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' v. The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Issued Bi-Weekly by the student body of the University of South Carolina darng the college year except during examinations and vacation periods. Entered as se-ond:class matter at the postoifice at' Columbia, S. C.. November 20, 1905. Member IAssociated Collegiale Press Distributor of Clleeiale Dieest asaeSNT5o FOR NATIONAL ADVENTIsING by NationalAdvertisingService, Inc. Celege Pr1IshMed Rprweseuative 420 MADIsoN Avt. Naw YORK. N. Y. CmIcaso . SOTsON . Los ANetLEs " san FsaNcIsCO STAFF Editor ..............................................Harry H. Jenkins, Jr. Managing Editor .......................................John H. Reese EDITORIAL STAFF News Editor .........................................Bobby Williams Associate Editora-David L.vnn Freeman. Ilelen Pride Craig. Jimmy lBrockman, Mrgaret .lonea Exchange Editor ......... .. ...................Sarah F. Pull Co-Ed Editor .......... .....- .................. eume food Society Editor ...................................Mlargaret Mre:lveen Co-Sports Editors .................... B. Cureton. J. C. l>enni Staff Photographer .................................Maimminha rris Circulation Manager .-----............................George )eLay News Staff-Ethel Lazur. iamilton Simpson. Ernest Davis, Knobby Walsh, Ethel L. Sideman, Julia Hull, Bol) Pierce, Ietty lendley. Sarah Jean Baldwin. Slarearet Holmes, Marian Kuminski. Jerry Robinson. Eleanor M<:Call. Loui Child, Penny Morgan, i.ibby Cole, Martha Steadman, Jeanne Breton. Margaret de Merell. 4iletty Motley, Mary Lib Nance, Gloria Widner, Louise Shevett, Patsy Patrick. Jimmie Hail. Business Manager ........................................Billy Murray TOWN HALL'S PURPOSE STATED BY ST. JOHN: "TO THINK CLEARLY" It was heartening indeed to see the capacity crowd that filled every available sat at the first of the University-sponsored Town 111111 series. But, we hastily it add, that is only as it Shuilid be. For the purpose of the lectures, as announced by W. H. Ward, who as head of the Extension Division is directing the p)rogran, is to foster and create real thought among Carolina stit dents. Robert St. John, globe-trotting news-gather er delivered the first lecture, set the model for fItrtie ,peikei's, and for the entire serics. When. queried about it certain international question, St. John held his hands over his eyes aid an swered deliberately: "I am trying to think clearly.* I am trying to think clearly. In that siln)le sentence, St. John stated the purpose of 'T'own IIall in its ultimate con1cisenetss. F'or if Carolina .stud(ents ean he tauight to think ecarl~y on international. national andm state qulestionis, then the mloney expendeIltd w'oiild dwindle into niothiingness. If the purpose of eduication is the preserva tion. enrichment, and growth of a war of life that way of life, demllocrac-thien tile ail ity to think clearly is one of the baslic aims. 'The U~niversity, the Extension D)ivision, all those concerned should be coinunended highly for the excellent program they have arranthge~d. Let there not he a vacant seat in Dranyton I all at thle impijortanut detet oni the reorganIi zation of the worldi a fter fthe wari on Janutary 161 YOU GRIPE TO US WE GRIPE TO YOU, IT COMES OUT EVEN Someone sauntered up to us the other day and( complained caustically that their organ i zatioin had not been getting adequate coverage in the Gamecock. 'To alleviate any ideats of discrinmiination lie might have, and in a way of explanation for any future complained, here's th(e reason: On Tuesday and 'Wednesday afternoons, and Wednesday night, the Gamecock is put to bed. Tuesday afternoon there were two staff menm bers working in the office. Another stuck his head in the door, thought several seconds of the work he would incur if he walked in, wheeled around and scurried off. Wednesday nighlt tile editors were there, until the wee houirs of 'Thursday morning. WVe are doing our best in our efforts to give each campus organization amle news space: if we ee In addition, our space. is limited; conse quently, we cannot print everything we would like, to. Those stories' with most news value naturally receive priority. If you still feel we have "done ya wrong", write us a letter. PROFESSORS REMAIN SAME CLASSROOM PERSONALITIES We doubt that there is a single student on the campus who knows a single professor as well as he would like to know him. Such is the deplorable state of student-faculty rela t ilons. Relations? What student-faculty relations are there? Our pedagogical pennicans stroll into their classrooms, adorn their professional chairs for the required hour, impart the knowledge they are supposed to, and leave. Thus ends their relations with the students, with. of course, a few exceptions. Too few. Perhaps that is a little outspoken, a little too strorng. But education is not confined to the class"rooi. No, no! It extends far, far beyond that. A predecessor of ours found occasion to re iark: "'The faculty does not concern itself with any activity beyond the call of duty. Forgetting their Ph.D's might entail some thing more than scientillating classroom