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Editor ........... Virginia Raysor Associate Editors-Eleanor McCall, Sidney Wise, George Celusta. News Editor................victor Barrett Feature Editor ....... .....larrict Lee Society Editor............Martha Steadman Columnists-tary Ielen Shawhan. George Celuea. Saul Lavisky, Charles Wickenbvrg. Sports Edite- ................Donald Moore Photography Editor . ...... Betly Brown Carttonists ...........Jinx 01iles, Nlaty Lewit Mary Lewis. Managing Editor . Saul Lavisky ChI WHAT WE REALLY NEED! A great deal has been said recently about the needs of the University. Various things have been mentioned, among them houses for veterans, more classroom space, and no doubt a set of teeth for the campus carpen ter's cross cut saw. The truth of the matter is that it all boils down to one need. And that need is spelled m-o-n-e-y with a capital M. Unfortunately, the chief source of revenue for this institu tion is the appropriation allotted by the state legislature. Many people have profaned the paucity of our legislature's contributions, but they do not consider the fact that the state of South Carolina itself is no store house of wealth. This all leads up to one idea. Recently, the Buck-a-month club was reorganized for the purpose of supporting Carolina athletics. A question-If the University can support such an organization, what's wrong with setting up just such an organization to get behind our non-share-cropping alumni and raise a little money to endow a chair or two in soie worthwhile subjects-to replace some of the Civil War equipment in our labs and in general raise the academic standing of the institution? There are many alumni of the University who could give quite a sizeable endowment to Carolina. and still not have to worry about where their next meal is coming from. If some "doubting Thomas" should say that this is impossible, the fact remains that if each alumni were to contribute only ten dollars the University would have one hun dred and fifteen thousand dollars as a start toward better conditions in classrooms and dormitories. This estimate is made on the basis of a statement by the Alumni Office that there are eleven thousand, five hundred alumni whose addresses are known at the present time. This figue does not include the alumni whose addresses are not known, and w ho are no longer members of the Alum ni Association. Probably at no other time in the history of the University has there been such a vealth of Alumni interest stored up. Some organization should tap this storehouse of wealth. If our Almni and friends cannot buy that new car they may be willing to use some of that loose cash to buy a better University for the ftutire sons and dlaughters of Carolina. JAC'K WHILTLOCK. HUMBLY WE REQUEST The Gamiccock not ices that the Uni versity plans to move this office along with the G. & B. office and the journalism decpa'rment to other quarters. We earnestly hope that the administ rationi will take pity on the journalism department andi( move it to a more respectable location. The department is growing (as is every other department on the campus11) and de ser'ves something beltter than a one-room "Mole-H ole'" for its occ upants. WE NEED THIS The student council has statedi that it will investigate the advis.,bil ity of revi vi ng the old st udIent-facuIt v relations com mit tee, pro vided for in Section 3. Art icle V I of the stu dent b)ody Const itution. Several years ago a committe similar to this committee, bearing the same name but originated by the "Y" ' did a great dleal of good on this caumpuis. It was in existence up until two years ago wvhen a controversy over its Constit utionalitv catusedl its gradual demise. What were some of the things that this Student-Faculty Relations committee did? Here are but a few: 1. Students and faculty met on at common groundl and thrashed out t heir gripes. No matter' was too small or too lar'ge for this committee to consider. 2. The committee revised the University curr'iculIa to a great (extcut. Rteqtuired sub jects that were overlapping were elimina~ted ; andI new electives, such as radlio script-writ ing and home-making were inlst it uted. 3. The reorganization of orientation classes was accomplished. F'ormerly these were taught by professors in a mass meet ing at Drayton Hfall once a week. This committee was composed of about TI Circulation T ROBI of The Gamecock: I-suedI of Soutt examina I 4,000. Entered Columbi Student students toriah ten members, students outnumbering faculty members. It met regularly on Saturday afternoons for lunch in Flinn Hall and.dis cussed, constuctively, many problems which could have caused much destruction had student and faculty not met on an equal footing. The Gamecock believes that the new stu dent body president and the new student council should see to it that the old student faculty committee is revived under Constitu tional provisions. It should be remembered that the committee provided for in the Con stitution has never met. One member of the old committee ex pressed the opinion that the success of such a committee hinges on the personnel of such a group. We agree. To conclude: Never before in the history of our University