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Frank K. SlO n................................................Editox
Q 0. Ariasl, Jr..... .... ...................Business Managet
Robert E. Quinn....................................Managing Editoi
EDITORIAL STAFF
Donald 0. Merrick......................................Sports Editor
Albert S. Eggerton......................................News Editor
Dori Nash ...............................................Coed Editor
Christine Can on.......................................society Editor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Leonard Turnbull Pitkin Bell Gordon Hill
Donald Law Nancy Padgett Arthur Roberts
STAFF WRITERS
Jimmy Hill Margaret Jones Kate Smoot
Sl Hungerpillar Buster Coleman Othnell Weinges
81= JKn Connie Morton Red Ballantine
Howard Lindsay Morris Mazursky Bill Timmons
Virginia Trapp
In General
Our
policy under the present editorship will be
one by which we will say what we mean . . .
say it honestly .. . say it with partiality only
toward the students ... and mean it.
The Gamecock won't stoop to petty person
alities, nor will it criticize only because that is
the easiest way to fill up editorial columns.
But it will put the verbal finger on those in
justices .which students demand correction of.
Policy
as far as the University as a whole is con
cerned could be probably be diverted from ap
pealing to outside interests to solving problems
of student interest, with benefit to all con
cerned.
The active interest and participation of the
campus in the reallocation plan has been an ac.
curate indication that the University's bending
over backward to please the disinterested out.
sider has led to neglect of campus problems,
It is vitally necessary to sell the University tc
the prospective student, but it also takes ener.
gy to see that he has not bought a lemon aftex
he gets here.
Is
it imperative, for instance . . . just to men
tion one of those trivial things that could be
corrected... that co-eds and their dates observe
a 15 m. p. h. minimum speed limit in crossing
the campus at night?
Granted that aetual dating on tr campus
after nightfall is undesirable, public opinion
could hardly be adversely affected if the "judg
es'' lowered speed minimums to a sort of
leisurely-loiter. Let's make the war cry "keep
em moving'' instead of ''keep 'em running''.
Early
birds will have to get up earlier than ever,
when daylight saving time starts Feb. 9, to
outwork or outwit the University's Dean of Ad
ministration John A. Chase, Jr.
In spite of his overworking triple job as ad
ministrator, registrar and complaint-catcher, lie
has found time to engineer this year's major
campus plot to satisfy student wants. With
out Dean Chase's guidance, the exhaustive
work of the student-faculty committee on re
allocation of student activity funds would have
probably bogged down in tihe swamp of pro
posals which the Board of Trustees will face
at its June session. He saw that for once stu
dents got what they asked for, even if they
weren't sure why they asked for it.
Setting
Out last year to devise a class attendance sys
tem that would insure maximum attendance
and at-the same time give leeway for necessary
absences, the faculty found tihe going rather
rough. Second semester of this session finds
the good ship "Regulation'' in the same lhar
bor it departed from last February.
Our staunch vessel, with the absence com
mittee as its crew, sallied gaily out onto the
Ocean of Cuts, determined to hold absences to
a total equalling twice the number of credits
the course carried. She enjoyed a miserable
voyage from the very first, having to sink more
over-cutters than she thought and stopping
here and there to nail a loose faculty plank in
to place. When the Board of Trustees tor
pedoed the vessel with a new excuse provision
in Dscember, the "Regulation'' headed for the
nearest harbor . . .the one it had left. The
latest faculty harbor defense has been an iron
bound (they hope) breakwater to keep over
entters out by barring all but most vital ex
onue.
For The
students, who will be affected strongest by
the new cut limitations, news of the latest ac
tion was a bitter pill. But they felt no worse
than many faculty members, who were even
more morose because the original voyage of the
"Regulation" had fizzeled.
This faculty gro\up, consisting chiefly of
those who come to class determined to teach
you something, had hoped to bring a real re
vival in attendance by allowing a liberal cut
limit and being adamant about enforcing it. . .
instead of a narrow limit and lax enforcement.
After a year, we are back to the narrow limit,
but with provision for strict enforcement. How
ever, the mournful faculty group says that
there are too many loopholes and that happy
go-lucky attendance days are here again.
