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C he Gamecock Poundad January 30, 1ees 00-RT .ELLIOTT GONZALES, Frst Editor iatrtthe Ve0490e at oumb1a% IL 1941 ubr1943 Associated Cole6iade Pvess Distributor of C"Aeiae Di%esl ISPa*EgT* POR NATIONA4L ADVERT1S1O 9Y National Adverwsing Service, Inc. CO Puishers Repro"se*e 4*o MADisoN Ava. N9W YORK. N. Y. Cacao . soeTon . Los AmeLs4 - SaM FaaNcescO INeed weekly by the student body of the University of South Carolina during the college year. Frank L Sl0an......................................Editor 0. 0. ArIall, Jr.......................Busnes Manager Robert E. Quinn....................................Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF Donald G. Merrick......................................sports Editor Albert S. Eggerton......................................Nws Editor Do......... ........................................COped Editor obristie Oannon........00*..................... Society Editor ASSoCIATE EDITORS Lonard Turnbull Pitkin Bell Gordon Hill Donald Law Nancy Padgett Arthur Roberts STAFF WRITERS Jinmmy Hill Margaret Jones Kate Smoot Sloan Hungerpillar Buster Coleman Othneil Weinges Sarah Flinn 0onnie Morton Red Ballantine Howard iUndsay Morris Mazursky Bill Timmons virginia Trapp David Brookington ..........................Circulation Manager Ray Parrott .......................................Exchange Editor BUSINESS STAFF Sis Brooks Ren Sallenger Action, Not Attitude We've sat around and heard all of this bunk we're willing to listen to. The next person that asks us "what is wrong with the student atti tude?" or "how can we make the student un derstand the importance of this crisis?" is go ing to be subjected to some very uncomplimen tary remarks concerning his immediate progen itors. There has been, and will be, no question in the mind of the st.udent as to his part in this war or the vital importance of the war. We havi yet to hear of any Carolina man refusing to do his part and most are eager to get this business of fighting done. We said get the fighting done . . . not "adopt the correct attitude." If all these government agencies, survey or ganizations and fellow newsmen who write us every day about the bolstering of morale and "awakaning the people" would stop long enough to listen to the talk of the student on the campus and the man on the street he'd find out the same thing we have. We don't want attitudes. We want action. The trouble isn't with the people . . . they're mad as the devil and are getting madder. The trouble is with the birds that are worry ing about whether the people are worrying enough ... instead of seeing that something happens to the Japs besides good luck. Let's quit running around like animated tab * ulatin gmachines "feeling pulses," "polling opinionas," "measuring attitudes," and "laying groundwork." Let the fighting men get down to fighting, let the civilian get down to doing his production and civil defense job. Let's get the ball rolling instead of "investigating to ascertain whether or not the civilian morale is in a suitable condition" to allow the ball to roll. Morale is a matter of every man doing his job and knowing he is accomplishing some thing. It is not a matter of having the "right attitude" about losing his shirt. ...and let's begin by conserving the mil lions of tons of paper wasted every day by cross-purposed government agencies and civil ian groups who are "viewing with alarm" in stead of alarming the Axis. Exams-No. 3 Purposefully strong last week were the Gamecock's statements concerning the attitude of the faculty toward action in general. That they were justifiably strong statements the Gamecock still maintains after a week of re proach and censure. We got the desired results . . . more faculty members are taking the trouble to argue with us over the importance of exams. And what is more important . .. arguing with themselves. Our stand that the faculty was adopting a lackidasical position was not fancy, but a di rect quote from one faculty member and a parody on two more who said that faculty ac tion was usually nullified by politics or some thing and, therefore, useless. We hope for some faculty replies to our stand on examinations. Not the "don't quote me" reply, but something the professor is will ing to back up. We stick our necks out every week in de fense of the student view. Come on, profs, de fend your arguments on public ground. Maybe we'll get something done before you have time -* to stop and deplore the futility of it all. Exams-No. 4 For the first'time since the regiMne of icono clast Coit Hendley faculty members (nearly a telephone booth full) are reading the Game cock editorial page . . . some to flatter, some to splatter us for our arguments against hav ing final exams. Most of their contentions have been ade quately answered in past editorials on the exam question, but we have finally found one really valid argument for them. An argument other than the convenience of exams to lazy professors, that is. This stand is that many courses will suffer if there is no final comprehensive review of the work covered during the semester. The same pair of profs who put forth the argument furnished us the answer to it, un wittingly. The answer: If it is a review that is needed, let's have a review . . . not a mad marathon against lost time. These two prAfessors said that they did not emphasize the grade made on the exam but merely used it to ascertain the student's general knowledge of the course. If the grade is not to be of great value, why then can't a well-constructed hour quiz on gen eral review ... not on insignificant and quIckly forgotten detail . . . be given toward the end of the course? The time of