have we needed under standing and co-operation to cement our di verse elements more than we do today. The Gamecock hopes that newly-elected Presi dent Fred Brogdon will take this step toward better student-faculty relations. WHEN SUGGESTIONS FAIL, THEN Several issues back the Gamecock wrote an editorial, suggesting that some effort be made on this campus to coordinate all extra curricula activities. That suggestion was made in order that the constant conflict be tween organizations might, in some degree, be relieved. Jp to the present writing, nothing has been done by administration, students, or organizations to improve -a situation which allows both men's literary sodieties, a hon orary society, a veterans organization, de bates, and the public affairs forum to meet on the same night at approximately the same time. The Gamecock condemns this lack of ac tion. Because no answer has been given to our general suggestion, the .Gamccock now goes further and makes a direct proposal: We advocate that the University hire a stu dent-activities co-ordinator, who would have complete control over the scheduling of all campus activities. All campus organizations -social, religious, honorary, etc.-would have to schedule their meetings and affairs through his oflice. HIe would have the final say as to wvhat meetings couldl meet on what nights. He would have the responsibility of straightening out the confusion which the multiplicity of organizations present at USC. We are not throwing any disparaging re marks towardl the Business Office. That office has p)lenty to do nowv, and we realize it. The Gamecock has proposed a solution to a very real p)roblem. The campus may answer by a "yes" or a "no." but it must a nswe. FOR YOUR INFORMATION THE GAMECK realizes that there are many hundreds of new students now attending the University. We wondler if all of those new studlents undlerstandl our HIonor Prin cip)le. Carolina's H onor system, as it is now op)erated is very new, (dating back to 1941; but the C:arolin~a honor principle dates back to the founding of this University. The Uni versity was founded in honor by honorable men for honorable purposes. For 137 years the men and women of this uiniv(ersitv have been men and women of honor. The p)rincip)le of honor at Carolina is simp)ly a way of liv'ing. Infractions of the honor p)rincip)le include (1) giving or receiving aid on quizzes or examinations, (2) copying lab reports (3) false absence reports. (4) cheating on "sign ing out" from (dormitories. A studlent Ihonor ('ouncil has conlete control and final jiuris dIict ion in all cases which involve infraction of the honor principle. Three faculty mem hers of the Council act in an advisory ea paci ty only, voting power Ytestintg entirely with the student members of the (Council. All hearings of rhe ('ouncil are kept ini abo0 lute se'crecy. '[his University has alwvays taken pride in its honor princip)le as a living, effective principle. Those students who cannot liv'e up to it are deemed unworthy to be matricu lates of the University of South Carolina. ie Gameco< Founded January 30, 1908 ERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First E Veekly by the student body of the Uj I.;arolina'durmg the college year exep Lions and vacation periods. as second-clas matter at the poste a. S. C.. November 20. 190& activities fee includes $1.00 subscrip Efa oi n By Charles | Wilson and Combs. authors of last. week's journalistic miscarriage - you couldn't ev-en call It creative writing in the broadest meaning of the word-are still alive . . . and soi am 1. I'm taking this opportunity to thank the 184 members of the student body who cast ballots in my direction last Monday . . .and also the one-third of the student body that voCedr For the others of you who took no interest in the electionq, and that's nearly two-thirds of the en rollment, let me editorialize a bin and say, "Let he who ast the first ballot cast the first gripe!" If you didn't take any part in the election activities--you have no right to criticize, complain, or heckle what happens on this campus. Mena Mother likes to describe Mena as "265 pounds of black heaven." Father always refers to her as "The other- member of the family." Wilhelmina Eleazer' Jones-TIipp, twice married, rotundl, grinning, in nine yeais has adopted the Wick enberg family and its ways. One afternoon a neighbor's ser-vant came over to have a little chat with Mena. That was when I first learned IMena's position In our family. She knew everything about all the rela tiv-es, and unfailingly used the ex pression, "Me and Missus Wicken berg," or, "Me and Mister Charles." Indeed, she is so well up on cur rent family affairs that recently when one of mother's friends who had been out of town several weeks' called while mother was shopping, Mena was able to give a running account of incidents plus opinions of the immediate family on the ap pioaching marrage of a relative. Along this line, the telephone is an impoit ant factoi' in her life, She stops all work when rpot her gets in v'olved in a c'onveisation and listens attentively. liler major foim of ex ercise' is rushing from the kitchen to answer- the telephone before any one else, in telephoning home, sev