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Read The Honor Principle . See Page Two UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, FOUR PAGE EDITION TODAY CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA PUBLISHED TWICE WEEKLY Volume XLI, No. 41 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MAY 3. 1947 Bahret Elec President Ii Williamson To Riley Is Soph By TOM 4 A lack of interest in the fi was shown this week when 41 3,400 eligible voters cast their This run-off of Tuesday's which would have been comp< for a disqualified election whi Jennings Is Crowned At May Festival Miss Penny Jennings, Kappa Delta, was crowned May Queen by President Smith, Thursday night, May 1, at 7 p. i., in the Naval Armory. The ceremony was originally scheduled to be held at 5 p. m., on the steps of the McKissick li brary, but due to inclement weather, it was postponed. The Queen waa attended by her Maid of Honor, Miss Sarah Bull, Delta Delta Delta, and by a court of 36 attendants. Pages for the occasion were Jean Badger and Carolyn Isbel; the flower girls were Ann Hemphill, Carolyn Thomas, Pat Thomas, and Susan Phillips, and the crown bearer was little Chesley Smith. Miss Jenninga is the eighteenth May Queen to be crowned at Caro lina under the sponsorship of Kappa Sigma Kappa honor fra ternity. A dance in the Armory, at which the Queen and her attend ants were honored in the Grand March, followed the coronation. Music was furnished by Woody Woodward and his orchestra. VETERAN NOTICE All veterans who have not ob tained a VA Form 7-1908 (notice of change of training status) are urged to do so immediately, it was announced yesterday by Ralph H. Osborne Goin Editor Of "Car Osborne Gomez, rising seni 61ected by the present editoria literary magazine, The Caroli OSBORNE GOMEZ JANE CHURCH ted Senior i Runoffs Head Juniors omore Prexy ;HADWICK nal elections at the university 5 students out of an estimated ballots to name class officers. election concluded the voting )ted last week had it not been ch called for reballoting. In the senior class run-off for president, between Don Grant of Lamar and Al Bahret of Pough keepsie, N. Y., Bahret polled 69 votes to win. Grant received 66 votes. Elinor (Tiny) Howell of Colum bia was elected senior class secre tary-treasurer with a margin of 10 votes. Her opponent, Betty Moore of Clearwater, Fla., re ceived 61 votes. In the first election, Barbara Dukes was elected senior vice president, and Jean Wallace se nior historian. Toni Williamson of Aiken was elected junior class president by a margin of four votes over Don Smith of Greenville. Smith re ceived 35 votes to Williamson's 39. Charlie Gaines of Macon, Ga., was elected junior vice-president with 45 votes over Margaret Ele azer of Columbia, who received 29 votes. Jean Lumpkin was chosen junior secretary-treasurer and Lynn Hook junior historian in the first class election. In the sophomore class, L'Ar tigue Riley polled 65 votes to de feat Reggie Mattox with 50 and Ben McGuinn with 14 for presi dent. Betty Brody, vice-president; Ann Mood, secretary-treasurer; and Maxine Todd, historian, were elect ed without opposition. Price, officer in charge of the University Guidance Center. It is required by the Regional office that this be done by May 6, and veterans' cooperation will be greatly appreciated. z Elected Fall olina Review" or from Charleston, has been I board as editor of the campus na Review, for next fall. Jane Church, rising senior from Arlington, Va., will act as man aging editor, and Elinor Howell, rising senior from Columbia, will serve as business manager. Other members of the editorial staff wvill be: Associate editors, James Prince and Al Bahret; poe try editor, Joe Drennan; book edi tor, Sara Bull; exchange editor, Jane Dowve; art editor, Faye Dent. The rest of the staff will be filled at the beginning of the fall se mester. Retiring members of the edi torial staff are: Mart Smith, edi tor; Joe Bishop, managing editor, and Redmond Tyler, business man ager. The last issue of the semnester, a combined spring-summer edition that promises to be larger than over before, will conme out later this month. I ELINOR H10WELL UNIVE Pictured above is the Carolina Mixi bers of the choral group are, first lum, Elma Sue Brickle, Florence I Betty Ann Abbott, Burton Wilds, ond row are Henrietta Addy, Elizal Ellison, Dorothy Kilpatrick, Marylir mond. Third row are Conway Owin Ian Fulmer, Jack Westmoreland, G Bobby Magoulas, Bryan