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COURTENAY CARBONt JI....Edtor Harold Prino% Warg adha le%wmBChales Lee. Sk, and Ben Polayes. Loola SBrAI' WRe tore; Oolt H.mft, Paui Wilmeth, Associate Mau %Tbelma Ito io o Dan Hon- Grath and Goorge Primog deowe, Richard WricJ4 Holed Allen, jim MoXinney# and oa "uk erama DewardItor; "Duck" teatman inese Associates. GEORGE ZUCKERMAN...Man*g Editor Should Teachers Set the Pace Or Should the Students? (Reprinted From the L. S. U. "Reville".) The intriguing and absorbing problem of colleges wherein teachers allow the students to set the pace and those in which a highly centralized government teaches only what it wants the students to know, "totalitarian ism," was discussed in a post mortem paper, just released, by Dr. Lotus D. Coffman, late president of the Uni versity of Minnesota. le had written it before his death as the introduction to his biennial report, during which he was still president of the University. "Freedom does not exist in general, or in the abstract," he wrote. "It is a matter of growth within the individual and represents a conquest over instincts inheritances, and maladjustments of all kinds. The ability to exercise freedom comes with maturity, and experience and learn ing. Freedom is relative to circumstances and conditions; it does not exist in the absolute, or in a vacuum. Freedom must be earned, and the price is self-discipline. "In education, as elsewhere, freedom is not a right, but a pri?ilege to be earned. The real meaning of freedom will be lost for youth if they are not taught, or do not learn, the importance of social and personal obligations. Desire for expression must be tempered by a recognition of duty and responsibility. Human lives are enriched and freed only as they share in the larger social values of the world about them. Education will make its largest con tribution to a free society only when there is a proper recognition of responsibility." He was particularly concerned about the vulnerability of youth to propaganda. "The older generation declares that ours is a young man's world; the young men believe it," he wrote: "Yet at the same time the folly and ex perience of youth make them easy victims of those who would manipulate them for ulterior purposes. The more majestic, the more flamboyant, the more emotional the appeal, the easier it is to lead the youth of any genera tion in any country. "The dilemma of the college administrator today is that whenever he endeavors to defend his college from use as a recruiting ground he is charged with tyranny and suppression of free speech. Whenever he defend the rights of students to free discussion about any important problem, he is criticised as a radical." Summer School Grows In line with its policy of serving the state to the best possible advantage, the University summer school will this year present a program and curriculum even larger than was p)resented last year. At tihe last summer session, well over 600 students were enrolled. Some of these were students'making up back. work. Others were trying to get ahead by a course or two in order that their work in the fall might be easier. Many others, at work teaching during the rest of the year, were working toward advanced dlegrees, or studying further in their established lines of work, keeping abreast of modern developments in every field. Whatever their purpose, they all came to the Uni versity because of the high type of training that they were able to receive at the University summer school. The wide interest in the summer session of the Uni versity is evidenced by the fact that every county in the state was represented last year by at least two students; there were 15 states and one foreign country represented. It is the belief of The Gamecock that the summer school, with most of thle regular teaching staff, and a number of outside specialists in charge of classes, will have an even more successful season this year. "Nothing succeeds like success." Debating Council a Valuable Organization This week a debating team from the University re turned home after an extensive tour, which took them as far as New York. On the journey to New York and re turn they debated teams of some of the leading colleges and universities of the east. Naturally, it was a fine trip from a personal stand point of view. The trip was invaluable in strengthening the University's relations with other institutions of learn ing in the east, and spreading the University's good will all along the route to the World's Fair and back again. The Debating team and Debating council should be congratulated on the splendid work that they have done this year and 'in the past. Change in the Garnet and Black Setup At a student body meeting Tuesday afternoon, a re vised constitution for the Garnet and Black, Carolina's yearbook, was piassed by the first 'reading. Next week it will come up for the second time., The changes have been carefully considered to better the organization and the circumstances under which the yearbook now .operates, and to make the constitution of the yearbook more* compatible with that of the 'stud,ent If the new constitution passes, it will no doubt improve he efileiency with whikh the book and its staff are "Ok MOM%THE Gaey "Wela*i Be. GAMECO eat EMo; Ed No. ""t 19rt d-ded Jauary s0, 1908 Laurens Brue, D-0.T L.OTT bol ALU, Nift teredaecomd claus attUS at the Il at 9S No"vabor Sk Varsity Show Workers Deserve Credit We take off our hats to the cast, the directors, and the authors of the 1989 edition of the Varsity Show. For months a large group of students has been at work laboring to make the production a success, as it was last year. It has taken real effort and a great deal of time on the part of all connected with the enterprise to smooth it into its final shape. That it has been so well received is a