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Forty-second Year Of PublicationThe Southeas UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volume XLI11, No. 2 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 8.,1948 Rhodes Exams Begin In State In December Norwood To Screen Applications at USC Rhodes Scholarships selection will be made in South Carolina In December, according to Prof. Joseph E. Norwood. Nomination of candidates by any college or university is limited. University faculty members will interview all those who wish to be nominated from this state. Those interested may see Miss Mary H. Turner, Maxcy 121, for additional information concerning eligibility and application. General requirements for a reg ular scholarship are: a. Be a male citizen of the U. S. with at least five years domi. cile, and unmarried except for War Service Scholarships, for which marriage is not a bar. b. By first of October of year for which he is elected, have passed his 19th and not have passed his 25th birthday. War Service can didates will be eligible if born on or after Otrmher i. 1915 ld Le fore October 1, 1930. c. By time of application have at least junior standing in some recognized degree granting college or university of the U. S. War Service candidates must have sophomore standing. General conditions under which an application may be made: Can didate may apply for scholarship either from his home state or any state in wlich he may have re ceived the requisite college train ing. A scholar is appointed for two years, but may be awarded a third year if his record and plan of sty justifies the additional grant. Films To Be Shown To Campus Groups During UN Week The week beginning October 24 has been set aside as United Na tions week, and the Audio-Visual Aids Bureau of the university has purchased a series of films that are to be shown as a part of the week's observance. The Arimary suoject matter of the films is the work of the UN in world affairs such as the promo tion of world peace, the relief of war-torn nations, and the need for a United Nations charter. These films include: "Peoples Charter," concerning production, emergence and world importance of the UN; "One World or None," a summary of thme atomic situa tion; "Suffer Little Children," about the hardships and handicaps experienced by children in the war ravaged nations of the world and the work and progress of the UN in this direction; and "We, the People," concerning the great need for and the purpose of a United Nations charter. Any campus groups at the uni versity wishing to see any of these films during United Nations Week, may see S. C. Hawkins of the University Extension Division to get bookings. Additional Tickets8 To Be Distributed For Tiger Game Additional student tickets for the Clemson game will be dis tributed to students at the Uni versity Ticket Office in the Field House beginning Monday and con tinuing until Oct. 16. All students expecting to at tend the Big Thursday game must have one of these tickets In ad dition to the regular athletic card. Sales of date tickets will be on a firat-come. first-served basia at the ticket office from 5 p. m. to 7 p. m. Oct. 18 and 19. Seven hundred and fifty tickets will be available for atudent dates with 375 on aale Monday and 375 Tarenday for $3.60 each. Meeting on the university can Thursday this year were repres( editor of The Tiger; David Hanki the Carolina student body; Giles Carolina Blue Key chapter; and ing are: Jack Nettles. represent dent of OADK: Carroll Gilliam, ed and Sol Abrams, member of Car Officers Of Class To B( In Runoff I Ray Berry And ( Preliminary Electi Ray Berry and Carl B. S the freshman class presiden Wednesday's preliminary ele to 45 for Smith. Candidates day were Frank Bucovich, Stewart Lane and Charles l Freshmen will choose betweei Ellen Barker and Roy Berry fo the office of vice-president today Barker having received 44 vote Wednesday and Berry, 28. First ballot eliminations were Osborn Hudson, Joe Ingram, Buddy Mc Cahon and Charles R. Pollen. Barbara Fowler, Jo Ann Pat rick and Francis Weeks will rui off for secretary-treasurer. Nea Harmond was eliminated. For his torian the choice will be betweei Jane Almy and Richard Ballen tine, who won over Carol Farie Eugene Rogers and Elvin Thonmp son Wednesday. Albert .Bundy and Gene Steel were unopposed for freshmai cheerleaders. Two