Patrick, Di ward Thompson, Herbert MacFart Gayle, Randolph Fenters and Ralpi Queen For A L Will Honor Co By BEN McOUINN To carry out an old Carolina tradition of selecting one day of the year to bring forth the spirit of the student body, the Booster Club, in conjunction with the many organizations on the campus, has set aside May 15 of this year. Having for its theme "Queen Baptist Students To Raise Money For House Furnishings Baptist students-1,300 of them at the university-will seek to raise $2,000 for furnishing the newly acquired B.S.U. house at 1618 Pendleton Street in a cam paign beginning May 6. The house which is located just three doors down from the Naval Armory, will serve as the social, religious, and meeting center for every Baptist student on the cam pus who will use it. Parties, ham burger frys in the backyard, open houses, morning and noon devo tions as well as prayer-rooms are all in the program for the house just as soon as it is furnished! The South Carolina Baptist General Board bought the house for university students for $45, 000 last month. Bob Ayers, state B.S.U. secretary, has already moved into one of the apartments upstairs, and welconfes one and all to a tour of the house minus furnishings. As soon as the House is open, B.S.U."ers" plan to invite the en tire campus to a house-warming reception. Paul Bridges newly-elected president of the B.S.U. made this comment, "I hope that every Bap tist at the university will help in the campaign; for without every one's givi,ng something, it will be impossible to furnish our house satisfactorily." Exam Schedule For the benefit of the student body, The Gamecock prints the schedule of the final examinations for the 1947 spring term. Finals will begin Monday, May 26, and last through Saturday, May 31. The complete schedule Is as fol lows: 8-10 11-1 3-5 a.m. p.m. p.m. May 26 .l1T... 4T... 3 M. May 27 ..T.. .2T.....1T. May 28 ..8M....3T.....1M. May 29 ..9T....1M.T...12M. May30 ..9M... 2M.....1M. May 31 ... 4M. .. .. Examinations for classes sched uled at hours not included above will be arranged by the professor cnerned. RSITY MIXED CI d Chorus which will be featured at row, left to right: Oulda Faye I] 4cAbee, Georgette Xepapas, Mary I Antoinette Jenerette, Eunice Byrd ,eth Stewart, Betty Battle, Joanne i Smith, Bettie Moore, Jean Davis, gs, Charles DeLoach, Wallace Owir eorge Stuckey, Kenneth Baldwin an ivid Hubbard, Russell Shaw, Henri and, Henry Taylor, Scott Barnes, SRozier. (USC photo by Stan Lew lay Celebration Ed On May 15 for a Day," the day will have a colorful program consisting of a parade down Main Street, a half hour radio show, a baby contest, and a student body dance. The Booster Club announces that the parade, an effort to pre sent before the public's eye the activities and tradition of Caro lina life, will begin at 12:30 p. m., and will move toward the State House from Main and Hampton streets. At the State House, it will turn to Sumter Street and then will go to the entrance of the campus. The parade will in clude the University Band with' the drum majorettes, the NROTC unit, the KD Corsettes, several large floats, and many other proj ects. At 1:30 p. m., the radio show will start. It will be broadcast over station WNOK and will be fashioned after the famous radio show heard daily on a coast to coast hook-up. A large box containing the names of every co-ed at Carolina will be on hand, and Palmer Mc Arthur, president-elect of the stu dent body, will draw a name. If the girl is not present, another name will be drawn until one is selected and the show will start. Twenty-five merchants of the City of Columbia have donated gifts exceeding the value of $300 and every girl on the campus will have an equal chance of being the recipient. The "Queen" will liter ally be made a ruler and will be presented with the gifts (luring the radio program, the Booster Club promises. Following the radio showv at 2:15, the baby contest will begin. Every campus parent is invited to enter his child. Reference is made to the next issue of The Gamecock for more information concerning this. The Co-ed Association in con junction with Dr. Havilah Bab cock is sponsoring the baby con test and it is expected that Gov. J. Strom Thurmond will present the prizes. Judges for the event will be Deant Arney Childs, Dr. Babcock, Mayor Frank C. Owens of Co lumbia, Governor Thurmond, President Norman M. Smith and the "Queen." F'rom 9 to I p. in., the night of the