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COIT HENDLEY ................. Editor - DEPARTMENT HEADS JtMcKlrney,,Sport. Editor; Jeanne Withers, Co- k Ed EiorT Jen immon, Society Editor. Ri Ed STAFF WRITERS Bdo Peggy Hendrickson, Betty Mercer, Betty Locke, Jean Timmons, Mary Boykin, Frank Sloan, Paul Posey, Bob bull. Quinn, Blanche Gibbs, Dot Sawyer, Emily Wolfe, Bob Greenfield.Let PAUL LEAGUE ................ Managing Editor _ Gamecock Staff Shoves Itself Into The Doghouse The Gamecock staff, on a motion by the edi tor, has voted to place themselves on probation for being the bad boys and girls of the campus. It all happened one night at the Board of Publications meeting to which the staff had been especially invited for an indirect roasting from the faculty. The term "probation" was not defined. Okay. The staff is on probation by their own wish and glad to do it. It seems that a return to such cliche edi torial subjects as-stay off the grass, why the school is wonderful, school spirit, etc., would be welcome. Personally, we like to walk on the grass and lie on the grass; the school is okay but there is plenty wrong that could be corrected easily; and you know about school spirit, what with everybody mad at everybody else. With one point brought up, we agree. It was suggested that too many times the various columns of The Gamecock say things which are libelous and would cause plenty of trouble if printed in i daily newspaper. We will watch that in the future. As for controversial subjects, don't worry. The more arguminent we can get going, the better. The Gamecock was criticized for printing too miuch "fraternity and sorority news." That's a lousy criticism. Take a ruler and measure in inches the space devoted to all activities and you will be straightened out on that. Of course, the editorials have been ientioning certain conditions continuously. So what? Other things mentioned were-the editorial page had degenerated into a gossip shect; that there was too much society gossip; that the sensibilities had been offended several times; and on into the )ored night. All probably true. And all for the good but futile cause of waking this muentally anemic student body. Finally, it was reported that the general im pression had gotten around that The Gamecock staff is loaded with clever writers who are trying to outsmart each other. That's a very flattering objection, although we thought we were obnoxious only. A Reader Writes On Silly Subject In A Silly Manner A Gamecock reader wrote us this week and p)resentedl a qjuestion which is quite interesting. "Sometimes I get a feeling that I'm being supplressedl, that I need some freedom," he stated. "This condition results often after I have had some trouble or have a lot of work before me. What (10 you do under like cir culmstances'?" That's a goodl thought. But to tell the truth, we've led a rather calm life. Nothing much ever happens. At least, nothing thlat is dis turbing. The attention gained from The Gamecock is flattering. We have little needl for that feeling of freedom right now. Our reader (who writes) dloes not drop the subject there. No, he goes on to tell how he works it. "I jump into an automobile," he explains, "anid start riding. After about twenty miles the kinks in my brain begin to unfold. It's wonderful. *Why don't you try it?" But we just told you wihy we are not goinlg to try it. There are no0 serious kinks in our brain that we know of. And dlarn if he didln't have another post scrip)t. "But it's good for you," he insisted. Well, all right, we thought. That last post script got us. We confess. Every Friday af ternoon we go to a western show, refuse to sign the matinee registration card, then dare (mentally) our darn name to be tballed. That gives one a feeling of independence. The Case Of The Tree That Will Not Quit A lot of little trees have been planted on the campus lately. And some rumors are circulat ing. We heard that one big tree was cut down so that a certain classroom could get enough light. Then, a small one was planted a few feet from where the old one stood. Of course, in twenty years, they'll have to cut it down again. We approve of this ,action. We want some thing going on all the time around here. A'SOCIATES Lrd Frick. Philip Wilmeth, Bernie BM G A Patterson, Deward Brittain, Joe Kirby, it McOante, Dan Henderson, Leonard Turn. Business Associates: Bill