They're probably right.
Rising
up to meet the demands of war time speed,
the University acted last month to allow high
school students with ability to pass certain en
trance examinations to enter college without a
high school diploma.
To say that the public was pleasantly sur
prised by this action of staid USC is an un
derstatement. In spite 'of the late date of the
action and no time to give it publicity, many
students over the State took advantage of the
plan and the February entering class is much
larger than normal, in spite of the marked de
crease in total enrollment because of the war.
This latest faculty action gives good indica
tion that the day will come when many out
dated entrance regulations and degree require
ments will be lifted from our shoulders.
Sun
A glance at the sequence of the first words fh
in all the preceding paragraphs will show what
the Gamecock's and Carolina's, and all of
America's policy, for this and every other
semester, will be until the war is won. P
Alumni office figures prove that Carolina
has more men in the service of our nation than
any other South Carolina college, in spite of the
claims made by Clemson with its cadets. That
Carolina will continue to serve in increasing
capacity is an accepted conclusion. Our hope J.
is that the forward steps taken by the Uni
versity under war pressure will not become
lost ground when the emergency is passed ...
that our preparation for the peace will build
more strongly and surely than our prepara
tion for war was built.
W
The Big Push Jo
Seldon in Gmcenck history have so many
students made specific demand for an angry Hi
editorial as they have this week and last, fol
lowving the registration debacle at the Battle
of Davis College.
For the fifty-five minute wait by several
hundred students outside the door of the regis- -
tration supply room, officials in charge came
out with smaller excuse than Pearl Harbor
commanders had. In spite 'of years of ex
perience with the registration routine and the
smaller number of students registering this se
mester, bumbling management opened the lat
doors an hour late only to present students in~-".
sufficient forms to meet their needs.
Typical of student spirit were the loud, if E
slightly off-key, renditions of the Alma Mater
and patriotic songs to pass the increasingly un- e
comfortable minutes. One student cracked, pa
"I'm not pushing. That's just rigor mortis cIh
setting in.'' The situation became less humor- s
ous when two co-eds fainted and antique Davis St
stair railings came near collapsing undler the sp
weight of the growing crowd- pa
When students were finally admitted to the "I
supplies, only to be told that there was not
enough to go around, their impatience turned an
to justified anger. The ensuing scramble for th
the inadequate materials was anything but lis
playful. Blame for the episode wvas speedily g
laid at the door of short-sighted registration of- w~
ficials and emphatic demands that student mn
opinion be expressed poured into the Game
cock office as the week passed-.a
Why can't registration forms be placed at fo
disposal of students far enough in advance of di
the rush days to prevent (as in the case of t
class schedules and catalogues) the necessity ar
of dealing with a mob at supply station. 'If the
administration fears waste of materials by thisa
method proper restriction as to the amount at
received could be easily kept. T<
If miob violence facilitates registration, why f
m
then can't the materials in adequate amounts
and the men to handle them in adequate num- D
bers be secured beforehand. 9
If we are to have a big push at registration SJJ
time, why can't it be a mental "putsch'' for a
the peopenn ning the show? br
Registration Weak
SQuestion-of -Week
Do you think prices at the University Book Store are
ir?
,m Beacham, sophomore-They aren't any higher than I have.
found them at any other bookstore, fair or otherwise.
Lrbara Wagman, junior-No! I want a refund.
ite Jumper, senior-The prices at the bookstore are not only
unfair, but they are outrageous. Give me free or no books
at all.
ort Hill, senior-Darned if I know. I haven't bought any
books.
B. Heatherly, sophomore-No, I think they are unfair. May
be it's not the fault of the fellow who runs the bookstore,
but somewhere down the line somebody's making a lot of
money.
mmy Merchant, senior-No, I know of other schools which
have free books and I don't see why U. S. C. can't.
illodene Rion, senior-Exchange prices are rather exhorbi
tant, but prices on new books are reasonable.
hnny Dieter, sophomore-Frankly, it's a racket. Where do
the profits go?
Lrold McCord, sophomore--Prices are too cheap for exchange
books, and too high for new books.
n Ellison-I think the book store is the biggest rook on thme
campus.
