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Fortfirst * Year of 4 i' AI C PublicationiCleeWele UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volume XLII, No. 29 COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLIA,unded 1908 John Zimmerman Nelson, lish poems that have been University Chapel. The api department, taught by Pro First "UnJ Proves St As 2,000 Registrar Relec Spring Semeste Examination P] T.he examination schedu the 1947-48 spring term fin was announced this week bi Needham, university registi The complete arrangeme the tests is as follows: Thursday, May 27--8-10, 9N ST, 4T; 3-5, IT Friday, May 28-8-10, 10M IT, 2T; 3-5, 12M Saturday, May 28-8-10, 11 1, Group (English); 3-5, Monday, May 31-8-10, 9T Group (Math.); 3-5, 8T Tuesday, June 1-8-10, 10 1, Group (HIst.); 3-5, 12 Wednesday, June 2-8-10, 2 1, 3M; 3-6, 1M, 4M Examinations for any scheduled at hours not inch this arrangement will t nounced by the professor cerned. Senior examinations will May 20 and end May 28. for seniors are due by 5 Wednesday, May 28. Veterans In Sumi Terms Re-Certifil By Automatic Sei Student veterans plannlng tend summer sessions at ti versity will be automatics certified, according to the of the Director for Vetera they need do to obtain this Is to register for courses. Students ar e advised thi will be paid for two days of and 15 days of leave on Those registering for a classes wilt receive payme the remaining 13 days o on August 1, along with Ju mont. The reason for delay is I nance procedure will probal be able to compute, betwe4 istration and full paymeni for June. 5ooist baritone, will present a program of Eng set to music Monday at 8:30.p. m. in the preciation of poetry class of the English f. Maude M. Hawkins, is sponsoring the iversity pay" Lccessful Participate Approximately 2,0010 students joined faculty members on the Horseshoe Tuesday to participate r in the first "University Day" on lans the campus. Lunch of 6,000 hot dogs, 5,000 le for soft drinks, deviled eggs, ice %I tests creams, potato chips and oranges r R. C. was served at noon on the horse ear. shoe by members of Alpha Kappa nt for Gamma and Kappa Sigma Kappa, sponsors of the event. Students i; 11-1, turned out during the morning to clean up their dormitories with 11-1, mops and rags in the first gen eral campus project since the end M; 11- of World War II. 8M Classes were excused for the en ; 11-1, tire day, as faculty members join ed the students in scrubbing up '1_for the general inspection which began at 1:30. Co-eds and faculty M; 11- members wandered through the men's tenements for the first time in history and male students visit classes ed Sims .to check on feminine ided in housekeeping. ea n- In the afternoon, two faculty o-teams worked out on the baseball bei field in a game umpired by Ver Grades non Sloan. A tennis match was also in progress, drawing spec. *in,tators from the student body. .The first rain in weeks forced the climax of the day, coronation ner of the 1948 May Queen, indoors for ed - the third time in as many years. .The queen, Elizabeth Usher of Co 'Yice lumbia, was crowned by President Norman M. Smith prior to her to at- coronation ball in the Armory at ae uni- 8 p. mn. Ily re ofic Applications Accepted rceUntil May 15 by Navy For Air Commissions t they Graduates of the university this school year' may apply for commissions Fuly 1. as ensigns in the Navy after train ummer ing and for assignment to flight nt for training by submitting applica June tions to Lt. L. C. Carlson by next Saturday. ly pay- Applicants must be male citi z.ens of the United States, from hat fI. 19 to 25 and must have completed )ly not at least four years of college cred its. They must be physically quaIl in reg- fled for flight training. t time Complete information may be Campus Room Fees Payable One More Day Ro6ins Nt Reserved Are Declared Vacant Tomor:ow is the deadline for reservation of rooms by male stu dents for the surnmer school, sum mer term and fill term of 1948. Fees for reservations hive been paid from Monday of this week, and will not be accepted after 1 p. m. tomorrow, Ottis F." Kelly, marshal, has announced. Rooms not reserved by students now occupying them will be'de clared vacant after tomo'rrow and will be filled from the waiting list in the Marshal's office of th6se now living off campus who desire accommodations at the univer sity. Students now living off the campus may make reservations after tomorrow. All male students 'who desire rooms can be accom modated even though their names n are not on the waiting list. Va cancies for the fall term will be t filled with those on the list given preference after tomorrow, the marshal said early last week. In making the reservation, Stu dents must bring the receipt for the $10 fee for each term paid at the treasurer's office to the mar-1 shal's office. Requests for room j changes may be left with the mar shal and fees will be refunded for the fall term- by September 1 and for the summer term by June 1. Students living in tenement 30 t] who plan to come to. summer school will be assigned new ac commodations Monday, as that tenement will not be used this a summer. Y Maxcy college may not be oc cupied for the summer term, but 01 at present students in Maxey have d been