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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. 4 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 society. 3 p. m. Wednesday; news and sports, 3 p. m. Thursday. Deadlines for Tuesday edition: editorial and society, 3 p. m. Friday; news and sports. 3 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 Isbell Sports Editor ...... -............................................. Don Barton Society Editor .......- ...... ................................... Libby McDaniel Feature Editor .........-........................................ Carroll Gilliam Exchange Editor ............. .................................... Peggy Trexler Cartoonist ........................ ............................ Samuel L. Boylston Reporters-Libby Cole. Irene Sanders, Bob Gunter, George Stanley. Jane Dowe, Cyrus Shealy, Joy Conrad, Ruth Newell, Jean Davis, Jo Anne Dillinger, Norine Corley, Bob Carpenter, Mary Sayo Gaston, Holly Beck, Helen Cilders, Lyi Couch, Joe Molony, Sidney Brandenburg, Ranny Reaves, Betty Koty, Chick Shiels, Ken Bald win, Syd Badger, Vilma Huggins, Jane Dowe, Allen Becker, Betty Horton, Frank Hard, Genanne Jones, Mary Lee Pentier, Bob Plerce, Marian Rodgers, Alva C. Sigley, Charles Watson Eugene Webb, Snookie Kirkland, Mary Felder, Norma Manint, Marvin Carter, Ellen Schofield. BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager ................................ Candy Taylor Advertising Manager .................... ........................... Harry Hiott Co-Circulation Managers .......................... Lynn Hook and Darien Robertson Business Staff-Ann Mood, Betty Mood, Joanne Mae Weaver, Al Lovata, Margle Teague, Jean Eleazer, Phyllis Dukes, Both Filinglim. A Message From a Council Member Fellow Students: It is my responsibility and duty to see that this election is held fairly and that is my reason for this letter. What I am about to say is not news, as everyone on the campus knows that the class elections Tuesday were the same fine exhibit of university politics as it has always been. Even way off in Clemson they probably got a whiff of it, it was so strong. I do want to thank those that were eligible to vote and did vote honestly. I'll admit that everyone is urged to vote, but when a Fresh man who has only been here two semesters gets the idea that he can vote for Senior class officers, I suggest he go back to grade school. This also is meant for. the other unqualified voters who participated in Tuesday's election. We were hampered at the polls in keeping this an honest election because the registrar's office was unable to supply us with class lists. Threfore, it was a physical impossibility to keep people from voting two or three times. To those who have been going around wringing their hands and spending sleepless nights, this probably won't ease your minds-the Honor Boys might be knocking on your door soon. Even though we have the most evidence of wrongful vot ing in the Senior class, the other lists are being checked thoroughly and from all indications will also prove very interesting. All those who had the idea that campus politics must be run by social organizations (better known as cliques) can now see the results of this dishonest election. It is evident that some candidates have used their fraternities as a means of getting elected, by having them vote illegally out of their respective classes. As the old familiar saying goes, if the shoe fits, wear it. Today is the date for the reholding of the contested elec tions. You have been notified in ample time. Please discover, although it may be a surprise to the many, the class to which you belong, the class that you will be in in September, and the right class in which you should cast your ballot. It is my duty as a class officer to see that these new elec tions are held fairly. I will do everything in my power to see that they are. Sincerely, ED SALEEBY, President, Junior Class. How About Federalized Education? Education, traditionally a state function, is currently under Washington scrutiny because of present teacher pay demands. At least nine senators and congressmen have writ ten and introduced bills for federal education funds during the present session of congress. In an editorial, Collier's sees federal aid as the answer to the present teacher shortage. Here is evidence indicative of another entrance into state matters by the federal government. Advocates of state sovereignty point to the evils of bureaucratic government, top-heavy government and government by remote control as pitfalls of centralization. Without arguing one way or another on the much-debated states' rights issue, it's a fact that a democratic nation must possess a good school