tribute to the ability and to the industry of Carolina students and faculty. Apologies Despite the most consciencious efforts of the staff, mistakes do occur in The Gamecock. Last week the name of Jimmy Tomlinson, Phi Sigma Kappa, Carolinian staff, and class officer, was inadvertently omitted from the list of new members of Blue Key fraternity. The Gamecock-To Be Copied The Gamecock's typography has undergone radical changes in, the last two years, and, if our eyesight is good, is receiving silent acclaim from other papers. By silent acclaim, we mean that the style of ty pography-headlines, arrangement of cuts, and typo graphical devices in general-are being duplicated by several papers among the Gamocock's exchanges. George Zuckerman, now managing editor of the paper, is responsible for the excellence of The Gamecock's make up this semester. Parade Of Opinion (By Associated Collegiate Press) WAR In these trying days when history is being recorded by hours rather than by decades, collegians are nnding it just as dif ficult for them as it is for the general public to keep up with the fast pace that the nations. are setting in their battle for economic and political allies. The news parade is galloping by so swiftly that the collegians by the side of the road are fori g opinions on nlated Pvents nnly. are seeminrlv making little effort to coordinate their views into any definite policy. With the exceptions that are always found among the vo ciferous and thinking youth of a freedom-loving democracy, collegians seem to be forming the following platform as their stand on world events: 1. First, last and always, they do not want the U. S. to par ticipate in any war of aggression or in any war outside the na tion's boundaries. 2. They believe that neutrality should be observed so far as men are concerned, but there is a tendency to support eco nomic cooperation with the peace front that is opposing the totalitarian states. But they firmly maintain that this eco nomic cooperation should be on a cash and carry basis only. 3. They believe that a European war is almost, inevitable, and they think that the Allied powers of the world war ha've bungled in allowing Hitler and Mussolini to gain victory after victory. They have little faith in the appeasement policy. 4. The college press is vigorously campaigning for the main tenance of an open mind by all U. S. citizens, and is urg ing them to beware of all propaganda that is flooding the na tion today. Collegians believe that the U. S. can be kept out of any war if the people are kept accurately informed about all developments. Trhis is, as accurately as carf be determined, the state of the college mind today. Tomorrow's events are certain to make it more definite--but just how it will swing no one can predict. LINDY The return of the Lone Eagle to the U. S. and his special appointment to the army air corps staff has been greeted with little enthusiasm by the college press. The opinion on Charles Augustus Lindbergh is about evenly divided, and most reserve final judgment until nmore is learned about what the Colonel is doing and thinking. The University of Iowa Daily Iowan cordially received him with these words: "Now that Lindy has returned, it would be well for all of us to remember why he fled our shores. He loves his native land, or he wouldn't have returned to take up active duty for ,his government. It is up to all Americans to show their appreciation of his feelings." High importance is attached to his return by the Santa Bar bara State College El Gaucho: "The chief question of the im mediate actions are a comparison of his Russian and German fleet studies. When one recalls that his statement as to the strength of Germany and the weaknesses of Russia had a decided effect on ,English and French action in the Munich crisis one wonders if he led to an American Munich. If the Russian retort to Lindbergh is accepted the picture is very black but if it is not he is still to be considered a great American hero. But regardless of ,which it is, the ColoneJ is still an important character picture in modern American history." The Syracuse University Daily Orange: "One of the rea sons why Germans gave Lindbergh such privileges lies partly in the use of air power as a weapon for diplomacy. Extensive publicity given to the huge size of Germany's air fleet has been a valuable ace in the hands of German diplomats. Fear of German planes over London and Paris has made the govern ments of those two nations speak cautiously. Lindbergh may have been used as means *to secure publicity for Germany's air force, and the importance of Germany's air fleet may have magnified by Lindbergh's position in the public mind. How ever, no one knows the position he holds in international af fins.nor does anyone know what the reticent flyer actually POLLS' That college students are thinking about something else be sides the current International situation is reflected In the respits of plIs, taken on many campuses. Here are the re agits of a fwof thte nost interesting: CHAI ImoWIM0B -"M MeMb0"AL ADV'W#1N 6. - Sad' National Advertsing Service, Inc. Jam"* ._____ CoMles* PwbMsbw*Rde'ugu 40 MADISON Avu. Naw Yotk, ". Y. COMAG I. -cu TO LeO ABLES -*aA. ftAicmo PAY1 Campus Camera I 4pI MILLER HALL &S O%MW Re OL.DsT FWM ERNIlY KOMS IN "IM U.S. IT H4AS BEEN USED EXCLWSNVKY AND CcM ... TINVOSLY FOR FRAWERNY PUVpMg - - %SlCE 84 FPI KAPPA PFM GETMSOMR 0MusME IAT IR.CH.PMIrrE HAS BEEN IN COMNUOUS WINDOW COW SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY VETERINARY SMUDEN1y AT'HE UNVSIY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AS DEAN OF MNNESOTA VATCH "MEHTABELDIGES -AND PMEOR SINCE 1876/ PER FOOD BY LOOKNGIMU6M A V A,MU' ftNqj HEMR SMDE / *Question-of-Week What do you read in the Gamecock; why? 0. A.: I read the Gamecock 1, find uti when the Garn.t and Black