. Paul League. Sports Editor; Jane Cox, Oo-ed Editor; Martha Newman, Society Editor. STAFF tor; olt Hendley, Paul Raymond Davis, Dot Polan. Eugene Haynes, Irne Wilmeth, Associate Man LaBorde, Thelma Thompson, Elliott Meoauts, Dan Hen- Grth and George Prince derson, Richard Prick, Helen Allen, Jim McKinney, and itors; "Duck" SwfatmA Deward brittain. Hays, and Harold Jervey, GEORGE ZUCXERMAN.. .M=n'g Eitor offers. Carolina Students Reahly Think Discussion groups, discussing this semester the gen eral topic of "Student Body Unity" are doing some really constructive thinking. Social life, student government, chapel services, are some of the phases of student life which have been un der disc6ssion. Under the topic of social life, the gen eral opinion of students participating seems to be that more facilities should be provided for dating. They pointed out that additions to the Student Union would probably be the logical course to follow. A bowling alley was suggested. One of the suggestions made by a group of non-fraternity men w~as that fraternities should be given some place for dating and informal parties. The prevailing sentiment in one group was that fraternities would be better off if they were alloved to maintain quarters off the campus. A criticism against theWEairls was one feature of the discussion on social life. The opinion was expressed that more "hensouse" dances would largely solve the prob lem. of two little social life for a number of students but at the same time the charge was made that the girls themselves won't attend these dances in sufficient numbers to make the affairs interesting. Another suggestion made was that a central dance com mittee might be a good idea. The plan proposed was that the various dance organizations on the campus should be combined in order that Carolina might have a really big dance, or series of dances every year for the entire student body. A campus picture show, such as is operated at Clemson and other institutions, was sug gested as a remedy for the problem of lowering the expenses of dating. A dating bureau was even advocated. One freshman was of the opinion that a orthy pro ject for service organizations on the campus tould be to give free dances to the student body. Discussing student government, R. G. Bell, secre tary of the Y. M. C. A., which sponsors the groups, said that the prevailing sentiment among the students seems to be for clean politics, and te institution of the A s tralian ballot system. The students' views on chapel programs were expressed in last week's Gamecock. All the suggestions offered may not be worthwhile. However, the mere fact that so many suggestions of all kinds were brought forth, and continue to be brought forth each week at discussion groups, is an inication that students are entirely alive to their environment, know what they want, but lack the organization to at taive majre chanest h tdn oy Dtiscussing n fctv student government, oBel stre (tyo leitre coul C.eA., whichtsponefisthe grous,ado being thereyailinios sendmnthimng the, student sieeso tobenfor cla n moliticasend te trnsttino worthu whilea bctalotisst. 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F.duca tisonistructioe and h seumaicos subenttrds existgad governmegndacnotytrv.o"goaneadprjdc. Whlen discusino wit ntionloview,sto the rulest o icia "inclly" newsp Apersicas days,ot imnuewrnn to h eo-c litica ituino weuithnry safe ordethe mesanocthrcet, apoug t ivndoitey ofBatimoenrenchedo thas com out inoGrmanycr tay. of ste sagurdedl for presienthe HoeveM. ulb hade writteen theateorac Uiveswingt "Cole, fhir probnoms." nalhi fote fighcofice ah cholirusa tofe honphe: the sh ould bern to sayrcise rIi haenorsona poltical aeosira tions and al,sit preent es robecteWc seems toafre is acotrie, dafnit han oomlidgesouusintent nowtd chostn tovrnmet. *4" *'*I* HULL' ATES art Rollins, Vivian Olair Muckenfus, Jr., Garety, Associate Edi Sansbury, and Philip kging Editors; Ed Me. Associate Sports Ed. Lois Ewart, Caroline ROBE1 Associate Business Man. Entered an Another "Largest In Recently the report was p rollment of the University w of the institution. This week another statem flee indicates that the gradi the largest ever to go out f The University has faced It faces problems at prese them in the future. But it despite all the hinderances of progress, progress has no flack Editor's Note: The following cor respondence is published because we believe that the subject discussed in the two letters is of general interest to the entire student body. An edi torial on the same subject appeared in The Gamecock of Feb. 17, 1939. The Gamecock, Columbia, S. C. March 2, 1939. Mr. Flinn Gilland, Assistant