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it vgk. ............... Donald Law -Managing Editor Constitution Discussion Continues; Further New Aspects Are Brought Out R. G. Bell sent along a circular the other day advertising a new magazine, which will contain a certain amount of collegiate opinion. Mr. Bell is not an agent for this magazine. He was merely pointing out a section of this circular which proves very interesting. "College - students have learned the price they pay for letting the world take care of it self," says the folder. "They inherited a series of catastrophes. Today they are no long er willing to isolate themselves from the out side world. They know that the legislation enacted while they are pursuing their studies is the legislation which will mold their lives. The American campus is awake. The present college generation is one of the most politi cally active and responsible groups in the na tion." Reading a line or so down on the script, it doesn't take much of a stretch of imagination to come from national to campus political set ups and that leads very nicely into another discussion of the proposed new student body constitution. Under the present document, a student body meeting can be called such if 25 persons were present. One hundred can transact business. Obviously this is a weakness. Amendments have provided in the newer work that 300 stu. dents must be present to rescind an acti6n of the legislature and to transact business. This is good, but if it doesn't gum the works, Wrig ley's doesn't come in green wrappers. Another improvement is the requirement that to be eligible to vote in an election, students must have attended at least half of the semi. monthly meetings of the student body. Whether or not this will improve the ability of the student to vote, isn't quite clear, but it may add a stimulus to attendance that might not otherwise be cotten. So the constitution continues its merry way, with blessings and all that. But unless some. one or some group cares to rcally get behind it and push it through by main force, we still stick to our frankly-doubting-it attitude, al though with all good wishes. In deference to the solemnity of the occa sion, no pun on making amends will be.added here. Something Very Silly Goes On Down In The Geology Deportment If everybody will promise not to let it get out when the Southern Association of Colleges and Universities comes to make its routine in vestigation, we'll pass along something whicia seems to be pretty serious to us. The information comes from esteemed man. aging editor Don Law, who is president of the Y and believed to be a man of slightly more than questionable integrity. The sole mnembers of a class in geology ar< Eargel and Gergel. Law claims this is baby talk, and we choose to concur. What is the educational system coming to' How must the professor feel when he calls the roll? Action is needed. Please, recruit a Jones and stick him in th< middle there before this horrible thing get: noised about. The geology department should stick to its function of being erudite. The Gamecock will take care of the childisi angle. Credit Where Credit Is Due Goes To A Man Deserving Of Praise Every now and then it seems the nice thing to do to compliment somebody on a job wel done. One such person who deserves credit for un selfish service is Ralph Lewis, secretary of th< alumni association. Lewis worked early and late for the alumn association and for the University. Since hi came to take up his present post, and in spit, -of the devastating influence of the war, men bership and interest in the association ha grown materially. So It is fitting to offe~ congratulations t< him now for what he hats and is doing. member 4ssocidaed Colle6ite Press ROBE Distributor of Colte6iate Diest .--0. arolina d Student-Faculty Minds Turn Up With A Pretty Good Plan On Canvassing Student-faculty relations committee minds are now turning over a pretty good plan to al leviate a situation that has grown more per plexing and annoying every year. A community chest for all financial drives has been. proposed to prevent the doubling, tripling and otherwise multiplying of effort of workers for every organization from our own Y to the Ubangi Relief society. If present plans take form, a faculty student committee will be set up to administrate the community chest. All collection drives will be made at once, for the chest, rather than for the separate organizations. No other drives may then be made on the campus without an o.k. from that committee. Organizations wishing to get a finger in the pie will have to have permission from the com nittee. With an efficient administration, and most student-faculty committees have turned out creditable jobs in the recent past, the idea will not only relieve students of the necessity of saying "No" to a lot of good things simply because of the number of them, but it will also help those organizations to get down to brass tacks sooner.. This is not only a wise move; it may also be known as patriotic. It will aid in the metal conservation effort. Now the door hinges will get a lot less wear and tear from fund drivers who stalk in at all hours of the night