Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Editor-in-Chief News Editor Campus Editor Sports Editor Society Editor Fekture Editor Copy Editor Exchange Editor Circulation Manager Managing Editor Ke Don't Draw Con< As was expected, some opposition has arisen to the new plan of distributing seats to students for next fall's football games. We say "as expected" because any new, untried' idea invariably meets with some criticism. However, we temporarily support the plan, not because we want to "buck" the criticism, but because the plan itself has many points which make it worthy of a chance in combat before being dubbed no good. In the first place, the idea was thought out, talked out, and drawn up by the Athletic Committee of the Board of Trustees, work ing with student representatives. This in it self should give it a push forward, because it's the first time students have had a say-so in the matter. As to whether the students selected to rep resent campus opinion were truly represen tative or not, every student who attended a game last year suffered the same agonies. If there's one thing which 99% of us have in common, that is it. The two who met with the committee are especially representative, because they have that coveted gift of being able to stand up and express their thoughts clearly and thoroughly. While the plan may have some noticeable shortcomings at first glance, its redeeming Parking Spi It's about time plans were being made about parking space for s.udents' automo bilen next fall. Conditions regarding this are worse than bad now. By the time school opens for the fall term of 1949 there will be the added congestion from the overflow from the Cornell Arms apartments across the street from the World War Memorial. Students are using every available inch aroundl the future apartment building for p)arking now, as they are for blocks around the university on every side. And there still isn't room for everyone who'd like to dIrive to school. THIS IS NOT Four Years U, (TIhis w eek w~e are still suf- teatul~u fering from the maladies de- 'hfitfoe( scrihed last w eek hy Mr. Ver-thsvetegz nlof 'radition" Taylor. Wei. hti Ot again prevailed- uIponI said var- telivnj, mit to tort ure you with someCXVel hsm more of his lihe;ous remarks. aantteIo We are heartily in accord with ftClaig(m the sentiments expressed here cfi~tit sa and in the past about lBob "T1heth he'ot1C .Ghoul" Carpenter of WUSC (We Ulcerate Southern C'olum- apsplt bia) who must wait perched Vacs atop his microphone for this paper to be published so that lCI eV?e he may pounce vulture-like upon ls en n our words. 111ut since no oneto*v('fIE ever listens to WUSC anyway,Ceai horf we have him at a distinct dis-hm'ti. advantage as he raves to the itt empty ether.thrstttltiI (The remarks made herein ni'liis about my beloved colleagues of Lse,m TrHE GAMECOCK staff are en- salha tirely unfounded. The staff .igigo members are not "web-footed," anner but rather have four left feet. 'hLa Sh Gilliam wijI probably haunt many more than the sardonic Igkt~Ini'ds Mr. Taylor. And while Jean prHi maioltl goes through life chopping 'h ne aeu down trees for the Woodmen of the World, Sol Abrams will still Toadtte be joining organizations to cuaigaan "build them up" [quote Art tig-SN Tthe east ceo Withcris of "Aise ewk-turil ev te ers nd rus th blotedboses!againsts.the the: Jean Hill Rudy Rivers ......... Ned Threatt Joe Molony UNT May Herbert Jane Dowe Founded Jar Suzanne Moye first editor "Th Marguerite Webb the University college year ex( Bobby Gaines The opinions nneth W. Baldwin, Jr. necessarily thow an endorsement :usions Too Soon feature is that it is very flexible, meaning that if a student isn't satisfied with his lot under its provisions, he can do something about it. Another factor in its. favor is that similar plans have stood up well under fire at other schools. One thing is reasonably certain. There will be plenty of room. Also, students' seats will be better located than they were last year. Those with the poorest seats will be freshmen, and they will be consoled by the realization that better days are ahead, while last year the only consolation we had was that "we'll get out here earlier next time." Students will be assigned seats for all four games