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CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Member of Associated Collegiate Press Distributor of Collegiate Digest Member Intercollegicite Press Founded January 30, 1908, with Robert Elliott Gonzales as the first editor, "The Gamecock" is published by and for the students of the University of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, 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 per column inch. Deadlines are: edi torial, 3 p. m., Mondays; society, 3 p. m., Tuesdays; news and sports, 12 a. m., Wednesdays. Advertising deadline: 3 p. m., Mondays. The opinions expressed by columnists and letter writers are not necessarily those of "The Game cock." Publishing does not constitute an endorse ment although the right to edit is reserved. STAFF Editor .. Bill Routh Managing Editor . Bob Isbell Business Manager . Harry W. Hiott, Jr. EDITORIAL STAFF News Editor .. Carroll Gilliam Society Editor ..........Belinda Collum Feature Editor ............. Jean Davis Co-Sports Editors Don Barton,.Ken Baldwin Exchange Editor . . . . Norine Corley CartoonistC................Sam Boylston REPORTERS: Jack Morgan. Jean Hil. Tillie Young. Jack Matthews. Henry Walker. Say. Gaston. Bernard Manning. Jane Dewe. Bob Horton. Jimmy Crawford. Ida S. Webb. Marguerite Webb, Robert Gillespie. Rupert Blocker. Carolyn Busbee, Alva C. Singley. D. L. Gunter. Lee Butler. F. J. Rodgers. Betty Jean Strom. Betty Ann Putnam. Ann Moore. Laura Speed. Ann Rogers. Pat Ram. Betty Clark. Jo Ann Dellinger. Frances Harper. LeRoy Taggert. Betty Frazer. Van Newman. James Sheridan and Sam W. Ayers. . BUSINESS STAFF: Allen MacEachern. Dool Coskrey. Lois Mc Bridet Eleanor Wilson. B. J. Livingston. Jeanne Simpson. Luki Bennett, and Electa. Hail. Building Bill Passes, But We Shall Continue To Need In last week's Gamecock the fact was mentioned that our general assembly should heed President Smith's request to the bud get commission for additional funds with which the university could buy needed land for its long-awaited and badly-needed ex pansion to adjacent property. Last week, however, Governor Thurmond, in his -statewide radio address, announced that he would sign the $10,260,000 state institutional and building bill, by which the university will benefit by $1,450,000. Here is. the money for buildings, but the funds to buy property where we shall put those buildings is still to come. Recently a $65,000,000 road bond issue was passed for improvements to our high ways, now among the best, by far, of any in the nation. While our educational sys tem, both for lower schools and higher edu cation, is near the bottom of the country's educational scale, we must wait for surplus finds to help it stagger along in its plight. Surely our excellent roads could do with out so much attention for a little while, in order that the state would devote more time, energy and money to our schools, in an effort to bring them above par. We have been sadly lacking in this respect for many years. It is equalled by the farmer who spends all of his spare time and money tinkering with and fixing up his barn while CAROLINA TODAY Honor Council Disci By OSBORNE GOMEZ been utilized as Chairman, Honor Board pose, but plan At a meeting of the Honor formulated for Board recently, a petition, signed radio station, al by 22 students, was presented to pear in The C me by C. M. Ryan, Jr. a junior the near futui who felt that the Honor Board this educationa was lax in performing its duties to acquaint s as the judicial branch of the stu- Honor System dent government. The petition Principle, espe listed five grievances which, it dents who hav< urged, should be rectified. The cally everythil members of the Honor Board con- from the Orien sidered the petition, discussed each want to comm< grievance at length, and decided, signers of the in the final analysis, that there nizing these was no justification for three of which we our the charges. It was agreed, how- painfully awar ever, that further steps should At present, h be taken in the way of publicity being taken to and an educational program of 2 h a the Honor Principle, which the aboutThthe o first two grievances stipulated. an thai I should like to bring this peti- adtea tion to the attention of the stu- Board, and dent body; also, I should like to 'p. answer each of the charges. This ties i I. The Uack of an educa- t.he preceding tional program through te ize that more available campus mediums ofsenthe Ho (The GAMECOCK, WUC o Honor icp and THE CAROLINA RE- HorPrnp VIEW) to Instill In the stu- these Thrce a dents the value of honor, th Oerientation Editorials and features on the the Honor Sys Honor System have appeared in a page In the The Gamecock, but lately there Honor Princip has been some negligence in this material has,a connection. Station WUSC and tributed to the The, Carolina Review have not the two-page his home falls down. Education would the basis for our pulling out of povei We are now wrapped in it. Yet $66,000,1 is being spent on our fine roads