fifteenth, there will be a free informal student body dance in the Field House with Woody Woodward furnishing the music. President Smith has announced that all classes between 12 p. m. and 3 p. mn., on May 15 will be excused. ANNOUNCEMENT Veterans who are graduating in June and who paid the rental fee for caps and gowns are re quested by Joe Lawrence, uni versity postmaster, to come by the post office for refunds. IORUS f 5. Tuesday's student assembly. Mem avis, Frances Askew, Belinda Col tidgeway, Mary Virginia McDaniel, and Sara Jane Benson. On the sec Weaver, Beverley Smith, Shera Lee Helen Hendley and Jackie Ham gs, Sol Ortner, Pat Thompson, Al d George Metropol. Fourth row are Elvington, Harry O'Bannon, Ed Earl Reeves, John James, Robert is.) University Chorus To Sing At Student Assembly Tuesday The University Chorus, under the direction of Robert L. Van Doren, will sing Tuesday at stu dent assembly in the chapel. The Chorus, consisting of thirty five members began a tour of the State last week. They made ap pearances at the following high schools: Dreher, Orangeburg, Hampton, Walterboro, Manning, Sumter and Columbia. The group will resume their tour May 8 and 9 at which times they will sing at the Camden, Bishopville, Coker, and Florence high schools. This is the first mixed chorus to represent the university on tour. Previous to this, the Men's and Women's Glee Clubs have made separate tours. Wauchope - Mc Protest Propol The girls of Wauchope-Mc1 that they will have to move to fall in order that two sororiti sorority houses. Mrs. Arney Childs, dean of v sorority presidents to offer th of alleviating the crowded con( pus for sororities. The sororiti have been selected to occupy the house jointly. It is reported that the girls of Wauchope-McKissick had previ ously signed up for the house dur ing the regular room reservation period. At this time, nothing was saidl about the proposedl move. A circular letter stating that girls wvho signed up first had first choice of rooms on the campus, no longer seems to apply, the tenants o6 the horseshoe dormitory for girls complain. Dean Childs has beeni asked by the girls to reconsider her decision, but as The Gamecock went to press, it remained unichanged. The girls, it is stated, have offered to pay additional room fees to com pensate for the rent the sororities would pay for the living room. As one of the occupants expressed it, "The only alternative for us seems to be to join a sorority, which we don't want to do, if our wishes are to be considered at all." University Players To Give Hope Diamond Story On WIS Today The University Players will pre sent this afternoon at 4:45 the third of their regular weekly pro grams over station WIS. The pro gram will feature a skit revealing the background of the famous Hope Diamond which has figured prominently in the news lately with the death of its owner, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean. Griffin Campbell will serve as director and narrator for the pro gram with Ira Hudson as musical director. Members of the group, in addition to Campbell and ud Features Of Army ROT( Officers List A( Veterans And I~ A War Department speaker day stay on the campus today ing the proposed establishmen the university. Lt. Col. Cheste Koepcke will be in McCutchen At a special student- assem1 Chapel, the officers explained ent the different features_and < Eichelberger To Open First I.R.C. Meeting Clark M. Eichelberger, lecturer on international affairs, is sched uled to open the initial conference of the Southern Conference on In ternational Relations at Trinity Church on Sunday, May 11, at 8 p. m. Eichelberger, who is editor of The Changing World, is a well known authority on national and international affairs and is a lec turer for the Radcliffe Chautauqua System of Washington, D. C. He was born at Freeport, Ill., in 1896. He was graduated from Northwestern University in 1917 and attended Chicago University. During the first World War he' served as corporal in the U. S. Army and the A.E.F. He has served as national chair man of the League of Nations As sociatjon and was a member of the pre-war Defend America by Aiding the Allies committee. Among his books and pamph lets are "The United Nations Charter," and "What Was Done At San Francisco." Eichelberger will replace Sen ator Leverett Saltonstall of Mas sachusetts who was originally scheduled to open the conference. Kissick Girls ;ed Eviction issick House, have been told Sims