Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Editor-in-Chief ........ News Editor ............................ Campus E dt .......................... Sports Editor ........................... Society Editor ........................... Feature E ditor .......................... Copy Editor ............................ Exchange Editor ........................ Circulation Manager ..................... Assistant Business Manager .............. Managing Editor ............ Highways v! Proof that South Carolina is not too poor to- provide improvement in its educational institutions was shown last week, but in a round-about way. The South Carolina High way Users conference estimated that the state highway department has $180,500,000 to spend from 1949 to 1952. The greatest amount of this sum will come from the people of the state themselves, not by appropriations, but through taxes on "highway users," estimated at $114,000,000 for the four-year period. The report further stated that existing revenue sources are "producing far ahead" of pre-war levels, some features showing from 80 to 97 per cent increases. The fact that this money will be on hand leads to the assumption that it will be spent for highway construction and maintenance, judging from past performances. In the past, this has been good sense, for the roads have been poor, and good politics, for new roads bring in the votes. But, today and in the four years ahead, another problem of more pressing import ance is before the state of South Carolina education of its youth. Highways are now comparable to the best in the South and are better than in neighboring states, but South Carolina's university and other higher edu cation schools rank below those of North Carolina and Georgia. And the lagging development of these in stitutions, which are set up to provide edu cation cheaply and in diverse fields, only re The Honor I Student Council, by its action favoring abolition of the Honor Board, took official cognizance of a condition which has been prevalent on the campus for some time-a general lack of faith in the honor principle among the student body. Chief objections to the present Honor Board have long been that it is self-per petuating; that is, that the Board members themselves fill any vacancies in their ranks by selection from the student body. In this manner the Honor Board was set up and so has remained through the years. Yet, this should not be a forte in criticism of the Board. Selection divorces its actions from the realm of campus politics and gives the Board opportunity to investigate fully its nominees before their election. The question should be: Does the honor system effectively serve its purpose at the university, and does the present Honor Board fulfill the duties of its office ? That cheating does occur on the campus, even the Honor Board will agree. It exists under any system, and the charge of the Honor Board is to minimize its occurrence and try to instill in the student body a re spect for the honor principle. In these two, it apparently has not succeeded to the de gree demanded by the student body, as evidenced by the action of Council. On Criticisi During the week, a letter expressing the author to be a "man of many problems" and signed "Mary" was received by The Game cock. The writer of this condemnation of the policies of the paper, particularly those with regard to dramatic criticisms, disregarded one primary policy of any newspaper-let ters must be signed with full names, not simply "With Love, Mary." However, this unfortunate individual hit upon a point about which there is doubt the reviews of the offerings of the Univer sity Players published by The Gamecock. Anyone who assumes that the critic speaks for the entire staff is naively and childishly mistaken. No feud exists between the staff .Carroll L. Gilliam ............... Ned Thratt ...Kenneth W. Baldwin, Jr. .. .. .. .. .. .. .Toe Molony ............ Ruth Newell ................Jane Dowe ............. Wimpy Webb Founded Jan . .Marguerite Webb first editor, "Th .............Bobby Gaines- the University college year exc .............. Jack Walther ' The opinions .............Jean Hill nece..eriv the,i an endorsement . Education tards the growth and progress of the state. Multi-million dollar highways are of little value to the man in the 20-year-old jalopy, and are worthless to the segment of the population which, because of illiteracy and ignorance, can afford no automobile at all. Education as such, of course, is no pan acea, but highways are of less value in ele vating the living standards of the whole population. Necessary for industry, of course; necessary for farm-to-market travel, granted; necessary for commerce, always; but highways do not iroduce the home grown accountants, technicians, doctors, ag riculturalists and scientific farmers which can make these things prosperous. In Louisiana, the inimitable Huey Long is praised for lifting the state out of the mud dy ruts onto the ribbons of concrete. But, he also is remembered for the construction of one of the greatest universities in the South. Twenty years ago, both Louisiana and South Carolina faced two problems-poor roads and poor education. Long raised both; South Carolina has miles of highways, but shows little progress toward the other so lution. It would be wise, then, for tis state to soft-pedal highway construction for a while and concentrate on that more lasting im provement, better education for its people. Perhaps the General Assembly now in ses sion will compare the two and favor the most needy, the University of South Caro lina, Wnthrop and the others.