Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CROWING FO UNIVERSITY OF Member of Associa Distributor of I Founded January 30, 1908, with Robert Elliott Gonzales as the first editor, "The Gamecock" is published by and for the students of the University The opinions expressed by columnists and letter writers are not necessarily those of "'the Game JOE MOLONY, EDITOR RUDY RIVERS, MANAGING EDITOR JACK WALTHER, BUSINES$ MANAGER News Editor . . ....... . Jack Morgan Campus Editor ... . .... W. H. McCartha Sports Editor .......... Lloyd Huntington COLU Jack Morgan, Eric Op BUSINE, Sam Sorota, Al Morgulis, Ch REPORTOR Carolyn Busbee, May Herbert, Gerry Hartman, Frances Collier, Rita, Webb, Ann Chandler, Eliza beth Kearse, Tommy Herbert, Marnie Manning, Lawson Yates, Mary Louise Gaillard, Bobby Smith, Ruth Barker, Mary Bloodworth, Taft Dantzler, Jeanette Dickson, Olga Edwards, Roy Haymond, Welcom Throughout this special "Big Thursday" edition you'll notice human interest stories about the Clemson-Carolina football game festivities. For the most part they'll be con cerned with past events re-incarnated by am bitious journalists such as ourselves. ,But "ven to the last story, The Gamecock can't attempt to paint the tlrue, down-to-earth pic ture of this occasion for you. You have to be there to appreciate it. All South Carolina takes a day off for this all-important football game. The ladies at tend to check on the most recent autumn styles, compare outfits with their neighbors or maybe just through curiosity. Their hus bands or boy friends, most of whom are alumni, come here to renew old school ac quaintances. Others just happen to be around. It's to the alumni and their guests that The Gamecock wishes to extend a hearty welcome. The school is theirs today, tomor row and the rest of the weekend. All campus organizations have pledged their whole hearted cooperation in seeing that alumni are at home during their stay here. Carolina, to day, has no other way of showing their ap preciation toward old-timers who were in strumental in making our institution what it is today-a school that we can justly be proud of. Seven ... A Take a look at these names. We believe they'll be familiar to you before the year is out. They're the seven-man survey group headed by Dr. George D. Strayer, former director of the division of field studies of the Institute of Educational Research, Co lurnibia University Teacher's college: Dr. Thad Y. Hungate, controller of the teacher's college, Columbia university; Dr. Frederick M. Hunter, honorary chancellor of the State System of Higher Education of Oregon; Dr. Arthur J. Klein, of Ohio State university ; Dr. Frank W. Hart, of the Uni versity of California; R. W.- Kettler, audi tor of Purdue university; Harvey Sherer, of the University of Illinois auditor's office; and Dr. Mary deGarmo Bryan, of Columbia University Teachers college. These are the seven outstanding American Educators who may conduct a full-scale survey of South Carolina's university system. Should such a survey take place, here's what the group would do: Dr. Hungate would concentrate on the cost of higher education, study teacher loads, overhead expenses, salaries and other finan cial problems; and conduct studies on the state's ability to pay for higher education. Dr. Hunter, would study the functions of a possible Board of Regents and of the ad nilnistrators of the various units of the system. Dr. Klein would study student life and ac tivities; Dr. Hart, is an authority on physical planta for colleges; Dr. Kettler and Sherer are auditors; and Dr. Bryan would study housing and feeding of students. We're OK, But We Could Do Better This extensive survey would cost the uni versity only $33,000. The potential good It could do, however, cannot be estimated In dollars and cents. But how are we to find out whether or not it would work if we don't give it a trial? The Gameenek has said time and time jCOC&A9 R A GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA ted Collegiate Press "ollegiate Digest of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, during th4 college year except holidays and examinations. cock." Publishing does not constitute an endorse ment although the right to edit is reserved. Society Editor ..............Jane Dow Feature Editor ... Paul Foste Copy Editor .Ruthe 4lecklel Exchange Editor .Betsy Knowlto Circulation Manager . Russel McGowa Asst. Business Manager . Paul Fiel( HNISTS penheimer, Rudy Rivers. ;S STAFF arRes Clinkucales, Jim Horton. IAL STAFF Martha Matthews, Bill McDonald, Barbara McSwain Charmaine Nutt, Bill Novit, Weste Patton, Kennett Powell, Bill Rogers, Tom Price, Dick Dunlap, Jimm3 Howle, Bill Kaufman, Al Gibert, Frances Tuttle Lily Groover, Pete Hyman, Celia Moore. Alumni! Win, lose or draw, the Gamecocks under Rex Enright will bring back fond memorie. to those who rooted for the Garnet and Black decades ago. A vivid picture painted in hard-earned victories and, in some cases, hard-fought losses, flashes through every mind. The alumni of 1903 become avid, wild ly cheering fans of today and tend to forget the march of time that's caused hair to turr to silver, canes to be broken out and a stiff, springless step to replace a youthful gait, They're young again for just this one time each year. And the Clemson man isn't to be denied, either. It's his day as well as Carolina's. HiE Tigers will offer one of the most formidable foes that the Gamecocks will face all season, He is justly proud of his team, his college and their spirit and he's respected for it, too. Although the color, setting, rivalry, State Fair and many other outside influences tend primarily to make "Big Thursday" one of the most celebrated days in the South, it's the ball game that counts. It's usually a close, hard-fought-to-the-finish battlel that tradi tionally defies expert opinion. Neither team is the favorite, because everyone knows that anything can happen at a Clemson-Car.olina game-and it usually does.