Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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E dito r . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . ...... . . . . N ew s Editor ........................... Sports Editor ........... ............... Society Editor .................. ....... Campus Editor .... ................ Feature Editor ....................... Copy E ditor ................. ........ Exchange Editor ....................... ManagIng Editor ................. The New Stud The long discussed and pondered new stu dent constitution is now on its way toward materialization. All that is lacking is the ratification of a new amendment in order to make null and void the articles of the old document. The amendment, which was introduced to the student council December 4, 1947, declares in substance that the "foregoing articles be null and void and be deleted therefrom." The present body of laws provides that an amendment must be read three times be fore a student body meeting and that the third and final meeting shall consist of a quorum, which shall be 200 or more, the ma jority of which is required to approve amendment. Student body cooperation is needed to make effective this amendment. With the Now R Last semester a column was set aside on this page as an official calendar for meet ings and activities of campus organizations. The Gamecock had intended the continua tion of the column, but the information desk, official receiyer for items for the cal endar, reports this semester little or no re quests from organizations that notices be posted. Several notices have been received at the Gamecock office, however, for posting. These notices will be run only if they are turned in to their official receiver, the in formation desk. We are interested in co operating with caipus organizations in placing their notices before the students. "Now Read This" will be renewed when the various groups turn in their notices to the pr-oper receiver. Lost A Several incidents have come up lately which stress the need for everyone's knowl edge of the lost and found office at Carolina. The official lost and found is located in the post office. Any articles which have been found should be turned in immediately at the stamp window. Located by the steps which lead to Maxcy lobby is a glass-en closed case in which all articles turned in and notices of lost articles are placed. Ar ticles remain here until claimed. Persons who have lost articles may ob tain cards to fill out with the description of Garnet and CARROL "Go West, Young Man, Go West"~ and satisfied w Since this advice was first given This is the anti the direction has changed to north. ern immigratio it was recently said that the, are even more South's greatest export was We can be brains, and this is a modern truth- we have, even Every year the flood gates of bor is in rags. universities south of Mason-Dixon man nature, hu are opened and a stream departs But, it ca for the northern climate. But, South Caroli these are not the Okies or the one man does Arkies, they are the best that the ir some'othei South has to offer, and they are something el giving up, seeking a better life each citizeni elsewhere. -that of the That the brains are leaving perity must b is not a chest-thumping state- be half-posse ment bragging about our su perior intellect. It Is a cold, We don't nei unpleasant fact that is pro for a bright duced by many reasonas. should try to ii Life, as such, has gAe along not only for or in the same rgt in our section for those who lives so long that it seems impossible No Shi, to buck the current. Each man There is no only hopes to live a little better armor to go a than his father or to follow his us must reso, prediecessor's pattern, some thing even But this does not mean that the Opportunities system won't change some day. brain power th Would it not be better to stay and borders are a be sure that the prejudices and There is no pre outmoded standards are buried improvements i with those who entertain them? they stare at yo Without Smugness The homei There, too, is the inclination to overcrowded a stay where you are and be smugr grreener, past ... ...... Robert Isbell .....Jea 391H . Kenneth Bad*in UNP . Norine Corley M4 James Sheridan . Van Nw ............. Tillie Young *eity "Mea .............. Jane Dowe year except holk .The opinions e: .........Carroll Giliam ossaily those of endorsewent pith ent Constitution procuring of such, the new constitution may be put into efect. The date for the three readings has not been set pending final touches to the new . document. The first two readings do not require a quorum, but, as is requested by the presi dent of the student body and council mem bers, students should attend the final read ing in order to deliberate and pass upon the new instrument, which, in body contains provisions for a more representative stu dent government than