ral times I have confIded in Mena thinking it was mother who an swered. It isn't Men's pondierous size that takes lher' 30-minutes to walk the last t wo blocks to our house; It's her insatiable curiosIty and interest In neighbor-hoodt affairs, By the time she reaches the kitchen she has the c-onverisation and gossip with mother well under way and control. The co,nfei-ence continues while she does her various morning tasks, hut ceases abrupt ly at one o'clock when the Iiv'ing -room radlo blares forth with the series of soap operas in which Metna takes an active part. Sihe shareis' the agomizimg ex pieri('nes of aill thle make believe peo-~ Mena has had her own shar'e of agonizing, cietfly, a recent dental ople'rationt. She is seldom In mental straits, She lived withI her fIrst husband for four yeats. One night she was going through his trousers and found a letter frm hIs wife In Rlaltimore telling abotut his fotir childr-en. It Is not clear whether Mena ever got a divot-ce oi- not, Not long artcfmarAs Mea mae The G *ior Holds olversity t during Americ ""ft Rating lion for M7yf he&ia WHO'S WHO Tf&UYX. .S KK, MA I*f .f A tft,raM NEN&[R JLI&(' CCLU&' 4rf(ETAf TA!U[ ?, fif/ff(1/Iff0#/(T, Wifff/19fll A (AM'. AWAL ilMIl/Ef JUN5A0/ f1INNIff. 14 0nNNf SWllAitKl TONER IItKNIAR,5. t Shrdlu C kenberg ried a plumber and dipsomaniac named Sam. ]Iaving him jailed is a monthly routine matter with mother. One afternoon mother asked Mena which of her husbands she liked the better. Mena cocked her huge black head to one side and ruminated for a moment, then said: "Well. Missus Wlckenherg, ah thinks ah laked muh firs' man de bes'." "Why?" asked mother. "Well. I'll tell ya, Missiq Wicken. herg, he wuz sech a fin' Christian gennelman." Mena's opinions and beliefs are definite and strong. 1Her entire life centers about religion. For many years she has been "Candle Number One" in the t'nion Baptist church Number Two. I have an aunt who is a Christian Scientist, and Mena looks forward to her visits more than she does Christmas-at which times she receives more presents than any of us. Mena's claim that she could see spirits, led mother to try to r'eason with her for' the first-and last time. Mena told mother one day t hat she had talked withI my mother's mother who died in 1942. Mother asked Mena why, if hex mother' had come back, hadn't she spoken to her instead of Mena, Mena couldn't answer that. but in sisted that she had talked with my' grandmothera. In a jocular v'oice mother asked her please to ask one of the spirits to stick around the next time so that she could talk with them too, For the first time, to my knowledge, Mona was resentful and offended, The simplicity of Mena's think ing is frequently amazing, more often amusing. She has no memory for names unless she has heard them many, many~ times. One after noon a buddy of mine, B3ob JTones, came by the house whilo J was out. Mona told me at dinner that night that "Bob Ilope" had stopped by to see me. Once she borrowed five dollars from a loan shar'k with the agree ment to pa:' It back at 50 cenls a week. Fach time she would take the man 50 cents he would make her sign a new loan, and gav'e her no rec'elpt. Mother discovered the shake-down one day when Me'na I ried to borrow 50 cents. It turned out thai Mena had been paying for three and a half years for a total of $94.50. The reason: "Ah'd r'at her pay 50 cents a lit tle bit at a time than pay him five dollars all at once --ahx won't miss It as mtuch.'' Althlouigh she has bee-n with uis nearxily a de'cadet, n)It i t'er is d u bious of her' be'omxing ax permnanent fix. t"xre. Sam ryent to the Negro State Fair lasi year' and was thrown halt way acroass the grotundts whien a cent riftiuxi, stuspended swing on whih he was riding broke. This month Mena and Sam collect two thousand dollars damages. Mena.says she has "good inten tions" about the money, but once she told me, "Dc streets of hell i paved with goord intntIns.". amecock "* Sp The All an Honor As For 1945! C My Op This week's column is apt to dis appoint some of the fire-eaters on this campus who expect me to chew nails every week. At the same time, it's apt to please (to some extent) those of you who think that all I (-an do is complain. Instead of gripes this week. I have a couple of suggestions to make. And the first of these is aimed directly at the whole Fresh man class. In Ihe recent student body elec tions, no one was even nominated for the positions of secretary-treas urer and historian of the Freshman (-lass. Granted that the position isn't very important, It is still an honor, and unless filled by some unusual circumstances will cast a black mark on the class as a -whole. And it's that unusual circuim stance that I want to bring to your attention. I'm not sure, but I think lhat a petition to the student bod..y presi dent and to the members of student 'ouncil might re-open nominations for those positions. I don't believe its ever been done before, but now is a precedent-lreaking era, and something might he accomplished. At any rate. you have nothing to lose by such a petition. and you have a chance, to relieve the Fresh man (lass of the black eye it now carries. Another suggestion I have to make is the restoration of the honor Veteran A., I L4/_11 By t. WyI!M By WALLACE COLEMAN NOTICE: VETERANS MEET NEXT WEEK IN TiHE CIIAPEl, 7:45 TUESDAY, MAY 28. After hearing about the ten cents charged by the University deposi tory in cashing government checks. I did a little investigating. I talked to the lady in charge of the deposi tory and to Dean Chase. 