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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor lIsued 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. C.. November 20. 190& Alumni Association membership dues include subscrip tion for alumni. Student activities fee includes $1.00 rubscription for students. Subscription rate per college year ...................2.00 Member 1associated Colle6iae Pren Distributor of Cblle6aeDi6est "gPU0SNTK PO" NATIONAL. ADVINTISING b. NationalAdvertisingSeWice, Inc. College PubliAher ReProsextaiP 420 MADIsON Ava. - Naw YORK. N.Y. CHICASO . BOSTON . LOG ARGELs . AN FRANCIEco STAFF Editor ........---------..................... Anne Searson Managing Editor .................... ....Virginia Raysor News Editor --------..........................Mart Smith Feature Editor .....................George Celusta Society Editor ..--.......... Rives Ward Sports Editor ............... ............ Bryant Meeks Exchange Editor ..---................... Anne Stephan Cartoonists .................. Jinx Giles, Bill Jarrett Associate Editors .......... Saul Lavisky, Herb tseitel. C. D. Stone Columnists-Martha Haltiwanger, Chick Shilds, Ferguson, and McMullen, Gorge Delay. News Staff-Mary Shoun, Victor Barrett. Elizabeth Mc Damels, Mary Helen Shawhan, Sidney Brandenberg, Martha 3teadman, Bert Hem ingway. Sports Writers-Frank Scruby, Billy Routh, Red Tyler, Richard Thorton, Owen Miller. Business Staff-Ed Teague, Candy Taylor. Joe Lumpkin. Feature Writers-Jean Via, Stan W. Aechliin, Dorothy Perkins, Peggy Atkinson, and Michael Karvelas. Typists ............................Jack Brett, Bam Moody Circulation - ....... ................. Frank Chapman IN RETALIATION We received a letter last week which it would give us great pleasure to print, but unfortunately it is one of the unwritten rules of THE GAMECOCK not to print alony mous epistles. Hence, we make our apolo gies for not publishing the communication -but be it unders'ood by the nameless au thor of same that we are suffering from no pangs of conscience about our "Euphr-os" editorial last week! You have drawn to our attention the fact that 500 Carolina students belong to frater nities and sororities. We were entirely cog nizant of this figure when we stated that only a small percentage of the student body were interested in Greek letters. Are you, our anonymous correspondent, familiar with the fact that 2,224 students are enrolled at Carolina? Less than one-fourth of this num ber are, grantedly, frat members. (Less than 40% of the girls, accord4ing to Dean Childs!) Of the 500 you designate, there are interest ed, disinterested, and indifferent members. The total number cannot be infallible evi dence that the societies are so grossly im portant as to deserve the attention you gave them last week. You must be aware of the fact that Euphrosean circulars were strewn all over the halls of Maxcy basement. fPrank sters and fanatics on both sides of your ques tion collected them, checked them up indis criminately, andl mailed them back to you. What did you accomplish? What did you hope to accomplish? You reproached THE GAMECOCK for not supporting campus organizations. We be seech you to check our staff, of which nine tenths are students active in numerous organizations. (We have to be to get ma terial for your paper!) Do you suppose that these hot-blooded journalists would per-mit an editor, no matter how tyrannical, to un dermine THE GAMECOCN'S or their supplort of Carolina? We refer you to the editorial pages of these issues: Sept. 7, 1945; Sept. 21, 1945; Nov. 9, 1945; D)ec. 21, 1945 on which you will find articles in highest praise of Carolina organizations. We were not criticizing your motives (presuming that our corresp)ondent was a Euphrosonean appointed scribe!) You are able, energetic young women; it is perfectly natural that you should seek a channel through which to (xercise this ability andl energy. But we -caution you to b)e less im pulsive in your choice of question. Unless you intend to engineer a plan removing fra ternities and sororities from the campus, why cause our students to "choose up sides 'n' fight" about the issue. There at-e so many more creditable questions toward which you might direct your efforts. Secondly, it is ir rational to give people reasons for liking or disliking anything. Leave a blank space for us to insert our own reasons. You wrote that "Asking Around" was in adequate for your purposes. Still feeling slightly confused as to what your "purposes" are, we can't answer that one. But we still insist that your opinion poll makes our col umn unnecessary. We also assert that