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THE GAMECOCK CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF- SOUTH CAROLINA Member of Associated Collegiate Press Distributor of Collegiate Digest Founded January 80. 1908. with Robert Elliott Gonzales as the first editor. THE GAMECOCK Is published by and for the students at the University of South Carolina in Columbia semi-weekly. Tuesday and Saturday. during the college year except holidays and examinations. Editorial and business offices are located in the east basement of Sims dormitory. Advertising rates are 65 cents an inch. Deadlines for Saturday edition: editorial and seelety. S p. m. Wednesday; news and sports. 3 p. m. Thursday. Deadlines for Tuesday edition: editorial and society, 3 p. m. Friday; news and sports, S p. m. Sunday. Opinions expressed by columnists and letter-writers are not necessarily those of THE GAMECOCK. Publishing does not constitute an endorsement although the right to edit is reserved. STAFF Editor .............................................. Mary Shoun Managing Editor ................................. Mike Karvelas EDITORIAL STAFF News Editor ............................................................ Bob Isbdll Sports Editor .......................................................... Don Barton Society Editor ..................................................... Libby MicDaniel Feature Editor ..................................................... Carroll Gilliani Exchango Editor ..................................................... Peggy Treoler Cartoonist .................................................... Samuel L. Boylston Reporters-Libby Cole. Irene Sanders, Bob (:unter. Georgo Stanley. Jane lowe, Cyrus Shealy. Joy Conrad, Ruth Newell, Jean i)ail, Jo Anine liilltger. Norino Corley, Bob Carpenter, Mary aaye Gastoi, Hiolly leek, Ilelen ('hitiders, Lynn Colnet. Joe Molony, Sidney Brandenburg, ltanny lteaves, Betty Koty, (hick Shiels. Ken Balid winl, Syd Badger. Vilnia Huggins, .lane )owe. Allen BIecker, lletty lortont. Frank Hard, Genanne Joies. Mary Lee l'ender, Boi Plerce. Marian Iodgers. Aiva C. Singley, Charles Watson, Eugene Webb, Stookie Kirkland. Mary Felder, Norma Manini, Marvin Carter, Elict S-hofield. BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager .................................. Candy Taylor Advertising Manager .................................................. Harry Hlott Co-Circulation Managers .......................... Lynn Hook and Darien Robertson Business Staff-Ain Mood, Betty Mood. Joanne Ma:" Weaver. Al Lata, Margie Teagie, Jean Eleazer, Phyllis )ukes, ieti Fillinglin. Do You Have A Complaint' Students have been criticizing the canteen and book store for exceptionally high prices for months. This criticism was climaxed last week with signs posted around the can teen and post office reading, for example, "We will continue to rob the government and students until one or both go broke," and signed, The Canteen and Book Store. Never will we get anything by anonymous signs and gossiping slander. If members of the student body think they have been mistreated or have some legal misjustice, the person, department, or organization which is supposedly doing the misjustice should be contacted. The manager of the university stores realizes that prices on certain articles are exorbitantly high when compared to the amount of money the average student has to spend for such articles. However, looking from the business stand point, prices are not high in comparison to the price which the university pays for these articles. For example, the last shipment of notebooks cost the university eighty-seven cents each, and the store sold them for $1.00. This is thirtee cents profit which goes toward paying the running expenses of the stores. Under the operating costs come innumerable expenses Janitorial service runs about $100 a week for the canteer alone. Included in these expenses are milk-shake cups use( to speed service to students to avoid waiting for glasses new equipment such as the new milk-shaker which cos1 almost $300, and the various bottles that are carried ou of the canteen to points all over the campus. The list is al most endless. F. B. "Whitey' RawI, manager of the university stores urges all students to see him whenever they have a com plaint. He will personally display his books to anyone ani will explain the details of buying, selling, and running cost which determine the prevailing prices in the universit: stores. -T. C. In The "Thanks" Department An admirable gesture was made last week when the varsit basketball team played the Pacific Mills five in a post-seaso game for the World Student Service Fund. The Gamecock extends hearty congratulation to the Car< lina team on their victory and expresses sincere appreciatio to each member of both teams and coaching staffs for h' cooperation in the WSSF drive. * * * More than a month ago, the Co-Ed Association begli plans to entertain members of the General Assembly at tea in Sims College. The date was set for