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Editor ........... Virginia Raysor Associate Editors-Eleanor McCall. Sidney Wise. George Celusta. Circul ]News Editor...................Victor Barrett Feature Editor ................Harriet Lee Society Editor ............Martha Steadman Columnists-Ury Helen Shawhan, George of The Ga .Celu.=t:, (ul Lavlaky. Charles Wickenberg. Sports Edltol .................Donald Moore Photography Editor...........Betty Brown Cartoonists........Jinx Giles, B. 0. Jai-ett, 14A Mary Lewis. Managing Editor ......Saul Lavisky "DOING ALL THINGS' The University of South Carolina campus is resplendent with organizations of every sort. Some are useful, others, we are frank to say, are political organizations whose members deny the real purpose of their organizations and work mere ly in order to gain honor for themselves or their sQcial groups. THE GAMECOCK this week wishes to laud the efforts of one organization on this campus whose sole reason for existence is service to others. That organization is the Christian Serv ice Club. THE GAMECOCK has watched the CSC for several years and has always found it striving to be true to its purpose. Programs are taken to the Alms House, the Confederate Home, the Negro Boys Industrial Home, the Quarantine Station. Those programs take time, work, and initiative. Those programs are given regularly by the members. We know of one member who missed a sorority initiation in order to take refreshments to one group. THE GAMECOCK is happy to praise a club who will place service to others' above individual self-interest. All who are interested in learning further of this organi zation can investigate for themselves any Friday evening. 7 p.m. in Flinn Hall. LACK OF POWER? NO! During the past, students and staffs of THE GAMIECOCK have delighted to condemn literary societies for their lack of power and strength on our very socially-minded campus. THE GAMECOCK wishes to correct that opinion and point out to many students the tremendous power of the literary societies: First, each of the four societies sends representatives to the Student Council. There are 17 members of the Council; thus, more than one-fourth of the membership comes from the literary societies. Second, representatives from the literary societies make up the student membership of the Board of Publications. This Board approves or disapproves of all nominations for staff members of THE GAMI-:COCK, the only official news paper at the University. Third, the literary societies are the only groups on this campus who are striving to rais(- literary thought. T IE GAMECOCK believes that intellectual curiosity is the one great void in our very socially-organized University. And may ve repeat: The literary societies are the only groups organized to remedy this situation! No power in the literary societies-Ilypatian, Euphrosy nean, Clariosophic, Euphradian?-Why, there is tremendous power in them! But power which is not always harnessed As it should he! EItao'in Shrdlu It doesn't ring tue? SNoI Spasmodic conversation and forced laughter elevate your voice . . . your movement . .. to a higher plane Near hysteria. But your inner being. ...inks deeper into the murky gloom andl void worldl-space . . . like shadows piling tip in the unlighted corners of your soul. Qu icksandl. Something there grumbles, moves . . . as an unb)orn childl . . and searing agony, dlulledi by rationalism seeks expres sion in your physical being. I hear you.' But you are not you. Projecting yourself onto the plane of thi-s niight . . . this hour . . .this tick of time . . . youi are desperately holding onto this single unit as a drowning man to a straw . . . a hope. Your senses wvill not let you know what is natural . . . nor mal . . . for the appjroaching moment. Your laugh is a new, false . . . voice, There. That moment is done. And the next? It springs forth like an unleashed monster, but some vague gesture . . . motion of the fingers . .. breath . . .straighten ing your (dress . . . a pull at your hair . . . inhaled smoke... word ... thwarts temporarily the ultimate. You see? [ know. Like the click of a clock . . . each noise is lost . . . over lapped by another . . .and another . . . andI another . . . and another . . . the ocean's waves and voice is unceasing, re lentless.. And ;al . . . like a day, always changing . . . parrying ...defensive . . . lost. Lost. Deep rooted knowledge . . . a sensation . . lost. Lost. - I can see . . . know the cause for your every act, word... Guarded and unguarded moments, both tell. For I have felt the melancholy movements of my own soul andl suffered the horror and unceasing torture of battling for the next moment and the next andl The next. The Gameco ilion Founded January -30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First mecock: Issued Weekly by the student body of the of South ;arolina during the college your exc examinations and vacataon Deriods. 