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 Ke Come On Out - - Yes, the weather is fine. The sun is usually shining forth in all its splendor these days. The trees are budding. The birds are chirp ing. In other words, spring is just around the corner. And what are the thoughts of the young man and the young woman turning to (be sides the usual) at this time of year? Ah, that the new year couldn't make its entrance amid such glorious natural surroundings, in stead of buried under chill rain and sleet and barren shrubbery. The market would be overcrowded with good resolutions rather than the colds and 'flu which greet January I of this and any other year. For this is nature's new year. She is turn ing over a new leaf, and we should, too. This, rather than a date set aside by the imper sonal calendar, should be our time of re awakening and the urge.to accomplish things. So look around you, students. If you do you'll find many, many things you can do to help yourself and your fellow Ian. First of all, how about the 90-odd organi zations on the Carolina campus? What are they accomplishing? If they are really doing anything, they could do much more with your earnest hell). And those that are coasting along, the majority of them, it seems, need someone just like you to get them out of the Congratulations Editor Joe Bishop and staff of the Caro lina Review, the university's literary maga zine, are due belated congratulations on the "new look" of their publication. The recently received Fall, 1948, issue is a "big, slick" magazine which stands well with the best of 'em in appearance. The contents could standl some improvement. Some of the articles are very good, however. The calibre of some of the others is due perhaps to a lack of interest in the students. This may, then, be a call to the students to take more interest in Carolina's magazine. If you have a tendency towvardls creative writ ing, or think you have, this is an excellent chance to prove it. Get ini touchl with The C'arolinia Reviewv's editor. KEN BALDWIN, JR. Four Years U, (II AIPTllit 2 wheels anid little on at least one t had discovered a clean up the f] shouldl be exploil "Young mlan you're going," sa tainis who looked Chapter 2 is dedicated to Ver- twveeni a bull fr nion Ace Taylor wvho would rather potamus. that it he b,lank. Accordingly, "Ah, shaddup, andl to others who expressed the wvho was still oni same wish (not that I've heard of a swelling ankle. alny) I thoughtfully dedicate the Hiatchet's umnk same. old man upset I CIAP'TIER 3 he had any, and As we left our lilue and Gold periority and ha classroom we started down the year man thunde steps and that was our second mis- ize you're addres take of the semester. Just as That was toi Hatchet took his second stop, his Hatchet. With foot caught in the metal strip on that dry, tongu the edge of the stoop and he went stated firmly, tunibling on the "deck," taking may call me L,iel with him three captains and an en- To say that sign- frustrated would "Somebody probably built a statement. How4 house with the cement that should were left unsaid have gonie into these steps," Lew stooges led awa: said. was mutterir.g ti As the little mass of humans (?) enchained in the disentangled themselves, Lew and Ah, Comrades, d I realized two things: one, the big worse than Slhei ..........Jean Hill ....... .. Rigdy Rivers ............Ned Threatt . Joe Molony UN ...........May Herbert ............. Jane Dowe Founded Ja Suzanne Moye first editor, "I Marguerite Webb the University Bobby Gaines college year ei The opinior nneth W. Baldwin, Jr. necessarily tho an endorsemen The Weather's Fine doldrums-someone with a renewed spirit, a sincere desire to make them do what they were founded to do. It is a well-founded fear that many mem bers of these organizations are not really sure why they are members. They go to the meetings, sometimes, they vote, and they take a passive part in anything anybody else sug gests. By doing this they obtain member ship in other, more execlusive organizations, so they can play the same semi-active role in them, too. How long this has been going on is history. What causes it is a matter for thought. But one thing is certain. A change in the "ac tivities" here is long overdue. So pull yourself up out of that easy chair. The world, but more specifically the campus, is crying for your kind of initiative and energy. Don't allow it to lie smoldering in side you. Take thyself forth into the green, green fields. But wait, before you go dashing out to con quer. How is your room