administration would depend upon how ably and completely the professor had taught his course. Shall We Dance? Not yet broken into print, but a subject of violent controversy on the campus is the mat ter of having formal dances this spring. Nothing is definite yet and everyone con cerned ... which is everyone . . . is awaiting the test case which will come with the formals slated for next week and the week after. Thu very sensible suggesLion has been made by some of the administration brass hats that the money usually spent on formals be turned to the purchase of defense bonds. Less merri ment and more concentration on war, in other words. But the groups who have been looking for ward for two years to their turn at having a dance don't like the horse chosen for them to ride. Thleir argument is just as sensible as that put forth by the brass hats. They point at the un impaired social activity elsewhere in the nia tion, at the deferment from war duty of those who furnish entertainment, and at the em phasis the government is placing on the im portance of morale-building recreation. The average student hints that it isn't bonds or bullets that the moguls are thinking about, but the excellence of the opportunity to crimp the social life of the campus, which has been so greatly exaggerated by Carolina's oppo nents. Whether the thing blows over, like many March winds, or turns out to be a battle royal remains to be seen. But it is a good topic ol conversation ..,. and there is plenty of convers ing about it. Found Wanting Carolina students have pulled anothei boner. Library officials are about to decid< that we don't know from nothin'... Thinking that we had grown up enough t< be given a few privileges, University of ficiab planned to operate the new library under system that would give the student every ad vantage and ease in using the books and maga. zmnes. What happens? They put the periodical out in easy reach on the shelves, doing away with the old signing out system, and the stu dents proceed gaily to "swipe" and mutilati them. You may say to yourself "we really didn'1 mean any harm." But those words don't mear cash and they don't mean responsibility. ...And we haven't got the cash to buy thi periodicals which are almost impossible to re place because of the war. And we better havi the responsibility or we'll lose our library priv ilaee and be trated as weact . .like kids. -AND SO TO.BEDROCK -We Get A Big Appropriation *Question-of-Week What is your opinion of the idea advanced not to have any final exams but weekly quizzes in their place? Glyn Stanton, Junior-I'm all for having more tests every week and no final exams. Mary Henry, Senior-I- thetests are assigned and if they nren't too much like exams I'm for them. Alice Glominski, Junior - I'm in favor of more weekly quizzes and no finals, because students cram for exams and then forget everything the day after and the courses don't ac complish anything that way. If we had weekly quizzes we'd really study and learn much more. The Voice of Experience speaking. Dick Cathcart, Freshman-Finai exams give an idea of what we've learned for the year, but also that wvhich we 'ye studied for one week. Murrel Smith, Junior-Exams scare us to death and we can't do our best work wvhen we're under a nervous strain. I'm in favor of dloing awvay with final exams. Bill Crane, Sophomore-There's not as much to remember for weekly qjuizzes as there is for finals. Finals aren't just, anywvay, because so many students do a semester's work in one night, just before the exams. Letters To The Editor Dear Mr. Editor: dmigo ahosopsn u I am writing you this letter in re-mawefrisabsin.Tec ply to a letter sent you in the re-dengofpeaigstlsb cent past by a person whom I can- cueo esnlrsnmn n not help but believe to be the mostbisdenmntywapdpc unscrupulous inhumanitarian that mn fhmnt sa ncuu ever despised-even the "hair on a satckonblhunedav person's head." os For time in memorial these mys- Tecodtnofhmn"wa terious mortals called human beings fOSsocneedb"M.Hi have worshipped their common her-Hae"iantngbtmpcial itage "La Physique." They admired I a a ohi,wa ol and studlied with pride this instru-heacsisnmesogtigi? ment designed for earthly expres-Ifamnhdohirflegh sion of their ipner beings. wa ol epl oso i It was early learned that this in-ane? fthrwre otic strument was not entirely auto-blneof"exlewrsdiict matic, that it must among othertopraevihhefnrtpshw things be fed three times a day, andcolondelpawrmhfi that its toenails be trimmed three tletb cacigfrrmni times a month. Some of these be- cmiain,wa ol efn ings, however, believed in a four oesidfrputnth"wd times a month trim and were just adri"i htacnlmrto as well off. As a result of this earlyofslcuslie. revolt against convention various Iheeinobtrcuinngf styles of condition developed forthsclfoabowntehad everything from toenails to earlobes wehri efo ote lc and lips,.ak rrligpn Objections soon began to develop Cocuigtsy,Iwldik and rightly so. Long earlobes t eid"r edSae"ta tickled the neck, and the stretched tems agru lgti hc lips developed by certain savagesonculbeithtfhango put a toothache too far out of man's sulcsinadhvn niiae - reach to be properly attended,. hs o otnt niiul h Even today various dissenters tohae certain modes of bodily condition ing exists; both practical minded "h a ne criticsand skaticwmrons.ehicon besnThe con-ed. Why Uil No! By JIMMIE HILL LIBEL AND OLD LACE For years, we at Carolina have been striving to build up the name of the state's university. During this time, we have encouraged our students to act In such a manner as to be an asset to this school's reputation, and have conscienclously sought to discourage talk of a detrimental nature about Carolina over