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. The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Issued Weekly by the student body of the University of South taaolina durmug the college veat excevi dmnRng examinations and vacation ocriods. Entered as second-class mttei at the oistloffice at Cohmbia. S C. November 20. 1908 Stud-'nt activities fee includes $1.01 subscription for students. Subscription rate per college year.............. $2.00 Member %ssociated Cole6ite Pren Ui%tributo, of Colle6lole D6est .,TP,tK@NTED .O, NArt NAL AOVK14tg4N t. National Advertising Service, Inc. CO/legs P-bIl?*rs t:rsrn'atire 420 MADisoM Avr. Nrw YOtK N. Y. CMACAo - BOSTON . L A"o,rt Fo = SAN rQAnCSC% STAFF Editor ................. ... ..........Virginia Ra.Vsor Managing Editor ...... .. ..... .........Mart Smith Associate Editors-El-anor McCall. Sidney Wise. George Cclusta. News Editor ..............................Billy Routh Feature Editor ............................Harriet Lee Society Editor.......................Martha Steadman Sports Editor ............................. Donald M oore Photography Editor ......... .... .. .... Betty Brown Cartoonists....... ............ Jinx Giles. B. 0. Jarrett Cotuinnists-Marv Helen Shawhan. George Celusta. Saul Lavisky. Charles Wickenberg. Bryant Meeks. Exchange Ettor ........ Ralph Ferguson Society Staff-Rives Kelley. Sidney Brandenburg. Doris Moorhei.d. Bert Hemingway. Sports Staff-George Howell, Joe Piedmont. Jerry Krupp. Frank Scruby. Jim Fulghum. News Staff-Mik,, Karvelas. Belinda Cullum. Dorothy Perkins. Mary Shoun. Victor Barrett. Elizabethl McDaniel. Business Manager ...Joe Lumpkin Busitness Staff--Ed Teague, Candy Taylor. Victor Barrett. Typist . ................... Barbara Binnicker Circulation .. ................. .. .. . Frank Chapman ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY? 'THI GAMECOCK lowers its head alnd 'the state of Suith ('arolina h:ts a g'eat opportuniitY beko it, amd it isn't doing" a thing about it! Some faIcts .iust add 1u1p. We present soie of titIIhem: ''he state of South Car(ilima isn't going i be progres.sivt or- great until it has a great University. It is never voing to have a great University as long as its legislature refuses to appropiatqlr e gh money to run it. much less expand it. Here are the simple facts: During the war, each year the Universitv has computed the amotunt of' monYe it woulI lied to ri the next year. -ach Year the General Asssm WY has a1ropriated less than that amount. ]ow d id ine UniversItY get IbY ' The Navy paid from1 two-thirds to one mlillionl dollars (-a ch1 yea' It.o llakc ulp the balac . A fter Jul v the Navy won't be here .n 'y longer. And t state legislators, who is going to pay your, 1)ills for you??? It should alsom lbe kepti in mindt that t he University loe moe on vr St udenit that at tendts it. The student imays ab)out half the expen1ses of getting an education with his tuition. Tht state makes tip the ot heri halfI. Ends (loln't meet when a recordi niumber (of studlents enr ioll, andit the Genettral Assemi bly continues to cut its a ppropr'iat ions to the University. Buit baick to our I original hypiot hesis abot a great University: Unftortunately, the state of South Carolin is1 a poor1 state ; un tfor tu nately, the state Ceducat ionall system is so sep)arated1 that the General Assebly) has to divide its mroney betweeni six institutions of h igher' learlnig. Yes, that's uinfortunate, but we at the University are b)eginning to believ'e that many statte legislators feml it is unfor tuniate even to bother with a University of South Carolina. Sturely, we have but to ltok at the pigeon-holing of otur expansion bill u ntil aftter election year to fi nd an indication of whether or not the state wants a great Uniiversity. Are wve being unfair ? WeV think not. for we. as ftutre voters, have looked at the facts, have realized that our1 state is failing to uitil ie a great 01loppotuniit y, and find that facts bl1in 111otur eves t.o petty excuses. MORE ABOUT THE THIRD TERM There has beein somie criticismi abouit the fact that the studlent body meetinig to dliscuss the tri-semester plan was cal led off Tuesday. The piurpose of this meet ing was to air the pro's and con's of the mutch discussed th irid semester. On Monday, the day before the meeting was to he hel, Uni veirsity officials received word that the G en'eralI Assembly wotihI a pprop)riate money for the third term. To the minds of University officials, there seemed to be no reason to dliscuss a qutestion, which had been solved b)y the powers that control the money-bag. Therefore, the meet ing was called off. TH GA MECOCK accepts this ex planation becatuse we know it is trtie and is logical. But we also say that the student body should have been given the opportuinity to express itself andl to vote on this vital issue. THE THIRD SEMESTER We paid a very enlightening visit to the General Assembly Tuesday. In the Senate we heard a debate on the third semester at the University. We also talked to veterans and University officials regarding the proposed bill and Senator Pruitt's amendment which would direct the University to operate con tinuously this year but would allow the Uni versity to arrange its own summer session. In this way. USC could get back to a pre war schedule by the middle of September. Those who supported the amendment say that the University must get in line with other colleges in the United States. If the University does not begin its fall term in September, we cannot hope to have a strong sports program, and the various schools can not organize their curricula with those of other colleges over the country. If the Uni versity is to go forward, it must resume a peacetime schedule. 