Baukaight, r Pucher. COBEI Batered as Dr. Wauchope Honored In Ceremonies Held Last Week In Library For the first time this semester The Game cock feels that it should apologize. In the last issue, no mention was made of the presentation to the University of a por trait of Dr. George A. Wauchope. On page two of this paper is a complete story of the ceremonies which went along with the affair. Everything that we could say about Dr. Wauchope has been said in much better lan guage by Dean Francis Bradley, Pres. J. Rion McKissick, and others. "To the subject of this portrait, many gen erations of Carolina's sons owe the refinement of their taste in poetry and prose, the clearness of their spoken and written word, and the re spect they have for the English tradition," Dean Bradley said in his presentation address last Friday. "With deep gratitude, the university he has served with extraordinary fidelity and distine tion for more than four decades accepts this fitting memorial of Dr. Wauchope's life and labor on this campus," President McKissick stated as he officially received the portrait for the University. The work was done by Mrs. E. T. Ridgeway of Columbia. Any student at the University who does not agree with these statements and others ex pressed at presentation should be hanged. Some More Junk On The Regulation Of Dances, Etc. Here's one way the good name of the Uni versity is being spread around the South. From page 5-"Chi Omega's from five states are arriving at the University today for the sorority's Founders Day Celebration today and tomorrow, April 12-13. There will be a mem bership of 100 actives, alumnae, and pledges present. "A dance in the University gymnasium to night begins the big series of events." And that last line is the catch line. "A dance in the University gymnasium to night begins the big series of events." There ,will he a dance but there will not be an orchestra. The reason-If an orchestra and a hall were hired it would be a formal danca according to the interpretation of the faculty commnittee on fraternities, etc. T1he Chi Omega's decided to hire the hall. Someday, somebody is going to hire an orches tra only and1 let themi play in the street. By the way, tihe Chii Omega's had nothing to (d0 with this little dliscussion. We thought it upl all by ourself. In fact, it took a bit of arguing to discover that they had petitioned for permission to have an orchestra and had been refused. Delegates from five states are arriving for the celebr1ation and dlelegates from five states will go home with a what-the-hell expression on their faces, because we don't believe any bodly with reason could understand why the present rule about (lances is in effect. We imagine you non-fraternity and non sorority students are getting tired of us harp inig on this same subject week after week and we dlon't blame you. But you'll have to suffer because a guy with something on his mind has to get it off. Just dlon't give up. We'll try to include some good jokes. HIere's a suggestion to the next fraternity or sorority which has a formal dance (you know -an orchestra and a hall). Why not insist that all faculty members who attend as chaperons come in their under shirts? After all, that would still b)e formal. Student Writes Terrific Letter For once, we refuse to comment. The letter which we print this week discusses something we may be thinking (but you don't know if we are). Anyway, we're not going to put it in print. Read Deward Brittian 's letter. We Have Trouble With Telephone When we called Zuckerman for his column, we had some trouble with the telephone opera tor. "Zuckerman, Zuckerman," we yelled. "Z, Z, not C. You know-like in ABODEF'GHIJ KLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ." That got him-and the operator. THE ' MECOCK .Co 149P081iEfTED POI Founded January 80, 1908 National Adi IT ELLIOTT GONZATE, First Editor CoU, P,uA 420 MADISON A second claw mItter at the eof at Oolumbia, 8. 0., CNCASO -S0TOX No"embew $D ,* Campus Camera PF.TAY.OR TGHT LATIN AT COLBY " L LEGE FOR 65 YEAR4S! PRES. JONSON WAS SEWOND'EM WMEN HE'IMK UP HIS DUTIES. HE DIEIN1932.-- iF - HWS SUOMSSR EX PECTSIDDUPLKT V lIS RECORD 9E MUSr PLt Mn REMN ON THE JO UN1OL 1998 PMFD TENNIS IS THE 1:NNIS 00)ACH AT WEST WNIL 192 WES RNT & G A WEDNG V N ENT 10 EACM GRADUATE WHO VIRGINIA UNIVERSMTY- MARiED. 