these days? Is the (lust on your desk thicker than it was last week? Thirty seconds before you left this morning, did you sort of "wind" your sheets around the bed and silently proinise to fix it later? Well, get busy. Get the moat out of your own eye first. Then, go to it! To The Review But our main purpose is to point out the fact that this vast improvement in our cam pus magazine was done by students and stu dents alone. No member of the faculty or staff of the university took any part in it as advisor, censor, or what not. Another example of unaided student effort on the campus is this newspaper, The Game cock. It has never in its 41-year history been undler the dlirectorship of anyone other than Carolina students. Yet it has won national recognition among college publications and has been a leader among the students it serves. More power to students and their unaided abilities! ,der The Mast t.ogs were together Our attention returned to our hing, and two, we stricken companion who, we no sure fire way to ticed, had also sustained a small .oors. The latter cut over his eye. "We must take ed more often. him over to the infirmary," I said ,watch where in an aside to Lew who concurred id one of the cap- unhesitatingly. We soon found that I like a cross be- was going to be a slow and ardu. og and a hippo- ouis process as Hatchet was tallez than either Lew .or me. retorted Hatchet We were making good progress he "deck" rubbing until we were suddenly forced t< dive into the bushes or else get rur ud words to the over. One of my favorite memberi is eqluilibrium, if ofthe SocietyofMplcdot withalltheau-Scooter Maniacs had almost clip. wit al te u-ped us without warning. It was uightiness of a 30- George Grouch, no doubt. The reai red, "Do you real- view looked like his. sing a captain?" "You know," said a passerb3 much for poor named Jack, "they ought to requir< great dignity and those big healthy guys to get s ei-hewihecertificate from the infirmary be e-i-chekwithefore they are permitted to ridi In that case you them to classes. The trucks ar< itenant." bad enough, but these two-wheele< the Captain was torpedoes are worse, if possible." be a mild under- Picking ourselves up, we pro ver, unsaid curses ceeded to cross Green street anc I when the three make our way to the infirmara the captain who where we were greeted with th4 treats of having us open arms and kindly smile of asement of Davis. waiting nurse. st would be a fate Author's note: This column i ia. not writta.n by Carroll Gimiam.) CROWING FOR A GREATER IVERSITY OF SOUTH CARO Ifember of Associated Collegiate Pr Distributor of Collegiate Digest nuary 30, 1908, with Robert Elliott he Gamecock" is published by and f of South Carolina weekly, on Fri :cept holidays and examinations. a expressed by columnists and letti se of "The Gamecock." Publishing dq although the right to edit is reseri Scc "I can't understand it. I I SOL ABRAMS I May Be V Conflicting Authority Until recently it was falsely as sumed by the student body and others that the student honor coun cils would handle all cases of breaches of the Honor Principle. Until 1948 the undergraduate Honor Council had jurisdiction over all cases, but in the spring of 1948 authority was delegated by the Honor Council to a Law School Honor Council because it was felt that such a body would be more capable in matters of this nature than the undergraduate body. In a recent case tried by the Law School Honor Council a verdict of not guilty was awarded. The dis cipline Committee on learning of this decision took matters into its own hands. It consulted with itself and upon reaching a conclusion tried the same case. This is the first time on record that a case was retried on the grounds that the prosecution did not favor the decision. Some constitutions, including the national and state constitutions seem to frown on this sort of thing, as they specifically prohibit it. But there evidently is no such ridiculous restraint on the Discip line Committee. They sized up the situation and went to work. By some quirk of fate the deci sion they arrived at was not the same as that reached by the sup posedly regular judiciary body, the Law School Honor Council. Never theless the Discipline Committee en forced their own conclusions. May Need Correction Some observers think that this situation needs correcting. Some of the gentlemen who are studying law seem to think that trying a man twice for the same thing is not exactly the best practice. Those of us who are laymen and know little of the complexities of legalities can see how this practice Flute I wandered 'round the earth for I danced in grass and jungles. It To me old life was really gay. jt For I hadl no attachments. nothi: Then I saw you through a haze, I clasped myI hands above my You distained to glance at me, ar So I graspedl a trailing whisp of I chased you roundl the cloud tha "Let me alone you cad, you bea: My lips began to tremble, my c "I'm sorry thnt I frightened you Your beauty is so dlifferent, lik She smiled, I leered, "My etchinj She flamed and said, "You low d I rose and closed my bloodless Iii Then with a crash like thunder,1 I wand('r 'round the earth. 