'rhe fol lowing ap)pears -- I. The U'ni versit y is now paym ii the expenses of the depository -4al aries, lights, etc.,) 2. The deposttory is a non-profit organization for benefit of the stu dents. 3. Tren cents is ('harged on1 ouit-of town c'hec(ks. Trhis Is the rat( charged by banks on checks drawn on ouit-of-town banks. I4. NothIng Is chargedl fot (cheeks drawn on local banks, 5. The depository runs an necount at a local hank which c-hari,es thte depository' so much for so many ('hecks dtrawni out, 'The char ge tn the deposIt or v aries frI m05niobt to month, !ple'nding on the total number of c'hc'k. 6. The bank late on govei lnment checOkS is abhout t 'entIs cachi. 7. Over a period of for yeis, the deoOsitil has pr ofite'd (obtain ed a cash ireser ve hut this is ue as security for ani had hok ('ashedt. FFrom the abhove you ran sue that the ten cents charged for- th v ernment rheuks is the only mnns of paying the bank with whi-h the deposItory- deals for the hank'sier vie in other wordIs, for the tin ni ng nerounot. To go ai it hi it ther. you can see that the vet ('aos a paying tor this 'har ge aR'ioiunt. sInce they are the ones swith Iig ernmsent checks. Dean Chbase says if th s elins dIon 't like this, then the admi ni s rat Ion will do one of twso t hings. 1. Chat-ge all students a flat rat tier check t egnrdless of the cheuk s bueing on an ot-of-Itown baun k. ouu HONOR Radio Station W%USc. Per'sontal ('ontributionsg $60. ('hi Omega $15.00. Alpha D)elta Pi $10.00. The Gomieock $10.00. Alnha Epn.n- nh g.o siness Manager ...Joe Lumpkin change 'Editor . .....Ralph Ferguson lety Staff-Hives Kelley, Sidney Branden. burg. Doris Moorehead. rts Staff-George Howell. Joe Piedmont, Jerry Krupp. Frank Scruby, Jim Fulghum, Red Tyler and Sara Cline. wS staff-Mike Karvelas. Belinda Cullum, rtary Shoun. Elizabeth McDaniel, Lacy & Butler, Opal Isenhower, Mary Saye Gaston, eyrueshaliey. John Whalen. dstant Business Mgr.........Candy Taylor iness Staff...............Ed Teague Mat..................Barbara Binnicker rculation ......... Nevitt Grove in ion by Saul Lavisky roll and unlimited cut system to the University. Under that system. a sludent with a B average In all his classes would be able to take unlimited cuts. Another variation of that plan is for students with a B average to be able to cut one third of his classes. It all amounts to special privil oges for deserving students. You and I both know that special conces. slons are made to special students. It's that "You lug a football for louchdowns. and somebody will take care of you" attitude. tAnd I intend to devote a future column to Ilhat little phase of our college life.) Anyhowv, we know that some peo. ple get away with anything. And it's about time that students w%,ho work hard scholastically should he getting some reward for their work. It would be an incentive to make eveiyon work harder, and would probably result in a higher grade average for the entire stu. dent body%. Talk to oiur professors about it. Ask him tring it ip at the next favulty meet ing. Act on it at once and see if the plan can't be put into operaIftion! Noonl. 'There is too littiv stress placed on scholarship today. Unfortunately, the genral atlitude is to wet away with as little work as possible. Such a reward as unlimited cuts for a student with a 13 average could and can w%ork wonders for a studen hody such as ours. iewpont on a local hank, or a goverinment check or, 2. Charge all students a stim based on the toIal nunher of checks cashed a month. This will he a scale %et to be worked out. Dean Chase further poinlts out that if either of these two plans are adtopted, the l'niversity will cease to jias salaries and expenses of thea deiosIlimy. and thuts the students as a whole wsill have to bear this hut den. Al etci ans should think this out befol)Ie t he meeting next Tuesday night, so the Administration will know wvhat wer want. Perha ps some of you thbin k thtis is a lot of bickering over a small 'm'un' of money. hut with 1,100 veteratns and( 1.100 government lc-ks at 10e, each it amounts up A in 811.0 I aoi, month. otr about what " the gov'ernment is paying two Sin gte veterans a month. Stud (entCouncil A waits Action fly President T he Studeirn t Cotuncil of t he'I l'nt verisity rof Southi Carolina took ac I on on the investigation of thte Co opari lttiaes at its meeting in Fllinnl Ini. Mlay 13. BIlt Bennett and Vi rL'inia itaysor5 were appointed St udnts members on the comnmit tre. on Co-operat ives. The council is now wait cng for' President Smith to alppointt faculty members of the commit tee. 'Tte lieok Stoic. Canteen, and L o acdry compose the Co-operatives, suppt~osredly non-profit organiza lion. 'The C'otncit also discussed tne aeivisaamim~y of ofcia-ng a course an sex ('cucation at the University. tail l-owna and Sally Rickmian wsere a'ppoinatedc to investIgate this. ROLL Ihave colntribted to Campus