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r2 1.1 2r -N[VERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING'FOR A GREATER CAROLINA I.coL IA, SolT CAROLINA, DECEMBER 19, 1947 .*7 - Oxford Teaw .Debates Here On January 5 British Meet Carolina In University Chapel By BERNARD MANNING Oxf6rd University's debating team will mest the university de baters Monday, January 5, in the University Chapel, Prof. Merrill G. Christopher'sen announced this week. Subject for the debate will be "Resolved: The essential indus tries in the United States should be nationalized." The contest will be according to English debating rules allowing 16 minutes for each constructive speech and 'seven for each rebut . tal. A period for audience ques tions will be held after the formal debating. The Oxford team, now touring the United States, is led by the Honorable Anthony Neil Wedge wood-Benn, a member and select ed Parliamentary candidate of the British Labor Party. He is .also president of the Oxford Union So ciety, world-wide debating organi zation. Other members of the English team are Sir Edward Charles Gurney-Boyle and David Henry Har-is. Sir Edward is the spn of the chairman of the Balkans Com mission and is now history scholar at Christ Church, Oxford. Harris is editor of "Isis," Oxford literary magasine. Both are members of the Oxford Union Society. - Members of the Carolina squad who will take the negative are James R.- Simmons and Allen L. Watson.'.8hmnonr 'was' a member - of the teat. which defeated the national champions last year and is president of - the university chapter of Pt Kappa Delta, de baters froternity. Watson was a member of the group which won four out of five debates at the Southeastern Tournament last month, and is g pre-law student. Both are natives of Columbia. The nine university sororities will serve an informal luncheon for the Oxford and Carolina de baters and the " university ex change students on the day of the debate. Four Boards To Be Added To Exchange . Four new modern switchboards will be installed In the university telephone exchange by January 24,- Mrs. R. M, Dugan,- chief op -erator, announced this week. These modern, . up-to-the min ute boards will replace the pres ent two now in service. A survey made by the Southern Boll Tele *phone Company representatives revealed the. need for additional switchboards for the university exchange recently. .The new boards will be placed in the room opposite Maxcy par lor, Immediately behind the pres ent switchboard offices. Few cam pus numbers will be changed un der the new system, Mrs. Dugan said. "We will be able to give much better seryice then," she said. She declared that students and fac ulty as a whole had been very cooperative during the period of working under handicaps. Residence Changes All students who change their place of residence during the school year are requested to re port the change to the university *Information Desk in Maxcy lobby, Mrs. Dugan said.. Male students hav, been mov ing into campus dor-mitories and have neglected to report this to the desk. Mrs. Dugan said that the only addresses available at the switchboard were those in the - iformation files. An soctate address Is neces sary, she said, because all tele A a0n and speial delivery letters Wt e direred through the talephone exhange. Exunsion 4 Rejected B A request by several uni Christmas holidays from TI 5, has been turned down b the president's office annou Christmas Seal Sale Fails To Reach Go In Drive On Campu Total sales of the Anti-tuberc losis Christmas-seals on the Car lina campus has fallen short the $250 goal, Sara Snyder, chai man. of sales, announced yestF day. The drive closed December with a total of 15,468 stamps isc for $154.68. Alpha Kappa Gamn women's leadership fraternii sponsored sales. Seals were, sold directly to c ganizations on the campus. Kapl Delta sorority sold $10 worth lead all the groups, with t American Society of Civil Eni neers second with $7.15. Kapi Sigma Kappa gave $6.15 ai Delta Sigma Pi, $5.89. Organizations selling the x quested $5 quota were, Hypatit Literary Society, Pi Beta PI Westminster Fellowship, Gir Independents, Tri Delta, Bapt Student Union, Coed associatic Zeta Tau Alpha, Hillel Socle and Omicron Delta Kappa. Also, Booster Club, Beaux Ar1 Euphradian Literary Society, C Omega, Alpha Delta P1, Alpl Kappa Gamma, Phi Epsilon 1 Alpha Epsilon Phi, Delta Ti Sigma Nu, Lutheran Students A sociation, P1 Lambda Phi, E phrosynean Literary Society, P Hellenic and German Club. Lewis Announces Printing Of Next Alumni Magazine The fifth post war issue of t1 Alumni News, official Universi1 Alumni association magazine, w go . to press this week, Ral Lewis, executive secretary of tl association, said today. . Lewis said that efforts wou be made to have the issue in t1 mail before -Christmas, but would be impossible for all sul scribers to receive their copies I that time. The front cover carries a ne design with new makeup. On tU back is a message to alumni fro1 Dr. Edwin L. Green, profess< emeritus of ancient languages. The issue will feature artil on the