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Z676 Volume XXXIV, No. 14 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1941 Founded 1908
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,