1H GIFT WS SALLY IN 'IE RN OF A Q OF SILVER WIT 'fTF CMATS SEAL RPA%D IN 'EM DESIGN. *Question-of-Week What question would you like to see discussed in Question of the Week? Roger Kirk-"I would like to know why more boys don't come out for Carolina's swimming team?'' J. F. McDaniel-"What kind of football team will Carolina have next year?" Carlyle Holladay-" Why is Sunday night supper at the mess hall so skimpy?" David Murray-"Do you think the faculty is too overbearing on fraternities?'' Harold Sullavan--"What color is the darn library going to be when hey wash the mud off of it?" Ruck Babcock-"Why do you think that fraternities should be allowed to remain on the campus?'' A. 0. Lyles-'-"What do you think of campus polities?" Hubert Thomason-'"Should politics enter into May Queen elections?'' Joe Ashley-" Should girls who room in Sims be allowed to stay out later on Saturday night?'' Bill Horger--"Do you think that the S.A.E.'s should be al lowed to return to the campus in September?'' Ann Cathcart-" Do you think that the fraternities griev ances, as listed ini their petition, are reasonable?'' Jean Snyder--"What's the use of the question, anyway?'' Letters To The Editor Mr. Editor:arudatrspe,h'lkeose The center section of RutledIgetem College is partitioned off into an as- Itinothprepitofhs sembly room commonly referredi toletrM.Edo,tocnuehec as a chapel. If freshmen were forceddctoSuhCrli'saw ke. to take standing room, the "chapel" tIamsrthtaxyigcten wvould accomnmodlate about one-thirdoftesa vilotcnneuh of our student body. poicllssedn ftermny Last fall Kappa Sigma Kappa start- Yo ilrea,M.Edtr(n edl a camp)aign for a new chapel formm)esoth(eiraAsmby Carolina. As a means of gainingIhoe,tasvrlwekagte this end, members of the stutdenit sm e h oe osn body were asked to write to theirWitrpsbntoNvYrkune respective representatives in the Genm- tub lw nabl ocet eral Assembly exposing Carolina's rvligla udfrsaesp (life uneed for a place to hold religious pre ntttos convocations and commencement ex- Ia ut ueta h esne ercises. All this came to nought. oftebnwilnjyhirNt \Vell, Mr. Editor (and members of rmsornbuIwndrhate KSK), I have discovered why our po o vl hn h a rd dIrive for a new chapel was in vain!uaelsvlditrnofhsig Last Wednesday afternoon \Vinm- sho ls atya n a'f throp College's band obliged the Geni-fodcle. eral Assembly with an hour's per- M huhsaepoal iia formance. Fifteen minutes after the t h lwbyswe akit last number the Assembly in joint or8-erod"hpl htoc session voted to send the band to sre ste"itn lc"o h New York at the expense of the state. oeofRpsntiv. Not content with merely sending Tomitsonylgcloco the girls to New York, one memberduetalteranptiosae expressed his gratification stillnuaoyisfrathGerlA further. In so many words he said sml scnend that lie had -rather be nightwatchman T e e hpl ap im at Winthrop than president of the in-Kap,wmutoanzac-e stitution or United States senator. badwtthMyQueasru One bachelor member of the As-maoet.Lthmpldoucus sembly put in his dime's worth by wt tan f"ii"ad"h saying he hiad nothing to say to theIlp-uaMrc. girlsthenbutifIthyiwoldob thewrdme poitoftai Mesnber I Cole6iae Press ist'ributor ofWeekW by,th* Utmw7 lodotimg at the yaivw 6iOE~ i6 ~ siuty of South Oar*Hina during the oallere ys 0 6de "6eAduring examitnations aid holiday. I "ATIONAL ADVIIRTISING BY rertising Service, Ic rerlf Sffce I m George Gregory ............ RxelUnge Rdit", va. N1W YoRn, N. Y. LOS ANS22 - SAN FRANICISO ANSEL LMOR . A T Mrna MUSCLIN9 IN (With Ed Patterson) Or torrid torrents of tellable tidbits L oBeginning with the latest news on the B. F. (Bunker-Fry) situation Our good friend Ed has just finished writing a song which he titles "I ried for you, but it was my last good fry... Which all sums up to the fact that the aforementioned laq now has his emancipation proclamation from the blonde's affections. This should come as good news to Mitzi Smith at Columbia College whose haunting eyes have often been cast in Bunker's direction lt. Most humorous situation we've found in. some days came Sunday evening when dainty Robert Earl Penland and Be Geer, of law school fame, spent a full five minutes apologizing to one Margaret HaAkell for possible embarrassing utterances dur. ing their Sunday p. in. auto wanderings . . . Just to nip a rumor in the bud we'1 go on record here and now, of saying that Paulette West absolutely is not engaged in spite of circu lating reports to the contrary. The