any other constitu tion heretofore at Carolina. Such was drawn up by the officers elected last spring. The time is near for the stu dents to support the work of those they chose to represent them. ead This Organizations wishing to- receive atten tion in the news columns of this paper may do so by sending material to the Campus Editor, The Gamecock, Box 80, Campus Mail. We are striving to give a complete cover age of campus activities. The medium of clubs and fraternal organizations furnish the best means of accomplishing this. There fore, it is advised that each organization appoint a member to be responsible for the turning in of articles to the campus niews paper. We do not guarantee the .publication of all articles, but newsworthy items will be used. It is necessary to make this request for reason of the limited number of campus re porters. id Found the lost article, owner and address at the stamp window. This information will be im mediately placed in the case. It is everyone's duty to other students and to himself to turn in all found articles to the post office immediately upon find ing them. This will greatly aid in the prob lem of one who is trying to locate a lost article. Let us stress again that the post office is the one and only official place to turn in these articles. -- S.J.B. Black SpiritI th what you have. IThey are right here, in a state thesis to the north- that Is Ours! n, and its results Teln n l hti ni wasteful. i u aiefed h odto :ontent with what te r ni u epniiiy though our neigh- adi hyaet mrv ti rhis is against hu- orlbrta ild t ~ itis one IsThe an anot beltht ishon cre n't b done i ts his eter ivingth condition na! Hier'e what than the ovne who roams the earth not have, results seeking someone to give It to him? man not having Profit By Past se. The life of And we of this generation do is so bound with not have an exclusive patent on next, that pros- brain power. Intelligent people e for all, or must =have lived before we were born, ased by a few. and are still among us, but we do d t kep ooit. .have one thing that they did not rd tomke oro;iw- possess. ake tomorow brgher The mistakes that thsy akelveda brigher,al made, the errors on their rete bto fors.l scorecards, are ours for guide are tied opours.. What they did wroeng, ting Armor we can reognise as a mistake, t enough shining and where they failed, we can round, so some of strive to succeed. -t to words, and * Their experiences are of no simpler, our lives, value elsewhere, for conditions are for using this not identical everywhere. The at is fleeing the farther we get from the place .11 around today.: where those mistakes were made, mium on need for the less our knowledge of them Is ri South Carolina; worth. u from the mirror. So, why not spend a few years bae can not be and a little effort in trying to *nd there are no redo the old homeplace ? It is sp ures elsewhere. poant h it ned t. GA*Co' MO0M OPRLI DbtrlbUwo rlig%& to Iftu 301908,;dt Elliott Goni secock" Is ubl y and for the ath Car inh . 1, on Fridays, d% sys and examinations. tpreusedby columnists and latterwrii "heGamok." Publishing des r ough the ri*bt to edit Is reOwred. C% VASSITV M0ees . For Youre MOe -.5 little men rAhft ftftmi" Pinch Hitting For Bal Swedish Studen TellsPlightOfF By INGRID (Miss Nilsson is at present school of the university. She i. traveled in Europe before comi: the trip on which these impreE ing college in Lund, Sweden.) Before coming to America and - the University of South Carolina, I traveled last summer through Germany, France, Belgium, and Switzerland. I was particularly in terested in the livex and thoughts of my fellow students. I found j their life very grim. The condi- 1 tions in Sweden and Switzerland are much like those in the United States, but in the war ravaged countries they are far different. In these countries the students have little food, no clothing to speak of, and no books. In Germany the situation is desperate. The food situation is so bad the students are served only one meal a day in the relief cafe terias. Last spring this consisted of a thick soup or broth. It is not much but if they did not have even this they would not have survived. Last spring Hamburg used all its supplies in feeding the children and youth. Other wise they would have starved. Housing facilities hardly exist. In Kiel, Germany I know of a little group studying medicine in a small room that was without desks or benches. They had only a couple of books for all. There was no heating and the students had to wear all their clothes to keep warm. In Poland there are almost no books or. paper. Swedish students have collected old books-some of them out of date 20 years-and sent them. But still one book must do for a whole class and the pro fessor. But there is no paper and therefore the students ,cannot take notes. It is a pity because every one is most eager to learn. There is a longing to break