start ing the poll without consulting us was dis courteous. (We hear that many Euphroson ean's were not consulted either!) It is still our "personal" opinion that you're starting something you can't finish, that you're wasting your talents and our time! And don't write us any more anony mious letters I STUDENT UNION A student committee met last Tuesday af. ternoon with Dean Chase to discuss renova tion of Flinn Hall. The hall at present is the only building on the campus devoted en tirely to student activities. THE GAMECOCK applauds the efforts of those in charge of remodeling and improving this center. It is an irrefutable fact that student affairs are greatly impeded because there is no accept ed meeting hall for their execution. The renovation of Flinn is a temporary measure toward a far greater end. Embodied in the budget request of the University to the state legislature are plans for a student union buliding. Flinn actually is inadequate for the needs of our increased enrollment. Maxcy college which was first constructed as a student union building has been neces sarily taken over for dormitory and office space. Even this building if available, would not fill the needs of the student body. At present the telephone exchange is lo cated in Maxcy. There are no rooms on the campus specially designated for student con ferences. THE GAMECOCK and The Garnet and Black offices are located in basement rooms; their equipment is inferior and they are despairingly short of space. The post office, the book store, the canteen, and the student depository are fortunately housed together in Maxey; however, they too are cramped for space and short of equipment. The only recreation rooms on the campus are the small basement rooms in Sims col lege and the lobby, and pool, and ping pong rooms in Flinn. They are certainly far from adequate. The chapel will hardly accommo date the entire faculty, let alone a student body of some 2200. Drayton Hall is on call for University High School activities as well as our own. It is not centrally located. The prospect that all student projects, amuseientis, anid congS migh Acmc day find a home under one roof is a bright one indeed for the sons and daughters of Carolina who have so long labored under the hindrances of disunity and inadequacy. We fully appreciate the needs for dormitor ies, classrooms, cafeterias, etc., but in our hearts we treasure the hope that a student union building will not be considered one of the lesser necessities of our university. To the alumni of Carolina we turn our faith that they might aid us in seeing this project through, in spurring our legislators on to favorable action, in bringing to the poster ity of our Alma Mater an ever greater op portunity for unity, brotherhood, education and recreation! BLOODY BUT UNBOWED! It is common knowledge to the Carolinia that our university is on the "black list" of the local musicians union. This scribe can not think of a "bluer" "black list" on which to be! By this we mean that U.S.C. has held out against the tyrannical dlecrees of the union to that organization's severe (displeasure. Let us then acclaim the powers of our ad ministration that have so courageously stood by the ideals of our college-idleals which personify democracy, indlividlualism, and the private rights of men. In the next few weeks several (lances have been scheduled. Unless the University agrees to a "closedl shop" system with union (lance orchestras, it seems we'll have no music at these affairs. Our campus band has been dlissolved in "accordance with Navy regula tions.'' All local bandis are forced to belong to the mighty union or they cannot operate. Ihotels cannot re(nt ball rooms for (lances which have not engaged union bands. If they (10, they are also "black listed" andl union bands cannot play within their wvalls. Vicious circle, isn't it? All wheels must turn with union precision or skid in the muck of tyranny. Whether the University muist bow in the face of these crushing alternatives lies in the dlecision of those in authority. Whatever their (decision, it will b)e a difficult one: to lower our colors and accep)t their terms, or to maintain our valiant standl and (10 with out our social functions. It is hard to say which would be the wiser' choice. But we find it harder to swallow the lumpy, distasteful realization that an Amer ican university, an institution dledicatedl to higher learning and freer thinking, should find itself subjugated to the whims of an organization, which by its own autocratic decrees, (defeats the pr'inciples on which it stands. Unions were organized to champion the "rights" of men. They've