freshman coe cheerleaders will be chosen fron Pat Byrd, Jean Smith, Wanda Ed wards and Mary Jo Hanson, wh< received enough votes Wednesda; to be in the runoff. Gara Black Lois Inman, Suzanne Moye, and Ann Ready were eliminated. Candidates for the presidenc; made speeches Monday afternooi at a meeting of the freshman clas in the Chapel. Also at that meet ing, those running for cheer leade tried out. Proposed C Discussed E Discussion of the proposed nev constitution for the student hoda began yesterday at Student Coun cil. Members began taking up th< draft, paragraiph and section a a time for approval. As the constitution now stands the student body officers would b< a president and vice-president fron the senior academic class and secretary and treasurer from th< junior academic class. Governing power would be ir the hands of a student counEi composed of one representative foi each 100 students in the separate colleges and schools of the univer sity if the enrollment Is less thar 8.000; if the total number en Blue Key Meeting pus Sunday to make preparations fo ntatives of Carolina and Clemson. , president of Clemson's Blue Key ch Lewis, mefiber of Clemson's Blue Key Earl Morris, vice-president of the ( ing KSK; Ed Cleckley, member of Ci itor of TH.E GAME CO(A; John Lewis lina's Blue Key. (USC photo by Tea Freshman A Selected tace 1oday arl Smith Survive ion Held Wednesdav mith are in todays runoff for uy as a result of votes cast in etion. Berry received 41 votes who were eliminated Wednes Bill Gibbes, Charles Hirsch, lerritt. Senior President Hopes For Dance By Thanksgiving "Plans for a senior class dance are very indefinite at the present," Jim Thomas, senior class presi dent said yesterday. Thomas hopes the dance will be given around the time of the Wake Forest game. The senior class will meet Wednesday at 5 p. m. in the University Chapel, Jim Thom as, president, ainnounced yes. e terday. "An attempt is being made to Sallocate funds for the occasion but -if this is impossible It may be necessary to have a script dance. "All arrangements made will be Ssubject to the approval of the class at a meeting which will be called in the near future," Thomas V said. 3 Thomas is also cooperating with s Spruce McCain, president of the - junior class, on possible renewal of r the pre-war traditional junior senior dance. Onstitution ~y Council r olled in the university is more 'than 3,000, the percentage would I be reduced to one representativet ' for each 150 students. Officers of I the student body would serve as t x-officio officers of the student a council. r ,If the new law is approved by c a Council, it must be passed by the t 1 faculty and Board of Trustees and t would go into effect after the gen-i era) campus elections in the I spring. "This new constitution has two t I aims: to increase representation from the student body, and to in- 'l crease the powers of student coun- t cil," Osborne Gomez, member of e the drafting committee, said Wed- ,r r the festivities surrounding Big those present were Bob Bradley, ipter; Bob Sumwalt, president of ; Jim McCallum, president of the lemson Blue Key chapter. Stand trolina's Blue Key; Al Cook, presi I member of Clemson's Blue Key; I and Harris.) First Carolina Coed Buried Here Tuesday Funeral services for Mrs. Oscar L. Keith, poet, dramatist and first coed at the university, were con ducted Tuesday ai Trinity Episco pal church in Columbia by the Rev. A. G. B. Bennett with in lermont following in Elmwood cemetery. Mrs. Keith, who wrote under the pen name of Frances Guignard Nibbes, was a Phi Beta Kappa at the university and continued her itudies under Josephine Preston 1'eabody in Boston. She was a member of the University of -outh Carolina society which has t large collection of her works in :luding "Dawn In Carolina," "The Face," "Hilda," "Up There," all plays and a volume of poems. Mrs. Keith is listed in "Who's Who in South Carolina" and her works have received praise from the critics. She was the widow of )r. Oscar L. Keith, former pro ressor and head of the department of modern languages at the uni versity. Senators to D)ebate' States RIights Issue' ThursdIay Evenuiino States rights and the south will e the subject of a debate Thurs lay night at 8 p. m. if plans of he campus chapter of the States, Rights Democratic club material ze. Senator G;eorge Warren of lIamptonI county has accepted the