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THE GAMECOCK CROWiNG FOR A GRBATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Member of Alseeated Collegiate Press Distributor of Collegiate Digest Feu'e!: Jary lSwith Robert E11Ntt Yeasales as Uo fiht NNoTR HOAM is published by and for u studset" at the alvereity of Seth Carelina In Columbia semi eday ad turday, dorits the eellege year exe" EdKtrial and buelsess offieee ar heated In the east basemee of Owe dormitery. Advertising rates are 5 es as I.0l DsedlteR Wir Saturday edition: editorial and seelty, a p. a ededytew and sprts. UP. . Thusday. Deadliaos fe Tuesday edition: editorial and seetty, 3 P. m. Friday; sews au sporte. 3 p. m. Sunday. eEestltste as eadersemeat altheugh the right to edit is reservei STAFF Editor-in-Chief ..................... Mary Shou Managing Editor ................. Mike Karvela EDITORIAL STAFF News Editor ...................................... Bob Isbe Sports Rditor ...............................Don Barte Society Sditor ........................... Libby McDanl Feature Nditor........................... Carroll Olilla Sxchange sdlor.... ... ................ "Potty Trexlh Columnla t-Thomas K.Beans, Dick ,reeland, Dotte Perkin Redmond Tyler, Belinda Collum, Ben McOulnn. Cartoonist ........ . ................. Samuel L. Boylstc News Staff-Margaret Sloan, Libby Cole. Irene Sanders. Bc Gunter. George Stanley, Jane Dowe Cyrus Shealy, Jc Conard. Ruth Newell, Phil Clark, lean Davis, Jo An: Dlingor, Norine Corley, Bob Carpenter. Mary Saye Oastoi Holly Beck, Bill MClain. Helen Childers, Lynn Coucl Joe Molony, Sidney Brandenburg, Rita Levene. Dor Morehead. BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager ................ Candy TayIc Advertising Manager .......H.. .arry Ho Co-Clrculation Managers ...Lynn Hook and Darien Robertac Business Staff ........................ Ann Mood, Betty Mo< Suppose It Were You It takes no imagination whatsoever t recognize the fact that there are many wai scarred and devastated nations at presen1 It takes a great deal of imagination, hov ever, to comprehend the idea of a Carolin student living in a damp, deserted, undel ground air raid shelter, wearing the sam clothing day in and day out, or studying b candle-light, but such conditions are quit real to students in the war-torn countries. In Polande the University of Warsai closed during the war and then 95 per cer destroyed, reopened in 1945 for 9,000 sti dents, who live in dugouts, cellars, and huti Forty per cent of them were in concentratio camps, compulsory labor, prisoner of wa camps, or resistance movements. Thirty-fiv per cent of these have tuberculosis. Th government gives them only one meal a day Sixty per cent of Warsaw's professors die in the war and the professors today, poorl paid, are lucky to have one shabby suit. One-half of the University of Oslo's 6,00 students are unable to find satisfactor lodgings. The University of Kiel suffere 85 per cent war damage. Students lived o barges until these were requisitioned fc other purposes. Men students now sleep o Veterans!/ 714,477 Veterans Now cntrat to tii ratio of three , Attending 668 Schools men. Throughout Nation Teachers col 1945 dropped ir Cincinnati, O.-(I. P.)-In what cent below 1931 he describes as the beginning of year in the gen a "new era for American higher ly large enrollr education," Dr. Raymond Walters, the survey. T president of the University of nlow in $7 apj Cincinnati, reported here recently teachers colleg that 1,331,138 full-time, including double the nui 714,477 veterans, and 1,718,862 14 per cent mc grand total students are attending In addition I 668 approved universities and four- the 668 institut year colleges throughout the coun- survey, Dr. Wa try. from other so The current full-time totals are ditional 350,000 approximately 57 per cent above veterans, estini those of 1939, last peacetIme year, colleges and c and are far in excess of 1945, several hund!re when 645 approved Institutions re- vocational ir ported 671,867 full-time and 985,- would bring th 227 grand total students. The well over 2,0 1945 full-time total was 21.8 per slightly over hi cent below that of 1939. - Continuing a trend Set by last TeXas Sm year's veterans' vanguard, 59 per cent of the returned G.I.'s on cam- That Vet< puses this year are concentrated To Be Ph In 100 universities and institutions of complex organization. Austin, Tex. One-fifth of the veterans are the veteran ai distributed among 424 independent campus life? I four-year arts and sciences col- Texas sociolog: leges which for several years had completed a su predominately feminine student tion made und bodies. Dr. Harry E. The 48 Independent technical professor of se schools and Institutes have at- "Above all tracted 12 per cent of the vet- wants people t erans, him as a prol Mr. Walters emphasizes that, in constant coddl the face of unprecedented,. compe- investigation," tition