1 p1 I dance in grass and( jungles, I d Business William LINA Mary Denny Patrick, Elin Suzanne Ned Threati Gonzales as the Nutt, Margi ir the students of Gento M ue: days, during the Jack Morgar Grady Decell Sorota, Jim . irwriters are not Walther, An: )es not constitute garet Ficque red. Tuttle and H qF1iT***V C#Vt#*LT7 4'. ,ot every course I wanted!" Irong But.. would be the cause of certain diffi culties. It would be quite a strain on an individual who was being tried to attend two trials that were being conducted simultaneously. This would be especially true if the person happens to be a rather slow runner and in poor condition. The Discipline Committee stated that this was a precedent which they had decided on establishing. H1opes have been expressed by some parties that the Committee will not see fit to establish precedents con cerning the United States Supreme Court. There are really some fine ones which could be set there. Abolish the Honor Councils The real question then boils down to whether the Discipline Commit tee has the authority to act on cases of honor. Rumor has it that this power came from the omni potent Board of Trustees and was given directly to the Student Honor Council. A search has failed to disclose any facts to the contrary, but possibly the Discipline Com mittee ,has access to other dark corners in which to look and has found something to this effect. If such an important discovery has been made, it should be dis closed for the benefit of all man kind, and not kept secret for the use of a few. Certainly the ques tipn of procedure and authority should be settled and made public to the student body. If the Discipline Committee is going to hold council and decide on the wisdom of the decision and in some cases hold a re-trial, then the Honor Councils should oe abol ished. Not having a student judi ciary is better than having both a student and a faculty group mete ing punishment for the same thing. Possibly the best solution would be for the Discipline Committee to unprecedent their action and leave the problem in the hands of the student honor groups. Song years, I played upon the flute, lid not give a hoot. ist one long madl fling, ig to which to cling. upon a floating cloud, ieadl, I shouted long and loud. nortal of this world, og andl climbed up like a sqiuirrel. it (lay, you fell upon your knees. it, you monster of the trees!" heeks were flushedl with shame, to stare is why I came. e nothing I have seen." es I will show." rwn cad, I think you'd better go." ps andl turned w v:"t oa sound, iny cloud came tumbling dowun. ay uion the flute, Li not give a hoot. (Ellswnrth)i Wianager ...........George W. Shelor, Jr. REPORTORIAL STAFF B. Scott, Terrell L. Glenn, David H. Crum, Ditty Fleishman, 1, James Hughes, Arthur Rugheimer, May Herbert, Ruth or Keels, J. Burrell Sanders, Jeanne Turner, Olga Edwards. Moye, Eric Oppenheimer, Edward Vereen, Pat Shadduck, , Harold Bourgeois, Rudy Rivers, Jane Almy, Charmaine Levinson, Betsy Knowlton, Al Munn, Marjorie McCorkle, eta, Bob Westerfield, Lloyd Huntington, Leonard Duckett, , Van Newman, Jim Crawford, Jem Newbury, Ish Thomas, Jane Gerard, Pete Partee, Belinda Collum, Bill Fairey, Sam Alexander, Bill Rogers, W. H. McCartha, Chuck Gibson, Jack ae Clark, Toni Leppard, Florette Reyner, Carolyn Katz, Mar tte, Virginia Emory, Marion Gibson, Patsy Epps, Frances ilda Adams. CARkOLL GILLIAM Is A Revolution Coming In The 1950 Elections? Politics has been called the greatest of games, but in this part of the world known as South Carolina it is more than that. Nothing is mere diversion when the players are professionals with control as the goal and the lives of the people the playing field. During the past weeks in the local arena of the General Assembly, much good legislation has been proposed, but how far it will progress in the complicated halls of govern ment, no one knows. Such items as a pre-marriage waiting period, legalized