1ut THE GAMECOCK goes further and says that if an accelerated program has been made available during -war. the University and state must make available an acceler ated program for those veterans who have been out fighti-ng and haven't had the chance of getting any kind of education. That's our position. Now, let's clear up some of the confusion that has resulted over this tri-mester plan. THE GAMECOCK has been asstured by the administration that it is willing to do anything which Would help the veteran. That includes running a sum mer semester, if the state will only appro priate somie money for that purpose. THE G.uIECOCK has also talked to veterans and been assuired that this group does not desire to be a presstire grouLp. These veterans only want to get through school and make up the time lost at war. Further, it should be real ized that veterans must go to school II months out of a year in order to receive GI benitefits. THE (,AMECo(CK applauids the plan unlani m1ously adol)ted by the lloard of Trustees March 11. We believe it to be fair to the veteranl. 8itt we also believe that the Uni verIsity shoutld continue this way: A summer soss ion fromi the hist of June to the firstof Setember (this is the plan suggested by the Board of Trustees) ; then semesters which WoUld (nitinie from September through De ember. rom .Ja1nuarV to May and so on. We have nothing1- hut admiration for the faculty of this University who have self sacrificially taught every summer for the Past ,ear's. But we also realize that the after Iath of war is often as had as the war itself: transition from war to peace is a trying time. We can't fail the veteran alny more than we cotld have failed the Navy\ when 'it, dnmtand)ed an accenload program three yvars ago. A PLEA FOR UNITY Tlhei'e are all sorts of people at the Univer sity. but there is one group to whor THE G;AMECXOCK issues an inv"itation to leave. That gr'oup is those who are all prepared to sit b)ack andi( criticize the administration, the faculty organizations, and campus lead er's. If any oif yout want to engage only in dest r'uctiv'e ct'iticism we dlon't needl you here; if you ar'e willing to roll up your' sleeves andl u'eork, to build a better Un iver'sity'. this is the pilace f'or' you. 'FTHE GAMNiECOC:K abhors all under'groutnd methods of' trying to change things at the University'. Right nowv we are thinking of he "Yellowv Sheet," pr'int.ed by goodness knows-whom. We also refer' to those w~ho dlelight in criticizing the condition of things at USC butt w~ho never trouble themselves to (do any kind of work to help imprtov'e those ('onditions. We have said this before, butt we say it again : All elements at the University must wor'k together; and if there are any dliffer' ances, they must be thrashed out openly and f'airly. Tlhat is out' idea of the democracy for w"hich "our boys" have been willing to sac rif ice their lives. EVADING NO QUESTION There has come across the desk of TiH CA M ECOCK a letter fr'om the "Inter-Colleg.. iate Committee to combat Ililbo." This Inter'-'ollegiate committee w'ith of fie's at II unter' 'ollege, Newv York ('ity, wvrites, urinag Unii verisity of South (Caroli na st ude(nts to promote the move'ment. Quoting f'rom the NEW OIIU,EANS ITEM the commit tee says, "Hfe ( Hilbo) 'is a disgr'ace to .Juni per G rove, where he was born, to Mississippi which he represents, and to the nation oif which h(', uinfortunately, is a citizen." TilE GA MECOCK f'eels all U.S.C. studt('ts should know what students of the country are dloinig; therefore, we have presented hese facts to you. I)o what you will with them. 1But T HfE G A MECOCK also takes opportun ity' t.o stand against any individual or group, here or anywhere, that seeks to threaten American dlemocracy. As long as Bilbo, or anyone else, seeks to perisecuite any minor itv. we stanI sonarely aginst him. My OP In keeping with the ideals set forth In my first column, I am publishing a letter from A student with a grievance. I will not pub lish the author's name for several reasons, but the letter was not an anonymous one. The facts in the case discussed by the letter are these: The Univer sity boxing team had scheduled a meet with the University of Miami hoxing team for March 1. The team was to leave Thursday morn ing at 5 a. m. for Miami. At 8 p. m. Wednesday, after training all week. the team was notified that the match had been cailed off. "Dear Said: "In this letter I voice the opin ions not of one Individual, but of a righteously indignant group of students who desire the public ex pression of their grievances and even more strongly desire that something concrete he done about. similar