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The Gamecock Founded January'30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Issued BI-Weekly by the student body of the University of South Carolina during the college year except during examinations and vacation periods. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Columbia, S. 0.. November 20. IU(0S. " Member I ssocicated CoIle6aite Press Distrlbutor of Glle6iate Dieest .KegnseNTID ON NATIONAL. ADVEnfTIsNG av National AdvertisingService, Inc. C.lIIge Publishers RepresNatIte 420 MADisoN Avs. New YOnK. N. Y. CNIcAso . BOSTON - Los ANaGEs - SaN PEANCISCO STAFF Editor ..............................................Harry H. Jenkins. Jr. Managing Editor ........................................John H. Reese EDITORIAL STAFF I.ews Editor .......... . ----......................Bobby Williams Associate Editors-David Lynn Freeman. Helen Pride Craig. Jimmy Brocklman. Margaret Jones Exchange Editor -------................................Sarah F. Bul Co-Ed Editor .............................................Jeune Good Society Editor ....................................Margaret ScElveen Co-Sports Editors ...................... E. B Cureton. J. C. Uennis Staff Photographer ...................................Manning larris Circulation Mianauer ...........e......................loure Det.av News Staff-Ethel Lazar. iailton Simpson. Ernest Davis. Ennhbbv Walsh. Ethel L Sideman. JulIa hull Itoh Pierce. cietty iHmile4. Sarah Jean Baldwin. aazaret Hulmme. M.arian Kaminski. .Irrrv Robinson. Eleanor McCall. Loni Cihi. Penny Morgan. Libhv Cole. Martha Steadman. Jeanne Breton. Margaret de Merel. Betty Motlev. Mary Lib, Nance, Gloria Widner, Louise Shevett. Patsy Patrick. Jimmie Hall. Business Manager ......................................Billy Murray GRIPE COMMITTEE FORMED FOR YOU WHY NOT USE IT? For years student-s have af'ixed a ' why'' or a "what'' or- at "w hen''- on actions of the( ad ministration. There has been eiuasi-untlerstantl itl. and! iiasi-kntow!etd'r, hetrIdling Ite miniids of stidetnts, thIroIghI no falllt of the- mld Imlinhistraition. A recent example of th:11 is the ntew regula t ions governing absences from physical fitness classes while attending the rest of classes. A student did such and found that lie had erred upon confronting the Fniversity physician. 1le had not known of such a rilli11g. lie was per. filu-bed, disturbed. and disvonelted. lie 41i4 somfiet hing aboult it. Complaining to auithor-ities. his complaint was <juite amicably and satisfactorily explained to him. Balizing that future misunderstand ings and ill-will mhiglit he avoided. It' proposed the formation of a (.iripe Committee. The Committee was established to "dispense iinformtatin to the situdenit body conicern ing thle a ctions taken and riles passed by thie Board of trustects an at Ihe fa ciilty; in orderc to pro mote a het ter under.st and in g and1( cooper lalion bet weeni studi(ents anid facuttv.' Thie commi llittee' is comtiposedl of five studenc ts the presidlent of thle st udenit body, editor of thle (Gameock, presidents of A. K. G., K. S. K., anid Coed Association. It meets withI two facult y meatbers-Dean C(ha~ise anad Decani Clilds, anad the president of thle University. These. mtin gs. hel not less thanii on1ce at mionthi, are iniformial ebats at the hiouse of one of the (leans, 01' tIle presidecnt. Tfhe(re are is etissedl such gri pes or inifoir matti that any s'ttdtent may desirie. New rules anid policies ot the Ujniverisity. Ithe reasons5 thIiereof, are ('lar i fledl. Sutch info rmtation is thlen passed on to thle studlent body thirouigh a regiular colaumnl to b)e conducttedl in the (co lms of thle Gamleock. Anty studlent tdesi rolus of obt aiinnlg thle rhiymre or reason of any Uiv~ersity actilOn or policy may secure inflormation by addressing a letter to Gripes