Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TAFF WRITEZB: ASSOCI acL'S etr F Foter ,Srnith, Theresa Mac Singletary, F9' tqr, S. De ass, Mac Singletary, 'Foster Tenore, S. C. DePass, la Snut , Theresa Tenore, S. C. DePass, Mac Singletary, Foster Smith, Theresa Tenore, S. .DPass, Mac Singletary, Foster Smith, Singletary, Ioter Smit Theresa Tenore. S. C. DePass, Mac Singletary, C. DePass, Mac Singl Foster Smith, Theresa Tenore, S. C. DePass. Theresa Tenore, S. C. MARY DIXON..........Managing Editor Students Attend Dances The Red Rooster joins Prof. William Woods in its praise of the way students have been giving their whole-hearted suport to Student Union Dances. Every Saturday night, students flock to pay their quar ters for the fun. And it is fun. In the future, Prof. Woods says, he intends to have bigger and better dances. He had explained that this can be brought about by the continued cooperation of the stu dents in coming to these functions. In the past, students were stay-at-homes. They did not venture out after nightfall. Not now, however. The Student Union dances have changed all that. Now they are rapidly on the road to becoming socialites. Hope was expressed that a few might in time become jitterbugs. And so th eschool progresses, both along academic -and social lines. Just think! Jitterbugs! Long live the Stu dent Union Dances! Traditio'n Busters The existence of a grave situation-one reaching to the very depths of Carolina tradition-has brought to the no tice of TILE RED ROOSTER this week. A group of students have been accused of going to the li brary to study. Since it was built, nearly a century ago, as the first separate library building in the nation, it has never been so degraded. Students for generation upon gVneration have retired to its book-surrounded atmosphere to learn the fine art of conversation. All of the momentous questions of the day have been discussed across its polished tbles. Later, when co-eds became nurherous on the campus, its hallowed halls were used, and have beei used since, for the honorable purpose of making dates, and engaging in similar cultural activity. . Scarcely can we believe the reports that some ungentle manly and unladylike students have desecrated the sacred premises by stooping so law as to use the place for study ing I Such practices must stop! Can our traditions be so fractured, by a few thoughtless ones? No! Forever, NO! It is our earnest hope that the faculty will take cogni zane of the matter, and take immediate steps to stop this studying that is so profaning the sacred precincts of htis campus. There is another, still more shameful angle to this sat situation. There is a rumor abroad that the students in volved are not entirely at fault. There is a rumor that certain faculty members have grossly violated the tradi tions of the campus in advising their students to make use of the library for the purpose of studying. If the time-honored traditions of this institution are to survive, then these savage ravages* must be stopped. No Connection To the Dies Committee, and others whom it may concern: The name of this publication, and the color of the ink used therein, is by no means to be construedl as having any connection whatsoever with Communism, Nazi-isnm, Socialism, or any form of radlicalism wvhatsoever it may be. Rather, the color was chosen because it corresp)ondled with that of the redl stripes in the American Flag. We hope that the gentlemen of the Dies Comnmittec, and others, will see fit to accept this explanation, and not investigate this publication nor the staff thereof. For further information, read your local newspaper. Question To The Weak What do you think about this serious situation ? St. Claire Muckenfuss: I think the best way to go about it is to leave things alone. To act nowv would cause difficulties. Earl Robinett: I. think that there is nothing to be done. I believe that the situation is here to stay, and that there's nothing we can do about it. Frank Jordan: I believe that the faculty is partly to blame. I think they should do something about it. Louis Searson: What situation? George Coleman: I don't know. I'm only president of the student body, and not in any position of authority. Coit Hendley : Who cares. Margaret Mitcham: I don't think that it's as serious as people make out. Frances Smitk: I think that the students are to blame for such a situation getting a start. Maybe Alpha Kap pa Gamma could do something about it. George Ptince: Being a politician, I cannot say, hav ing the feat' that it might mislead my constituents. RuberS Harman: Having been engaged in a tough political race, I have not had time to stndy the siuation TES ter Sinith, Theresa [ac Singletary, Foster Published eN S. C. DePass, Mac versity with , Theresa Tenore, S. etary, Foster Smith, lumbia, South D)ePass. act of 1776. fack Talk Editor: Dear Sir: Perhaps I should be more famil iar with the subject before I attempt to write a letter to you about it. However, there should be -some thing done, and I feel that since no one else has brought the mat ter to the attention of the students of this institution, perhaps I should be the one to broach the subject. I feel that the matter is one of vital importance to each