10. Entered as second-clase matter at the pos Colmbia. & C.. November 20. 1908 Student activities fee Includes $1.00 subscr students. :)Pials BOOKS, BOOKS, AND MORE BOOKS! On this page of THE GAMECOCK is an announcement from the Book Store regarding the sale of used books. Here are the facts which prompted this announcement: The University is asking all students to sell their old books to the Book Store. The demand for textbooks at the present time is tremendous. Witha practically every college and Uni versity crowded with .new students the supply of available books cannot meet the need. In fact. the need far exceeds the supply. As a result of this situation (which schools all over*the nation are experiencing) the University is taking all meas ures to obtain books, NOW for the fall term. It should be kept in mind that the University is merely requesting stu dents to sell their books to the Book Store. If students do not want to sell their books (and we realize that there are many logical reasons why they would not) well, that's all right with the University-the ones who will suffer are those students who cannot buy books in the fall term be cause they are unavailable. Further, these books need to be bought now so that they can be prepared for use next fall. The Book Store will place iin each book the purchasing price paid for the book, the con dition of the book, ("Good" or "Usable") and the selling price of the book. All that takes time; if the books can be bought now, this can be done during the summer months. Also, we notice, favorably, that the amount of profit that can be made from the sale of these hooks, has been fixed. TIE GAMECOCK has frowned on the way the Book Store has ben operated. We (o not believe it to be a Co-Operative Store, we deplore the inetficiency of its staff in the handling of books at Registration. and we have resented the fact that students were prevented Irom selling their books to each other and forced to sell them to the Book Store at the be ginning of the term. But under the existing emergency, THE GAMECOCK for rets these gripes (only for the time being, though, we as .4ire you) and urges all students to cooperate with the Book Store by selling their textbooks to the Book Store iime diatelY! ACTION-? After many, many weeks of effort on the part of KSK and many, many weeks of consultation on the part of the administration, THE GAMECOCK notices that one chain on the main gate has been down approximately one-fifth of the time (luring the past week. THE GAMECOCK breathes a silent prayer that somctime in the future both chains will be down all the time in order that dangerous accidents may not occur in the drive-way between Preston andl Burney, as they have been in the past. | B)' Char/cs W~icken berg The mindl is vague . . . I cannot go back And look into my intangible self as one does a mirror... I cannot again read the cause . . . no . . . nor have I ever readl it. It too is lost . . . never found. But it was there. Is there . . . sleeping . . but awake. For the marks are still with me in my gestures . . . speech ...face . . . me, as you know . .. see me. Mys,elf. I know your agony. I know your loneliness. Alone. Among the million things of the world . . . b)ut alone. I can te'll . . . but cannot help . . . there is no help Except rTh is: So long have I frantically fought to still the raging mass of inert, seething emotions of a spirit ..fought them 'till there was nothing . . . nothing . . . only a sensation . . . fee ble exhaustion. You can win. And they can win. The struggle, like a blistering heat. stays . . . remains ...endures ...o long that it (lulls . . .subsides . . . like the emb)ers of a holocaust. You win. And they win. TUho' the crawling . . . wit hering . . . wit hering emotions now lie still . . . dlormanut.. .. aigna nt . . . half sleeping ...always a wake . . . there .. A word . . . a look . . . a movemient of the wind . . . a song ...can, like a torch to a burial pier, set off in blazing, smothering combustion the torment . . . anew . . . again. It is always so. Forever with us. It is, as the shallow, unfeeling, inanimate, live-dead be ings say "Life." I know. I have lived And died a thousand times . . . And so will you. There is no end. Time wondnsi all heel. ick Editor Holds Jnversity it during * at Rating ption for AZ.