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COIT HENDLEY ......Editor DEPARTMENT HEADS Jim McKinney, Sports Editor; Jedwo Withers, Oo- Richa Ed Editor; Jean Timmons, Society Editor.Rih Ed I STAFF WRITERS Peggy Hendrickson, Betty Mercer, Betty Locke, Jean Elio Timmons. Mary Boykin, Frank Sloan, Paul Poney Bob bull. ane Gibbs, Dot Sawyer, Emily Wolfe, Bob PAUL LEAGUE .............. Managing Editor . Campus Overflows With High School Week Contestants High School Week is in progress! Which you knew, we hope. These welcomes alway's make us feel fool ish. We think a good joke would do much more good. But, it's been the custom through the years to give them. So, here goes. Welcome, high school contestants. Seriously, the University and the students are rather pleased that you can spend some timo on the campus. Maybe you will like it and come back for four more years. Something Sensible Is Finally Done Concerning Fraternities An amazing thing has happened. The fac ulty committee on fraternities has made several concessions to the fraternities. This is rather discouraging and disconcert ing, because, by being fair and possibly open minded, they have partially nullified all the bad names we have called them. The committee has granted permission to the fraternities to remove beds intended for chapter rooms and put them in other rooms in the tenement. Before this, these beds were confiscated by the University. Several other minor changes were made. The complete story is on page 1. The important thing is that concessions have been made. As for the obnoxious social regulations now in effect, the committee stated that they had no jurisdiction in the matter since it was a ruling of the Board of Trustees. Obviously, the next step for the Interfrat ernity council is to see if the matter can be brought to the ,attention of the board. All credit for the progressive step taken, progressive in that the committee hassshown itself to be sensible, goes to the Interfraternity council and Bruce Hunt, president. We have spent our time sitting in the Game cock office making faces at the faculty (to quote one professor) while the faculty made faces back. Well, we are going to continue to yell and make faces because that's the way we feel. Plenty has to be done before the fraternity situation at this University will become any where near satisfactory. Skeptical might be the word to describe our feelings. There are still the idiotic social regulations left, and a new matter concerning the objec tion of the committee to picnics on Sunday (an old American custom, we understood), and plenty of other things. Put it this way. Wve'll let the Interfratern ity council try to get things '1one by discus sions, meetings, etc., while . - tell you what they really think about the gulations. Forty Seniors Refuse To Learn English; May Not Graduate Accordingly About 40 seniors have failed to make any arrangements about the Senior English exam w~hich they did not pass, according to Dr. Havilah Babcock. And the poor scoundrels expect to graduate in June. The Board has ruled that all seniors take an English exam and that those failing also fail to graduate. The reason for this is quite ob vious. After all, if you attend the University for four years, you should be expected to pass a simple test on your native language. If you can't, you shouldn't have a diploma. The Gamecock maintained that when the ruling was first passed. It still takes the same stand. A good many students have studied, and finally made up the deficiency. Forty candi dates for degrees, however, have done nothing. We suggest they do something. To Whom, Etc. To whom it may concern--That two col umns of column on the back page of the Game cook misqnotes us slightly. ASSOOrATES rd Frick, Phillip Wilmeth, Bernie Bass, ?atterson, Deward Brittain, Joe Kirby, t McOants, Dan Henderson. Leonard Turn. Business Associates: Bill Bauknight, Pilcher. ROMl Enteed as Dies Committee Will Entertain U. N. C. Next The University has missed a wonderful chance for publicity. - If some of our intellectually dead students had organized a German-American Bund, a Communist club, or even a down-with-the faculty-club, we might be in the process of be. ing investigated by