the intel lectual isolation, tespecially in Germany, where it has existed for 15 years. If a student Is 20 years old now, he was only a child when Hitler came. These students have a great longing for international relations. The most important thing to do with Germany now is to get in communication with these students. Even a technical magazine would be used as a textbook by a class. While in France I visited a stu dents' health center, Combloux, In the French Alps near Mont Blane. It was purchased mainly through American money origi nally for students who had been in concentration camps and tu bercular students. Students from all over Europe have recuperated there. While there I met a group of 30 American students who were traveling through Efrope to ob serve and report to their local W.S.S.F. committees what they saw. It was as clear to them as it was to me that help was needed. There are few teachers. Many have boon in concentratIon camp. for years. Many who have sur vived na In no cndition to tach. Business M &W~stanf By~ CrzlationBI Advertising NA Living s Business Sta *I Bh is Saye. Gai *dnt of e Bob McLella di the c9116" Katz, Hunte Albert Munn Marguer Ars are not nec- Ellen Schofie ot constitute an Jack Morgan Decell, Lloyd iret t At University :reignStudents NILSSON a student in the graduate a native of Sweden anid has ng to this country. She made isions are based after finish rhings are extremely hard for -hem. While in Geneva, Switzerland, [ visited the World Student Relief (of which the W.S.S.F. is the American branch). It is an old ,ouse in one of the oldest sections ii town. I do not believe the work ?rs are paid very much. The place Aas piled with books and stacks of paper. Everybody was very busy and people arrived from many countries and student or ganizations to get advice on how to plan increased relief work, and W.S.R. representatives in the zountrien that get relief came back to give reports of the conditions and situations. These representa tives and traveling secretaries travel about checking that the books and food reach their places of destination. I am positive that all the help that is sent is given to the students and even what is sent to Poland goes to Polish stu dents. Most European students have to work in order to earn enough to study. They are in poor physi cal condition and there is no let' up or time for curing them. They are very happy to be em Ployed by W.S.R. or various other help organizations. For Instance, in Vienna students are employed to feed children by the Swe'dish association "Save the Children" as well as to distribute W.S.S.F. food and supplies. -I would say that at the present the greatest needs are food, medi cal supplies and books. We could give help to the students for them to help themselves by sending them mimeographing machines and paper to help them distribute notes. The students are forced to live by standards not sufficient for their health. The one meal received a day is not sufficient in the long run. I can tell you a marvelous thing. Many students who have been helped physically as well as men t'ally by you want to help others who are worse off. And so even in the countries that receive help in France, Poland, Greece, and China for Instance, funds are raised. This money remains with in their own country and Is used by the local help organizations to rent a house for another cafeteria or to improve the 'students' lodg ings. The fact that life is slowly get ting on at the universities of devastated Europe Is due to what W.S.R. and W.S.S.F. have already been doing. I wish the American students could realize the great value and appreciation of the re sults accomplished. But we must not let it remain as it Is. The work is not fulfilled. Greater dam age would be done to stop work now than if we had never begun. Our responsibilities toward truth, science, tnternational studentship, and pace plede us to go on. anager..................... Harry W. Hiott, Jr. siness Mgr. .......................... Allen McEachern tanager ....................................Lynn H ook Staff: Dool Coskrey, Lois McBride, George Shelor, Alan stain, Fred Tolly, Ben Quarles. ff: Electa Hall, Luki Bennett. REPORTORIAL STAFF 3ton, Belinda Collum* Pat Ram, Jay Rodgers, Ruth Patrick, n, Ruth Newell, Gladys Johnson, Carolyn Busbee, Carolyn r Russell, Colleen Morris, Rupert Blocker, Bob Gillespie, ite Webb, Ida S. Webb, Betty Frazer, Audrey Chapman, Id, Jo-Anne Dellinger, Bob Horton, Joy Conard, Ned Threatt, Jem Newbury, Henry Macklen, Jimmy Crawford, Grady Hpntington, Joe Molony. OSBORNE GOMjZ Tremendous Tr'fles The Most. Collegiate Mistakes, like people, can be funny. Sometimes they can be very funny, but often they can be obnoxious. Let us consider the latter. Last summer our baby, The Carolina Review, received a letter from the University of Maryland's magazine the Old Line which began as follows: The Old Line recently made