Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A %4 E STAMPS OUT OTINAL CHECKUP, CORPSES MAY REGISTER To doubt students of the more alert typ have noted several intimations in the dail; press that there may be trouble in the futur n securing rubber. Others of even greater insight might hav noted the utter impossibility of such. Several at least took cognizance of the devastatioi , the shortage has caused in the registratioi procedure. The rubber stamp era is dead. Formerly when students registered, th USC infirmary stamped "Examined: USC In firmary" in bold letters for all to see. To a] appearances, this precaution was taken to pre vent the registrar's office from going to th additional expense and trouble of filling ou forms for corpses. Such is no longer the case. Perhaps to th benefit -or detriment of the student body-wh can tell? Certain pundits allege that mentall; dead students have b'en matriculating fo quite some time. This is only one point of view-and all w feel necessary on -the subject. However, to do justice to all concerned, w must give a hearty "Huzzah" for Dean Chase Coordinator Charles Knowlton and all wh worked to make the much more satisfactor; registration procedurq possible. If war and the draft had anything to d4 with the clearing up of red tape, our goo( friend Stimson can take the credit. Personal ly,. we believe it belongs to the above men tioned. FOOTBALL IS IN THE AIR THEREFORE WE POINT OUR NOSE IN THAT DIRECTION When Carolina meets Tennessee tomorrov at the municipal stadium, the old cycle wi] begin again and big time football will be o: its way for another year. In the meantime, President McKissick ha spoken in the chapel and has demanded sacri fices of students unheard of heretofore. I so many words, he told students that thos who were not here to prepare thiemaselves t aid in the war effort would not remain long It was the best and most moving speech w have heard him make in our three years herE And it called to mind a problem that ha been hanging around the campus ever since th first football player was subsidized by thi University. First of all is necessary a point blank ad mission of a long-known fact-that we do sut sidize our athletes. In case that isn't plai enough, we pay them to play the games the; do. Our position is that it is wrong to subsidiz college athletes anytime, anywhere. But i is~ more wrong today, when the war has turnei colleges and universities into a training ground for potential officer and private soldier ma terial. In order to justify its existence anytime but in war time more particularly, an institu tion of higher learning should admit only thos students whose purpose in the main is to edu cate themselves for service to their society an4 country-in war and peace. *Briefly, it is not justifiable to bring a ma: to an institution of higher learning simply be cause he possesses an ability to pass, punt o kick a football. That just isn't placing th proper values first. A man should come to college for one reaso: only-and that reason is that he possesses th amount of intelligence necessary to absorb th training offered and thereby become a mor useful member of his society. If he possesses such an ability, and he wishe to play football for his own amusement and o: the paame basis that all other extra-curricula activities are carried out-THEN and onl; then should he,play football. This, then, Is the paramount argumen ~ gainst a sytel that pays a man for th brodnessofhs bakand ntofhs mnd are other apeots of the problem mor i v.and more olaoly connected with thi 's and' the altts' purse strings,-bu AM 0 rCaioicde PmnS Dittributor of ~OB1 Colle6iale Di6est LOVE MAY FIND A WAY BUT IT CAN'T FIND IT IN THE STUDENT UNION A frustrated individual approached us the r other day and shouted, "The age of romanti ) cism is dead". We found this a rather shocking statement a and replied somewhat sharply, but he kept mumbling the phrase over and over. Finding this boring, we at last calmed his nerves and 1 demanded an explanation. Incoherently, we got it. It seems that the young swain, on returning to his traditional haunt and trysting place, the Student Union lounge, found the W. P. A. firmly entrenched in that citadel. Being a peace loving citizen, he claims he made no attempt to disrupt the war effort