-J.A.M. Lucky Number again that wo aren't particularly dissatis fied with the progress that's been made at Carolina since World War II. However, this doesn't mean that we're satisfied with the amount of progress made here. The little im. provements were -necessary, granted, bul there weren't enough of them. We are going ahead steadily, but we aren't going forward fast enough. In fact, we're being left behinc by other nearby states who've taken a 10ool around them, asked for outside advice, aired it and then put the advice into operation. We aren't instigating an upheaval of tra dition, or what have you. We're only sug. gesting that the university open its doori to a full-scale survey of its operations so tha1 necessaryt (and obvious) improvementi could be made in our system. The findingi of a survey group would naturally envelop4 Cldmson, Winthrop and The Citadel becaus< the entire state educational program 'ii pretty well fouled up. The group wouldn't attempt to increas4 our budget. It would only suggest ways o: utilizing the small amount of finances 0! hand, avoiding unnecessary competitior among state-supported colleges and thereba cutting down on the schools' expenses. Now is the time to act. We're no longel suffering the effects of war. We have stoo< the supreme test of housing over 4,500 stu. dents with facilities for 3,000 and toda3 we're fast entering post-war ranks with a 3,802 enrollment. The students are youngel and less critical of collegiate life here.. The present enrollment figures should remali consistent. If so, then we're ready for a! alleviation of current contaminated condi. tions prevalent In our state higher educatlor program. We're ready to divorce ourselves at least partly, from politics, establish a Board of- Regents, centralize the various schools that need centralizing, and study howto "get the mostest out of the leastest.' -J.A.M. NANU He Doesn't Like Any ERIC OPPENHEIME1 Between Y End of the Road For rhany years loyal Carolin ians have been urging the erection of a monument for the university's most scholarly and renowned presi dent, Thomas Cooper. The English born scientist, educator and agi tator was described by Thomas Jefferson as "the greatest man in America in the power of his mind and in acquired information." Cooper headed the South Carolina College from 1820-1834, during which time Carolina attained na tional prominence. But in spite of his important place in the history of American education, officials have been adamant in their re fusal to honor the memory of Thomas Cooper. The reasons for the opposition to commemorate a great American are quite apparent. As an associate of Thomas Jef ferson and a foe of the Federalists, Cooper was convicted in May, 1800 and sentenced to serve for six months for violation of the Sedi tion Law. In his youth he was an admirer of the French revolution. He despised oppression and cham pioned Jeffersonian democracy. During his presidency Cooper was a targeb of clerical attack. The controversy was an episode in the age-long conflict between science and theology but was accentuated by Cooper's uncompromising ideals. He never wavered in his convic tions and always made his views known. The detractors of Cooper claim that the educator was radi cal, heretical and too liberal for a Southern institution. As a matter of fact, Cooper was a staunch state's rights advocate and was the first to introduce the constitutional theory of nullification. Lette October 18, 1949 Dear Editor: One of our law enforcement of ficers on the campus was alerted from his beat this past Tuesday afternoon (October 11) to the scene of a crime that was taking place in front of Tenement 20. The officer, with bright shining but tons, with a revolver on his hip, came charging up to the law breaker, a small Negro shee shine boy who was shining a student's shoes. This was the crime that was being committed. He approached the lad and, In a very harsh tone, threatened to take the boy to jail for doing such a horrible thing. The lad produced Ia license from the City of Colum bia which entitled him to carry out his duties anywhere In Colum bia within one block of Main Street. This had no effect, whatso ever, on the officer and he again threatened to put the boy In jail At this, the small victim, ap. proximately seven years old, be. gan to cry and plead for his par. don, only to receive more harsh words from the officer and an or der to get off the -campus and never to return. The boy was not allowed to finish his job, but the student Bong With Tiger In It! Du And Me During Cooper's tenure tremen dous educational innovations took place. Cooper introduced and great ly encouraged two new branches of study-political economy and the sciences. Relative nonentities have had their names engraved on the stately structures of the Carolina campus, but Thomas Cooper's name is conspicuously absent. The situation should be remedied and a long overdue recognition of one of USC's greatest presidents should be effected. This is a worthwhile project for both facul ty and student body for Thomas Cooper personified the cause of academic freedom. * 0 * Ref lections We worry so much about things we can't control such as floods, storms and even wars in other countries. Just for a change let's do some thing about the things we can control, For example, none of us can lengthen our span of life, be yond the hand of destiny, but we can control