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When Is A R< Why Doesn't The time for the revolt has come. Citizens of Carolina, the time is now. It is either revolt or be crushed under the heel of ad ministrative avarice. Date tickets to the home football games next Fall will be sold in a block of five. There are five home games. If you take a date to one game or two games, you are going to have to purchase approximately $18.30 worth of tickets. That is a block of five, at a rate of $3.60 per game. Can you stand that? There is another side to this question. Re member the big fat $15.00 student activity fee you paid at registration? Well, more than half of that sum goes to the athletic department. With this activity fee you buy a student activity card which entitles you to tickets to home games, you by yourself, that is. Money For Acti Al The Finance Committee established by the student body constitution is possibly a con scientious group and, rightly, arbitrary. But there should be cause for arbitration. It is our experience that the various organi zations, which receive portions of the stu dent activity fees, receive no notice that the committee will decide what they will receive. This is an extravagant oversight. Those organizations who have suffered from inade quate allocations have grown wise over the years, and now they present unsolicited peti tions for their financial needs at what may or may not be the proper time. BARBARA McSWAIN Our Student Gover Has Fallen Into Disi Two representatives, one from if he thinks the the school of business and one from not doing his job arts and sciences, were dropped Student counc from student council membership the strongest an last week. The reason for the organization on members being dropped was ex- should be, becau cessive absences. The reason for to be the mo the absences has not been definitely group. established, but until it is estab- Right now th lished it is assumed to be indif- is working on se ference. it can put over No person who has enough con- support of the s fidence placed in him by his fellow of the plans is students to be elected to represent band to Carolina them in student council should lack plan is successfu the interest to attend weekly or nation-wide pul: semi-weekly meetings or at least school. All durir to present an excuse for not at- the dance the tending. Thi representatives who planning various do not respect their fellow students' affair. As a ret votes enough to take the responsi- will be given a b< bility of the office they were will make money elected to are not worthy of that Another step ir responsibility, of action is getti The fault for this lack of in- partment to lowe terest, however, does not lie en- tickets from las tirely ,with the representatives, approximately How many Carolina students could game. These m give the names right now of rep- tant to you. Gel resentatives from their schools? resentatives and Maybe five could, but I doubt it. support. If you What can a student body which at least let him manifests such total disinterest in still here and its governing body expect of it? continue represer It is true that it is the representa- for the rest of tive's job first to bring matters of don't you'll havy importance to the student. But it to blame for sti is just as much the student's job ing a weak and to complain to his representative zation. Yourself. ('ItOWI'NG FOlt A GREATFER l'NIV ERSITY OF SOUTHI- CA RO] Member of Associated Collegiate Pre D)istributor of C'ollegiate Digest FoundedTh January 3 198 wih hRobert Eliott Conzals University of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, durn year except on holidays and during examinations. arThe on eprse by columnists and letter writ endorsement. The right to edit is reserved. EDITOR RI MANAGING EDITOR JAb HUSINESS MANAGER JACI NJEWS CA MPUS ..Be SPORTS.. SOCIETY. EXCHANGES Ma COPY ........R.... FEATURES....... Ba CIRCULATION MANAGER ASSISTANT BUS. MGR. volution? It- Begin? SPEAK OUT. Are we the mice that we are assumed to be? Or do you prefer to ab sorb this additional taxation of your ignor ance and pay $18.80 to be able to have a young lady help you watch a mediocre foot ball club fight their breath away for "Dear Old Carolina?" The time to act is now. The persons to notify are: (1) president of the student body. Ask him td call a protest meeting. Ask him to be quick. (2) The chairman of the faculty committee on athletics. He is Dr. J. T. Penney. Petition him to do all in his power to re(luce the price on date tickets. Time is importapt. The