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Spring Program Outline Prepared By Campus Radio Student leaders of Station WUSC, the campus radio, ad nounced today an elaborate lineup of spring programs, including orig inal plays, faculty forums, classical music, debates, and jam sessions. Herschel Hudson, Charleston, program director, said, "We real ize, of course, that a college cam pus represents a selection from the population and are designing our programs 4along the educational and cultural interests of such a grouping." Members of the university fac ulty are being asked to participate in roundtalble discussions of cui rent events, world and campus. These discussions are held each Thurs day from 8 p. m. to 8:30 p. m. One, conducted by Drs. A. R. Lewis and Robert D. Ochs of the history de partment, Dean of Women Mrs. Arney R. Childs, and Prof. J. A. Morris of the economics depart ment, dealt with the question, "What is Wrong with the Election System in South Carolina?" Then there is a classical music program from 9:15 to 10 on Tues day and Thursday nights. The re cordings, from the Carnegie Rec ord Library, include the best in the music of the world. A midnight jam session-which the station leaders emphasized does not conflict with any commer cial station-is broadcast from midnight to 2 a. m. on Fridays and Saturdays. On Tuesdays, from 8 p. m. to 9 p. m., debates are conducted by the campus literary societies on cur rent topics. And arrangements have been program called "Great Scenes from Great Plays," an Intercollegiate Broadcasting System network pro gram. The first of this series is to be given on a night this week. It will be scenes from "You and I," starring Peggy Wood and Otto Kreuger; and during Lhe follow ing week, scenes from "The Cita del," starring Walter Pidgeon, will be broadcast. Other plays include such productions as "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "The Barretts of Wimpole Street." The production is hponsored by the Protestant Episcopal Church, the announce ment said. Thomas F. Richardson, New Haven, Conn., is station manager. Robert R. Carpenter, Greenville, is director of publicity. Mardi Gras Party Be Given March 1 By Newman Club The annual Mardi Gras party of the Newman club.will be held on March 1 at Black's Country Home on Lakeshore drive from 7:00 11:30 p.m. About 200 members of the club are invited, and an invitation is extended to any other students who wish to attend. The hi-monthly meetings of the club, formerly held on Wednesday, are now held on Sunday at 7 p. m. at St. Peter's hall. Officers of the club are Mike Callahan, president; Bill Judge, vice president; Steve Wadiak, treasurer; Jean Gill, cor-respond ing secretary; and Laura Sue Cato, social secretary. WHY WALK aci *Laundry and Dry There's a Station oi - cially for studer1 * . SPECIAL RATE! - HOURS - 9-5;| UN IVE LAUNDRY &C SER! Next Door t6 Zeta TaL Officers of Zeta Tau Alpha are treasurer; Jeanne Turner, correspol historian. Bebop Music Is Featured S D. In Discussion The center of interest in most arguments along the music byways now is bebop. There can be no doubting the influence of this new music. Yet* the opinion of most music men is that bop, in its pres ent form, is not here to stay. Reports drifting in from colleges and ballrooms bring out the fact that the public wants eance music above all else. A happy combina tion of bop and commercial ar rangements has been sought by most of the name bands in opera tion. They report that several bop arrangements mixed in with popu lar dance scores have resulted in widespread enthusiasm. Almost every band in the nation nowv boasts several bop tunes. Notable are Ray Anthony, Jimmy Dorsey, Elliot Lawrence and Ray McKinley. These progressive maes tri all feature their top recorded hits while including a portion of bebop in their presentations. In all cases the hop stuff is dance able and depends more on ensemble playing than on soloists. Since they realize that their own interpreta tion wvill be the first bebop heard in many areas, they strive for per fection. It will be interesting to note the final result of bebop's effect on popular music. The general opinion is that many changes must be made before it can really be accepte.d by the masses. In December 1938, the University abolished all group or standard exams by any department. ross town to get Cleaning Service? i the Campus espe ts' convenience. I FOR STUDENTS sat. 9-1 RSITY RY CLEANING flCE Alphas Wargaret Eleazer, president; Jo A1 ding secretary; Frenchie Prosser, Post Office ( Missing Artic And Dead LE By FIANK FAYSSOUX, Jr. I had been here over a week and iad not received a letter. Arriving it the conclusion that it was