or whatever it is that goes on there, but came to us for a cry for relief. We recommended Stanbak, but he refused r to accept such lightly given advice. r Since that time, we have found a more logi cal and far reaching solution to the romantic 3 problems of the campus and we hasten to pass it on to him and all concerned. A wide expanse of grassland, dotted by y monuments and flagpoles, now stretches it r self between the facing dormitories and has been called by some "the campus." Late last year, and reaffirmed this year, word came from Dean Childs and others in volved that campus dating would soon be per mitted. That is up until eleven o'clock. We feel that our friend may rest assured that no offices will be placed there, at least not for the time being. So, if he can't occupy his time more profitably with things such as worrying about the draft, we beg his leave to point out the advantages in this new system. If he has no money, no gas, but a date, the campus is the place for him. If he has money, gas, but no date-we have no assurance that Dean Childs is going to handle that angle. - Many thanks to those who finally saw the 1 light. Here's hoping nobody turns them out. a BUTTON, BUTTON, BUTTON .WE'VE ALL GOT A BUTTON , WHAT DOES THAT MAKE US? a Pledging ceremonies Monday night brdught B the curtain down on another year's howling farce when quite a nice group of freshmen - were trapped and similarly enfolded in the . folds of Carolina fraternities. 1 After a madhouse of parties, hotboxing and r what have you for two full weeks most of the good brothers bid fair to deserve a good rest. s Except that we're not asking sympathy for t them. Those poor, weary souls have perpetu I ated the rat race '' sy indulge in through their I own machinatioD' - On the othei -.d of the line there are prob ably not a few freshmen who wonder by this - time just exactly what it was the boys told - them back in the back room and why it looked a so rosy from that side of the fence. Little wonder then with both parties ex Ihausted from chasing their shadows that fra ternities here are content to rest - on their haunches, as we choose to politely call it, and shirk the useful functions they might be able r to perform. An intelligent rush week, deferred possibly even so far as the second semester, would go Sfar to relieve this tax on the minds, bodies and spirits of all concerned. The funny thing is, if anything funny need be added to a situation that is in itself a laugh, that all of the boys will probably tell you that they couldn't take any such action because of r faculty opposition. r. Don't listen to any such reply. The Inter fraternity council by its own constitution has the power to run its rush week to suit itself , within the limits of decency and reason. So if you're curious and wonder why so ' much money and time was spent at a time like i this, just ask any member of the .conil how t mny meetings were held prior to rush week concerning this problem. SGaimecock - i RT ELLIOTT GONAZLE8 Pirt Editor 4a*O MADISON4 haa matta at thPodosfla at 001Vmbla. 4W... BoS e klby t tudet body of the Uniwsity of South Campus Canera JAN Rk.A. ONLY PUIC 4CHOI JANIR N'HE 1 .& TO EARN A GRADUATW DEGREE 13 ADAM DENNARDT. NO ORDINARY JANITOR, MR. DENARDT, 67, WAS A GERMAN TEA0HER. FOR 33 YEARS. HE WROTE HISTHESIS IN FRENCH AND REctIVED HS DEGREE AT '1HE6 UNNERMY OF DEITI 'fl Harvard College Lottery. i _________________TCXZT wIll .etl bonm " hAto ". yb Td I "Awto an '7t ol" C'M&I Own n -ncXF. as bew. -BUCKSHOT - -A -- - a-- Vaea--7dt--99g &f THE REPUBLCAN TIIS L1TERY RAISED BUILDING FUNDS FOR HAR PARTY VARD IN 1811. COLUMBIA WAS FOUNDED ON THE WAS BORN ON TH PROCEEDS OF A LUTERY IN 1784 AND MANY RIPON COL.EGE CM&US OTHER SCHOOLS INCLWDING YALE, DARIMOM(0N101 AND BROWN BENEFITED FROM LOTTERIES/ not too ' PERSONAL * On Guard Squawk Several members of the Univer- Complaints come in that Ar ;ity student body participated in the chie Ayers, sophomore, has week-end maneuvers by the local rigged up an alarm clock which home guard. No official census of rings an electric bell at six. student warriors has been taken, thirty every mornIng and evc but it is definitely known that ning. Frampton Henderson and Gus Wil- It seems that Ayers is not liamson saw action. there in the evening to stop