-CLG. 3oard's Case In both cases, lack of vigorous leadership by the Board and an apathetic approach by the student body have resulted in a slow de preciation of the high-flung phrases and hopes with which the honor principle was launched at Carolina. The Board has sought to avoid publicity for its actions, and per haps has placed too much faith in the ef ficacy of the signature of a student on the honor principle form at registration. Ap parently, the student body demands full knowledge of what the Board is about and needs constant reminder of the principle it self, in the manner of sledge hammers slam med on the head to get the point across. The action of Student Council is good. It should result in a little soul-searching by the Honor Board and calls attention to the responsibilities of the student body itself in maintaining the honor principle. Student Council's investigation commit tee should take into consideration the fact that no system which does not have active support of the student body will work. On this subject, The Gamecock welcomes the opinions and views of the student body. It is a subject of importance to everyone enrolled in the university, and the ideas of the student must be considered. Any opinions will be referred to Council's committee by The Gamecock.-CLG. mn Of Plays and the University Players; staff members occasionally have enjoyed the efforts of their fellow students In the field of the theater. The critic, no doubt, in the past and today has not worshiped at the shrine of local talent and praised the product because it Is home-grown. Any reviewer is prone to ex pect productions to come up to the stand ards of comparable groups, and, apparently, judges the results of the efforts of the play ers by such criteria. "Mary" should not expect student or ganizations to be mutual admiration so cieties, but should welcome constructive criticism. Even ham sometimes needs a sprinkling of a1t..C..n G A 404 CRQWINCI FOR A GREATER VERSITY OF SOUTH CARO] ember of Associated Collegiate Pr4 Distributor of Collegiate Digest uary 80, 1908, with Robert Elliott 9 Gamecock" is published by and fo of South Carolina weekly, on Fri opt holidays and examinations. expressed by columnists and lette i of "The Gamecock." Publishing d althobgh the right to edit is reserv "Say, Saint Pete, where TOM WILLIAMSON AROUND I Bill adjusted the ash-length on his borrowed cigaret, and settled down to some serious yawns, for today he was taking those long anticipated Seniors ExamsI First came the general knowl edge tests; they were packed with inquiries about the origin of species, quadratic equations, med ieval architecture, folksy music, unknown English nouns, forgotten authors, and here and there a fa miliar word or phrase added im petus to the search for a decent average to show Mom and Pop when it was all over. Bill was not too worried about the outcome of this particular ex amination, for he was aware that the booklet was organized in order to determine the overall knowledge of a diversified group, and he real ized all too well that he could be classified as a diversified individ ual. What he felt confident about was the afternoon tests, concerned with topics which he had spent his college life pursuing - his major course of study II Three p. m., and here they came! He was majoring in landscapinig, so had selected Literature as the subject in which he would like to spout his supreme knowledge, for after all, they were closely allied subjects, and he was a student of English authors. The first question had to do with Letters On Truman Dear Sir: May I request you to print this letter calling attention to the fact that the sweeping -condemnation of President Truman attributed to me in the article on page three of your issue for Jan. 7 is quite mis leading? My personal attitude is certainly not properly represented by the reporter's statement of it as follows: "To be valuable, criti cism must be clear and fully ex plained from every viewpoint... This- axiom has seemingly been forgotten by the president in everyg one of his public statements." I heartily condemn those who "snipe" at our holders of high of fice. I genuinely respect the of flees and the overwhelming ma jority of the men in them-includ ing our president. I do not think that even in casual conversation I would be so inconsistent as to call for the specific as axiomatic in one sentence-and then resort to the most vague of general criticisms two sentences later. Also I present my distinct im pression that the only statements made by me in this connection were in a personal