Comnmit tee, campu )is. The namres of thle signer.ts of thle let ters will be held in strictest contfidence, known only to the studentt members of the comimittee. IIow ever, thiere can be no antonymity-the let tel's must beC signed(! Only one st ipulat ion is there-no silly, ma - licious, or unsigned (Iuestioits wtill)be eon sidered. In additioni, eacht semnester there will be one oren meeting to revier- the semester's work and give the studtent body at large a picture of how the committee funcet ions. Students of Carolina, the opportuniity is yours. A commnittee arising from a studenit has been set ttp . . . its purpose is to supply you with information. If you hiave a grip)e, or are uncertain or puzzled abhout antythting on the campus; if you have a legitimtate comtplhit,.-let the commit tee know of it. e STUDENT MONEY SUPPORTS TOWN HALL-STUDENTS? For each lecture in the University-sponsored Town Hall series, there are 200 tickets avail able to students free of charge. And yet, at the last lecture, students used only 50 tickets. The series, unparalleled in the University's history, has one of the finest arrays of speakers we've seen. Robert St. John's talk, the Young (oette debate were excellent, highly educa I ional thought-stimulants. Monday night, Feb. 5, Ray .Josephs will de liver a lecture on the state of South America, d'welling on Argentina, and the Nazi influences t herein. le will give perspective to the influence and the results of our Good Neighbor policy there. IIe will show that the battle against the to talitarian influence, Nazism and Fascism has not only to be won in Europe and Asia, but also in South America. Stulent money is supporting the Town Hall lectures. There are 200 free tickets waiting for you at the depository. It matters not if you'Ve had one before... I)rop by, pick 1ip a t icket, come Monday niight to Drayton Hlall an1111d learn a little about y"our hemlisphere. STUDENT-FACULTY RELATIONSHIPS GROW BRIGHTER With the formation of the Gripes Committee, and Student council's highly commendable re .jilvenation of the old Student-Faculty commit tee, plrospects for a more integrated, closer sti IeIlt-faculIty relatlioiNsliip arc rosy. Quite rosy, inideed. e coilapIlinc(d earlier tIhis semester that sIiulent-faculty relationships wVre not wthat they should be-not. by a long shot ! Joint stn dent and faculty action on 1 niversity prob lems now is not only possible, but probable. As one of the first projects of the new St 1 dent-Facllty conmnittee. we would like to see the revival of the old faculty teas, or some other platsible, inftorlai renldezvous. 'i'hcre t rofessors migxhlt let their pedagogical hair lowI and becole at student's friend. (lass-roomu knowledge may be imparted in eIss-roomlls, but professors have oilier thlings to offer as companions and friends. 'Why not select a single night, or several iiirhts. out of a week, on which professors would declare open house within set hours. The plan has worked four years at other institu tioins. Teachers, on open house nights, invite and( ex peet studi(ents to drop in and( chat wi th t hem. "F' yi'II out loud. Cume in. Pulil up a chiriI. i'le yi our feet before the fireplace. Speak ai wordl or two(." Whyi no(t * GREATER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION OF A . GREATER STATE A highzl state oficial recenitly voiced thle op)inionl that The (Gamecock seemed to be qjuite (contenct with the stat us of the University as it is. We were, lie saidl, impeding the progress of thle school inl such at quliescentI, placid atti liude. W%e haisteni to correct such a gross miiis. in t er pret alt i(on.i In previotis ed(itorials wve sta~ted, and( we no0w reiterate, expansioni of the University is abso I utely ne(cssary to mieet present andl post-war nei. l)oritiory facilities are inadequate at present ; new dlormiitories arie nieedhed. Several