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:olumbia, AC. '42A South Corolina Budget Commission Proposes u USC Appropriation Cut Srn emShdl UNIVERSITY OF S SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Z676 Volume XXX VII, No,'13 COLUMI3I-A, SOUTI CAROLINA, FIA,JAN'ARY7, 1944 Y 7,Y1944 Founded 19%0 . student DiscussI Campus Activiti Will Be Brough -or ihe first time following new members, the Student-Facu baturday, January 1, to launch central group for the semester. Introduced and dropped by thew body was the problem of civilian eating facilities. "The Committee is not considering the problem pending the outcome of plans being considered by the University," an nounced a spokesman of the com Inittec. Continuing the precedent set last year of a Spring-Clean-up holiday, a sub-committee was appointed to discuss further the plans brought forth at the luncheon. Clean-up Day was initiated by the body last year to clean class rooms and dormi tories. After last year's, the student body ate lunch on the main cam pus before the May Day exercises of the evening. Reports from the sub-committee, headed by Acting Registrar, Calcott, indicate that the University's accelerated schedule will not permit a complete holiday. _i'ther members of this committee are Polly Fillingim, Helen Pride Craig, and Jimmy Brockman. Dean Chase was named head of a sub-committee to plan a .schedule of prominent speakers- for the stu dent body. Said Dean Chase, "Since the discontinuance of Monday morat ing chapel programs students have had no convocations and few speak ers have appeared on the campus beyond those brought by YMCA. We plan to supplement the YMCA --- ~1a- -of " b*ugir one - utsmting speaker to the campus each month." Other members of this sub-commit. tee are Joyce Hetsel and Buddy lBlack. Reviving the project c a r r i e d through. last semester of compiling a calendar of campus activities, com mittee chairman Dave Freeman ap pointed Jane Brooks Marshall head of a sub-committee to bring the schedule up to date. Unsuccessful attempts to get campus organiza tions to turn in meeting places and times have been made previously this semester both by the Informa tion Center and The Gamecock. The committee will work with Betty Varian Crews of the information center in reviving the schedule. Members of the group working on this project- are Louise Wallace, Joe Benton and Miss Odell. The final sub-committee appointed at the meeting last week will draw 'tp a list of the customs and prece dents of the body. Ann Royal, sec retary of the group, was appointed to head the sub-committee. Student faculty consists of 20 stu dent members and 12 faculty memi bers. Its meetings are scheduled monthly unless protects demand more frequent meetings. Library Pubi Taken From Th'le first book ever to be pub lished by the South Caroliniana Li brary came off the press during Christmas holidays. It is entitled "The Carblinian Florist," and was edited by Mrs. R. S. Meriwether. Governor John Drayton's book on botany was the basis for the work. Mrs. Meriwether said:. "Governor John Drayton, the 'governor under whose administra tion the University of South Caro lina was founded, wyas prouder of 'is services to South Carolina edut *cation than of any of his other many services to the state. "His hobby was botany, which at that time was a new science, little studied In .colleges here or abroad, because nearly everything printed *'Ot the subject was itn Latin. To popularize the subject for the stu dents of the college, Drayton wvrote an Englisht translation of the first local American botany- The Flora Caroliniana of Thomas Walter of South Carolina. HeI called his trana FacUlty as Ptans es Calendar t Up To Date reorganization and addition of Ity Relationship Cot>,nittee met into the projects ch(%en by the Final Exams Set For Feb; 21-26 Registration Fol*4ew Students On MaWch 7 Dr. Callcott, registrar 'of the Uni versity of South C(rolina, has an nounced the schedule of fall term examinations and spring term. This schedule was approved by the fac ulty at a meeting held Wednesday night. Examination schedule is as fol lows: Monday, Feb. 21-Saturday, Feb. 20: A.M. A.M. P.M. 8-10 1.1-1 3-5 First Day ..........1 N sT Second Day ---1' IT 'Third Day ---4T sT Fourth Day ...2M 3M 9M Fifth Day .......... 