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Z676 Volume XXXIV, No. 14 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1941
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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.
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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