March 19 and il vitations were extended. The day and hour for the tea arrived. All arrangemen were complete. Food had been prepared, music furnishe and administrative and faculty personnel were present. TI co-eds awaited the arrival of the first guest. In the Hous the representatives were still in session. "Of all days fi them to filibuster, it had to be today," co-eds wailed. Aft several phone calls, it was quite evident that there wou not be any legislators attending a tea that afternoon. The Co-ed Association deserves a credit of thanks fro the student body for their efforts in promoting good w with the Assembly. The Gamecock extends those than] and offers its regrets that "the tea that was to be was not Especially For You Inserted in today's regular issue, you will find "The Chi ken Sheet", the Gamecock's April Fool present to you. Ii yours for the reading, if you can read it. Take it for what is worth-the value has as yet not been determined. Anyway, the staff of "The Chicken Sheet" hope you enjt its contents and that each of you have a Happy April, Foc "Now, who INTERNATIONAL PLAYH Allow Korea Indel American And Ruh Although the epicenter of worlt attention is now Greece and Tur key, the conditions on the Koreai Peninsula deserve surveillanc< The importance of Korea, somc times called the Balkan Peninsul of Eastern Asia, is based on se eral factors. First, its proximit to Manchuria and Siberia. Secon at present it is the stage for tw competing ideologies-a miniatur of the world-wide struggle be tween communism and democrac: Korea's history is that of a independence-wanting people wi have continually been the paw in power politics games. In 11 the Sinor-Japanese War was fougl as a result of the desire to dom nate this country; in 1905 t Russo-Japanese War, and now tr Russians and Americans are vi ing for domination. This desire f< independence and recognition < the part of the Koreans wa thwarted in two rancorous casi -the failure of nations to reco nize its provisional governmei set up in 1919 under the impeti of Wilson's Fourteen Points, ai the refusal to recognize its go ernment-in-exile during Wor War pr when that deference wi given to countries whose clain were no more valid than those Korea. After the conclusion of ti therefiusa st recogie it go gNo oulytrs oer cli chael, nohere vali tan toe Afcter The oluiodn oftep tPreious hAerto 1nte mN Joan old ebord. 0 fessril Lebe doke bray inf vhousel, wher his ied to no lectr. LTerihe mwoenin step theluiansding haverturnpeaeda -then professras haveeto taer means eceul ofnop n bor.ib. fGreifor dcomes, have of st.e er in the morningoro Harperiansd littA ovrudenJd -nd aogeras tree tvern.o a giraryd pneerly onorn ~. breeze. Such was All Fools' I in the years before "The Wi LStudent pranksters were in tI heyday. te The Empty Bottle The ultimate in April Fooli elry wias reached with the pr ing in 1936 of a special copy ~the student newspaper, an " d page dlocument - "The En Bottle." With the slogan "Ni m ing to crow over is staring us the face," the paper made p] ful fun of members of the fac1 8and organizations of the cam) '. Evidently the p)arodies, combi with a few "obscene" illustrati were too much for some to t for several of the brains bel c- the experiment packed their t: and gave Carolina a reluci toodle-doo. itIt is believed that only fifta these papers were printed in 1 and those who now own t value them highly for "se mental" reans. lfh /I ,r wants to tell me the effects of alcohol DUSE >endence And Evacua sian Troops, Says Wri By JO I present war, the mutual fear of ci - Russia and America of the other's i intentions led to the barbaric di- g vision of Korea into two zones p along the 38th meridian. At the V - Moscow Conference a four-power li i trusteeship was set up under 'I - which a joint Soviet-American t y Commission would meet at Souel t I, to settle the details of economic t a coordination between the two 1 e zones and to set up a provisional l government with the advice of r. Korean leaders. The Souel Con- i n ference ended in a complete fail- l o tire. Russia stated that she wanted t n "a true democratic and independ 4 ent country, friendly to the Soviet c ,t Union, so that in the future it will % i- not become a base for an attack I e on the Soviet Unioin." The United e States stated that "it is our job - to see that the Koreans get the ,r American type of democracy and x n not Communism". Obviously it s never occurred to either self s righteous country that the Ko - reans might prefer a third type it of government. Thus without con is sulting the desires of the Korean id people, who were not a conquered i- people but merely a liberated one, Ld the two powers appropriated to is themselves a portion of the coun- 1 is try to rule, to subdue, to indoctri >f nate with an ideology of their 1 own choosing, having the result of te advancing division among the 3K SPIRIT )ays Oni Camipus Hay r' Animals Ini Building he On page one, the all-Carolina, he all-time pass out team is listed. to A big pass-out game was sched uled in conjunction with the se nlections and the 149th anniversary by of the I Tappa Keg, national sots -o- fraternity. Entrance requirements i for the fraternity are rather stiff. in' A person must drink a quart of "mean coru" and then walk up the mae granite steps to the State House. be- First and second teams were selectedl for the occasion with ave eleven positions plus coaches and managers. Forward positions are the "left in, right in, left behind, ~en fresh out, right out, and heaver of and half out". The back-field is 11y filled by the "drawv-back, worsti the half, on-his-back, and % out".