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Largest College Weekly InU I U APRtn The Carolinas - A CaolinasFor 1947-48 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Voludhe XLIII, No. 7 VoIuu~ie XLIII, No. 7COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA9 NOVEMBER 12, 1948 Fudd10 UlQLT I'm Names Thirteen New Members Kappa Sigma Kappa, service fra ternity, elected 13 members at its meeting last week. They are How ard Petit, Sam McKittrick, Frank Eppes,.Dori Barton, Charles Jones, Ed Teague, Bill Bostic, Hacky Walker, Bill Seals, Spruce McCain, Bill Keith, Jim Sheridan, and Ray ford Gambrell. The work of KSK this semester has included putting up beds in the gymnasium and Flynn Hall for the Clemson students. The fraternity also sold rat caps during the early part of the semester. These caps are still available and those inter ested in purchasing may contact Myer Price in Tenement 29. Officers of KSK for the fall term are: Lou Gantt, president; Benny Greer, vice-president; Willie Heustess, recording secretary; Jerry Tucker, treasurer; Jack Net ties, corresponding secretary; Car roll Gilliam, scribe; and J. K. Smith, scgeant-at-arms. Pi Lambda Phi Wins Honorary Awards Twice Pi Lambda Phi fraternity has won the Interfraternity Council scholarship cup for the second con secutive time. The fraternity main tained an average of 2.882 to lead all other campus groups including fraternities, sororities, veterans, ?on-veterans and coeds. Kappa Delta sorority was run ner up with an average of 3.255, closely followed by Alpha Delta Pi sorority with 3.406. The student body average was 3.984. The all-women group beat the all-men group with scores of 3.547 and 4.023, respectively. The non-veterans, men and women, had 3.877, leading the veterans, men and women, who had an average of 3.971. If Pi Lambda Phi wins the In terfraternity Council cup for the third consecutive time they will be entitled to permanent possession of the trophy. Otis Kelly's Death Leaves University Staff Post Vacant The death of Ottis F. Kelly this week left a vacancy in another im portant post oi the administrative staff of the university. Mr. Kelly was the university marshal. President Smith'a office an nounced this week that no one is yet under consideration as a pos sible successor to Mr. Kelly. Smith's office did announce, how ever, that the new director of the Carolina News Service should be announced next week. Negotiations between the university and the possible director are being closed. The News Service has been with out a director since the latteir part of. the summer when Henry H. Cohen resigned to continue his graduate studies at Tulane. Blue Key Fraternity Initiates Twelve Men A t Jefferson Banquet Blue Key honorary fraternity held initiation for 12 newly-elected members Wednesday night at a formlal banquet at the Jefferson hotel. Dr. Samuel M. Derrick, dean of the School of Business Adminis ration, was the principal speaker. Those initiated were Bill Goud. lock, Lou Gantt, Ken Baldwin, Jr., Arthur Rosenblum, Frank Eppes, Willie Heustess, Benny Greer, Bill Bostic, Spruce McCain, Ray Avant, Dick Hardy and Dick Singleton. Jim McCallum Is president, Bob Lake is vice-president, Bill Keith Is secretary-treasurer, Sol Abrams is alumni secretary and Carroll G;illiam is corresponding secretary. Prof. Charles F. Mercer is faculty Miss Jackie .lohnson of liartsvill by Charles W. Coker, president of over Blanche Corry. Betty Jean M In the picture front left to rig (USC photo by Harris and Teal). Sylvanls T1"o Handle Carolina Ring Sale Orders As In Past In last week's issue, "The Game cock" stated in an article that Todd's Sporting Goods is the of ficial Balfour Company represen tative through which seniors may obtain class rings. The editor has since learned that Sylvan Broth ers distribute Carolina rings for Herff-Jones company, which has handled the rings in the past years and will continut to do so. Seniors desiring school ringsl must first obtain credit slips front the registrar's office stating that the student has 93 or more credits and is therefore a qualified senior, before the rings can be offered. Girls' rings are 15 dollars plus three dollars tax, and men's rings sell for $21.55 plus $4.31 tax. De livery takes about six weeks. Spartanburg Students Plan D)ecember Party A t a mteeting of' the Spartan burg-Carolina Clubi T.uesday, it was decided to have a party at Sheriff Heise's pond Thursday, December 2. A meeting will be held next Tuesday, November 16, to mtake final plans. Students froin Spartanburg Counity are invited to attend the meeting in 101 Legare at 7 p. m. Students Noi For Rhodes Rhodes Scholarship candidates at Carolina have been nominated by the university, D)ean J. E. Nor wood of the school of arts and sciences, said yesterday. Students nominated are: Edward 0. Coleman, of Florence, in arts and sciences; James B. Meriwether, of Columbia, in college of arts and sciences; Charles W. Gasque, of Columbia, in college of arts and sciences; and John M. Wanna maker, of Orangeburg, in school of business administration. These students will appear be fore the South Carolina Rhodes Scholarship Committee of Selection along with candidates from other collees in this statea nd ad.a ]ULieCCOIlIg Vueei was crowned Homecoming Queel the alumni association. She was cLean, and Jo Ann Patrick. Nare Miss Corry, Miss McLean Panel Discussion C Speakers As Leadej In Religious Emph By ED C A new feature in the form < after the Chicago Roundtabl( ligious Emphasis Week here I secretary, said