and day. Here's A Suggestion To Add Comfort To Duty For Book Store Investigators Appointment by the student council of a committee to investigate alleged unfairness in book store prices last week was probably no surprise to anyone, there having been the usual t elapse of times between committees. This is not an editorial to discuss the book- t store. Facts, at present, are lacking. Also F interest. From reasonably reliable sources, however, we have it that a certain amount of < discontent can be observed by more acute pub- a lie opinion testers. In fact, it might be said that some. persons on the campus feel that the whole set-up is ~ slightly screwy. All of which is neither here nor there by wvhat we have to say. t Our suggestions are slightly on the silly side. Why don 't they set up a sinking fund so Charlie D)avid (who, by the way, only works there, and isn't responsible for policy) can serve ten to all the committees who are con stantly visiting him? Host David can then make these periodic peerings not only profit able but entertaining. Why (don 't they at the beginning of school set upl a regular schedule for investigations that hike they do for holidays or anything else1 ththsbecome traditional? All this for Charlie, who takes the blame. r More power to him, the student council and its committee, the University, and such items as this which fill up space. This Item May Seem Trashy, But Then Again Irritation Could Be Easily Removed It's the trivial matters in life that disgust one. Picture a typical student strolling across the c'ampus, about to fire an empty cigarette pack age out onto the wastelands of the lawn. Suddenly, he remembers KSK, Coker, and everybody else who has ever pled the case for a clean campus. So he looks around for a place to dispose of this waste. H le doesn't find one, and is puzzled by the fact. How is the campus going to be kept clean if there is nowhere else to throw the trash. Finally, he asks one of the KSK boys. He learns that due 'to a shortage of metal, there are no containers for trash on the cam pus. Our hero has other things on his mind, so he - throws the trash on the grass, not even bother s ing to remark that building a wooden bor seems a fairly simple procedure. S He can see that the whole matter is too trivial to raise much Bandi about. 'he Gamecock Founded January 30, 1906 ""R"T"DO P0 National Ad, RT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Edtor N onal, P 420 MADISON 4 as mo.ndla atter at the postoflos at Columbia, cacaso SOeTon skly by the studeat body of the University of South Ring the college year. Campus Camera OLDEST ? 1VE NM HME OF ALPHA CAPA P MFRATERNffY AT sr'.JoHNrS cou.es,ANNAmn,JS 3 no Y*ARs OL! NM- A. CAN FUN/ NAISMITH ON A Cu=r anM AT 14E UNIVE5nY OF WHO IMVEN ED'THE GMA%MO SiLAND, 20,000 EGGS AND A GAME OF BASKETBALL. 10N OF iR, S i AND M HEADS WERE RAED IT MNLY 'TWCE! HURLED. GIRLS ALSO JOINED1HE BtRE .E! J~~I 0 (CA T S1 ACPs Jay Richter Reports from Washington 4YA And Colleges... Was hing-ton- (ACP) -Contrary to some opinion, college students an still get considerable aid from the National Youth Administra ion. The NYA appropriation for this school year was cut fLun $11,o0,o0 o $7,000,000-but the amount available to each student remains the ame as it was before Congress trimmed the agency's sails. However, no aid is forthcoming for students who aren't enrolled in ourses which aid successful prosecution of the war. Courses which o qualify are designated by college administrative officials. A minimum of $10 per month and maximum of $25 may be earned Iy an NYA student, although the Washington office of NYA is putting .p a battle in Congress for a maximum of $35-40 a month. The idea s that now, if ever, competent students should be given every oppor unity to develop skills desperately needed in war time. Negro students in some colleges cannot obtain NYA help. But, appily, these students can apply directly to Washington for aid from (YA's special Negro fund, no credit to the colleges which make such rocedure necessary. Letters To The Editor I have just read President Mc- h ol xhneahl-arlo Cissick's letter offering an explana-hibetfororneotontul, ion for the name of Cooterborough, Rvr ow known as Wisacky, S. C.Thstepolofhe ulyn I, as well as many other citizens rgos hnkona oe ae if the Wisacky community, am deeplyditc,wolspnmuhfter ~rieved that the story has been pub-tiehtinfotulstobngo ished. In the first place, we be- temrhn' tr,awy ueo ieve the story to be erroneous and, Ads h ilg eaeCoebr econd we believe it will harm the(ufrnaeyth nme asbn ame of our fair village wherever dbsdt otroog) he tor ishead.knd aso Mh otr. 