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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Entered an second-class matter at the postofice at Columbia, S. 0. Nov. 20, 1908. Member 14ssociated Colle6iate Press 1940 Distributor of 1941 Colle6iade Di6est RPRE0ENTaO FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING my National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Represe~dative 420 MADIsON Ave. N9w YORK. N. Y. CHIcAeO . BOSTON - Los ANEt.2 - SAN FaaNcIsco Issued weekly by the Literary societies at the University of South Carolina during the college year. Richard W. Frick Philip W ilrneth ...........................................Co-Editors E. W. "Duck" Sweatman, Jr. ........Business Manager J. H. McKinney, Jr. ............................Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF Ijeotiard Turnbull .................................... Sports Editor Blanche Gibbs ...................................... C o-ed Editor Jane Cox ............................................ S ociety Ed4itor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Deward Brittain Joe Kirby Bernie Bass Nancy Padgett Sarah Flinn Sara Hughes Jaudon Harley Kathryn Martin Paul Callahan Don Merrick Gordon Hill Tieresa Tenore STAFF WRITERS Frank Sloan iob Quinti Albert Eggerton John Nash Paul Posey Pitkin Bell Donald Law Helen Fakoury Morris Mazursky David Brockington ............................ Circulation Manager George Gregory .................................. Exchange Editor BUSINESS STAFF Dave Alternan Beryl Kerns Marie Ulmer Lil Hair Walter Taylor WHAT WE ARE FOR AND WHAT WE'RE A'GIN It is customary for editors to make a formal declaration of policy. Actually these are often like the platforms of political parties, which are-in the words of Dr. Sherrill--"full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." However, we the editors feel that these few points should be clarified as to our position: 1. We shall not play politics. The Game cock has made the statement this year that it would support any political group which came out of the smoke-filled closets into the open. But this does not mean that we will back any certain candidates or attempt to advise the students how to vote. Such is hardly the func tion of a student newspaper. 2. We are not expressly anti-fraternity or pro-fraternity. We believe tiat the distinction between fraternity and non-fraternity is over emphasized: we shall try to see both sides of the question. Incidentally one of your editors is a fraternity man and the other a non-fra ternitv mian, so we should get both sides. 3. We are definitely pro-administration. We shall try to hel tie administration in every way possible. We sihali, however, endeavor to give falir anid unblialssed construcetive criti cisml when we feel that Carolina wvill benefit by suIch. We shall work for better understandings among all stuldenlts. anid between stuldents and1 the faculty. A men. TOWARD A NEW NON-RIOT REGISTRATION PROCEDURE WTe'll haIlve to admllit tlhat registr ation was handled better' thlis ;emest(er than we have yet seen it handled. Probably not over thlirty or forty people were p)ermanently injured. Serioulsly, the tiling is still a mess. It cer tamnly should be~ simle enoumgh for stuldents to sign their names andl get their professors' signatures for five cour'ses-six at the most. But it is hlardly necessary to repeat the 01(1 story---how prlacet ical ly the whole studlent body jammed Davis College on Thursday mnorning. while a mere handful appeared on the scene the following day. It appears to us5 that the logical thing to do would be to divide the stud(ent body into groups, eaich to register at a dlifferent time. Now, the only difficulty in this p)lan is thait there are a good many classes that get filled ump m the first few minutes of registration, and naturally thle first group to register wvold get all the choice plums. Now our little plan. Why not give these choice plums to the ones who deserve them most: the ones who have made the best grades. The cry will be raised that the low-grade student pays just as much and has as much right to a class as the high-grade student. But we see no reason why the boy or girl who has worked hard and shown a real will to learn shouldn't have first choice-instad, of the one who has the good fortune or physical prowess to)b first (we almost said in the line) in the mob. A CURE FOR AN OLD EVIL IS NOW WORKING The little red book that every one received before final registration last week is the tonic to cure one of the sore spots in the University workings, that of class attendance. This has been a problem for some time and with a group of set rules now prevailifig the problem should be solved. Students who have been accustomed to meeting classes as they saw fit now either have to meet the requirement or get out. This, in the opinion of The Gamecock, is the best Piece of legislaticn passed by the faculty in a long time. It is a known fact that the class attendance at the University is lower than any other