one gum cewer of all the crowd of three hundred college students singing in the all-college chorus in last Saturday's festival appearance was none other than Philip Wilmeth, jour nalist superordinary and above par crooner . . . One student's explanation of the supposed alcoholic content in the inflrmarys cough medicine is that tro swigs of it makes one so drunk he doesn't give a darn about what's wrong with him . .. Personal note to Dr. Law: Prepare for an epidemic of coughs... Matthew Poliakoff of "We struck a blo for democracy " fame pulled a "Mr. Snith goes to Washington" stunt and held the floor of the Clariosophic society for twenty-five minutes in last Tuesday's meeting. Our personal. thanx to Mrs. Frick, Richard's mother, who reads practically every word in The Gamecock each issue and thinks that this corner is pert fear tops in the dirt reporting line ... Unfortunately we, along with about 1600 other students, are prone to Lisagree . . . Campus politics are almost at an end and now the unsuccessful office seekers can run around and brag about the good ra c they ran Incidentally, thle second of the bitterest races will be held in a few weeks in the literary societies ... Already the big dogs of the hot air organizations are inapping out their campaigns . . . The worst we've been gripel in ages was when we found out that the legislature had appropriated a fairly .large sum of money so that the Winthrop College band could go to the world's fair in New York and After onsidering the fact that our own band (oesnt't know the meaning of the word "break" as far as finances are concerned, societlike .o su.gesd thebi deno of the aitonrs pe in agsws an we them ouh the legislatve ha apropnriate wh firnaged the ofmane 'slatknw the ihro College, ona bcldid' o ln tak to the worl'shairingNwYr liker acionsidrin the at tatour ouquetn does'o thekgs toFeaniigfofrankword ra' aso fare the fianesrneransumned, twe' fie department to thea Elo 'hm e etns the batonfere uin hr sments andcrt partye ond the ghislativei halls Colg,onbe didn'' ehsbtgt last doe fromk pet relabe sourcein . . . And then there's the one about the oodles of good looking women who are worrying their pretty heads wondering whether or not they'll make the beauty section of somebody or other's 1940 edition of their annual . . . h men's glee club members were the luncheon guests of the Kiwanis club at their Wednes day meeting, meaning that the campus resident members of the organization had a decent meal for a change . . . Incidentally, a large percentage of the members of that organization are faculty members of the university . . . In case you've never noticed it, there's a remarkable resemblence between Florence's Helen Beardsley and Columbia's Dallas Wilson, wvhose singing career is just ab)out to end wvith thme wvords "'I do'' . . . Ouri choice for the nicest telephone voice of the week goes to Mar garet Cain or whoever it was that called "Bubba" Bouthar'd the other night while he was out and we pinched hit for him.. Lovely Julianne Connelly, who in her spare moments deco rates Holmes Eleazer's car by sitting in it, turned out to be one of the hardest working politicians at the studenit body election . .. And we haven't seen so much sample chewing gum floating around since the Beechnut man came around . . . Little Kitty Bird, College Street charm gal, is planning the addition of an1 adding machine and private secretary to help her keep her new found male admirers in line . . . The dome atop the library is finished and another stepping stone in its construction has been j,. sod ... Another 'crack at the Garnet and Black staff has just entered our mind (we're bragging) and we pass it on for what it is worth . . . We'd like to suggest that Editor HarmnOf have the thing bound in Red and green befitting its appearance in the Christmas season .. . Which reminds us to remind the meinbers of the Blue Key to start work on the directory for next year so it will get out sometime during the first semester ...Madame Sweeny lost her Phi Beta Kappa key this week but found it the next day, which is surprising considering the fact that it has a hock value of around six dollars . . . (The former. was printed for the benefit of the jobless and broke p. b. ks., who are struggling along in the world today) . . . Suecessful candidate Dan Rollis broke away from custom and had a Pepsi Cola victory party . ..