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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1906 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Matered as second-clans matter at the postofice at Columbia, a. 0. Nov. 20. 1908. Member Associaled Coleite Press 1940 Distributor of 1941 Cle6iale Di6es REPREENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISINS BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Putblisbers Rep#resensasive, 420 MADisoN Avc. NEW YORK, N. Y. CNIcAso' -OSTON - Los AN4s2.s - saN FNAcIco Issued weekly by the Literary societies at the University of South Carolina during the college year. RICHARD W. FRICK PHILIP WILMETH............CO-EDITORS E. W. "DUCK" SWEATMAN, BUSINESS MGR. J. H. McKINNEY, JR. MANAGING EDITOR EDITORIAL STAFF Leonard Turnbull .................................... Sports Editor Blanche Oibbs ........................................ Co-ed Editor Nancy Padgett ...................................... Co-Ed Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Deward Brittain Blanche Gibbs Joe Kirby Don Merrick Sarah Flinn Paul Callahan Gordon Hill Bernie Bass Katherine Martin STAFF WRITERS Frank Sloan Bob Quinn Albert Eggerton John Nash Paul Posey Pitkin Bell Donald Law Helen Fakoury Morris Mazursky Jaudon Harley Sara Hughes Kathryn Martin David Brockington ............................ Circulation Manager George Gregory .................................. Exchange Flitor BUSINESS STAFF Dave Alterman Beryl Kerns Willis Bean Walter Taylor WE REVIEW OUR PROGRAM AND REITERATE OUR VIEWS Instead of waiting until the very end of the semester to review our editorials, as is cIs tomary with editors, we decided to do it while there is still some time left to get somiethilng done. We began the seiester with a policy of no prejudices in politics; no prejudices toward either fraternity or non-fraternity men; and a definite support of the administration of the University. You might call that a negative program; but we thought, and We still think, that it is the right thing. We have tried to live up to these principles, a1n( will continue to adhere to them. But what we have doie in the way of agita tion for changes around the campuis has yield ed, to our disappointment., few if any visible results. We began with a criticisll of the way registration wAits conducted. As far as we know, the authorities have taken 11o steps to remedy this situation for next year. Then there was the telephone situation. The authorities have conducted investigationts and held conferences with the tele)hone officials; and KSK has suggested a limitation of the length of conversatiois. ut, still nothing det inite. We hlave pled agalin and1( againl for a chalpel. We haive told how less thian onie-foiurthi of ouir studenit body canl colle togethler ill tile pres5 ent chlapel. No result. We have pled~(, as so uniny1 editors before uts, for aI re-llocaltionl of tile Studenht'i Activities fund, wVithl mlore moniley for aucti vities whilichi prov)lide enlterta inmllent for~ the studt enlts-mlonley for thle U niversity Players. monley for hr ing ing good spe'akers, mullsicians1, and1( othe1r enlter tainers to thue campus)11. We have asked. for diefinlite eligiility quaiu ficattionis for (cand(idates for studenClt off ices. So far, nothing her'le either. All we ('anl do( is to ca11llattenltionl to these ingl~, andl ask for tile nlecessary cilnolges to lbe mlade. O nce imore we cauli upon0 tile adm11ill istration to talke action 011 the telephlione sit inationi, tile stud(enlt activities IC-al location, and1( tile regist rationl mess'. We calli Onl thle stud(enlt off ice'rs to fix el igiiliity qulhifilcationls. And we ('11ali)uonl tihe legislature to provide us with a chapeli. We need( one, urigenitly. STUDENT-FACULTY GROUP TAKES UP ALLOCATION That someloneC besidets TIw h-,Gmecock ed(Iitors have been thinking abiouit tihe Student A(tivity fund is evident fromI this mlorning's challl' p)rogramn. We are dlelighlted thlat the qulestionl is being brought into tile open ; andi we dlo sinl cerely *hope that tile studlents will take an in terest in re-allocattion. We have already expr'essed1 our Opinion on tile mnatter. Re-allocation has1 long beenf ai crying need at the UJniversity; several gr'oups which are relatively inactive are receiving more thlan they need, while groups whlichi colid and would do something definite for the Student Body aren't getting anything. The main purpose of this editorial is to urge every student to cooperate with the Student Faculty committee which will send out ques tionnaires next week. If you dbon't express~ your opinions, you can't