requested to reserve their fr rooms in *the event the dormitory 1 is used. _______________ti Party To Be Given ti For Carolina Coeds t Graduating In June s University coeds who will be t} graduated in June will be enter- 2 tained at an informal garden fr party on the campus Tuesday, Mrs. Arney Childs, dean of women, said yesterday. The party will be sponsored by l the American Association of Uni- te versity Women's Columbia branch, at in the garden next to Lieber Col lege from 5 to 6 p. m. Tuesday. Miss Nelle Douglas of the Mathe- di matics department is chairfnan of at the local branch of the national oj association. , The University of South Caro- vi lina is one of three institutions in w South Carolina whose graduates f< are eligible for membership In the 01 association, Mrs. Childs said, is Tickets For At University * * * Seniors Contacted '1 General campus ticket sales will 11 begin Monday for the Junior- o2 Senior Ball scheduled for June 1, w John Nates, chairman of the N dance committee of the senior ci class, said yesterday. Seniors are being contacted this sa week for personal reservations by p1 members of their class, and may d also be able to purchase tickets ni from a booth In the canteen next ul week. Any students may buy their Ji admission cards from the seniors and juniors at the booth for $1.60 h with date and $1 stag. el The ball will be held the night g before graduation as a part of the v June Week festivities planned to sa honor the graduating seniorso a Honor Ch Bill Goudelock, rising junior from an of the student Honor Board-Ho ar. He succeeds Osborne Gomez of ld the position until April of nex1 te Honor Board for two. years. (P i-aroina Ra( Will Continu Programs O Beginning next week and c< rations for the summer Ma; TUSC will present remote pro ie campus. It will also begir rand opening ftnmedUtly pr ill semester, taking a student publicity campaign, Gene Me esterday. WUSC broadcast the crowning 4 Lib Usher as May Queen Tues Ly and a 16-minute program om the dance in the Naval arm y following Miss Usher's corona :)n. Two other recent campus activi es broadcast by the station were e swimming pageant including e crowning of Barbara Mc wain as Queen of the May frohi. e campus swimming pool April 1, and the junior music recital om the chapel, Tuesday night C A quiz program will be b~road at from Drayton Hall , soon. rizes to be given to winning con stants will be donated to the atioun by Columbia merchants. McElveen said plans for a stu-I nt poll are almost complete. The ation hopes to discover by means this poll how many students arei gular listeners, how many have sited the studios at least once, hat suggestions .they may have< r improvement of programs, and .her- information that the staff I anxious to obtain. unior-Senio To Go On * * * his Week For Per 48. Woody Woodward and his 1 chestra will play for the affair C hich will be from 9 to 1 in the aval Armory on the universityl mpus. Nates has pointed out that all nior examinations will be conm eted by that time and that un r class examinations will be barly finished except for make work on the day of graduation, zne 2. Plans for the June Week in mor of the graduates now in ude a luncheon Monday before raduation sponsored by the Uni Irsity Alumni Association for the mniors at which they will be In oduced to their organatlon, the tairman Columbia,'has been elected chair ior Council for the 1948-49 school Charleston as chairman and will year and has been a member of hoto by Manning Harris.) lio Station ie Remote a Campus )mtinuing until it ceuses op-1 22, campus radio station grams from various parts of formulating plans for it's ecedhnk reglstration for the opinion poll, and intensifying Elveen, president, announced itate IRC Clubs ormiulate Rules For SC Federation Representatives from Winthrop' ,ollege, The Citadel and Presby erian college International Rela ions Clubs met with the univer ity chapter last week to draw up ules and procedure and to elect. fficers for the council of the iouth Carolina Federation of thei lubs. William Vandervoir, of The Cita lel, was elected e-nirmani of the ouncil and Carolyn McFadden, of Vinthrop. was elected secretary. Limestone, Wofford and Spart *nburg Junior College are also niember clubs of the South Caro ina Federation, but did not attend he meeting. Due to their absence, he election of a v'ice-p)resident was lostponed until t he next council neeting, according to Austin: tiley, p)resident of the university lub. An election of new officers will e held May 12 in the new IRC luhroom according to Riley. r Dance ~ale Monday * * * sonual Reservations all and the commencement exer ises. Coeds who are to graduate will ~e entertained by the- American tasociation of University Women] t an informal garden party at ..ieber College Tuesday afternoon. Plans for the week and com nencementt and the baccalaureate ervice on Sunday, before gradua ion, are being formulated by a tudent-faculty committee, A com nittee of juniors and seniors is diso working on the projects. Officers of the class are Al 3ahret, president; Barbara Dukes, rice-president; Bettie Moore, sec retary-treasurer; and Betty Ruth stephens, historian, Dean Francis W. Bradle', in faculty aviser. Outstandil Will Be R, OnODKA Classes To Be Short For Ceremony