of the old buildings oni the camol us arc desperately ini need oft uirgent repa irs. One builing, niamed ill Ithe U niversity 's report to lie state buldget comm1 iss5ion, should haVe b)een reniovatIed year a' igo. N%ew classr'oomi bu1 idings shoul be bu11ilt. Presenit ones are inaidequate ; classroomn space is at a miiinoiu. Th le University neceds, and1( should have, an administration building. Thhese things we need now. For the increasedl post-wilr enrollment, we will need even more new b)uildlings, costly perhlaps but1 absolutely necessary! Ilut--first thle Un iver-sity needhs land to ex. pand( on. Ljand on which buhildlings can be erectedl; 1land for the' necessitatedI expansion. Th'le University is to ask the state for $730,000 to purchase land adhjoininig the p)res ent site. It will ask the City of Columbia for $250,0(00 to aid in the acquisition. TPo 0our state legislators, we say: through a greater University lies a greater state. Ini tile mn to be edneated at a greater Universit y will come our state leaders. A greater University is the foundation stone LI C CAMPUS - J..BUL.L th' s amnbit4in 1ir is to 'sV ILL OUN SErior f ro FurtMAM , S.C. .' 'H Is PRas t 4 rr of K ..K . embR A..S.C.E. SEC - TeEASRRR oE Cmrpms 4. Chat) Rht- Guide CAteLimt COaMs'ins; FreskaIAn (d4visoe. f/ Questioi of tihe Week QUESTION :)o you /hin1k it ix ime for Mhe Soria1 Cabinet lo be renew'edl? ANSWERS: VIV IAN CIIA1 MAN-1i would certainly liel' ie'ople to get to know each other easier. BILL TII)WELI-The Social Cabinet would help organize tle present social activities and at the lpresenlt they certainly needl Some typ1e of organization. MA RG: AR ET LE E-With the nltumber of iew people onl the campus as well as the confunsing activities. I think that now is the time to take some sort of action to eliminate the miix-up1). IIILL S.AMIl'ELSON-It certainly worlchl be a big aid to the new students on the camlpuIs as it wouid give ttenm a better chance to get ai'plainted. RAMON SAXNCHEZ---If such an organization would pre vent conflicting dates on social functions and vonihl prevent postponements, then it would certainlY be Worth while; biut if it would be just another group for argument. let it remain dis banded. BILL BORL)DMAN-I think that social functions are in a sad shape here andi something s1ok111(1 ie tione. .JIIMMY LYILES-I think it should be renewed lbecause of its purpose which I tlhink is to avoid fraternity friction and conilict. I)ICK LARKINS-'T he cab inet needs a governing body to spread social activities thlrouglout the year rather than j:1am1 l n(g them iu) like it is being done in the next. two weeks. BLUCK ISOM-It would help the Carolina spirit. BEECE SMITI I-Anything that is ante bellu. can't miss. ANN IIARRILL-It certavnly would avoid a great tany of ftle con flicts thait nIow a rise about the dates of vaious11 fiune FREE LANCING "Don't Get it Right-Just Get it Written!" "Man wat m8 ade' to lie and1( roamit, but at woman'tis place is ini ihe home." So sez Thurber-so sez I. Now, ime, I' ai gootd peace-l ovinug cit izent whose onily sorrow is to see his fe'llow men fallI innocently into thle p)remleditated and dtel iberated matrimnoniail piftfatlls du ig by cunining college coed(s. Andii moved into act ion by thle mioun tig number of casu altie's. MEN, 1 say nowv is fh tim ie for all good men'i to c'omeO to the aidi( of t heir-i-uh-themiselv~es. It wasni't real ly so baid when'u wo men st arted filling mna's po. sitionRs. In fact, for a w~thl we I toght it wats pretty nice-but We soon got fired of whiist linig at womien~ "etlers in, slacks antd began frowning when they would dtramat ically cash Iteir tine anid-a-hialf patychieeks and1( (asllty offer to buy you a drink. Boy ! That 's what got mte ! (And they always buy such cheap drmiiks, too!) Women Naval and Arimy officers-strteet ('arI 'onidtuctors Ituck