University of South Carolina Libraries
Cage Team Ends Season Against FomlA Hte North State Foes *J" T ((Story on Page 3) University of South Carolina Z676 Volume XXXIV, No. 14 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1941 ious< Student Council Dec Ineligible for Presidi Members Vote Seven to Boxer's Petiton; Decide Wi Willis Beall, junior from Sui run for the office of president afternoon by the Carolina stud( session on the second floor of t of the boxing team. The vote was seven against h member wasn't present and an( final roll call was made. The argument concerning his eli gibility was based on whether or not Beall could have run for the presidency last year; the entire council agreeing that a man should be granted one chance, and one chance only, to run for this office. BeaU Says No Upon questioning by the mem bers of council, Beall who was pres ent, declared that he could not have run since he did not have at election time last year enough credits to declare him a rising senior in the academic school. The student body constitution declares that a man to be eligible to run for the presidency must be a "rising senior." Testimony in council brought out the fact that Beall sought infornia tion last spring from the assistant registrar as to whether or not lie was a "rising senior." Beall on oath, declared that Flinn Gilland said that he was not a sen ior at election last year, and was not entitled to run for the presi dency. Didn't Have Credits "I did not have enough credit points," Beall said, "because of the fact that I transferred from en gineering school to arts and science, and thus lost some. Because of that also I was listed in Blue Key directory as a senior." Members of the student council and how they voted are as follows: To prohibit j3eall from running Dan Hollis, David Murray, Wii liam Rhodes, Maude Byrnes Chis holm, Jim Galloway, Barney Tim mons, and Frances Meeks. To allow Beall to run-Allen "Snag' Legare, proxy for Rock Yar borough; Cliff Brown, Mildred Kohn, Billy Nicholson, and Junie Levin. Clark Is Absent Johnny Clark, council member, was absent when council cast final vote. Bill Jones, freshman member of council refused to cast a ballot, and Sol Blatt, Jr., president of the group was not required to vote, since there was no tie. The meeting opened with a de bate between Legare and Rhodes concerning who was to declare a man a senior or not-the council or the registrar. Legare said the registrar; Rhodes, the council. After that debate Blatt, the pre siding officer, stated that "the coun cil intends to b,end over backward to give Beall opportunity to run." Dr. Merton Coulter Comes To Carolina Go. History Prof. Speaks To Caroliniana Society Dr. E. Merton Coulter, professor of history at the University of Geor gia, will deliver the principal address at the annual meeting of the Univer sity South Caroliniana Society, Feb ruary 27, Dr. R. L. Meriwether, sec retary of the society, announced to day. The meeting will follow a dinner at H-otel Wade Hampton at 7 :30 p. nm. Chief Justice Milledge L. Bonham of South Carolina, president of the society, will preside. Doctor Coulter, the principal speak er, is a nationally-known historian. lie is editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly and a curator of the Geor gia H-istorical society. lie is author of an outstanding history of Georgia and of other historical works. A number of outstanding acquisi tions of historical material will be announced at the meeting. The University South Caroliniana SVot :ares Beall .nt's Race Five Against Ilis is a Senior nter, was declared ineligible to of the student body, yesterday mnt council, meeting in a called lie library. Beall is a member .s eligibility, and five for. One )ther refused to vote when the Final Registration Figures Show 1995 Students Enrolled Chase Says National Defense Movements Cause Slight Decline Final registration figures show that 1,995 students have registered at Carolina this scholastic year, John A. Chase, Jr., dean of admin istration, announced yesterday. A total of 2,051 students registered last year. A breakdown of registration fig ures shows that 1,288 men and 707 women have enrolled at the uni versity this year. First semester registration figures were 1,212 men and 674 women. Seventy-six new men students and 33 new co-eds en tered Carolina's second semester. Dean Chase attributed the de cline in registration to national de fense efforts and iicieased oppor tunities for employment. "A great many students left school to join some branch of the service," he pointed out. "And many more took jobs left open by men who were caught in the draft." "The decline in registration was less than we had expected earlier this year," Dean Chase declared. "With- the national defense effort, we had expected college students to drop out and enlist in great num bers." Shechter Receives Grad Scholarship Will Study Chemistry At Purdue University Harold Shechter, senior, has been awarded a scholarship for graduate study in chemistry at Purdue Uni versity, located at Lafayette, Indiana. lie was notifiedl this week by Dr. H-. B. HIass' head of the Department of Chemistry at Purdue, and ci.e of the most noted organic chemists in the country. The scholarship amounts to $350 gipd free tuition. After Shechter ar rives at Purdue University, he wvill take an examination in the four ma jor fields of chemistry and if he ranks in the upper brackets his scholarship will be raised to $525. USC Hot By GORDON The Southern -conference boxing to the third consecutive year, it will be he