the Williamson, who is disguised in clamor, and leaves his door his warlike role by the fact that he locked. s appelated Gustavus Galloway, III, This is obviously detrimental and is a promising violin virtuoso, to the nerves of other ocupns was the hero of the day. o i eeet tesmn Six soldiers and a captain fell tOitetnlqaiyo i prey to the mighty Williamson. It signvoc,btthsmye is not known whether his musical ovrokdajeluy ability played any part in his snc- AU ho av cntte cess on the field of'battle.Ayrthsea,oevrage Williamson, modestly enough, brwnovrtefcthte murmurs only, "C'est la guerre." mahvettkeg .Coc * * * * easpes aene * Strings Attached**** Lester Piicher and Laura Lee *Haltth Cie Greene, both of whom but re- We iknBl sue h cently graced the University rb fofc fteCaispi campus, gre now at work. Pull ing strings Is an everyday af- it ti ek,ta ugs o fair for the two erstwhile st ityu-haeme n sle dents, who refuse to disclose aohrwrdsaigpolm whether training at the Univer- roerlnghnterxy sity has proved useful In this phase of their vocations. *a* They are employed by the *Hro sn State Board of Health, and are running a puppet show given JiHamnmotinbr in all grammar schools of the adbe,hsnvrhls e State. cm oehn facsoo Miss Greene, when ques- lte tioned, declined to state the Ancunlncun ut amount of her weekly salary. amnditd noFlnhi Evidently matrimony is not yet I h e or n pn one of her objectives,.oetm ixn og. * * * * og,tecasisadarn * Pursuit of Happiness in letronwnnghe Dave Freeman, a freshman from temdu fmsc Glassy Mountain, three miles from Ti neld a ruh Pickens, lists among his accomplish. oa n yth perneo ments an aptitude for playing the Jug Shpad wows jug. frhihelse ooti Constantly in search of new fields sepn lc o h uiin of aesthetic endeavour, Freeman JugShprdino,ow was highly tempted when, landing ee,wtotmsclapei. here late Monday night, he learned to.H a bevdsm that a dance was being held in the dy ae nFn alaan Wade Hampton,.itndwt vietdlgtt Inquiring for directions, from a asmhnccnet stranger on the campus, Freeman Pehpheolfrwsn was directed to a local hotel rather aaeredtos than to the worthy freshman dor- *,a mitory. Nonchalantly, the freshman en-*LokHmwr,Ec tered the lobby and 'demanded at Fehe ar rfi n the desk to be shown where theyJi yHakrjunedtthr were having a dance,.oe nLnhugti ek At last set right by a bevy ofen.ychugiistbeoed hotel officials, Freeman pursued his I lotersigpaeo eti pleasure under the more rigid su- sntro eabltr edn rigred-upnanfalarorkerck weic SUNWAUSSTAW. It KA160"A ADVNFAW" ft -ime Dirob k% I l~~~g~ md*ickg SwOMie, n. Uist AmAy Ran,it ote 60. Naw YoRK, N.y. SAJ7 Wkn%M' Lee ANGIU.se -,sa FRAMMD'..:se ms~S~Soan Kuft~pllw, 20 AAm. o Smoot, OdbnuW1win#*s m lawuv aaq Sam Graham -C -catio Mana -nyt fo BYLI,NE, By ALBERT EGGERTON eI DOOD IT The usual opening of any columnist's first effort is a statement of policy. This is an ingenious device in which the columnist sets. forth his aims and ideals in his first column and then prays that the readeTs will lose the copy of the paper so they can't compare It with what he later writes. So do me a favor and destroy this as soon as you have read it, if you do. Seriously, this column is intended to be a commentary on Carolina. It won't be an expert observer's commeft because I'm just as much a participant in Carolina as any student, but I hope it will be entertain ing. It will sometimes be partisan because I can't help bavinj opinions and expressing them. But everyone is going to get a square deal. There'll be criticism here, and laurels when they are deserved, but it will all be meant to build up rather than to tear down. That's what I intend to do, so stick around and see what happens. Got through that long winded* dibcourse all right, dis you? Fine. Just drop me a line and I'll see what can be done to get you parallel credit for it. But you can be thankful it only happens once a semester. * * * * EXPLANATIONS Bill Tennent, who left school to take a government job, explaining to friends that he "just couldn't stay away from Carolina." (I wonder what he'll do when he graduates). Charlie David, bookstore boss, explaining to a freshman that books do not get here the same day they are ordered. (I wonder what he'll tell them next week). Canteen counterman