University of South Carolina Libraries
GEORGE ZUCKERMAN -d---- - D,PATxMNT HADs luhd" 1"Ok sporb . t"; Irmo La&B"d. 00-4 MitWjr zatbaut" ip Sce AMtwo; Rsod B*Ad Pa STAFF WRTERS Dewwid Bditt&ain MeRtmey, Beani B&Mu Bay. nighl nood Day*e Ween AUhu an3d Paul Sawabury. J COIT HENDLEY..............Managing Editor Lights Out, Blackout War Atmosphere Hits A Very Peaceful Campus Blackout, the two syllable word that was re vived with the second edition of the World War, is usually preceded by datelines from London, Paris, and Berlin. Last week "blackout" reeplaced "exams'" in first place on the campus word parade. Salient reason for this was the short circuited darkness that drowned the University in com plete night. The stooge standing next to us and reading over our shoulder as we clicked this out remind ed us that he, and probably others like him, could not see the hand in front of his face. And he reminded us that his hands were clean. We didn't ask him about his countenance or the state of his mind. Anyhow, riot, of a collegiate form, rode in the proverbial saddle. For further and intricate details of what occurred, we refer you to the news columns of this edition, and to the oral exaggerations of the campus Munchausens. The blackout was terminated shortly after midnight, all of which, if it became habit-form ing, would cause an upheaval in mystery fic tion. Chapel Drive Started University Has Need For Large Auditorium With the new library's cornerstone already in place, campus leaders have now begun a campaign which, if successful, will culminate in'the construction of a new chapel building. As the Castoria people would have you be lieve, there is crying need for it. And we don't mean the two-bit medicine. We mean the chapel. At present the only auditorium on the cam pus which can adequately house the entire student body at one session is the field house. But that mecca of winter sports is not equipped with steam heat, a speaker's platform, or a stage. We were recently informed that Drayton Hall could not accommodate the freshman class that enroled here last autumn. A chapel, with a seating capacity of four figures, would fit the local bill. We hope the state legislators and the na tional government will be as cooperative in this effort as they have been in the recent past. Gone With The Trowel Gamecock Is Preserved For Buck Rogers And Co. A copper box containing present day docu ments was buried in the cornerstone of the new library Wednesday afternoon. Included in this treasure box was a copy of the Gamecock, a signal honor, no doubt, for our publication. However, we are wondering how posterity, or the inhabitants of the Buck Rogers era, will receive our small effort. Indubitably the fortnightly bit of levity in linotype known as Musclin In will offer the future scholars a choice chance of unraveling the egnigma of the Turbulent Thirties of the twentieth century. We are also wondering about the Gamecock of the future. If the present rate of mechani cal improvement prevails through the years and decades, the Gamecock, in 2440 A. D., may, as is a local newscast, be distributed every hour on the hour. On the subject of time elements it may be noted here that, with this issue, we surrender the future of the paper to Coit Hendley. We join the persons of the past, the so-called has beens. One wit, during the laying of the corner stone, remarked that they ought to have post poned the ceremonies just long enough to inter us . .. the captain with his ship ... .and the editor with his paper. ASSOIATES l League, Jae 0oo, Phip Wimeth, Ed ( A eon, EUliott McOeat, Dan Henderon, ces Meek. Business Associates: Bill Bauk 4, Otto Later, Elleanor Flin, Mackay King Husbands and Lester PM'cher. &OBEZ Entered an Parade Of Opinion (By Associated Collegiate Press) To Pay Or Not Although the 1939-40 football year ended in a blaze of bowl battles that drew more cash customers than ever before, the season just closed will not be famous for its spectacular plays or players. Rather it will go down in the record books as the year. of the big .unfinished debate: To pay or not to payI Spotlighted into national prominence by the dramatic decision of the University of Chicago to discontinue intercollegiate football, the old question of subsidization of gridiron players was more vigorously discussed and more defi nitely acted upon than in any other year since the advent of big-time, highly-publicized- pig skin encounters. It all began with the disastrous