Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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E d ito r . . . . . . ..... .. . . . . . . . . ... . . . N ew s Editor ............................. Sports Editor .......................... Society Editor ......................... Campus Editor .......................... Feature Editor ......... ............ Copy E ditor ... .......................... Exchange Editor ......................... Managing Editor................... Is Carolim A Studer Carolina has surprisingly joined the ranks of the colleges who have unofficially polled Harold Stassen as their favorite candidate for the presidency. Although only 850 out of a student body of more than 4,000 voted on a recent polling, the number assures at least a threat to the trend of the Solid South in that a Republican receives favor in these parts in spite of his party affiliation. Out of the 233 votes cast for him, however, Stassen received only 48 on the Republican ticket. Carolina is sure to suffer the sting from the tongues of died-in-the-wool Democrats over the state. It is likely to be accused as a breeder of political upstarts and thought less neophytes who do not understand the hazard they present to the party and the state. Even so, the fact that Harry Tru man received only four percent of the tabu lation is a good indication that the Demo crats' favorite jockey is riding a lame horse as -far as this state is concerned. Stassen, incidentally, led the field of can didates at a recent poll taken at Erskine College, and has received favorable editorial comment from college papers throughout the South. Logic Co "If we believe that improving our society and governTnent depends on our becoming better informed and educated, we must also believe that it depends on our becoming more logical in our thinking. We can move toward clearer thinking by being 'fallacy conscious,' constantly mindful of the flaws in reasoning that we make and that are made upon us. "First, the 'fallacies of irrelevant conclu sion' are fertile sources of twisted thinking about public affairs. These fallacies consist of disregarding the issue and diverting at tention from it in order to prove something else, something logically irrelevant but emo tionally forceful. "Deceitful language is a second source of twisted thinking about public affairs. Here a speaker, wittingly or unwittingly, uses words in such a way as to mislead his listen ers. He appears to give us information. Actually he uses 'witch words' or honorific phrases to arouse our feelings and direct our actions. "A third source of twisted thinking is the 'fallacy of special pleading.' Here we make exceptions of ourselves. We fail to apply In This C By CARROL1 This is not the time of theidocuament they< school year generally given over This presents to topics of importance on the the students wi campus, but is most often a period vate opinions al when the turtle's crawl is accele- government they rated to the hare's pace in the last the Carolina ca effort to end nine months of edu- express this to eation. fore school is cl Seniors; are thinking of their mer or during t future ini the world, but those of The committei us who will be within these walls their work with~ next year may do some individual ance that it wil priming of the pump of success the student body at Carolina in the next few vital desires of months. writing the cc CONSTITUTION-To begin student on this with, the new student council ideas about the: has made a concrete start to like to see his bring the long-overdue new form, and now is constitution out of the rather them public. smoky Council meetings by Members oft next fall. Ed Saleeby, P The president has appointed a borne Gomez a committee of Student Council PRIMARIEE members to study.the present gov- ice which can erning document and that which the alma mati has been giving Council birth ticipation in ti pains throughout this year. This cratic primari group will attempt to write a The majority new constitution during the sum- Carolina have i mer months and to ready it for do not want ai Council approval early next fall drop of Democi and ev tual ratification by the but this is nor student .1ody, the Board of Trus- ing from voting tees and other powers connected maries where t with our government, men of South Ci Bob Sumwalt, student body Everybody in president, told Council at the last either a Democr meeting that this committee would active citizen. try to include the general prin- The state ce ciples (more representation for the held a fewI average stadent) now Included In campus in the the incomplete version In any ship auditorii .... .... Robert Isbell .. *... . Jean Hill . Van Newman ..........Norine dorley UNIVI James Sheridan Mem ... . Jane Dowe Tillie Young Founded January -editor, "rhe Gameev ............Ruth Newell . University of South year except holidaym ........Carroll Gilliam The opinions expr essarily those of "I1 endorsement althoug i's