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Zeta Tau Alpha's - Dance First Formal Gamso Tom eet Of Semester Ton it" In T ron ((Story on Page 5) UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Z676 volumae XXXV. NO. 1s COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1942 Fudd10 Acti Players Screwball Comedy Pleases Audience On Tuesday Night Carl Atkins Sparkles In Most Recent Play; Admission Is Reduced Comedy was the campus dramatic society's latest vehicle and a laugh packed show began when the cur tains parted on another University Players production Tuesday night at 8:30 and a sparse Drayton Hall crowd saw a presentation of the late Broadway play, "The Whole Town's Talking." The play has been presented be fore to Fort Jackson soldiers, who viewed it under the auspices of the Drama for Defense committee re cently formed and 'now under the direction of Prof. M. G. Chris tophersen, head of drama on the campus. Student activity allocation has just been granted the Players, and a subsequent lowering of admission price to Carolina studen's came for their first production under the fee. Students were admitted for 10 cents. Review By Bob Quinn Laughs were the one thing that the latest Player production did not lack. The play in itself is amusing. It is a play of complications, and the humor of the piece lies in the fact that these complications keep adding up to a grand total that is cashed in a smashing climax. Before we begin, we want to say that we consider this one of the best pieces the Players have done. But we have two gripes to register, so we want to get them off our chest. First off the chest (and we do not feel it is the fault of the cast) is the complaint that the part of Sadie * Bloo was overdone. This was evi dently due to direction and costum ing. We do not need constant remind ers that our libido exists. Or what ever it is that controls our more faulty emotions. Costuming and playing made this part obviously what it was. It was not Miss Ur ban's fault, we feel. Innuendo in remark can be shady enough to carry a show, if that is what is needed, without the costuming and action making a not so easily for gotten impression. The second gripe can be regis tered in one line. We hope that the new money from the fee will be used to buy some decent scenery. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6) 'V' Book Campaign Progressing Here KSK Collects Carolina,. Volumes For Soldiers . The Victory Book Drive at the University and in the state is pro gressing rapidly, drive workers re veal. The search for books is part of a nation-wide program of obtain ing books for men in the service. February has been especially set aside for the campaign but do nations of books will be accepted as long as there is need for them. National campaigning has already resulted in the accumulation of over a million books, with a number of states still to be heard from. W. H. Ward, state director of the campaign, reports that only fiv'e South Carolina counties have turned in results so far: Lancaster, Rich land, Marion, York and Charleston. KSK volunteered to help collect books on the campus. Signs were placed about Carolina. Tuesday night members made a room to room solicitation in Preston and the various tenements to gather as many volumes as possible. Book collection boxes have been placed in the Richland public li brary and at other places around Columbia. Collection box on the campus is tentatively planned for the eanteen. 0 0e ities F Give Carolin Above are players who appeared fin Ella Brome, Bill Bray, Carl Atkins, one and Green, pearched on high ha Students To R Monday In New First Meeting Of Dormitory Forums Held Last Tuesday Discussions Sponsored Each Semester By YMCA To Last For Six Weeks The first meetings of a series of dormitory forums for students on the campus were held Tuesday night in eight tenements of the Univer sity. The forums are sponsored each semester by the YMCA. James E. Bell, Jr., chairman of the forums, said they would con tinue for six weeks. Leaders of the forums wvill be members of the Uni versity faculty and pastors of the city churches. Officers elected in the tenement groups are: Tenement 10, Sam Gra ham, president; second floor Pres ton, Harvey Burnette, president; Tenements 11 and 12, Roger Kirk, president; Tenements 1, 2 and 3, Julian Long, presidlent; third floor Preston, William Ellis, president; Tenement 25, Dutch Elston, presi dent; Tenement 18, Arthur Baroody, president; Tenement 20, Ed Patterson, president. By Year 2011, Coeds Bobby Pin Steel For a By Jimmie Hill By the month of August Ln the year 1011, Carolina co-eds can have saved just en,oi z steel to make one of Uncle Sam's 18-ton medium tanks. That Is, if every one of them cut their hair In the new 'De fense Hair-cut' styles designed to save steel by eliminating the familiar bobby pin. .Questioning a cross section of Carolina's 68,s co-eds, it was found that the average girl uses 619 of these coiffure support ers a year, therefore, there