come a long way. College studlents, it must he kept in mind, are the tax paying citizens of tomorrow. We will soon be ballot casters in state and na tional elections. We do not like our way of life Interfered with, and we will remember today tomnorow. VIac Is Eddoi 9'twr narMrAROL//V9 RE/E14/ 77hl - sMDC is Me 2wjan& of OnMAo4 . and .s wb 9f/am 1W a osr 73esIde>l- 9P -Ap dAWM Y CWO amd a member fye- k;> 4e ermaL an& Cbfih C/uby Mac is an ZA E1 Ajhleng -Arouncd What do you think of the Euphrosynean Literary Society's public opinioin poll recently instituted, and what is your opinion of the first question asked t E. D. Zagula --I think that it is a good idea, but they should work withli Nie C'amnecock so that the results could be pub jished. Charles Belove-T think that it is a good question, and I would like to know the result of it. Mary V. McDaniel-I don't think that the poll will do any good by itself. Johnny Gresham-Tt's a good idea, let's have some action On1 it a d publish tile results. Jimmy Liles -It's a very good project if it is carried out in Ilte Corect manner. but I think the (iestis should be of a type which will aid in building a great school. They should definite ly 1oi he irrelevant questions as was the first. Peggy Swygert-1 think that it is a good idea, pilthough the stidenis don't seem to cooperate very well, I would like very much to see the results. % Anne Hiott-It think that the poll is a good idea, but I think that the first question is a very bad choice. Hoke Smith-I think that the poll is a good idea, but I don't think that people will participate in it. I think that the first qiuestion was a good subject, but tile manner in which it was asked was very poor. "Booty" Wall--I think the publi opinion poll is a good idea and withI the cooperat ion of thle stutdent body' as a whole tile r'esuilts cani prove to be very inteeresting. ?ooLing LacLwarc AIR RAIDS At the siart of this w~ar, when air raids seemed to be expeteed momentairily by almost everyone, Sims .and1 Wade Hampi1tonl dlormnitories hlad "ope hjClIouse" dlurinig thle blackouts. Mrs. Childs, we unider'stand(, decreed that all boys who were out in a black out ini eithmer building were to seek sanictuary behind the cur tains aiid doors w"hiich had never before beenl opein for meni. CAN IT BE TRUE? Elections are over, Halleu,jah I What a relief. It had begun to be so bad on thle campus thait if somnice spoke, or even cut in oin a girl ait a (danice, People wou)ildl think that he w~as a po. lit 'ia liaspiran t. Anld we have to go through this every' yea r. However, while we are throwing bouquets, conigratulations to all the Inw officers. LIBAL, OR OLD LACE7 Hickory. dickory, (lock, Three mnico ran up the clock, Trhe clock strucek "oe, Tihe othmer t wo had minor injuries. MORE WINCES Th'lis is a bit late (hut t hat seems to be wh'lat this collium is for) anyway, at tile beginning of this semlesler one of the niew freshmen started to unpack his trunks in the dorm, andl got dlown to the last item. After passing a nervous stage lie looked all around the room with an expression of horror on his face. lie wvent to t he t elephione, and called long dlistancle. "'Hello, M\OmmaiI," lie said, "w~here (lid you puit my razor" BRAINS OF THlE OLD BIRD l)eep ini the files of old Glamecocks one of the industrious imembers of the staff found a headline that would go far to ending all headlines. It is an upper-cut of a picture of tihe Carolina Coaches for an unknown year. The masterpiece reads "BIRD BRAINS HOLD CONFAB"-if you believe it, come to the (lamecock office. We have it on tile blaekboard as a miodlel of wh'lat not to (10. They gave me twventy inchles (But it's really only fifteen) Sometimes my judgment misses, And you have to read things like these. THAT'S EmNUGH By Herb Beitel Unsuspectingly I trudged into The Gamecock Office alias The Hole, alias The Mess, to find with just what sinister tor ture slave-driver Searson had cured her insomnia. With a naive shriek that shattered two windows, I heard the sweetest words in the world . . . BEITEL I . . . I want to see you. And as al. ways happens this innocent little phrase was the clarion call to disaster. I am to fill in for Mart Smith who has some un. identified, bona-fide excuse. I am sorry because it is a much a pain for me as it is for you. However, I might say, that be ing a columnist has its bright moments too. I oRened my mail box just after I quit writing the column before to find a whole deluge of letters . . . well, a few . .. well if you insist, A letter. But it was a very important letter. It had come all the way from Iwo Jima (or one of those islands