ses sions, the majority of the teachers have iso lated theiselves completely from their pro hor" his information, and yours, (lie faculty still cannot forget their 'h.D's and, as ever, rest conmplacently in their isolationism. Our proposal is this: Professors should, in sofar as it is possible set aside several hours one day each week when tudents might drop into their homes (or more appropriate rendez vous) and chat informally of cabbages and kings in a spirit of warm congeniality. Through this we will know each other better, and rememtuber professors not as classroom per sonalities. but as advisors, and-friends. We think it's a feasible plan. ANOTHER PIGSKIN SEASON GONE; FUTURE INDEFINITE Football season is over. On the record books, the season might be termed inildly unsuccess ful. fori a total of three wins, four losses, and two tie gamnes is not, we admjit, impressive. And, too, a season inl which the Clemson game is scored on (lhe dlebit side of the ledger can not be deemed successful. For the student bodyv-theirs not to crow and cry, theirs but to gr'oani antd sigh, waiuit 'til next year! I lowever, (lie team fought a good fight tall .vear, rising to spasnmodic brilliance and falling iito singular* unimpressiveness. Those who gambled with the pigskin played their best game against Georgia Pre-Flight early in the season, andl iniappropriately enough, their wors-t game against the Bengal's from (Cem son way. No one, froni ourl best information, knows who will coach the Birds next season. If the nav~y heaves, no one knows where the team will comei from. It is certain, never the less, that there will be a coach and a team. TIo this semester's gridsters, Coach Williams "D)oc" Newton, the maligned managers, and puIblicity muan Wairdlawv-a good job well YELLOW JESSAMINES INSTEAD OF ORCHIDS FOR GARNET & BLACK Were our dlecidledly sub-normal hiort iculturmal nmnd working prop)erly, we would know whether or not yellow jessamines werIe b)loomr ing. If, perchance, they we're, we wouild pick a whole basketful and send them to Anne Dar by Tison andl her Garnet and Black staff. F"or aftei' an extendled, protr'acted delay the 1941 annual has applearedl. True, it has its typograp)hical errors, its little mistakes, but they are, happily, few. For thme unmistakable salvage of a yearbook that seemed dlestinedl for literary limbo, the G & B sthff dleserves a basket-no, two! baskets of yellowv jessalmines. Are yellow jessamines blooming? aYS11Opu4 By a.IJUL lau.L IVoTg: t WSS ha, If rowns,v,Tw rgTotsFR ..... 'otnron bRn "u.s.c. caeI '' -fe. t,A' Embetton e MATT ISON presidet- og. ANG , bSt --Prsadei, 0f caphrsynw,~l tvzlnbEr o. rIorloR BoaRtI, Stu4isnt Octiat.er C(anrnfr, ' <*bnt-, Sturnt-facutfy Coeif.fer, ?Ast-Pres. of P'reslryttrian Sf udet (eeiss )(nppe DEL' / Question of the Week Wesre y sa;Fied with the lant registraon? Answvers: .June Detuer . . . Definitely not ! I have never seen si an unruly affair in all my life. Besides, I not only lost my temper but a perfectly wonderful letter with an important address in the scramble. It is a good thing that the entire University isn't run in a like manner. J u. OConnor. . . W. J. Gorman and myself are self styled lhumreorists. We think the registration was kopacetic. John J. Lavin . .. The general comment of the Navy is nea. It is . . . Sna fu . . . (Situation normal all fouled upl.) Edna fill laynes ife. It was a mix-utp conglomeration so that it reminded me of a carnvl lots of people with no main oject in mrindJ. Eugene MIil ler . . .14 wasn't quite ats bad this year ais it was last. e. B. Jone . . . i1 was aill right at lnaste did'it taske muinister. Muriel Black .. It was a knock-downg, dtrtg out afair. C. . LRowan . .. Since profanity is out, I N' speechless. Joe Joe Gorman . . .As og as Dot was there I didn't mind it too mued biut there is lots of rootm e for impnroveme nt. Lul Lehneg and Jack Bess.en t . . . For a University of this size, we think it ws a disgrace. Betty Ilughes . . . Well, I hated it ! C. II. Cochran . . . Tshe civilians had it harder thian the V-12ers, we're used to standling in line. Emily Lowman . . . Rather tiresome but it was funm standing in line talking to the new students. Toni Simpson . . . I received two broken ribs and a black eve in that chapel brawl. I was entirely dissatisfied. -Sunny McManaway . .. It'~s getting worse every year. I think that the faculty should plan schedules before the day of regis trat ion. Claire Cely .. . It was a,ful ! Joe "The Spender' Iamilton . . . Being an old Carolinian, it was no trouble at all. Elizabeth Mulling .. . It was terrible ! Al Gramling . . . It was thme biggest headache and jumble I've yet experienced. The faculty didn't plan it at till nor did they have enough pe'ople to help them make it sensible. In the con fusion that (developed, many stud(ents dlidn't get the course they needled and several of the Navy students had to be0 set to other schools to get the required courses. Ann Darby TIison . . . It was aboninuable! I It would be eaisy to handle it in a much more efficient manner. If the blanks were (distributted a (lay or two before registration, it would simplify matters no end. Kinloch Bull . . . It was the most horrible