athletic commit tee soon will start the wheels rolling which will forever deny any change in the price of tickets. The price of the tickets is exorbitant. It is up to you, protest or pay. vities lotted Arbitrarily Those organizations which do not present petitions are assumed to be satisfied with their "cut" of the activity fees. A suggestion to the Finance Committee: Why not set a definite date for receiving petitions and requests, and notify those or ganizations concerned? It must be embar rassing for some committee members to establish budgets on slim evidence such as it has. It is certainly embarrassing for or ganizations to operatp always at odds with money. Perception Test Innocently pursuing our studies the other day we came upon this n bit of general knowledge concern ing kinship, and entitled, "The Me chanics of Kinship", by B. W. iseAginsky. ..Let us assume that we have a representative is c a here sororate marriage and the marriage of a man to his il could today be wife's brother's daughter function d most important together. From these practices the campus. It we can construct a theoretical kin se it is supposed ship system. Since a man may st representative marry his wifes sister and his wife's brother's daughter (then he e student council may marry the wife's brother's veral plans which daughter of his secondary wife,, mly with the fullthti,iswf'brhessos tudent body. Onedagtr,hisaltoeuete to bring a namewoeteiolgci. .A dance, if the Thbrtesoteewmn I, will be held and wl ecle bohr fm licity given our ~siuewvs'Tu h a g the wveek-end of hseutdtriooial i campus will be wf' itr,wf' rtes functions of thedagtr,adwf'bohes ult campus spirit sn'duhes ehsas ost and the school eutdtriooial,hswf' at the same time. bohr,wf' rtes os n the council's plan wf' rtes os os nti ng the athletic de- 'yalthwiesboes. r the price of date ___ t year's price of 8.60 a date per la atters are impor- L .te behind your rep- T h dtr give them your can't support him, I natcepbihdi h know that you'relatiueoThGmcckon expecting him tocennthposblyofeurg ting your opinionsantinlykon adfra the year. If you weedhr tCrln,i a only one person sget( yDc uhmta dent council's be-frtriisadpsblsro neffectual organi-tishol otiueheapx (; asd tattheeda iiarexel letoeasdentssheonivtsit renerenobutwhnsoceslca chapers beasked toa weiace th chie whee orthe hare endp pose's byother' uver funion ~IN ttontethan-omtee-nail ctices efr hactrca theoreticao in shidua groupm betteramn They as he irs cmrrus andfe'spc sist and sp icteg f te wiftoe' brthanr's ulhtere of m h leeay mlar th ies ebprohey' "hats hs biecom bofthe sn's "Th brthes onthse ome coustitute an (en wcivyfes Tu. thema (Ed. Noute: teMisnngcy ishis DY IVERS wtae's isers beife' hatthers'in d DWE itatiohs anythinfe's broths tos atr;he pa.Iisapawhcas asu ~ WALHE enute bormn,itnol opedll, hstwifent baEwrd uroted, wifesrtue'ns, aciit tay Knwlton fes ar oted ats onI thee innn Tom Price yof the i feeste andothe allot rTo nig the flearormal.Th:e utKkeIsn to akticeublishet ndh rbar Derick lack" viss abTe toawmadc con Johnrnrng the isossibiql aofterntg Paul Field froul orbt thefe ftl andpri JANE W. DOWE Coed Enrolli U nder Discu Undergraduate coed enrollmen Carolina for several semesters. Li statement and backed it with fac the dean of women. We asked y4 Ideally, all problems should I idealism of a journalist, we will a lem with words. Perhaps some higher channels, where action is I Reports from both coed and me lina's moral-or immoral-reput Lending even into neighboring stat for this feeling today, but offer i Other students mentioned that are allowed complete freedom ai "only thlree dates a week" rule fi Still others mentioned the neg: sociation compared with those of i in its encouragement to prospectii leges were cited as definite exam But all agreed that what Caroli -is publicity of the right kind-i ganda of police records of the student. "The male enrollment at USC e a ratio of 5 to 1." Parents have figures alone, not realizing that married veterans and that their few of the remaining unmarried c "Carolina is inhabited by hu parent says this, but many believ duct a husband-seeking program a Her mental powers must compe students. Proof rests on the several hund make their grades during the past sistently do not study and do not Parents who expect their daugh should look for proof first. How can this propaganda-this spread ? First, it is a job for the is a duty for the administration, the students. One college in another state sen couraging letter to girls in the I who indicate the wish