Registrar, University of South Carolina.' Dear Mr. Gilland: This is a letter in protest of the system which changes chapel from one day to another each alternating week. This morning the system caused me to miss my nine o'clock class. Last night I worked until a late hour on "The Gamecock" and nat urally this morning I desired to sleep as late as possible and I set my alarm for ten minutes -'til nine o'clock, the hour of my first class. Because of the fact that no special or outstanding notice had been given me I forgot all about the chapel day change and the bell rang for my first class while I was still in bed. I missed the class of course, and I firmly feel that it was no fault of mine but of the authorities re sponsibile for changing the chapel date just when I was getting ac customed to the Friday morning date and class schedule. Will something be done about ex cusing me for the class I missed or will I be made a victim of cir cumstances entirely beyond reason? Sincerely wvritten, (Signed) Paul "Scoop" League. March 10,1939. Mr. Paul "Scoop" League, '[he Gamecock, Campus. - Dear M r. League: WVhen compulsory chapel wvas aliolished after extremely careful considleration by the University faculty a year ago, a plan was evolved whereby each class p)eriod prior to 1:00 p. mn. on Friday would be shortenaed by ten minutes, and that extra fifty minutes period cre ated thereby (11:20 to 12:10) to be established as the weekly chapel period. D)r. 11lugh R. M urchison andl Professor WV. S. Woods were ap)pointedl as Chairman and Secre tary', respectively, of the Chapel Programa Committee. 'The experience of one year un (der this p)lan p)rovedl to the faculty that those classes meeting on Fri (lay were the object of unfair dis crimaiation and( that (during a se mnester the equtivalenlt of three regu lar class periodls was lost to these courses. ConsequenCItly, at the Feb ruary 1 939 meeting of the faculty, they votedl to amend the wveekly voluntary chapel program, so that the chapel would be scheduled to alte'rnate between Thursday and Fridlay-meeting on the same week (lay every other week. On February 17, on the front page of "'[le Gamiecock" uinder the hieadlline "Chapel Change Begins March 2" a story of the adopted change was carried with full rea sons therefor, including a schedule of chapel nmeetings for the remain der of the semester. This was thir teen (lays before March 2, the first (lay on which the change became effective. On Monday, February 27, Profes sor W. S. Woods, Secretary of the Chapel Program Committee, posted notices announcing the weekly chapel program and the (late on all of the main campus bulletin boards (including those in D)avis College, the Co-ed Association bulletin boardl behind the Old President's Home, the bulletin board adjoining the dloor of the Registrar's office and the official bulletin board in Rutledge College-being on the first floor of the building which houses "The Gamecock" office on the third floor.) In doing this, Professor Woods followed the pol icy approved by the faculty for the notification of the faculty and stu dent body of the weekly chapel ex ercises. - THE MECO Founded January 80, 1908 T ELLIOTT GONZALES, First second class matter at thwstoffice at Golun November 90. History" ublished that the yearly en as the largest in the history 3nt from the Registrar's of tating class in June will be rom the institution. many obstacles in the past. nt, and will probably face is encouraging to note that that have blocked the path t been halted. Talk While the Registrar's office is perfectly sympathetic with the un fortunate predicament in which you found yourself when your alarm clock awakened you at the moment when the bell was ringing for the convening of the second class, we are unauthorized to acknowledge the lack of additional "special or outstanding notice" as sufficient reason for an acceptable excuse for the class you missed at that hour. However, we will gladly refer your letter to the next meeting of the faculty as a protest against the "present system" for any action they may care to take in amending the "system" and also to establish a precedent regarding the accep tance of your excuse and those of a similar nature. Sincerely yours, W. Flinn Gilland, Assistant Registrar. To The Gamecock: I would like to express to the Junior class my appreciation for their cooperation in making the Junior-Senior dance a success. The seniors and others who attended I also want to thank. Tom McCutchen, President Junior Class. To the Editor of The Gamecock: While there as a "building up" program going on the campus which encourages all of us, there is at the same time a definite "tearing