Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CROWING F UNIVFRSITY 0 Member of Assoc Distributor of Founded January 30,,"1908, with Robert Elioi Gonzales as the first editor, "The Gamecock" I published by and for the students of the Universit The opinions expressed by columnists and letter writers are not necessarily those of "The Game RUDY RIVERS, EDITOR JANE W. DOWE, MANAGING EDITOR Business Mgr. .Jack Walthe: News Editor ............... Olga Edwardc Exchange Editor . . COLI Barbara McSwain, Jane W. D( STAFF I Barbara McSwain, Jackie c BUSINE Jim Horton, REPORTO] Carolyn Busbee, May Herbert, Frances Collier Rita Webb, Tommy Herbert, Lawson Yates, Bobby Smith, Ruth Barker, Mary Bloodworth, Martha Gamec What is the function of a college news paper ? What is the function of The Gamecock? There are two angles to be considered in answering either of these questions: (1) that a student publication is, in fact, a community newspaper, with the interests of the students and news of the students forever important. And (2) that a campus publication is a publicity organ for the uni versity and must voluntarily or mandatorily surrender such rights of publication as may be letrimental to the university. The weight of the first argument un questionably is dependent upon the amount of responsibility the editorial staff feels to ward its patrons. Its patrons are students. The faculty and administration are not pa trons in the sense that they contribute fi nancially to the support of the publication. Students subscribe to The Gamecock at the rate of 7% cents per issue or $1.10 per scmester. rhis is a major investment. 'rhe weight of the second argument de pends entirely upon the amount of restric tion levie(l or assumed by the university ad ministration. A university is an institution and must function with a certain degree of harmony, or its function is unbalanced. The voluntary or mandatory censorship of - news, not considered flattering to the uni versity, is desirable from the view-point of the institution. It is obnoxious and revolt ing from a journalistic viewv-point. The student subscribed publication is a publicity organ. It reaches into every part Red Ir< It is a master stroke. The genius of great artists is reduced to shame. It is fantastic: the iron pipe p)aintedl red, and locked to the bricks. We saw .the men put it there; the labor was meticulous. Three times in seven days it was planted and replanted. The perfect pose, the correct shade of paint, the proper amount of gentle contemplation; all took three trials and seven days. It is magnificent. A red pipe locked to - the earth! We have seen many things; many p)osts and ipes stuck in the earth and all adlorned with painful care. But none of these had a lock to bind them to the soil. That is the genius--the lock. It is a simple thing, and ancient. D)oors are locked to walls, and lids are locked to boxes, but whenever has a red pipe beer locked to the ground ? It is fascinating. Do not question its presence or function, A Go Joe Stringer, president of the junior class has voiced the best suggestion of an idea tha1 has come out of Student Council this semes freshman class instead of the splitting of th4 class into several orientation classes. The plan Stringer has presented to th4 Council has two solid points in its favor First, the growth of school spirit is a real Ity on the campus now. The freshman class meeting in one weekly session together would mold it into a unity which is mor4 OR A GREATER F SOUTH CAROLINA lated Collegiate Pres Collegiate Digest t of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, during th< college year except holidays and examinations. cock." Publishing does not constitute an endorse ment although the right to edit Is reserved. Campus Editor ........... Betsy Knowltor Sports Editor ................. Tom Pric( Society Editor ............ Ann Chandlei Feature Editor .......... Barbara Derricli Copy Editor .............. Ruthe Kleckley ...... Marnie Manning MNISTS >ve, Wolf Reinbacher, Joe Molony. EPORTERS loutherland, Mary Bloodworth. SS STAFF Bennie Helms UAL STAFF Matthews, Kenneth Powell, Dick Dunlap, Jimmy Howle, Bill Kaufman, Al Gibert, Lily Groover, June Marshall, Elizabeth Traylor. ck Policy of the state where students go. Other per sons read it and its reflections of the uni versity community form the basis of opinions for or against that community. That the student publication is not deliber ately designed as a publicity organ is an assumption. It may or may not be. The Gamecock unblushingly admits that its news has been slanted to provoke interest in the deplorable condition of higher education in the state with particular reference to the University of South Carolina. This is de liberate