conversation with the two or three students when I had no idea of being quot ed for publication. In that con versation I intended to emphasize the point, only vaguely referred to In paragraph seven of your re port: I.e., that I deplore the use of such issues as those you charac terize as "spy hearings" for po litical effect In campaigns by either party In a dispute. Please have- your reporters con firm such items with the suppose Business William ANA Mary DennY Patrick, Elir Suzanne Ned Threatt Gonzales as the Nutt, Margi r the students of Genaro Hue lays, during the Jack Morgar Grady Decell Sorota, Jim , rwriters are not Walther, An es not constitute garet Ficqu( ed. Tuttle and B s all the little angels?" HE CLOCK Homer's great-grandson, seemed he had gone with some lady from Sap phus, but it was up to Bill to de termine which one. "Oh, well, things like this have to be expected, they'll get easier." Stupid fellow II Homer had all kinds of descend ants, and Bill was supposed to know each one's activities for gen erations. "Who was the author of the fol lowing lines?" 'The gleep glopped, while thrice the Devil fingered his Christmas flute?' Bill wondered too. It was an interesting question, but he couldn't imagine who it would interest. He also was called upon to iden tify punctuation from sonnets, footnotes from prefaces, implied thoughts in capitalized parentheti cal expressions, but the climax came when he was asked to fill in the appropriate blanks with his name and home address, and for the life of him, he couldn't remem berl The fellow in the adjoining seat was snoring now, so Bill sAl ently folded the envelopes and slithered out into the fresh air. "They might not like my an swers, but darned if they weren't better than their questions; hope they get lost in the shuffle," he mumbled, as he headed for the nearest standing student in order" to inquire of him the most direct route to the State Hospital. authors (victims?) prior to pub lication. W. H. CALCOTT. (in fairness to Dean dalcott, THE GAME COCK must apaiogize for publication of the erroneous article. However, In fairness to THE GAMECOCK staff, it must be said that jhe article in question was not written by a staff member, but was received through the laboratory of the School of Journalism. Perhaps, the editors are in error to assume that the laboratory students check their articles with their sources.--Ed.) Honor Board To The Editor: I note from your issue of Jan. 7 that the Student Council asks for abolition of the Honor Board. As I understand it, the function of the Honor Board is, among other things, to choose the mem bers of the Honor Committee be fore which cases of breach of honor are tried. I trust that the student body will take careful note of the rea sons for the present plan before they finally take action in this matter, In the nature of the case, qualifications for membership on the Honor Committee are a high degree of integrity and a willing ness to do the unpleasant things when necessary. Now are those qualities the ones that a popular election would choose ? Apparent ly, our government, at any rate, has not thought so. Judges of the Supreme Court, judges of the cir cuit courts, and, in general, in the most important courts in our land, junges are chosen by just such a method as we have, namely, by a relatively small group, or else ap pointed by one person and ratified by a small group. I hope that members of the Studlent Council who are, I am sure, solely inter "qted in the proper administration the honor principle on the cam pus may weigh those considera tions. F. W. BRADLEY, Dean ofth Facul.. Manager ------- REPORTORIAL 8' B. Scott, Terrell L. Glen., Day , James Hughes, Arthur Ruj or Keels, J. Burrell Sanders, J Moye, Eric Oppenheimer, Ed Harold Bourgeois, Rudy Ri Levinson, Betsy Knowlton, I 7ta, Bob Westerfield, Lloyd I Van Newman, Jim Crawford Jane Gerard, Pete Partee, Be] klexander, Bill Rogers, W. H. I e Clark, Toni Leppard, Florett tte, Virginia- Emory, Marion ilda Adams. SOL ABRAMS I May Be W Now that a new building is be ing constructed for the law school under the stop light at the inter section of Green and Pickens streets, the problem arises as to what usage will be made of the present law building. Many sug gestions have and will be present ed. One of the best is that it be used as a student union building until another is provided. Among the necessities lack ing at the university is an ap propriate building for the ac tivities of student groups, and for the entertainment of stu dent's guests, especially for those of male students. The use ot Flinn Hall for this purpose is highly inadequate and unsatisfactory. One of the larg est problems of student organiza tions is to find a suitable meeting place. Often one group has to wait for another to vacate one of the few available rooms. The lack of a men's recep tion room often causes incon veniences to the student and gives the visitor to the school a poor impression of the in stitution. Under the present system, guests are usually met in front of the dormitories. In the small circle and parking space