nvitation of the university group .o meet former senator Ashton N'illiams of Lake City, if Williams iecepts his invitation. The query vill be: "Resolved, That it would me to the best interest of the South o support the States' Rights )emocratic candidates rather than I; he candidates of the National I )emocratic party," with Warren aking the affirmative and Wil iams the negative. The place of the debate will be nnounced later, according to Ra ion Schwarz, chairman of the lub. The university administra-c ion has refused permission to use he Chapel and the group is seek ig another auditorium, and the i uphradian Literary society Tues- g ay night offered the use of itsi all. Officers of the club electedc 'uesday at the first meeting in I he Chapel were Ramon Schwarz, a hairman; Ed Saleeby, vice-chaIr ian; Tom Friday, secretary; and t lchter Moore, t:reasrer, t Gold Te As Trop Of Big Work Started On Portraits For Yearbook Ed Teague, business manager of 1 the 1949 Garnet and Black, an- I nounced yesterday that the photog rapher has resumed work on stu- 1 dent portraits for the annual and will remain on the campus only a week or ten days longer. After he leaves picture appointment sales for this year's annual will end, Teague said. Pictures are being taken in Leiber College at 9 to 12 a. in. an4 2 to 5 p. m. Sales this week have been handled in Leiber along with dis tribution of the 1948 Garnet and Black, which began Monday. Teague and his staff are moving to the post office today to continue sales. "Between 700 and 800 copies of the 1949 book have been sold. We would like to double this number before sales are closed. I urge students to buy their annuals next week," Teague said. Republican Vets Ask More Support On, Off Campus "Although the primary aim of c the newly formed Republican Vet- I erans for Dewey and Warren is to get the younger voters. 21 through 40, to develop an open mind to ward politics, it is not a campus crganization," John W. (Jack) a Lindsay, state chairman, said this week. "We want as much student par ticipation as possible. But it is an rganization of all veterans of both t wars throughout the state," he I %dded. Lindsay said that his organiza Lion is affiliated with the Young Republicans and the National Re publican party, but that it does not receive financial aid nor does it take orders from either group. "South Carolina already has a two-party system, but we are try ing to get the people to break away t fronm prejudiced political tradi tions," Lindsay added. Lindsay will deliver an address over radio station WCOS Thurs dlay at 8:30 p. m. He said this address will contain information that will appeal to both first and 4econd-time voters. "In the interest of improving g the state government there has to t be a broader outlook on things 's political," Lindsay concluded. ( Student,Facu To Meet At I Current problems between the n 'tudents and the faculty $will be t aken up Monday at 1 p. m. in ti Flinn Hall when the Student- d 'aculty Relations Committee holds ts first meeting of the fall term, d )arroll Gilliam, temporary chair- IV nan, said yesterday. Ii The committee, one of the joint o: ~roups provided for in the pres- I nt student constitution, is set up J1 f representatives of student body, aculty, and administration. Its a; 'urpose is to iron out existing Dl lifficulties between the three C ~roups and take up matters caus- T ng friction on the campus. ci Meeting every two weeks, the qi ommittee will hear any complaints vi rom members of the student body nd invites students to bring their C gripes" or questions to any mem- fi or or to the group as a whole at b< he Monday meetng. Te co-. 01 a-cup Cl hy For T" Day USC, Clemson Blue I Fo Continue Better I By CARROLL A gigantic tea-cup of gold lei he campus of the victor of this ina-Clemson classic. The trophy was selected as a ween the two schools and for t Bil YMCA Extends hi Finance Drive It Fo Reach Goal of The Y-finance campaign has tiol 'een extended through this week chs n order to complete the goal set or the YM and YWCA on cam- on diu sco At the junior-senior luncheon gri 'riday, all solicitors gave their Bch eports. The YM netted $985 of the heir $1500 goal while the YW re- res eived $500 of the expected $1000. 