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Barbara Binnicker Circulation .......................Frank Chapman GUEST EDITORIAL Beginning with this issue THE GAMECOCK will publish a guest editorial each week. We pick the guest editorialists. Today Eleanor McCall, GAMECOCK associate editor, speaks. TOO FEW CAMPUS LEADERS With over 28 hundred students on our campus our list of campus leaders should have grown by many inches; however, this is not the case. The same comparative few are still carrying the load of keeping Caro lina's organizations going. This should NOT be the case! It takes work and co-operation to put Car olina back on its pre-war status-this should certainly be our goal-and at present, the majority of the campus leaders are those who have struggled through our war years doing their best to keep Carolina's activities active. These leaders should be relieved! When a person participates in too many organizations, his energy and spirit soon de serts him. It is for the good of the organiza tions and the person for others to take a few of the responsibilities, jobs, and honors away from him. We, the students, have allowed this condi tion to exist. Carolina needs and wants changes-let this be one of the first. Now is the time for those who have been sitting back expecting the work to be done by others to give Carolina more of their time and ef fort and make "has beens" out of the major ity of our campus leaders. They will accept the title graciously and will wish you luck. WELCOME TEACHERS! THE GAMECOCK wishes to extend to all alumni andl alumnae atter.ding the State Teachers' meeting in Columbia this week end a sincere welcome. It is fine to see for mer students back visiting the campus, and the University throws open all its buildings to these "01(d" graduates. THE GAMECOCK is proud of USC students who have gone out to teach in South Caro lina public schools. We feel that this group is doing more to raise S. C. educational stan dards than any other group. And the higher the standards, the more educated p)opulace we will have. The more educated people S. C. has, the quicker it can join the ranks of pro gressive states. Yes, the University is always proud of its alumni. We welcome all of you! CAMPAIGNING AGAIN THE GAMECOCK reminds all new students of a very old custom. At Carolina, everyone speaks to everyone else. We have heard several former students who have returned to finish their education after war duty comment on the fact that USC students don't say "hey" like they used to. Speak as you pass other students. It won't be any trouble and you'll contribute your part in making Carolina "the friendliest campus in the South." A BELOVED PROFESSOR The entire University mourns the loss of a great man. All who knew Dr. Josiah Morse loved and respected him. He was not only a great man but a good man. An eulogy of him would be trite, for THE GAMECOCK can not express the admiration it held for Dr. Morse in mere words. Dr. Morse stood always for tolerance, good-will, and the brotherhood of man. He gave his life to "good works" and was con tinually fighting prejudice and intolerance. We are reminded of his words to his classes on the day that President Roosevelt died. He said, "Use this daX for a day of ded ication to those things that make life finer and cleaner." THE GAMECOCK passes on those words at this time. The world - will miss Dr. Morse, for it is his kind who make the world a decent place in which to live. The University will long miss Dr. Morse, for it was here that he taught students the eternal brotherhood of man. IT'S UP TO YOU Last week we expressed our opinion and the opinion of many students when we called the so-called Canteen "disgraceful." This week we feel the same as we did last week even more so-for we have examined the canteen mor closely during the week. But we have some additional facts to pre sent to the entire student body: A good esti mate of number of people going through the canteen each day is 5,000. One day last week 1,200 paper cups were used-many hundred were thrown on the floor during the course of the day. Also, on our tour of the canteen, we saw booths carved with various initials and names. One morning we observed every booth being used by "card fiends"; in the lobby and post office were students standing as they ate and drank. When they finished, they discarded their wrappers and cups on the floor. This leads us to this conclusion: The huge number of students on the campus is respon sible to a great degree for the dirty, disgrace ful condition of the canteen. Not until every one of us stops throwing our cups on the floor, stops carving up the booths, stops us ing eating places for sorority rooms and "bull sessions," can the canteen come anywhere near being clean. THE GAMECOCK is intensely interested in the canteen. We see a deplorable problem, have presented suggestions for remedying that problem, and now entreat the entire stu dent body to do something about it!! It's go ing to take student interest and student movement to clean up the canteen. THE GA MECOCK is convinced that that alone will accomplish any good ! Criticizing without us ing that criticism to accomplish something constructive is merely a waste of words. If the administration doesn't feel it can clean up the canteen, surely it's about time the student body did it! SUMMER SEMESTER? Practically every student at the University is interestedl in whether or not we will have a summer term. Students want to make their plans, and many are doing so. But it is well to keep in mindl these facts: The University has provided for a summer semester which would run from June 20 to September 17 and which would enable the student to earn between 12 and 15 credits. But any kind of a summer term requires money. As yet, the General Assembly has not appropriatedl the money to operate the University this