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RDMORtAL BrAFF Gesoeg Falle .................... Sports E Jimmy Brockman ................... News E Dotis Nash ......................... Co-ed E Helen Hedden .................... 8ociety E Tom Perrin ................... Exchange E ASSOCATE EDITORS Pitkin Bell, Sloan Hungerpiler, Christine non. Howard Lindsay........Managing Ed WHY NOT USS SC WHY NOT THE U Here is another suggestion for what we as individuial young people, anld as the Ulni versity of South Carolina might do in the war effort way. This was suggested by a stideit who said not to eonneet his name with it. But we don't see v*v lie wouldn't want credit, it's a fine idea. Anyway, here 'tis. North Carolina did it. Illinois did it. Other states did it. No reason why South Carolina A PLEA FOR DEM( WITHIN THE GAN With a liew roster ot officers, a let's-eleanl-lioulse spirit pre vailin'g in the new-year-heso lution attittde, the Gamecock asks again for the privilege of democracy witlhin its ranks. For the uninitiated, the situ ation briefly is this: eons ago, when the Gamecock was born, it was the brainchild of the lit erary societies, and to them it owed its allegience. In its con stitution is the stipulation that all 09taff mu-mbarz Must be mem bers of the societies, and that all new staff officers must be approved by a board, composed of representatives from the lit erary societies before they were official. From time to time, this board of publications, as it is called, raise a sink boutthe staff. more as a proof of its authority than anything else. Well, there is no proof of its authority thllat anybody can find. Somebody says thiat the literary societies have a copyright oil the isaiie Gamecoek. Somebody else snys that the literary societie. or mnally reollollep all 1cointrol olf the Gamecock whio nthie presentl * student-body conistitutioni wasi adopted sevcral years ago. No body, not even Dr. Hlavilh -Babcock, and Deanx S. C. D)e pass, faculity memibers on the board for many years are sure of the legal status of the Game cock as connected with thle lit erary societies. We don't care one way or the other about the legal status as it stands that doesn't matter what does, is that whether they Dear Sara: At this timet I would like to take the opportutnity to ;,:lwer a Itte ment which wa~ ma-de in tne (.j your editorials in last wseek's G:llne cock. In your dijscusioni of work that could be dlone by' thene Iw of ficers you broup;ht up the matter of the proposed new constitution. In conmmenting on it you 'tated, "that one boy, now an officer believes it should be shoved aside unitil after the war." 1 assume this statemeint was madec in reference to statements that have been made repeatedly by me, but I think you have mnisunder stood or misinterpreted my state men ts. What I intended to get across, although it seems that I have failed is not that the new constitution should be shoved aside, but that at the present time the student body is not in terested enough in the new con stitution or in any other re forms to enable the Student Council or any other group to get a large enough part of the Student Body together for dis cussion, criticism, opinions or for passage of necessary meas ures. The present Constitution provides that amendments or changes mumt itor litor Meml d1tor lossociated Col 11tor Distribui Can- Cole6 ( itor UTH CAROLINA? NIVERSITY STARTI can't do it. What? Buy a bat tleship. The USS South Carolina. Soun(l.; pretty good. Tlier'*s 1o hindranee in our path. And thers's no reasou why the eam paign -houldn't star-t right hee o tihe "'nliversit y of South0 Catolinai camipus. So farl as patriotic citizens go, we've got them. So far as infliuentiiat viti Zensl o," 0wee got theim. So far as 1.1nthu1sia-stie 1 bocikwr. of a good cause go, we 'N e got thlem. So fa1. as a represent"a )CRACY tECOCK RANKS have the legal right or not, we appeal to the literary societies, and to the student -body as a whole to give the Gamecock what every other campus or ganization has without having to ask for it--democracy with in its ranks. The Plresent staill ials nlo per sonal bone to pick with i the present board of publications. That we ean wVIrite this edi torial is proof that tihey a p ptoved of us. tihat we got what we waanted. for the pr,esent. It isn;l't the present board. or any past )oalrd that we are I against -it is the system. Would it be logical to let the I members of ODK, Blue Key, or AKG elect students to the honor t board? Or to say that the cap. t tain of the football team would i have to be approved by the i track team? Of course not. Then I why say that the members of the literary societies should be i the judges of who deserves the I editorships of the Gamecock. i That the literary societies nursed the Gamecock