lina. It promises to be one of the m ever displayed in the south. Representatives of six southern schc schools that have retained boxing throu best bokcers in this section of the coui Rex Enright, director of athletics at tournament. Under his able directing, biggest success in its history. Frank T. Meeks, commerce professc local arrangements. The tournament February 28 and March 1. The six schools taking part this ye North Carolina, Clemson, Maryland, N. C. State and Duke University aba last year. The tournament will be hteld in th< a seating capacity of 5,000. Defending the title will be Clmo South Carolina placed second. Cc Dr. Rion McKissick, left, is shoi >laced in Carolina's new library, w Student leaders cooperated with Mr. Steene, who studied unde America" as a painter of more thai :luded President Roosevelt; the lal Wississippi and President Chase c Coed Associat To Members C Carolina Artists Vs. Parking Rules In Losing Battle Aesthetic Appreciation Almost Causes Coeds To Serve Time In Bastile Aestetic appreciation of art caused an art class lonely to miss spending the night in jail this week and cost the five girls involved fifty cents according to Mana Connor, one of the cul prits. The crux of the matter rested in the fact that the car in which they made the trip was parked five inches over into the space for bus stops. Full of art and its apprecia tion, the class was brought down to earth by the ticket which hung from the door of the car. It summoned them to appear at the police station, and in no uncertain terms. After arriving at the city ba. tille, they were informed that the knock down would amount to five dollars. By great tact and display of feminine wiles,' the cost was reduced to fifty cents. st To Bi HILL, JR. :rnament is just a week off. For Id at the University of South Caro st colorful arrays of the fistic art ols wvill participate. These are the ghout the years and in them are the Itry. the University, is in ch arge of the the tournament promises to be the r at the University is chairman of will be held Friday and Saturday, ar are: V. P. I. (Virginia Tech), The Citadel, and South Carolina. ndoned intercollegiate boxing since University field house which has who soaredto hcights last e ar. 123,1J lonel And His Pointer vn above as he posed in academic rot hile at the right is William Steene of the faculty and alumni in securing sul r Colaressi and Julian in Paris, Fra 1 350 portraits, many of them socially e President Few of Duke University; I f Columbia University. ion To Give In if General Asserr Maybank, Fraternity Presidents Invited The University Co-ed Association will entertain the South Carolina General Assembly with an informal supper- Wednesday, February 26, in Sims college. Maude Byrnes Chis holm, president of the association, And Sol Blatt, Jr., president of the student body, will lead in the receiv ing line. The association also has sent in vitations to Governor and Mrs. Bur net R. Maybank. Others receiving will be: Dr. and Mrs. J. Rion McKissick, Mrs. Arnie Childs, Dean and Mrs. John Chase, Dr. and Mrs. Francis Bradley and Dr. and Mrs. L. T. Baker. Betty Withington was appointed general chairman of the party. La vinia Lyles and Emily Brown, co chairmen of the committee on invi tations, have asked three girls from each county to assist in wvriting indi vidutal invitations. These wvill be per sonal letters written by the girls themselves. Degree Announcement Saturday, March 1, is the last .date for seniors to apply for de grees or certificates to be awarded in June, John A. Chase, Jr., dean of administration, announced yes terday. April 1 is the last date5o which graduate studlents may apply for degrees. :>xing Toi Coach Rex Endihts For es for his portrait which is to be New York, the artist. )scriptions for the painting. nce, is listed in "Who's Who In prominent. His subjects have in ormer Governor Lee M. Russell of formal Supper ibly Wednesday Allen Says Road Has Been Made Through Campus The Catch Is That Only Engineers Know That The "Flying Dutchman" Exists By BOB QUINN The "Flying Dutchman" is a character most often connected with stories of the sea. But it might also personify a 2.5 grade highway that was constructed down the middle of the univer sity campus recently. No one can see it. That is, no one but a civil engineering class, which was undertaking the project of plot ting it. Bill Allen, member of the crew seen working on the campus the other day, reports that a big clay dump of excess dirt from the construction was dumped near Maxcy monument. Contrary to opinion, says Bill Allen, engineers do not peer through those little telescope gadgets and wave handkerchiefs at the guy with the red stick just to create a romatic atmos phere and impression. Kinamell Kimball, Wilson From early indications, the featur heavyweight, WVarren Wilson, the dc Kimball, the Tarheel terror. WVilsoni :ournament last year. Before the conference tournament v seing held at Maryland. Due to finar forced to be moved. South Carolina been here there has been a. profit. The conference champs of last year 120; Dick Bagnal (The Citadel), 12 Louis Lempesis (The Citadel), 145; Sanders (U. N. C.), 165; Harvey Fe Wilson (Clemson), unlimited. MacDonald, Lempess, Farris, Sande The committees in charge of the to Southern conference general commi Enright and G. F. Thistlethwaite. Meeks Heads Ar Social arrangements: Frank T. It W. H. Harth. (CONTINUED Uiniv House Restores $22 Bill Proposed by Fin Speaker Sol Blatt Defend Attacked by Representat, Proposals of its ways and mc priation for the