Choice i: Fancy? Forty colleges along the Atlantic season have formed an Eastern States Council for Students for Stassen. Mock conventions throughout the nation give -Stassen com fortable support among students of higher learning. Carolina isn't alone in this expres sion for desire of change. . The increasingly important role being taken by the college student in national politics is recognized today all over the na tion. College opinion is not too great a bridge from public opinion as a whole as has been proven in past elections. At the latest Gallup poll Stassen leads the Republican voters in their choice for candidate. It would be in teresting to poll the State of South Carolina to find what choice is made in comparison ~ with the South Carolina student choice. Those who are likely to criticize Carolina students for their supporting a favorite Re publican as their choice for president should not do so too hastily. The voters of the state are yet to be tested; and when they are, it might be surprising to find the' name 'of Stassen or Dewey or Vandenberg high on the list in this most Democratic of the solid Southern states. be as unts, Too! 1 B: to our own case a rule that we have en- ul dorsed as general. H TI "Another fallacy is failure to keep 'all' m and 'some' distinct. or ta "'Loaded questions' and 'loaded state- th ments' are another source of muddled think ing. Rhetorical questions, so popular in po- gI litical oratory, are all loaded questions. No c matter how we answer them we must give a assent to some hidden statement. Loaded m statements are a similar deceit. in "A final source of confused thinking is A the 'fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc' (after this, therefore on account of it). We c think fallaciously, for example, if we assume al wage increases are the cause oi' the only bi cause of price increases; there are other factors noted such as increased profits and 0 cost of materials. h "Someone may ask, 'Is careful reasoning compatible with positive, enthusiastic actionc on public issues?' There is no incompati-g bility providing we do not demand absolute s~ certainty as a basis for action and providing A we modify action by results of our reason- ti ing."--Ohio Wesleyan Transcript (ACP). T orner . .0.! L L. GILLIAM p Iraw. up. which time, south Carolina o an opportunity to Democracy will decide the i o have their pri- course it is to take in the na- ir out what kind of tional party councils and other rr want to have on local matters such as Negro N~ mpus. They may voting. In this convention, a the committee be- only the authorized delegates h osed for the sum- will have the power to speak he summer term. from the floor, but there are a members can do no restrictions against spec- ti far more assur- tators from the university. ii Ibe acceptable to There are no laws to prohibit e if they know the students from contacting their own ~ all of us before county delegates and discussing g nstitution. Every- their views with them. This is the g campus has some only sure method we at Carolina t1 unctions he would may use for participation in the d government per- convention, but the spoken word in 'I the time to make person is of more value to the man from your neighborhood than. he committee are tons of oratory by a stranger. f ete Hyman, Os- Registration books will also be a nd Dan Gibbes. open, and as most of us here are i -Another serv- above 19 years, we may vote in ~ be rendered to the primaries this'summier, during c er is active par- which the majority of the next I he state's Denmo- General Assembly will be chosen. es this summer. If we want a better deal for of. the students at Carolina and the other schools, adicated that they the time to strike a blow for y of the current them and for ourselves Is in ats for president, the summer elections. We can 'eason for refrain- remember the records of In in the state pri- cumbents seeking re-election e he real governing and find out just how other arolina are chosen. candidates stand en the ques south Carolina is tions of education and other at or he is not an progressive legislation. The time to decide these issues I invention will be is now, when it is still possible blocks from the to strike preventive blows that Columbia Town. will save much griping and com tan May 19 at plaining ne fall and nextspri.tn UA C ROWING FOR A GREATER RSITY OF SOUTH CAROI ber of Associated Collegiate Pri Distributor ot Collegiate Digest 10, 1908, with Robert Elliott Gon wck" is published by and for the Carolina weekly, on Fridays, di and examinations. )ssed by columnists and letterwri he Gamecock." Publishing does i h the right to edit is reserved. Grin anr AL B) On Tradition Spring iolidays! The afternoon comes more silent and more still the exodus thins and the cam is is more and more deserted. r evening only a Iew are seen >on the walks or lolling on the )rseshoe's brick covered fringe. ie twilight deepens and in the )*Mcnts between sunset and dark ie