while it was in its adolescence, is fine, 1 and for that fact, the Gamecock is grateful. But the Gamecocki is no longer the child of any group on the campus. It serves . the entire student-body. It is1 paid for by the entire student. body. It no longer needs a nurse.1 If somfebody wmaits to~ arguie that tlhe edlitors shld( he eleet edo by the student-body, that isi another question. IIowever, the answver is still the same. Who 1o is thle bet t er . idge of thle b)est The Reader Thinks hav' thre.e readings, the~ firs.t two be fore ;.1 least 25 peoppl and the third and1 final readhing miust he H'ined Ly a 2-: aort o mn linhlil A(fi0 membhers of the Stui rient Body. In the last few mnonthis the Student Council has been at tempting to add some :imreindments to the Constitution, and at two call imei ines of the St udent Body there were only about s5 to 'J0 p)erosnis present. T[hen the qutes tion conme up as how to get a miinimim of 200 persons present for t he third and final readling, anid fi nally Ii was dlecided( to call a meet ing at which the candidates for the various offices on the camnpus wouldI speak. This meeting was held, and ' not over 250 persons were present, the amendments were read (amid mutch groaning and inattentiveness by those present) and were passed I and thereby became amecndmients to the Constitution. Now the reason that I am re plying to your editorial is that I wish to clear up an apparent misunderstanding and to ask for your help as wel las the held of the entire Student Body. The present Constitution needs con siderable clarification, the pro posed Constitution needs con siderable clarification as well and additions on qutea number:. of er e6iate Pres RO or of 3 Di6esl - NG IT? tive group from the wholc state goes, we've got it. If we start this idea, here i Columbia, back in our home towns, all over the state, it ought to go. We're great or petitions. Well, there's one started among the student-body now, to Governor Olin D. John ston, asking him to appoint an official committee to get started on this. No reasons hy we can't.. And plenty vhyN we sh1ould. Let's help our Ioys ill this one niol-e way. leaders: the smiall group who work witi eacli other weelk aifter week ; or the large group who knows no miore about the lbilities of the various caidi lates than what they are told? -ttudent-body elections vouild ilean turning the editorship )ver to politics. Of course there is always langer of -politics within the ;taff. But we feel that the lozen or so students who spend dl Wednesday night, and many >ther hardworking hours at the "amecock would be much more .oncerned to see that their )osses deserve their positions han any other group. 'o the literary societies; to he new student-body officers; o the student-body, this appeal s made: let us, too, have de 11ocracy. Let the stUT have the mwer to elect its ownl editors. lhere shioulk he some outside nfluence to keep check on hings we admit. Tlhen let it he he fiaculty committee. whieb vas givenl the full authority inyihow by the board of trus ee's several years ago. Th~lis -onuniiittee is !omphhosed of fac iltyV miembe)rs wh Io knRow~ jourina ism1. know work, andl knowv tudoents. Let them hav'e au hlOrityV to overrule the staff if I. ever becomes necessary. But let's have no more of ~his board system. Let's have lemocracy. If the literary so ~ieties will sign a paper turn ng over their disputed rights, wrell and good. If not, then let's tave some persuasion by the itudent-body officers. points. There are a number of good features in the proposed Constitution and there are some that frankly are rotten. I would like to ask you'or any >ther member or members of the studlent IBody for help as to some neans whereby we can get the stu lents~ interested in these changes. 'ossibly if a Student Body meeting vas calledl at which time refresh ients would heC served or free dlishes iven, there might be enough people resent to get some interest roused, b)ut even then the greater nlajority wvouldh walk out before the >uIsiness could he attended to. So, anyone has any suggestions please >ring them out so that something mny he (lone to get something start dI towardl getting a much better ;tudenCtt Government. The term of the present of ficers of the Student Body is about at an end, but I am sure that the new officers would ap preciate some suggestions and help from you and the other members of the Student Body for making the necessary changes. Yours for a Greater Carolina, DAN ELLIS, Preient of the Stent n~oly The Gamecock Founded Janua7 so, 190 SarENTED PC BERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Natorl= Ad Collese PN 420 MA^IoNt d as fowd-olam mtt at the podSoffls at Columbia, CIcao - DoSToN Nov. 2D. 1WO weekly by the tudeut body of the University of outh a during the oollege year. Campus Camera CA. HE.IME A.