publicity, which has been criticized correctly as detrimental to. the university. With these remarks in mind, the policy and function of the college newspaper can be said to be drawn from these criteria: (1) It is responsible only to its student subscribers. (2) It owes allegiance to the university. (3) It reserves unto itself the decision of what to print, so long as the material does not violate good taste and journalistic prin ciple. (4) It should respect its position as mirror of the campus and confine its criticism and praise accordingly. (5) Criticism should not be pursued less vigorously than is praise; and equal promi nence should go to both. This, then, shall be the editorial policy of The Gamecock under its present staff. This writer will endeavor to fulfill this policy in this space at all times. The columns else wvhere on this page will speak the minds of their writers and will not necessarily be the official opinion of The Gamecock.-R.R. >n Post That is lewd behavior. It is to be admired. Note the subtle choice of location, note the utter simplicity, and, above all, note the lock. There are those who parade around it, and saying as they go: "Bread and butter . .. bread and butter ..,. bread and . . ." But they are insensible to the miracles 'of the mind. There are those who swing on it in run ning p)ast, and who note but its steadfast ness. There are those who stop and ponder, and explain to others who wonder, "It is a traffic caution, a speed-breaker." Ah, misery of an explanation. And there are those of us who know the truth. We can worship the nameless artist, we can appreciate the beauty and stark sub limity of a red iron post, of sentinel calm, locked serenely to the ground.-R.R. od Idea than "class" implies. Secondly, the voice of the campus would be found in the leaders of the various organizations. Most of the .organizations are embedded in the history of the University, and their meinbers are full of the lore of Carolina. It now remains for Student Council to pre. pare a feasible plan for compulsory fresh. man class meetings for the consideration o1 the adminisj;ration. Good ideas die easily. R. R. Resign It is time, I have knowr It is time for me to tak4 The wild seed of fancy The soil of my soul, And no longer grows. It is time to settle. The echoes of past desir I have not seen so much As I wanted to see, Nor done so much As I wanted to do. And now, My strength must be r4 To pursue that needle n Ini the haystack of time When she will agree to It is a cold businessa JANE W. DOWE From A Point C School spirit and money - they certainly are not synonymous, but f they are more closely related at colleges and universities today than most people realize. School spirit among the profes- V .ors would be contagious among c, the students. But, when a profes- c sor with years of college training e behind him, sees his brother with an eighth grade education making n more money than he, how can he 'I catch the spirit of the institution? C His spirit is depressed, and it is t contagious. d School spirit among the student a leaders and officeholders would be contagious among the other stu- d dents. But there are too few office- ci holders, and they are usually too s] exhausted from their long hours p of thankless work. Again, the ti school spirit suffers. p And so the vicious circle of cam- f pus depression continues into the a past student group - the alumni. a They have never had much school spirit, and it does not develop when a they leave the university. Their h dollars do not return to their alma h mater, and there is no endowment m fund. n Only a little push - a few s< thousand extra dollars - is needed to start the circle rolling in the op- v posite direction. ti BARBARA McSWAIl Why Not Why not cheat? That seems like a s We're starting out with six whole cut to try to p.ass, and professors who honest or not. But June will come. With June com, before these exams will differ little fr "I wouldn't cheat during the year, I I won't pass the course." . . . "I may on this exam. I had to buy a copy." every student knows all the argumer to answer the question, "why not?" First, the person who cheats is not else. He denies himself the feeling th thing without anybody's help. Second, cheating is childish. Adults people's ability. The child who proudi receives tolerant smiles and feigned pa the water to the feet floundering oni Third, cheating is not admired, re cheaters included. Maybe nobody mei cheats, somebody sees him. Each tin held goes down, perhaps just the ti easily multiplied. Fourth, cheating is habit-forming.