is coming out. D. X.: I read the Gamecock to find out when the Caro linian ii enming out. 0. L.: I,read the Gauecock for the latest news, and I read "Musclin' in" to see if I have been disappointed in love. 0. G.: I read the Gamecock to look at rotogravure section and see the pictures of the pretty gals. M. H.: I read the Gamecock to find out what Press Rate Collect says about me. There's nothing like free publicity. D. C.: I read the Gamecock to learn Bernie Bass' batting average for the Bird nine. R. H.: I read the Gamecock to find out to see how many times my name is mentioned on the society page. J. G. T.: I read the Gamecock to learn if my publicity agent is falling asleep on the job. J. P.: I read the Gamecock to get all the news that's fit to print. AC?bRs asTr Love Trij SPoTId6HT... * VEN THE FISH CAN E LtJRED s T He BRGHT LIHGTS.. ToSBEiNG DN2.2.LED ITH DIAAMD34.. - #No oRNER. ENEJo' S L.OOKING INTO 'TI4 GLA~RuiG LtG5+TS ov AN ONCOMttG CAR WHOSE~ DRWER. 1$s0 'iboSELVISH 0 OTb DUMB TO DINrTHEMJ On goldfish gulping: Tulane University students voted 5 to 1 against the current wave of eating stunts that has swept over the nations campuses. On a third term for President Roosevelt: College of William and ,Mary undergraduates so per cent strong voted against the idea, although 63 per cent indicated that they believe he has been a good chief executive. On politics: Manhattan College seniors voted the Republican party their favorite political organization and named Thomas E. Dewey as their candidate for the presidency. On business: Ge(tysburg College students, by a vote of 208 to 185, believe that business should not be restricted so much by government. On favorites: ,Fordham University seniors paired up Hedy * Lamarr and Robert Browning as the most popular of all men and women. On old age pensions: University of Maine students voted 4 to 1 against the Townsend plan. On dance orchestras: Iowa State Teachers College under graduates, by a 5 to 1 majority, believe that Kay Kyser Is the ts. Toe p6leled vted overwhelmingly In favor of Hoagy tLES ATXzNS "nag We" the n eds144 at a w .s,, South ou d esef dfrtes 041MeY .... ftaaf Raw BROCKINGTONO Clmlon Mgr. Press Rate Colleet By George Zuckerman STUDXNT UNION: In search of the dubious Fletcher Loomis, you wandered about the Student Union building the other afternoon. Not long before that you had met Judge Holland, who told you he was leaving school, was going back to his farm. The Judge, who ap peared well rested after being in terned in the i'nfirmary for two weeks, confided that his becoming a "dirt farmer" was really a polit ical move. But the Judge assured you he would return to the campus next .fall. No doubt this news will please the bored brethren of the campus. You were going to question Loomis about the Judge and him self. It seems that Fletcher has som'e interesting ideas, mostly philosophical, about Holland. But you never found Loomis that af ternoon-and as you write this col umn he is still among those miss ing. At a very despondent moment you spied Billy Woods, someone you forgot to mention in your col umn about the varsity show. Woods, not so long ago, composed one-half of the producing firm of Stephan and Woods. Now Woods spends his hours-when not trying to teach the Spanish lingo-as "house mother" of the Student Union building. * * * * SMOKING A WELL BROK en in pipe, Woods was com fortably seated in one of the soft leather chairs in the lobby. You had a pipe but no tobacco, so you struck up a converlation, soon struck a match and lit your pipe filled with some of Woods' tobac co. "Heard your dance turned into a stag party last Saturday night?" you said. Anything for a column. All you could think of was white space, running the length of a column. "That's not true," Woods as serted. "There were about' eight girls and ten boys. Two boys left right away to go the midnight show at the 'Palmetto. That gave the rest of us an idea-and we all went to the movies. Very melodramatically Woods related how he had spent days and nights worryfhg about his dances, which to use the vernacular, were complete flopperoos-three times. The matter was getting really serious-about as serious as these things can become. You had sev eral solutions.-, but they hardly seemed proper in this time and place. * * * * WOODS, HOWEVER, WAS quick to remind you .that his "girl-break" dance was a rousing success. Whether he had a theory that it was the beginning of social revolution you never learned.' Unlike the magazine advertisc ments you read, the conversation did not switch to razor blades. Ini stead you talked about the numer ous activities which have contrib uted to the success of the Stu .dent Union building this year. As you were talking, about twelve students, playing on three billiard tables, were busily engaged trying to get out from behind the eight balls. Several more, in the next basement room, were batting' around ping-pong balls. There is one billiard table re served for the co-eds. But lately, for some unkown reason, there has been a dearth of billiard mermaids -the feminine gendeg of pool sharks. The conversation reverted to the subject of dances, and Woods em phatically stated that no more dances would be held this semester in the Student Union building. * * * * THIS DIDN'T SURPRISE you greatly. But the usually reti cent Woods turned adamantive and said: "If I am to be boycotted, I'll strike first I" This display of emotion was probably too much for the profes sor and* he retreated to the piano where he tickled the ivory with all ten fingers. And the result was Beethoven's ispmortal "Moonlight Sonata.' You left 'the professor with his mood. And, as you write, you still wonder what Fletcher Loomis' theory about Judge Holland 1s. Maybe before next tweek rolls around you'll discover Lopsnis hid ing somewhere behind4 a tea 4ounce glass.