for admission to colleges ing the surve and universities this fall, women wants to be a applicants have had a square treated like on deal. He cites the sampling es- tion, a job, ma timate of the United States Office mal life. of Education that 660,600 women "He Is rem in 1,749 Institutions of higher 'the world ow< learning represent an Increase of what I have d 94,500 over the 1946 fall term at the same I peak enrollment, and that for the government w, c@ntry as a whole, there are two more generous mean to sach women student, In both single ani straw mattresses on the floor of a machine shop. In France, a medical examination of 28, 000 Parisian students revealed that they are 17 to 20 pounds lighter than the pre-war average. The percentage of tuberculosis in France has multiplied by ten times during the war, and mortality by five times. More than 1,200 French students need treatment - in sanatoriums. In Strasbourg students live t in an abandoned museum, without windows - and furniture. In Graz, Austria, students live on 1,200 calories a day while Viennese students live on the urban average of 750. The Austrian - Students Association reports this contains "no meat, no flour, no vegetables, no butter, no milk" but consists of peas, beans, bread, conserves and fat. Professors in Budapest get 50 cents a month. Students "live in holes in the ground" their shoes are threadbare, ' and "butter, meat and sugar are the stuff dreams are made of." Dr. Y. P. Mei, president of Yenching Uni b versity, writes: "These war years have hit the Chinese students hard. Complete- block ade and terrific inflation have made life well-nigh impossible. Student dining halls are, as a rule, without chairs and even benches. Food is meatless except for spe d cial occasions, and boarders constantly go - hungry. Sickness is so prevalent that one might think it was several epidemics, espe cially tuberculosis, malaria and dysentery, o breaking out together. One very attractive girl student on our campus had to carry amoebic dysentery in her system for months until money, an amount way beyond her own - means, could be found for the course of a yatrin. "Textbooks are a great rarity. Ink is an e indescribable mixture, and the best virtue of the note paper is that it makes good e blotters. Electric light in the evening is a most undependable affair and candles are beyond the means of all academic people. On my inspection of the boys' dormitory Lt one winter evening, I found two boys belong ing to the two bunks of a double-decker bed huddled together in one bunk. I objected, but my tears flowed when they pointed out to me that with all the blankets, clothing, r etc., that the two of them possessed-a e meager amount-piled on top, they could e barely pass through the night together. r. What warm clothing I could spare myself has been loaned to students several weeks each year. It would be easier for Carolina students and all American students to assume the "let-them-take-care-of-themselves" attitude. y Yet, put yourself in the shoes of a European d or Chinese student. They are living and n studying with famine, suffering, and per r sonal sorrows. Just suppose you were one n of them. Studentsi e 1945 and 1944Heraieththhslotmc vomen to each two tm,adh si ur ofn ages, which during igalvn. attendance 47 per Aqusinarwssetbth ~, have shared thisstdtsmknthsuvyoal erally phenomenal- vtrn tteUiest.I tents, according to adto,10vtrn eeitr aoe 90,270 students vee esnly iia >roved independent qetoniewssn onn es are mor thanveea stdn. Amgth nber of 1945 and fnig eetee re than in 1939. Thtyprcnofheveas o the totals from aefo 12 er fae ions covered in his Cacsae7 u fa10ta Iters noted reports tevtrn'euainwsitr urces for an ad- rpe yhssrie including 150,000 On-hrofteveasae ited for 660 juniormare,adoths,w-his ther thousands in I professional ndmaredungtew.Oly1 stitutions which mn lomns h aoiyo a national total to toewod o os upe 00,000, of whom mn hi lomn rmsvns allarevetran. He reae thade has percet more ti,arabe isiar relgio an-6 per schoen less faoal sttarn Arn W n Fitysesinnair caent are more nCvla studoaento aial and survey ty l vetrups a the reUltiveiry war Ijused imsefaddMto the veterans wereiter gh Uivrsty f havey hersoay th A"simikar veea students.rcnl n osn n goermnt te rveyonthisqes hptye cnt o the n-veterans rthdietoofaed tero belief tas the age Moore, assCiaeeancs shoul hav uth bfa00tha cllg.The vetas' haduationiety ofin else, ~ Oe-hrdo the veterannosaottercus s stdy Scasethikin ofMostridiatdo thee favo-tin ing,babing mand ieed dun the ar. Only tech thetudntsak-er shot riefoneher oefr m~cnldd H ens, mlormns;e ivdalority of civilianand thosb p whoin core noftdy,s smaller ; to getanedca clase allotmntrze gaing rly and lveea nosys.,hge a o eces creditable toanin recivdion aer-6 veaby frefomt vice opptunityaorb towriead labealin or nions.