system if it is to perpetuate itself. At present such a system is the responsibility of the states. Should the states fail to "clean their own houses" with re spect to their apathy over teachers' salaries, it's a good bet that the federal government, by popular demand, will step ii' and take over in the field of education. (DAILY ATHENAEUM) Associated Collegiate Press. The Sigma Chii Derby The first Sigma Chi Derby on the university campus was held last Thursday afternoon. If future derbies prove as en.joyable as the first, then Carolina students will have a very popular event to anticipate each year. The annual derby has become a feature of many Sigma Chi chapters through out the nation. The Gamma- Nu chapter is to be commended on their in genuity and initiative in providing an afternoon of enter tainment and recreation for the entire student body. C k "Supp THE GARNET AND BLACI Writer Offers Thr Campus Politics A1 While Governor Thurmond made pleas for better and cleaner government in South Carolina, the students of the university were demonstrating and learning the dire results of the opposite last week. The stories of the illegalities and corruption at the elections for class officers are now common talk about the campus. Everyone is making accusations and point ing fingers at the "guilty ones," but it seems that no one has actu ally found the basic ieason for scandal of this sort. It is known that various mem bers of the student body voted in elections for officers of classes in which they were not members. That is the "crime," and that is what has placed. the unpleasant aroma about our entire system of campus politics. The reason for this has been given by some interested parties as a lack of knowledge and a lack of seriousness of the whole demo cratic process of electing the mis erably few representatives of the students on their governing body. The Bottom Of It All The actual reason for such a situation is the total inability of such a small student government to regulate an election of the mag nitude which ours has grown to be. In the mid-nineties when there were less than half a thousand students enrolled here, it prob ably was possible for a dozen peo ple to conduct a completely le gitimate election. The times have changed "slightly" since then. We do have a few more students, al though that fact has not been grasped by some members of the student body. With a student body as large as ours, and a student council so small and so unrepresentative of the majority, it is inevitable that inefficiency and corruption should follow. Many of the candidates, wvhose names were listed on the ballots which were slung around in such a careless manner last Tuesday, INTERNATIONAL PLAYI The United Nation Most Fancied Dreg The second anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter will soon ble olmierved throughout the world. A judgment of the steps already taken and an insight into the future possible movements would be in order now. The all-inclusivene,,s of the United Nations makes it the great est and most powerful institution in existence. Fifty-five of the sixty-odd nations have become members and pledged their strength to its principles. Their combination was not unaffected by the strain of war, but their actions since the war have demonstrated their genuine desire to live by those principles. The United Nations has few inherent weaknesses. When the weaknesses ,are determined they should bo amended. Since the veto power is so commonly denounced, it should be settled now whether it is working for the UNO or against it. The veto has been in voked by Soviet Russia on tenn 0.11 j er is ready-that was the ball playe K SPIRIT ee Suggestions To In id To Avoid Conteste had pledged themselves to work In: for a better and more efficient pl government. It should be evident to all thinking students that these m are not the men who profited by graft, and that they are the ones fe who should receive the legitimate on support of the student body. A Students have remarked that wi platforms mean nothing, but this ne is the time to prove otherwise. The need for a better and larger th representative government has be- hc come apparent even to a blind ta man in this latest miscarriage of democracy. gc The Guilty Ones di: Suggestions have also been made do for sending the many students who ar cast more than one ballot before fic our lily-white Honor Council. If pt this were done, .as the expression pt has been aptly coined, Council will be ,be trying cases until next August. ur A far more sensible procedure fo to follow will be to dismiss the Ca whole matter as the outcropping th of a dangerously ridiculous atti- an tude toward government in gen- w< eral. tri When at least fifty persons