while schools are foundering for want of funds Certainly the $1,450,000 can and will put to good use at the university; it is preciafed. But unless Carolina and ot state schools, both colleges and lo schools, can get a little more capital w which to work, our educational system - continue to suffocate in its lowly posit among the other states. But for the time being we shall conti to dicker among ourselves and barter w Columbians, hoping to get the bes$ of th in our quest for needed land and buildir Let us pinch our pennies; it seems the be all we'll get for some time. A Modern Parable For Tho Suffering From Bombphol There was a friend of ours who lived a particularly densely populated section Brooklyn. Now this man was intellig and well-informed-so well informed t he came down with a disease common to times; bombphobia. He would lie aw nights in his hot Brooklyn apartment while he was not bordering on hysteria, thoughts would go something like t "Well, if they come over and drop it, wlh are they going to drop it? Where it - do the most' damage, that's where, that's here, right here . . ." and he wc sweat away the remainder of the misera night. Finally, he could stand it no longer, he moved to a large college. Life on academic battleground was pleasing fo time. But finally, the phobia came to on our friend's shoulder in the night, an said:. "Where are they going to drop Right where it will do the most damage course, and that's RIGHT HERE. V sure, where the minds are congregated at least where they think the minds congregated." So our friend who was a little hagg by now, packed his bags and moved up i the far reaches of Alaska. One day his nE est neighbor said, "We're going to have move any day now." "Why ?" asked our friend, who was ; beginning to get used to the place. "Great Heavens, man, do you want get caught? When they invade, where you think they'll come from? Right ac: the Strait, right through here, that's wt they'll come." So our friend packed his bags and mo' At last he came to the Great Ameri Desert in the southwest part of the Un States. "At last I have escaped," he s "But has anyone else ?" And just at the moment came a n strous roar. Our friend never heard the companying explosion. . . And when the scientists came' to st the crater made by this rocket they v testing, there was a young one among ti who kept insisting that some sort of habitants had been where the rocket fallen. There were, he insisted, sev pieces of evidence strewn about. "Don't be silly," said the other scienti "Why would anyone be living in this df late area ?"-A.C.P. ksses Student Petition -WHAT GOES 4 yet for this pur-deteetoshawntwr s are now beingjspig MeerofteI debates over the BadadDa rde,I id articles will ap-adie,rewlngtal arolina Review in t lrf suso hc 'e. The object of (et a ei ob.Te I program will behoee,seinrmtnv tudents with thecanterealdsuhs and the Honor nmso niiul h cially those stu- bogtbfr h oo forgotten practi-cifobrahsfhnr,a ag they learned tm nlpaeo uhha tation manual. WeThsmutbketisrc nd and thank the ceyfrovosraos petition for recog-thuhterslsotee shortcomings of aepbihdrglryI selves have been aeokithfrm fo e for some time. Iais wever, steps are a h inn fteIo remedy this need. Peg o ahqi sm k of publicity lya novincfrd ject, the policy, hoettunt,adn s of the Honor suttthIneryofh he Honor Prin- s tdns somewhat with qeto a rsn hs rrievance. We real- aerlcatt inteI could be done to Peg nqizsaeu policies and aims hns tdnswofe Board and the terhvn indteP e, althouh thereonfrtetigth nv finformation for sol esfiin oet re seven pages in terhnsyadisr manual devoted toadeectoheHnrri tem, and there isthogotheruirsy Bulletin on the re.TeHnrBadde le. Mimeographedcocrithsble.tdn it times, been dis- rgsrto internm students, such as ayhn,tkn itent epot o th st adn selectons remeberng, oxr be ty. )00 be n her ver g m n a .ith will ion ue ith em igs. y'll se in of ent hat Dur - ake his Santa Claus or no Santa Claus, y4 lis:1 ere d Dear Editor: ble The editorial in last week's so Gamecock concerning the Senior the class was most interesting, if not r' a informative. I would like to quote sit it and make a few comments. I it "Last Thursday, the Senior it? class, at its own unanimous re of quest, was invited, along with Thy the entire student body, to a stu -or, dent council meeting held openly are in the Chapel." It was painfully evident that those attending, al ard though extended an invitation, nto would be little more than toler 'ar- ated. In an address to the Seniors to the student body president stated, "You can come out if you want uSt to, but keep your mouths shut." The editorial continues by stat to ing that there are a few interested do students who attended the Coun 'OSS cil meeting, but that they were tere greatly outnumbered by-those who voted for the open meeting and red' did not attend. Then, "Along with can this it seems that there are .d many pe rsons who will vote for aid, any measure just to get home a little earlier." This is an unfair on- remark as there was a great deal ac- of discussion pro and