ls a ee Reduced Nhole Town's I a Actors Present Comedy 4 t X "The Whole To wn's Talking." .Reading from left to right, they are: i Fosephine Zula, Edith Gunter, Frog Green. The scene is the climatic a just scored a knockout victory over Bray. ~gister For Selective Service Library_From Seven Till Nine . . ...i.s.c. Sas XClasses AeSchectuledSrAscUsual "The weading ot rehe thin t ni [osehineZulaEdihGuter,Foreyeixt iThda byen istebruliaryc 16 University library, first floor on rno the left, is the room for regis- o h nvriylbay tering for selective service if you are between 20 and 45. Theine time is Monday morning fromKissick 7 a. m. to 9 p. . There willa be no holiday, f .this group. Teaher e~ir be noit holiday oni Books Still Received occasioe Uiersity. Any student who has anynt will hace ape reaeing material, fction or non- time b n clase s to reter, fiction, that can be used in the e r an KSK campaign to provide, clas on reton day. books and magazines for Armytionot necssy frsdnt camps can still turn them in tog egist er. ll registrants Carl Baskin at tenement 25. she sure t the per timeis ondy monin frmann ho adres.JinMss ir Preg-. Department Added istration c. ee will be or This week The Gamecock we by t add(s an Alumni news section. slciesriebadt h n The Alumni Association now diiulrgsanslolbadfr mails The Gamecock to over praetjrslcin 1,000 alumni every week. The ThreitasponedfmteI new section will appear on the fclywl iergsrtt l back page and will carry newvsneddifraonbuthireg4 items in brief concerning Caro- itain lina grads the world over. Bcueo h ev eat o Can Save Enough reitrttaecrtodsaths i Medium Tank tie consumption of 387,396 per an- NgtSuet The metal in each pin weigh.SinU Tll ed .6407 gins., making 749 of scolthleeoentrogm weigh one pound. As the tank .Wensa,Fbur1,exnio weighs 18 tons, it takes the iiinwrer adtdy metal from s0,964,000 bobby Suet a eitra h x pins to make one tank. Divid- tninofc,i h l irr ing this figure by Carolina'sbuliganweknhtfo I yearly consumption, shows thatp.i.t9 m it will take 69 years and mix Cussaeofrdi ertra months to accumulate the sine yig conig x metal. - ctv edrhp cnmc,ci-j Quite a wait, but it looks asmrcala,eutinitrordca if MacArthur and his boys canortn,dsg,piig,cutre hold out until Carolia's tankmahatc, ngi,Frc,S slpsth JpreSanihd scirotwetiet bitdyo ndI ralking" Six Studes In 3y New System kt University Nine From 24 Students Accepted For Entrance For Current Session Under the newly set-up system 'hereby high school students may -gister at the University six per )ns registered for the second se tester, John A. Chase, Jr., dean of iministration revealed today. Plans to continue this system ere discussed at last week's fac Ity meeting. A student in high :hool, to be eligible for entrance, iust have a total of at least 1 -edits and must pass a test given y the University's Personnel Bu ,au. Total application for these special !sts were 24. Of this number 2: ere from South Carolina higl :hool students and one from a stu ent in North Carolina. There wert D applications from men student! nd five applitations from womer tudents. Of the 24 students examined ine were accepted on a combined asis of units earned and test av rage. Of these nine, five were men an( ur were women. Only six regis cred for the current semester. Fou f these were men and two werq iomen. Three students registeret r the college of Arts and Science! nd one each in the Schools o ,ommerce, Engineering and Phar nacy. Instead of the usual entrance re juirement of 15 high school credits hese students were given objectiv xaninatiQns to determine thei mowledge and abilities. The ex minations were similar to those ad ninistcred to freshman durn; reshman week programs. Picture 'ulletins For High Schools Almost Completed First Week In March Is Deadline For Pamphlets Of School Views, Facts University pictorial bulletins, pub ished aniually for high schoc eniors by the University News ser ice, will be, ready for distributioi 'y the first week in March, accord ng to Prof. Frank H. Wardlaw, di ector of the News Service. The bulletin will contain picture nid information portraying thi vork in each of the department nd schools of the University, an< Iso various campus scenes. Mr. Wardlaw said the bulletin wviI 'e issued to seniors in high school broughout the state, and also t< ach high school library. Student rom other states who have ex ressed an intention of attending th Jniv'ersity will also be mailed bul etins, he said. arolino Profs To ke Plane_Spotters Training Begins 'Tuesday Night In City Schools D)ean F. WV. Bradley announce< yday that the newly begun air rai( rardlen training program is making rogress under the instruction o niversity professors who have vol nteered their services. Seven more members of the fac Ity are contributing their time t< ie program. All instructors and istrict wardens met Sunday at th< Iniversity for an organization con ave. Over 70 persons were pres at, Doctor Bradley said. Members of the faculty who hav< )ined