summer. We expected the General Assembly to take definite action on this matter before it rdjourned last Satur (lay. But it dlidn't adjiourn. Therefore, no one can say definitely what will happen this sum mer. Whether or not the University operates this summer depends on howi much money is ap)popriatedl by the General Assemb>ly within the 'next few days or 'week.. As a result of this uncertainty, no com plete details can be made as to courses and schedules for this summer. IN MEMORY THE GAMECOCK has just received word of the tragic death of Charles Edwin Swartz, Jr., of Mt. Lebanon, Pa., a former NROTC who was graduated and commissioned in November, 1945. Swartz was killed in an automobile acci dent March 26 on his way home to Pitts burgh on leave. He was stationed in New York on a patrol craft. While at Carolina, Swartz was a member of Sigma Nu, the Color Guard, and the Var sity track tam. Ka MYO Mp Now that the whirlwind of an tagonism towards Russia has pretty nearly blown itself out, a great many of the people who were goin-g around saying, "I told you so,' about the war-scare headlines are now going about talking in terms of "the easing of the crisis." Everybody is happy, of course. that the "crisis" is over. There is now a wave of "relief" sweeping the campus. I don't see any basis for the feeling of relief because I can't see any basis for the "crisis." Let me explain. ,The Russians have promised to have all of their troops out of Iran withio four or five weeks. In all probability, that means that they have gotten what they wanted, a foothold in Iran. There is little reason to doubt that they have reached an understand ing with the Iranian government. The hullabalu that w*vas raised over the situation in Iran may have hur ried up negotiations, but in no way did they affect Russian plans. There is no reason to believe that they will now follow any other plan than they would have followed any how. And it's a curious thing to see people who were so hysterical be fore, nowv taking credit for the eas ing of the crisis, that they helped bring out. Thai's like the man who beat himself over the head with a hammer because it felt so good when stopped. So I don't believe there is any' more reason for a wave of relief than there was reason to fear' the crisis. I don't believ'e Russia is out IThe Vetera Dear' Editor: Now that a continuous pr'ogram is likely to be followed here at the University, I think it is appropriate that a few matter's be clarified con cerning the veterans' viewpoint. The parade around the statehouse was not a veteran affair. The drive for continuation of the accelerated program had its inception last No v'ember with the Freshman Law Class when they petitioned the trustees to continue the program. This petition was turned down by the trustees in Decemher and an eight-week' summer school was of fered insteadl. Believing that this was not ade quate to c'ope with the situation of having hundreds of veterans re turning for an education, the mat ter was next taken to the House Education Committee. After hear ing both a student committee and an administration committee, the House passed a resolut ion request ing the trustees to continue to op erate the accelerated program. It was at this point that the academic veter'ans joined the law school in their desire to get an education as soon as possile, knowing that there would he a dlecided increase in veter'ans returning for the next two or three years. The trustees then met and de cided upon the present three-month summer term. A student commit tee's request for a hearing at this meeting was turned down, but it ... .... . .. 0 0 lliOn. by Saul Lavisky to conquer the world. I think they were merely throwing their weight around as any big nation will do. England and the United States have both done the same thing. In my opinion, there has been no change in the Russian policy. What the Russians were before, they are today. What the Russians are to day, they were before. The change has not been with them, but with us. The true change has been in the American mind, In their ac ceptance of the situation. I'd like to quote a columnist In a New York newspaper who wan writing a series of articles on Rus sian-American relations. He said: "It is an index of the world's maniac-depressive state that every few months there is a crisis in which passions boil up. and then there is som' sort of across-the table agreement and things quiet down, only to zoom again when tempers are straine(d." The crisis Is over. It was not the first. The crisis was serious. But if a crisis occurs again, it would be worse. It is timie to real ize that in the present-day world. there Is no room for errors, no time to make mistakes. Men must do what is right or else perish. Too often lately we have pinned the blame on "those darned Rus sians" or on "power politics" or on the "atom bomb." But no. the cause is not there. The cause Is not mechanical or physical. The cause is man himself. The chal lenge of the future is to man. The solutions of future problems are left to man. It is time to realize that we are not to be guided by c'hildlish hysteria and passions. it is time to growv up and find out what's, going on. n Viwpointj appears that the summer term is a fair compromise to all parties concerned. The law fresh)men, by attending this and next summer, will he permitted to graduate in Sept ember' of 1947. two months ear lier than we originally asked for. Academic students may obtain within two credits of a semester's work, on the av'erage, and most of the faculty will get from one to two months rest. IIence, it ap pears that a program has been reached which Is acceptable to all. though not the most desirable. In the drive for this, both the v'ete'rans and administration did things that made each other mad, mostly due to misunderstandings. After discussing matters with the adlminist