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U$C Ploys Furman In Bsketball Game For Bck ance At FRold Hou se Tonite Hl nJnay3 (o o.)(Story on Page 2) University of South Carolina Z676 Volume XXXIV, No. 11 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANAY 10, 1941oundd NEW ORAI Sansbury R4 As Top Beau Picked As Beauty Queen From Group Of 25 Coeds Miss Lou Gilland of Kingstree was selected this week as Miss Garnet and Black of 1941, Paul Sansbury, Editor of the yearbook announced today. Miss Gilland gained this honor over a field of 25 Carolina beauties, all who were selected by a student body election late last fall. Her picture will ap pear in the 1941 annual in a two page lay-out, heading the beauty section. The five other girls whose pic ture will also appear in full pose will be Miss Betty Price, freshman from Eastover, Miss Paulette West. senior from Camden, Miss Dot - Parke, senior from Columbia, Miss Naval ROTC Unit La "Gamecox'n" Sails I Macdonald, Faculty A Is To Acquaint High Sc The Gamecox'n, new quarterl, Naval It. 0. T. C. unit, has mad; The paper is issi-d under the MacDonald, faculty adviser. F paper. The primary purpose of the pub lication, Lieutenant M a c D o n al d said, is to acquaint high school boys who plan to enter college with the university and with its Naval R. 0. T. C. unit. The staff is composed of mem bers of the unit and other students who wish to contribute. For the first issue a cover design was drawn by Carlo Cooper, freshman art stu dent. Humorous cartoons and il lustrations were drawn by Frank Hoskins. Letters of Greeting Also in the first issue are letters of greetings from Governor May bank, President McKissick and Captain Hall, professor of Naval science and tactics. A poem, "The Spirit of '40," was written by J. W. Stokes, a Naval student. Several pages are devoted to jokes of the Navy; .The news of the unit and of the Compass and Chart society is also carried. Mimeographing of the paper was done by Yeoman J. Fletcher Bass. Yeoman Bass is a brother of Prof. Robert Duncan Bass, who is an of-1 ficer in the Naval Reserve. Lieutenant MacDonald said cop ies of each issue will be sent to every high school in the state. Final Examinations I Students Have Day -Examinations at Carolina will A. Chiasd, ,Jr., dean of administ: This is a change in the regula saidl, pointing out that examinal Th le change is taken to have '29 so that professors may have compile gradles. This also will semester class schedules. T4 'he examination schedle isr A First Day........... M., W., F.. .1 Second Day......... M., W., F..1I Third Day.......... M., W., F.. Fourth'Day......... M., W., F.. Fifth D)ay..........T., T., S... Sixth Day..........T., T., S.. Seventh Day........T., T., S... Eighth Day......... M., W., F..1 POIJ TTsc weals Miss ty For Garne unches Publication; For Campus Sailors dyisor, Says Purpose hool Boys With ROTC ' publication of the university its appearance on the campus. supervision of Lt. Harold A. rampton Toole is e(litor of the Prexy Announces Absence Jury Wyman L. Williams To Head Faculty Group Pres. J. Rion McKissick an iounced today the appointment of t new faculty committee on ab ,ences. The five members will )ass on absence excuses of students ;ent in under the new attendance -egulations. The committee is composed of Prof. Wyman L. Williams, chair nan; Profs. C. M. Ferrell, J. T. Penny, George R. Sherrill and W. Under newv attendance regula tions, which wvill go into effect second semester, there wvill be no illowance for excused absences. The new committee will "review etitions of stud'ents for relief fronm he penalties for excess absences", recording to the president's an louncement. In ruling on absence excuses the :ommittee will interprete each ab sence and pass on it in the spirit >f past faculty action. legin Monday 20th; Off After Exams begin Monday, Jan. 20, John ration, announcedl yesterdlay. r examination schedule, Chase ions usually begin on Friday. the quizzes completed by Jan. one (lay to correct papers andl hlelp) students work out second s follows: M. 9-12 P.M. 3-6 T., T1., S... 2:00- 3:00 t1:00-12:00 T., T., S. .. 3:00- 4:00 0:00-11:00 M., W., F.. 1:00- 2:00 9:00-10:00 M., WV., F.. 4:00- 5:00 8:0- 900M., WV., I'.. 2:00- :3:00 8:0- 900M., W., F-.. 3:00- 4:00 9:00-10:00 T., T., S. .. 4 :00. 5:00 0:00-11:00 T., T., S... 1:00- 2:00 8:00- 9:00 T., T., S. . .11:00-12:00 2:00- 1:00 T., T., S...12:00- 1:00 TICA AND Lou Gilland )t And Black Betty Price Is Newcomer To Ranks Of Pulchritude Irene Mars, senior from Abbeville and Miss Mary King, Junior from Columbia. The remaining pages of the beauty section will be devoted to pictures of the 20 other girls chosen for the section. Mrs. Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, artist from Charleston, chose the top six girls for the Garnet and Black editor. Mrs. Verner is prob ably the best known artist in South Carolina. She is especially prom inent for her etchings. Miss Gilland, who incidently was "shocked to death" when she heard of her selection, is in the Kappa (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6) Pretty Plumpkins Persist In Paring Persistent Pounds Third Floor Of Sims Unites In Ruthless Purge On Overweight Femmes Athletic co-eds recently wrote the name of Carolina on the tele types of news services throughout the world. They played football for Garnet and Black and the Royal Air Force. But now they come forward with an idea that passeth all under adsiiding. The pretty plumplins have a scheme for reducing thai is about as sensible as Hitler's idea of a New Order. It works like a Republican administration-in re verse. The girls on the third floor of Sims college have chosen two teams, two coaches, two diets, and two-way corsets. Here's the sys tein: The two squads, composed of three girls each, are staging a re ducing tournament. The team los ing the most weight before January 31 wins the contest. A reliable informant says that one contestant gained two pounds on the first day of the tourney. Another trimmed her feline nails to dispense with the weight there of. Refunds To Studes Joining_US Forces Chose Says Proportionate Part of Fees Returned The University of South Carolina will refund tuition fees to men students leaving school to enter the armed forces of the United States, if students app)lying for such re funds show proof that they are en tering the service, John A. Chase, Jr., dean of administration, . an nouncedl this week. At its meeting Dec. 11, 1940, the university board of trustees adopted the following resolution upon rec ommnendation of the admiinistration: "That any student applying for withdrawval from the University and a prop)ortionate refund of fees in ordcr to volunteer for service in the army, navy, marine corps or any other national dlefense unit, or is called into service under the se lective service act, shall submit his original orders covering same, copy of saidl ordlers to become part and p)arcel of order to the treasurer of the University for a proportionate refund, such copy to be kept by the treasurer as a permanent part of his files for future reference." L[PA ID ATI Players Present One-Act Jewels Wednesday Night "Only Symbolic Of The Performance Given-" Says Christopherson The University players will take to the stage again next week and present two one act plays whose names must have been concocted while the authors were in the em ploy of a jewelry store. Prof. M. G. Christopherson, di rector of the group announced the names of the plays, "The Bracelet" and "The Emeralds", and remarked "It is only symbolic of the spark ling performances of the players that will be presented in these pro ductions." The Bracelet is a mystery play that revolves about three strange deaths which. have an evident con nection with an exotic oriental bracelet. The Emeralds is a psy chological study of modern mar riage. 8:00 o'clock Wednesday night, January 15th, is the date and time set for the plays to go. Season tick ets will admit the holders of such. Student tickets will be twenty-five cents. Negative Debaters Chosen For Team In Tryouts Wednesday Members of Affirmative Join Negatives In Trips To Distant Universities Bob Green placed first, Philip Wilmeth second, Ed Parler third, and Bill Langfan fourth on the University Negative Debating team in tryouts held Wednesday evening in the Clariosophic hall. Walter Taylor was chosen alternate. Trhe affirmative team was chosen at tryouts held before Christmas. The teams will make trips to New Orleans and to New York some time during the Spring. Tentative engagements have been madle with Duke University, New York University, Maryland Uni versity for the northern tour. The teams will probably debate Georgia, Alabama, Tulane, andl Louisiana State University. Holmes D)reher, member of the Affirmative team, presidled at the tryouts Wednesday. Members of the Affirmative team are George Hartness, Number One; D)eward Brittain, Number Two; Clarke McCants, Number Three; and Holmes D)rehier, Number Four. Alternate Affirmative member is Jimmy Hill. .Two of the Affirmative will make the Southern trip, along with two of the Negative. Likewise, the other two of the Affirmative will make the Northern trip, along with the other two of the Negative. Fitzsimmons Elected As Block C Vice President Kit Fitzsimmons was elected vice p)resident of the Block C club for the remainder of the school year to replace Billy Lowvry, who has had to dIrop out of school to go in the army. Lowry, Fitzsimnmons explained, is a member of the National Guard and his unit will be called up soon. "In other words," he said, "I've been elected for national defense." RTY ES R Registration For Second Semester To Begin Jan. 30 Feb. 15 Last Date For Late Registration Or Class Schedule Change Carolina will hold second semes ter registration Thursday and Fri day, Jan. 30-31 from 9 a. m. until I p. in. and from 3 p. im. until 5 p. m., John A. Chase, Jr., dean of administration, announced yester day. Saturday, Feb. 1, classes will be gin, running on a half hour sched tile. Monday, Wednesday and Fri day classes will meet on the hour, and Tuesday, Thursday and Satur day classes will meet on the half hour. Late registration will begin Feb. 1, Dean Chase said. A fee of two dollars will be charged each late registrant. Monday, Feb. 3, classes will run on the regular schedule. Feb. 3 is the last date on which a student may make changes in registration or class schedule. A fee of fifty cents will be charged each class change after this date. Saturday, Feb. 15 is the last date on which a student may r,egister or change his class schedule. This ap plies only to regularly enrolled Carolina students, Chase pointed out. The Extension Division's evening class registration will be held Feb. 6-7. Dean Chase said that registra tion procedure for the second se mester will be the same as for the first, upperclassmen registering in Davis college; freshmen in Sloan