con before uxdy. ~ere what~ was the "Honor Pledge." mThus, many students are not at .once aware of the fact that they n-have subscribed to an Honor Sys had tern that places the individual on Bral his own honor during tests and in the laboratory and even out sts, side of classes, an Honor System s-that is in contradistinction to the Gestapo-like Proctor System, ex __isting in some high schools and colleges, by which students are -- watched closely if they bend over to pick up a pencil. By signing the Pledge, the student merely verifies the fact that he has not )N violated the trust placed in him under the Honor System. We 'last doubt that it is an affront to the onor :int;egrity of honest students to ~ulty sign their names to the Honor imsPledge, and we do not regret mscausing dishonest students incon st-venience in having to sign it. ihAny man who is honest will not the fail to sign his name to anything aeto verify his honesty. oun- the Self-perpetuation has put th the Honor Board under the ng. stigma of political dealings se In the award of membership. al- Honor Board members are elect ases ed in this manner-In April of The each year an unlimited number bitu- of students are recommended and investigated by the members of the Honor Board. This investiga or tion is carried on for weeks. All re- records are examined, and people is- with whom the individuals are or n-were associated are questioned. n- Those candidates .receiving the highest 'recommendations as to this character and aptitude for dis who charging the duties of an Honor onor Board member are voted upon by ially secret ballot, and the ones re that ceiving the majority of votes, pur edge suant to the number of vacancies rsity to be filled, are elected to the blish Honor Board. The only requisite their that makes a student eligible for ciple membership is that he or she be ca- a sophomore or above. Personal not friendships, fraternities, and so s at rorities are in no way taken into a5 to account, nor the fact that a stu .of, dent may be outstanding In cam -_____ sai gla Ou ari out bot -- 1 - ill1 ste mo u can't get into Sims THAT way!! bui e Edifor w tal the motion or the vote. The rea- bee son the outcome was _ unanimous e was because those few opposed alo did not vote. After being termed "radicals and hypocrites" by the student body president some Se- ing niors said that now they would Iek not dare voice their opinions or dai care to attend open council meet ings. The editorial ends: "Perhaps we We will all know more about student interest in government ... (now)" There will be student interest thE in government when the leaders a i of this. school wan it. There is a did prevalent idea that the student 4 government is a "representative body" and therefore has no need to consult or heed the wishes of , the student body. At a regular meeting, November 20, it was the ani general opinion of the Council that SUi it was unehical to discuss its ac tions before the student botly. Yet this is the student government of M the school, in theory held respon sible to the student body. So with out in the least wanting criticism or interest, the leaders of the school continue to berate the*stu dents for lack of it. Ar Sincerely, wil AL BAHRET, we urj Senior Class President. tre zations. It may be truly said that , the Honor Board has no political , dealings whatsoever either in the " election of its members or in the fulfillment of its duties. The six sje members of the Honor Council are elected by and from the Honor 3 Board. 5. Rteprsenttio on the Honor Board is insufficient to ne perform fully its responsib)ili- o ties to 4600 students. There are 23 members on the Honor Board representing 4600 r students. There are five Tnen on roi the South Carolina Supreme Court doi representing 1,900,000 people. There are nine men on the United States Supreme Court represent- Pe ing 140 million people. All three cai of these are the judicial branches of government and their functions wi are primarily the same. Membership on the Honor Board is one of the highest distinctions Pa at this university, but it is by no ' means a joy-ride. It entails a tre- de mendous amount of responsibility h and a lot of hard, unpleasanth work. Some of the students who sa tome before the Honor Council ca for infractions of honor are friends of ours, but we have to deal with a them impartially and impersoni ally. It Is as hard for us to mete out punishment as it is easy for ac students to avoid having to ap pear before the Honor Council. Someday, perhaps, all students will realize the value and the no- fir cessity of honor to such an extent an that an. Honor Council 'will no Wr longer be necessary, and every .be student will be a member of a self-governing Honor Board. c We would like to express our thanks to Mr. Ryan and the other afi signers for submitting this peti- yng tion which proved more beneficial bu to use than condemnatory. The others were E. L. Garrett, H. J. th King, 'W. F. Stokes, M. B. Car- all ter, H. C. Scott, H. D. Barwick, m( H. J. Weiss, I. Beller, J. F. Cros- ke