down" process which is equally as discouraging to students who have a real love for their Alma Mater. Before we are entitled to new buildings, we should prove our selves worthy of those which we already have. Take the Student Union build ing for instance--the chairs which were originally bought to grace the lobby are nowv in the office of the D)ean of Women because the arms were broken off every week last year and had to be repaired con stantly. The doors which were once so clean have been kicked open so many times that it is nowv im possible to remove the marks. The halls, the lobby, and the recreation rooms downstairs have become the dlumpinig ground for bottles, sandl which wrappers and any other trash anyone wishes to rid themselves of. Just after mail time, one wouldl think it was raining paper just out side the post office. The paths to b)uct andl waste basket go uin trodd(en, wthile Uncle Billy's once beautiful floor is covered wvithm hves of crackers, chocolate milk, andj cigarette stubbs. Although we think the Student U.nion the most abused of our butildings, very much the same care less attitude is taken towardl the other buildings and the lawns of the campus. Students!I Wake uip to what you are doing to your Alma Mlater! D)o y'ou really dleserve to get newv build ings if you can't take care of wvhat you already have? WVe call upon every loyal Caro lina studlent to join us in a crusadle for cleanliness. Alpha Kappa Gamma. To lihe Eitor of Thme Gammecock: In my opinion the University of South Carolina has imade a great step in altering its athletic depart mient. I rep)eat, a great step) back wards. When Mr. Hlarth first took over the reins as dlirector of athletics he gave up an excellent and responsible position in the city. Since that time Bill H-arth has done as much as any one man to bring the name of the University of South Carolina into national headlines. Perhaps I am unfamiliar with all the facts concerned. However, I believe I am right when I say that the result of the upheaval was caused by outside pressure which was unfavorable to Mr. Harth. When Mr. Harth assumed his dut ties as (director of athletics the debt of the dlepartmnent was close to $50,000. I believe that the sum has been increased somewhat, but if one looks at the improvements madle perhaps they can be partly justified. Will the upstanding authorities of the school permit a man whose ability and calibre is unquestioned to be shoved aside for what seeris to be purely personal reasons of the men who have donated a small amount of money to the athletic department? (Sigrned) Oliver 3. Wolfe. . 1938- 5 CAssockied 4 ft8P*XO9NTZD PORs H National Adver . College Pukus 420 MADisoN AVr 3bia, S. 0., CHICA6o - 3010 - .O Press Rate Collect By George Zuckerman Some days ago Deling Booth, Columbia Record reporter, showed me two copies of the Carolina Note book, a literary magazine which ap peared on the campus about seven years ago. A little later I got in to a bull session about it with Bill King, now Chief of the Columbia Bureau of the Associated Press It was King who edited the above mentioned literary opus. With King in this ambitious project were associated the Univer sity's leading embryo writers. Chief motive for the publication was to afford these students a tangi ble medium for expression. Frank Durham, John Culbertson, Idary Ford, Philip Sabbagha, Ed Chaf fin, Deling Booth, J. Mitchell Morse, and Mark Dowtin were con tributors, editors and office boys all combined. In January 1932 this group gave the Carolina campus the first and next to the last issue of the Carolina Notebook. To report that, besides i being very competent as far as collegiate literary material goes, the magazine was a mimeograph mas terpiece is not exaggeration. The magazine was "pridted" on a hand operated mimeograph ma chine-and all the work was ac complished in the journalism labor atory. With twelve dollars worth of material-ink and paper-and a staple-gun borrowed from the treasurer's office, the staff went to work one wintry night. And through the dark hours the lights burned in the journalism lab, the typewriters clicked, and the mim eograph machine whirled and turned out pages of copy. Even a casual perusal at the magazine makes you wonder where the liter ary minded clique dug up all the energy to turn out copy which al most matched work done on a lino type machine and a printing press. Believe it or not, the margins on both sides were even-a brain rack ing task with a typewriter and a stencil. Readers who wvere expecting something sensational or sexation al were dluly warned by the mes sage in the masthead: "This maga zine may not be as an alarm clock or