and every student on the campus. It cannot long be overlooked. What will be the consequences if such a situation is allowed to con tinue for long? I sipcerely believe that if the students ever come to the realization of what the situation really means, they cannot fail to act. Perhaps what is going on will be of benefit in the immediate fu ture. However, I believe that in the long run,. it cannot fail to bring a large measure of dissatisfaction. What can be done? That is a hard question to an swer in a few words. It stands to reason, however, that strong leader ship is needed, for the necessary re forms cannot be brought about through mere wishing. Maybe' it would be a good idea to have the president of the student body take a hand in formulating sonic plan. Perhaps the heads of all the cam pus publications should get together to give force to the reaction. Again, I reiterate, strong leadership is needed. And not only leadership, but the cooperation of all the students of the University. Without the co operation of the students nothing can be done to improve matters, for no general can operate without his army. I am appealing to you as Editor to give this letter some sort of pub licity in the columns of your paper. Yours very truly, L. Currie McCarthy. Short Notes To People TO SIDNEY DUNCAN: If you would save your political fortune on this campus, the best way to start is to put a Ness-egg safely away. P. S.--This is a Nessicary step. TO ALL FLYERS-OFF-.THE-. HANDLE: Why don't you steer an even course?~ Some day you'll blow a gasket. Then folks'll say, "He got too madl," \Vhile standing 'round your cas ket. TO PROF. NORWOOD: Please, dear Professor, make your voice A little more stertorous; We cannot hear your gentle talk; Therefore, your- classes bore us. TO ALL WHO VOTED: Who was it said, "A new day Loomis for the Social Cabinet?" TO BLUE KEY FRATERNITY: Those gates you started a year ago Seenm just as far away Why not (1o like K. S. K., And try the WV. P. A.? TO ANYONE IT FITS: Sitting, Sitting, Sitting Must be a fine job to have Especially when you've got An N. Y. A. assistant to help you. TO CHEMISTRY STUDENTS: Why doesn't Doc invent some glue TFo make those blastedI formulas stick in the minds Of dumb clucks like me andl you? TO MR. R. G. BELL: TIhough some folks may accuse you of having radical ideas, never fear; WVe know you ain't no radical 'cause youi ain't got bushy hair. TO MADAM DeHORVATH: Your orchestra is good; The girls' glee club is grand; But tell us, please,--when you drive your car How have you escaped the Promised Land? TO BARNEY A. EARLY: .Did you ever try chewing chew ing tobacco? 4 TO MARY RHODES: "The thing that goes the farther es t, Troward making life worthwhile, That costs the least and does the mnost, IS JUST A PL EA SA NT SMILE." -Borrowed. TO PROF. MERIWETHER: We'd like the history you teach better by far jf you'd say more of history and less of "-ah-" TO PROF. F. H. WARDLAW: l'rankly, Mr. Wardlaw, you use words well when'you write; lint'when you miss the golf ball, your language ain't polite! RED ROOS ,ery so-often by the Little Red Societi outhern Exposure.' Entered at the Pu Carolina,-as lower-class matter in acco Try And CPilIect BY GEORGE FAULKNER JOYQE ZUCKERMAN Bats are flying in your belfry and your thoughts are sopped with men tal bacteria so that all time and place converge at some distant thule where the theory of the fiddle play ing einstion's imagination and brain reaches veracity and time and space become one and reality and imagi nation are lost in the fog of menory and joy and sorrow are the same for what is good and what is bad is ascertained by the angle of ob servation and so everything and anything you think fall into a single category whose description is non descript but whose value ahd dur ability are measured in the same manner as reflextions on eternity which are as long as real a moment of ecstacy which is rare in these times of tragic comedians like the inebriate you once met who w#s im patiently waiting for the outbreak of the next war so he could have a medal pinned on his chest and could boss his superiors who would be his inferiors because in the deft art of human slaughter they were his inferidrs and what is all this talk about the bloodless Napoleon whose countenance is the delirious design that in some yesterday pro voked humor from unisoned thou sands who today with fatal subjec tion bow their heads in endless rows and soon after the loudest noise the world has ever heard will lie in the fields where the poppies grow and some scatterbrained scrivener will rise above the decaying fumes and discover that the flag is flying in the morning breeze and that good I is here -to stay and evil is the story of yesterday which suddenly be comes the shining hour to thoseI who see it all with half burned brains and so what do you do buti take another shot in the arm and, the fellow next to you in this foul den turns and questions you who1 was that woman he saw you with last night and he laughs while he waits for an answer whpse shape is buxom and who smells like the, wind after rain and you laugh and tell him that was no woman that 1 was your wife and you figure why 1 in the hell should you tell him that death was your