are crowded around the voting place, m some of them being obnoxious by sh wiping the faces of prospective as voters with pictures of one dam sel or another, something shady is ca bound to happen. yr When, in counting votes, Stu- be dent Council must call in people na who have once been members of pr their group or of the Honor Board, se then such is inevitable. th When the election of a presi dent of some class or other be- pr comes the sole purpose in the life pi of various people, then no one is] should be surprised at the results. ca If anyone is to be called before th Honor Council, it seems to follow arl that it should be those who con- it. dlucted an election under such con ditions, with the notable exception ti' of one officer who has conducted be himself admirably for a year with'j pc out receiving praise from any fit quarter. gI The crime is not voting twice, hi but in setting up an election sys- of tern which is conducive to graft.,a )USE s Holds Realization ( is Of A Real Worli occasions in the Security Council. ce These involved applications for th membership, disputes over terri- N tory, andl investigating commis- In sions. One factor which is fre- wi qjuently overlooked is that Russia de has not usedl the veto on any oc casion when the seurity and w< peace were actually threatened. ti< Several vetoes were used to pro- ta tect Russia and her sattelites th against unnecessary and vindic tive action by Britain. This hap- m pened in- the case of Trieste and of when Britain accused Albania of as unfriendly moves in the Corfu Id Straits. This last case has been ce referred to the World Court and the first one has been compromised. Ia The veto power Is an advantage so not only for the individual mem- TI her of the Security Council, but N for the entire UNO membership. Cl The fdrinciple of unanimity among of Britain, Russia, France, China, in and the U. S. is the very founda- hr tion of the UNO. Without it the big powers would never haveacn- re sN!" iprove d Elections ly CARROLL L. GILLIAM efficiency, . negligence, and a acid attitude could be made ad irable charges. But, the idea of trying people r doing something which was ly a temptation in itself, and to Solution For The Future tich no further invitation was cessary, is inconceivable. To prevent such occurences in e future elections to be held re, definite action should be ken. Governors may shout for better vernment till their very lungs ;appear in mid-air, but if we not learn to conduct ourselves d our government in a more ef :ient manner in the supposedly rposeful simplicity of our cam s elections, then it will never learned. It is said that the iversity is the training ground e the future politicians of South rolina. By glancing at some of e recent acts of our legislature d then at the fiasco of last !ek, the axiom becomes very ie. rhe university is the place where >st young South Carolinians ould learn to conduct themselves sensible and competent citizens. To do this, campaigning for ndidates in any way within fifty rds of the voting places should prohibited. This should elimi te the ever-present shifts of ofessional kibitzers which only eve to confuse the situation fur er. The garish signs of gigantic oportions which make the cam s look like something outland should be discarded, If the mpus governmenm, will not do is, candidates should agree iong themselves to hdispense with And, finally,- a more representa re student government should put into operation as soon as asible. If each student feels that is his responsibility to have od government, and if it affects ro directly, the stupid blunder last week would never happen amn. I Peace -- By CARLTON OWEN pted the Charter, deny it and ey will withdraw. The United itions is not a world government. such a federation we could not all demand the right to veto the cision of the majority. But the UNO is a voluntary >rld alliance of the member na mns with the purpose of main ining world peace and security, rough exchange of knowledge, utual understanding, alleviation suffering, and collective action ainst aggression. It is not the mal World Order; that must me later on. The establishment of universal At, applicable to individual per ns, is already a partial reality. te fundamental law of the United itions is not confined to the arter, and in construing the text the Charter we must take fully to account the law that they ye promulgated at Nuremberg. Here the United Nations have eognized. in the world of Justic a dash of bitters By DOTTIE PERKINS Does Anybody Need A Good Type-Setter? I don't want to be a columnist. Why the realization hasn't hit me before this is just one of those things beyond comprehension. Most people start out as children ... and have normal childhood