situations. "The Carolina boxing team is the group whose feelings I think all students can easily understand and sympathize with. "The Administration of the Uni vei sity saw fit to cancel the Iast boxing match of the University at the very last minute. "The real burn to our souls was that most of the boys had sacri ficed their leave or vacation in oi der to remain on the campus and train for the match. All this was done with the understanding that we had pre-registered (in the case of Naval trainees) and had the permission of the registrar to maku convenient arrangements foi the civiiians in register laiter than Oe t wo days s)Pecified. "Coavih Shi had overlooked tihe fact that clearance lbrouigh he Registrai did not amount to clear aneve 1ihrough the real powers that he. and when he called the Navy% 1i make fiial arrangements. wo sit: denlly found that red Itape and arbi i ary riling pevent ed tis from makin-, the trip. "I tnderstand t hcre is a line iof alutlintity not the military 1eimI fot it I which led to Admiral Smith and he14e was 'wOhere we stffered Scientist Warn May Think ItS .\IIh1upolwo:14t P.'il C.llle silid today tiat people ought I -t m::11.,lsol) thlinkine .;o mu111h. "If Ihley dolnti, fihey will think 1t mscves inio v!oinclion,- ho Dalkvi_. a loclitiri in anthropol ogy at the Chicago Museum oif Nat. urail H-iktory, saidl the atomic bomb was oinly the beginning of the de stiruetion man's brain power can "Out daysa will lie niuimber ed it wec don't spend less time splitting at omis and more t imei Iryng to re lax anti en.joy life." he said. "We've become animals withi overi-Speciaizedl brnins. 'That would he all right if we'd only specialize in developing enotugh btrain p)Ooer to realize the folly of out ways." D)allwig said mlan's nyer-ithinking not oniy threatened to sqlueeze all he .ioy out of life but thait his brain would grow to such prmoport ionis hat "somethiung wyill have to give." "Rrains already are getting hig ger," he said. "If they grow any more, the lower' part of the humani face wviil grow smaller, it doesn't sound very attrac'tive." Trhinking already has affected the itnion by Saul Lavisky our most humiliating defeat of the year. We didn't even receive the sympathy that co'ld have been ex pressed. We heard instead (this Is hearsay) that we deserved to be reprimanded for our ignoranee of regulations and those who Inter preted the same. "Is this the consideration USC students can expect in cases of the slightest deviation from the hal lowed procedure? We didq't ask Admiral Smith to perform any fa vors or to make any new arrange ments. We merely expected his ap proval of something that had only his final O.K. lacking. Does the University fulfill its athletic com mitments to other schools in this arbitrary manner? Had we been as important as the football team, there certainly would have been a different outcome, and we can truly say that in this case. it Is the principle of the thing, and such a principal is deserving of a high rate of interest. Usury can he had and so can use when groups are subject to such use by a Uni versity administration. We fought for the University, and we didn't fight for money. Why are we treat ed like hired help that has to work overtime and heg for a day off to spend fighting for a school fihat could at least sympathize if only for what we sincerelyv wanted to do fot it I thnve talked with sev'enral p. sons about the' situlation. and t hey have ;IssurIed m11b that fot a Naval trAinee to miss any assignment he must first secure President Smith'. recommendation for the absence. In the tave of the boxing team. thi; was iot donle. ,o Ihat the a tedt11C PIocedure was not coniple.'d. This is admitted. 'l'he compla,int of the boxing leam and fihe reasmn I have devoted a olumn t to lhe sit ,tioni is that tihe Adminitration of this school ha11s shown it.elf to he ratier cold-Iooded and formal inl dealin;: witht one of its mino, sports. The invideni wotild not ha ve occu I red if the sport had been I ont bat 1I. It is u) to the1 stu1dents to regis fer disanprovat of this type of treat men I Mankind ielf Extinct O-mC.h' .a. Thy dhont u -i-h NN- lI 1 ., 111o f -.. - it ll.Z';d to hi . bl' to o n but n14W h1ii horing has imj j'teifv. ie wi'leZnhe man would get his head uit Iof the clodtids produced by tihe ""xplosions of atomic thitkinig." "It wxoutld help a lot if humans wxoutldt emnember t hat I hey a re nothin-: tbut uadrupeds tup (on end." tie said. "Dinosaturs were upetnded (q11uadupeds, tool." Prof. E. .1. Freeman of thIe Clem son College engine'ring faculty be':ged hi: class of fturte engineers not to take serlioutsly the statement by Anthropologist PattI G. Daliwig, of Chicago's Mluse'um of Natural Iliistor.