Representative Martin Dies. Dies, who is chairman of the committee for the investigation of un-American activities, has confirmed that his committee will conduct an investigation at the University of North Carolina because of reports that Communism is very strong. We will do some quoting from The Daily Tar Heel just so you can have part of the fun the whole University of North Carolina is having. President Frank Graham of the University of North Carolina merely commented, "We will welcome the investigation." The probe was decided upon after letters to the committee by David Clark, an alumnus, urged an investigation of communist -educa tion. Clark specifically mentioned that com munism was strong at the University of North Carolina. And from a Daily Tar Heel editorial--"It is not 'our purpose to doubt the evident sin cerity of Mr. Clark or to intimate that his campaigns are for any other purpose than to look toward the welfare of the University. Evidently the gentleman is obsessed with a haunting fear that Communism is about to pounce upon our young impressionistic minds, that the red agitators of ASU are swarming overe the Carolina campus undermining the Democratic ideals of Americanism. "Clark's outbursts seems so utterly insignifi cent and unimportant in their meaning that the average Carolina student on the campus is inclined to laugh heartily about the whole tiing. "Rest assured that the University student body will exist many a year before it achieves even the admirable qualities of openminded ness and tolerance which are so often mistaken for a red flag waving in tihe breeze. ,It isn't hlappening hlere." Apparently, tile University of North Caro lina is goinIg to have some good clean fun. And apparently Mr. Dies must have run out of bona fide suspects. May Queen Picture Is Almost Too Good, Says Somebody That's a good picture of the May Queen, Norine Huey, which is on thle front page. It was taken and released by the University News Service and is tile first decent picture of a Carolina May Queen ever made. We under stand that Mr. Frank Wardlaw was a little worried after it was printed in tile local papers. lie was afraid it might be too good for some of the pedestrian minds of tile University and the state. One of the powers did make a comment. Said she, "There's a lot of leg in it." Furman Hornet Makes An Error Which We Correct Last week we received the j udgmnent of the Associated Collegiate Press on The Gamecock. It read: first class honors. Also making this rating was tile Furman hornet (among other papers in tile state). The Hornet, in a front page story, stated that they had won the rating for two suc cessive years, a record unequaled in this state. Maybe so. We have always maintained that being a gentleman is like being happy--if you try you aren't. Accordingly, we refuse to act like a gentle man; and proceed to point out to the Hornet that The Gamwcock, has won a first class rating for the past three years, which is as far bank as we were able to check TH E Pscce LME COCK REPRESUN40 ON Founded January 30, 1908 National Ad i,T ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Collee Pa, 4a0 MADisoN A second cla" matter at the ffe at 0olumbia. 8. C., cuiCAso - b@STON - November 30, W Campus Camera IF ALL OF INE BOKY IM li-ISKIN ~COLL1EGE LIBRARIES WDNT HUIr WERE PlACED IN ONE MY GRADES STACK IT VULV REO 40,513 MILES HIGH OR. 207.164 TIMES AS HIGH AS THE EMPIRG STATE DLDG. RUTH RCHARD OF SEATTrE WORKS 14ER WAY THROUGH -THE UNIV. OF WASHINGTON BY MOWING LAWNS! 7HE FIRST WOED GRADUATE WAS CATARNE BREWER. SHE GRADUATED FROM WESLEYA COLLEGE,ffiACotJ,GA. IN 1840-! *Question-of-Week What are you going to do during your summer vacation? Harry Woodhurst-"Go to summer school, of -course." Wallace Coleman-'Haven't decided." A. C. Flora-"I'm not going to do anything, I guess." Jamie Dibble-"Go to summer school, dammit." John Crews-"I'1l be working in Columbia, but I don't know just where.'' Betty Bain-'"!I guess I'll go to the mountains as usual." Wallace Evans-'Tour the States, North and South Caro lina.'' Ed Whitmire-"Strike every beach on the east coast." Rachel Spivey-"I'm going to spend the summer in New York City.'' Carl Atkins, Esq.