explaining to a late customer that all they have left is canned carrot juice, which is very healthful. (Customer insisting that he isn't sick and besides, he wants a Dope). Columnist explaining to irate boy friend that the remark made about his girl was only in good clean fun, then later explaining to his friends that he "bumped into a. door, no kiddin.' * EVERY MAN A COMMANDO Lazy muscles are getting the once over lightly these days as the Uni versity peps up its physical training program to meet wartime needs. The slogan is "every man a commando" or at least "every man the j physical groundwork for a fighting man." Carolina is out to make. men of her boys, that is all except seniors. It must be generally sup posed that there is not much you can do for them. Engineers whose most strenuous exercise was to plot a graph, glee club members whose exercise was largely vocal, and journalism stu dents getting round-shouldered over typewriters, all flock to the gym to develop an imposing array of biceps and triceps. The gym class is the modern manifestation of the old idea of the survival of the fittest, but they want all of them to be the fittest. * * * * OPEN LETTER TO THE ADMINISTRATION This is the posing of a transportation problem . . to wit, how to get out to the stadium for home games. In former years there have always been plenty of cars going out that way. With tires and gas rationed the number will be much smaller. Would it be possible to get a special bus to go from here to the stadium on the days when Carolina has 4 home gameT. I believe the bus company here in Columbia would co operate . . .Think it over. * * * * ANYTHING FOR A BYLINiV It was an old saying around the Gamecock office that Eggerton would do anything to get a byline. Any of you who have read this far can well believe that. So when it came time for me to write a column I decided to call it that. It's a pretty good descr_iption of the tripe that's inthe column. But if you think you can stand anymore, call again next A C P's Jay Richter Reports from Washington EUROPE STRIKES BACK... WASHINGTON--..(ACP)-chooI teachers in Nazi-occupied Europe are showing marked inability to learn and teach the "philosophy" of Hitler's New Order. This fact is made evident by articles' which re cently appeared in the daily press of these countries and which hav jut' reached Washington from private sources. aeJs On the basis -of these reports teachers appear to be the most widely persecuted professional group in the occupied countries. At the same time the teachers seem to be the most persistent in their refusal to co operate with occupation authorities and their own Quislings. Officia tdecrees and news stories appearing in local newspapers from Grec tNorway, and from eastern Poland to France reflect the teachers' determined resistence to Nazi educational principles and school Euro e l ad u nivesiti est have benhclo ed in an eff rtand stam p out After continual strife between faculty leaders of the University of BprselstondaNazi occpation uthorities in Belgium, the universityl a . ~ repord to h v ben co . Th russels newspaper Le Soir said that "nients" at the university could have been avoided if its officials had "better understood the intention of the military administration."/ Before the closing of the University of Brussels, stories in Belgian papers disclosed that 20 university departments were without faculy heads as a result of "retirements, deaths or other reasons." A Swdh correspondent in Brussels reported the university had bee cloedibesh cause its board had turned down a Nazi ultimatmttaen auosdtbe to a committee from which its own president had betra ecluded.h iTey, faculty members arrested at the time of the closin' eete aeto a number of Brussels professors to be purged. nweeteaeto Several Norwegian newspapers recently carried accounts of the m~. prisonment of Rector Seip and sev,eral well-known professors of th * theaarrest, wihou trial, of Norwegaund eopardiinge tei coulntr In Yugoslavia, aS faculty members described as"freaor n elements" were recently dismissed from the Universit eof onlryad ef The press of the occupied countries also reported recently theureo many professors in France and Luxembourg. These includ e Prfes of angevin and other world-famous members of the Paris Academy of~