ont there) from George Herndon to say that he was so sorry to see that I had quit writing the column because as long as I did write it, that was that much less of The Gamecock that he had to read. The name of this commentary is "Ayes on The Campus" and not even a pair of glass eyes on the campus could have missed the big political sessions of last week. I, for one, am glad that it is over. My poor back has absorbed three bottles of Sloan's Liniment and is still achin' (and I do mean achin') for more. I wish that more left-handed candidates would run. It would help distribute the load considerably. After all of the hand wringing of last week, I am becoming ambidextrous .. . I have no right hand. I am not making any charges, but that ice in front of the chapel was too convenient to be an accident. I noticed too that the reception line (of hawkers) wore cleats on their shoes. I must admit that it worked . . . you had to vote or become an other Man Who Came to Dinner. It is good to see the organizations of the campus getting back to normal too. Some of the organization presidents actually thought that the dragon of spirit had really come back to a Rensate state. The naive fools really thought that the sudden interest was an indication of thingn to come.it was . . . elec. V tions. I would like to suggest that the old Latin phrase Vot Ponli he changed to Vox Candidi . . . it seems a much more -. apt phrase. I am looking for one candidate with blood in my eye. I went through the postoffice five times before I realized that the ob. .jects d'amour that I had been whistling at were nothing more than Petty villianously plagiarized to play on my baser emo. tions (I musi, learn to keep my eyes off . . . the floort) Seeing how many of the radio "spot announcements" were copies that I fully expected to turn on my radio'and heair Some puerile voice beguile me with: Burblesnerp, Burblesnerp, lots more votes with Tmlesner-er-er-er-errrrrp Handsome, dashing, efficient toooo, Burlesnerp's the mnan for you-o-oo-oo-oooo. For those of you who are not lovers of the opera that is a par. Odly on the imimortal aria by Sudsini from Lucia de Superoor. The speeches at the political rally seemed to hav'e beeni pretty goodl. I personally didn't listen to them because I was master of-ceremonies and I had to be impartial, but judging from the excellence of the first collection we gathered from the stage after the rally the various (constitulents must have thought a great (deal of the candidates to spendl so munch money on them. We triedl to arrange another political rally before the run-offs on Thursdlay so that we could lay ini a fruit stock tor the looong cold wm'iter, but we couldn't (10 it because tile ground was frozenx and the canudida tes couldln't find enough mudl. As a matter of interest, I went to the chamber of commerce to get some statistics on how the elections reflected in busi ness t rendls. The results are a little anmazing. Several it ems showed a dlecided increase in sales. The greatest increase was shown by El IHempo Rtopo Cigars while the good brands fell off im sales volume. Colorback, to cover ump grey hairs, rain a close second im inereased sales vohunme. I u nderst anid that thIiis prodnect was sold whiolesalec in fraternmity' lots. A large demenid for bigger muai boxes was felt and( some b)ox holder's bought stapling machines, while scratch p)ad sales fell off. Toothpaste sales went up too, anid this item also sold in wholesale "'frater mity lots." The sale of sharp, pointed knives also increased. Now that the elections arc over, we see the campus slowly returning to a state of normalcy. The organization's member ship has already dwindled to normal. Less and less people fla h that stereotyped1 smile anid speak . . . In fact fewer people are speaking. The presence of knives is becomning less and less ap parent. In a few weeks all will b)e forgotten. Ah. well. 'tis all over, and again the rowboat of state has put * out on the stormy teapot, and when the stomach-.aches from the bon voyage fruit baskets pass away and the headaches of abor tive attempts come on, I offer my best wishes and good luck to all of the mew officers. Boy, do they need itti Mart Hmit h will return next wveek, and once again you can enjoy tis column. Before closing I want to clear up what might >e some erroneous impressions. 1 (10 not think politics is all bad (' ...just most of it, and I do not think thatalphtcai r so,ck-wappers and handwringers . . . because they are. And even DEDUCTION The shades of night Were falling fast When for a kiss he asked her. Hhbe must have answered "Yes" Because the sh.ade. cae... fstr