Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Boxers Meet Tiger Cagers Georgia Here TomorrowO f>c (Story on Page Five) H r h (Story on Page Five) University of South Carolina FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9,1940 Carolina Budget Cut In Half By Assembly Budget Commission - Denies Request For New University Chapel The budget commission of the legislature has recommended that only $321,617.14 be ap propriated for operation of the University of South Carolina for the fiscal year, July 1, 1940 to June 30, 1941. This is less than half of the amount asked by President J. Rion McKissick. The recommendation includes $457,166 for ordinary expenses and $288,750 for permanent im proveients. Chapel Denied The request for a new chapel was denied by the budget com mission. This amount is subject to change since the complete state appropriation has not yet been adopted by the two houses. The Ways and Means committee ac cepted the budget commission's recommendation and the house referred the same to the senate. The senate, too, accepted the univcrsity item. Any further change will be made in the free conference committee between the two* houses, where all dis agreements over the entire ap propriation are ironed out. Tuition Is Same In spite of the fact that this anmunt represents a cut of over $200,000 from last year's appropria tion, there will be no increase in tuition or fees for local or out-of state students, McKissick an nounced Wednesday, February 7. No improvements or new con structions will be made as a result of this drastic cut. The amount asked for was to include a new chapel, $137,500 of the $300,000 to be given by the state, the rest by the federal government; reconstruc tion of the extension building into an administration building; con struction of a classroom and lab oratory building for the science de partment, the rest of this amount was to be furnistled by a federal aid project. An increase of $15,000 (CONTINUED ONPAGE 6) Next Tuesday Last Day For Registration No Fees Refunded After February 15 John A. Chase, Jr., dean of ad ministration, made the following announcements this week concern ing registration at the University of South Carolina for the second se mrester. Tuesday, February 13, is the last date for registration at the Univer Sity for the second semester, Tuesday, February 13, is the last date also, for making changes in regis trat ion. Thursday, February 15, is the last day on which a University student may withdraw from school and lie entitled to refund of his fees. Inside The Gamaecock lEEN'S GLEE CLUB PLANS Tour of State--Story on Page 2. BIRtD BASKETEERS MEET 0lemnson Cagers Tonight-Story 01n Page 5. SWIMMING POOL OPEN Again After Long Closed Sea S0n..-Story on Page 2. CAROLINA BOXERS FACE Georgia Pugp Tomorrow Night '-Story on Page 5. POOTBALL TEAM LOOKS Godin Spring Practice-Story Carolina's 2( Carolina history was made la above, welcomed student Num University. " Time". and "Car Northern Tour I Debaters Start Baker, Searson, Gall, Carolina Arguments 0: Charles Gibbes, secretary of has announced that the Gainec its Northern tour, March 14. Debaters making the Northern trip will be Dave Baker, Louis Sear son, Larry Gall, and John Foard. To Meet Duke First stop on the tour will be at Duke University. From Duke the squad will go to Richmond, Va., where they will meet the University of Richmond. Washington will be the next stop; no definite debate has been arranged there, but Catholic or Georgetown will most likely fur nish the opposition. While in the capital the team will be the guests of Senator Claude Pepper, of Florida, and Senator Rush Holt, of West Virginia. Both of these nationally known figures have been invited by the Student Forum to speak on the University campus. Both Sides Debated Debates at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and the United States Military Academy will complete the tour. The South Carolina team will de bate both sides of the Pi Kappa Delta, national forensic fraternity, querry: Resolved: That the United States should follow a policy of strict military and economic isola tion in all armied international or civil conflicts outside the Western Hemisphere. English Prof. Writes Story For Magazine Field And Stream Publishes Article "H-ow to Hunt Quail," an article written by Dr. H-avilah Babcock, of the English department at the Uni versity of South Carolina, appears in the February issue of Field and Stream, largest outdoor magazine in the world. Doctor Babcock has had more than 100 stories published in various magazines and is widely known for his articles on outdoor life. The January issue of Field and Stream referred to him as "the greatest liv ing authority on the bobwvhite, quail and Southern hunting in general." Along with Doctor B3ahcock's article will be about 30 drawings ol quail by Lynn Hunt, famous fo: tis tyne of work. )00th Arrives it week when Dean Chase, shown er 2000, Emile Elmgren, to the lina'" march on :or Gamecock s March 15 And Foard To Uphold 2 Strict Isolation Policy the University debAting council, Dck debating team will leave on Discussion Groups To Be Held Tonight Y Will Give Supper As Prize To Winner The University YMCA is now ar ranging for the spring series of dis cussion groups which will be held in the tenements and dormitories. According to an announcement by Marion Davies, chairman of the Y committee on discussion groups, the first meeting will be held Tuesday night, February 13. Groups Increased Departing from precedent, more groups will be organized this se mester than last. Six groups will be held ini Preston, one on each end of all three halls. In the Student Union there will be three meetings, one on each floor. This newv ar rangement