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Forty-first For Progess Year of (F Ao h PublicationStudent Body UNIVE-RSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volume XL11, No. 24 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, APRIL 2,- 1948 Founded l Stude At P1 Cheerleaders For Nominat Candidates for the presidency three academic classes will mal dent voters at the Clariosophic House at 5 p.m. today. Ed Teagi Literary society, has arranged t Students wishing to run for the rally and nominations will b McArthur, president of the stu dent body, said yesterday. Elec tion of the cheerleaders has been postponed until April 12 to keep it within the provision of the stu dent body constitution. Nominations for cheerleaders previoubly were made at the stu dent body meeting Monday, but T one of the nominees, Ben Me- d Guinn, questioned the nomination w as no opportunity was given the S candidates to try out, and some fi of the nominees were not present b at the meeting. h McGuinn stated that the con- i$ stitution required the tryouts and it MiArthur has called attention of li the student body to Article 10, Section 8 of the constitution in d regard to cheerleaders. The section reads: "There shall P be elected from the student body, d eight cheerleaders (four males and four females). A head cheerleader d 'shall be elected by this group from its members. Tryouts will be 0 required for all candidates, and P will be conducted one week be- t' fore the general campus elections 0 in the spring of each year. Nomi- l nations will be made frOm those who try out at that time. . . . ti McArthur declared nominations L made Monday invalid and post-; V poned the election of cheerleaders L one week to comply with the pro- G visions of this section. A Nominees named Monday, be- ti fore McArthur's decision, Included B Alex Long, Bill Davis, Ben Me- S Guinn, Bennett Whitlock, Jack N Parish, Pat Lewis, B. J. McLain, B Bob Solomons, Nat Fant, John T David Johnston, Jo Ann Dellinger, N Joy Van Kueren, Jim Thomas P and Beth Fillingim. T al PiKD To Hold B Provincial Forensic Tournament At USC ' The university will be host to the P1 Kappa Delta Provincial t Forensic Tournament April 15 and~ L4u 16. The tournament will consist of formal debating, oratory, extem-1 poraneous speaking and Impromp-j tu speaking. The debate subject will be "Resolved that a federal world government should be es- A tablished." A total of 18 teams have al- v ready accepted invitations to at tend the tournament, according to P Prof. Merrill 6. Christophersen, tI A. faculty advisor and debate coach. C Of these teams, at least four have Lu won tournaments, so the quality m of competition Is expected to be ci high. The university will enter two tc teams In the debate event and ci there will also be several entries ei In the other speaking eYents. fi st Honor Council Gives Suspension Sentence ,, The Honor Council has sus- D ~' pended a student for cheating on an hour-quiz. o Conell suspended the stu- tt dent for the remainder of this ti term, the summer term and the aj saan.4al tranm. In Int B,4 1itic, Try Out ion Today of the student body and the Le their appeals to the stu Political Rally in the Field Lie, president of Clariosophic he schedule for speakers. cheerleader will try out at D made at that time, Palmer "FC Debaters .inish First lound Today The Interfraternity Debatingi ournament got underway yester xy in University High School F 'hen six teams debated in one ction of the first. round. The iv nal part of the first round will e held at 4 p. m., today in the igh school. Subject of the debate "Resolved: That the power of ie Federal Government should be mited." Debating yesterday were Lamb & Chi Alpha vs. Pi Epsilon Pi; hi Kappa Sigma vs. Kappa Al ha and Kappa Phi vs. Pi Lamb a Phi. C Participating in the debates to- t my will be Sigma Chi vs. Phi appa Sigma in the north room r the high school; Pi Kappa Al ha vs. Sigma Nu in room 129 of ie high school and Alpha Tau a mega vs. Kappa Sigma in room f 31 of the high school. a The following are the debating,. ,ams for the fraternities. Pi ambda Phi, Milton Safron, David reener; Phi Epsilon Pi, Arnold t evinson, Irwin Price; Sigma Chi, n ene Spears, Joe Sapp; Pi Xappa t lpha, Louis Beard, Frank Mar- n n; Alpha Tau Omega, Walter ristow, Charles Baker; Phi Kappa g Igma, Charles Weagly, Henry Ielson; Pi Kappa Phi, William obo, Hugh Going; Kappa Alpha, e ed Neely, Terill Glenn; Sigma t u, Bob Jolly, Howard House; s hi Sigma Kappa, Vic Johnson, t om Kinley; Kappa Sigma, Pal- a er ~McArthur, Gene McElveen Y id Lambda Chi Alpha, Jim Parr, 0 ill Godshall. A cup will be given to the win- t4 ing team and individual awards b ill be given to members of the F inning team. Everyone is invited1 o attend. r imerican Tc Br'oadcast In America's Town Meeting of the ir, an hour forum-type radio ow, will originate in the Uni wrsity Field House April 20. The 'ogram Is under the auspices of ie university and the Coluinbia hamber of Commerce, the Co mnbia Junior Chamber of Comn erce and the Columbia Mer ants Association. Town Meeting is carried coast coast over 251 American Broad stlng Company stations to an timated weekly audience of from ve to ten million listeners. WCO8 Columbia will be the only local ation carrying the program, hich Is also scheduled by the rmed Forces Network and is ortwaved overseas by the State epartmlent. George V. Denny, Jr., president Town Hall, Inc., which presents e program In collaboration with a~ ~e ABC network, is the founder d moderator of the Town Meet- si z~y( dRa Debate Fi . ..... ............ Members of the university debatin 4ational Tournament are Jim Simm ligman. The team placed both affirr i the finals, being one of the ten te; id so. Irene Krugman, fourth memb ,hen the picture wvas made. (Photo I University Deba [n Grand Natioi 'ourney Finals The university debating team wrand National Forensic Tournai f Virginia last week. Both th, eams went to the finals. The meet was attended by 1 tith only ten teams going to t The negative team, Irene Krug ian and Melton Kligman, won :ur of their seven debates. The ffirmative team, Albert Watson nd James Simmons, won all ofr eirs, defeating the team from ie Naval Academy in the final tatch. This match was considered C( ) be the crucial one, and the win- Co ing of it was thought to have,ae iven the Gamecocks the nod for c ie tournament champiahship. A recapitulation of points how ver, gave the championship to ne Naval Academy on the: ga trength of points amassed by m ieir other team. Albert Watson, V) newcomer to debating this school i ear, won the Calhoun trophy in 1" ratory. tol Watson and Simmons went on New York City where they de- ve: ated New York University and pu 'ordham University. The results ke f these matches have not been Ar aceived. Al wn Meeting University I George V. Denny, Jr., moderator, anm it, planning their radio forum, "Amer The program sponsors discus- aff ons of important political topics tar id alan questions that diecrtly yem audi1 Ily I inalists , team who entered the Grand ons, Allen Watson, and Melton 3ative and negative participants ims out of 122 represented who r of the squad, was not present >y Manning Harris.) ting Teams tal Forensic At Virginia went into the finals at the iient held at-the University affirmative aind negative 32 teams from 68 colleges he finals. aIIUlty Relations oninittee Names bree Snh-Groups The Student-Faculty Relations mmittee appointed three sub nmittees at its meeting Monday, .-ording to Bobby Sumwalt, iirmaii. rhe Committee onl Self-Support comilposed of Ed Moorer and of. .1. B. McConaughy. Mar ret Eleazer and Prof. R. W. rrisonl serve on the committee ich will investigate the possi ity of establishing a launderette the basement of Simis dormi -y. rihe commniit tee app)ointed to in stigate the possibility of a nehasis for student meal tie ts includes Bletty Mood, Mrs. ney Childs, deani of women, and Bahret. Df Air To ( ijeld house I Mrs. D)enny, production assist lca'. Town Meeting of the AIr." eet American life. Its imapor ee is increased in this election ir as most. of the issuns raised Lates n Fi( Law School Funds Face Senate Vote A quarter of a million dollars for a new building for the Uni C versity Law School faces its test in the State Senate today or early next week. The appropriation, in cluded in the state deficiency ap- - propriations bill, was passed by I the House of Representatives and sent to the upper house yester day. The funds for the new building, long awaited by the law faculty I and the administration, was in cluded as an amendment along with a $225,000 appropriation for a laboratory building for Clem- u soh and a $225,000 appropriation d fou a iuw school building at the s State A&M College for Negroes at Orangeburg. All these amounts face possible jeconomy cuts in the Senate or free s conference writing. Council Meeting The University Council will meet at-.5 p. in. today to discuss. the needs of the various departments for building permanent education s buildings on the campus, Presi (lent Norman M. Smith said yes These buildings would be con c structed with the surplus appro priation funds alloted the univer sity in a bill signed by Gov. Strom Thurmond last fall. A survey will be made and v each member of the council will be given a questionnaire asking specific information as to the needs ( for construction, the president h said. Some of this construction will replace the temporary build ings which must be removed in accordance with the university contract with the federal govern nent, the president said. The president expressed his doubts as to whether enough funds will be available for the construc tion of a student union building, tl but said that it could not be de- ii cided until the university knows " just how much is needed and wvhat C, amount of money is on hand. e He listed an auditorium for mu- C sical and other programs as one of the foremost needs outside of v strictly educational building. s )riginate April 20 in the camnpaign will be aired over the Town Meeting. D)iscussions of such issues of e national importance as Universal t Military Training, our foreign t policy, rent and price control and I Henry Wallace's Third Party have already been discussed. The topic for the Carolina program has notG been announced as yet. Participants on the programs ( have included figures prominent ini national affairs. Sen. Robert A. Taft and other members of Con- ti gress have appeared on the pro- E gram as well as authorities on a such technical problems as atomic gi energy. Si Winner of over 30 national ir awards, Town Meeting was first broadcast in 1936. Since that date