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Cage Team Ends Season AgainstTrDeasos North State Foes efrson Tnigt ((Story on Page 3) University of South Carolina Z676 Volume XXXIV, No. 14 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1941 Founded 1908 HO US Student Council De4 Ineligible for Presid Members Vote Seven to Boxer's Petiton; Decide Wi Willis Beall, junior from Su 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. Beal 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 informa tion last spring from the assistant registrar as to whether or not he 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, Wil 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 bend over backward to give Beall opportunity to run." Dr. Merton Coulter Comes To Carolina Ga. History Prof. Speaks To Caroliniona 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 Hotel Wade H-ampton at 7:30 p. mi. 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. He is editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly and a curator of the Geor gia Historical society. Hie 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 aVoi :ares Beall ent's Race Five Against His is a Senior nter, was declared ineligible to of the student body, yesterday Bnt council, meeting in a called he library. Beall is a member is 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 increased 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 stud' in chemistry at Purdue Uni versity, located at Lafayette, Indliana. lie was notified this wveek by Dr. H. B. Hass; head of the Department of Chemistry at Purdue. and cr.e of the most noted organic chemists in the country. The scholarship amounts to $350 ayd 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 Ho ByGOORDON' The Southern -conference boxing t< the third consecutive year, it will be h lina. It promises to be one of the n ever displayed in the south. Representatives of six southern sch schools that have retained boxing throi best boxers in this section of the cot Rex Enright, director of athletics al tournament. U1nder his able directing, biggest success in its history. Frank T. Meeks, commerce profess< local arrangements. The tournament February 28 and March 1. The six schools taking part this yi North Carolina, Clemson, Maryland, N. C. State and Duke University ab~ last year. The tournament will be hield in th a seating capacity of 5,000. Defending the title will be Clemso: South Carolina placed second. Col Dr. Rion McKissick, left, is show placed in Carolina's new library, wh Student leaders cooperated with t Mr. Steene, who studied under America" as a painter of more than cluded President Roosevelt; the late Mississippi and President Chase of Coed Associati To Members 0 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 B HILL, JR. >urnament is just a weeck off. For eld at the University of South Caro iost colorful arrays of the fistic art 3ols will participate. These are the aghout the years and in them arc the ntry. the University, is in charge of the the tournament promises to be the or at the University is chairman- of will be held Friday and Saturday, ear are: V. P. I. (Virginia Tech), The Citadel, and South Carolina. andoned intercollegiate boxing since e University field house which has ni who soared to heights last year. .23,1I onel And His Pointer n above as he posed in academic rol ile at the right is William Steene of he faculty and alumni in securing su Colaressi and Julian in Paris, Fr. 350 portraits, many of them socially President Few of Duke University; Columbia University. on To Give In f General Assen Maybank, Fraternity Presidents Invited The University Co-ed Association will entertain the South Carolina General Assembly with an informal suppet- 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 inidi vidIual invitations. These will be per sonal letters written by the girls themselves. Degree Announcement Saturday, March 1, is the last (late for seniors to apply for de grees or certificates to be awarded in June, John A. Chase, Jr., dean of adlministration, announced yes terday. April 1 is the last date'on which graduate students may apply for degrees. )xing Toi Coach Rex Rnit. . For )es for his portrait which is to be New York, the artist. bscriptions for the painting. mce, is listed in "Who's Who In prominent. His subjects have in former 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. Lirnamen Kimball, Wilson From early indications, thc featur< heavyweight, Warren Wilson, the dei Kimball, the Tarheel terror. Wilson tournament last year. Before the conference tournament w being held at Maryland. Due to finau forced to be moved. South Carolina been here there has been a- pronit. 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, Sandel The committees in charge of the toi Southern conference general commi Enright and G. F. Thistlethwaite. Meek. Heads Arn Social arrangements: Frank T. 1 W. H. Harth. (CONTINUED Univ House Restores $27 Bill Proposed by Fin Speaker Sol Blatt Defendi Attacked by Representati Proposals of its ways and me priation for the university for increase resident, non-resident, were defeated in the house of re] The house voted to appropr after the ways and means cori $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 faculty. "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, Low 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 eases reporting to the infirmary had more than doubled that day. At present 17 students are confined in the infirmary. Several cases al readly have been dismissed, Doctor Lawv saidl. Most of the cases have been light, however, lasting only three or four (lays. The prescribed treatment is rest and shielding the eyes from light. Doctor Law asks that students re port to the infirmary at the first sign of b)reaking 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 betwveen Clemson's endling conference champ and Gates narrowly won over Kimball in the as brought to the University, it was cial 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 s and Wilson are backs this year. unament are as follows: :tee: Geary Eppley, chairman; Rex angement Group [eeks, chairman; Coach Enright and Oa PAGE 6) ersity ,OOO 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 imittee 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, Rep. J. W. Chad 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 tile hoys that go to these state colleges would be better off if they never went there?" he was asked by Representative Manning of Marlboro. "God forbid that it should ever he said that 75 per cent were tin 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 Hardre, a graduate student at theC University of Northl 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 out 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. lHardre was born in France, but came to the United Statea at an early age.. He returned to his native coun try to receive his formal educatoin studying in Paris. Upon his return to this country he taught at Guilford college.before ae curing a fellowship to North Caro lina. Professor W. S. Woods, on lea of absence to study at North Car 9 lina, will accompanly Hiardre,