feels and senses things oft lked about and yet so far beyond e ken of dim, pale words. In these darkling moments the azed veil of life is lifted. Bright teckered shadows of the vivid ternoon have fanned out into ute, o'er spreading grays. Warm lcw lights hellow out the build gs. All is silent. There is the ish and stillness of greatness. majesty and peace. One thinks and smiles. The owded, crowded days. We tread )out on this film of earth, this ibble, world. Ourselves are but ins, and Carolina but a coating mortar and grass. We rush rough allusion, carrying our aarts in our thin cupped hands st they be broken. This jarring >urse. This press. This mad for atting. The hum of distant things is >on forgot. One sees the very air. star hangs gleaming in a spring immed tree. The people are gone. hat enter as children and leave children. The seers of only rmbols, wvending through a gged-up hall of dim, streaked irrors wherein they see but their kvn still faces, naught but their ale reflections. They never weary drifting over the face of Caro na, skimming and gliding, cloak. g themselves in the faded gar ents of the Past. Betrayers. ever heeding what lies so still rnd great-like on our minds as are. The vast parade and turmoil illed. The antique moon slips rough the trees green-golden in s mist-like light. Day's turbulent amour has sunk with all its out. ard trappings into silence. Out auzy knowings wombed In cream ray thoughts, but flecked witl1 te stardust of this shifting world, isperse beneath the weight o: umined space. There is a magic in the plac4 ..There is a beauty veiled b3 srm and color . . . It Is a spirn nd tradition that is a voice aris ig neither from the tongue noi hroat. We hear it only dully i ur raucous days, a dim, spar] Idden in our daily ashes. Yet this small glow within bind 11 and makes us part. It Is no ast but our tender slice of tim n which we feel the forces o urselves. The pallid corpse-Ilik aces of other's. causes lost tha iover In the fibre of our mind an only stare upon It and the: iuickly sob away. The cobwebbe 'ast's no longer needed stoppe or our wounds.... The campus lies bemused an iushed. Here rests . . . traditior The cold glint hearts of mel who glibly use her name hay iever sensed the feel, the temp hf the place. NTor many more wh Business I Assistant I Circulation Advertising JNA Business St us Saye G iales a the first Bob McLell students of the Katz, Hun iring the college Albert Mun Margu Ellen Schof ters are not nec- Jack Morg iot constitute an Decell, Llo iZ4LINcf WWII QVARSITY Mgoazine for YOung Men Bahret LHRET rush through varigated scenes aT slam through portal after portal Pause. Tire of gazing into t1 blank face of the many today Peer through the shroud of hu ried thought and living. Trad tion's patient yearnings hide i luzige ift Lhe faIse brigh lhov of life. It alone reveals our se to our self and our heart to 01 heart. This- is all of CaNolina, and all need to be. On Professorship or The casting of false pearls . ... before true swine. In general there are three kini of professors: first, those you r spect but don't like; second, tho: you like but don't respect; az then, third, those you neither r spect nor like. The predomina latter gained ascendency with t advent of the inevitably coupli nemeses of dull lectures and, ale low marks. They differ in only one respe from high school teachers-the can smoke in public. They live abart from the thu dering herds.-Their heads are ( ten in new clouds and their fe upon old desks. Their comin and their goings are shroud in vague mutterings. Wheth twenty or four times that age th feel they have migrated to the Valley of Twang-Chi-Po. Like t elephants, they have come to d and spend their last days shufflii about in deep worn ruts. Beyond wvhat you can read the textbooks anyway, some sa they are 98% bull and 2% co fusion. Others would reverie t: percentages. They are the core of the ur versity. There is no real need I students--the professors wou talk to themselves if there we none; there is a little need for administration-some one has take care of the incidentals al and hire and fire the janitors. In order to make coin profc sors are forced to work in a mi for long hours and very little pi processing diplomas by instructii students of three grades: 0r those who have intelligence al don't study; two, those who stui but don't have any intelligent and three, and here lies the gre majority, those who do not ha any intelligence and also do 11 study. Like other mill hands th suffer from occupation diseast Dry rot and mildew take the heas eat toll. With professors rests 75% school spirit. If the school be go< t there is spirit. And they are t a school. Classrooms are walls, t campus but grass, but a good pi a fessor is a joy forever. t Professors are the salt of t s earth--or at least of the campi i A student's only hope is that th I will also be spicy. r As discretion is the better pl of malor, perhaps it would ha ~I been best to have