the iniversity post office, id not my irl, who was negligent, I decided .o investigate. At the stamp window, an effi !ient young man listened to my !omiplaint and told me I would iave to see the postmaster, who was not i at -the moment. The -lerk told me that he. would be ')ack shortly if I cared to wait. The pusLimaster soon appeared it the stamp window. "I hate to bother you like this," I said, "but I haven't received any maii for over a week and I thought mnayb)e you might have a letter for nie floating around back there ;omewvhere." "It's entirely possible. You would e surprised at howv much 'float ng' mail wve do have even though we try hard enough to get it all listributed promp)tly and correct y. There's a door right back here. You go around there and ome in." A fter I entered, he introduced iimself to me as Joe Lawrence and hen he introduced me to his as istant, Bill McElveen. Five stu lents help between classes. "As you can see, the boxes' are rranged in alphabetical order. ~ach box has a different combina ion and any one of them can J>e hanged if necessary. Our biggest >roblem is the use of nicknames mnd the fact that so many- people lon't put the box number on cam us mail. We have a number of )eople with the same last name. rust for example, take the name smith. There's always more than me Smith so suppose we get a let er addressed to 'Stinky' Smith, JSC. There's no box number and 1o first name. How are we sup >osed to knowv who 'Stinky' Smith We walked over to a small table where about five or six letters lay ollecting dust. COLUMBIA DAIRIES MILK ICE CREAM 917 Main Street COLUMBIA, S. C. 'mn: A ww %V99 fy*QVUV a To Pres ine Dellinger, vice president; Anne rush chairman; Helen Hughey, di ..ombines Ies Bureau ?ter Desk "Here are some good examples of what I was just talking about." he said, picking up the letters and thumbing through them. "My letter'" I exclaimed, as he came to the last one in the stack. I looked at the address on the letter and understood right away why it had never been put in m-y box. Since I had not had time to notify her of my address, there was no box number on the letter, just c/o USC. But it was the nick name she had used which caused me to put the letter in my pocket very quickly. "As I said, that's our biggest problem," said the postmaster, "but of course there are others. For ex ample, notices written on thin paper~ are not acceptable. Cards ab)out the size of regular post cards are best for this purpose. It's not half as much trouble to us as it is to them because they have to (10 it all over. "There is another little problem that worries us. There are about 50 people living in town who have never bothered to call for their mail boxes. And as you can see by that box over there," he said pointing to a box stuffed with back issues of The Gamecock, the Caro lina Review and various notices from campus organizations, "it causes quite a congestion. Since that mail box is the official chan nel between that student and the university, if he should get a no tice from the dean, he would never know it and that might get him into sonme trouble. We have post cards we send out to notify these students that they have a mailbox. "You might not believe this," he continucd, "but we handled more mail this Valentine's day than we did this past Christmas. It was the largest letter mail wve have handled since the Christmas of 1947. The mail shouldl slack off ab)out next wveek but it wvill pick up again after spring holidays. "The postal rates have changed recently. Apparently, a lot of the students don't know about this as yet. For instance, mail went up to six cents an ounce and all printed matter, such as unsealed invita tions, went up from one and one half cents to two cents for each two ounces. Parcel post went up ac cordlingly, amounting to ab)out 20 per~cent. "There is one other thing I would like to mention. We run a lost and found department. Come over here and I will show you our current collection." There wvere raincoats, jackets, glasses, an umbrella, a scarf, a watch, and a shaving kit among other things. "I wish someone would come claim this stuff. We certainly have no use for it. But with all our problems, the congeniality of tjie students and faculty make any little troubles we have worth while," he cncluded. ent Sprir Roof, secredary; Mary Summersett, nce chairman; and Jean Eleazer, Sky Valley Art Exhibit Shown Here Paintings by Bill Darr, young artist of Sky Valley, N. C., are now on exhibit in the lobby of Maxcy. The collection has recently been on display at the Richland County public library in Columbia. It includes water color and oil pointings and contains many pic tures of the North Carolina Moun