expect to get anything dlone. CUT SYSTM SHOULD OE LENIENTLY ADMINISTERED We were delighted when we heard that a student body meeting was being called to dis cuss the cut system. It' was envigorating to think that the student body was getting up enough energy to protest anything. Then came Wednesday. We were disappointed. We were disgusted. If the students can't bother to go to a meet ing, then they can't expect any improvement in their condition. Now, as to our position on the cut system: In February we expressed ourselves as being in favor of the new cut system. It was an answer to a definite need. The honest stu dents had been suffering, under the old system, while the dishonest or borderline students had the advantage. We still think the new cut system is a good thing. Naturally it may have to be changed somewhat, as experience shows up flaws. We especially want to caution the committee against too much severity in the interpretation of the regulations. The committee may not think it's any of our business, but we con sider it a duty to reflect student opinion, and some dissatisfaction has arisen. The whole question hinges on whether a stu dent shall be dropped from a course when he becomes ill, or is absent on good excuse, when he has already used up his quota of absences. In such a case it would be asked, "Why were you absent the first six times?'" And this, most unfortunately, throws us right back into the excuse business. Well, the student should be able to show exactly why lie was absent on at least a few of the occasions. If the student has just "cut'' six time, the committee should have the right to throw hiimii out of the class. But there are times when all of us are in- I disposed, without being sick enough to go to a doctor; there are times when business en- i gagements make it impossible for us to at- t teiid class. In other words, gentlemen of the commit- f tee, allow the student some leeway. If three or four of the first six absences are on good i excuse, aid the student gets sick after his sixth, give hiim another chaiice. BAKER WRITES ABOUT DEBATING SITUATION Mi. Baker puts me in an embarrassing sitn ation. He writes me a letter Critizing the de bating teams, when lie knows perfectly well that I was a member of one of them this year. But, believing in the freedom of the press, anid having the Uniiversity at heart, as Mr. Bhaker puts it, I ama pubhliing his letter. You will find it (luly prinited on this page. Th'lere is much in what Mr. Baker says. We agree withi him that thle debating sit uation on thle ema npus1 is bad1(. We (disagree wvith him: as to thue cauises. Mr. I aker seems to think that everything was fine until the lawyers were run off the teamii, an no1 1w everyt hiing is rotteni. iIe coin pla ins t hat one team t his year hiad only 3 or 4 dleba&tes, whenm a team which Mr. Baker was oni last yea r had no) more.< lhut lie states that lie (does not initendl any p)ersonial criticism, so we shall also refraini. 'We are both Iopposedl to the prlesenlt set-ump, and( think sonmethlinug should he (done about it. As far' as the lawyers are coincerned, we really see no reason why they shouldn 't be allowed to (debate. They are the group which would logically be best fit tedl for dhebatinlg, andl who would get tihe most b)enefit from it.i Biut beC tha&t as it Imay, ide feel that the' Unih versity should provide a competent faculty advisor (by that we meain one who knows deC bating and1( publ)lics speaking) to b)e a conmbina tion of coach, maniuager' and1 supervisor-not .inust somieone who would keep watch over the teams, but someone who coumld help the team through inistruction. Thait is what the debating teams need. -Philip Wilmeth. BEST WISHES TO JIM McKINNEY An article on the front page tells you about .Jimi MeKinney's accidlent. We just want to editorially express our (ldep regrets that the accident occurred, and1( our happiness that McKinney is now recuperating successfully. Best wishes for a speedly recovery, McKin ney. Campus Camlera uiemsny oF SAN MARCOS YANKE5 DLE uMA. PEu, IS T-E OtEST UNIVERS"TY IE BEEN WOIKING IN 'ME AMERICAS / ON THE RAILROAD n- WAS ESTABUS4ED ORIGINALLY WER5 COLL- - IN 1571 . SONGS. BUCKSHOT GALLAUDET COLLEGE (NASINGTON,D.C.) Is - ONLY COLLEGE . DEAF IN TH-E WORLD! +Questionmof -Week )o you think spring holidays should come at a fixed date nstead of every Easter? Would you like to have them in Aarch or in April? Meyer Rosen-Spring Holidays mean being home at Easter or a Carolina student. They should be just as they always iave. Margaret E. Smith-I like them as they are. It wouldn't be )ad to have them the same time as Clemson. Charles