at one time simply because it would be too much work and red tape to go through the process four different times. A chart of the stadium with who-has-what-seat is to be drawn up, and students who aren't satisfied with the one they have may consult it for possible switches. Some enterprising group may even start a 'ticket switching service.' No untried plan is perfect. It isn't ex pected to be. But if this one is given a chance, many fears will prove to be unfounded. True, other problems w,vill arise-only time and practice will tell. We say give it a try before sounding off. ice Needed Some space on or near the campus shou'ld be cleared for parking, and work should be completed on it during the summer. That fewer students will possess automobiles.next year can't be counted on, because even if there is a decrease of student drivers, the number will hardly be equal to the increase ,fromi the apartment building. Anything worse than the si,tuation as it exists now would be ridiculous. Plans should: be made niow, before it's too late. Those re sponsible for such things should use foresight in this matter. May we say, let's moTve Carolina? ider The Mast revolution is on ! we'd consign all tradition to the ing rumblings of Caroliruania Library, scuttle our in student coun- brass, abandon the campus and ious Society for cut dlown all the trees. I deduce of Cruelty to from personal experience that the tiated a purge only reason one wvrites for this or Board. This yellow-ink-stained bread wrapper aign has degene- is to get a free meal at the semes vhere each of the terIVly)anqIuet. tempting to wvill .ia lllimysehr;l xistence.shlnosn. hemkhmet :ians are riding lano re.KnBlwnla a to elevate a new ehm eieteAmrly i p)ositionls of ir- anitt yha ihsa ew tactics havewae. 'e,thuh I al hypnotizing hap- truhtevle ftesao ving instructionsofolArm,Iwlfern onest Gargoyle."evlfrlllat ihmeth aternities are ex- wbfoeJsafdt ofr e y of conduct be- Srl ila hl an t l of driunkent py-thdasomylfan Isal ~ to rab nwsdwll noin. he makeofthe toM learnK forever.Kn! ldi ed hilrenandyou the beoie rmthe dmraty Ie ynonet mySC hadplunge gle keys from far ught the evoltng spirit. 'aol s Itaitegits The Ha lf- arked ithmer, thyt uweb-fooo. amted Uisity dothcomfrs. Thi. e a peidetial relya ilening sh mthang ewal duhie daso yf nd efetIs loudayo aogabnwdwl nno the hue aofs NhAEt hi'ldrenandForuThe Voice Shall therat The WUSC ascbeunsitiownhioup mecohvinks The- HaOf-'aed MADsErs YoOUR uadcs theio.a I hRKAmSeUiversit INyes Ti 644 CO> CROWING FOR A GREATER VERSITY OF SOUTH CAROI ember of Asqociated Collegiate Pre Distributor of Collegiate Digest uary 30, 1908, with Robert Elliott e Gamecock" i published by and foi of South Carolina weekly, on Fric ept holidays and examinations. expressed by columnists and lette: of "The Gamecock-." Publishing do although the right to edit is reserv "We'll go on ti Danglin I'm trying suspensii some attention From the oak tree A dangling body is untidy, In fact, it's a trifle But the women will f sway in the bre< liun1g from the end Attention for me, as from the tree, At last I will realiz SOL ABRAMS IMay Be W Community Chest There are about as many differ ent charitable drives at the Uni. versity of South Carolina as there are proclaimed wveeks. Common to ever*yone wvho is associated with the school is the everpresent plead-I ing poster, the tactful letter of urgent request, and the tearfilled eye of the sincere solicitor. It cannot be denied that all these fund-raising campaignis are to be supported and are worthy. But neither can it be denied that they tend to become somewhat, of a nuisance in their repeated occur rence. There are more goals to reach at the university than there are funds to reach with. There are more drives than drivers attending school. These fu nd-raising cam paigns follow each other in close succession, andl it is not unconm mon for them to coincide. It wouldl not he unheard of for a person donating to the "Heart Society" to receive a letter of thanks from The Foreign Exchange Student Association. A great amount of energy, plan ning, andl work is needed in order foi these attempts to solicit funds to be successful. As is the case of any school activity, a relatively small group of students work on every campus