is being made to equalize the groups so that each wvill have a fair chance at winning, the prize always given to the most outstand ing group. Prize Offered Another innovation in the manner of holding the discussions is the selection of a leader from the boys rooming in the building where the dliscussion is to be held. The groups wvill continue for six wveeks, closing the week previous to Easter holidays. An ice cream supper will be the prize offeredl this spring to the win ning organization. Annual Scheduled For June 15th Appearance H-ubert Hlarman, editor of Carnet and Black, has announcedl that the annual will appear on June 15, or, if possible, by graduation week. Commenting on the late date, Hiar man said, "It's being put out on the Blue Key schedule this year." Announcements concerning the choice of those to be selected for t.he beauty section of the annual will not be made for some time, he also said. Over 1 Regis Iniversity Players Rehearse For March Dark Tower Showing Stage Workshop And Radio Program Occupy Amateur Dramatists "Dark Tower," a melodrama by Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman, will be presented by the University Players during the first week in March, according to an an nouncement made yesterday by M. C. Christophersen, director of the group. "We are working very hard on this play," said Professor Chris tophersen, "and I think it will be fully ready by the 6th or 7th of the month. It is a much tougher play to put on than 'Applejack' was, however, and will require more practice. The actors will have to get into' the characters more. There are so many subtleties, so many shades of character that have to be worked out." Cost Chosen Five boys and five girls appear in the play. The girls are Jaqueline McCutcheon as "Jessica Wells," brilliant star of the Broadway Stage; Maxine Forbes as "Martha Temple," sweet but not-too-old fashioned aunt of Jessica; Jane Loyal as "Daphne Martin," sleek and sultry siren of the Gay White Way; Mary Crow as "Hattie," the maid; and Lora Lee Green as "Patsy Dowling"-the pleasingly plump, traditional secretary: ready, willing, and able. Five Boys Play These are followed around by five boys. These magnificent specimens of masculinity are Albert Eggerton as "Damon Wells," brother to the ahove-mentioned Jessica; Paul Posey as "Ben Weston," prominent Broadway producer; Bob Quinn as "Stanley Vance," Jessica's husband; Hennig Cohen as "Dr. Kendall," the family physician; and Tom Walker as "Barry Jones," a young playwright. The play was written just a few years ago, and comes to the Uni versity almost "direct from Broad (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6) Electrocution Cells Hid In Dormitories Human Dynamos Find PoWer Houses In Sims, Student Union Rugs The state penitentiary has its electric chamber, but USC has that beat with two charged rooms, one in Simms, one in the Student Union. Fortunately Carolina's cells of electricity aren't as lethal as the pen's. Else there wouldn't be 2,000 students here. Who hasn't seen a fellow stu dent truck away in the Simm. or Student Union lobbies and then shock-not someone's modesty-but someone's hands or face? Those who have missed witnessing this phe nomenon are unable to get dates and are mad at Uncle Billy Woods. Some students possess so much static elec-jucity that they are able to produce a streak of lightning almost an inch long when they make contact with someone. In a dark room these flashes are very beautiful. Quite a few boys and gals have tried it when the matroun wasn't look ing. What causes human dyna moes? Anyone who saw Pro fessor Mercer's demonstration in chapel several weeks ago can answer that. The physics teach .er, using a static electricity ma chine, charged one lad and then touched him. A slight "pop" resulted. The charged student (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6) 2000 ter At Double-Cut Question Is Being Considered After introduction by a faculty committee, the question concerning University of South Carolina stu dents being charged with double cuts on Saturday absence from classes is "being considered," it was reported by a reliable source this week. Registration Rush Results In Mayhem Students Are Socked Slaphappy In Second Semester Scramble By Richard Frick While movie fans were mak ing mad scrambles for "Gone With The Wind" tickets, and lovers of the fistic world were stampeding the Clemson-Caro lina ducat box last week, stu dents at the University were having a brawl that surpassed both of these. The stage of the melee was historic old Davis college and the plot of the scene was the registration for the spring semester. Approximately three hundred rabid students jammed every available nook and corner of tle Ditv;n lubby, with several over-anxious studes reverting to "Tarzan" tactics by hanging head-first from the staircase, in effort to secure material in order to ge through the "paying line" first. During the brief mob violence several members of the fair sex swooned beneath the mad mob, while others became hysterical in their efforts to "suck air." Wholesale mutilation of foot ware, de-pressing of wearing apparel, as well as broken stair rails, resulted from the demon stration that lasted for about thirty minutes. Had it not been for the shortage of "cards and blanks" the rush would prob ably have gone on for "days and days." During the thirty minute rush period student workers at the tables were forced to take ref uge on top of their tables in or der to save their torso supports. Several times dismemberment at the knees seemed almost cer tain but luck intervened and the workers were saved from the knowledge-seeking students. After seeing the spectacle, Dean Arney Childs remarked that she had