school in the state, which reflects on the high scholastic standard of our state institu tion we ae heartily in favor of the new sys tem. As a matter of information to old students, and to those just entering the University, a few high spots in the rules follow: Each student is allowed no more cuts in a class than twice the number of credits that the course gives. For instance if the course is a three credit course, six cuts are allowed, on the other hand if the course gives four credits, eight cuts are allowed, and so on. For extra cur ricular activities that necessitates the student being away from school more than given in the new system, three extra cuts may be granted by the Dean of Administration. Any more than three will have to be passed on by the Committee on Absences. In case of prolonged illness or other emerg encies a student may Petition the Committee for relief from the rule, but for no other reasons other than these will a petition be considerel. 'The student must 14present hs petition in person and no written petition will be permissible. There may be, an(d Probably will be, cases where at student will use up two or three ab sences and then become sick and use lip the re maining three. A later illness may then oc cur and a Petition will be in order for excuse because of sickness. The Committee has made it definite that this can not be used as a valid excuse, for the rules state that "a student, therefore runs a great risk if he proceeds on the theory that since he can be absent six times a semester ini a three credit course with out penalty lie can 'eut' promiscuosly. The wise stident will not 'cut' at all." He will save his absences fo. occasion oveui4hich he has little control, such as headaches and the Ii ke. This new system does not effect junior and seniors with voluntary attendance. However, it does abolish the double cut rule that pre vailed before and after holidays. The outstanding difference between the iiew and old regulations governing absences is that undler thme new regime there is no such thing ais an excuIsedl or unexcused absence. A stu dlent absent from any class for any cas files no e'xcuise with anyonec anywhere. And Over thme prJesc'ribed amount means get going. A DOOR THAT LOCKS BUT LOCKS NOTHING UP I ma.v b)e s~mall andl insignificant thing to ed(iatorialize. Buit it is really infuriating. On Sundlays, thme door' between the pos5t of fice corridor and the rest of the Student Union basement is locked. Comning in fr'om t he front of thme b)uilding, you can walk up to the door. Coming in from the side entrance, you can watlk up) to the other side. But someone has evidently decreed, "They shall not pass !" Please, Mr. Cantey, or sonmebody, get up and umnbar the (door! RING OUT TH E OLD RING IN THE NEW At the endl of this wveek a new system of assembly bells will be completed. This is an other of the moves made in streamlining the UJniversity campus. These bells will be ready for Monday morning classes.* Thew Gamecock, for the past several semes tears has been agitating a change in the class assembly question. The campus has been grow ing by leaps and bounds and for a year or two students have been kept in classes several minuates past the hour. Now with this new system in operation professor will be able to hear the gong and classes will be dismissed. It is true that the old chapel bell is a tra dlition and a landmark, but it is out of date and had to be put aside. Sentimental reason cannot, and must not, hinder growth. The only drawback that we see in the new system, however, is the sounding of the second bell five minutes after the hour as proposed by the faculty. Remember that it's a long walk from Wardlaw to Sloan and LeConte. give us snven or eight minutes at lest Campus Camera YOUNGEST WEATMER MAN lo IN THE U.S. IS STANLEY PEERSON,U. OF NOM11 DAKOTA FRESHMAN, W9c HAS CHARGE OF THE FEERAL STA'1ON ON -IE CAMPUS. 1E TAKES OBSERVATIONS AT 6A.M., N3N. 6 PM. AND MIDNIGAT/ L. ON-HIRD OFE-IE ENTIRE COLLEGE UPSALCOLWAS FRPULATION OF TE U.S. IS WA114IN A'600 MILE RADIUS OF SPRNGFIELD, MASS. LGmPscMR - F WARING T 0 GOTROUGH THENWYOK,.. U.S.LMAL WAS SENT TO FRED WARING BY UPSALA COLLEGE SlU DENTS REQUESTING HE WRITE 1HEM A SONG! MIUSC LIN' IN christmas has gone, exams have went, and it was not done just by accident . . . our congratulations to jane crum, ken roskie told us that you were going to win a week ago and is lie wreathed in smiles now . . . paid "dictator" sansbury seems to have enough time left from his classes and many, many campus activities to go in for art, or at least one form of it, it seems that he has been practicing writing with his toes . . . in professor wardlaw's journalism class, lie was just completing a lecture and asked if any one wanted to ask a question, and then from the deep silence of the room emerged the voice of bob quinn, "yes, sir, what did the governor of north carolina say to the governor of south carolina?" it seems that horace "cox" traylor has finally decided to become a fraternity man at last and been initiated