-AMA MRS. SUE LEE C14APERON /0 " HAS ATTDED 1000 DANCES BUr HAS NEVER J - DANCED AT. ONE OF 1HEM! AS SOCIAL DIRECT OR AND ASS. DEAN OF WOMEN AT 'HlE U.OF ALABAMA SHE WA CK&AERONED AL MAJOR DANCES FOR LdUS1' WALK E 'LMEA20 YEARS. IN 114EIR, WIRSTEPS X. FoRDHAM HAS SENT 35 BALL PLAYERS TO 114E BIG LEAGUES! CANNON FODDER BY TINA CANNON Stuff... Spring is indeed here. This comes from no less an authority than Billy Nicholson who has gotten out his lavender pin-striped suit and his dainty green shirts to wear 'mid the balmy breezes and the pleasing warmth of the dancing sunbeams. Besidrs this, Appie Speed and Muff Rowlette are frolicking around the campus in their pinafores and their toele,; zandals displaying their stuntans, an(d nothing could be a more definit'e sign that spring is here than that . . . Speaking of suntans, Jack Keenan has one to envy, Hie's been getting it since the first day the sun shone in January, though . . . Other signs of spring on the campus: the coedls of Hampton dormitory taking surreptitious sunbaths on the roof . . . Dr. Riley meeting her classes on the lawn instead of in a stuffy dlarkenedl hail of learning . . . peroxided heads appearing more and more frequently . . . barefoot boys and gals trudging along and singing mner rily in the rain . . .coeds attendling church to show off that new spring suit and that bit of straw and ribbons called a hat . . . Dan Ellis riding his bicycle . . . Vernon Boy Sloan shedding his winter locks for a soup howvl variety of a crew haircut . . . Bobby Clay and Betty Coit hand-. hld(ing betwveen classes. Yessir, it sho is spring! I feel that it is high time to register a complaint which has been sim mering in my mind for weeks. It concerns Hitler and Hershey bars. Now what's the connection? Simply this--when ya have one, ya don't have the other. On account of Hitler those delightful hunks of choco-. late in the brown wrappers are no longer sold in large quantities. They have become as rare as T-bone steaks. Whenever the canteen here gets a precious box of them they are gone before you can hat an eye andl say "Smash the Axis, Pay Your Traxes". Students bowvl each other over in the madl rush to get a Hershey bar. Whose fault is it? Nobody's but Hitler! D)oivn with Hitler so we can hav'e our Hershey bars again. Nonsense .. . From the chemistry department, and student Johnny Williams comes the final analysis of woman. His findings are as follows: Symbol: WOE Atomic Weight: Varies exceedingly. Occurrence: (1) Can he found wherever man exists. (2) Seldom occurs in free natural state. Physical Properties: (1) All colors and sizes. (2) Seldom appears in dlisguised condition. (3) Boils at nothing and may freeze at any point. (4) Melts when properly heated. (5) Very bitter if not used properly. Chemical Properties: (i) Extremely active. (2) Great affinity for gold, silver, platinum, and precious stones of any sort. (3) Able to ab)sorb) expensive food at any time. (4) Sometimes yields to pressure. (6;) Turns green when placed beside a b)etter specimen. (7) Highly dangerous and explosive. All of which is very interesting... D)id you hear about the little moron who: cut off his fingers so he could1( write shorthand .aved all his old1 burned-out electric light bulbs so he could use them in the blackout . . .Pulled all his teeth out, so he could chew his gum . . . Took the streetcar home and his mother madle him take it lack . . . Searched through all the lumber yards look ing for his dIraft board . . . And the little moron's wife who was worried to dlistraction b)ecause her husband was shooting craps and she didn't know how to ennoe them. R B OR NATIONAL ADIPS"BINS OV vertising Service, Inc. bUshme R.eeste 0, Av. Naw YORK. N. Y. TI Los ANemLS - SaN FRAceco 81 C LET'S MAKE ARBC A CAROLINA TRA The plans for arbor day are shaping up every week, and it looks now like this is going to be the sort of the thing we'll want to make a precedent of, something to look forward to every year. It can be fun. It can be one more step in the long series that Carolina has taken in the last several years ... to build up a wonderful esprit de corps be tween~ the faculty and the stu dents. It can be a day to be gin an unending attitude of cleanliness too often lacking among us. It can be a whole lot of things. THE SAME OLD PI VIEWED FROM A I On this page is printed a let teir from Dan Ellis, president of student-body about the future for the proposed student-body constitution. The editorial last week did not refer to Dan, but to a newly-elected student-body officer. However, Dan's letter brings out a basic truth, that all our harangue about the do-nothings student-body officers some times are, can't ignore. A great deal of the blame that is placed