in the move since last weel re: Professors W. E. Roe, W. L Villiams, W. C. McCall, W. D. trother, A. R. Lewis, Howard are, H. C Davis Real o New Fund I To Meet Sp A reduction of fifty cents in t allocation of the fee among cam the committee on student activit week. Formerly $9.25, the fee i Pres. J. Rion McKissick rea( mittee to the student-faculty rea of student organizations at a sp port of the cominittee is now et receive money this semester und Announces r7 Pres. J. R. McKissick Babcock Suggests Eliminating Final Exams For Defense Says Plan Would Allow Ten More Days For Work t Or For Joining' Service Dr. Havilah Babcock, head of the English department. has proposed that no final exams be given to any student at the end of this semester. "This suggestion of mine is en tirely in keeping with National De fense," Doctor Babcock said. "By eliminating final examinations the University will be able to cut off ten days to two weeks of this se - mester, and enable the students to go to their summer work, or join the Army or Navy sooner. Also, the . University will be able to start its - summer andl fall sessions earlier." "I do not mean to say that I do s not approve of any testing what so ever" Doctor Babcock went on to Isay, "But I believe that frequent short quizzes are a better indication Iof a student's knowledge than are three-hour examinations." These Campus Orgc - New Allocations By Name of Organization] A thletic A ssociation ................$ Band ...................................... Chapel Speaker Fund* ............ Clariosophic Literary Society... Co-ed A ssociation ................... I Contingent Fundl ............... I Debating Council for Men ........ Debating Council for Women... [ Euhada Literary Society.... Euphrosynean Literary Society.. Gamecock.............................. Garnet and Black..................... Hypatian Literary Society........ I Reserve Fund........................ Selden Society ....................... Sinking Fund ........................ Social Cabinet ....................... Student Union Fund ............ Telephone Exchange ..,............. University Players* ............... Y. M.C. A................... Y. W. C. A. ....................... . Total .....................4 cated s Provided ecial Needs lie student activities fee and re pus organizations was voted by ies of the board of trustees last ow is $8.75. I the action of the board corn [location committee and officers -cial ineeting Monday. The re rective and campus groups wil er the new regulations. Changes in the allocation and ad ministration of the fee were recon mended to the board committee by the student-faculty group which has been working on the problem since last fall. The report of this com mittee was adopted with only minor changes by the board committee. Most important innovation in the new regulations is a provision for a contingency fund to meet extra needs in financing of student ac tivities. Sixty-four cents of the $8.75 paid by each student will go to this fund, which will be admin istered by a student-faculty com mittee. Members of the new student-fac ulty committee on student activities, which has charge of the fund were appointed last week by President McKissick. W. Frank Taylor, act ing director of student activities of the University, is permanent chair man of the committee. The three student members are all seniors and will serve for one semester only, as stipulated in the board committee's action. They are: Miss Patty Breeden, Dan Gibbes, Jr., and Robert Browne, III. Fac ulty members are Miss Lodema Gaines and Prof. George Tomlin. The decrease in the activities fee was made possible chiefly by a recommendation which will remove the upkeep of the University tele phone exchange from the activities fee, and transfer it to the main tenance fee. One dollar will be add ed to the maintenance fee to Eake care of this work. Reserve and sinking funds were abolished and will be replaced by the new contingency fund. All literary societies funds were reduced to a rate of three cents per student, the men contributing to the men's societies, the money from co-eds going to the women's soci eties. The women's debating council was dropped from the fee and the men's council reduced from twenty cents to five cents. This group has not as yet held its first meeting, but Chairman Tay lor announced this week that many organizations wvill probably make representations for funds at the meeting to be held early next wveek. The complete report of the stu dent activities committee of the board of trustees and the recom mendations made by the student faculty reallocation committee are printed on page two of this week's Gamecock. mnizations Obtain Committee Work PresentReomnd Allocation Alcto 'er Per Pe Pr hian Woman Ma Wo n 1.90 $4.90 $49 $.0 .30 .30 .4.4 .10 .....0 .10 .10 .0.0 .20 .....0 ....20 .10 .....0 ....10 ..0 .75 .75 .7.5 .75 .75 .5 .7 .05 .05 .. - .10 .10 .1.0 .25 .25 .05 .05 .1.0 .50 .50 .1.1 .50 .50 .60 .....0 ... '.60-.6 ).5 $.5 $.90 $4.90