Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Tidbits By NORINE CORLEY Society Editor Just to let you know that Caro lina coeds haven't changed much through the years, here's a poem from the Gamecock of 1937. 'Twas just a kiss I asked you for And you gave your consent. And then I asked if e'er before Your kisses you had lent. When you said "No," in tone so meek, My chest swelled out in pride, But when you showed me your tdchnique, I KNEW DARN WELL YOU LIED! We'll skip two years of the same, and similar, to 1989 when the college dining hail was opened for both men and women stu ......... X The Kappa Delta Korsettes wel came familiar to all Carolina About C lhe Coed dents. The president of the stu dent body said it was "to have a solidifying effect on the student body." Tickets sold for $18 per month! Then, too, there were punch tickets sold for $5, with refunds available for meals missed. That same year the new d"coun try club for women" was opened. Sims dormitory, to us. Quote The Gamecock: "A summer resort for winter students." "The prettiest dot-mitory in the United States." "The night club of the South." That's what you fortunate girls are living in, in case you didn't know. The Ritz theater, in collabora tion with the university students, that year sponsored a; contest to choose the Hollywood "Oomph Girl" of the campus. Ann Sheri dan won. She talked to the president of the student body by re the crack drill women of the Soi af ter their display at the Powder arolinas s WhoA telephone. He was on the stage of the Ritz, and loudspeakers were provided for the audience to listen in on the conversation. Raging Green street ceased to be a race track that year. Girls were no longer late to '8 a. m. classes, and men were no longer late for 8 p. m. dates. Traffic lights had been installed at the Green-Pickens intersection. In 194Q campus polls were taken on almost every subject but the kitchen sink. Students disap proved of coeds smoking, by a vote of 180 to 147. The vote was 202 to 161 in favor of girls wear ing stockings made of cotton derivatives instead of silk. Every pair of silk hose afforded two shells for Japan, they estimated. Caroline Eth4redge became the first university coed in the South, possibly in the nation, to receive a private pilot's license under the The age old question of "The th during the war years. The co Bowl =au=, Asset - Ldd ToL lady or the tiger?" was answeredI at Carolina in the spring of '40.1 Sarah Rushton (the lady) won a much publicized tennis match with : Clemson's King. 6-1, 6-2 made it very definite that it was the lady. In 1941, came the war, and an other set of polls. Question of one week was "What do you think of women being drafted?" Various answers resulted: "If women vote, why not let 'em tote cannons?" "Draft the women, and the men t will volunteer." "I like the idea. More enthu siasm in the army." "I think Dean Childs would T make a good general . . . it would give the service that femi nine touch." Defense haircuts were an im portant development in the inter national situation, and USC was not to be left out. Carolina coeds heard that production of ! ida En thire jantyen blc cot a K-4KVe a saarwen JSC Life yobby pins would be cut due to 'he metals being needed to con itruct implements of war, and de !ense haircuts resulted. The new ook before its day. The never - to - be - forgotten ,hange over from standard time o war time had its effects, too. Quote that paper again: "Looks ike girls with 8 o'clock classes vill have 'to sign out." "It makes me lose my apprecia ion of moonlight when I hafta go o classes in the morning by it." "It's fun waking up the chick ns for a change.". They still had jokes, too. The taval Ro's and V-12's were every rhere. KD: "That sailor is annoying ae." ChiO: "Why he isn't even look ag at you." KD: "That's what's annoying 2e." y hats and whit, glove. be..