on the inactivity of student of ficers should properly be given to the students themselves. This new constitution, which the Gamecock considers so worthwhile in so many ways, might have been in effect now, if it were not for the apathy of the student-body as a group. Student-body meetings in the last three years have been packed only when the students were redhiot about some appar ent injustice or for those too rare occasions when our Colonel speaks. Business meetings are never attended except by those who are particularly backing some proposed action, and by WHAT KIND OF COLLEGE CR] WASH INGTON--(ACP)--When the wars to resume their education, academic credit for their experience That idea is now new. Veterans< back. But the way American collegi time may b)e new and much better. At the end of the first World War, returning from service, It was "blar pended only on time served under ar Of course such "blanket credit" hi achievement or competence. Indeed the amount of credit granted the rett To the veterans, however, this enti were assigned to academic levels 1 flunked out. In other cases, there v creased competence. When peace conmes this time, lead going to be different. Service men and women have at lI tunities while in uniform. Trhere are candidate schools. Almost half of a another. The Armed Forces Institut< universities, offers off-duty educatior courses and informal off-dutty instru< likewise have marked educational valu The problem of educators is to ap~ objectively and to grant credlit that d1 and competence of the veteran. Ma printed and app'roved by important in The plan would work simply. On or other service or woman would ap for exatmination and gutidance. The I tion on the person's. record, then te competence and specialized achieveme 'Results would go to the college of for placing the stutdent where he be, Ichard K. Jackson, Business Manager uddy Black ........Assistant Bus. Mgr. Vernon Sloan STAFF WRITERS y oarionVbulp John Coof,'Hnen de 2i6, Obarles Wicienburg, Jack Nittles, Jo Ompson, Frances Padgett, Ruth Bundrick, rrie May Smith, J. B. Woodson, Lib Evans, Ith Brown, David Freeman, Bernard Moset. un Graham ........Circulation Manager arisle Kearse............A....Ast. Cir. Mgr. )R DAY DITION The only essential needed to make it all these things is that the students meet it with the enthusiasm, and spirit it calls for. If we make it too gala, sleep late, accomplisti little, don't turn out 100 percent, the administration won't be eager to turn over another holiday next year. If we get careless and somebody falls out of a window, thus messing up the shrubbery, there will be oppo sition to an encore appearance. If we work hard, play hard, scrub hard, laugh hard, . . . give all we have there's nothing that could be more fun. Let's make it a precedent. tOBLEM IEWSLANT the faithful few, who would turn out for a rainstorm if they thought that their presence would help Carolina. Peers to us that this situation is getting to be one of those enigmatic merry-go-round prob lems. If nobody comes to stu dent-body meetings, how can anything be accomplished, no matter .how energetic the ne officers might me? But the main A. reason why the students don't come is that it isn't customary for anything very worldshak ing to occur at the meetings. So, to correct the situation, one of two things will have to happen. Either the students as a group will have to get so per turbed that they will force ac tion. Or the officers will get so )erturbed and act so vigorous ly that the students will get in terest and begin to take a part. It's easier to get a small group working than a large one. Which brings us right back a to the same old point, that the future of student interest in politics, and activity, is in the laps of the new officers. b&m R.eposs hsem WaaMaeon CDIT FOR WAR SERVICE? today's collegians come home from they are virtually assured of real and training in service. >f 1918 got credit when they came :s and universities go about it this colleges lavished credit on students iket credit" then. The amount de ms or rank at demobilization. ad nothing to do with educational colleges vied with each other in irning heroes. lusiam was hardly a boon. Many >eyond their reach and promptly 'as no adequate recognition of in ing educators are determined, it's east four broad educational oppor- b hundreds of technician and officer il enlisted personnel go to one or 3, cooperating with 79 colleges and I by correspondIence. Orientation :tion in camp recreation programs praise such educational experience >es justice to educational standards :hinery to do this has been blue demnobilization, a soldier, WAAC a1y to the Armed Forces Institute nstitute would obtain full informa t him to measure his educational n ts. his choice withi recommendations