e*perience yet.I wore out three pairs of shoes standhing and after six hours in line at the Registrar's office, I was tutrnedl back because I owes 11 cents to the Caroliniana Library. Jeitne Good . . . It was downright con fusing. lielen Lennard . .. It was .ll riht, con;sidering te tie. Sinking Sand'. By ANNE SEARSON After a week of combing the campus in search of sotiie sort of material to fill up these motley inches we're responsible for, we are now inclined to promote anything from bigamy to murder in order to get a little news. Our patience is wearing very thin with this routine of everybody doing nothing all the time and refusing to talk about it. Hutchinson and Spong are both main taining a beligerent isolati<nism and having begun to depend on them for such a majority of our sensationalism we find our selves quite literally "at a loss for words". Do something! Do anything-dye your hair or just plain die. DISSERTATION ON EDIUCATION OFFICE Perhaps our boss, Dr. Ellison M. Smith, was kidding when he suggested that we do a paragraph on his office this week. We have a sneaking suspicion the remark had slightly sarcastic intonations as we composed a good deal of last week's copy on that gentleman's tine. Nevertlheless. assuming that our ramb lings are of acute interest to the world at large, we are now go inlg to discoturse on ralbling int() the lclldcation Office. The education office is the sort of place where people have hours with nothing mluch to do but dash out to the cafe for a cup of coffee, and then one telephone call means someone has to do two weeks work in half an hour. You'll find at times that things like the field of the flag in the outer office being on the wrong side and Dr. Smith's having smoked for fifteen years and never inhaling begin to catch your attention. The office staff consists of Dr. Smith, Mrs. Kershaw Walsh. his gal Friday and every other week day, and "li'l rmle." Tihe office has its finger (and utsually its foot) inl alinost every campus pie. Veritable volumes of reports may be found on V-.5 andi V-I 2. It is to say the least invigorating what with your brain doing mental calis thentics one minute and suffering from inertia the next. BACK STAGE The cadet was talking to a girl. lie was obviously u1pet over somne incident which involved his Navy status. We sinply couldn't resist printing the following remark overheard. "Lieu- - tenant Golding just doesn't understand rime !".. . Chivalry, people, may be dead hmurt t he ech'oes of its instrunments still ring abroad. For instance, in the year 1944 Cora Nesbit is still receiving love letters written in rhyme. Get out your buitton-hole bouquets, gents, and prepare to lay your coat across the puddle. . . An en gineering professor enlivened his class considerably with this one the other day. (Readers will kindly take into consideration the mathematical precision essential to construction work.) The engineer built a bridge and three (lays later returned to the scene of his crime to discover said bridge had collapsed. Ile ground his teeth menacingly and inuttered at the ruins "Damn that decimal place anyhow! ....here was one line in the Town Theater production "Ah, Wilderness" that, if you didn't see the play, we feel called upon to pa~ss on to you. "Women-they never know when tIhe cmurtiain comes-they always w;ant another act !" IN CRITICISM OF REALASM The line arts have for centuries IBeen used to create bea uty To nowv defend their dignity We feel our crying dutty. TVhe mnodern) trend of writing Is approved by wise and learned Burt we'll be an ape's Aunt Bessie If tIhe stuff is worth a derned! T1he purpose, so they say Is to imake us look arounjd W7here dirt iand sin and( mtisery Are duly to be found. .Aimn may have a garden, And a garbage can is there But when lhe's showing you his flowers Need Ihe bother tell you 'where? So they want to broaden miinds (There aire somte will surely bust !) What's tihe harm to stretch them upwar i Make them taller if you miust ! YOU'VE GOT TO BE A FOOTBALL HElRO Rad io sp)or'ts-casters shout Ihis name arbove thle dhii of thrill craized fans in palcked footbmall stadiumrs. Bobbso qen swoon as his jersey rnmber appears on the field . ..Newspapers blare Iris name in banner hteadllines .. . A wed silences followed by dleep sighs punctuate his entrances anid exits from the can teen . .. A quriet little girl in grey drops a nickel ini the juke and brrushes dlreamrily' by his chair as the str'ains of "It Had to 1he You" fill the atmnosphiere with poignatnt melody . . . Sims and Wade-Hampton are the scene of bristling rivalry as "Curly Kurldell Scrarpbooks" replace Sinatra albums . . .Yes, Kuldell of gridiron fame has b)ecomne the idol of every campus lovely's heart, the soul sustenance of her dIreams, indeed the answer to thre maiden's prayetr . . . A pplealingly ob)li vious of his popularity tihe 'Iomnmy Hlarmnan of our hearts goes on having eyelashes that Lana Turner would envy, with blue1 eyes that melt beneath their shitdows and( (as the name indicates!) crls thait shrould nmake a* permanent wvave miachine blush . . . And so Iris hrallowved name has etched itself ont feminine hearts for generations to cotme. (Sigh ) He's wonderf.ul!!*