in announcing event. Bell said this form of discu before. The panel will consisi Maugham Drama To Be Given By Towii Theater S"Rainl," a dramatization of Soniersett Maugham's story, will be presented at the Town Theater, November 17-23 at 8:30 p. n., un der the dlirection of Delbert Mann. Lysette Lowenstein of the stu dent b)ody plays the part of Sadie Thompson, a prostitute. Other stu dents aiding the drama's produc tion are D)avid Williams, Joe Bishop, Bill Hilliard, and Brown McLeondon. "Rain" is a play of passions; of the generous egoist and of the sel fish altruist. The Maugham story loses nothing in the transition from novel to drama. Admission prices will be $1.50 for the public and $.75 for stu dents. minmated Scholarship dates from college outside the state whose residence is in South Caro lina. The state committee will nomi nate two candidates to appear be fore the district committee a few lays later. The nominees will com pete for appointments with candi ilates selected by state committees of Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. Rhodes Scholarship appoint menits are made for a period of two years. But a scholar may be re ItPpointed for an additional third year at Oxford University pro vided his work is entirely satisfac tory and he submits to the trus ees an acceptable program of study for the additinaln yea. at the Maryland game Saturday elected last week by (lie students Miss Johnson, and Miss Patrick. ronsisting Of Guest es To Be Started isis Week This Year OLEMAN >f a panel discussion patterned will be inaugurated into Re )ec. 5-9, R. G. Bell, YM-YWCA further plans for the coming sion has never been attempted of four of the guest speakers acting as leaders with eight to 10 #tudents also participating. The discussions will be held in the Uni versity Chapel Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights of Religious Emphasis Week. Monday night's discussion will include the "Skeptics Hour" or "What Can a Student Believe." One of the leaders will give a ten miinute outline of the fundamentals of religious beliefs then throw the topic to the students for discus sion. The questions will be refer red to a leader for answer with op portunity for the other panel lead ers to discuss them. Monday night's panel will in clude Doctor Paul Hardlin, Jr., Doctor Harold W. Seever, Father Shean, and Doctor Albert Keck. The subject of discussion will be "What Can A Man Believe?" Tuesday night the topic will be, "What Shall I Do," with Doctor J. R. Brokhoff, Doctor Charles J. Woodridge, Rabbi Allen Tarshish, and Doctor Hardin as panel lead ers. Wednesday night will he the inter-faith panel with Doctor Ken nedy, Rabbi Tarshish, and Father Shean as leaders. Muisic Iustructor To Present Piano Recital in Chapel Miss Alice Purcell, music in structor at the university, will give a piano recital Monday at 8:80 p. m. In the university chapel. Miss Purcell, a native of Salis bury, N. C., graduated from Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., re ceiving her master's from Colum bia University. The recital will be representative of works of Haydn, Brahms, Hen selt, Chopin, Gershwin, Ireland, and Debussy. Toal To Make More Pictures For Yearbook Ed Toal, portrait photographer for the 1949 "Garnet and Black," will return to the campus Wed nesday and Thursday, Ed Teague, business manager, said yesterday. There was sufficient demand through a poll made by the staff, due in the great majority to vet erans' checks being late. Sales will be handled Monday and Tues day in Maxey College by members of the business staff. Those who missed appointments last month are urged to go by for new ap pointments. Pictures will be taken in the same place. L,eiber college. This will not delay the -work on this year's annual, Teague said. There are a number of copies of the 1948 annual left since all the copies have been mailed and distributed. Anyone desiring a copy may purchase it in the busi ness office in Maxcy. States' Righters Will Meet Friday To Hear Speech There will be a meeting of the States' Rights Democrats Club of the university Friday afternoon in Euphradian Hall on the third floor of Harper college. At this meet ing a guest speaker will talk on the States' Rights movement. The speaker for the meeting will be announced later. "The club will certainly con tinue its work on the campus. The need for our group is greater now than before the election as we must keep the principles in which we be lieve before the public. President Truman stands for certain things which are repugnant to the con stitutional government. The two positions are irreconcilible. Of course we will continue to fight for those principles in which we believe," Ramon Schwartz, chair man of the club, said. "The States' Rights group is the Democratic p)arty in South Caro lina. The principles of the Demo cratic' party of South Carolina are not determined by the national chairman or by Mrs. Roosevelt but by the people of South Carolina. The people have spoken," Schwartz said. Major Geor To Speak 0 "Must We Fight Russia?" will be the topic of a speech by Major G;eor-ge F. Eliot, Thursday at 8:00 p). im. in D)rayton Hall. Eliot, an outstanding commentator and news analyst, has just returned from the Paris Peace Conference and an extended trip through Europe and the Middle East. "Rusi will not fight the de mocracies now or in the near fu ture," according to Eliot. He has been studying the Russian situa tioni at first hand in Central and Eastern Europe during the last few months on a European