into kappa sig, lie has been a very active pledge, going to the fraternity house twice during first semester that we 'know, lie went to make two long distance calls . . . one young lady at sims, certainly believes in figures, she has a list of movies that her boy friends has promised to take her to and they amount to about $68, and boy, that ain't hay . . . it seems that the fifth columnists have split, maybe they will call it the two and a half . . . when the asheville civic was in town recently, all of the girls, and my what lovely lassies, asked about fred lytle and wanted to see him, (lid anne gregorie dona burn . . . it seems that former propaganda boss of the campus "scoop" league has turned into a glamour boy and has been dating a different girl every night, the ugly girls . . . a strange sight on the campus the other morning was the sociology class marching indian file across the campus, the professor had changed the place of meeting; could this be the widely known "popular front" that made its appearance on the campus last semester . . . constance long, told frog green that the american girl was tired of the sweet and innocent type and that he should change his tactics and try the cave man role for a while . . . it seems that the former writer of this column, ed patterson went to a very educational movie this past week at the state, it must have been very enlightening at any rate for he turned very red around the gills during one scene . . . tomie scott should b)e called WVCOS for sabo sure gets his calls on the hour every hour... "stooge" whialey niust have been embarrassed the other sunday when he was playing golf without the sling on his arm whlen lhe caine across oine of his p)rofs, he had just taken an oral exam . . . it seems that the etlis-ha,skell roniance that blossomed so sudldenlly has gon the wvay of all of the perfect romances . . . it seems that one gamecock society editor faded in time to suit sumter's louise naance . . . but the atkins-adele moses affair seems to be the steadiest twosome on the campus . . . j. kw. davis seems to be tryiing to get exemptedl from the draft by going with arniy colonels daughters, boy save us one . . . milton marcus and inilton marcus and mnilton marcus, nowv milton here's your three weceks publicity that you have been worrying us about... wve'll do the column ourselves, nowv how about the passes. Letters To The Editor Dear Phil and Dick:yer fti wreaic mn' All this wveek aind part of last, I sho hr ol en ik u have been hearing rtimblings of dis- w aet colt e neua content from students far and wide to n o cuuaealbayo about a situationi on the canmpususlstetbo. which is sorely ini need of a remedy. Btbc otebo tr,Iko This situation wvhereof I speak is ntigo t rft,hwvr the canipus bookc business. At this time of the year there is quiite' ancaewhhIci,Isoudtnkht exchange in text books. A large vol-tesaehlsruhr.Tisce umie of this business is handled on ahatod wih nacunace f cooperative plan at the bookstore. mn h ogtabo atya But many, like myself, wonder wherebrn ne.Teflwwothi the cooperative stuff conies in. Cer tainly the students themselves havenmeitmebobuopedtoiy little hand in it.corereunditohebksoe By this I mean that there is ataidrcvehlfpceort,hn present a system by which students i a eodfraltl vrtre must pay eiiormoums prices for booksqtaerofisrgialvueoan unless they are able to purchase theirote frnd fmi. Jug fr books elsewhere. The profits O oureftepon n ossaeet these books may be going for a good No I'ntsugtigarmd purpose, yet I see no reason why frti iuto,Ihv ocamt large scale profits should be made off biga fiinyepr,ytId we poor students who are strugglingwatoapeloth pwrsht for an edpcation. b i eafo l yflo tdns Then too, the situation has beentodsmehninrgdtohei made worse by departmental heads in uto sIhv ulndi ota the past few years. They are con- w ttgln tdns a aebt stantly changing textbooks and the trbosa etrpie o h valuation of the tex.t which had beeiigonfalo s tews,i used drops to practically nothing. Formihbencifs euponstr instance, some law students two yearswetioopncm tton ihou ago had to buy a book which costloaenrpi,altlem ejuic $7.50. Two years have gone and nowmihbead the book has depreciated seven hun- Ibgt ean dred and fifty percent because that Yustuy book mot likeyhwon'tbehusenextld anotkck,obu TI THE FIFTH COLUMN HAS SPLIT111 My erstwhile co-adjutor and co-agitator, Brittain, let me down. He ruined my best news story. Here I worked for 12 hours, uncovering a new campus political machine which wanted to run hiin student body president. The..story breaks . . . I'm called a radical for even writing about it. . . Brittain basks in good publicity ... then re fuses to run. HOT TIP-It's rum ored that a certain inhabitant of Ten. 10, possessing few hair and less brains is viting with the Non Partisans. COIT HENDLEY'S GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. Last year's radical Gamecock brain trust er would have shook in evil glee had he been here to hear Dr. G. C. Wil liams do a play on