tains. The 38-year-old artist is a cos mopolite, having lived in New York, Massachusetts, and Califor nia in his boyhood. lie studied with tht famed water colori.t Mil liard Sheets and at the age of 17 was the youngest inember admitted to the California Watter Color so (ipy, At 19, he wton the Meyer Flax pize in the annual wtater color showv at the Los Angeles museum. In 1940 he wtorked wtith the Anmerican Fr iends Refugee hostel in Cuba and was theie granted Claremont College's fellowvship to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1947, he wtent to Sky Valley. IIere he is a counselor in chaige of art woik at the camp during the summer. Dair has not yet decided wthat type of art he wtishes to follow, but the scenic pictures of this Blue Ridge artist are accented wtith irich color and showv a deep love and understanding of nature. Favorites among Columbians wtho have seen the exhibit aie those done at Sky Valley camp of oak tiees in the fog, February snowt in the mountains, of haying time in the valley, and corn at its fullest in the field. Laundry in Sims Basement Opens Monday Morning The self-service laundry wthich has been installed in the basement of Sims wtill be open Monday, ac cor ding to Dean Childs. The lauin dry w~till be open to all students. The machines aie coiin-operated. Two attendants will be on duty fiom 9-6 in the laundry to make appointments foi those w~ho wtish them. The machines wtill wtash nine pounds of clothes at once and then dlamp-dryv them. g Forma Season To Be Ope Dance At Columbi Zeta Tau Alpha sorority night in the ballroom of th< with Woody Woodward and h The ballroom will be deco steel gray and tlrquoiSe blu Valentine Couple Chosen At Party For Westminster Rowena (Bool Dubose and Jin Caldwell were selected as th sweetheart coule at the valentin pariy given Feb. 16 Westminste Fellowship. Chaperones selected the couple or the basis of dancing ability, anl( presented them with a box o chocolate mints. New folk dances were introduce( by Gloria Allison and Pat Thomp. son and demonstrated by them foi the group. Such lively dances a. the Spanish waltz, Captain Jenks and Green Sleeves were in the group. These gave variety to th< usual program of square dancing Many members of the group tool part in the program given befor4 the party. Pat Thompson acted a master of ceremonies. "Boo" Du. hose sang, "You Are My Sun shine," accompanying herself or the guitar. She also sang "On Tol of Old Smoky," and "Blue-Eyec Boy." French O'Shields, president 0: the Fellowship, read an article or the origin of St. Valentine's Day with sound effects by Pat Thomp son. Bill Jordan sang "For YoL Alone" and Gloria Allison sang by request, "The M%an I Love." Law Uance To Be Given Wednesday The Law Federation will have a cabaret style dance in the ballroon of the Jeffersonl hotel from 9 to March 2, with Frank Bolick am Vi SOX'S STI -Special $1.00 Short And Sa 723 Saluda INSP~IREI). Ingrid Bergman, forth to fight the invaders of Frar dramatic production in color by Sunday at te Caroliua Page Five I Tonight ned With Formal a Hotel Ballroom vill give its spring formal to SColumbia hotel from 9 to 1, is orchestra playing. rated with the sorority colors, The outline of the sorority crest will be sprayed on the mir rors. The arch through which the grand march will begin will be in the shape of the sorority pen, and will be of silver paper, with circles of turquoise blue around the arch to represent the pearls in the pen. Officers of the sorority and their escorts are Margaret Eleazer, president, with Allen Pitts; Jo Atine Dellinger, vice president, with Lester Dellinger; Anne Roof, secretary, with Larry Pollard; Mary Summersett, treasurer, with Hazel McQuire; Jeanne Turner, corresponding secretary, with Charlie Jones; Helen Hughey, dance chairman, with Jimmy Creech; Frenchie Prosser, rush chairman, with Charles McClain; and Jean Eleazer, historian, with Lloyd Salters. 1Before the dance Phyllis,Dukes will have a drop-in for sorority ;isturs and their dates at her home on Duke avenue. During intermis sion Alice Mullis will hold a drop in for sorority sisters and their dates at her home on Gregg street. his orchestra playing. Major H. E. Miller is chairman of the social committee; E. C. Jones is the committee vice chairman. Officers of the Law Federation are J. 1H. Baggett, president; Hugh Summerall, vice president; C. J. Baker, secretary-treasurer; and Rock Rankin, sergeant-at-arms. Burnett's Drug Store Corner Main and College Only one Block From The Campus FOR DELIVERY PHONE 3191 'SIT :AK HOUSE izing in - STEAKS Orders ndwiches 5 Points tarred as the Maid 'of Orleans, rides ce in "Joan of Arc," Victor Fleming'. Technicolor. "Joan of Arc" opnn