extension division, the no budget to be proposed to the leg!i lature, one on sports,- and a selg tion containing corresponden< from alumni. Honor Board Suspends Student For Two Terms Osborne Gomes, chairman of ti honor board. announed today thei one student had been sfspend4 for two semesters for an infrao itan of honor. )f Holidays. r President versity students to extend tl Lursday, Jan. 1, to Monday, Js y President Norman M. Smil need yesterday. - In a statement prepared : The Gamecodk, the president 1 plained that many of the cour offered by the university requ I so many class hours for each mester. To keep the number abt U- the minimum, no change may made in the -present schedule. of President Smith liso announi . that arrangements were now 1 ing made to levise^the bulletin 10 the holidays for next fall. Uni Id the new arrangement, full wel a, nds would be given for the Sta 'Y Fair game, the Orangeburg F r- game and Thanksgiving. a The president's message ! to lows: he "The president regrets that (i - extended holiday) is impractica a and that the schedule as sho in the Catalog will be contint for this scholastic year. in "Two more days between i di, fall and spring terms are urgen Is' needed for getting rooms rea< st completing grades and regist n tion, but after careful study was found impracticable to 14 A, the two days from the term, a hi our schedule will be adhered ha this year, particularly as an i *ditional holiday was granted di u' ing Fair Week. "The same findings apply the request for a longer Chri mas holiday. "In our next bulletin, now i der preparation, we are revisi our schedule' and propose to gi a holiday from .Thursday or F day until Monday for Thanksg ing, State Fair and Orangebu Fair weeks. While doing this, ewill be necessary to provide i the required number of cla yhours, which means in - futu years the fall term .will op eearlier in September." S'Bouknighte Chose iOffiber Of State Chemical Society w Prof. J. W. Bouknight of tl ke university chemistry departmei n was re-elected secretary-treasuri r of the South Caroline section< the American Chemical society is its December meeting in L w Conte college last week. 1 Other officers named were) & M. Whaley, chairman; .Ralph I e Byrd, vice-chairman, and .. Copenhaver, councilor. ..Dr. Frederick D. Rossini of ti National Bureau of Standari spoke on petroleum at the me. ing. Doctor Rossini Is chief of ti to chemistry division of the buses it and the author of many soli 4 tific papers. He is associate ed a- tor of the Journal ot th Ater can Chemical Society. ' Deck the halls with boughs of holl 'Tis the season to be jolly. Don we now our gay apparel, Troll the ancient Yuletide carol. Fast away the old year passes, Hall the new, ye lads and lasses. Sing we Joyous all together, Heedless of the wind and weather. UN .Secretary Sends Letter he ToEuphradian n. The Euphradian Literary So ;h, clety has' received acknowledg ment of two resolutions recently sent to the United Nations as sembly. - One resolution announced the gse society's support of the Mar Ire shall Plan to furnish aid to se- Western European countries in ye need of such assistance as a means of bringing about world peace. The second resolution was the ed expression of the society's sup - port of two United States Senate tor concurrent resolutions ealling for ler a general conference of the United k- Nations capable of enacting, in terpreting and enforcing world t law to prevent war. air The acknowledgment stated: "The secretary general of the ol- United Nations wishes to ac knowledge the receipt of letters ;he from you December, 1947, con taining resolutions adopted by the Euphradian Society of the Uni wn versity of South Carolina." Ied ;he Seniors Will Hold ly, Scholarship Dance r; In Armory Jan. 9 >e The senior class will hold an nd informal scholarship dance in the Naval Armory, January 9, class president Al Bahret announced id- yesterday. Henry Westbrook and ar- his orchestra will play for the dance, which will be from 9 to 1. to The dance is being presented by st- the seniors to raise money for the establishment of a scholarship in- loan fund to be known as the ng "Class of 1948 Scholarship Fund." ye This fund will be self-perpetuat ri- ing, supporting itself eompletely, v- and is one of the contributions the rg class of '48 will leave behind. it. Promotion activities are already or underway for the dance.. Tickets as can now be secq1red from meet or re ganizations on 'the campus and a an sales booth will be set up in the post office immediately after the Christmas holiday. The scope and success of this Ii fund will depend entirely upon the support of the,. dance by the seniors and other students. Tic kets are $1.50 stags and $2.00 for couples. * New Director . Named f For University Group * Of Methodist Students Mrs. Martha Rumble Pirkle has -. been named director of the Wes I. ley Foundation, organisation for E. Methodist students attending the university and Columbia college, me it was announced yesterday. Is While -in school, Mrs. Pirkie, a 1- 1946 gradugte of Wesleyan col es lege, Mac4n, Ga.; was a member u of Beta Phi Sorority, chosen as a- Qfrl of the Year two years in I- speoessiona, sad listed in "Who's 1- Who in American Colleges and Universities." 