-AKG IRIIKIE My Op When I first started writing tis colunin. I made the offer to print letters aliing gricvanves nr making suggvestions to improve the tliniver sity of South Carolina. Since that d ay. I have gotten only two let i eis. That can mean only one of three things. Either everybody else on the campus thinks Carolina too per feet to criticize of make suggestions for improving, or they feel that publishing their views wouldn't do any good, or else they know some thing wrong. but are afraid to ex press an opinion and slick to it. I sincerely hope it is the second idei. I'd hate to think (of a student hoiy So (tad oil Itir t teet that they don't know the difference hetweln good and bad and htween right and wrong. And Cld hate to think of a student body without stick-to it-iveness. As for the matter of publication doing any good, it eI tainly can't do any more harm than keeping quiet. This week's letter came from Bill Bennett. It deaIt with the suibject of spotrt andt s('ript dances. The letter listed threce good reasons for suc(h informal dances. 'Ibey were: 1. The average new student at lie University has had little oppor tunity to get acquainted with othier st udent s. '. The aecent dancre sponsored by the Veterans or'ganization has becen the on)y dance open to the average student. (This letter was written before the semi-formal Coronation ball.) 3. Many male students do0 not have the clothes for formal dances even if they can get a bid for a fra ternuity or sorority formal. Ace.nrditig to his letter. Bill has contacted several of the frateraiities and sororities anid all seem to be willing to give ani infor'mal daace, buit all seem afraid of appearing too cheap to give a formal dance. They seem perfectly willing to give such a dance provided that it could be Letters To The Editor Deaa Madam Editor, IAfter' condtufting many laborious searches and shedding many mioutrnful tears, we are asking the G;amecock to help us with a prob. 1cm. A little over a year' ago the seconid Pi Phi-Tr'i D)ell foot hall clas sie was played, and lucky victors hat we were, the Pi Phi's were awarded the trophy, one very' large shinty brass (cuspidor. It was to have been taken to the engravers by the editor of the Gamecock, at that time John Reese, since it was pre sented by the three campus publI rations. Gamecock, Garnet and Black, and Salvo. The trophy has samply disappeare.d, and we aa e still very anxious to have it back. We would like to lake thIs oppor t unity to solIcIt the help of Caro lina students In locating the lost artIcle. Any informatIon as to Its whereabouts will be heartily r'e ceived by any Pi PhI. SI n'earely, Virginia Williams1 Bu EX amecock Sp The All an Honor For 1945! C AW in ion by Saul Lavisky handled as a project., by such an organization such as Pan Ilellenic. Both Mrs. Childs and Mr. Garrett seem enthusiastic. Most of the students who I'ill andI myself have talked to seem enthusiastic. The idea is practically settled, except for one small phase, exactly who would sponsor the dances. The most likely system seems to be as follows: ' v. a sp01 dLance every two weeks, each sponsored by a differ ent sorority or fraternity. 2. Have all dances controlled by Pan Hellenic. 3. Charge a small price for ad mision to help cover 1he vxpenses of Ihe dalic'.. 41. Have I (In ances on week iights, such its 'Widne.day fioni 9 to 11 p. m. ot 8:30 to 11:30 p. mi. 5. Have dances in Field Ilouse or Armory. at least, on the campus. : In my opinion. such a program would result in a closer, friendlier student body that could really give the Carolina Gamecock something to crows about. Book Store Announces Stie Willinghiam, manager of the University Book Store, announces a resolution which the faculty of the University of South Carolina adloptedt on May 1, 1946, concerning the sale of texthooks. The faculty 1. That the Uniiverisity make every effort to re-purc(hase from studenis texthooks now in use, wherever the use of second hand books is feasible. 2. That the University Book Store pay 50 per' cent of thle retail selling pi ice for secondhand books that are appraised as good, and 40 per cent for those app)raised as usabtle. 3. That the maximum amount the Book Store charges for hand ling such shall he 20 pcr cent. 4. That each book so handled shall (carry on its fly-leaf holh Iiost and selIi ng pr-ice. 5. That wheniev'er requlested to do so, the Book Store will set upI sub agencies in populobus ('lass. room buildings to buy hooks from st udent s. *6. That departments t ake wvhat ever steps they dleeni most effective to Iidulce students to( sell t heir hooks and thlus make t hem avail able. tn other students. 