ditiivers-e xec.utives-law yers-anda lin almost e'very busi ness anti profetssionial field. Butt when they sftaited playing cot legite basket ball am11 itotbllt and monopolizing fte wrestIling bt)is-Ohi Brothter! RealIizinitg that fthis is war i, an id wart is HeItll ! Anid with duellt ap pr'eciaftion for fte women't of Chtitna, whtom wye undii erst and aire h av'ing thiir tdi tficultieis al so, even ft' afor'emtenition ed iintusn i t hi', geniftemnen's readlmi conl be, with Isome effort, over lookedo. Bit gettlemnt, wheiin some rt'd-hairedt tcolumnitist. stat s popping lier typewriter ribbon at our caitipuis notabtlets, men't, then is the time for at itn Is fthiis shiarnp-f ttngued rt'ort it so) beyotmi re b t'httoi~l ialt site fearlessly treads tupon fthe namlies antd hearts of oithters? I thIinik niot. Let's see. boys. I believe fthaf it was onty last issue tlit slit suiggestedl Rettings at certain plaices. Were tese' thle out let of her secret yearniin gs? Is thIiis the featired Scariltft's heati 's' desire? Or perhatps butf a e leverly contcealed hi st ory of paist enI counters at these inmed places wIhicht are no0w *ea'rd to er and thle remiembilrantce of ft'em glies pletasitrt' to her bl1aicketned heart. ''The ' 1 ar' at th le SA E htouse-w h at tdoets t ha t ineiani to S.'m -- soni? Is it beciautse It's a bari-any bar'-or dloes it britng ftol her miemory woinderf'ul evenitngs spet t herte wtithI Bill M urray1' 'Thle coucht'l at thle Sigmta Nit houtse-]fI ontly ii coitbl speak I Sputrr, Swartz, Wilsont . . .suchI campu hilt iist ory' has been made t here! And those TlW() rooms in I li haPa CS.. ...se-At A ie Sinking Sand By ANNE SEARSON Ah really don't know how to starht. Now that my identity as a ''direct descendent'' of the beloved Scarhlet has been re vealed, there's little else Alh can say to you-all ! Perhaps all this will explain suhtain li'l idiosyneracies of malh puhsonality Howevah, Ahi'd lak to express malh thanks t' li'l Johnnie fo all that nice publicity lie-all gave inc las' week. Co'se Ah should try to retuhn the compl'ment an' compahr him t' Rhett Butler, but Ah won't think about. tlhat nlow-Ahll' worry about that next week! Talking it Over You 'no doubt noticed th'at oh so handsome ensign decorat. ing the canteen last. week. Wasn't he beautiful-(jealous dag gers directed at Will Sossamon !) ? lie was J. C. Gill, former Signa No glamor boy here at USC. We elbowed our way through the masses of women long enough to get in a word and sigh andt wheedle this little story out of the guy: Ens. Gill having not been on the old campus since last suminer wtas not. quite faimiliar with the ehanges which have been made hereabouts (or was he?). Anyhow, lie hopped a cab from the bus stattiou and dtely arrived at the Maxey College entrance on l'endleton St. )esiring to immediately make known his presence to the "good brothers" -his first thought was to visit with Freeman and 1 rof'kmai. Assiming that these two cadets still oveeallied their old room in Maxiy College, he leapt up the stairs-two at a time (inl the old days lie would have taken them in threes, wthici all goes to show you what Navy P. T. can do for a guy !) to the third floor. lie had raised his fist to rap oil t he door of supposedly llroek.'s and Dave's room, when the little white card engraved "Miss June Blank" caught his at tention. Ile then became conscious of all the girls wandering around (Note to reader. This story is being relayed as the great .1. C. told it to tme. Imagine Johnnie ill being unconscious of the woneti rounid him ?) Anti-elimuatx: Brooks Marshall strolled into the canteen just as we were wtinding up the conversation. Says Brooksie to Gill, "What are :ol loin down here-just sittin around being ad mired ?" Tolche' ma ' imiselle. t onehe'. Coker College 4 Now really we are one of the most broad-mtinded people imagilnit ble-but