Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Editor-in-Chief News Editor Campus Editor Sports Editor Society Editor Feature Editor Copy Editor Exchange Editor Circulation Manager . Managing Editor ... Educational Wi Unusual energies and vociferousness have been exercised in the presidential campaign in defense of some of the existing wrongs in this state. What better use now could be made of these talents than in removing those wrongs so that four years from now something constructive can come out of South Carolina. Primary among these stupidities of gov ernment in relation' to the University of South Carolina is the extravagant waste of maintaining duplicating departments in the five state supported institutions of higher learning. This system of enforced poverty was considered in 1946 by the General As sembly and the result was a proposal for a college regency plan. Introduced by now Congressman, then representative, Hugo S. Sims, this bill was studied by the House committee on educa tion, but dropped by the wayside in the vfuIlivr eranbles which characterized that particular session. It suggested an overall board of regents to regulate the six state schools (including South Carolina A&M) Letter: The Ti The letter printed below is one of several inquiries concerning the aftermath of the Carolina-Clemson game ticket situation: Dear Sir: I received a great shock this week upon learning that the dis cipline committee had reached a verdict concerning the use of ath letic passes by other than rightful owners without firsi consulting the rightful owners. rhis appears to be a flagrant violation of accepted forms of jus tice. Obviously, the discipline com mittee could not take time to hear a lowly student's plea before de ciding on what course to take. In the letter from Dean J. B. Jackson to the "offenders" was the following statement: "According to the evidence in my hands, you gave your ticket to the Clemson game and your athletic pass to another person for use during the Clemson game." This is a broad supposi tion to say the least, It does not consider the fact that students may have lost their passes or had them stolen. The letter continues "All stu dents know that these athletic passes are non-transferable." Per haps the committee doesn't realize that passes have been transferred ever since the university authori ties concocted this unfeasible method of the use of passes. And if this is "a serious breach of trust that the university au thorities cannot ignore," how can they ignore the person that was using the ticket, if that person at tended the game? If the person did not attend the game or benefit from the use of the confiscated pass, how then could a breach of trust have been committed? And how can the committee conscien tiously prosecute/persecute those whose cards were confiscated and under what authority? What will happen to the students' passes, which, according to Dean Jackson, are being held by the FBI? What good would it have been to confer in "greater detail" with Dean Jackson after the sentence has been passed? I can't answer that because it's not in my province. Maybe you can. NAME WITHHELD. The fact that a violation of the regula tions has been going on for so long that it - Carroll L. Gilliam James Sheridan Kenneth W. Baldwin, Jr. Van Newman UN1 Ruth Newell . Jane Dowe Wimpy Webb Founded Jaw first editor, "Th4 Marguerite Webb the University < Bobby Gaines college year exe The opinions -------- Jean Hill necessarily those an endorsement 3ste, SC Style and to work for centralized purchasing, re moval of differences in faculty pay for the same positions and responsibilities, and in tegration of duplicating departments and services rendered by the state schools. Comparable systems have been at work in Georgia and North Carolina for years, but even this must have been too radical for South Carolina to stomach and did irritate certain of the partisan supporters of various schools in the legislature. However, 1949 is not yet lWre and is an other year with some new faces in the State House. Careful consideration of such a proposal could be made this year and an adequate law provided which would estab lish this improvement on the South Carolina educational scene. To continue the jealous fights over ap propriations and clinging to established de partments is sheer folly and is a stimulant to the mediocrity that is overcoming South Carolina's institutions of so-called higher education.-CLG. cket Situation has become a tradition does not alter the fact that it is wrong. In the instance of these ticket violations, a concerted effort by all concerned to stop questionable prac tices has become a necessity since the Caro lina-Clemson classic is no longer a football game but a great commercial enterprise. The student body should be informed as to what the situation is on all sides and that is what The Gamecock is attempting here. According to what The Gamecock has been able to find, these are the facts in this case: A relatively small niumber of violations were reported by the BAM club office to the discipline committee. The committee, acting within its legal powers, discussed the cases5 and decided not to take any action against the students involved such as sus Pensions. It was decided