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* * * * * * * * * * * * * ? Student Convocations will be held today at 12 o'clock noon ia the Chapel, Instead of the Field House. Alpha Kappa Gamma, honorary service fraternity for women on the Carolina campus, will tp new members. A musi. cal program has also been scheduled. Train tickets for Furman game are on sale today at * * * UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER- CAROLINA Volume XXXXI, No. 5 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CARONA OCTOBER 8, 1946 Carolindar Any orgastzations desiring their meetings published in this calendar, must contact the Gamecock, Box 80, one week in advance. Tuesday, October 8 Student Assembly, 12 o'clock noon, chapel. Student Assembly Committee, 4 p. m., Flinn Hall. Pan-Hellenic, 5 p.' m., Delta Delta Delta room. Euphradian Literary Society, 7 p. m., Euphradian Hall. Clariosophic Literary Society, 7:30 p. m., Clariosophic Hall. Kappa Sigma Kappa, 8 p. m., third floor, McKissick Li brary. Wednesday, October 9 Sophomore Y Council, 1 p. m. Flinn Hall. Booster Club, 4:30 p. m., Dray ton Hall. Thursday, October 10 Y Cabinet, 1 p. m., Flinn Hall. Public Affairs Forum, 8 p. m., Chapel. Anderson-Carolina Club, 7 p. m., Legare 101. Friday, October 11 Senior Council, 1 p. m., Flinn Hall.' Carolina Christian Service Club, 7 p. m., Flinn Hall. Carolina-Furman game, 8 p. U1., Greenville. Sunday, October 13 Newman Club, 9:45 a. m., St. Peter's Parish Hall. Heart Attack Is FatalTo Trustee AtRecentGame Dr. Simons R. Lucas, member of the university board of trustees and well-known Florence physi clan, was stricken with a heart attack just before the close of the Carolina-Alabama football game Saturday and died about an hour later at the Columbia hospital. An eye specialist, Doctor Lucas was widely known in medical cir cles throughout the state. He had represented the 12th judicial cir cult as trustee since 1986. Dr. Lucas was educated in the Florence public schools and was graduated from the university in 1906 with both B. A. and B. S. degrees. Four years later he was graduated in medicine from the Medical College at Charleston and subsequently served interneships at Roper hospital, Charleston, and the McLeod infirmary, Florence. He was a member of the Amei can College of Surgeons and the Florence County, Southern and American Medical associations and was certified by the United States Board of Ophthalmology. He was also a Rotarian, a Mason and ju nior warden of St. John's Episco pal church. Congressman Van Dorn Will Be Guest Speaker *At First Public ,Forum Representative-elect W. J. B. Van Dorn from the third congrear sional district will be guest speak er at the first public affairs forum of the semester to be held at 8 p. in., in the university chapel. The purpose of the forum, which was organized last year, Is to acquaint students with matters of current interest. It has been announced by the chairmen of the committee that plans are being made to bring sev Seral outstanding speakers to the forum. All students and faculty 1 members are Invited to attend. IATTENTIN\ "The W.A.A. will hold its first meeting this fall on Wed nesday, five o'clock, in Sims Music Room to plan its pro gram," announced President Frances Smith. The Association sponsored soft ball games with the Faculty and a Tennis Tour. Inamnent during the past Spring term. AUl girls Interested are urged to atteud. Stud Rhod Captain Elder Assistant To USC President By GEORGE STANLEY Captain Fred K. Elder, assumed duties as assistant to the presi dent in July of this year and has been working with the President and various department heads on the problems connected with Car olina's expansion. Captain Elder assisted in the se lection of new faculty members. He was instrumental in providing student housing, as well as estab lishing the new placement bureau together with Mr. Flinn Gilland. Captain Elder was born in Penn sylvania and for a long time made his home at Montreat, N. C., where he taught in the city schools. La ter he became assistant headmas ter for the Blue Ridge School for Boys. He did graduate work at Co lumbia University and reecived his M.A. in education at the Uni versity of Iowa. He received his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina. Here he did research vork with Edgar Wallace Knight For three years on Southern His .ory. During the war, Captain El ier was called to active duty in ,he Navy and was sent to the Naval Academy where he served )n the Physics commission. Later ie became the Commanding Of licer of the Administration Com ,nand at the Naval Training Cen ;er, Bainbridge, Md. Captain Elder declares that the University students stand on their wn thoughts like no other group ie's seen. He believes that cour ;esy and respect for scholarship is idmirable. For the University itself, the Daptain sees a great future and yelieves that it is destined to be me of the leading universities of ;he South. Pep Rally For F Thursday 6:15 C By BEN McGUINN Thursday evening, October 10, it 6:16, the horseshoe on the cam >us will be the scene of another amecock Pep Rally. The Garnet md Black boys will be off to Ireenville the next day to