putject. This small group Is repeatedly given the task of overcoming the apathy of the rest of the student body and arouse sufficient interest in the effort. Letter To "I May I To Sol A branms: Common sense is more important than an education, but a combina tion of the two is irresistible. Your recent article on the KKK defnitly islayd yurlack of common sense. Either you're to tally ignorant of the subject about which you wrote or, in your ap parently narrow minded way, you have attempted to mislead the readera of "I May Be Wrong But." I suggest that you change the title of your articles to "I Am Wrong But I'm Trying to Attract Attention So . . . Bly what authority do you say the Klan is not a popular move ment? Who counted only 282j Klansmen at the recent meeting in West Columbia? (Whoevae iam Business ] Assistant Bu Al Morguli j1NA COLUMNIS'] * Carolyn FEATURE: .Frances Gonzales as the NEWS AND the students of Pat Sh lays, during the W. h aI SOCIETY: E man, Bo .writers are not SPORTS: I Ds not constitute Newman ad.. COPY: Ruth - 0 "y \ OK ie G. I. Bill!" g Party n1, to attriact out on the green. always obscene. reeze. as 1 !ze. of my rope. I swing . my hope! (Ellsworth) rong But... If the University of South Caro lina had mang students who were willing to devote some of their time to such commendable under takings, it wvould be less taxing a the fewv who now carry the full load of these projects. A Simple D)rive Advantageous The solution arrived at by other <ehools of having a single driv'e :omplarable to the single commun ty chest drive now practiced here ni Columbia is worth looking' into. Such an action that wvould al ow concentrated effort based on he knowledge that this was to suf ice -for the whole semester might end to better results with less work thani the numerous smaller omes have ben req u irinzg. Thbis plan for a single inclusive und-ris4ing camp)aign would allow arger activities to be used in ob ininzg these donatiodts. Campus vide events could be more easily amdertaken, and drives would be niore universal in their appeal. This single attempt could be ~ponsored by all campus organiza ions and some student-faculty croup could be established to deter nine the allotment of the raised rfunds. Such a Plan has many merits and some committee should be appoint 3d to investigate this proposal as a solution to the numerous individ ual demands now made on the stu dlents. Ie Wrong But.. .'' should learun how to count!) Do you believe what you wrote about the Klan? If you -do, look me up some time and I'll try to devote a few minutes to informing you cor rectly,. You miight be living in a little dream world now, but I assure you this is a real world we are living in and someday you will have to: face it whether you like it or not. Why not prepare for it Abrams grow up mentally! Asbury C. Shorter, .Pr. Editor's note: As to the number of persons In the Klan, it Is evident that Shorter Is closer to the Klan's records than the columnist. The columnist also prefers a dream world to one of night Uanager George W. Shelor, Jr. siness Manager Jack Walther BUSINESS STAFF s, Sam Sorota, Jule Kleinmetz, Rus McGowan, Carol Ferris. REPORTORIAL STAFF 'S: Carroll Gilliam, Sol Abrams, Ken Baldwin, Booty Wall, Busbee. . Frank Fayssoux, Iilda Adams, Mary. Denny, Lily Groover, Tuttle. CAMPUS: Olga Edwards, Eric Oppenheimer, Edward Vereen, Iduck, Betsy Knowlton, Marjorie McCorkle, Jim Crawford, cCartha. linor Keels, J. Burrell Sanders, Jeanne Turner, Norma Berg ty Wall, Barbara Fowler. ,loyd Huntington, Leonard Duckett, Jack Morgan, Van Kleckley, Margaret Ficquette, Kat Sims, Charmaine Nutt. CARROLL GILLIAM Vote Yes For Constitution To Better Student A ffairs Words, words and more words have been written about the constitution whose fate will be decided in the ODK Circle today, but the average udent does not seem to realize the possible improvements to life at Carolina in cluded in the document. Without platitudes and the oft-repeated cliches, consid eration 6f the improvements under the new constitution far outweigh any opposing thought set forth. Product of two years of Council agitation and bickering, it comes near est to being the collection of articles and sections best suited to the University of South Carolina campus. Two years