bride and then turn over on your armless side andi you start to whistle a song you once knew and liked which you Just To Rem in SPring holidays will begin r be allowed to go home nly if th TER DEPARTI Mc Singletary, es of the Uni- '$mith, Society Edit sh-Over in Co:- Editor; S., C. Del rdance with tie Polo, Horse Race Scissors Editor ' Fc Editor. now know but did not like which you despised because in your veins is became a venom which turned your blood black and you whistle and keep whistling because you cannot hear what you are whist link but the fellow next to you hears what you are whistling and he bays to you shut up damn you and leave the dead alone and you do and then suddenly you grow angry with the dead and, want to kill them and suddenly you feel slight shivers and you can hear the snow falling on your brain and you want to bury your head under the covers but there are no covers and you have only one arm to clutch your throat but in time your mind is tuned to strident notes of a trombone and of someone in the groove and someone shouts swing it professor and then static and then a voice in too even tone tells you that the dodgers lost again and here at last you find a true vestige of the past in the time before the world burst like a bomb and scat tered itself on Mars and put blood on the moon and knocked the lights out of all the stars but could not do a thing to swing music and the dodgers who you remembered to forget to think about about the spanish word for to eat which at first glance seems like a simple thought but after further investi gation becomes complex and bounces #like the metal ball on a roulette wheel for you never knew the spanish word fot to eat and if you had the sun might have started to rise in the west and generals might have stopped dying in four posted beds and jokes might have retained their color which is black as sin and as white as stupidity and as stupid and happy as the yellow visaged figure which now stands be fore and grins and hands you mother pipe and you pay him off with the profit sharing coupons which you now realize are actual y being profitable for a change and For smal change and for the smqU :st change which' multiply like ) ad pennies to regiments and di nisions and mass murder and above~ .t all you see a fellow in a top hat with a white carnation In his lapel mud a fellow in a black and tan mniform and a crowd with its right irms extended stiffly toward the iky and now for a brief moment ypu ire glad you have no right arm and you laugh and ask the mercenary nephisto near you how near to the rink of eternmty you are and he aughs crazily so that the bats in rour belfry fly wildly and says to rou still laughing that it is april :he first because the fools instead f the meek have inherited the ~arth . .. You ext week. Double cuts be y will stay there until after mid-a HARRY 0. DAV B ....BItmIslinifts~ dENT READS: '14AAS,S Sporto Editor; Foster or; Theresa Tenor, Co-ed , The "ass coy, dito; Mrco Tenore, S.-C. DePass, Mic Singletary, Foster ass, copy editor; Marco Snitl),.Therpsa Tenore, S.'C. DePass and S. Editor; Mac Singletary,plus S. C. DePas. Maer Smith, Fbillup SpSce OLFIC11 BOY............Bernard Poliakoff HAVITAH BABOOOK....ok. Manager Train OF Thoughts By Amalgamated' Scho6s Service T"rends Two-thousand schools and collee s today made plain to the world, through student pos, that they were in fivor of 1avgin Christmas come on December 25. At -the same time, one-thousan( others declared them selves in favor of having July 4 come in July sometime. and favored changing the date of Independence day to July 4. The two opposing views are aptly stated in a sum mary by Prof. J. Q. Brakethrottle in a summary of the situation. Prof. Brakethrottle said: "I believe that the trend toward un-American--I mean un-American activities is largely overestimated as far as the colleges of the United States are concerned." S'trike8 Students 'believe that they have a right to strike in their own defense, a poll of the opinion by a leading authority revealed this week. On the heels of this sunimary of opinion, many stu dents struck, helieving that they had the weight of opinuon on their side. At the University of South Carolina, a number. of students struck recently. They vere aided in their pur pose by large delegations from other schools, who came Ll to the University, located in Columbia, South Carolina, for the sole purposq of striking. Some of the authorities were won over to the stu dent point of view on the matter of striking, when it was reported that the house was sold out for prelims, semi-finals, and finals of the conference meet. 'olitics .Students believe that college is not the place for poli tics. That is tile general opinion of most college papers. Followmng are some statements nmade by college editors onl the subject (luring tihe last two months: University of: ."Politics on tile camp)us is a vital part of student training. Without politics on tile college campus, we wvold have fewer statesmen in our congres sional halls today." is College bf tile City of: "Politics, even as dirty as it ion nmost camplluses, cannlot be better. If it can, why School of: Now is the time for all good men to come to tile aid of thie party.' a; 'I