( like a cancerous growth until all intej Fifth, cheating is not Christian. Cl wrong. There is no more obvious fornm These arguments are time-worn a always have and probably always wil or physical victory. The founders of and began the honor system. The honor system has worked. Iti tinue to do so unless it gets some suj We don't have a school full of chr people who get a little thoughtless an honor principle is a working part of1 for the ones who know what it is to can best help others realize the worth What Carolina does not need is d who sit back and snarl that the hont disregarded are the ones who are ei try to do something about it. Upholding the honor system is not turn you in to the professor if you < enough character to walk up to the that he is doing neither himself nor t A professor was very disillusioned first time he had given a final exam. he started teaching that there wbuld1 and his pupils. He was there to helj Things went along well until the f one of my pupils would cheat," he sa give them every advantage. But whe: and cheat during those two hours, tha for me." So there's another classrooi policeman and each student will be r too many such classes at Carolina n, try the system so the students resent the professors. Another vicious circle A cheater may he compared with weak. You admire its beauty and pern it comes to hard turns and sharp cut in another car. Or even an old mule, ation hit; root. has raped es tremble inside me; )served ioment love. ,*-r. r. Coed's if Vew This year the student activities ee at the University of South I :arolina was nearly doubled. Be ause of the amount of money that ras received, the finance advisory Dmmittee decided to give a 1950 Dpy of the Garnet and Black to 1 ach student. All students who had wished an uals had already paid for them. 'heir four dollars was returned. C lthers - underclassmen, part me and graduate students - who id not indicate a desire for the nnual will receive it, too. t Four (dollars) times 3800 (stu ents) equals $15,200. Right! We 3uld "whoop up" a lot of school pirit with that money. We could ut Carolina on the map scholas- 9 cally and culturally, as well as lant the roots for an endowment ind with interest from invest- q ients and interest from the I lumni. f It is true that we will enjoy our nnuals for years, but we would f ave had them anyway. And what appened to the four dollars that ras returned to us? It bought 9 iovies and sodas, but how much 1 !hool spirit did it buy? We hope that the finance ad isory committee will think about uis when it votes next year. r t Cheat?. tale question with exams finished. E waiting to be used, a new course t have no idea of whether we're a ~s new finals, and the atmosphere om the February one. iut if I don't copy this accounting 1 not graduate if I don't make 95 r And on and on to infinity. But ts in favor of cheating. This is being fair to himself or anybody at he is able to accomplish some should not have to rely on other y proclaims that she is swimming raise. Everybody can see through ~he ground. ~spected or approved by anyone, a utions it, but each time a person - ie he is seen, the respect he has niest fraction, but fractions are )nce it is started the habit spreads frity is eaten away. aristianity teaches that to steal is of stealing than cheating. nd hackneyed, but true. People 1 argue which is better, a moral d Carolina decided for the moral 81 s working now, but it won't con- A >port. onic cheaters. We do have many P I need a reminder that Carolina's, t the school. We need these people, S have forgotten honor for a while I of the honor system. t estructive criticizers. The people r~ >r system is rotten and should be 5 :her too slack or too cowardly to t saying to a cheater, "I'm going to u Ion't quit cheating." It is having hi person cheating and remind him t he school any good. s I after last semester. It was the Ii He had made up his mind when 3t be no antagonism between himself them. inal exam. "I didn't suspect that f id. "I was willing - eager -'- to f u I saw some of them try to sneak d ,t was the end of the honor system -a s in which the professor will be a a egarded as a criminal. There are ic sw. The professors are afraid to 'r fully violate It, thereby justifying r1 a shiny new car whose tires are t ormance on a straight road. When v yes, howeve, you fee- aosae a It's No Bolony By JOE MOLONY President Norman M. Smith is in a dither. He anticipates L $550,581 cut, from the budget commission, off of the uni rersity's estimated operating costs for the coming year, tnd he doesn't like this position. But then, neither does his writer. If you'll check my ten-point plan for recreating greater and more amiable University of South Carolina, rou'll find that my first item "pay the teachers decent alaries according to ability-not favor" was the theme of he president's touching speech before the senate finance ommittee January 24. This