to attend i The alumnae of another colleg early spring for coed high school And there is the always succesE ganda, which is the responsibility In addition to giving proof tha students are not corrupt, we-ar value of a university education in Parents must look ahead and n the reputation that Carolina ma generation was here. We admit that all the reasons-fe ate coed enrollment does not re: are economic factors, too. But thes where, and figures show that the here is greater than at most othe And let us consider only that p we can remedy. The coed is important. Yes, w scholastic average of coeds is cons of the man. There is no prepudice Alumnae association, administr something. Let's not retrogress. progressive states and keep the u camp)us. Let's fill our women's di Wolf Reinbacher's Stri Greeting Card! And Coming.. Business is an invention of the for modern world. In some instances ones it seems that inventions and Ideas ones develop into canceroid epidemics, 'debt but as long as people are willing A to spend dough, they prosper. send When I first set foot on this bouj land, I was confronted with a sele< deluge of greeting cards, and I cr still am. Send a card home to yourca folks, send one to the folks you box are going to, send one to yourself of ( so yrou krnow you are where you had are supposed to be. Result: Loss My of $2.48. You can send a card when some-98 body is sick and you have no time why to visit him. Send one after he two gets well. And you can even sendI one that wishes he were sick again grei so you still wouldn't have time to the visit him. You can send thank- turr you cards for greeting cards and luct thank-you cards for the thank-yon bett cards. Special design up to $5.00 Is s< per dozen. . the I guess Christmas, Valentine, way Easter, Blthday, Mother, Father "To and other holiday cards are all frie right. You might think for a while "To that maybe a few words In your girl own language, from your heart, bett would really be appreciated by a the friend, but he isn't used to this "Ar either, so you send a greeting card, taini because time is money. Somehow I And always have plenty of that kind of perI; time which does not spell $$$$$. Ji There are friendly greeting ard. yom~ Ment ssion t has been dropping at t8t week we discussed this ts from the registrar and )u for solutions. >e solved and, with the ttempt to solve this prob >f these words will reach )ossible. n students say that Caro ation is widespread, ex es. They admit little basis - io solutions. parents believe that coeds id are not aware of the )r freshmen. igence of our alumni as >ther colleges in the state re students. Women's col ples. na needs-and needs now iot the widespread propa occasional misbehaving ' xceeds that of women at some prejudice on these many of these men are daughter will date very nes. band-seeking girls." No e it. A coed cannot con nd pass-not at Carolina. tl te with older and wiser r4 0] red students who did not semester. Those who con pass are sent home. et ters to be "contaminated" education of parents-be h alumnae, and, second, it 01 the dean of women, and R d a catalogue and an en igh schools of the state :ollege. t e hold receptions in the seniors. U ful word-of-mouth propa- b of the student. w t the morals of Carolina d they-must stress the r( the world foday. P ot base their opinions on b1 y have had when their h, tL r the drop in undergradu-. ei t with publicity. There e factors are found every- r decline in coed enrollment h r South Carolina colleges. e: y-t of the problem which a are prejudiced, but the ~ istently higher than that la in facts such as these. b ation, students - let's dog Let's remain among the e ndergraduate coed on the y >rmitories again. ctly Continental * Going very good friends, insulting for good friends, soothing for creditors, but none for ors.S nother problem is: to whom tot cards. This Christmas I ~ht a defect thousand of cards, y ~ted the addresses and sent the 8 off. When I checked my mail after Christmas, I found oodles ~hristmas cards from people I not thought of or heard of.. only excuse is that probably people did not have any Idea I sent themi a card. The other were my roommates. expect to be expected to use I ting cards until the moment b tugs leave the ship on which I s my back to this country. Re- s antly. And I shall only feel er concerning those cards. Itr easy to mix up the cards and envelopes. Can you talk yourr out if you send the card with C a dear mistress" to your v rid's wife, or the one entitled V a monetary parasite" to youre Instead of boy