divorce, a non-political game commission, and governmental and educational reorganization can lift South Carolina from the bottom of various lists-if enacted. By past standards, legislation has not been guaged by whether it is good for the people or the state, but whether it is best for those in office. Recent matters have been judged by "Old Ed's had that job for fifty years and now he'll be out of work" and "the fees of this or that official will be sliced if this bill passes." Governmental Stagnation The policy of returning the same men year after year to office is part of the root of this paralysis. State jobs have become a personal Possession and countless boards and-com missions are filled with those who look with favor on the system. The result is that obtaining and keeping power can replace the common good as the aim of government. And what does it mean to the people? An election is held and the real issues aro never brought out to the stump. Of what importance is it that John Doe hates the Negro and Wall Street more than his opponent? And, which are more important, promises to cut taxes, or pledges that the voters will get a just return for the taxes now being paid. Does the voter gain when a group swears to destroy one ring and only allies itself with it, or sets up a ring itself ? Rings, too, are not real issues, for individuals are not prime factors if government is clean, honest and of progressive, rather than stagnant, outlook. And then the big grab-bag-veteran aid, old-age pen sions, and "economy in government!" Most veterans would prefer the best education possible and a chance to earn their own way in the world, rather than see funds necessary for that education doled out in bonus money. Thinking citizens believe their guarantee of opportunity should be strength ened rather than their promises of $50 a month at the age of 65. No one wishes to be a dependent of the state, but all believe that the state should not neglect its duty to insure freedom from dependency. To a Good Start Realization of the faults of our government and those who are its current masters is growing in South Carolina. Thousands of sportsmen are advocating the non-political game commission and other groups are waging campaigns for other progressive legislation. Coordinationi of these ef forts into a citizens' demand for good government could pro duce a major revolution at the ballot box in 1950. Today, the 1949 General Assembly is making strides which, by hcomparison,ae ey e-opening and an indication thargy SuhCrlaatlsisawakening from political Letter From The Infirmary Dear Editor: the University are required to turn In your article on the Unmversity in a physical examination report Infirmary in The Gamecock on filled in by their home physician. January 21, 1949, an error was The only physical examinations made in stating the University was made in the Infirmary are those for responsible for the anesthetic fee, treatment purposes alone. The in. This is incorrect in that the stu- patient service of the Infirmary dent is responsible for all expenses averages 26 a week, rather than 25 incurred in surgical cases, with the a month as you stated. exception of the surgeon's fee if Please make the corrections of the sonsultant surgeon for the Uni- these errors in your next edition. versity performs the operation. Sincerely, Another error was in stating H. G. Waddell, M.D. that pre-entrance examinations are Unierit Phsiia made for students entering the (Editor's note:ritthhysianpr University. All students entering dons.) ouadpr EVENTS SCHEDULE This spac, will carry each week the time seadpaeo r ganizational meetings, socials, and othe eendt n of itrstor-h campus in general. Such ifrmation evsho beet ato THE GAMECOCK office by Monday, rp.tin, sol the wek atrEcn the event. , .m.ofteweprcdn FRIDAY, FEB. 18 4p .Itrrtr.y(on 1 p. m.-Junior-Senior. Y Coun- i,Fin al cil, Flinn Hall. 7 p-. m.-Carolina Christian TEDY E.2 Service Club, Flinn Hall, see- p.m-lrophc itry ond floor.Scit,(alopiHll 8 p. m..-Powder Bowl Football 7~m-uhainLtrr Game, Melton Field. clt.EhrdaHl. SUNDAY, FEB. 20 WDEiY E.2 10 a. m.-Wesley Foundation. .n-leKy twr' Washington Street Methodist Hal Church. P.5.ShmreYCucl 6 p. m.-Canterbury Club, Trin- lin al ity Episcopal Parish House. 6p n-Cnebr lbTa 7 ni-eses University Tiiy Eicpl Pra MONDAY, FEB. 21TIIIS y,Fl.2 I p. m.-Freshman V Counicil, .m-MYWA Cbnt r linn H all.Fishl eodfor I , .VseaCommittee., .'p KpaGma f in all. Sm ui om 3 p. m.--Gamecock Staff begins wok.p. m.-Iterrenityon I'ul,hFCouncil,ll. Te,second floo.2