meet vith the Furman "Purple Hurri anes," and they are expected to iave a rambling-rolling send off of rells In their honor that night. Dveryone is urged to be present o give the well deserving team a >lug of spirit the night before. Last Friday night, October 4, aw a surprising turnout - of ap roximately 2,000 students at this rear's largest pep rally. The school pirit made a wonderful showing, mnd the crowd almost went wild. Meeting on the horse-shoe cam mus the "poosh 'em back" pep stu lents rolled over to Sims' green vith the Carolina band taking the sad. Cheerleaders and Boosters vere present to keep the growing :rowd 'a-raisin-hell.' On leaving ents es Sc Applications I Students Due Others Due I By LIBI Any student interested in Rhodes scholarships availabl( send in his application on or nounced by J. E. Norwood, ID candidates applying to the through a college other than lina should submit their forn wood not later than Novembe Dramatics Group To Make Award ForOriginal Play The University Players will pre sent an award of $25 to the au thor of the best original one act play submitted by December 15. Sole judge of the plays will be M. G. Christopherson, professor of English and director of the dra matic group. A revision of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" into modern Eng lish by Prof. Christopherson, has been chosen for the next presenta tion of this organization. The play is now being rehearsed and lead ing parts are being portrayed by Philip Bernanke, Jim Simmons, Sarah Pinckney, and Betty Lewis. . The unusually large student body affords to the players a pos sible wider range from which they can choose their cast. Membership in the group has already passed the 100 mark. "Brighten the Corner," the com edy presented two weeks ago going to Beaufort, Saturday, De cember 12 to be given by members of the original cast for the local USO. urman Game )n Horseshoe the co-ed's slumber-house lawn they were met by torch-bearers and were led over to Davis field, marching down the middle of the street. Passers-by stopped In as tonishment and were bewildered at the spectacular sight of 2,000 stu dents marching down the street yelping and a-hollering. At Davis field a two-story barn fire, sponsored by the Boosters Club, was set off as the students settled down to a well needed prac tice of yells. The school alma mater was sung at the closing mo ments as the fire died down to a few sparks. Not satisfied with this the band and cheerleaders, assisted by the Booster Club gathered everyone together again and rolled like a large wheel up Sumter street. "Hall, hail the gang's all here," "Beat hell outs 'Bama," and a se ries of other chants could be hea~d a mile away, reports'were made May holarc :rom Carolina October 12; lovember 2 IY COLE competing for one of the six , to this district is urged to before October 12, it was an ean of Arts and Sciences. All South Carolina Committee the University of South Caro nal application to Dean Nor r 2. The statement of application must include general activities and intellectual interests in col lege, proposed line of study at Oxford, any course of study, be yond high school level, which has been pursued elsewhere. As a special concession to vet erans, several new regulations have been released. The age limit for war service candidates has been extended from 19 to 32, the usual marriage bar has been removed, and the customary requirement for two complete years of college has been dropped to one year. The stipend will remain at 400 pounds a year, except for those not re ceiving government aid. Non-vet erans' allowances will be supple mented up to the sum of 500 pounds a year. Three candidates from South Carolina will be chosen by the state committee in early Decem ber to compete with nominees from Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida and North Carolina in At lanta, Ga., later in December. At that meeting four regular scholar ships and two service scholarships will be awarded. "Graduates of the University of South Carolina," Dean Norwood stated, "have senior standing at Oxford without taking any pre liminary examinations when en tering, but start work on one of the advanced honor courses." There is no limitation on the course of study that a Rhodes scholar may make. He may take the same as at this University, but must specialize in one field of study. Appointments are for two years, although a scholar may be reappointed for an additional year, providing that his work has been satisfactory and that he sub mits a program of study for the third year which will be accept able to the Rhodes trustees. Additional information concern ing the Rhodes scholarship may be obtained from Dean Norwood. Forty And Eight Sponsors Script Dance On Friday Marvin Counts, chairman of the dance committee of the Richland voiture of the 40-and-8 Club, an nounces that a script dance will be held on Friday night, October 11, from 9 p. m. to 1 a. in., at the Sons of the American Legion hut. All University students are in vited to attend. Admission is sev enty-five cents ner couple. C:on ships These are the three students scholarships to continue work in partments. They are, left to