never seen pupils so eager to come to school. A peculiar thing about the whole situation, as you wouldn't suppose, not an incoming fresh man or transfer was witnessed among the howling, pushing mob. Made up of upper class men and second semester fresh man, the congestion was one, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6) Gressette Retu Acts As Assisi TATUM OUSTS Stud Carc 1940 Registrati In Entire Histoi All Departments In E No Schedule Changeg Surpassing all figures in the lI South Carolina, the enrollment week when students wvaded thro their respects to the treasurer. Emile Elmgren, the 2,000th si to the University by John A. Ch Elmgren, as a signal honor to hi records, was asked to write his matriculated at Carolina. Gov. Rivers Cancels Speaking Engagement At Drayton Hall Unavoidably Detained Is Excuse Governor Of Georgia Offers Forum Governor E. D. Rivers, Georgia, expressed his regrets for being un able to speak tonight in behalf of the Student's Forum at Drayton hall in a telegram to Dave Baker, chairman of the Forum. Gov. Rivers said in his message, "I will be unable to speak before the student body Friday night be cause unavoidably detained in Washington." Rivers was one of the many speakers scheduled to ap 1ear here in behalf of the Fo un. Other speakers slated to speak in the near future include Rush D. Holt, of West Virginia, and Martin Dies, congressman from Texas and prominently known as chairman of the Committee for Investigation of Un-American Activ ies. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6) Y.M.C.A. Sponsors High School Program Deputation Team To Travel Over State A deputation team under the sponsorship of the University Y presented a program at Abbeville high school Tuesday morning. Students participating in the pro gram were Adelyn Lipscomb, D. A. Westmoreland, Dan Hollis, Eliza b)ethl Birdl, Sarah Powvell, Dumas Turner, and Deward Brittain. According to WV. P. Baldwin, chairman, the following deputations are already arrangedl with othecrs p)endling: February 13, Chester H-i gh School; February 16, Clinton High School; February 20, Anderson Boys' High School and A\nderson Girls' High School; February 25 the Hi-Y Clubs of Spartanhurg High Schools; Miarch 5, Boys' High School, Charleston, S. C. These dleputations will be composed of University men and women stu dents. rns To Work F ant To Univers Former Citadel Coach Goal To Give USC A Glad to get back to his alnma matt Gressette, lately head coach at The ats assistant to the president at Carol Gressette's first job will be to lead Eleven club. President J. Rion ?N Gressette's first fewv months 'here b other administrative jobs. Finishing in a blaze of glory in 19: Clemson 3-0, Tatum is one of the ou Carolina. As well as captaining the Gressette was a member of the Bir, center field slot with as much suces After leaving Carolina, Tatum wi coach and after a year there he wai Ga. high, from thence he went to] head coach for four years. After an (CONTINUED I ents lina ion Is Largest ry Of School ;chool Are Overrun; ' After February 13 ng history of the University of went over the 2,000 mark last ugh registration lines and paid udeit, was formally welcomed Ise, Jr., dean of administration. n and for the sake of historical biography up until the time he Several departments of the Uni versity have had to install tempo rary seats to accommodate the un precedented attendance. With only several days left-until February 13, the registration mark for the current has already reached an all time high of 2,022. The history department, one of the most crowded at the University, has had to add seats to nearly every lecture room. Dormitories Filled For the entire preceding year the total registration was $1,845. Com plete figures for this year already indicate an increase of 177 students over the previous year. The record breaking high has filled every dormitory almost to over-flowing. More students are now rooming on the campus that at any time in the history of the Uni versity. Students have been reminded by Dean Chase that the deadline for second semester registration is Feb ruary 13. Likewise, this is the last date a student may change any Rourse. Law School Crowded According to an official report, the Law School had to turn away sev eral applications. Dean J. Nelson Frierson, head of the School of Law could not be reached at press time for a statement, but the report was confirmed that South Carolina stu dents (bonafide residents of the ;tate) were given first choice at Law School admittance and that only inutsiders (those applicants whose homes were out of the state) were turned away. The increased enrollment this year was an even more than normal rise in registration. The student body has grown continually since depression days, but the jump in ligures this semester overshadowved any expected increase. Carolina Players Club Discuss Plans For Ball The University of South Carolina l'layers club hold its first meeting his semester Wednesday at 8 p. in., president Hlennig Cohen announced today. New students interested in joining the club are invited to at tend. Plans for having a costume ball ~arly in the spring wvill be discussed. or Alma Mater; ity President Once Kicked Field Victory Over Tigers r after a lapse of 18 years, Tratum Citadel, last wveek began his duties ma. the organization of the Gamecock FcKissick said this would occup)y ut later he would be assigned to ~2 by kicking a field goal to defeat tstanding athletes to graduate from football year in his final year here :1 diamond crew holding down the ~s as on the football team. ent to York high school as head elected head coach at LeGrange, R~ichmond Academy where he was enviable record here Gressette was )N PAGE 6)