4M 1uM I M Sixth Day ........11M 2T 31 Spring term schedule is as fol lows: March 1---Wednesday, V-12 trainees report. March 5-Suniday, Uidiian dormi tories open. March 6-7-Monday, Tuesday, ap titude and placement testing of new students. March 7-'Tuesday, (2 1 , ) "'kgfistration. March 8-Wednesday (9 a. m.-1 p. in.) Registration continued (3 p. m.-5 p. m.) w March 9-Thursday, classes begin (half hour schedule). March 10-Friday, classes begin (regular schedule). March 20-Monday, last (late for Spring term registration. Last date on which student may with draw and secure a refund of reg istration fees. April 7-Friday, 8 a. m.-Easter Holidays begin. April 10-Monday, 8 a. i.-classes resumed. June 19-24-Final term examina tions. June 25-Sunday, conunencement exercises. 11:30 a. ml.-Blaccalaureate Ser mion 3:00 p. pi.--Graduation exer cises According to Dr. Callcott, the University is now running on a six teen-week ternm s c h; e d u I e. This schedule provides for a full week's vacation between each term. The length of the ternms eliminates all possibility for special holidays. ishes "Ca rol Work By G lation "Trhe Carolinian Florist" and illustrated it himselt with 16 small water color pictures of flowers." Concerning the original mnanu script she continued: "Since 1807 the little green leath er-bound manuscript has been care fully kept in the University Library -in the South Caroliniana Library since the division of the books be twveen old and new libraries in 1940. It has at last been published by a happy combination of interests. The South Carolina Library pledged its funds for a period of time; the Palmetto Garden Club of Columbia generously subscribed a portion of 'the publication expenses. The Uni versity has been put to not a penny of expense in bringing out at last the book which was given to it 136 years ago. The editing has been done by mec duridt the past two years as a p)art of my regular work for the library as a member of the staff. All the typing-and it was a Stud Pictured above are members of the Stu Brockman, Helen Pride Craig, Dr. T. Wal Beverly Nininger and Louise Wallace. St Marshall, Dean Chase, David Freeman, An Play, Nine Girls, Given Wednesday Homicidal Experiences Of Sorority Featured We hope that you'll agree with us that Lucy Anne Tate is prob ably the most collsuminate mur deress ever to trod the Drayton Hall boards. "l3oo" is from the hills of N. C. and we think site got her homicidal experience up yonder tak ing pot shots at the revenuers. She is also the owner and operator of Tate's Taxi, that ou mn ipresent creany-yellow Studebaker that al way seems to be going your -way. I3ev Nininger, I'layers club prexy. is one of those rare seniors. She's studying art. Bev, by the wcay, says that she does not have red hair. It's blond, yon lope. M artha Ilodges is a rather re mtarkable young lady. You see, she's the club's business manager. Now there have been countless business managers of the club, but Martha lips been business manager since July. A recent claim to fame of M artha's is her recent initiation into Alpha Psi Onega. You may remtiemilber Sue lallard as the chauffeur in "Candlelight," who neatly stole the show with her ten words. She had a later triumph in "Jason" as an insulted maiden with. two lines. But she really had something to say \Wednesday night, so if she wasn't loquacious it was because she forgot her lines. New~ faces seeking your approba tion are Malema Copeland, Frankie Gilstrap, Sandy Morrisonl. Bobby WVilliams, Rhiondla Taub, and Ann Christopher. In all this. w e are referring, of couirse, to the play. "Ninie Girls" which was presented by the Unliver sity Players at D)rayton IIall 0on Wedhtesday, January 5. inian FIorist"~ ov. Drayton particular and trying kind of typing ill old stylec puncWtuat ion and spell ing, has beeni the work of the stu (lent assistants. The ty pography and color work have had the benetit of the best stylists in the country fTe Lakeside Press in Chaicago. "One of tile unusual features of the boo0k is that it includes an au tol'iography of Drayton's, whichi corrects many muisconceptions about his career. The frontispiece, is a1 copy of te old getntleman's