| ing This last named Posit ion was filled by the present Speaker of the lay South Carolina House of Repre Ir" sentatives. Iear Dr. Babcock rceivedl his share of the unres trai ned lampooning. "The Empty Bottle" reported that lie requliredl his short story stu 'v- dlents to present a certain num int- ber of reject ion slips. HIowever, all magazines receiving contribu of tions forwvarded checks instead. .te" The goodl professor' then flunked pty all his students except one, wvho thi- turned in a forged rejection slip. inThe paper)C qIuoted the profes. sor': "As long as I have bccn send ayaig ay pseudonyma to the trashi ilty est of America's trashy, a student us. should knowv better than give me ned a bogus r-ejection slip. Why, you mns, would think that I am not one of ike, the literati." ind ags A Looney Drama, Etc. ,ant "Five Sheets in the Wind, or Hie D)one Her Wrong in T1hree 'of Acts" from the first page of "The 336, Empty Bottle". mem Act First: Censored for preser nti- vation of The Gamecock. A ct Later:- Ditto. on the body?" te ter YCE HAYES )untry rather than unison. The Russians have gained the ear of the Koreans-a strikingly otent force in Eastern countries, 'hereas we have gained, to a mited extent, their admiration. 'he Russian system appealed to he masses, ours.to the conserva ive, educated and Christian na ives. Both governments, however, ave gone to excesses and both ;ave engendered the hatred of iost of the Koreans. At present t is not which of the two occu iers is the most liked, but how o get rid of both. Korea is not a semi-savage ountry -which necessitates super ision in its political aspects. It as the highest literacy rate east )f the Suez, and before the joint )ccupation, a united spirited de ire for independence. There is no eason why Korea should not be reed-other than the selfish de ;ires of Russia and the United states. The solution to the Korean problem is evacuation by both American and Russian troops be fore the internal chasm grows nny deeper. The Koreans feel com petent about their ability to set tip a desirable government; if the United States is truly committed to the fostering of free govern ments throughout the world, we should press joint evacuation. e Beeni Hectic ;s, Please!! By CARROLL A. GILLIAlM D)one Acted: Scene: The bed roonm. Papa Dionne: Whatcha gol there, mama? Mama Dionne: Dafoe-dils, papn Pfapa Dionne: Oh, mama! Mama Dionne: Oh, papa! Quintuplets: Oh, hell! Audience: Oh, phooey! Another page advertises Pau Bearer cigarettes wvith a cut o: that dimpled darling Shirle: Temple. The smokes are describei as roasted andl are made of tha best domestic hay and "guess wha else". The reader is advised t smoke one after breakfast, on after dinner, and to try to smok one after supper. The big lead story of the da wvas the discovery of a number racket which involved forty-fou members of the faculty. "Th Bottle" reported that a studer -had recognized a five-dollar bi in the registrar's office that 11 had lost in the game. Studer Council then began an investigi tion wvhich ended with the Ph.D. staring through the cold ste< b)ars of the local "Bastille". Such epithets as "Honest John "Moonface", "Nasty Nellie", ar "Sitting Bull" were attributed i the educators. A Few Incidentals Colonel McKisslck chosen speaker for math congress.. Nudists attending class and star ing a drive on the campus.. Athletic coach to instruct gy classes at Columbia College.. Social cabinet members retire country estates to avoid feder income t ax .Investigators . . . Chc of one thousand voices silenec when the one thousand bodies whom the voices belong are crus ed with -collapse of Melton FiE bleachers . . . YMCA installs ne bar. a dash of bitters By DOTTIE PERKINS Four dollars' worth In the past each candidate has been backed by one club, Lion for W.S.S.F., we were a little skeptical as to how much space the "bitters" would bring. We were reassured when Mr. Chadwick got the column for $4.00. So without further ado, and having used up my $.02 worth, we'll give Mr. Chadwick his $3.98. By TOM CHADWICK I suppose that this is one of the few times in history that any man has ever paid a woman to let him work; usually - the man pays a woman for nothing and has to work any way. So I suppose I got something out of the deal after all. Thank you, Dottie, I know W.S.S.F. thanks you, too ... In view of coming elections and the continual cry for bet ter student government, I am presenting