words on his now famous "N'yah, N'yah" quote. Doc Williams told his sociologists talk like the little fox to anyone who criticizes American youth. GOT A LETTER FROM A CLEMSON COUSIN which reads in part as follows: "Things air quite in these hyar hills. Aint seen nary Furmanite or revenooer in same time. Got a pure corn bottle under my piller rite now. Heard yestiddy thata yo corch Enright is rite on happy about de Jeep leavin Caro lina. Wal, I reckon we Clemson men saw enuff o him anyhow. Am powerful feard o that Westmoreland fellow you got down there. Heard he aims to break a Conference record agin Clemson Friday nite. Gotta close now cause I hear the pigs squealin fo slop. Might mix a lettle o this corn with it an have pickled pig feet come Thanksgivin. Yourn Allen." over J CAMPIU by DEWARD BRITTAE DRYLINES AND CRYLINES Tear-weary co-eds and calloused mama last week as the exam guilloi social salamanders . . . And the tel' as survivors of the recent Knowledi schedules for the current semester. sedately along with a newv bell syste: like the' news broadcasts--meet ever * * * TEACHER COOPERATES WITF A dirty little acamp kept both over at University High-the other antics were drawing more attenti When the chap became so rud jokes, Lib promptly reprimandi laughing?" "Yes, ma'm," came the curt AGAIN." * * * HEARTBEAT OF THE HORSEE Frank Sloan's story of Doc Deri cently appeared in Trhe Gamecock wa Associated Press feature service. What second semester freshman college was a part of the Universii Preston was some sort of Finishin freshman, Preston does finish thenm Overheard: "Him? Oh, that's Sigma Chi." * * * MOSTLY NOTIONS If you are not a senior, if you you are not in arrears with the futile to apply for an extra cour Who suggested something cul not take a part of the activities courses? Anyway, it's an idea, a Question of the week: With staff, we still can't understand v~ complicated at the University. I Question of the week number to buy that damned red shirt fri furnace won't even accept It. *. * * NOTICABLE NEWETTES A group of riflemen of the naval Hearst trophy this spring . . . Lib B ton for the American Youth Congr< gation are also there!) . . . A moti, sophic Iiterary society hall next Tue S. Blatt, et. al., pay two weeks roi exams! Stokes Davis, who preceded J. Huj lhe's a confidential agent of the FBI he's an office clerk!' . . . And Sidne a sergreant recently. fth By McKINNEY. EVEN THE PROPS A N'T STRAIGHT on- this new absence system. One class engaged in a lengthy controversy with its profes sor about last Saturday's absences. The prof. silenced all arguments by saying, "Well, I'll count mine any way, just to make sure." I checked 6 up on that, and for your informa tion, kind sir, the administration's interpretation is that absences didn't count 'til Monday. Professor, you're engaged in an extra-legal procedure if you count those cutsl Or maybe we oughta write a book to clarify the clarification phamphlet. The pell, pell, pell Of the bell, bell, bell Of classes no more will warn. But the bong, bong, bong Of the new-fangled gong Wakes me at 7 each morn. PARENTS ARE INEFFICI ENT11 A little freshman girl visited the Gamecock office, looked at the news stories? on the wall, blushed and.. exclaimed,.. "That's ..indecentl. My mamma never taught me to be lieve that dirty stuff." Well, lassie,' just because your mother fell down on her job is no reason the Game cock should. THE ELITE SPEAK OVER IN Sloan this week an English major from another school barged in on a group discussing the relation of X to Y, integral calculus and astrono mical declinations. Said he, "Can any of you gentlemen tell me where I can find the English Depart- . ment?" One math shark raised his eyebrows and said, "You might find him in Davis where most of Caro lina's illiterate congregate." Joe Colleges went back home to ne decimated the ranks of campus phone switchboard suffered a rush re Inquisition arranged their dating Withal, however, campus life moves n to remind students that classes y hour on the hour. * * * [ ASCAP ering practice teacher Lib Bird day . .. As a matter of fact, his on than Miss Bird's lecture. e as to laugh at one of his own d him, "Will you please stop reply, "I'LL NEVER SMILE * * * HOE ick and the bathing suit that re s released this week by the national vas surprised to learn that Preston y of South Carolina? "I thought g School," he said. You're right, Dumas Turner, the sweetheart of * * * do not have a B average, and if treasurer, then it is absolutely me. 'S fact! tural for the University? Why fee to pay for a couple artist 0 nd a durn good one. such an efficient administrative rhy registration is so unusually )o you? two< Who'll lend us a quarter am Mr. McKinney? We bet a * * * 10TC will compete for the famous ird and T. Jackson are in Washing- - 8s. (J. Iever and a Clemson dele >n- will be introduced In the Clari sday to make Messrs. G. Coleman, >m rent for using the hall during thes as student body president, says t .Another source brings word that v Duncan, LLB was prmoedt