Oi By BILL The first annual Universit; Omicron Delta Kappa, natio ternity, for the purpose of standing students and niakinj university awards, will be h( shoe in front of Maxcy monur to Bill Jones, president of Chi Governor Will Speak May 21 In USC Chapel Students and faculty members have been invited by the Young Democrats club of the univers: y to hear South Carolina's GOV. J. Strom Thurmond discuss Presi dent Truman's civil rights pro Zram from the Chapel May 21. Marvin Dennis, president of the :lub, said that the governor would ?o into details in explaining thel president's proposals and the pro :edure which Southern Democrats ntend to follow in cunnection with he national presidential election Thurnioid, who has been dis :ussed as a possible candidate for Lbe presidency or vice-presidency by leaders of the party in this and )ther Southern states, will attend 1he mneeting of "states rights Demnocrats" inl Mississippi NonI :lay. He will confer there with ither Southern governors, their representatives and party leaders ,n the South's course. Dennis said that lie was trying to arrange radio coverage for the governor's talk, which will be his rust on the university campus dnee the controversy over the Tru lian program beganl. The talk will begin at, 8 p). In. ii the Chapel, and Dennli: said hat extra seating space would be Svailable if necessary. KSK Initiates Six At Formal Banquet At Wade Hamptoni Kappa Sigmia Kappa, leadership fraternity' at the university initi tted six new muembers prior' to the unnual banquet at the Wade RlampltonI Hotel Friday. New members are Arthur Rosenblum, Richard Hardy, Chas. ?;asque, Robert Kaye, Joe Ruth ten, andl Gettis Wood. The annual K SK service plaque svas preCsented to Dr. Hlavilah Bab -oek, head of the English dlepart nenit, for his outstanding services .o the university, state, and na ion. Principal speaker was Frank Wardlaw, instructor in journalism it the university, who spoke on he life of the late J. Rion Mc Kissick. Voice Student Gives solo Recital Tuesday In University Chapel Florence McAbee of Greenville wvill he presentedl in a senior voice recital Tuesday at 8:30 p. mn., in the University Chapel, 1Hugh Wil liamuson, director, said yesterday. Miss McAbee, former director of the University Vesper Choir, is comipleting her fourth year of voice study under Evelyn Potter Williamson, head of the univer sity voice department. She will be accompanied at the niano by Ralph Rozier ig Group ecogn ized wards Day ened TuesdaN, 4ain Quadrangle ROUTH Awards Day, sponsored by tal honorary leadership fra -ecognizing the work of out f presentation of the various !ld on the University Horse rient at 10:30 a. m., according Circle of ODK and presiding officer for the day. Classes will operate on a 40 minute schedule the entire morn ing, and all classes will be ex cused for one hour in order to attend the Presentation of the awards. The Algernoi Sydney Sullivan Award, given each year to the man and woman of the graduinst ing class who have displayed the most outstanding loyalty and de votionl to the University by their work during their four years here, Will be presented to its recepients by Dean Bradley as the feature of the ceremonies. O.ne other per son, not a student, will also receive the award in recognition of his loyalty toward his Alma Mater. Ili addition to the Sulivai Awards, the Omicron Delta Kappa Scholarship Key, given each year to the senior achieving the high est average on the Graduate Rec ord examinations. will be awarded. Tle verelonie. will include the Presentations of the variou., de partimental scholarships a n d awards, given to the student in each respective department of the university who has lone the most outstanding work in his depart ment, and three Fuphradian Liter ary Society awards, the Gonzales and Keitt ledals for oratury, atid the James Patterson Award, pre sented to the most representative member of the society. I. additioll, the announeeme of the outstandig member5 of tle umlversiv stuldtelit bodv Ioi thu 1947-48 school year, selected b. a joint stutlnt-faciltv com nlittee, and whose informal nit tures will appear in the Outstand iiig Students sect ion of the 1948 Garnet and Black, w'il he made. The names of M iss Garnet and Black of 1948 and the first six members of her court, y chosen by David 0. Selznick, well-known~ miot ion pictuore p)roducer, will also bie annlouinced. Prii(osly, thle u&lrij~(It y awards were presenited at the la.st convocations service of the year, lint hecause of theii discont;tiation of convocations, and( also bseause the recognition of awardee5 should receive campus-wide interest, the Ui ivers ityv Awards D)ay i-s to bei inaugurated as a yearly event. The University Band, under the dlirectioni of L. A. Fink, will play during the ceremonies. Clariosophie Literary Society Holds Annual Declamation Tuesday Clariosophic Literary Society will hold its annual declamation contest at its regular Tuesday meeting at seven p. in., according to Ed Teague, president. John Mason, society critie is in charge of the program. Faculty members from the university will act as judges. Speeches will be limited to eight minutes. All memn bers of the society are eligible to Iparticipate. The Clariosophic medal will be awarded to the winner,