por trait painted by WVilliam \V'illiamns in 1801, dturing Draytoni's admiin istration as govertnor, and showing him in uniiform as commandet in chief of the state militia. This por trait has niever been properly re produced before, though a pencil sketch was made of it for the 1901 Garnet atnd Black. The usual picture i that is published on the founder of the University of South Carolina is a comical miniature in a white wig, made whent lie was fifteen years old.'' atated Mrs. Meriwether. ent- Facult Committee | lent-Faculty Relations Committee. Seated, left to right are: Joyce Hetzel, Jimmy ter Herbert, Bill Tidwell, Miss O'Dell, Dean Bradley, Lt. McCurry, Dr. Callcott, snding, left to right, are: Mr. Bronscom, Robert Weathers, Buddy Black, Brooksie n Royall, Annie Hudson, and Polly Fillingim. Evans, Alumnus, Donates Money For Memorial Chapel allies 1). F.vans, '9", 1o at aliinus, 1 rount i Pht tilalelphia Iaw % yer and business executive, has subscribed $don in V. .S. \Var P,onds for the proposed new war memorial chapel at the I."nicver-ite. In a letter to President McKissick Dec. 1 Mr. l %.vans, who is \ice p recident and general counsel of Merchant and F.:vans Cotpanv of Philadelphia and of the Schuylkill Transportation Company of Makanoy City, Pennsylvania, as well as. director of the Globe Autoiatic Sprinkler Company of Philadelphia, said: " I h a v e re a d w it.h d eep in terest -i lhit h c o ud r-ili d c) ei(. t (a:; I always do everything printed n in The Gamecock, and that speaks practical scheiie of action fc)r rais for my interest forty-three years le'ary fund. \\ ith over aiter gradtuttion) the inspired and two thousand arlina 11:11 and inspiring letter of I. aptain F.dwin n\omien already in serrice. tver ten C. -Glit.pard, -1nrllisked-"in the issue thou-ail listed ahunni anl ina11y of Decenber :iniiire iriemd outiible. it -hcnh.] not "'erhaps a backw%ard glance v"er" be diiicult to rairn a itnd nltiiCtient past years mtay not be amiss. .\yv for the creetion of a spllendid. .ui earliest recollection of Carolina i able and arprtcliriate buibilnc that of the daily Chapel services in the w"oult meet all of the nee<, 144r the Fall of 1894, with )r. Woodrow ptesent and futre of the old insti seated iti the center of the rostru, tution. The goal should he set at flanked by less than a dozen, albeit not ie-s than 5'-t5.000, cnidering very distingnished, memnbers of the the tinrpost" and the tield f,'r its Faculty, while old Dr. Patton held achievemitnt this goal can lhe ac forth with Scripture reading and ""'"r ll)lishci, prayer. The ttld )octur alost in- "Une inl suat;'c-nitI:--tilat is a variably wound tip his invocatioti to n ie site. A- I recail the Sulnter with the passage frot the i'salh. tret t end ti the old Camtpus is "Oh ILord, 'establish thou the work still el'n'osed w%iti the high brick of our hands. yea, the work of our wall extenliig altng thte ofld L"i hands establish thou it'." Surelv" his brary to the \\~est entrance gate. petition has been answ\ered, for frolm thence b the old w%all Fastward to an attendance in those days of 'reen Strtt, teice a low paraie about 1:25 students the matriculation surtniimted by an iron pi-kit ti the has increased more than tenfold. Iast entralic gate. lT'he South side "The old Chapel was on the tirst of Stttter Street facing Northward .toor of Rutledge-adequate for the across thet ol4 Canmpus to lt nw smiall stud(enlt body' of tIle early 9'i, l.ib)rary nouild afTortd an ideal site but attrelv' inadequate for today. ior' the new Cha'tpeI. A\s I retnemt y Certainly Euha gra n eeal h a fthe land. this~ artea is still inst ittution as Carolina dleserves alnd "cculpiedt b~ piriat e dwing, ii W. should have a Chapel worthy of its Th'lese ctulid lie r einoved to pirox ide numIlerouis studdent bodl andt spleni- ant ample area for the' crttion of didl teachers. The idea of th~is the Chiapel -sitt ing somtew hat biack~ y'ountg soldlier is a credit to his good iromn thle street wit h ipen spaces til sense, his loyalty andt his patriotism, biothi sidies aind to tile rear -i as to Iheartily endoItrse it anti hope t hat tniake tihe Chlapel the in nt rai 't rue - the laudable objective and the high- tilt' (o ant tipen parkedi: area nxI hih 