-tecusea h n orn atitdenYt ifte-seesper motre oracia ine heivilias he orset ca and mi ntohetree ijutd seef to besmeste pla t venaern thesider rve onlothsqepoment, and cmlte hisn-orkerane else,rre veteran qickly.ttei orsso suy "Can you imagine a flat tire, gettin my watch being wrong all in one nig: T hat Garnet and Black Spirit Results Of Last "Tig Show Similarity To, Incident Of Pistol-Tol Twas The Night Before . . . w It was the night before the hi 0i Carolina-Clemson game, October 23, 1946. ri The scene was the Sumter street cc I4 gate near the South Caroliana W 0* library at the university. I.I The characters were various hi members of the local gendarmerie m and -approximately one hundred e Gamecock rooters. ie The plot was the destruction of 3 one of the oldest traditions of our school, That night, a group of enthu siastic students built e t radi tional bonfire at the gate. It was the usual. procedure, dating from the days when local supporters of the Clemson Tigers were ac- b customed to coming on the cam- ai pus to disturb the nocturnal slum- k ber of the Gamecock squad. w However, some members of the o local citizenry were unable to face the horrors of the blaze and im- c mediately notified the brve fire fighters that the university stu- c dents were trying to imitate the, foul deed of William Tecumseh ir Sherman. Immediately, the staunch d defenders of the public safety a sped to the scene, accompanied c by the equally brave, and equally t staunch police force. Proectled by their bodyguard of c some dozen or two gendarnes, the 0 firemen soon removed the ominoch d danger of the bonfire. This last r atProced btheio dygr of ma from behind the chain at the gate. "Gestapo!" "Nazi swine!" and so on, the epithets were hurled. k The guardians of the law shout- t: ed some rather uncomplimentary words from their side of the chain b and raised their weighty blud- a geons violently.d At this point, one indiviiual b whose name appears on the roll a in the Registrar's Office, hurled k a tomato which happened to be in t his hand. Accidentally, It splat- i1 tered delightfully over the length and breadth of one gendarme's Y face. The soft, sticky, odorous h juice of an overripe tomato flowed a in little rivulets down the deep t creases of his frown. Immediately, all pandemonium broke loose. For the first time in the history of the university, local officers of the law chargedI on the campus. Passing through the gate, they charged into the crowd and laid their hands on tiheir suspect. c With equal vigor the students * present snatched their cohort's i other arm. A tug-of-war then c followed, which resulted in more "vile" language, several broken ~ watches, and various bruises. ? One of the policemen then be- t gan a very touching speech in which he sought to draw tears t FOR GRADE'S SAKE With the approach of final exams, the Syracuse Daily Orange ran an ominous article which may or may not have Influenced the semester grade curve. It told how at the 700-year-old Univer sity of Naples in Italy, a group of students recently beat their pro fessor with an iron door handle because he had not given them passing marks in their examina tions. The students were all vets of the Italian army. The brawl forced authorities to close down 1 the University, which Is one of I Europe's most ancient Institu g=lost, running out of gas and tt? er Burning" Ante-Bellum tig Student here a few minutes before he td sought blood. The dear student would be car ed in a limousine to the police oler, where he would be treated ith the utmost courtesy. In fact, e Waldorf-Astoria could not ve put out a better advertise ent. And just for good meas re, some of the student's col agues would be given the priv age of accompanying him on his iurney. With this inglorious eulogy, veral members of the student edy were led away to the local ;Jr. ray Back When . . . In the old days, any altercation itween the local police and the udents promptly brought the 1 ud cry "College" and the street, as filled with fellow members the USC student body. On no occasion did the officials >me out to the school except hen requested to do so by the impus Marshal. One notable incident occurred I the ante bellum days. A stu mit was arrested for having cre ted a disturbance in a local iurch. He, too, was lodged in e police station. Soon, word of this reached the tmpus, and the residents there eganized a "posse" to march to te guardhouse and procure the lease of the offender. Aring ou to t, he excer hg requeased his doisoner.th [Onevr ntabeicn occurred n nothe ate besuerdas. Ah began eir watrespdSumor havigreet. On poieain.h ttin h rother and the rfenidentsentered gnd ith a pss" tohiach tobrn lsedguardoue andmprture enthe leldse oftre ffler.rc e ast Whentifed pla and, cnmha releaypred fpior toevap, the occurene werated noThe rescuerths wittl begadnt asr decae upof te streeltion Ondran the expuaionon pithe randher.o h fene nee ind Nw Tay to whc hebrn Tese the enie poccurreces inyserve ha areyderte