MUSCLIN' IN
imple sidelights of nosey news . . .A suggestion that E. Minton Hol
d, who spends his time making and studying law learn to rcad signs
er doorways . . . Things are pretty dark, we'll admit, but there is one
n1 of hope: girls have quit wearing angora sweaters . . .petite Priss
ivette didn't quite make her K. A. pin and accepted one from an S. A.
as a consolation prize . . . and Lochinvar Sumwalt brags about hav
three girl friends this semester . . . Henry HeIriot's bedfellows were
vious of his desertion to wvarmer places on the weakending house
rty'-. . . Archie Clifton Ayers, of Caruso Ayers fame, has -staked a
tim to the Rowlette territory . . . but so has many others without
ccess . . . They. pinned pins: George Saussy on Jennie Parker; Tom
evenson on Barbara Wagnman . . . and there'll be a lot more this'
ring . . . Marie Montague's Arkansas traveller travelled through this
st week to do some spring planting ..,. and Hollis hollered, "She done
Swrong" . . . Question of the week: Is Van Earl Fillingham glued to
irma Road (she has more curves than the) Goldschmidt . . . Flash!
'e hear that once upon a time a certain business manager of a certain
nual refused a smooch from thrice smooched cat bird . . . you guess
e rest . . . Put Buck Mew's name down on the B. 0. (big operator)
t with the advent of tressy Amy Ham . . . Wonder if there is really
ing to be another dramatic society on the campus as per rumored...
'h1o'd believe it: The scale only chalked up 115 when Carolyn Gayden
ounted ... we remember the days when one Holmes Eleazer held down
y position on Julianne Connelly's divan but never more since the S. A.
stepped in . . . Stan Stasica's pix posed with his dog prompted one
mirer to ask, natcherly, "which is which" . . . Chalk up one this week
r Lalla Sullivan who once upon a time gave up that sad expression to
mplay some natural charms ..ad News to Women Department:
mnnie Morton is steddying with Carolene Prince . . . We heard the
her day of a frog who complained about having a man in his throat
d a pigeon who was accused of being peop)le toed . .. Silly ain't it .. .
d smelly . . . Scenes seen: Harvey Blouin without his shadow; Appie
eed actually studying; Walt Taylor headed Rogersward; more people
basketball games than ever since the Tompkins brothers . . . Chubby
>m Stokes, who bitually cops pictures of sisters from brothers is of
ing cash for one of a little girl named Mary living at 325 S. Wacca
a...We predict wedding bells in the near future for dainty and
ainty Peg Newton, ditto with Helen Cantey . . .We also wonder if
am Fusci and Lucille Reasonover ever get tired of feuding .. . With a
ea that somebody do something to make dirt we continue filling this
ace with these musings: Many a girl will forget the past for a pres
t . . . Not all girls looking for matches are smokers . . .And the great
rakening generally comes when you try to wlip in at dawn . . . Gads,
ing on the gas masks.
Why Hill No!
By JIMMY HILL
'HIS IS NEW STUFF
Exams are history; re-instatement blanks have been accepted;
thb ruins of registration are being cleared away; and The
Gamecock has a new column. Of course, I have to make a pub
lic statement of my policies, saying what I will write about, and
what I wor't tough.-But I ain't! ! How do I know that I
won't change my mind?
RIOT RAMPANT AT REGISTRATION
I suppose you were in that mob over at Davis College, last Thursday
from 9 o'clock on. The whole student body must have been. Every
body came there for registration except the persons in charge of getting
the necessary blanks in placel Hundreds of students can stand in a
mob for a little while quite quietly, but after an hour and fifteen
minutes, something was bound to break. It did. Everybody's patiencell
Shoving and pushing and milling around became the order of the hour.
?omebody stood on my feet most of the time but that was allright.
I couldn'tl I
PATRIOTISM AND STUFF
It was then that Bill Bray came to the rescue by leading the
sardined mob in the singing of "God Bless America", "The Alma
Mater", and several other choice selections, but this terminated
with Bob Quinn and several other self-appointed cheer leaders
leading the congregation in cheers of, "THE DOOR! I, THE
DOORI! , OPEN THE DAMN DOOR! I I" The crowd yelled
loud enough to make a football cheer sound like a whisper.