that the Dean of Men should call each student to his office individually and discuss the cases sep)arately. The exact wording of the letter sent to the students involved was unfortunate in that it did give the impression that the stu dents involved were already assumed guilty of a breach of the university's regulations. Such, however, was not the case. In relation to the question of the FBI, the 11AM club reported that "federal authori ties" had certain tickets in their possession. The Federal Bureau of Internal Revenue, which did have agents on duty at the sta (ium, reports that it took no athletic tickets from anyone. Subsequent investiga'tion by The Game cock and Dick Anderson, secretary of the RAM club, revealed that two officers of the state constabulary were involved. One of the officers reported that a woman asked their aid in retrieving hzr money from a man who had sold1 her a student ticket but (lid not have the additional pass necessary for admittance. The officer said that the man was stand ing outside the gate with "several student athletic tickets" and was selling them for $15. He reported to the officer that he was a North Carolinian and had bought the tickets for $20 each. He was forced to re turn the woman's money and made to leave the gate, according to the officer. Why the constabulary let this man leave with the tickets, where he got them, and whether investigation of such a case is in the legal bounds of the constabulary, The Gamecock does not know. It does seem that if an effort is being nmadle to stamp out illegal traffic In tickets, this man and his case should have been In vestigated. No one knows exactly where it would lead. GA CROWING FOR A GREATER ERSITY OF SOUTH CAROL ember of Associated Collegiate Prem Distributor of Collegiate Digest iary 30, 1908, with Robert Elliott o Gamecock" is published by and for >f South Carolina weekly, on Frid )pt holidays and examinations. expressed by columnists and letter of "The Gamecock." Publishing doe although the right to edit is reserve TOM WILLIAMSON AROUND T Aiong those usually interested in such things can be heard theA beginnings of mnutterings whichF may eventually result in the mov ing of the university to another more practical location. A move of this nature was instigated only a few short years ago, and died a fairly painless death, but there are those who still maintain that something should be done in this regard if South Carolina is; to retain an outstandingf stt uieriy Tradtionand xpene ar th main eapos ofthos wh fgh for he satusquo The als sa thatnorml tmes whaeverthe ar) /ilaanbigtels 4ee noletwihcnb sucessulg aommodsallydinereted tinsuc thioinstitin. e Oppo-th begnns ofheirerargue hichoo may evenallyo resuleded theilitie ingof nthexit unrstya the anoher mo repraicand loio ndin Abmoveiofsthiulnatre avn eaersy ago and exded ainairl sructing should boe doen thiregardarfliouthasarolit iortaized anlumbtsaingt Traditio, andy exp6s yare otd. mahecampns wof tho e whdfgh fo twn taud uno.d Thealso for epatnoa tmsrroundev they a. ll again bng thul eae eeienprollncmenthcan un nentsed ter harge taidat room formepnon day noed thacilities dosnot eist, would tatt theoe To reaind uphold istaninit bdigsr Edctonmr halotnit originasl pupe, axnde in no a ostding neer and modrne ofstrctin. 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Mot0ve. for--Cproing Revcew sPubltinzed perapdeeper lov of mat-eriltins oero rdshe Fpirof essytoeran trad din Hll TURSDAY, NOV. 91 .13 p. m.-ItudentlCuncil,ll. soe,a Eumhai- al Manager ------- REPORTORIAL 5 B. Scott, Terrell L. Glenn, Di James Hughes, Arthur Rt >r Keels, J. Burrell Sanders, Moye, Eric Oppenheimer, E Harold Bourgeois, Rudy F Levinson, Betsy Knowlton, ta, Bob Westerfield, Lloyd Joe Molony, Jim Crawford Jane Gerard, Pete Partee, B ,lexander, Bill Rogers, W. H-. ie Clark, Toni Leppard, Flort SOL ABRAMS I May Be q Governor Thurmond has at empted to show the dangers of onimunism at every opportunity. le has uncovered many groups hat tended to Iean in the diroc ion of the Soviet Union includ ng the Democratic and Repub ican parties. Yet the Russian system can not be totally had as it has many similarities to the gov ernient of Thurmond's native state. Iloth have a one party system, and the choice is be tween voting for the candi date of the party or not voting. "oth have laws which are gen ral and vague, intenlded to pre ,ent a true expression of the peo le's opilions rather than to in are their right to expiress it at he polls. Devious measures have been employed .to keep some ap pearance of democratic elec tions while preventing a true expression ai. ihe poils if there is a chance the voting will go against the controlling group. This happened in the past presideni i elections when it was evident that the machine's candidate would normally run behind in some counties. It has been a standing practic( for tle county commissioners ap pointed by the governor to dis tribute the hallots for all elections In Anderson county the machim hired workers to place the States Rights ballots at the polls. Whei the National Democratic groul checked with the commissionei they were informed that he wa. instructed not to distribute an' balloLs. When inlerested parties Irifd to obtain the Democratic ballots fron the court house they were prevented from do BOB SOLOMONS Fore* Mid-semester exams covered th< campus like a p)lague last week leaving the student populatiol wvit,h blood-shot eyes and deel circles to prove their literar' eagerness. The soothing anti-dot< will be found in the anxiousl' awaitedl Thanksgiving holidays. * * * * * Many social functions are mak mng an applearance as p)ositiv< proof that life is not as had asi seems. A inmber of students wh< are ardent followers of the con cert season were seen at the Char les L,. Wagner puresentation o Romeo andl Juliet. 