\ . that "people ouIght to get snmart atnd stop t hi ning so nmucth. if t he.y don't they wxill 1hIink them se'lves~ into extinct ion." Said Profess'r FrIeemuan: "'Alr. D)allwig muight sing in a different key if he were teachitng several classes a day. Please don't be afltaid of thinking yourtselves into extinction. I haven't seen 53ymptoams of cxlii onl through t hotught in any of my classrooms." up CNI-~( ETAOIN SHRDLU by Charles Wickenberg, Jr. "Come, fill the Cup, and'in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter-and the bird is on the Wing." The Rubaiyat. (But how absoid The Wing is on de boid!) Ah Spring! Spring, when a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of a possible $500 income tax exemption. One jade colored coed remarked recently as she was picking up pieces of her heart that it was the time when the worm also turns. Speaking of worms, (at ease, Sullivan). here's an astonishing paragraph from that fine little paper CANTER BURY TALES . . . its from an editorial titled, "Are You Guilty" . . . it reads: "There is strength in numbers. Think of the things that could be accomplished and of the pleasure that could be giv en if these icy walls of exclusion could be melted by a little -eormth of spirit." Typographical errors are those es er occurring accidents that lend great humor to reading. The choice one to my knowledge was a banner headline on a southern society page. The story was about the United Daughters of the Confeder acy convent ion. During the convention a flower show was featured. In large letters across the society page ran, "UDO HAS AMAZING DISPLAY OF PANTS." And so they happen. I understand that the late president of the university, J. Rion McKissick collected several scrap books of typographical errors. The New Ytyker Magazine uses them as fillers. I can't recall many of them at the mo ment. but there was one in an obituary story in a local news paper. There was a poem, the last line of which went, "Oh for the touch of a vanished hand" . . . but it came out in print, "Oh for the touch of a varnished hand." Recently a classified ad astounded readers of the STATE'S lost and fOLnd column. A reporter was sent to uncover the circumstances. The ad, "Veteran lost brown striped trousers to his only suit near .Jefferson Hotel. Finder return to .Jef ferson Hotel Manager. Reward." .lack Foster, on the staff of the RECORD tells the onep about a young Columbian who married against his parent's wishes. The family was very disappointed in his choice of a mate. After many moments of thought during the first meet ing of the newly married couple and the boys family, they gave in and admitted they liked the girl. A feature story car ried the sentence, "The prominent man then gave his son's wite a playful hog." Of coir.se there are other typs of errors that appear fre El *%ly. One that has been qioted in many college papers was the announcement madle by the dean of women at a northern university. She was quoted as saying, "After talk ing with the dean of men, we have decided to stop kissing. There's been entirely too much kissing going on ri-ht under our noses. The student body will take note of this announce ment." Neerdles~s to say', they (lid. A newspap)er advertisement of a restaurant carried this gem, "When is the last time you ate your favorite dlish ?" (With or without?) Such error's have pr'oven costly to the publisher's. and of ten cause moments of grief and unrest for those concerned. Undoubtedly' some of the readers have alreadyv formed( the opinion that this corner is nothing but one great big typo graphical error, "journalistic miscarriage," if you prefer. They will point to the standing head up there at the top of the column as an example. Since this column ap)pear'ed last week it's been a constant sour'ce of humor and amazement for' me . . . my entire jiournalism class dlescended on my neck to know what ETAOIN SH-RD)LU meant . . . numerous stu dents have p)ronounced it as a word . . . the majority think it is a typographical error . . . a few have saidl it w~as an ad vertising campaign like LS-MFT . . . andl at least on coccid told me it was a character in Max Schuleman's "Beartfoot Boy With Check." Actually, it is the top line of keys on a linotype machine. .Just as you get QWERTUIOP from the keyboard of' a type writer, so you get ETAOIN SHIRD)LU from a linotype ma chine. See? The character to whom I referred last week as looking like a whole month of lost week-ends has threatened to sue me for liable unless I reprint a retraction. Of course he hasn't a leg to stand on--in or out of court-at least, not much that will hold him up. If we went to court I'd undoubt ed(ly be absolved of any charges, and probably awarded the Pulitzer prize. Anyway, Mr'. S. has informed me that he is taking vitamin pills and sleeping undler a sun lamp and looks a little better this week . . . and that I should retract my statement and say that he looks like only twvo weeks of lost , wveek-cnds. We'll stop now before this gets involved. The best comeback to that lost week-end gag came from a frosh coced. She didn't know who Mr. S. was appar'ently', because I wvas standing next to her when she said, "Golly, he must be heavenly . . . that would make him fouri times as good looking as Ray Milland !" You just don't know, honey, you just don't know! There arc seven famous lines by Bliss Carman which this ' grand prelude to Spring calls for. The poem is, "Spring' Song," andl goes: "Only make me over, April, When the sap begins to stir! Make me man or make me wvoman, Make me oaf or ape or human, Cup of flower or cone of fir; Make me anything but neuter When the saee gins to stir..