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Sam Graham ........Circulation Manager ang/n, /. a BYLINE By ALBERT EGGERTON Dash Man Art Roberts, Garnet and Black editor, may give Charley Paddock a close race for the title "world's fastest human". He has tentatively set the date of Garnet and Black release for sometime in April. To a campus accustomed to waiting far into the summer for any appear ance of the annual, this possibility is little short of a miracle. Serious ly, however, this will involve a tremendous amount of work and Roberts will deserve a large measure of praise if he succeeds. Seniors Quibble A recent meeting of the senior class got practically nowhere. President John McGowan capably presided over an argumentative group who could argue but couldn't decide anything. Some mem bers protested the lack of a quorum, then others couldn't deter mine just what constituted a quorum of a senior class. Some moved to table, and others made the motion to adjourn. All in all, parliamentary procedure took a rather severe beating. The meeting was supposed to decide about class rings. The final word on that was that the senior couldn't get his class ring until his degree application was approved by the registrar. On the other purpose of the meeting-to establish some sort of alumni organization of the class-no prgress was made. You're In The Army, Navy Or Marine Corps Now Carolina men finally had a whole reserve program for all branches of the service fully explained to them at a special session in Chapel last Friday. Representatives qf army, navy, air corps and marine corps told students just what their programs offered in the way of temporary deferment and future opportunities for commissions. Stu dents were told just how they could get into these branches, what the requirements were and just what they would have to sign and get signed. It was a much needed clarification. Bill Tennant, Carolina junior provided the only discordant note. Unimpressed by the glittering array of future commissions, he an. nounced his intention of joining the navy as a yeoman. (And if you * don't know what a yeoman is-well, you're in just the same fix I am). * * 0 * 01 Universal Sufferage-At A Price For a week or more Carolina students have been voting for the queen of the Independents carnival tonight-at a penny a throw. I don't know who thought of that idea but it looks like a gold mine to me. I only wonder how many run offs they will have for the finalists, and how much votes for that will cost. The thing can go on indefinitely. This sehemp presents a valuable les3on for u. Why not run student elections on the same plan? It would take only a few such races to pay for the stadium and build a new student union building. Plans for this carnival, I am credibly informed, include a booth where kisses will be sold by some of the more charming members of the group at the rate of a nickel per kiss. These are really bar gain day prices. Ask any Carolina male. Where Oh Where Carolina pool players are wondering whatever became of the pool tables that used to be in the basement of the Student Union building. They haven't been used in a couple of years and now that the govern ment is using the space, authorities might explain that there is no place to put them. But I assume that we still have them. Why not put them in Flinn Hall to replace some of the ones there that are arpidly falling to pieces. The Student Union tables were ex cellent ones, far superior to those now in use at the Y, and are in excellent condition. Why not use them? Holidays As Usual Well, to my little question abou~t Christmas vacation, I got an answer in no uncertain terms. Christmas vacation will be playing at the same old stand, from December 21 to January 4, as always. In fact they've even cut two days off of it. Maybe I should have kept my mouth shut. However, one bright thought looms, the fact that Thanksgiving a holidays will be along shortly to greet a warm welcome. With mid-semesters over we can stand a few days rest. Fancy Clothes New Town Theatre epic, "Pride and Prejudice", will be the first costume play they have produced since last year. It promises to be very elaborate. Over forty complete costumes in nineteenth century styles will be needed. The play itself, an adaptation of Jane Austen's famous novel, Is the amusing tale of an English lady's efforts to get her three daughters married to eligible young men. To be eligible in her book the young man had to be "handsome, titled and possessed of a private income of $10,000 a year". She didn't want much-Oh no. Here Come The Boys Carolina grads from all over the state are converging on the campus today and tomorrow for their annual homecoming. Ralph Lewis will be busier than the draft board these days. Signs will blossom on fraternity houses and tenements, all proclaiming the imminent downfall of Furman. Alumni bull sessions will recall the good old days when a football struggle was merely the over ture to a riot. They will amble about the campus and note how it has changed, observing with approval that the Maxcy monument is still there. They will cheer themselves hoarse Saturday after noon at the game anid have a general good time. And maybe they'll pay their alumni dues. Mr. Lewis hopes so. But we're glad to see them here. It proves that a college like Carolina is more than just a school, it's a part of the lives of its About All This will be all from your reporter at this time. Time is pressing as I have a heavy date with Draft Board 68 and they might be some what annoyed if I stood them up. They would probably be very ab noyed, and much as I love to write columns I like staying out of jail even better. Unless I am drafted between now and that time, you may expect