college, and law students in Petigru college. All students will complete regis tration in the old Student Union (Maxcy college). Opening Of New Library Delayed Furniture Contract Causes Postponement The opening of Carolina's new library building, scheduled original ly for Feb. 15, has been postponed until later next semester, possib>ly early spring, because of a delay in the filling of a furniture contract. Pres. J. Rion MicKissick announced this week. Officials of the WVorks Progress Administration which is 'building the new library granted the fur niture manufacturing company an extension on its contract because of overwork in the factory. Formal dledication exercises, fea turing some outstanding speaker. will be held on the opening (late if possible, President Mc Kissick said. The President praisedl the work. of the WPA for its part in the con-' struction of the new $600,000 li brary. Blesides contributing a large part of the money to pay for the building, the WVPA has made pos sible numerous rep)airs to the en tire physical plant of the: Univer sity.'' The news library wthen completed will be constructed of the best ma terials and best workmanship avail able, President McKissick said. T,o so far as possible fireproof and soundproof material has beeni usedl in construction. The furniture for the newv build ing will be both durable and com fortable. President Mc Kissick has insisted on this since the beginning of work on the project. The latest library material and equipment will go into the build ing, President McKissick declared A new innovation wvill be a pho1 tographing plant for taking pictures of valuable books an(l (lnenments. FORMED: PR RACES Brittain Is Nominated Student Body Prexy By Non-Partisan Leaguers By Jim McKinney The first open political party at Carolina in recent years came last night when a group of students known as the Student Non-Partisan league announced its existence as a party against machine poltics, drafted candidates for student body offices and nvited student support in a movement to "clean up campus politics." The league drafted Deward B. Brittain, journalism junior from Rock Hill, as its candidate for student body president. Brittain is a prominent figure in student activities and is a member of Kap)a Sigma Kappa, honorary service fraternity. In nominating Brittain the league made the following state ment. "We choose this man to run for the office of president of the student body, to fill the shoes of Sol Blatt, Jr., one of the most progressive men ever to head our campus. We be lieve Brittain can carry out Blatt's work to the best interests of the student body." Virginia Cardwell Nominated Vice-President Virginia Cardwell, junior from Columbia, was drafted as candidate for second vice-president. Miss Cardwell also has been active in student affairs. She is a member of Alpha Kap pa Gamma, honorary leadership sorority. As yet these students don't know of their candidacy. The Non-Partisan leaguers say they're drafting candidates because of their personal merits alone and that a loyal student "will need no urging to help student self-government at Carolina." One member of the group said, "Draftees for national de fense are not asked, they are told. Draftees for student rights defense will serve faithfully and wel, and will not violate the trust we are placing in them." Other Candidates Chosen Later Candidates for other student body offices will be chosen at another open meeting sometime after examinations. All stu dents will soon receive letters of invitation to this meeting. The Non-Partisan league will then elect its officers and a cam paign manager to serve for the rest of the school year. The league also will enter class politics, placing full tickets on all class ballots. As in the student body race, class officer --draftees" will be chosen on merit alone and will not be noti fied until after they are nominated. The League's Platform The main plank in the Non-Partisan platform is an anti-ma chine movement on the campus. The leaguers pledge them selves "to wipe out the stigma of student self-government con trolled by a few campus politicians who use Carolina's historic democracy as a political dloormat." The new pamrty began early this semester when current p)oli tics were still indlefinite. One of the originators says it is "the sp)ontaneiouis creation of natural stud(ent desires for clean poli tics ait the lUniversity. Our battle cry is 'clean up campus p)oli ties.'" Grew In Secret Th'le group, at first only a small band of students, has been growingz steadlily in secret, another member said, "because we were afridu to come out in the open as we knewv the machine would cuit off our heads if w*e ap)pealred too soon. IIowever, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6) Charles W. Gibbes Elected ODK Prexy; Rhodes And_Sansbury Also New Officers Seven Members Installed At Semi-Annual Banquet Chlarles WV. Gibbes, law school freshman, wvas elected president of * ~. ODK, honorary leadership frater nity, recently andl was installed at the semi-annual banquet of that organization Friday evening, Dec. 13. Other new officers installed at the same time were WNilliamn Rhodes, Vice-President and Paul Sanisbury, Sec.-Treasurer. The ban quet was held at the HIotel Co lumbia. Officers will serve the remainder of the present school year. Seven newv members were also installed. Talks a,t the banquet were made by Thomas P. Stoney and Alfred Charles W. Gilbea Von Kolnmitz.