-"I'm going to emulate IIenry David Thoreau. That is to say, spend my time living in the wilds of South Carolina where women, automobiles and all that sort of rot have not yet penetrated." Russell Dreyer-" Looking for a place where there are no women.' Norma Niggel-"Take life easy and forget about school for three whole months.'' Betty Hughes-" Its really immaterial to me.'' Letters To The Editor Winthrop College, Wnho olg sasaecl Rock Hill, S. C. lg o vic-ti t nttto April 13, 1940. wllwrhaypis gve it Editor, Ga,mecock, Nvrhls,cniin tWnho Sir: adCnhin tCrln r ut Reciprocating to a letter to the weesrrte n rtriiso edhitor published in the edition of the week ending April 13 of Thec Gamei~- rigknsaepeaet cock written by Dewvard B.Brtan 1 should like to address a fewv re- ocmprwihte aenl marks to the writer and call atten- tecuso hs aighg tion to a few facts other than those shlsi aig ncrancuss which he brought to light. teecusaenttesm syus And so the Winthrop College Band cusnrd eejytepiiee is the cause of your vain drive for aofac-(sholWecnlteny new chapel-that is what you said- tongt u ftewoe~ek not inferred, but stated as an abso lute fact, and which I should like tohaedns-tgnrl,orocl take issue with.cotcraigiprcilynlco First of all, the writer blasts ispae itthtoteUnvrtyf own theory that the "promiscuous ~c spendling of the taxpaying citizens' Ai money" is the cause for the failure ofsowhtdwe(0frau the campaign for a new chapel for fw Suy k n no h Carolina. In the second paragraph of t his letter, he starts off with "Last icvstntedo-ow seio fall," and stated that it was then thatoftecyinwchheolgei their campaign to erect a new chapel lctdutl6:0P .o el came to naught.-ntaalonSdys "Last fall we had not eveni received Taewyyorsclpivegs a hid to play concert at the Largest adwa oyugt tdn All-Girl's College Band in theboyoqutunapadreoin World" at the New York World's sae fmn.S,i o a f Fair. Last fall we were no obstacle fr oseds uhfryt o to your campaign. For that reasoncilatviewhharsomc --which is one of enough essence, Isogtaeryuculmstsued see the attitude of one of those peoplelysvthsaemonsptfo who always has, or tries to have, thethssaeoclatitesowr blame laid on shoulders other thannechplfr"roiasdene] his own-one who isn't man enough frapaet odrlgoscnoa to admit defeat as blameful of him-tinadcomcentxris' self,.i o atdi a al syud I ask you now, is It our fault that yu oilatvte.Ti ost your campaign last fall was a fail- so htteeinti h ido uinero (C oTlege ON PaG stt)c Member E. W. 'T~tJCW' 6WAIiN, MemberBusis Manager I Coe6iate Press lsiio iueid Weekly by the Liteay Societies at ths ?4L.i IsriN- o ocity of South Caroina during the Colege year 6ate6Di6Ws during oxaminations an&.holldaya. i. NATIONAL ADVERIOINS BY ertising Service, Inc. George Gregory . Exchange Edit% Fskers RePres*Waiv e_ Va. NEW YORK. N. Y. LOS ANGLUS SAN FANC11CO ANSEL ELMOR .WE N C MUSCLIN9 IN (With Ed Patterson) Or tickling topics of today's tidings. . . Off to a stinking start wvith tde latest on Carolina's war situatios. . . Dean hW ain't mad at nobody'about the campus necktie party. 13ut some of the other members of tile faculty are. . . No further rumors of hostilities are being circulated around and all seerS to be quiet on the Sumter street front. OLast week-end were moody days in these thar hills. . . Everybody went home or somewhere and the campus resembled a ghost town. .Which". should be good news to our friend the society editor. . . Accord. ing to Deward Brittain, the expense account for the Co-ed de bating team on their trip north included such items as: Nose drops for Irene, 25c Chewing gum for the hunch, 15e; Cigarettes for Gerry, 15; Picture show fare for Mary, 30e . . . Summing up to the fact that the girls must have had a big time. . . And on the: trip Mary Dixon had the pleasure of tripping the light fan tastic with Cary Grant of cinema fame. . . * * * * * Imagine Ass't Registrar Flinn Gilland's surprise when he found an excuse in his box fromi herr hitler for Bible 11&12 on the dates from April 20th to the 25th. . . The reason for the absence: "Had to Blitzkrieg in Norway and Sweden''. . . Lovely Jane Wylly (She with the pretty teeth) was a broken hearted fei last week-end when heart throb number one at the moment, Jimmy