the state. BUT, recently one of the high ranking officer of Winthrop took it upon herself to make the statement that, "No nice girl goes to Carolina." I, of course, do not know the extent of her knowledge about conditions here. I do know, however, that it must be very limited indeed. I have been here for a couple of years. She has not been here at all. I say that she is wrong. If she cares to challenge my stand, she may write to me any knowledge she may have about our school, and I personally will tear it to smithereens in this column. We have, in my estimation,, the finest girls in the world here at Carolina, and it fills me with a righteous anger t hear of some one with a limited, if any, knowledge seek to say o erwise. PLUG FOR THIS WEEK Goes to one of the hardest working and least publicized groups on the campus, Chri4topherson's Drama For Defense boys and girls. They work likc heck to present some entertaining plays to the -boys out at Fort Jackson, and according to reports from the soldiers, the players are more appreciated by their army audiences than by Carolina's meager turn-outs. For Victory, Keep 'Em Smilin'. FROSH FROLIC Ah, the Barn Dance! At last it happened, and it was plenty good. After listening to Paul Mims groan over committees that didn't function, and -other regular troubles of dance promoting, I rather expected a flop. But it was plenty good. The costumes, if they were such, kept enough amusement going without the set-up shotgun wedding of a couple of upperclassmen as was originally planned. Said Mims, "I haven't had time to dance but two numbers." Said Charlie Beber, "These dopes don't even know how to Square Dance." Said Appie Speed, "Hello, Goodbye, I enjoyed it; Hello, So Long," and so on into the night. But said LeRoy, the freshman, "Boy, oh boy, did I have a good timel Garsh, it were the fust time I cud ware my own gyarments end feel perfectly et home. Hit were a shame thet the rest uv them fellers end gals cudden't square dance, but, heck, I hed fun, ennyway. Sumbuddy seen me in my new Sundie-go-ter meetin' glad rags, end tole me thet I looked jist like a raglar farm hand. Huh, guess he diden know I wuz." WHAT, NO BLOODHOUNDS? "But gitten tuh anudder subjict fer a mimit," LeRoy continued, "I shore were shook in my shooz to'other day. I were walkin' along jist thinkin' erbout how much diet feller Sargint York reminded me uv me whin all uv a suddin, I luked up end to my amaz'mint I seen sumboddie whut luked jist like my ole man. Now everrybudy up in my neck uv the woods knows thet Pa won't be out uv the chain gang 'till cum nex May, end thet wuz whut maid this here feller see su much like him. "He were waring a strip-ed sute thet luked jist like whut they give Pa whin they tuk him tuh the gang. I done my best tuh git him tuh hide er else he were shore tuh git caut by the law, but he said hit were all rite. He said hiz' name were Waddy Hill, end thet he were gittin into some Delta Sigma Pi, whut don't seem tuh be like none uv the pies whut Ma cin bake up ter home, but I guess hit were all right 'cauz he said hit were." CONSOLATION The sad plight of students fortunate enough to have cars. here at the campus since the tire curtailment has really touched my heart strings. I can however, offer the following consolina advice. In the words of the immortal Haroldlickes, sage of current day affairs, "Wrap a Rope Around Your Rims and Roll!" MUSCLIN' IN With ED PATTERSON (Ed. Note: Ed Patterson, who usually occupies this space takes a back seat this issue in favor of two competent subs, Milwee Goldschmidt and Rut Osborne). Today we take our pen In hand Why in the world we can't understand. We guess it's because we want you to know The scandal that goes on from door to door. But here's one thing you mustn't forget We'd not hurt your feelings, no, not on a bet So now to get ready and up to the bat To pinch-hit for dear ole Muscle-bound "Pat." We hear that those trips to Clemson are an absolute necessity, also the ruination of man... Speaking of "Cow College" (if we must) we are informed by a very reliable source that C. Humbert, May Queen of 1945, left her milkman at eight Sunday morning, dined at one with a future minister from Clin ton, then in walked her tin soldier from Charleston, who stayed until Taps. Where does the Gamecock man of the hour come in? Note to Jimmy Gibbes: "Dopey" has to be taken in larger doses from now on. Try It sometime .. . Frampton Toole breaks date record with Frances Griffin-the second this year ... Trade-in-on-one sport-model, "LoVe"-ly, black convertible with chrom ium-plated initials J. B. M.-Wanted: One red roadster, license num ber, Jo. R.-Allendale. See Oteeeeenncen Weinnnnnnneeee. The campus benches and Sorority and Lobby sofas are not the only assets at Carolina. We think "Dink" Gaines and her desparation (I mean deputation) groups are doing a wonderful job in winning friends and future students for USC... And while we're passing out bouquets throw one to Paul Mims, freshman prexy, for that wonderful barn dance. It was so good that even Big Red Alken and Mouse Halsell got together and hepped It up . .. by the way, they're good too . .. We must say those barn yard costumes made It look just like a Clemson affair. One more and we'll quit this stuff. This one's to "yelling" Dick Young, "The Last of the Cheerleaders." Thanks a lot for all of the basketball # yells . . . the team really deserved them. Scene-"Squat," Sol, Steadman, "Square." When Knights and Ladies were on stage They used to dance like this. But in our modern day and time.A Wedanceupcloselikethis. We are, we aren't, we think we are, we don'tthnweil,e are not, we are too. Yes you guessed It. It's the K ' none ment about their formal . ..