1 Phese included both faculty and no tudent contributions. Kenneth Bull was high solicitor bef or the boys while Betsy Crutch- is ieid and M'Igic Mc Cark1e tied as igh for the YW. Wade Hampton pr rd floor was outstanding in its lat ledge of $101. Team 3, the eedlebums, won the race in total bel ontributions and free theater con 'asses were awarded each mem- Lit er. O iro Jlaude Sapp .Award Won By Septem1ber tat USC Law Graduate rOU atii The Claude N. Sapp award for ter he school year 1947-48 was recent- Cle v made to Fletcher Padget, Jr., ma leptember graduate of the uni- val ersity law school, Dean S. L. I 'rince, said yesterday. sch Sapp Funderburke presents the an ward each year in honor of the ClE ite Claude N. Sapp. The award dal ; a rebound set of O'Neall's Bench aft nd Bar. Padget was selected for' e~hoarship, leadership and indus- for ry. at nes Padget is a part-time instructor of a the university law school and fol s practicing in Columbia. at Ka Padget won the South CarolinaK )ivisional oratorical contest in gir 938 and later the national contest at ponsored by the American Le- .i ion. He later delivered the ora-m ion before the Democratic Con-' ention in Chicago and the South 'si 'arolmna Legislature. the sic mi' ity Group o linn Hall th ittee will make recommendations jser >those responsible for any situa- leal on which it thinks can be reme- Con ied, Gilliam said. coo Student members elected by Stu- inlg ent Council were Jim Thomas, day argaret Eleazer and Carroll Gil am. Appointed by the president the student body were Howard P ouse, Howard Pettit and John M ames. Representing the administration e President Norman M. Smith, F ean John A. Chase, Dean Arney to hilds and Dean J. B. Jackson. mu hree faculty members will be mis omen by the committee at the re- 7,1 eset of the president of the uni- Stu ursity- nou Harriet Rivkin, president of the C sed Association, and Ed Saleeby, eati rst vice-presidenit of the student Per >dy, are constitutional members of the committee h r ounua ivun iosen ictor Classic Keys Meet lelations Plan 3ILLIAM Lf will be carried back to years Big Thursday Caro symbol of the rivalry be ie importance of "T" Day, r Thursday, in Carolina. t the suggestion of the Caro Student Council, representa s of the Carolina and Clemson e Keys Sunday chose the type trophy and will purchase it m funds in the Better Rela is Fund of the two Blue Key pters. ;ach year the tea-cup will go the block at the Carolina Sta ni and the winner, loser and re of each classic will be en ved on the sides. The winning ool will display it throughout year at some point on their pective campuses. ,ocal Blue Key members are v contacting Columbia's firms hopes of having the cup made ore this year's game, but if it not ready by T-Day, it will be sented to the winning school !r in the year. flue Key members expressed the ef that the tea-cup would be ie as famous a symbol as the tle Brown Jug and the Old ken Bucket of Northern grid i fame. Plans For Pre-Game 'he meeting Sunday made ten ive plans for the events sur nding Big Thursday in continu )n of last year's efforts to bet relations between Carolina and mson student bodies and to intain the spirit of friendly ri ry. 'reliminary events as now eduled will include the bonfire I tiger burning, the Carolina mson Freshman game Wednes r night and the Blue Key dance, er the freshman "little classic." 'he tentative schedule now calls the bonfire and tiger burning an all-campus pep rally Wed day night under the direction the Booster club. This will be owed by the Freshman game Carolina stadium with the ppa Delta Corsettes, crack is' drill platoon, taking the field half-time. Liter the game Wednesday ht, the two Blue Key chapters I entertain the students of both ools at an informal dance in Carolina Field House with mu by Clemson's Brigadiers. Ad sion will be $1 with the profits rig returned to the Better Rela is Fund. nd then, Big Thursday, with Carolina-Clemson Varsity ne at the stadium. Cappa Sigma Kappa, campus vice fraternity; ODK, honor lership fraternity; Student mncil and the Boosters club are perating with Blue Key In mak arrangements for the two S. -e-Medical Students ust Take Admission bsts Last Of Month re-medical students planning enter medical college rn 199 it take the Medical College Ad mion Test either Oct. 30 or Feb. Wllilam C. McCall, Director of dent Personnel Service, an need this week. andidates must eomplete appli. on for the test on Oct. 30 at monnel Bureau, oil grounnd floor McKissiek IAbrary, not later ~a Oct. 12