13' practicab)le mtethord which lit sulg- wtoutld enlormiou sly enihanrce its gests for its accomiplishmlient may beLaulty and reievet it frim 'c roiwdinlg he adopted forthw~ith. b y uniiillcal strututres. \\ ha: coitld "I ut let thle ChIapel lie in te tra- mor appriophria teisll tnill the granld dtition of the old College'. One~ need scheme' of thi- dlevelopmient and (only3 to take a bird's-evxe view of ui ly(a it wi th tilt inoble orig inll; thle old1 Campus to pierceixve that its schemelit if tile First Fathters? p)lan andi struc tures are in thte clas- "'In t'tnclu tsion,l let mue say' that it sical tradtitioni. '1There is no finer gives tue great pileasture to enter ilyS e'xamlple in the counltry of this thlanl~i subsriptioni for $:i0.00 in Un 'ited the old 1Library with its manfcn States \\'ar hlinds, payable to the Doiric porticto. Sciente llallI is trder 01 the Com'imitteg a- soon1 as anlothIer titne examplle of the Ren- its iorganiizatiton for the ceenon~ of nlaissanIt mlotif. 'hhe slenldid ne the neCw chapel is perfecteid. bulildinigs of the extendtedl catmpus \'t wa rmlest altti tifr C.aro iollow these classical lilnes, and it lina anld with myus kindest plersonial teemis to tme that the new Chapel regards. believe me.t' should be in that tradition. Sillcerelyyor' "'T'le dedication oif suchl all editice -JAMlS D. V\ANS. ;o thle memIlory' of thlousands of Car >Iina students and( facuilty' and B sn s tf dun h aeoered themlselv'es ni defense of ouir country in thisI Almebroftebies greatest of all its perils, and many safo h Gmcc"wl >f whom have already miade the ast supreme sacritice, would bc en- metithofiefthGa ver, be art nspiratioAlt allmwhoswit the businessstfarake stafc after.eThGmeacocsuggwste 'y Cptai' Clppar seei tocon t bne oen at the me >ver, the anclnspirtn torana jas, codwhtoBlyMury Laion ofthe Come itteefor the orAluniza- nesmaar o'lc. tdns-h-reitr ese i ffiiaig hmsle State ~ Reco U S C Buds Appropriations Prob Reduced $80,000.00 The University's appropriatij will be reluted $80,000 less that tion of the State Budget, Comm lature of South (arolina. McMillan Gets Jacobs Trophy Blocking Award Goes To Outstanding USC Senior Bill MeMillan, senior at Caro Iina, is this year's w inner of the Jacobs Blocking A:ard. The pre sentation was made by I'res. J. Rion McKissick iin the chapel last night at 7:15. Dr. Jacobs w\as unable to be present. )r. \\illiam I'. Jacih-. president of I're'.bvterian College. award, trophies each year to the best blocker in the state, and the best in the , outhern Coniere"nce. .\e.\1i lan, winner of the aw ard for the best blocker in the state, w\as pre sented with a cup and a Iedal. lie Will krep the cup, w\ hich w\ill be en gra\ed w ith his name. until next year, when it will be pa'sc"d on to the next Winner. The cup will be placed oni display in M1axcv College. )r. Jacobs present- aw\ard to the iet blocker- onl the theor, that the man with the hall utually gets the credit. w\ iile his a'si tant de<erve a large part of it. M\leillan, qua r t i r a c k has played foothall at Carlima ior the past three \ ears, and w a- recently awarded a trophy for h'i,g selected the most outstanditig pl.. (t on the teatm. T ht ot li~\\ rng I- frcr; is : etter from Dr. lac,_bs to M.\e.\illan: '1a ; tple.-ei to i e you that you iha e hee slectcd by the udges as the h.cst blocker atnd is unselil main in c'llegiate footbai iu South Carolina inl the -ea-on n-t paSt, and we w\ill .cId a bh-ing tropll\ to the nicer -:I. . and aper sonal medal *r your-<i. which I give each year. I he voting tli: a: ws aimit ;un.nimuou.. \\ hile the tic'l of coin petitiocn was sn.,,llrr than usual, ou are to be Cortuttlltel u1pon the tna init\ 01 t piOnt'n t; the ltldge, "It ttut he a tine Ieeling to set -tuch air exan ple ''i tInseltishness in y:ur conduct it the gridiron. Yoi-u will tind in this characteristic ele u e n t . c) g r cit es- w h ich you 1shud developils as youn go thrtough life. \Iv cong'atulation- and best wishe-." Activities Chairmen Of Red Cross Unit At Carolina Named STe I Execuitise itr 1 the. i.