Ii, over 500 performances have taken Si place, reaching into most of the homes having radio sets in Amner- tc lca. yV No admission charge will be le made for the program in the Uni- 10 versity Field Houe. b. To0 ld Students Vo For 1948-49 Students will go to the polls f the student body and other ,ear. The ballot boxes will be pen from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. wj il and Honor Board conductin Candidates were nominated lass officers with additional Violin Soloist Plays In First Senior Recital Mary, Alcorn, violinist, will be oloist in the first of a series of enior recitals presented by the niversity music department Mon ay at 8:30 p. m. in the Univer ity Chapel, according L.o Prof. lugh Williamson, director. Miss Alcorn's study of violin as been with Mme. Felice de lorvath, formerly of the univer ity faculty, and with Louis Fink If the present staff of the de artment. Miss Alcorn's program is chosen rom works of Vivaldi, Mendels ohn, Fiocco, D'Ambrosio, Stoes el, Scott, and Bloch. "Sonate, op. 2; Nn. 2" (Vivaldi), ncluding "Preludio a Capriccio," Corrente," "Adagio," and "Giga." till,be presented, along with "Con erto in E Minor" (Mendelssohn), neluding "Allegro molto appas ionata," "Andante," "Allegretto on troppo," and "Allegro molto ivace." Also on the program will be Allegro" (Fiocco), "Canzonetta" D'Ambrosiu), "Minuet" (Stoes el), "Lotus Land" (Scott-Kreis !r), and "Nigun" (Bloch). ommun i 11 Icat ions Wectionl Completes ladio Laboratory The communications section of ie school of electrical engineer- I ig has completed converting its 'ar surplus radar equipment into onventional radio laboratory quipmient, according to Prof. J. .Cosby. The equipment has been con erted into an amateur transmis on and receiving station will al w those students who have ham" radio licenses to keep them effect. However, the main fune on of the material will be to crve' as standard instruction auipment. Professor Cosby said that as >on as laboratory space on the umpus will permit, students will uild a surge generator. This gen ator will allow thenm to study ec effects of lightning on elec ical equipment and transmission nes. _________ techanical Engineers society Hears Speech )n Spraying of Metals W. E. Collins, Eastern Distribu on Manager of the Metalizing ngineering Corporation, spoke at meeting of the Mechanical En ineering Society of the univer ty last night on "Metal Spray Collins is high on the preferred t of speakers of the American aciety of Mechanical Engineers. A future trip is being planned >attend the regional ASME con mntion in Greenville April 9, fol wed by ani inspection of the Tay ir-Colquit Company in Spartan )peak louse te Monday Officers Monday to elect the president student body officers for next in the ODK Circle and will be th members of Student Coun g the elections. Monday for student body and candidates being named in petitions yesterday. Running for president of the student body will be Bob Sum wailt, president-elect of the YMCA; Hacky Walker, secretary treasurer of the student body this year; and Tom Williamson, pres ent president of the junior class. Candidates for the first vice presidency of the student body. all members of the senior law ELECTION SCHEDULE Monday, April 5-Student Body Officers, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday, April 7-Runoff for Student Body Officers, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday, April 8-May Queen, Garnet and Bliek Editors, 14 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday,' April 9--Runoff for May Queen, G&B Editors, 16 a.n.-2 n Monday, April 12-Cheerled ers. Senior, Iunior end Sopho. more Officers, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday, April 14-Runoff for Class Officers and Cheer leaders, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (All elections will be held in the ODK Circle, weather per wnitting.) class, are Ed Saleeby, Miller Foster, and Al Cook. Jean Hill, Margaret Eleazer and Lynn Hook, rising seniors, are the nominees for the second vice-presidency. Running for see retary-treasurer of the student body are Ann Craig and Mary Summersett. Cheerleaders will not be on the ballot Monday, but will be elected at the class officer voting next week. Runoffs in the student body elections will be held in the ODK Circle Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. C;lass Elections Nominations .have also been made for the officers of the three classes for next year. Elections from these candidates will be held April 12, with runoffs April 14. Nominees for president of the rising senior class are Sol A brams and Jim Thomas. Running for vice-president are Ed Kieckley, Harry Hanna and Becky Fuller with Carolyn McCullough and Booty Wall running for secre tary-treasurer' of the senior class. Car oline Sligh is the only candi date for senior historian. In the race for president of the rising junior class, Pete Hyman will oppose Sam McKittriek and Ray Avant. One can didate has been named for the vice-presidency, Marian Withing ton, and Barbara Raffield is the sole nominee for junior secretary treasurer. Paul Foster and Ann Mood are candidates for junior his torian. Frank Martin opposes Wayne Brackett for the presidency of the rising sophomore class, with Charles Weagley and Jean Turner running for vice (Oontinued on Pame 6)