its width and depth. Nor is it given us to control by the contour of our countenance, but we can control its expression . . . we can smile instead of frown. We cannot alter the distance of our head above the ground but we can control the height of its contents ...we can think high thoughts. We cannot control the other fel low's annoying habits, but we can do something about our own. If we all controlled what we can co,ntrol what a lot of happiness there would be. reached into his pocket and handed the lad a quarter. The boy reached out with a trembling hand, with tears runing down his small face and took the quarter. He was last seen walking down the walk to ward the gate with his shoe shine kit in his hand and tears streaming down his face, hitting the walk. Those tears were shed on our campus and were caused by our officials. That must have produced in that young boy's mind a vivid experience and he will always re member the University of South Carolina as a place where "ho liked to have been put in jail" for carrying out his job--that he was authorized to do. And yet we speak of racial prob. lems. This Is orfly a small inci dent, but those tears that were shed on our campus will water .the tree of revenge and hatred that has been produced in that young shoe shine boy's life. As students, we can't do much about that for obvious reasons, but we can remember and when we have left this campus we ought to endeavor not to be the cause of any tears to be shed that wlr water the tree of racial problems. Sincerely, Wes Patton. JACK MORGAN As I See It I shall never forget the first co-ed I dated here at Carol' It was last week and I was celebrating my seventh anni' sary on the campus. I had met this girl in biology class wb we both were assigned to the same cat (She was cutting f the head down and I was cutting from the tail,up. We metI the middle.) It was love at first sight. No, I'll never forget that first date. I wandered up to h house about seven o'clock (She wasn't living in Sims T longer; things were too quiet.) I knocked timidly at her dooK The maid straightened her girdle and opened it (the door, nVl the girdle.) "We don't allow freshmen around here," she said as she hit me with the umbrella stand. "Is Miss Fergie Lou in ?" I asked, removing the umbreli. from my mouth. "I'm a sophomore." "Got your Boy Scout badge or anything that will identify you?" she asked, as she pulled a dagger and two hand gren ades out of my vest pocket. "Sieg heil, and all that sort of stuff," I whispered. "I love communists," she said, thumbing through Karl Marx's lasted book on how to bomb factories and blow up" bridges. Finally the maid took me into the living room, wherM Fergie Lou Setback, the town's most-eligible widow, was beating her mother with a chair. "Why, hello, honey 1" she said, kicking her mother under a table. "You want a date ?" she asked, as she slipped her arm around my perfect twenty-six. "Well, uh, I got my mule and wagon outside, and I hoped:: you'd like to drive around awhile," I said, as I sat down on" Fergie Lou's mother who had crawled out from under tle4 table. "I seem to have forgotten your name, sonny. Have we ever met before?" she said. "Yes, I pulled you out from under a table one night at the Stumble on Inn," I said. "Well, are you a good boy? Because I'm an awfully nii, girl," she asked. "Oh, yes, I'm a very good boy. You.ought to know becaus I'm just a college sophomore," I answered. "Just a sophomore I Well, you know, I completely forgot. I have to write a talk for my debutante's club on 'The Rise of Volley Ball Since the Crimean War.' Then, right after that I have a seminar in Abyssinian deck tennis," she said. "Sorry, honey," she said, as she pushed me toward the door. "You disappoint me greatly," I said, as I shot her three timess in the stomach. And as an additional sign of denied love, I decapitated the maid with my Boy Scout knife, which cost a dollar and a half. After stopping to help her drunken father up the steps, I plunged down the walk to where my faithful mule was waiting. That was my last romance. Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same: I think that I shall never see A girl refuse a meal that's free; A girl whose hungry eyes aren't fixed Upon a meal that costs six-bits; A girl who doesn't wear A lot of do-dads in her hair. Girls may be loved by some, you'll see, Cause who the hell would kiss a tree. RUDY RIVERS Bitterly How do single gals refer to men BuwhtIeadFiytiw in their hen sessions ? Quite aamiueIbsedndqird question, this came to be. The ucnrlal,adatrtefrt curious machinations of my mind fv iue a olne developed a taste for the forbid- nieml nml don. I had always been sure that TuyIwspugdit nd* the girls use different adjectives brasdudrtnigo,h* and different points of intere'st in t-oe h nxlcbe their men-talks. How true!lntecii. fmnae~ Normally I am not given tomaysthwonpoutiP eavesdropping. However since con-Thsotaplngcari,d' siderable information and researchfesesgilamnodnili is needed in the solution of mys- se,i atru aqe59 teries, and since no written mate- Ti nw rial was available, I found my only Mearcoiinbass recourse was first hand reporting,.r uteto u e r hl From the scene, that is, withoutanucovcig being seen.Woe?Awmniadul* It was ridiculously simple. tyawonIsigtndd. I have two sisters. They have eirstbl;heianao forty-million girl friends who makedraswtanegethtfe periodic pilgrimages to our house, rcs n ihacuc hti and who all join in producing api. cacaphonous roar, who vocalise AnwhtIeadsno simultaneously for hours, and who pit omnt ue should better be home tending to ti.Prprsn siefet~ their hope chests . . . from what Amnhsti uiest I hearwhat rhelfariftytimes