foru f that direticnhpe we Thle rest. grots itle amjinen iasde.aTe octalierlatire erbieen the two ptesfr invove dt thorteuso ofThe nisitl ranstateropryadhrfr uThese toluisdttleoccren. Thi servees ao rmier oever hajt what cau shappen wem a ttctuact, nros it meajorthat [et Thoa officers shudarlaet ew ffhese arctsths formboth parthes saepopet andnderfor WE'RE doesntUEn, hoeer Sometay nordes iut made that 'thers, decided Mrs. Kathryn ilackwell, librarian at Macalester sollege in St. Paul, Minnesota, ifter perusing and perusing the 'ollowing note found attached to library card. "John Adams had the book igned by R. D. Schmidt, R. D. chmidt had the book signed by rohn Adams. Adams renewed he book which Schmidt had, and iow Schmidt should renew the >ook Adams had. Tell Schmidt hat Adams owes him 22 cents." Mrs. Blackwen is stil .d.ui.. a dash of biters By DOTTIE PERKINS With Undying Passion For You, Too, My Dear By ALFRED BAHRET As Miss Perkins has felt free to air our personal corre pondence in this space, I feel that the only gentlemanly hing to do is to repay her compliment. So as the basis f my column I am printing excerpts from a letter received . rom her. And it is a vicious circle ! My dear irrepressible, critical, erudite Mr. B.: My head is bloody, but unbowed, and I can go on for nches writing banalities, but I'm saving said cliche's for . you guessed it ... "a dash of bitters." Thank you, first, for the dubious compliments that dotted our letter. I am flattered and impressed upon receipt of ny first fan letter ... and signed, too. I know the column is not good ... that goes without. say ng, and is not the debatable point. Therefore, there is ittle argument re the comparative worthiness of the col nnn. We both know it ISN'T good. The majority of stu lents, if they read it at all, accept it as any other column. We have inflicted like trivia on the public for so long, that he readers of "yellow journalism" no longer rebel at their :hains, but passively digest the stuff. Barnum and Bailey aid it: "There's one born every minute ... " and who am E tQ refute or revise the statement of professors of hu nanity? I resent the phrase "watered down version of Wickenberg tnd Co.'s tripe." I assure you that my journalistic tripe is ;ripier than any that they ever wrote. And now for some other inconsistancies in your criticism. [ have never tried to unload "a dash of bitters" on the Re- . view ... that was "no cream .. . no sugar." And as for ;he content of the column, what do you want me to do each [uesday ... quote Wylie, Nietzsche, and the rest? I have iever used the words "horrendous" and "heinous." I leave ;hose to my more obvious colleagues. You're incoherent, Mr. B. What thing is out there in the glaring sunshine to print? Tish, tish, your similes are all messed up. Ditto: what has alcohol got to do with, GAMECOCK in THIS instance? Withstanding the title, of iourse. Speaking of titles, would you prefer "A Pilgrim's Progress?" Theater passes and the political agenda . . . don't be so lamed technicaf! I'm an imaginative person; besides, look what it got Orson Welles. I was trying to set a fire under some people. Right now I'd like to set one under you. Beitel: did you do research? Ho hum. Republican landslide: I do have my lucid moments, but at this moment you are making them less and less frequent. NO sentences were left out . . . I am not BORED, merely incensed . . . and love is completly relative, Mr. Freud. So, friend Bahret, until we meet again on paper, and all that sort of thing. Read this and start planning your col umn . . . and let the chips fall where they may. with undying passion ... Tc Miss Perkins: ~eem to agree that your column isn't so good. So why all the fuss? Come now, isn't a literary feud the most hack neyed method for inch'ing interest in a column? Concerning titles . .. I still do not understand why you call your column "a dash of bitters." Ah, these literati! How they love to curl their little fingers over tea and crum pets and chirp their odd little phrases. - But there are signs of improvement. At least there are words in the title this semester. Being rather shocket at receiving a letter ending. "with undying passion" from a casual literary acquaintance (I'd heard of Greenwich Village, too), I am rather at .a loss at what to do. The only course I can see is to return the greeting. And so my title. I read your letter three times, and still find no explana tion for your demolition of 14 inches each week. Thank you for the use of this space . . . and for your letter, as it offered , me the basis of my column. Turn about is fair play, you know, especially when you've got undying passion involved! Well, Miss P., now that you've nipped another Bernard Shaw In the bud and incidentally taken care of your column for this week, what next? if you ever fall into a typewriter archy and can't get out do not hesitate to call me or write box one five seven.