a Promethean bolt that will startle . . . the students." Then it was stated: "T he material appear ing in the Carolina Notebook will fall short of being great liter'ature --naturally so-and there are no apologies to make for this simple fact. If this publication helps in the awakening of the app)arently dormant literary ambitions of Caro lina students then it will be a suc cess. But it was not an entire success. F'romi King I learned that the pro ceedls dlid not even cover the cost of materials-twelve dlollars. The students of the University, as King relates, did not throwv stones at the magazine, but they calmly stood on the banks of the literary river and watchedl it dIrown. One professor, who had every reason to give the venture his sup l)ort, went so far as to declare that it was just a scheme of a coup)le of students trying to make money. In March of that year appeared the second andl final edition of the Carolina Notebook-and the Uni versity lunged into literary dark age. It was not until Rhode Is land's Albert Rouslin, North Caro lina's Eleanor Cannon, and Cana da's Walter Connolly got together last year that the renaissance came to Carolina. Now in its third se muester of success the New Caro linian has a format and content which favorably compare with the bes5t the South has to offer. Maybe in the years to come the New Carolinian will be subsidized by the University-as is the Game cock and the Garnet and Black. But the words that have filled this column may be useless and trite if the same professor who seven years ago dismissed the Carolina Notebook as a mercenary scheme now proves to be a prognosticator. He told one of his classes last week that sometime in April would be gin the next World War. CHARLES'ATKINSON, Vuifi*w IfanaM - lember 1939 uIek PkVPs Issued Weekly by the Literary Societies at the univer. _4"L ebutor of ibutorof stjL of South Oarolina duriag the Collegie year except k3eIiis~during examIndions and holIdAms ATInNS. ADVISOING OV UKin Service, Imc James Qa116VZy1 ...... .*Zzh*jW* z&og~ bers. R*pres"eness NEW YoRK. N. Y. s Axsase - SAn FRANcisco PAUL BROCKINGTON, Circulation Mg. Uampus Camera kN 4-Abt. ! -~ NKAPPA ALPHA THETA CHAPTR HOUSE- AT THE COLM OF WIWAM AND RY WAS ERECTED EARLY IN THE I8"- CENTURY F OTHE COMMIr MENT OF VEM10S CRIMINALS AND OFFENDERS! IT WAS KNOWN AS - OLD DEBTOR'S PRISON! 7EMPLE UNNERSIY'S . -- BASEBALL "iAM . - MADE ONLY -' - ONE HOmE - RUN DURING BOB GARRISON HIT 4g IT WITH BASES : FULL. WA1413 . ONLY trr U ESLE THE SEASOM! . WAKOTA STATE, AN HOLD 4 GOLF BALLS' IN 11S MOUTIA *A., ~ AT ONCE A Quesion-of-Week What do you think might be done to create better stu dent-faculty relations? Nell Berry: I think that the students and faculty should really get together so that they may know each other bet ter. If this were to take place I think that this would tend to create better student-faculty relations. They would be able to understand and see each other's views and to co operate better. Theresa Tenore: Over half the students don't know their professors nor do the professors know the students. I suggest more discussion groups, mixed ones with- coeds, professors, and men students. Walter Carns: Most of the students do not know their school professors. I think that if each professor would talk in chapel we would get to know them better. Hugh Lister: Personal contact is the solution to the problem. Carry your problems to your professor. Dis cussion groups would help the professors .to know the individual student better, not as part of a class. Eva Abbott: Better student-faculty relations can be brought about by frequent meetings of the faculty with representatives of the student body. In that way the stu dents are able to know the expectations of the professors andl comply with them. Bessie King: I think that faculty members from the various departments should talk informally to the students at the wveekly chapel hour. John Blakely: We should know our professors a lof: better ; this of course is up to the student. Louise Fry: I don't see anything wrong with faculty student relationis now. Meyer Rosen: The average student knows hlis profes sors wvell enough. We have a faculty advisor for eacTi freshman and through this system we get to know our faculty as well as is necessary. If thley don't it is the fault of the .student ; wve can 't expect our professors to conic looking for us. J. C. Turnbull: I think that we should strive to have a faculty that is interested in stud(ents' welfare. SPEAK\NG Or SAfETy 4~ - ~ H ERE'S THE ~ *-ILL MADE AMous BY AN D HERE'S MR PU ToFE$' * ~ RESOL.UTION ..... THE ONJE 14 DIDN'T KEEP - -AN D H E RE-S MR. Pu'TTOF F'S C AR AT 'T HE BOT TOM OF THE