anticipated cut isn't a surprise to this corner. We've elt it coming since last year. In fact, we've been looking orward to it each year we come back to the university. We suggest that the president look over our ten-point olan again and quit worrying about lack of appropriations ut rather put accent on improving and utilizing the limited esources on hand. We could repeat our plan, but a January 10 issue of The Gamecock has it in full. Need we remind the president of the fourth item in our ilain? If so, here it is: "Appropriate what. we need from the agislature, not what we wish we had." Before the senate committee, the president said that if he present budget of the university (passed by the House) 3 adopted it will "impair our efficiency, interrupt and set ack our educational program and break down the morale f our faculty." Check that! If the budget is passed it will o all these things. These conditions, superbly described y our president, exist today. They can be eliminated if ve create a more collegiate air about the campus and among he faculty members and if we utilize our resources. On the subject of utili ation, we refer to another state rient made by President Smith before the committee. He aid that with certain funds from student activities the niversity runs the cafeterias, the infihnary, student campus ctivities and other non-profit, self-supporting, activities. le then quoted the amounts received from student activities ees from 1948 and anticil)ated the figures to be $853,575 or the fiscal period 1950-51. During this period the president showed that the univer ity received $917,854 in 1948-49 and $987,760 in 1949-50. tudents, remember that our student activities fee was then round $7.50. Today it is $15.00. We wonder how the uni ersity managed to get along on $7.50 in 1948, but can't rake the grade with the doubled student activity fee of oday!!! Another mystery'that surrounds this astounding plea for ppropriations is the statement that certain funds from tudent activities run non-profit and self-supporting activi ies. Student. are reIinded that $7.50 of their $15 student ctivities fees goes toward the purchasing of athletic tickets ach semester which entitles them to witness sporting events he year around. Now, if the football team is a non-profit ctivity or if it is just self-supporting, we're a monkey's ncle !! But we aren't the only ones cognizant of these weaknesses a Carolina's requests for -appropriations. House and Senate nembers are used to this run-around. They know the foot all team makes well into the lowv six-figure brackets each 'ear. Maybe that's why the Senate Finance Committee will,, s usual, cut out appropriations just as the House Ways and leans Committee recommendled. And still the various state-sup)ported schools aren't in avor 'of setting up a central commission to handle appro 'rnations in one lump sum in accordance with the needs of ach se}hool as specified in a true financial statement with n item ized budget !!! NOLF REINBACHER Strictly Con tin entalI Untouched by the often discussed SeeCno a on nta epreciation of the dollar, 5 cents ise u h -nhhaln bu ill buy a lot of reading matter: le newspaper. The European i ntinheaiollgsaur merica finds himself surprised ddntrgse ihhm t the volume and size of the daily A atro at on apers, and after he gets used tolakoinestnpltc,th lese papers, he may have the de-plicsothowcunr,md ire to do some amateur analyzing,.o,wihatnse e o [e finds an extensive society sec- cleesuet,btgonus on --not familiar to most Eu- to hwa xesv iitrs >pean countries -- also the Clubingvrmta afir,uls ection -- even less familiar on teewr pcdwt ejr le other side of the big lake - tilo -e-etr.I n 'r e finds the comics - completely tclrysrkn aetepro nknown in European papers -- sowamiueynfrdabtth e finally rejoices at the sight of rcn aeFrs tdn il hie sports page only to find manyin,btfiedormmeray ports mentioned there, of whichthnabutecolmer'sik e has not the least working ecp htteewsoe nowledge.Epeily'ttetmofegsa But besides these exterior differ-tinbohsaendferlte neces, he has to adapt himself toinfercesnocab.Sm inding the items he wants in dif- bd netl eta otayt erent parts of the paper, partly Erpa utm,"edntds ue to the seemingly excessive cs oiisadrlgo npb mount of advertising. And withli"Buwhristeimt* 11 these thoughts, the questiontwnpulcad rite Ad Dines up: who ever'reads the wholehoistpsibeogtafeln *aper? And there the European o nnmt mn agrgoP akes more startling discoveries,.ftevtr.I o' nw u n casual conversations he finds snetedmcayo mrc hat in many cases (the survey hswre o eea ude ~as too limited to justify figures) yas hud' hn bu t subscriber recalls the murderNetrshudayoyle.O laycdowooninaeerestealnspwatishoud,they