ration (both sides putting thetir cards on the table), we now seeN a better spirit of cooperation among the entire University. The administration has promised that the student body wIll be kept In formed of dlevelopments. With this goal of maximum cooperation be tween students, faculty, and admin istration in mInd, this organization looks toward a Greater Carolina. In the future, we shall continue to "lay our cards on the table" through the media of this paper, and by personal contact with the adiminist ration, but at the same time we offer our cooperation In all matters pertaining to the welfare and improvement of the University as a whole. BOB STODD)ARD, President, "Carolina Veterans." ETAOIN SHRDLU by Charles Wickenberg, Jr. Did you ever stop to listen to snatches of conversation? Some of the things you can hear while passing people on the :ampus or wading through the canteen are amazing. I picked up these scraps Wednesday morning about 9 o'elock. "She used to call me a pain in the neck. I guess I'm slip. ping." ... but it's so early in the morning I" "If I were a girl I wouldn't want to go to St. Mary's." (Fe. male voice). "It's difficult to keep absurdity out of such a discussion. You see, the true evidence of belief is not in the intellect alone-this philosophy postulates the transcendant nature if ultimate reality. It goes beyond the limits of all possible experience and consequently beyond knowledge . . ." "Can you get stomach ulcers from drinking this Orange e stuff before breakfast?" "Have you read Lion in the Streets?" "No, I read sitting up in bed." "Who's the cute blond in the sweater . . . reminds me of my mother." "Was Farris there-he's so pretty-hey, how you?-what time is it?-thanks-hey, how you?-we simply had the best time ever last Saturday night. . . you should have seen Coop er when he knocked over the keg-hey, how you?-he could n't see very well... it was dark... and-hey,hdw you ?-and he said, 'Sorry old man, not hurt are you?'-hey, how you? Really it was a scream what time is it I've got a lass where aremybooks-hey, how you?-gotta go, it was nice talking with you heyhowyou? heyhowyou? heyhowyou? heyhowyou? ' Oh, Betty, before I forget. . ." "* . . and he said that the radio officer was supposed to check the rooms to see that radios were off between, uh, uh, twenty-hundred and er uh eleven-hey, how you? can you. imagine'anyone being so dumb?" "... HEY BOBERREEBOB..." "Hey, how you?" All of this should prove something or other. Dean DePass did tell us in class this week that the average man's vocabu. lary is around one thousand words, but that he understands around three thousand words. While we're on the subject of words, a rather haggard veteran didn't mince any when he gave his excuse in a class * the other day for not studying his lesson. Quote he, 'I was up all night with the baby !" During Lu's second sophomore semester, summer semester that is, she decided that there was no sense in wasting time .o she recklessly enrolled in a course in astronomy. After three labs she cut 48 straight classes in a fit of nervous bore dorn when she discovered the telepscopes would swing only a 60 degree are, including the South corner of Wade Hamp .on and the West end of Sims. Lu decided there was nothing ihe didn't already know and went to Kansas City to visit her zreat-great-grandmother and 148 relatives who lived in a Southern Pacific railroad tunnel. Even after she was run over by ten troop trains rushing reinforcements to General Custer she thought it was safer 'han standing on the porch of Sims between 11:59 and 12:29 Saturday nights. Lu grew great in the love of her relatives. She would sit >y the day on a pile of railroad spikes whistling dirty songs to the great amusement of the family circle. Her experience + at the University rendered her capable of caring for the y'ounger children. It was an inspiring job, and one which she took to with vigor. At times she would conduct seances (Dr. Babcock, please note use of word) and voodoo rituals which her mother used to perform to scare her when she had hiccoughs the morning after. The kids all thought her performance was better than Ray Milland. Her favorite trick was changing her complexion, a chame leon dodge she learned for lates dates at Pawley's Island so. she wouldn't be recognized by number one boy. This versa tility was a favorite with the kids. But one day she made her self look like a strawberry sundae with whipped cream and cherry on top. The thirteen children who had not eaten any thing but caviar were stamped.ed and immediately set about * eating the three youngest tots. This trifling incident upset Lu so much that she went on a binge for thirteen days--that's a bakers dozen and a Sulli van week-end. It was during this weak moment that she met H- jalmar Asdfspacesemilkj, a fine young man with two legs, two arms, a head, accessories, and a modest income of $90,. 000 a month. After watching her for three days Hjalmar decided to speak to her. 'Hey, how you ?" he said. He was a very outspoken young Lu eyedl him carefully. "Oh. go slide down a razor blade," she retorted with feel ing. "Hey, how~ you?" he replied, Hjalmar was a tenacious .young man. "Oh, your father's mustache, Lu screamed. "Hey, how you?" he pleaded. "Ytoou purple bellied louse, I'm a lady and I'm from Char "Hey, how yall ?" H jalmar was a psychologist. "Oh, dry up, you drip!" That (lid it. Hjalmar was sensitive. She had cut hiA water ofHe wat lergic shrto water. She couldn't do this to him.~ "Hey," he said,simply and with much sarcam. 'Grrrrrrrr", Lu grrrrrrred. Obviously it was love at first sight. thnex so we are forced to leave these two love birds until the nextg tie, menwhie jo..do you don't feel right ? Hmmm? don't you stay OUT of those joints. And do'm? fore, Uoy wohyeh spelled backwards is the secret to briliat, cove sation. Try It toda. brlinbovr