ambitions. Some children want to be firemen, politicians, or baseball players. Me ... I wanted to work on a newspaper. The beginning wasn't hard. College freshmen are wel. comed eagerly by disillusioned senior editors and are the original scapegoats for reportorial staffs. I fortified myself a with a copy of William Allen White's "Autobiography" and set forth. After a year of college newspaper work, "covering" Vesper services and visiting lecturers, I met my Nemesis in the shape of a slight, olive-complexioned gentleman from Spain ... who couldn't speak a word of English. I grabbed an "Interpreter" (a girl who had passed Spanish 12 . . . I hadn't) and we went to interview him. The visiting Spaniard, who was named something like Villejas (but I called him Seen-or) was a poet and lecturer at Wellesley College. Try ing desperately to think of a "common plane" for the inter view, I stumbled into the "Wellesley episode." (Life's cover, cira 1945, the Wellesley girl in shirt and jeans.) Things went along easil. for awhile, with' my subject describing American women as "impulsive," until I couldn't " think of the Spanish words for "blue jeans'!" We left, a trifle hurriedly and subdued, with "Seen-or n uttering: "Ameri can women ... loco ... loco." The interview was never pub lished. I emerged unscathed through two weeks of proofreading and writing headlines, to try my hand at writing features. The situation got increasingly worse, as I tried "feature writ ing" for the Gamecock. The result: one rather uninspired feature on how many blonde out-of-state students could throw a baseball left-handed. And so ... through a process of elimination ... I decided on a column, or rather Shoun did. Knowing my limitations, I shelved the idea of calling it: "QWERT YUIOP" and stuck to having words in my title. From its christening, things just haven't been as easy as they looked at first. It's like the over-talkative fellow who gets in front of a microphone and freezes. Well, sit me in front of a typewriter with "a dash of bitters" as the head and my brain becomes com pletely re-frosted. It seems to me that nobody understands a columnist. Or maybe columnists just have over-worked and under-nour ished persecution complexes. I don't know. I'm sure they're not normal. Why couldn't I have picked something easy like being an archaeologist or running a roller coaster? But, no, I had to work on a newspaper. Somewhere in the newspaper world there must be an easier job than beating out 14 inches for a weekly column. Somewhere in the journalistic field there must be sympa thetic sou s who understand over-impulsive columnists. The other day I walked into the sorority room, hoping someone would say something clever that I could quote In this column. But nobody said a word . .. they just froze, so I put my pen and foolscap away. Then a wit called out: "Have a seat .. . we'll cut a watermelon !" Now don't get me wrong . . . some of my best friends are people! Miss Shoun just walked in and took the gun out of my hand and hid my rope. She says I only have three more issues. I have finally decided . .. I don't want to be a columnist. There must be some place in this newspaper business for me. But I've tried all but one .. . Move over . . . please .. . Mr. Luce! Oh, To Be In Boston Now That April's Here It's an old cliche, but spring is definitely the time for poli tics, promises, and poets. A lady by the name of Kay has made a caustic declaration in her "Sideline Observation:" "There are lots of things I can't see, But here's one thing that I know: In the spring a young man's fancy And an old one's not so slow." Jackson's opening statement, "in- TeUie ain od h dividual responsibility on the partrelzio ofurmsfaid of those who commit acts defined dem fwrdpae nvra as crimes, or who incite others tola,sdeotredithN do so, or who join a common planrebgJugntwileth with other persons, groups, orbigsadncmttordu organizations to bring about theirtynwolthutadcsom commission. The principle of in-Thadpinoanntatoa dividual responsibilty for piracy Bl fRgt yteGnrlA and brigandage, which have long sml nafwmnh ilgv been recognized as crimes punish- rnwdrsetfrhmnkn.' able under international law, is Teceto faWrdLnu old and well establishedl. That is ae h dpino nvra what illegal warfare is. This prin- crec,adtealvaino ciple of personal liability is a nec- sfeigaentmrl itn essary as well as logical one If psiiiis hycnb aera internationial law is to render real nw hr sn ob htI h help to the maintenance of peace. Uie ttsrie h tnad An international law which oper ates only on states can be en- mn ain ol meitl forced only by war because the rlyt t u oenets.l most practicable method of coerc- ntps pti potnt;w inltt s afr. ay,o av eontragedin te u