point-a minute losses of the Chicago team, a team that took beating after beating in Big Ten compe tition, much to the chagrin of Maroon fans. The fans, aided and abetted by sports writers in all sections of the nation, began the clamour for alumni funds to aid in securing hot-shot gridmen. Then came the bombshell announcement of the Chicago board of trustees, which said in part: "The university believes in athletics and in a comprehensive program of physical edu cation for all students. It believes its par ticular interests and conditions are such that its students now derive no special benefit from intercollegiate football. The university looks upon all sports as games which are conducted under its auspices for the recreation of the students. The university will continue to pro mote intramural sports and will encourage all students to participate in them.' With this announcement, Chicago authorities cancelled all foolball games scheduled for tho future and asked Big Ten authorities to allow it to continue intercollegiate participation in the 11 other sports sponsored by it. It is ex pected that the Big Ten's answer to the Chica go proposal will be made in the near future. Meanwhile, with less fanfare and less com ment from the columning quarterbacks, Loyola University of New Orleans calmly announced that it is discontinuing intercollegiate football so that the "large sums of money spent an nually on football can be spent on educational expansion.'' On other fronts, too, subsidization was a large topic of discussion. At a meeting of the College Physical Edgeiation Association, Prof. L. C. Boles of College of Wooster urged his colleagues not to allow collegiate physical edu cation to become a field for men of "very limited mental capacity'' to continue in college for the sole purpose of playing on teams. At the University of Pittsburgh, famed for its great football teams and for its recurring subsidization debates, Pres. John G. Bowman asserted that recent sports staff upheavals at Pitt were made because "we want most of all that football be a game for students. I want to keep the game on a truly amateur basis here.'' Howvever, simon-pure football is not receiv ing the support of all students, for at many colleges undergraduates have begun movements to subsidize players so that losing streaks may be stopped. At the University of Buffalo, the student newspaper asked the college to give ten tuition scholarships a year to men who would be the nucleus for winning grid teams. At the University of Rochester, Pres. Alan Val entine rejected student demands for paid players. Most drastic move in the direction of non subsidization of players in any form was made by a conference of 30 New England colleges. The code adopted at this conference prohibits coaches from contacting future players and from speaking at high school meetings, and it makes mandatory the keeping of public records of financial aid received by all athletes at mem ber schools. This record must show that an individual receives financial aid only from those upon whom he is naturally dependent for support-otherwise he will be declared ineli gible. THE A~ssociate( MECOCK CN Founded January 80, 1906 tnA &T ELIOTT GONZALES, First Editor c.U, Pxb 420 MADIMoN A second clan matte at the poece at olumbia, 9. o., CNIcaSo - oStoN November Sk UNG Campus Camera AIR SRAID" e /NIV. OF SO. CALIF. PLAYED 18 HOLES OF GOLF -0NE IN EACH OF 18 CMES FRom Los ANGELES 'TO ,- NEW YORK. CARDEDA - A A 72. -TWO OVER PAP.' FOP,I~ WI~ '-1-E 18 WfEN UPSALA COLLEGE MOLE-S! UPPERCLASSMEN S14OT -AIR RAJE ALL RESRIMENN THE VICINITY MU)ST DROP PLAT ON E GROUND OR DIVE INTO e A NEARBY BUS"! ' - HARRY STELLA, ARMY FOOTBN.L CAPFAIN, AND '-,ALLEN bERPGNER., NAWY'S LE-ADERk WERE -IDAMAA-TES WtN THEY ATTENDED '1AE SAME HIGH JCHOOL IN KANKAKEE,ILWNOIS/ *Question-of-Week Are you in favor of a now chapel? Why? Jack Davis-'I am in favor of it because we need a nice build ing in which to have religious and'student meetings". . . Catlie Wilkiiinon--'"No. Because if we have a larger chapel we will have compulsory chapel, and heaven knows I'm busy enough now'. . . Frampton Henderson--"Yes, because we certainly do need it" Lil Boulware-- 'Definitely !! Can't let Winthrop and th2 Cita del get ahead of us". . . Anden Lemon--' Ditto to the above". . . D. A. Westmoreland, Jr.