at Sims and Wade Hampton, this often causes a greater amount of traffic than can be accommodated. If no other improvement is made. the aircle and drive could be enlarged so that larger ve hicles than bicycles can pass with out jumping curbs or scraping fenders. Trhis problem is made greater by the thoughtlessness of the mobile knights who park within the circle for just a moment 1to pick up a date who is invariably BOB SOLOMONS Fore 'I To the freshman or transfer stu dent entering Carolina the Univer sity "Y" may prove to be, as it has been in the past, an "open door" to the campus. To a new student here at Carolina the "Y" offers valuable information and aid in becoming acquainted with the school and fellow students. To say that the "Y" is one of the most active and purposeful or ganizations at Carolina will bring little argument. The "Y," as it is called, is a combination of the YWCA and YMCA groups. The organization Is located in Flinn Hall situated on the Northwest corner of the cam pus just behind the War Memorial building. All activities of the group are under the direction of Mr. R. G. Bell who is the "Y" director. Also under Mr. Bell are 9 employees ranging from director of the YWCA to the kitchen employees. The students participations are under three groups. The Freshman "Y," sophomore "Y" and Jr.-8r. council. Each council has "dutch" dinners once a week. At these din ners current problems are discuss ed. The governing body Is the "Y" Cabinet composed of the various student officers, presidents of the Vespers, deputations, and dormi tory discussion committees. The freshman entering Carolina has the opportunity of going to the "Y" camp heldl at Percival Pond, near Fort Jackson, to be orientated and met by new and old students. In Flinn Hall the facilities of fer music, pingpong, pool, dancing and reading. Plans are now In progress to open the camp for long eorge W. Shelor, j AFF Id H. Crum, Ditty Fleishin rheimer, May Herbert, Ruth eanne Turner, Olga Edwar' ward Vereen, Pat Shaddue vers, Jane Almy, Charmaine Ll Munn, Marjorie McCorklo, [untington, Leonard Duckett, , Jem Newbury, Ish Thorna, inda Collum, Bill Fairey, Sa IcCartha, Chuck Gibson, Jack e Reyner, Carolyn Katz, Mar. Gibson, Patsy Epps, Frane rong But... half an hour late. This leads to streams of cars jockeying for po. sitions with traffic attempting to move in two directions on a road. that is only wide enough for a inotor scooter and a wheel-barrow to pass. In the early hours of the evening and for the half hour before midnight, It sounds like Times Square on New Year's Eve. The air is filled with cursing horns and not-too-muttered oaths. While on the subject of traffic problems, something should be done about Pickens street between Green and Pendleton streets. If just a few feet of university prop. erty would be given to the city to widen the street, many bent, fenders and torn tires could be avoided. The lobby at Maxcy college is also used to receive visitors-both couches. The administration of. fices and the informatinn desk. cause a constant traffic. This is increased by the many art exhi bitions which are conducted there. The utilization of Pettigru college as a temporary Stu dent Union Building will be of benefit to the whole student body and 6i1e school. It would be an indication that some cognizance of student needs exists. Many reasons will undoubtedly be given why this plan can- not be put into effect, and the chances are that it will be made into class rooms for other departments. However, this presented proposal is very sensible and should be fully considered on its merit before any action is taken. N' Aft dents and offer boating, swimming and various athletic games. A club house will also be built for retreat and other meetings. The "Y" sends out a deputations team each year to appear at other colleges and high schools through out the state. The teams have proven to be quite popular and wvell known all over South Carolina. The Freshman group sponsors canteen night on Mondays. A dance is held and refreshments are served. The Sophomore group this semester gave a Christmas party for a large number of orphans from Columbia. Each spring and Fall members from this "Y" will meet with groups from other colleges in the state, at Camp Long near Aiken for the purpose of discussing com mon problems. The Vespers Committee presents a worship service each Sunday night and offered shortly before holidays a programn of the Christ mas story. Other services offered the students by the "Y" are the Freshman hand book and the News letter. The hand book is designed to familiarize the newcomers with Carolina. The piewsletter is a monthly publication about happen ings In the "Y" of interest to 'a large group of people. These services are offered to aid and influence the Carolina stu dents. Members of all faiths are encouraged to attend the "Y." The "Y" represents an organiza tion of people seeking a new mean ing and purposefulness in life and who encourage others to join them In their search. The greatest in terest of course Is placed on the religious development of the. In dividual.