ley, J. B. Johnson, H. L.. Lerman, Tg E. C. Benbow, W. P. Russell, C. N. Smith, G. Beisel, V. Ah Taylor, se E. L. Condon, Jr., R. R. Carpenter, du H. P. James and R. L. WiIla. PILLOW To POST A couple of cornfed hicks, Were in a helluva fix. They messed with a daughter South of the border; Her old man hit them with bricks. , .imping through Mexico, stoned to the gills (as'the dog d, "I really threw a party last night."), on a bright and ring Sunday morning, we plopped down on some steps. r heads were chiming, or so we thought, but were set ght when an old woman croaked, "Senores, ees Mass 'Get lost, woman," we retorted uninterestedly, not even hering to lift our battered eyelids. "Can't you see we're ks enervated as we felt, the idea of sitting on a church p in our condition was highly embarrassing, 'so we ved on. There once were a couple of guys With two banged up pairs of eyes, Who sacked up like a streak And slept for a week, Till their heads resumed normal size. krising from our deep dream of peace, we mixed bromos ; couldn't stand them because of the noise. We drank iato juice instead, which went straight to our eyes. rhrough rose colored glasses we gazed out to find out ere we were. As we had suspected, since everyone was king Spanish, we were in Mexico, so decided to make the t of it. Mexico City enticed us. Hopping the next burro )ress, we slowly plodded forward, muling and poking ng toward our destination. )ver to our left we saw a dignified old couple sadly gaz at an apparently empty graveyard. Suddenly the aged eora began weeping and the old man sobbed, "Madrecita, now just what you're weeping about. It's our poor little ighter up there in the cemetery." 'Si," she said, between sobs, "Sometimes I weesh she re dead!" Craffic was held up while a large flock of sheep blocked road. No shepherd was in sight, so when he came back rood while later our curiosity got the best of us. "Why 'you leave your valuable flock unguarded?" we inquired. 'Senores," he sadly said, "I have just lost two fine rams." 'Why, what happened?" 'Well, one fell off a cliff because he didn't see the U-turn I the other-ah, the poor frustrated animal, he committed cide." 'What is this," cried we in amazement, "an animal com tting suicide?" 'Si, senores, it's theez Frank Sinatra. He's #lmost ruined business with thees song 'There'll Never Be Another , , u. Nith that we gave up and moved on down the road. ound the next corner we noticed 'that a huge cart, loaded ;h produce, was stuck in the ditch. Hitched to the cart re two tiny Chihuahuas and the driver was vehemently ring them on. We rushed over expostulating, "Senor, i don't possibly think that those tiny dogs can pull that mendous cart out, do you ?" 'Why not ?" blandly retorted the big, swarthy fellow. im't I gotta whip?" living up in disgust, we burroed on, and stopped for a sta in the little town of Julovami. All the inns were filled we sat down on the village square. 'Move over," he pleaded, "I can't hep it." Duly squelched, we movedl down the street and sat down <ct to a sombrero with legs. It spoke and claimed the name Pancho. Scarcely had we gotten comfortable when along ndered a nondescript fellow with a sack in his hand, who >ceededl to trip over Pancho's outstretched legs. Pancho sed himself andl exclaimed, "Pedro, amigo, what are you ng up during siesta and what have you got in ze bag?" ''I got ze butterfly in ze bag and I go to get ze butter," diro mumbled and lumbered off. A 1!hort time later he nie back carrying a pound of butter, Pancho noted, Just as we were about to doze off, Pedro'came back by th the sack in his hand. 'Hallo, Pedro, what have you got in ze sack thees time?" ncho inquired interestedly. 'I got ze horsefly, and I go to get ze horse", he muttered pectedly and shortly returned leading a horse. He had rdly disappeared when we looked down the street and Wv Pedro blithly skipping, whistling a merry tune, and rying his everpresent sack. 5 'Where are you going in such a rush?" ejaculated Pancho, azed. 'It's in ze bag, it's in ze bag," sang Pedro "I got ze head ~e pills in ze bag." 'Wait for me, Pedro, I go weeth you!I" Biesta being over, we again took up our journey and ally arrived in hysteric Mexico City, the capital of the eient Aztec empire. Cortez, the Spanish conquistador, ested it from the Aztecs in bloody fighting and Mexico ran to take on a Spanish complexion with regardp to faces, stoms, and amusements. We came in contact with one of the amusements shortly er we arrived. Delores del Oro, the most outstanding tadora in the country was to fight an especially ferocious mIi the huge arena. (Dance, Bullarena, Dance.) Since ~y don't raise any bulls around Mexico City (no bulls at ), this particular bull had to be imported. The excite ~nt arbund town was so intense that we couldn't get tic ts to the great spectacle and stole in. (Watch out, boy! at ain't second base!) Moving, we found more comfortable its just as the show got underway. It all sqemed very Iuntil the beast horned in and gored Dolores to death. "Behold, little angels ascend upwards."