Welborn-The only benefit in changing would be that ve would be home at the same time that other college students tre at home. But at that the roads would be crowded with 31emson, P. C., Erskine, and Furman boys and it would be hard or Carolina students to hitch-hike. Sol Blatt-I've always thought that Spring Holidays meant hat we would be home for Easter, so I don't see any sense in hanging the date for these holidays. Matthew Poliakoff-Now being at the end of a lengthy career, feel that it is better to have a fixed date-and an extension neeting classes in between. Kitty Ketchen-It really doesn't matter. I'm more interested n when Citadel gets theirs. Eileen Williams-I'd rather have them in April. Makes the ime seem shorter till the end of school. Ruth Henderson-I think they should be at a fixed date and hat they should be a week long. Letters To The Editor The editors, The G;amicick: maey1 t(ntcopigfr D)ear Phil and Richard1:teafrmtvsie( le);o Last year, the faculty of the Uni-the16ol: r4wreawt rersity, convinced that law students(lt.Onhe egiv sde4 v'ere monoptolizing thie debating pae)tee~ee1 tdnsot cams, an(l believing that the aca- ado hs bu twr avsu lemic studlents wvere not being giveuint.'isya,udrhenwet mi equal opp)ortunity, enacted, upon u,jrhbtn a tdns hr ecommendlationl of the Dean of the ~ec5suet u o lcso 4awv School, a provis,ion p)rohibiting teafraie n u o h awv studlents from forensic comlpe-l)asonteegiv.Tsnw ition.. The Debating Council, the simltn ftefclysek o >fTicial voice of the student body initef -egard to forensics, immediately de- Asfrteoenccabitesf tounced the action of the faculty by tedbtn emti er n >roposing a compiroise-namely, wojde h lmntostl hat no studlent, whether legal or m hth a ugdbte e Lcadlemiic, should be on a debating btsi ihshos nte cam for a period of over threejugetltethtewodntiv ines. 30hpaet eti otsat Tfhcreupon the faculty reconsid- ytta otsatrpeetdu redl its previous action, and ap-ontedbigta. >ointed an unbiased committee to I(0ntitn hst eproa nvestigate the matter thoroughlycrtisatnym beore md( make its rep)ort. Tfhis commit- hr ftedbtn emo on cc wvent about its task; it made an cl u ipya ytmta tonest investigation; it called in mkspsil hs vl.imsr >roponents of bo0th sidles, andl after ta hs h aeorUiest reasonable time madle its conclu- a er ilare~ihm.Ti ions known. This unprejudiced re-l)syerorNthnlebig >nort of the committee followed the ta aeisana rp otn uggestions made by the debatingthUnvriysm $80wil :ouncil, thereby recommended thathaig:or4dbtsanaseig aw students be given the oppor- tesle ekfo col u unity to engage in forensic activ- Suhr )btn em wn ties. The faculty, upon hearing the Suh otn s$8,oto eport last fall, tabled the commit-scolfrnewk,adhvg ce's work, and there the situationsoefwrdtasthnheot ested.emta.NeIsamoetr heefoe b it acionlasfal,mindlyo tha stdetucmting isors teasm httefclyi i hle andrmati simedi paes) of )hease(theseh1thenpresentrsetwepe Let sion s lok fo a mmentat te dpa ts. hav alway eativ fte oiei(4 Jn(er acutyrulng,andcopar itwhihacs there wrong w4suents0ot, andth thespeiu er hchwshleeye bouationer lat alu inde theold yste~ Le us e ts. recogniar,gunder the ei (set up, rhbtino a tuet xs prohibyeting it atdns there wa evdisproenml omer we studn muor 4eas oer thttdnhoy.Ls ern er aformaive and7ruy, rth theoldsysem,theenwretppram thise yer.n iC ver.27 CAMPUS by DEWARD BRITTAIN SPRING CLEANING ... It's the woman who pays, or it was last we,ek when Dupe League took PC's Lib Graham to a movie . . . Officers of the SCIOA are still trying to figure out how Winthrop's Doctor Keith built a $10 expense account out of a Rock Hill-Newberry trip. (PS: They only paid him five bucks.) Clem's son J. J. J. Lever blew into town last weekend on his way to save the..world for democracy, or better still, to save democracy for the world . . . Overheard last Sunday pm: "Ferener isn't driving the car. Joyce Hetzell is." Anyway, they were both in the front seat... Congratulations to Dean Frierson's Bill McGowan who committed iatrimony during Easter vacation . . . Student body president-elect Willis Beall refused to have his picture taken recently because he'd just washed .his hair and it wouldn't comb to suit him ... The Biology dept's Mr. Hayes is the only professor I know who will take advantage of the "Reserved for faculty" sign on the LeConte tennis court. He recently chased two students off the court so he could play during the Sunday church hour. Does he know that 1,800 students have only four tennis courts, two of which are re served for the varsity tennis team and one for the faculty? * * * * * ME AND THE