-"Who isn't, if he goes to CarolinaI There are many reasons and the most importan of these is we need it badly as we need other things. My answer is Yes". . . Sarah Morrison-"Yes, I think the old chapel is a disgrace to Carolina'. . . Isabella Wilson-'"Many people judge our state by our Uni versity, therefore I think that a new chapel would be a great help both to the University and the State"... Anne Adams-'"I definitely am in favor of a new chapel... That's something every school should have because usually the first thing people want to see at a school, and wvho could be proud of our old and inadequate chapel''... Kat Edgerton---"I'm all for it ". .. Katie Beaty--" We should have a new chapel so we will have enough room for the entire student body to assemble and large enough to hold large audiences for public meetings'. . . Readers Bighat And' Write To the Students of the Universityprsn;teoitsththnkg of South Carolina: pol aeln ic elzdta We are not lobbyists; nor do weitdenopatocnmzen condone the practice of bringingedcto;rprhsIsoudav political pressure upon individuals si t eadelcto" eas or groups charged with serving the teol reeooyi dcto best interests of the public,.ilcm rmteicesdpo However, as citizens of South dcinwihol etreua Carolina, members of the legislature toa aiiiscnmk osbe have a right to know of conditions Iwn oug vr redo at the state university, which theyCaoiatwreaprsnletr support as taxpayers; as memberstotirlgsarsndmkthn of the legislature, they are obligatedrelzonoftepisinheu to know of the needs of this insti-fimnofterdis,ael,o tution and to maintain it; and ascosrtusahpe.Bfiro our representatives, they must rep- tesae efi otelgsaue resent us.befitoteuiest;bfaro Since they are taxpayers. legis- yusl;wietdy lators, and our representatives, theReecfly least we can do as students is to GOG RNE miake available to them certain fr.cts Sc-resThStdnBoy which should not be overlooked. Tuesday, with every seat in our SuetBd fUiest fS . 84-year-old outmoded chapel taken A ealko,tetlpoest and with scores of other studentsuaintthUivrtyfrheps standing in the aisles, the Universityfemotshsbnvryad Student Body voted unanimously Hwvr nivsiaini o and enthusiastically to adopt a res olution that every CAROLINAinporsadreutshldb student write each of his, or her, tlteamnsrto sal orm representatives and senators andedthsiuio,w,hetdns point out to them the needs for aofteUirsy,hulcopae new chapel, and to request each ofwihtineryayosbl.Ti those public servants to do all thatcolbednfrs,ymaigny they conscientiously can to assure tencsaypoecls n,sc an appropriation for a new urni-on,blitngalcvesinso versity chapel this session. A list tnmntsi egh of ten reasons why we need a new Rcnl e eehn ok chapel is available to any student,. eepae na~ omtre o As to where the state gets the oronueadcneine e' mony, e reot onernda pteseCNTIthe pON istaGt 6)nkn E. W. "DUCK" -SWEATMAN& Jr., Mmber Business Manager I Coe6diae Press istributor of Isued Weekly by the Literry societe at the Univet -iate r.1oSity of South Carolina during the oo1ege' Year noe 6eDifSd during examinations and holiday. NATIONAL ADVKRTIGING SV ertising Service, Imc Reed Boyd .............................. 11MhAnge Edita Usbers Ropeasiretd Va. New YORK. N. Y. -...... Los ANeIS - SA. F.A"CIWO ANSEL ELMORE......Circulation Manage. MUSCLIN9 IN Didn't have time to do it before Xmas so we'll wish you a most happy New Year arid hope you'll pass your exams. . Webster's International dictionary would look as thin as a cigarette leaf beside a copy of all the bull that has been shot about the holidays . . . Chief among these cattle-slayers was Alphie Doodledy Poo's pledge from Tuscumbia, Alabama, who brought back dome pretty handy trinkets to support her claim to fame among the stronger sex .. . Nearest thing we've found to perpetual motion yet is Professor Christophersen and his dra matic efforts ... Soon as work was finished on "Captain Apple jack" casting began for "The Dark Tower" which will be pre sented sometime in February . . . Incidentally, the plot of the new play is among the best we've ever seen ... A most regret table error occurred in this column in the last installment . It seems that the printer or somebody made the mistake of changing the position of Paulette West's sparkler from a finger on the right hand to the left hand . . . The worse thing about it (or is it good?) is that the beautiful young lady with the haunting brown eyes is still eligible for matrimony, romance, etc. . . . The fight for a new chapel and the possible appropria tion from the state legislature to build it leads us to wonder if