university for increase resident, non-resident, were defeated in the house of re The house voted to appropi after the ways and means cor $286,117. Y's Seek Ways For Improved Student Faculty Relations Committee Of Students And Faculty Formed To Insure Friendly Spirit In order to plan a way to improve the relationship of the students and faculty of the University, a group of 25 students and faculty members met last Saturday at Lake Murray under the sponsorship of the YMCA and YWCA to discuss possible remedies for the friction that often exists be tween the students and faculty. The Y committee feels that for a long time the students at Carolina have been deprived of personal ac quaintanceships with the faculty, this fact resulting directly in missing an integral part of a college educa tion, and indirectly in a lack of un derstanding between the students and facultv. "The basic idea is to make his as sociation with the University faculty a part of a student's education at Carolina," George Prince, chairman of the committee from the YMCA said. Eventually, the entire University will be included in the scope of this proposal. The committee is plan ning several meetings in the near future to analyze the situation as it now exists. Measles Epidemic Is Worse, Law Says Students Who See Spots Red-Rush To Infirmary The epidemic of measles currently sweeping the campus still is getting worse, Doctor Law announced Wed nesdlay night. The number of cases reporting to the in6irmarv had more than dlonbled that day. At present 17 students are confined in the infirmary. Several cases al readly have been dismissed, Doctor Lawv said. Most of the cases have been light, however, last ing only three or four (lays. The prescribed treatment is rest andl shielding the eyes from light. Doctor Law asks that students re port to the infirmary at the first sign of breaking out on the skin. "This is the only way we can pre vent a widespread epidemic," he saidl. t Friday Bout Features match will be between Clemson's [ending conference champ and Gates narrowly won over Kimball in the as brought to the University, it was icial losses of the tournament, it was was selected and every year it has were: Olin MacDonald (U. S. C.), 7; Sol Blatt, Jr., (U. S. C.), 135; Bob Farris (U. N. C.), 155; Elden rguson (Clemson), 175; and Warren rs and Wilson are backs this year. runament are as follows: ttee: Geary Eppley, chairman; Rex rangement Group [eeks, chairman; Coach Enright and ON PAGE 6) ersity ,OO to Original once Committee State Institutions When ives Odom and Manning ans committee to cut the appro the fiscal year 1941-42 and to law and pharmacy tuition fees presentatives Wednesday. -iate $323,117 to the university amittee had recommended only The committee recommended that the university appropriation be $37, 000 less than last year; that the tuition to be paid by residents of South Carolina be increased from $60 to $80 a year; ;that for non residents the tuition fee be on'a re ciprocal basis with other states; that the tuition fee for law students be increased from $200 to $250 a year, and that the tuition fee in the school of pharmacy be increased from $60 to $150 a year. Under the plan rejected by the house tuition charged the student from another state would probably have been the same which a student from South Carolina would pay if he attended the university of the other state. Same As Last Year The appropriation for the uni versity voted by the house of rep resentatives Wednesday was $323, 117, precisely the same amount ap propriated last year. Amendments eliminating the pro posed reduction of appropriations for all state institutions of higher education and the proposed increase of tuition fees were offered by Speaker Solomon Blatt and Rep. J. WN. D. Zerbst of Charleston, both university alumni. Speaker Blatt, Rp. J. W.AChad wick of Saluda, and Reps. Calhoun Thomas of Beaufort and George H. Davis of Richland, both univer sity alumni, spoke for the amend ment. Blatt Supports Amendment Blatt. a member of the university board of trustees, took the floor in support of the amendment when the section of the bill dealing with the university was reached. De claring himself "a great believer" in giving young people the oppor tunity "to obtain an education at the institutions of higher learning," he said he thought "it highly im proper at this time to increase tui tion." "Don't you think that 75 per cent of the boys that go to these state colleges would be better off if they never went there?" he was asked b)y Representative Manning of Marlboro. "Cod forbid that it should ever he said that 75 per cent were uin worthy of attending these schools," Blatt replied. There was consider able applause. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6) French Fighter To Speak_Today Hardre Fought In Battle Of France Jacques H-ardre, a graduate student at the University of North Carolina who fought with the French army against Hitler's blitzkrieg, will ad dress the Carolina student body in chapel today. He probably will talk about his personal experiences with the French army, Professor A. S. Hodge, chair man of the Student Union Board which is sponsoring Hardre's talk, said yesterday. Hardre was born in France, but came to the United Statea at an early age., Hie returned to his native coun try to receive his formal educatiwi studying in Paris. Upon his return to this country he taught at Guilford college.before se curing a fellowship to North- Caro' lina. Professor W. S. Woods, on leave of absence to study at North CaOb lina, will accompany Hardre