a survey among the staff mem bers to determine "The Most Collegiate College Magazine." Actually a few of us hoped that the Old Line would win, but we are forced to admit that first place went to The Caro lina Review. Congratulations! The letter went on to tell the virtues of our little quarterly. Highly elated, I immediately sat (town and wrote them a letter of thanks. It was a dilly. I tell you even the punctuation marks strained under the enthusiasm of that letter. Little I weened that I was making an epistolary ass out of myself; that is, until we received the "Holiday Issue" of the Old Line. There on a double page spread was a series of letters (mine among them) from other colleges with editorial comments explaining the "grave mistake" that had been made. The Old Line. like Eris, had thrown an apple at her exchanges. That apple was in the shape of a form letter naming every magazine on Maryland's exchange list the "most collegiate". Sonic inefficient typist had got the letter mixed up with another letter asking for a renewal of exchanges and had sent out the wrong letter. Consequently all the college magazirws, including the Review, rose to the bait. Now if this was a practical joke, as far as I'n concerned it means war; if it was merely a routine error, I suggest that a certain typist take up lessons on the zither and leave the typewriter alone. Whatever the case, we still feel that we have the most collegiate college magazine, and though other magazines may have received that letter we are not sharing the glory with any of them. The Payoff "I got yuh now, yuh rat!" The desperado smirked triumphantly over the glint barrels of colt forty-fives that were levelleq at the Rat. "I trailed yuh from the hills of Californy to the plains of Texas and I got yuh now, yuh skulking snake." The Snake frowned. He would have to pay this trigger-hap madman cautiously. He listened. "Yuh foxed me a week ago in Arizony, then yuh scampered away lide a terrier. Yuh didn't git far, did yuh?" The Fox terrier nursed an keda. If he could only divert the attention of the desperado, he could "She wasn't much to look at but I loved that gal and you did her wrong. Why, yuh cayote, I shouldn't even waste lead on yuh." It was a fool's chance. The odds were a thousand to one that it wouldn't work, but the Cayote worked on it. "Yuh mighta' bufaloed Stella hut not Drinking Dan the Dan gerous Desperado." It was nowv or niever. The Buffalo scraped the ground wvith his foot, and when the desperado lowvered his eyes he leaped like a frog for the two guns. Two loud pistol shots shatteredl the prairie silence and a body fell forward in the (lust. With a lowv, gutt:eral sound the Frog croaked. Sea4td&do4. .. Floridian Protest hleo)tainsfr.Iyo Dear Editor:may osesa yo cn,o On Friday, March 4th, there is to be here at the University ofztisnaeaIlth nmeo Florida, a meeting of the gover- ' uneity nors of several Southern states, epcfly ous for the purpose of discussing re-Wila Con gional education. These governors Suei rts al have met before, and the temor lo 21 nvriySa of their decisions, along with their (ievl. lrd records, has caused a spontaneous protest to arise from the liberal students of this- university. Ad Bo ktr We p)rotest against two things. First, the meeting at an institu-DaiEdtr4 Lion of higher learning of men ...Ttyhv uhbte having the determinations and husta 1 akr,adwe records of several of these gov- te r pn r ogtayhn ernors. Secondly, the regional edu-orayifmtonTh betIv cation policy which they endorse.benalto(0irteasres This policy would, economically, tog eeakn o hi deprive regular state universitiesrihamsTats,we Icn and colleges of much needed atateog teto o oe funds; legally, would violate the oet ml vradsy N! principle that every state must I diint h hraeo furnish higher education for its hos hr sasoneo te residents within that state proper;scolmtrasuhashepd and ethically and socially wouldusdithScolfCmer. further the definitely harmful sys- A o h okstain a tern of segregation in education. u d r t e i p e s o h t t e Many of us feel that organizedlaihafpceoru(lbksnl protest is the only effective way mre hmu o7% el to let the nation know how South-th pats meI(rwatx ern students stand. Because of the bo o nls 2ta a ei far-reaching nature of the deci- ise i,Isi i ie n t sions to be made by the gover-wachre ontesiasfl nors, the interested students andpic. .Iterany perss student groups extend an invita-th VAitangalcngfo tion to all students to participatesuhllnsastt.Iw ldug in the protest.getaSLdtcomte,c - There are many ways: Persons loelnto hi red,t n who are able can be present invetgt an rpotorsp Gainesville on March 4th; resolu- il auhrte.Cnes hs tions by student groups can be'bewatnisinsigigop drawn up and presented; letters lOtite yoeloigsc and telegrams expressing supportthns can be sent. Above all posters willlisusely be neede tohleteeopletknwtwhatiA Co. Hill.o