'xUta /'y Gamecocl Southern Questionnaires were papers throughout the on the formation of a c this section by The Gan South Carolina, Georgi Louisiana and Tennessec The purpose for the aspo< would be to further relatioi tween school newspapers i section and to hold a conv in some Southern city each Leading authorities in daily papers, weekly newspapers tional magazines, radio and related fields would be asl speak at the convention. Suggestions include a co tee to be chosen from this to judge member papers fro section. Prizes and certifica excellence would be offere the papers selected. Press clinics and forums ] newspaper authorities would feature of any convention hi the gronp. The Gamecock gested in its letter to the s that a fee of $10 be charge< member paper and a $5 1 charged to each registrar tending the convention. would be a measni e for sel petuation of the organizati treasurer would be chosen the member schools to admi the project. The letter states that the ern convention will be "of significance and value to attending a regional 'me Problems and discussions ec localized to the region and tions can be better directe< answered." Each school was asked for gestions for a meeting speakers and criticisms of plan. USC Biology Teac Seeks Classificati< Of Fish Specimen Specimens of fish from all of South Carolina were ser Cornell university Saturdas H. Wayne Freeman, biology partment Instructor. Labor, technicians in ichtyology (i of fish) there will identify verify Freeman's research. "I have 13 familIes and 35 eles of fish represented In South Carolina fish," said man. "They were taken froni streams In Richiand County ing Spring and Bummer of 11 "I am still looking for are that any one catches and they don't want," he added. breed, color, or kind wili do. Freeman said he still did have a gar specimen whiel round in Lake Murray. Also ls trying to get a bowfin, te. eally named amls. for atnudy !rounded 1908 Veterans Top Student Body In Averages Fraternities Lowest In Classified Groups Veteran students at the univer sity maintained a higher scholas tic average for the spring term than the student body as a whole, J I according to figures released this week by the IBM office. Fraterni ties had the lowest average of any individual group on the cam < .::pus. Pi Lambda Phi led all groups and classifications with a 3.29 average while Kappa Alpha was lowest with 4.47. Coeds averaged 3.64 to 3.87 for all male students. Averages for the term in classi Ofications are Pi Lambda Phi, 3.29; 1Chi Omega, 3.4; Zeta Tau Alpha, 1.O g n i n 3.53; Tri Delta, 3.56; Delta Zeta, Organizing 13.61; Kappa Delta, 3.63; all non ru sorority women, 3.64; all women, III~ ess G rou I~64,all sorority women, 3.65; Al mailed yesterday to college news- pha Delta Pi, 3.66; all non-fra Southeast requesting information ternity and non-sorority, 3.78; all ollegiate newspaper association for veterans, 3.81; all non-fraternity secock. Colleges in North Carolina, men, 3.81; Phi Epsilon Pi, 3.81; a, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, student body average, 3.82; Sigma are being asked to participate. Chi, 3.83. iation Also, non-veteran men and i men, 3.85; Alpha Tau Omega, sick L y 3.85; all men, 3.87 SAE, 3.91; ention Displays Freedom Alpha Epsilon Phi, 3.93; all fra yr ternity and sorority, 3.75; Pi Beta news- Heritage Exhibition Phi, 3.96; Sigma Nu, 4.01; Kappa na- Books and pamphlets contain- fraternity, 4.09; Lambda Chi, other ing documents similar to those 4.12; Phi Kappa Sigma, 4.23; Pi Sto shown' o e Freedom TKappa Phi, 4.26;- Pi Kappa Alpha, now on display on the main floor andKap _lpa_44. mmit- of McKissick library. Miss Eliza mrthe beth English, assistant librarian, Cihilds' Volumne tes of arranged the exhibit and has en d for titled it, "Freedom Heritage." I y USC Press With documents, Miss English edby has pictured the history of the To Go O n Sale amit United States as developing to ed by ward more and more liberty for sug- the people. She designates the "The Private Journal of Henry chools Magna Carta as the first oferit William Ravenel" edited by Dean each age of American Freedom. Arney Childs will be put on sale 'e be, Roger Williams' Statement on Monday by the University Press, :t at- Religious Freedom and the May- Frank H. Wardlaw, managing edi This flower compact are placed in the tor, announced yesterday. i-per- display. Independence achieved is Within the pages of the Ravenel >n. A shown by the Declaration of In- Journal a picture of the growth of from dependence and the Treaty of the new South after the War Be nister Paris. tween the States highlights the Other documents shown are the authors account of the plight of ;outh- Constitution and the Bill of the people of that period. much Rights, the surrenders of Ger- The book is bound in natural those many and Japan, and the charter finish buckram and printed on dg o he UT Na lati-finish pa.0 . 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