7. That ini Preplag order1s for lhe Book Stoie, each depart ment should list mole t han one text, so lint if onie is not available thle store can or der I le next most desirlable one. 8. That the Book Store he loaned or advanced sufficient funds to en able it to pay its bills promptly, wyhich in our judgment would put the University in better position to compete with other institutions In hook-huying, and would enable the University also to discount its hills. In the opinIon of the committee this advance could he limIted to the amotunt owed to the Book Store by the Federal Government for hooks obtained by Veteran and Naval sinudent., siness Manager .... Joe Lumpkin hange Editor . Relph FergOe 4ety -Staff-Rives Kelley, Sidney Brandelbo burg,. Doris Moorehead. rts Staft-Goorge Howell, Joe Piedmont, Jerry Krupp, Frank Scruby, Jim Fulghum, Red Tyler and Sara. Cline. - I w Staft-Mike Karvelas, Belinda Cullun% . Dorothy Perkins., Mary Shoun, Victor Bar rett, Elizabeth McDaniel. Lacy Butler. Opal Isenhower, Mary Saye Gaston, Nancl Craver, Cyrus Shealey. Ietant Business Mgr.. .. .. ...Candy Taylor miness Staff... .Ed Teague, Victor Barrett. sist............ ...Barbara Binnicker rculation ....Nevitt Grove The Veteran View Point By Wallace Coleman The University Veterans met Tuesday night in the Chapel with Bob Stoddard, president, presiding. There were well over 150 veterans present, but an all-out effort will be made to get a better attendance at the next meeting, set for Tues day night, May 21. Warren N. f4artin reported on the University housing project. He 'pointed out that these apartments will vary in size from one to three bedrooms. A stove and Ice box will be furnished for each apartment, which will otherwise be approxi mately 40% furnished. The Veter ans voted to request that they be allowed to pay for these apart ments on a graduated scale rather than a flat rate. The determining factor of paying on the graduated scale will be the income of the Vet. eran and his wife. J. F. Wise was appointed to con tact the American Legion in order to get their aid in rushing receipt of the government checks. Letters were read from Senator Mayhank and Senator Johnston, acknowledging receipt of telegrams , to them urging their vote against the abolishment of the OPA. The senators wrote that they intended to keep the views of the Veterans before them in determining thei;Ao stand on this question. The city health authorities will he requested to check on the boarding houses and eating estab lishments around the University. It was pointed out that quite a few students had become sick due to the lack of cleanliness in, these places. A motion of Ed Paa lel and oth es to reluest increase in Veter. ans' allowance was passed. (This is written elsewhere in this issue of the Gamecock.) Dave Baker reported on the plans for Memorial Day. It is planned to have an outstanding national figure speak that day and he should bring a lot of 'attent ion to bear on the UJniversity. More on this late.. A moment of silence was oh served for Elliott McCants, a for.. mer' outstanding stuadenl and Vets Reso/lution May 7. 1946 WVhere&as due to the general over c'rowdled conditions of all Universi ties 50 percent of all veterans at tending the University of S. C. are forced to reside off the campus be ('ause of the lack of dormitory fa cilities. And Whereas there are no eating facilities provided by this University and many others, there by causing the cost of living to in crease greatly, and under the pres enlt state of affairs students en. rolled as N.R.O.T.C. receive $50.00 pet month in addition to quarters, clothing and meals. Since the enactment of Public Law 346 (commonly known as the G.f- Bill of Rights) cost of living has increased to a manifest degree; Whereas, practical experience has shown that the present subsistence alhlowances now allowed veterans attending the various colleges In this country are inadequate to meet the common necessities of life. Now in the light of all thie foregoing facts be it resolved by the Veterans Organization at the Univer'sity of South Carolina that a petitIon set ting forth this general situation he forwarded to the various members of Congress memoralizing them to introduce legislation to increase the subsistence allowance for veterans from $65.00 to $90.00 per month for single' Veterans and from $90.00 to $115.00 per month for marrIed vet. erans. Honor Roll y Campus Radio Station First contributors to WUJSC: J. Gamnecock 2. Delta Zeta 3. Pi Beta Phi ,4. Personal contribu., lion s...-.6OOn C