NATIONAL DEFENSE ... It must have been about midnight, but larkness wasn't the cause of his stagger. The soldier was drunk, very drunk. He stopped me just above Maxcy monument after bouncing from one tree to another all the way from Sumter street. He was slobberishly sincere when he asked for aid: "Paidon me, sir, but could you help me? I'm lost in this impregnable forest . . * * * * * OUT OF THE NIGHT... This is an old one: It happened even before Joab Dowling came to Carolina. I picked it up in Davis. A couple of depression Carolina students were moving north on a Pullman during the spring holidays. "How many are here?" asked the conductor twitching the curtains of the students' berth. "One," was the assuring reply: "Want to see our ticket!" SPOT SHOTS AT PEOPLE AND THINGS . . . Only one of the five Clemsonites taking the final CAA flight exam passed the test . . . If Matthew Poliakoff doesn't quit lambasting the President's convoy plan, lie's sure to end up on the minus side of Dean Frierson's ledger. The Dean and J. J. J. Lever believe "now is the tine." Doc Flood is supervising the transportation of Gamecocks to Win throp's May Day exercises.See him for arrangements . . . There are 24 bells in the new "call to class" system. Prof. Quiz, who appears in Drayton hall Monday, once obtained passage to Europe by acting as chambermaid to 28 horses. As di versions he plays championship chess and badminton, and was one time coach of an intercollegiate wrestling team . . . * * * * * HERE'S THE AVERAGE WOMAN ... Someone is always figuring out satistics on something or other, so now a man comes along with his findings on what makes an average woman. Here are the details: Marries at the age of 24. Quarrels at least twice a month with her husband. H-as a baby wveighing 7 onerhalf poundi(s. Spends four years washing dishes. Is fiye feet four inches tall. Spends 8,781 hours (five years) gossiping. Weighs 128 pounds-until she becomes careless about her figure. Spends $3i2 in beauty p)arlors and $387 on dlrugstore cosmetics. Attends 3,027 movie matinees, many of theni dloublle features. Threatens at least eight times to go home to mnother--but never dIoes Spends three years and eight months talking on the telephone. Never learns to play golf game that satisfies her husbandl. Listens to 18 radlio serials each week. Buys 309 hats and 582 dresses. D)evotes the best seven years of her life to attempting to make her huts band over--without success. Ruins three fenders on the car and tears off one garage (door. Occasionally wishes she'd married someone else. Lives five years longer than her husband. Darns 4,827 pairs of socks. And makes a darn good wvife in spite of it all. MUSC LIN' IN We got a big laugh this week when prexy elect willis beall refuse( to allowv a photographer to take his picture b)ecaumse lie had just washed his hair and it might mar his beCauty,c tch . . pc ubrina( bilmoneil attending the tryouts for the miss america contests the other night' . . . two of the future shysters from the little red building in the campus attending a movie with two young, butt yon,l- e h looked like fugatives fromi junior high school (the lads ilitalis were patterson and hydrick). . . . bill carpenters name on the infirmnary bo for dizzy sp)ells and some one carefully inscribedl above, whats her name this time . . . the fireworks in sociology class the other (lay betwee communist scoop leage (who has been dating a red headl quite a bit) andl a certain younig lady, who to1(1 him off, godl bless her soul,wr something to watch . . . marty harley-sam king coosome progree (lay by (lay . . . margaret haskell with a case of p)oison ivey oprgessaes ...we will positively not mention a rock lill sohomore's name anymore uantil lhe has p)ai<l up for past publicity, hesides he miade the Johnsonian for three weeks in succession . . . the bimbo howe has really oei o the social ~vhirl in a big way and( has becomie very active in the snart young stationi set of camden and( never misses a polo0 gamie or social functioni. . . despite the little competitioni givetn him by the erstwhile miaestro charley gibbs, gawge coleman sends elinor flynn a very x pensive Qrchid . . . now that cathrine has cast meyer rosent aside ie seems broken hearted . . . blonde hairedl frances watts sems to ii 1v ing to the head of the woodhurst p)aradle . . . alec sawyer noin >enmo first place ahead of leroy dennis in the gayle handicap . sin inau,to (dictator, sansibury casting his eyes towardl greenville and a ittle lashe' by the name of keyes . . . nancy padgett tellijig John nash that shis headinig the list iiow, (lest his--. c aneo fags.