'This version o Shakespeare's immortal love stor' marked the beginning of the sea son. One pop)ular Carolina stu dent commented as he left afte> the fourthI act, '"Oh! I like th< opera fine, it's just that in' French is a little rtisty."' * * * * * The last. weekend in Octobe found a few of the Carolina mal population at the Autumn Ball a Winthrop College. Among thos seeni around the Rock Hill campu were: Tomt Williamson, D)upre Ly les, Pat King, Bob Horton, "Rusty Weinberg and Al Mann. One o the group) announced, as h watched a goodly number of th girls in blue and wvhite pass by "Carolina was never like this." * * * * * Clhi Omega entertained las Sunday with a campus wide "col fee" from six until eight in th chapter rooms. A large crowd wa on hand to enjoy coffee, cookie and a bit of conversation. Follow ing this the Tri-Delt's held drop-in in their sorority room: Jack-o'-lantern,s were used to giv a real Hallowve'eun affect. Presider Smith was among those attendlin and proved to be an interestin listener to many questions aske him about school plans, etc. A group) of the Sunday nigli crowd got taonetme. -a( ag eorge W. Shelor, Jr. ITAFF - vid H. ('run, Ditty Fleishmanl, igheimer, May Herbert, Ruth Jea..nne ''urner, Olga Edwards. dward Vereen, Pat Shadduck, ivers, Jane Almy, Charmaine Al Munn, Marjorie McCorkle, Huntington, Leonard Duckett, , Jem Newbury, Ish Thomas, Ainda Collum, Bill Fairey, Sam McCartha, Chuck Gibson, Jack tte Reyner, and Carolyn Katz. Yrong But.. ing so. Finally after this act was brought to light the bal lots were released to these people. This was a routine attempt to keep the governmental machinery in the hands of a few bosses. It Is not, unusual except in the bold ness with which it was performed. A public .'tatenent was made that there is no state law forcing the county conmmissioners to distribute the ballots. 01 course there is no' law re (Iuiring the distribution of ballots at the polls. The one aim of the law making body has been to put all e+ctions in the hand of the private pearty of tile state. There is no law making anybody do any thing as far as elections are con cerned. The dangers of this practice %ould be obvious to any clear thinking person, but by use of hatex and nreludices the ele meni in control has clouded the issue until it has seemed iiiai ie 16maren are the cham pions of democracy. While the state group excrted their energy in behalf of one presidential nominee, they claimed to be the only official represen tative of a party that was sup porting a different candidate. The recent elections should not he the end of the struggle for a really democratic two party-sys teni in this state. Instead it should point out the need for breaking the powerful govern i mental monopoly which has so long dominated South Carolina. Until the people can use their voting rights to express their individual convictions without fear of recrimina tions, the state will be the target of clique politics and cliche puns. N' Aft new Carolina victory march. In , luded in the circle of vocalists was a Al Munn, co-composer, to make > sure his musical creation was sung with the piersonal touch. F lootball telk is no longer accom panied by great hope and expec tations after tihe very decisive de - feat the Gamecocks suffered last a week at the hands of the West Virginia eleven. Instead all fin > gers are crossed, hoping Carolina can get by tihe powerful Maryland teama and give Homecoming Day the Perfect ending. C The wveek is full of activities to Sset the mood for the alumni day. Old grads will be Carolina stu dents again for a day as they -greet classmates and renew ac (lquaintances of years gone by. "/ The Carolina freshman football game Thursday night with the football novices from Furman should afford a treat for every I one. It will give the Carolina stu t dents of yesterday a chance to see I tihe Carolina team of tomorrow. 3 Our guess is that they will be very - pleased. Friday night offers the first full f Carolina dance of the year as the ~ nmemblers of Cotillion Club get to e gether at the Jefferson Hotel. The :dance will be cabaret style and music will he furnished by Woody Woodwar.d. t Saturday, of course, is the day - of the big game. Let's all be there e and give a few rousing cheers for B the team. The Enrightmen are s still In there pitching, and It's still - up to us to support them. Let's let a them know they can count on us . for sideline support. e A fter the game Sigma Chi will t entertain the campus with a tea g dance in the Naval armory from i six until eight. Woody will'furnish dI the music. Following the dance Sigma Chi's and their date, will t Rather for a party at the Jefferson e Hontel Ratele.