tour which included England, France, Italy and the occupied zones in. Germany. Eliot has discussed Rus sian encroachments with leading statesmen who are taking active part In rebuilding countries de stroyed by World War II. Arrangements for the speech are being made by the University Town Hall Committe,assisted. by Smith Plans To State Coi For Univers By HAROLD Admiral Norman M. Smit busy most of this week prept for presentation early in De( Budget Commission, his offic The size of the request will presented to the committee. in excess of three million (ol Jackie Johnson Crowned Queen At Homecoming .Jackie Johnson, Pi Beta Phi, was crowned Homecoming Queen by Charles W. Coker, president of the Alumni Association at half time of the Carolina-Maryland game Saturday. Coker was intro duced by President Norman M. Smith following the president's welcome speech to the alumni. The Queen's identity was not made known until halftime when she stepped from a giant football, which cheerleaders had carried to the center of the field. She was followed by her court which con sisted of Betty Jean McLean, Jo Ann Patrick and Blanch "Butch" Corry. runners-up in the home coMing queen election. Successive showers of rain threatened to postpone the cere mony, but by halftime the rain had subsided enough to carry out the program. Saturday morning, returning alumni registered and received Carolina colors in the Alumni of fice. Afterwards there were cam pus tours, informal meetings and visits to variou:; departments. The alumni council gave a luncheon at the Green Derby grill in honor of the president and the Board of Trustees. "Welcome Alumni Displays" on the campus added to the homecom ing festivities. The Booster club presented an 18-inch cup to Kappa Alpha fraternity for the winning Homecoming display. The KA dis play featured a large terrapin that was guided around by a Gamecock who advertised free rides to Caro lina Alumni. Journalism Club Holds Important Meeting Thursday Phi Epsilon Nu journalism fra ternity will meet Thursday. Nov. 18, at 7 :30 p. m. in Building C2, room 8, Ed Vereen, treasurer, has announced. A speaker has been obtained and a brief but important business session will .be held. V'ereeni urges members, as well as other juniors and seniors in the School of Journalism. to attend. e F. Eliot n1 Russia the International Relations Club. Free tickets are available at the Information Desk, Extension Divi sion, Merchants' AssocIation, Junior Chamber of Commerce, and the Chamber of Commerc. Request rn mission ity Funds BOURGEOIS h, university president, was ring the 1949 budget request ember to the South Carolina e announced yesterday. not be made public until it is However, it is estimated to be ars. Last year's request totaled $2, 852,161.80. Increased operating costs, proposed construction of a new law school and other buildings on the campus, and enlargement of the stadium should necessitate a larger request than that of last year. "The university collected more thai half its total expenses last year," Smith said. Collections from fees and other sources of revenue during the year were esti mated to be $1,934,555. The differ ence between the request and the (stiiated collections for the year, $!)I7,,I;O;.h0, was the total cost to the state for the operation of the 'uliversity, he added. It is not known if an additional reouest for funds to purchase land fti the university will be made again this year. Last year Smith requested one million dollars with which to buy 21 acres for building site:, within walking distance of the campus. The commission re fu'sed to grant this additional sum. It was ref used after Smith Ijimnted out to the Budget Comn ini:ion that our university with only 40; acres is the smallest of any university of this enrollment in the South. F!mith said he also reported to the Budget Commission that the University of Kentucky, with 94 acres, is the next smallest school supported by a state in this see timn. There are no other state uni ver,sities with less than 160 acres in the South, and the size ranges from this figure to two million acres for the University of Texas, according to the president. Collins Promises State Recogiition To Democrat Club The Rev. Maxie C. Collins, a leader in the Democratic reorgani zationa ini South Carolina, prom isedi state and national recognition and support for the newly organ ized Student D)emocraIt Club In a Spech beIcfore the assembled memt h'ers last Friday. "What we need is the deternmina tion of young people to work for a liberal Democratic party," the Re'.. Mr. Collins said. The party in South Carolina "has got to be a young peoples' party; a Demo i'rat ic jparty," he added. The Sttudent Democrat Club is the first of what is hoped to be a series of similair clubs in other uni versities and colleges of thte state, according to a club spokesman. He said, "The organization will pro vide student Democrats with an understanding of the national, and pai'ticularly, the state party or ganizations. Interested men and women may gain through it a basic knowledge of practical polities." Officers elected at the last meet inag are: Oren Jones, chairman; Harold Bourgeois, vice-ehairman; Rudy Rivers, secretary; Bill Ivey, treasurer; Dttty Fleishman, cor responding secretary; Charles Smith, membership edinitteeman; and Cecilia Irwin, membership committeewoman. Time and place of the next meset ing will be at 5 p. mn. today in room 101 of Legare. Chairman Jones and present members extend an invitation to alU Damoerata to be present.