all this benevolence among sororities is too mnu'h. Coker College now teems with nut hought of industry. El)'s, AI)Pi's and 'Fri Delts trade household tips on the easiest way to scrape the paint oft windows, unstop sinks, and arrange furniture. Sigma )elts, STA's, and Delta Zate's swap brushes and rags. Chi Omega's and Pi Phi's chatter upstairs, and ma rooned on the third flour are the SAE 's. Poor dimented little lamlbs who can1 hardly afford to leave ot enter the building for fear of being shanghaied into service enroute. One lone Sigma (hi caught serapitg paint for Tri Delts Monday, Nevitt Grove laboring under the weight ( ?) of a lamp shade. Sigma Nu's refusing to speak to their "pin up" sisters lest they be required 1o lift a finger. The ADPi piano pounded by Babe O'Brian. Another aanti-elimax A fter all the work was done-finished completed bless their shiftless little hearts they've mobbed the place ! For Your Scrapbook To begin with he's t civilian having fori a time lent his services to prep-flight lit NC State, Univ. of N. C. and S. C., and Georgia, now lie's back on oiur staimpintg gr-ound(s to thrill anew the al ready p)oundintg hearits of co-eds, wh'Io look fromi Kutldell to hratshier to d olly-atnd now to r'ed-hedeld Ted Por'ter'. Okay, so lbe is a freshmiian hit f.realIly girl-s, who cares (wve don't ) Antot her '"Geech"' frott Geor'getown way with the expected at ibutfe of fasciniatinig feet (.jit ter'bug of the fit'st dye !) As for his w"ometi-wellI, lie considers it his pur"ps int life to keep them atli happ)jy, andi( so far lie's done himself proud1. The original (dadd(y of thle keyboard-a f'aniatic for playing boogie-woogie ! Lately steen pol ishintg thle hall otn Maixey moinumeint anid fallitig down the st eps at official Sigma ChIi fraternity piledginig, cute as a spetk led puippy-andit we're print inig this just to show him we kntow its muchi ablout htis btusiniess as he (does abhouit out's! Tlragedy-swi pet! fromt Vi Iate W'' inchielh. Tragedy Jler' heairf is br'oken niow . . .11cr loniely ceyes Arie miiisty fromt l thet th of glo(winig (liCitams. liis love is all thait .sIte c-ould (evet' prize Anid now it 's gonte to sotmeonte else, it seemis. Oh, yes, thlese thIings have happ)leed in the past, Bitt fthis aff'ir i was di ffereiit ftromt thle rest, For lie had v'o :ed that it wias set tto last Anid thlen a niew ftiime st irr'ed a sikdetn speltst. So notw thle laiti7s ofl mtemiory ar te lit. W ithin ith fI 'sitddeni'ed ebhambiters of hetr heiarit, As sli'the elaices bit by~ t earf'ul bit Th le po ilnit thlouris bef'ore the (y grew itpari t. Andl thuts she sits5-sot crutshedtl-so wvani-s) mteek - Shte's apt to sItiay titmourinig for' at w'eek! -l)onx X"(ahn, you'i.e boiastiing ! So f'ew haive seen even just onie antd live to tell thle tale'! Thle Phii ap liardi'( roomii--We've all heard of those gamies, Seatrsotn. And anywhiere with a KA-Whiy Searson hi I Iti let.'s not go too har id with thItis amis-lead bitt iimbitious jour nitlist, boys. lIut Atnne, let this servie as a warning. You are whtchetd every' minute oh' every' htour. We have six hunidredl and eveniteen niin comipilinig iandi completinig the history of your Ii ,' coniphete uip to lie past tinutte. We are anutagoniizedl and we'aryW. \( tur pirinit-barbt's ma ke sorte wounds to our achtin g bodieg atit your t'olumin imatke's tinwi''eome food' for bloodshot eyes . ., St'iarsoni is lbuit tine of mnyit-youi are bu'lit ani ii ufotute l,C e iimpl )1e-we mutist nit e aga intst al11, if' we arie to sturivie ini the post~f-war wiorldl. Tlhey'~ hav e thle itden, tmen, thait they arie intdis ptensable ~. I say, "T''Ihe hetl I ey ar ie ePspecially13 ret I-heatdeid ones * withI fy pewr'it ers!" W''hat do you1 say? Ar'e you wiith tie ? lRevolt now mn',, 01' forev'er sutbmiit toi domiinationt ! ()ka3' Shor t v., 1 'imci ...... Ji-e, bos eew. iia