the enclosed plan for student government reform to the students for their consideration. The creation of a two-party system which will do away with the petty factionalism that now exists on the campus is the first thing to take into consideration. The names of the two parties would be LIBERAL and CONSERVATIVE. The reasons for the forming of this two-party system would be to give the student a party in which he could find his own platform and in which he would have some direct in fluence. In reality it would not be the forming of parties but the mere recognition of the two dominant trends al ready present on the campus. In the past each candidate has been backed by one club, clique, or some other single organization on the campus When the candidates are backed in this manner, the aver age student does not care whether he votes or not, for the simple reason that each of the candidates represents some small group to which the average student does not belong, and that all the candidates have their platforms mixed up, involving both sides of issues, and taking no definite stand on any particular matter. Platforms In the two-party system the lines are drawn, the fence is built, and the student takes his choice of sides knowing that if his party is voted into office, it will carry out his principles. THIS IS NO RADICAL PLAN. It is in operation in our NATIONAL government. If we were to elect 15 Harry Truman's and were to run them all for the presidency at the same time, we would have the same conditions that prevail on the campus in our elections today. It would make no dif ference which Harry was elected to the presidency . . . his last name and his policy would be the same. Honor Council The Honor Council's powers should be extended. By this I mean that it should have the power in our new government parallelling the power the U. S. Supreme Court has in our national government. Whenever the student government does something and the students express their disapproval in the Gamecock by ballot, or in masses, then Honor Council shall have the power to investigate and decide as to the con stitutionality of the government's actions under investiga tion. The rulings of the Honor Council would be final. But * only upon the demand of a 2/3 majority of students could the council investigate such matters unless the student gov ernment requests such an investigation itself. Representation in the student government should be adopt ed under the following pattern: two freshman senators, two sophomore senators, two junior senators, and two senior sen ators, who shall be elected and sent to the Student Con gress. (The congress comprising student senators and stu dent representatives.) The senators should not be elected by individual classes, but by the student body. (For example: the senior senator should not be elected by the senior class alone, but should be elected by all students.) This is reason able because, regardless of what classes these senators repre sent, they will still be representing all other students when voting on matters which affect the whole student body. The other branch of the Student Congress is to be called the Student House of Representatives, which would repre sent students in a direct ratio to the number of students on the campus. This would allow flexibility in the governing h body, so that it could adapt itself to changes made in the number of students on the campus, thereby assuring a fair, just representation. There is no proviso in our present stu dent government to take care of the sudden changes which have come about in the past few years. The type of govern ment we now have was constructed for a school of 1600 stu dents. It is impossible to believe that this same government B is still running campus affairs efficiently, effectively, and r fairly, when there are 4000 students on the campus now. e Our own national government had to expand when the size of the population and the country expanded. e In this House of Representatives there would be four .t representatives from each of the different classes for every one thousand students in those classes. (For example: if Sthere were 2000 students in the freshman class then that class would have 8 representatives in the house. The total ', number of students on the campus nearing 4600 would d mean that there would be a total of 20 representatives in 0 the house.) These representatives would be elected by popu lar vote by all the students on the campus. . The president of the student body has been working in .conjunction with the student council in developing a newt t- constitution. They have even probed Into innumerable kinds -of student governments founded on other campuses, search ' ing for a more satisfactory student government and con at Naturally, I would like to see this school adopt the plan ir offered above. But like all things it cannot satisfy every done. YOU STUDENTS ARE THE ONES TO DECIDE! g 1Please write In to the Gamecock or to Box No. 683 and ex Id press your opinions on this subject. Iw. Sincerely yours,