that isn't,another step toward an attempt to raise tuition fees . . . And we are not editorially speaking . . . Latest blunder made by the University band came when Drum Major Carl Baskin led the Masonic parade up an alley... But in the wrong directiou. South Carolina's promising young orators held the floor at the Student Body meeting Tuesday . . . The vast throng of students there assembled heard some of the best (1) ideas ex pounded from a student's mind in ages . . . Songbird Martha Monteith is the new terror of the pin-ball machine in the can teen... Shooting a consistent 12,000 Martie won dopes from all comers until the supply ran out . . . Possibly and probably the best free feed ever handed out by the Y. M. C. A. was enjoyed Tuesday p. m. by a throng of dignified bull shooters (discussion group members) . .. That stuff about one of our students running into the K. K. K. is not bosh regardless of how mythi cal the incident appeared . . . The self-same individual now wonders if a return visit might be made by the Klan to even up the score . . . By the way, the bunch of lads dressed up in sheets the night of the black-out were not impersonating the organization with the hoods but were-merely attempting to be earthly spirits . . . Dr. Penny missed his first class in ten years recently. The president of A. D. Pi, Virginia Webb, and her sorority sister Crolyn Kemp did themselves up nice during the holidays and returned to school with engagement rings . . , This matri mnonial toll is appalling . . . And appealing . . . Occupants of Preston's third floor called a pow-wvow Wednesday night for the purpose of investigating the scuttling of a water fountain on the floor and a motion was made that all who lived there refrain from noise until exams were off . . . Which reminds us, there's only seven more studying days .before exams . ..Merry Next Semester !!! Lang Hogan and Lee Baker can rest content ed nowv that literary society elections are over and they hold the top seats . . . Our vote for the nicest telephone voice of the week goes to our dream gal Elinor Flinn, who at the moment, though, has a secret heart thirob .. . And Anderson's John Land has cast wistful eyes at Elinor's roommate Tim (Margaret) Haskel. .,. There's a heck of a lot of us who wonder what it is that Jack Davis's got wvhich pulls in such acmes of femininity as Orange-. burg's resident of Sim's room 301 . . . Dr. Murchison doesn't know it, but he teaches one of the best art classes in school... During the Bible 21 lectures every member has sketched him at one time or other . . . Best portraits so far were by Lib Lang dale, Marjorie Hogan and Lib McDavid (who came to class one day). The rift between Box 998 here and Box 22 in Brenau is long past and harmony nowv prevails in Uncle Sam's mails . . . The wedding march fortissomoly hummed in the mess hall Wednes day might was for the benefit of brw-ydwt-art-ac Leo Webb . . .Four long years and two blind loves . . . But it is no more . .. Meaning that Greenvillian Billy Camp no longer has the monopoly on "That 's-what-mother-gave-.me" Helen Burch . .. The romance between Knock-Kneed Sal and Banjo-eyed Mo Cants has gained such proportions that it is now getitng public ity where other affairs faTl . . . "Diamond Lil" Huiet lost a lot of sleep before she found out that her invitation to the D Z (not dizzy) dance had been accepted . .. Dave Alterman, who found the Gamecock on Broadway, took in every show on the "Great White Way " (luring his sojourn in the big city . . . The rumor we statedl about Clark Gable coming to the city in connection with "Gone With the Wind" wvas foundationless . . . Just some attempt to arouse sonme feminine interest in the column... The lack of casualties due to the slipping on ice wvas amazing ... And the flu epidemic has subsided somewhat . .. There is a popU lar request that Laurens' pretty playboy, Lang Long refrain from carrying on his amours in the canteen . . . Looks too much like he is trying to get the girls to buy him a dope .. . . rving Granoff, who quituates in February, still hasn't got a job... For weeks now we have been trying to find something to write about Katie Beaty .. . Success has come finally, for we found out that the attractive young lady didn 't have such an especially good time at a frat party last week . . . Getting back to the old. grind is quite a hard ship and there remains oodles of students who can't wake up to the fact that Christmas holidays are over..