\mtica Ril'ed C ros s colIege un tit o thle P nis erisityV,s of South Carohniua meat \\'edns,dy. DecembIer :.9. at i:: p. mn. in the Sinm- .ountge. letty Jan te Fre crett1, chtairmian of lhe b oard, explained lie organiza ion of the campits unit and its puir pose which is to carru out the local atnd nation al programn of the Amter ican Red Cross. Temnporary ott icers. atnd memtiberis ofi theC excutive board of1 the col hege unit are: Chairman lHetty Janey l' v e r e I t: vice-chairmian, Antie Royall ; secretary. Lib G i Is e r t: trearturer, Louise Mac Brayer. The followuing are chairmen oi activities: - P'rodtuction., I .ilat Suilliv-an ; volu n teer nurses' aide. Ertnestitie Bealer, nutrition, Lib Evans; stati assist ants, Mary Dorick; first aid, Anne Floersheimer; homec nursing, Char lotte 'JTuton, and knittitng, Edith G;oldmran. A weekly scheduie of Red Cross r :lasses for which co-eds may regi-r Mdonday--4-6 p. m.-First Aid, Sims third floor study . C ruesday 4.15-6:15 p. m.-Stafl as- r sistants, Sims third stuidy- s 7-9 p. m.-Bandage rolling, Five 0 Points IRed Cross Center C Wednesday 6:gO-8:3o p. mn.-Nutri- 0 tion. Sims td floor .s..d.. mmends et Cut ably Will Be This Year n f'clr the 1'iseal o ar 1944-45 I th i> year i i f" thi r1ee0omm1en da SSi is adopted by 1h legis T Ik is a p+roposed cut of ":, per cnt fromt thle aiount given for 194:-14, which was $;:'4,u00. For 1914J--1 the U'ni,ercity asked for a total appropriation of $1,17, 1Ut, tut tie 13udRt Coiniiissiion recom)tlnlnded only $2-4.000. The cut recommended for the University is the largest in amount for any of the State higher insti tutions of education. As coipated with $K0uuu for Carolina, The Ciit idel was voted a reduction of $54, 100, Cleimnon College (collegiate ac tivities onlt) of $50,u0, Winthrop of $44.on. and the M edical College >if $32.4OU. I lo m' eer, the percentages of cuts is coinpared with last year are: Unli versity, 22 per cent; The Cit;del, :;; Cleion, ;::;; Winthrop, 17; Sta,te Medical College, 1.1. 'Tlie State Budget Comimlission ronsists of three ex officio nicin bers: Gov. Olin D. Johnston; Ed gar A. Brotnn, chairman of the Sen ate Finance Conittee; J. Morrison Tluten, chairman of the Wa. s and M cans Committee of the louse of Representatives. III all, the University appropria tion mitn:t run the gauntlet of ,ix separate group:.: 'l'h State ILudget Coimi.,sion, the Ways and Means Comonittee of the 1louse, the llouse itself, the Senate Finance Commit lec, the Senate itseli, at,d .iie Free o'feirtnc C o n II i t 1 e of bvtI Senator 1ron. i1 i a pub,lished -tatcn:ent gac c the fi1llu'. ng cxpla nation of the policy t the State ludget Comm i iou as t app,ro priat ionl "I he watch wt ord :in tate tiances 1tt hi: tiue mIust hec 'caution.' Our -tadarilrd of living a, a -tate. neas iredt ini appropI:itn- . . .is kes ed up to nore than : ix million lollars above t'ur nornal abilit\ to "li G;ermuan <ihouid collpse in te pring of this \ ae r' ttld race a corr t'ondiig "lape inl our contoy11 in til- cotiti t. aid not anly is it lowsible, but :t i- more han~ lik<ey- that we woul nr ufn a I efncit of five to ieven i mliiililon dol r ini another 1:2 mnonith. "This If would happe bC efore n e onuIld adrut o'ur econic t ailis. Uhere is ht:t one 'ourize wo hld 'l wn on approplriat iont-. and I. e. lhe fett:nu. it thle hiighest pint in irer to atccumnhlfl. ai little reserve o u shiion the hioc k of thle t axpa' - rig errsh wIhichr will inrely con:e vithi the cotelapse (If Germany. anrd his. we al hope and pray. will lhe tih in tIhe niext1 month s.'' 1'rob'ab.ly the fnail action of the eitur tf on a ppropriat iont will rot take p llace unutil April or M ay. Whether or not the approupria ion for thIe U niversity for the cotm.. og y ear will he increcased ultimately .o onel can now foretell. The University requested $807, 00) for permanent imiprovemnett for 9)44-45, lbut an increase oif only $46, 99i.60 for mraintenance and opera ion miore than received this year. The permanent improvements re uested for 1944-45 are: Completion fNaval ROTC armory, $10,000; epairinig and equipping dormito les, $50,000; repairing and equippinig inuing halls, $50,000; repairing anid quipping law school, $2,500; clan. tom and laboratory building for ::ience department, $300,000; school f entgineering building, $300,000; anstruction of new infirmary, $90,-. 130; repairing ad equipping clas mas $15,000. "