THE DOOR.OPENS
The above mentioned door finally opend, and relief seemed in sight,
but inside that room was worse. Instead of the usual arrangement,
whereby you just filed by and picked up the necessary blanks, all the
material was piled on tables in the center of the room. Of course, the
multitude surged around those tables like Russians at Rostov, and
fought for possession of the vital supplies. I'll never forget how Bill
Tennant looked standing on top of the mess trying to hand out blanks,
like a ten-cent store clerk in the middle of a ladies unmentionables sale.
I wonder how he remained alive after he had to announce that the
blanks had temporarily run out?
I. Q. KIDS CROWD CAMPUS
News Item-High school students matriculate at USC.
Prof. Jones quizzes new freshman math class.
Prof. Jones-Now Mr. Whatsisname, can you tell me the
answer to this problem?
New Matriculate (removing pacifier from mouth)-Goo! Gool
ZRX squared and multiplied by the nth root of pi equals the
cosign of 178 multiplied by twice x, according to the Einstein
theory of the fifth dimension. Where's my all day sucker? Glop!
THINGS I CAN'T UNDERSTAND
The new cut system, and why.
Why some of the class-calling bells don't ring.
What's immoral about having dates on the campus. Indecency could
hardly thrive under practically 2,000 prying eyes.
Why the student activities fee couldn't have been increased about "two
bits" and given every organization a little support in the re-allocation.
Why we can't get registration blanks before the morning of registra
tion and avoid that trampling crowd.
Why the Literary Societies don't get more literary.
Why the University Players don't get bigger audiences. Occasionally
a little hammy, but usually pretty good entertainment.
NO SUGAR??
I heard the other day that there was a sugar shortage, and
thought I had something to make a crack about in this rag, but
all reports from Sims and Wade Hampton show no falling off in
registration, so I'll just mark that report down to propaganda.
OLD, BUT APPROPO
Speaking of the sugar shortage, it may be timely to revive this one.
It seems that some time ago, a former columnist of this space reported
having walked into a restaurant that was at that time considered
"tight." Now it would be called extremely patriotic for displaying the
following directions:
"Don't use much sugar, and stir like Hell
We don't mind the noise! I I"
QUICK? WATSON? THE NEEDLE!
Oh, well, (how'd that "w" get in there?) I'd better stop pound
ing on this machine and get back to work. What! You didn't
know I had a job? Sure, I've joined the nation's fastest growing
industry. But business isn't so good. People are locking their
tires on! I
Comament OROER Cap
Flowery LanguageWefudteehnybtte
He tightly held his Violet bs n ssilt necp h
While driving fast-poor silly, malnwhnrptsghoe
Where once he held his Violet,
Now he holds a lily. ,Mae inRupr
-Furman Hornet. An thnteewshedso
He must have been driving amaiclapnswh wiped
bicycle, or his tires were as slick t rts a-ep
as ourr maybe. " hn 'lhv aaca
Defense Haircut Adte h a lpe h
A tomahawk is what if you go to bredraMce in
sleep suddenly and wake up without
hair, there is an Indian with. Lieegr'Funte
-Northwestern News. Fte:"h rk htcari
That's the trouble with fightingthlingom asngt?
japs. They're all bald or just fuzzy. Dagtr"tjutclpsdllo
Alibis For Flunkerswahrt-T hOace
1. "Y'see, mom, the prof's got the Ol ey ee alnoto
wrong text and doesn't know itaLgaeClgecirfrtesm
yet . . ."resn
2. "The instructor hates me be
cause I comb my hair-and heYehWatFr
hasn't got any."Cek Pes,sr fi scn
'8. "I didn't know he was in the vnetIdlk etwe f.
classroom one day and I took his Bs:"h o ol1e?Wa
name-in vain, that's why."fo?
4. "1 don't study, and I cut class- Clr:"e, ygi'songn I
es and I wonder why I'm only hrhnyoAadIdlk og
flunking in one course . . ."wihe." -aSleClgan
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