ago, when the campus first became crowded with the post-war enrollment increase, new problems and the ineffectiveness of the existing Student ,Council were accentuated. Students and faculty members were quick to realize that changes were necessary, and steps were begun to draw up a new constitution that would work at Carolina. It was a tedious process, with false starts, with blunders and the accompanying hard feelings, but the result is the document which the student body is asked to approve to day. Thus far it has cleared the hurdles of two student body readings, the faculty, atnd will be carided to the Board of Trustees next week if approved today. What It Means Taken apart. the constitution will affect persomlly each student enrolled in the uhiversity. Its best features can be summarized: 1. Representation on Student Council is increased by two fold, and will increase or decrease with the enrollment of the university. Representatives will be chosen by each school rather than by a few organizations, and can be re moved by the students of the schools. What this means is that each student will have a chance to name his representative on Council and, by having rep resentation spread through the eight schools and colleges, each student will be in a better position to be acquainted personally with his representative. This may not sound as important as it actually can be, for' the average student to day has no particular individual to whom he can go for information concerning student affairs-a question about date tickets or the canteen or anything else. The represen tative -wull be expected to know the answers and to act in the manner his "constituents" wish. 2. Through the Finance Committee, the student body, fo.r t'he first time, will have the author'ity to allocate the funds of the student activities fee. Each organization or publi cation receiving funds from the activity will have to account for its expenditures to the student committee and organiza tions which feel that they are now being ignored in alloca tions will have a better chance to have themselves heard. 3. St udents ar,e also given a voice in athletic ) licies as dlecidedl by the faculty committee on athletics. This pro vision, if in the 01(d constitution, p)ossibly wouldl have pre ventedl last fall's difficulties ov'er seating at football games, and in the future will solve such problems before such a situation can develop. -1. C'ouncil is given authority to gvor~k out dliff'erences- in Intramural Athletics with the Physical Education depart ment. in the past, many conflicts and other (differences have arisen (luring the long intramural, athletic seasons. This p)rovision is supposed to set upI a group) te '4ettle argu ments of this sort. 5. A committee on social affairs is set up which -will be charged with executing campus-wide social events. This group will fill a vacuum in the social activities of the cam p)us, which now sees few or no social events open to all the students, Advocates of this committee hope that it will be ai factor in drawing our studlent body closer together. Today is the only opportunity the student body will have to express itself as to whether it (desires this increased rep resentation and power. Every enrollee ot' Carolina should go to the ODKI Circle between 10 a. mn. and 3 p. m. today and vote "YES" for these improvements and the new con stitution!. EVENTS SCHEDULE This space wvili carry each week the time daendpcefor ganizational meetings, socials, and other eventateofinterest to the cAMpEs n renernl. bySchdinformation should be left at THE thevent nfieb ody, 3p. in., of the week preceding FRIDAY, MAII(CH 1I1I.m-aecc tf e I p. m.-.Junior-Senior Y (oun- giswtk cil, Flinn Hall. .m-teftenyCo 7 p. m.-C(arolina C'hristian i,Fln al Service Club, Flinn Hall, sec- n.YCnte,Fin al ond floor. i1EIy M Ch 3 SUND)AY, MAtCHI 13Soit,laIohlHl. 10 a. m.-Wesley Foundation, 7p.m-uhainLtry Washington Street Methodisi oit,EphainHl Church. 6 p. m.-Canterbury Club,. ENSA,MRH1 Trrinity Episcopal P*arish Ip .lleKy twr~ liouse. al 7 p. m.-Vespers, University fn a Chapel.5p.m-nerryTaTr MONDAY, MAI(CHi 14 ai,hHse I p. m.-F'reshman V ('ouncil, riJs)y,M CH1 '4 Finn Hall.1 m -MYct aie, I p.im.-Vespers ('omnmittee, 5p .SuetCucl c i'linH al. Ccen, linndloor.