or Wade Hampton next as may use the dormitory as vomen, called a meeting of all is space to them as a means litions that exist on the cam es accepted the offer and two Alumni Association Holds Dinner For Circuit Members The University Alumni associa-j tion from the eleventh circuit, comprising of Edgefield, Lexing ton, McCormick, and Saluda coun ties, met yesterday at Mrs. Car-I son's Pine Grove Tea Room near Leesville, for an informal dinner.: Speakers for the occasion were1 S. M. Derrick, dean of the School of Business Administration and professor of economics, Edwin R. Jeter, Rock Hill, immediate past president of the Alumni Associa tion; Frank K. Sloan, returned veteran now in law school and in structor in journalism, and Ralph Lewis, executive secretary. J. Robert Tompkins, of Edge field, presided. The committee in charge, work ing with Mrs. Edna G. Watson, of Ridge Spring, were Horace Saw yer, Edgefield; Vann Edwards, Johnston; Guy Langford, Mc Cormick; Jeff Griffith, Saluda; Lewis Clair Asbill, Ridge Spring; Joseph N. Burton, Monetta; Bu ford Colelough, Batesburg; C. D. Barr, Ieesville; Odelle Harmon, Lexington; Maurice Alden Payn ter, Cayce; William Davis Dur ham, West Columbia; Thomas W. Crouch, Irmo; Charles N. Frick, Chapin; Mrs. Daniel St. Clair Davis, Swansea, and Albert K. Brown, Trenton. son, are Allen Watson, J. J. Ma haffey, Philip Bernanke, Mort Bernanke, Roy Lind, Winnie Lee and Kay Whittaktr. Proposed Unit Cited Ivantages For von-Veterans team will conclude its three to answer questions concern t of an Army ROTC unit at r H. Morenau and Lt. Henry [louse from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. )ly held on Thursday in the :o the hundred students pres >pportunities for veterans and non-veterans. Veteran Students Colonel Koepcke discussed the advantages of a regular army ca reer as to the educational and fi nancial opportunities for ex servicemen. He said that there was great competition for the available commissions in the regu lar army, but that preference was given to men with college back grounds. Colonel Morenau listed the four different channels through which ex-servicemen might obtain com missions in the regular army. Three of these he listed as avail able without the necessity of plac ing an ROTC unit at the univer sity. They are as follows: (1) Former officers in the Army of the United States, who will graduate by July 15 of this year, may now apply for regular army commission, according to the officers. (2) Men who now have reserve commissions may obtain by a "competitive tour" one of the 1, 500 regular commissions which will be open each year. Reserve officers may apply for active duty for two years. During the first year, they will receive considera tion of their abilities, and may later be given regular commis sions. (3) The third channel is open to men who are receiving degrees in professions such as law, phar macy, dentistry and medicine. These men may take competitive examinations after receiving the degrees and then may receive a regular commission. The only method for obtaining a commission which will not be open without the establishment of an ROTC unit is the "honor gradu ate system." A man may be desig nated by the head of his school as an outstanding candidate for a commission, but must have had some preliminary ROTC training. An ROTC System An Army ROTC unit would be divided into two sections, accord ing to the officers. These would be the elementary program, open only to men who have had no training, and the advanced pro gram, open to veterans. Students enrolled in the ele mentary program would carry three hours per week as electives in military science, and would be rurnished their uniforms, but no financial payment. Veteran students entering the advanced program would be al lowed $85 for uniforms and $20 monthly for meals. Men who en ter this program wvould be required to attend a six-weeks camp during the summer in the branch of serv ice they chose. For establishment of any of the different branches at least 50 men (Continued on page 4) Carolindar SATURDAY, MAY 3 Student Center, 7:30-10:45 p. in., Washington Street Meth odist Church. SUNDAY, MAY 4 Wesley Foundation, 10 a. in., Washington Street Metho dist Church. Canterbury Club, 6 p. mn., Trin ity Episcopal Church. Vespers, 7 p. in., University ChapeL. MONDAY, MAY 5 Freshman Y Council, I p. mn., Fllnn Hall. Swimming Pool open, 7-9 p. in., Natatorium. *FUESDAY, MAY 6 Student Assmbty, 12 noon ChapeL.