Moore, dashed home to say "hello'' to ma. . Wish we had the opportunity to make up for the lost time. . Margaret Cain may be beautiful and all that, but her feet are just too big or else she's wearing shoes too small as evidenced by the fact that she had to buy a vast supply of bunion plas. ters recently at a local drug firm. . . The champagne bottle which adorns Katie Beaty's room is empty and its contents were not devoured by the aforementioned lass. . . In fact the bottle never had anything in it but was salvaged from the waste basket of a bankrupt booze store... Lil Boulware, blonde venus with somne to spare, harbors a desire to leave her shoes at home and run around barefooted oiX one of these pretty days. . .. We'll go on record as advocating a barefoot day for co-eds. . . One guy who reads the papers, especiaily the society columns, asked us the other day how in the leck snooty Ann Cathcart got invited to every place she goes. . . The reason: He'd never seen Ann Catheart... * * * * * Polly Cely is having a pretty hard time at pulling the heart strings of one of our former basketball cagers, Bobby Mc Creight. . . Jack Clark and a group of his cohorts were almost added to a Winnsboro casualty list several Saturday nights ago. . . And another one of the Clark boys, Joe Calvin this time, received a royal reception at Winthrop when he announced to the matron that lie had come by air to see his girl friend. . . The 011 ame must not- h-.ve bAen o_ o modern slang. . . The S.A.E.s have been given permission by tIle social committee to elect newv officers and Jimmy' Shecut finds himself a president without a chlapter. . . Funniest sighlt in ages hlappened in chapel last Friday whlen the male mortals present tried to harmonize on the Y. W., C. A. tlheme song... * * * * * Personal nlote to our Daly girl friend: If you don't stop hang ing aroundl the canteen anId drinking so many dopes along with your ice cream consumption, subcutaneous layers of adipose tissule, in slight excess, will p)revenlt you from winning future beauty contests. . . A hearty welcome to the hligh-school stu dents (down hlere for hligh-school week. . . If any of the young ladies now visiting ever find thlemselves wvithout escort et cetera, our phone inuumber is extension 76. . . Bobbie DuRant, who was branlded "God's gift to women'' by former classmates at Fur man, isn't the power hlouse lie thinks he is, according to one of our girls who gets arounld. . . Brainy cute kid Kat Edgerton complained that tile guy who ran around with her at the D. D). D). convention in Charleston was a drip of the first water and evenl had a mustache to comlplete tihe flat tire. . . Mebbe it'd take a cave man to cope with our friend Kat. .. . Little Davie Ellen is a dyed-in-tile-wool economist, so he says, and illustrates by wearing all shirts and sox for at least one week each to save the laundry bill . .. and he with dough to burn. .. Speaking of mercenary things, Laurie Hicks has a brand new station wagon and should1( be able to add some new women to hlis string. . . For the nicest telephlone voice of the week our nomination goes to Marion Wyman, adequately described in previouse editions of this corner. ... * * * * * Editor Hubert Harmon of the far-famed Garnet and Black has dared us to stick out our heads and choose, or at least try to choose, the members of the fairer sex who will grace the beauty section of this year's edition. . . Out of the ten we name we'll bet that at least four are chosen. . . And we absolutelY have no inside dope but are forecasting on our own. . . The order in which they appear means nothing. . . Here they are: Betty Wilson, Mary King, Pat Jeter, Katie Beaty, Mackey King, Gale Johnson, Jeanette Propst, Margaret Oain, Norine fluey and Jane Wyfly. . . By putting them here doesn't mean that we would put them in any of our beauty section necessarily, but seems to be the concensus of opinion of many fellow students. .. * * . * . Won't be long till school will be over and we have yet to hear of a freshman having a pants warming this year. . . And the only rat caps we've seen since November have been on the heads of upper classmen hitch-hikers. .. Petite 1%ggy NewtoU is now sporting 8iga. u pin.- anks Ot tApb..