rig! Spartanburg, who received the $1 Jeanne Johnson, Columbia, and El received $500 University scholar Lewis.) WUSC-WIS To Program And F K S K Will Sponsor Clean-Up Day And Beauty Show Again An annual Beauty Pageant and a Clean-Up Day head the agenda for Kappa Sigma Kappa activities this year. On the date of the latter event, which will be devoted to cleaning up the campus and all class rooms, there will be no classes. KSK will also select the pro fessor who has been of most serv ice to the University In the past year. He will be presented a plaque at a banquet to be held in his honor. KSK will work with AKG as in other years. Their Gripes Com mittee will be continued, and it is urged that students who have any gripes will make them known. Any suggestions for the Improvement or the benefit of the school will be appreciated. IS OUR FA( On the editorial page yoi letter plaintively pleading for game Saturday!I" The letter was received Ia berry game and was schedule as was the cartoon. Through an error on our pl in this edition. We hasten to explain and for Tuesday's edition Is mad4 jor part on Friday. It couldn It is our mistake. Neither' one else can kick about "schoo display Saturday. Keep It never, never print another wi Oh, brotliek,,ls our face red ipete AtC in retailing who recently received one of the University's newest de it: Winston Petit, freshman, from ,000 W. T. Grant scholarship and gin King, Latta, both seniors, who ihips. (Gamecock Photo by Stan Present Students acuity Forum The University of South Caro lina has been invited to fill a 15 minute period weekly on radio sta tion WIS, Ray A. Furr, program director and English instructor at the University, announced this week. "Any university," he con tinued, "is obligated to share its talent and knowledge with the people that support it." Last fall and winter such a pro gram was presented under the di rection of Mr. Furr over WIS as the "University Hour." It was composed of members from the radio broadcasting class and pro duced by Lacy Butler, program di rector of the proposed campus sta tion, WUSC. Bill Bennett, student president and general manager of WUSC, heartily endorsed the proposal. Mr. Furr further stated that a new series of public forum broad casts will begin over radio station WIS this week in which at least one member of the University fac ulty would be presented. E RED!!?? will find-we're afraid-a more school spirit "after the St week following the New d for last Saturday's edition, art both were set up and put apologize. The editorial page up and written for the ma t be stopped on time. PHE GAMECOCK-nor any I spirit" after that marvelous up-win or lose-and we'll mld about school spirit again. !! For xford Organized Naval Reserve Trains In Rated Groups The Naval Reserve Battalion 6 13 of the Organized Reserve will be activated in the Naval R.O.T.C. Armory, University of South Caro lina, corner of Pickens and Pendle ton streets, tomorrow, Wednesday, October 9 at 7:30 p. m. Many Naval Reservists who are enrolled in V-6 will eventually de sire to transfer to the Organized Reserve. The Organized Reserve is composed of those Naval Re servists who desire to become af filiated with a reserve division. They meet each week at a Naval Reserve Armory for a two-hour drill period. The drill periods consist of study and work in the rating in which the man is enrolled. The object of the drill period is to permit the reservist to retain the particular skills of his rate and to put in further study in the rating so that he may qualify for advancement. In addition to the weekly drill pe riods at the armory, members of the Organized Reserve may take a two weeks' active duty training cruise each year. The basic unit of the Organized Reserve is the division, consisting of 200 enlisted personnel and 10 officers. Battalion 6-13 will con sist of three divisions. Divisions will concentrate on the training of "rating groups" of men. Divisions will train at least four rates and not more than eight rates-with the exception that a Naval Veteran of any rating is eligible to join an Organized Division. Applications will be accepted from all ex-USN, USNR, USN-I, and other ex-service personnel, pages 17 to 39, for enlistment in class V-6 Naval Reserve and trans fer to the Organized Reserve. Men will be enlisted in rate held at time of discharge. Time in the Organ ized Reserve will apply on long evity for pay purposes on active duty. No physical examination will be necessary. All ex-service personnel who are interested are requested to attend the first meet-. ing on Wednesday, October 9. Frosh Class Officers Will Be Nominated At Tomorrow's Meeting Rock Yarborough, president of the Freshman class, announced last week that a special meeting will be held tomorrow, Wednesday, October 9th, to nominate new class officers. Nominations will be made for the offices of president, ice president, secretary, and treas urer. The meeting will be held at five o'clock in the University Chapel. All Freshmen are urged by their president to attend so that they may participate in the nomina Fiollowin this meeting will be a week of campaigning to be tuE. minated on Wedoesday, GOtober, 16th, bythe balloting.