written instes On Scholarship e: or o; They also serve who only Aaenager .... lusiness Mgr. ...... Manager ............... Staff: Ben Quarles, Buddy ' aff: Electa Hall, Luki Bennet REPORTORIAL , aston, Belinda Collun, Pat R an, Ruth Newell, Gladys Jol ter Russell, Colleen Morris, n. -rite Webb, Ida S. Webb, B ield, Jo-Anne Dellinger, Bob E tn, Jem Newbury, Henry Ma rd Huntington, Joe Molony. OSBORNE GOMEZ Tremend Of La It doesn't take much to I and the self-conviction that is wrong. You set your own aside with a quiver full of t at those who are below ti with intent to ridicule in 1 did with Euripides. Or you ish, as Cervantes did witi You may burlesque, as did the folly of a fad, the pas Or you may resort to moc with the Gamecock's colur ently this lampooner, who composing librettos for sin end in view but a lame at1 - phasize "attempt", for whei few disgusting words ("bi emetic be administered to ie Muse. After perusing Mr. s- of what Coleridge once sa sponges: They absorb all t] io the same state, only a littl( if ir Proper it After taking college Spat bpeat Spanish well enough he probably knows more al average Spaniard. Aw Is e- For some weeks now a 3e Spears has been working id of an annual awards day e- various awards, including at Award and the Honorary S ment d ments, have been given at cial convocations program. sented at banquets, comme Ct ously, at meetings or indi 37 convocations program last the recipients of the awi friends. It was enough to r et Vernonb)oy ! Wherefore is t ed \Vith the inauguration o0 er is hoped, wvill be given wit ay goodly.crowd (it is also hol ir the consent of President E be Day next Tuesday (May 1 e'. green in front of the McI first event a great success in ~ON STUDENT-F NORTH MANCHESTER, Ir or Leaves of Manchester College id minimize student-faculty frictio re 11n For sol I. A re you ever unfair b your attitude or that of the '2. Do you have your less jokes nlow and1( t hen, the lesso g 1and wit h qluestionfs that shoul e, bore him ? y3. Do you also realize that e; subjects bsdsyus n at 4. Are you impartial in eli ve ot 5. D)o you dlismfiss class Oh Y6. I)o you attempt to miake to students who are not enti 7. Are you neat and clean ho For a I. Do you get to class on1t 2. Arec you neat and clean he 3. Do you attempt to bie al as when the subject seemls a lit ey 4. Do you hav'e your lessor t 5. l)o you put forth specia id. 6. Do you protest injust ic order that, he msay remedy potently to your roommate al git 7. Do yotu refrain from cot ........ 1-arry_W _iot, Jr. .......... George W. Shelor, Jr. P ................... Lynn Hook rurnqr t, Bettie Moore ;TAFF am, Jay Rodgers, Ruth Patrick, mnsonp Carolyn Busbee, Carolyn Rupert Blocker, Bob Gillespie, etty Frazer, Audrey Chapman, [orton, Joy Conard, Ned Threatt, xeklen, Jimmy Crawford, Grady ous Trifles irpoonery iecome. a critic. Just a little gall you are right and everyone else standard of excellence and stand he most vitriolic dr'rows to loose ie standard. You may lampoon the- public eye, as Aristephanes 4 may satirize with intent to abol i chivalry and knight-errantry. Touchstone, with intent to show toral idea in Shakespeare's day. kery, .as did one Vernon Taylor mists last week; though appar must have learned to write by ging-commercials, had no other Lempt to be funny. Let me em n humor stoops to the level of a irp", etc.), it is time that an a very sick and rather vulgar Paylor's column, I was reminded id-that some readers re lik iey read ind return it nearly in dirtied. ly Speaking tish, the average student cannot io carry on a conversaiion, but )out Spanish grammar than the 3rds Day n ODK committee under Gene ,lt plans for the establishment at this university. Heretofore, the Algernon Sydney Sullivan cholarships from certain depart the close of the session in a spe Other awards have been pre ncement, and even, unceremoni vidually. The attendance at the year was pathetically limited to trdsM andl a handful of curious nake the most timid shout, "Oh, his sorry scheme of things?" an Awards Day, all awards, it .h pomp and ceremony before a ed). Th-e committee has secured mith to have the first Awards 1) at 10:30 a.m. on the campus issick Library. Let's make this by everyone turning out. ACULTY FRICTION d.--(ACP)---A writer for The Oak p)rop)oses the following check list to n. Faculty ecause of personal attitude-either student ? I'm p)repared every day-with new ri thought through on a college level dI challenge the student, rather than each studlent has two or three other iake your assignments accordingly? Lss discussions? time, as well as begin on time? your subject especially interesting musiastie ? in appearance always? Students me always, and keep appointments? in appearance every day? ~tentive and courteous in class, even. tIe dull to you? I prepared every day? I effort before expecting an "A"? es to the professor courteously, inv themi, rather than complaining im 'id the world at large? ducting our. ...ivate correspomnnc