friend. Much er to send the one intended for -' president of your social group, 4 precdation for a body of enter- r ment," to your steady date. n that is not all that can hap life Is stranger than fiction. ast be careful, when you buy ----------- AmR 5CIENCE NOW, FOLD THE LEFT CORNER TO THE CENTER! It's No Bolony By JOE MOLONY To Give or Not to Give - That's the Question It's a funny world. When we started school we learned iat one plus one equals two. We skimmed by until we ached college and then, lo and behold! We learned that ie plus one doesn't equal two! Here's the problem: On the one hand we suggested a post-season basketball ime between Carolina and some other team with all pro eds going to the Damon Runyan Cancer Fund. We didn't gure we'd overstepped our bounds because the university id never before donated to this worthy cause. And, on the other hand, we had the overwhelmlng support the students, Coach Frank Johnson and Athletic Director ex Enright. That added up to two, we thought. But our guring was a little off. We didn't plan on the president turning thumbs down on ie project (see Tom Price's column). But be did. Even with this astonishing development, we aren't giving p on the idea. The reasons given for refusing to allow the mnefit game on the campus weren't obvious enough for this riter. First, President Smith said he hated to turn down anyone presenting charity when interviewed by Sports Editor rice, Monday afternoon. Consider it charity, if you may, it in the long run we aren't giving, we're receiving. We're lping in a drive to stamp out a dread disease-cancer iat takes over 180,000 lives each year! isn't that a good iough receipt for this little bit of effort? Secondly, he said the field house was tied up by the intra ural basketball teams. Intramural Director Joe Grugan td said he could rearrange his schedule to allow for this chibition game. And the president's third excuse that "participation in a ime, other than collegiate, in which admission is charged ould throw our boys into the professional ranks" is a fal cy. The ballplayers would receive no compensation. They'd a playing before paid customers just as in regular season imes, but for charity, not for the school, therefore, this >uldn't affect their amateur standing. You can take it om there ! O BOLONY--In his 1947-48 report to the General As mbly, President Smith asked for $50,000 for a Fine Arts Liilding which, he said, would be required soon to replace 1e old temporary building standing. He didn't think much E the idea in his 1948-49 report, evidently, for he failed to 'ention it then . . . What's to become of old Petigru, huh? :'s getting older by the day, we're told . . . Bill 1517, pro Dsing a council for higher education, will have been read for le second time by the time this gets to you: It advocates >nsolidation of the six state-supported schools, something e've been p)ushing since last semester. Incidentally, House peaker Tom Pope from Newberry, made consolidation the >pic of his address before the Lions Club in Charleston a >uple of weeks ago . . . HEY, HOW'RE YOU!!! Does it ave a familiar ring to it? Old-timers remember it from ears gone by. Newcomers will get to know it before long, o. HEY, HOW'RE YOU week will be held again this year. 's a week of friendly greeting reserved for Carolina stu ents. It shouldn't happen just once a year, though, because is feeling of comradeship is what made Caroliha what It today (or, is that good ?) . . .Time and again, we've ssed(, ranted and raved about the way The Gamecock con nually harped on school spirit .and the lack of it. We knew ien, as now, that you can't get the stuff through a news auper. It's got to be inside of you. Maybe a Student Union , uilding (cost: $750,000) would help a little, huh ? So, you ,we're going around in circles, again. Student school pir t isn't inside of you either, it's in the minds and hearts Ca bunch of politicians down the street! . . . The Extension Ivision has grown by leaps and bounds since 1947. Then it 3ached 25 centers in the state. Today, it gets to 58 state anters. Credit that to W. H. Ward ! . . . Don't get No Bolonty rong. We dlon't agree with the drastic cut from the House lays and Means committee. But we don't appreciate this ther: On June 30, 1948, our total state debt was $57, 76,947.74, and on June 30, 1949, the debt was $65,938, 72.38 (page 19 of the South Carolina State Budget for the scal year ending June 30, 1951). That means about nine uillion dollars in expenditures have to be cut. So, we're nhong the many being cut . . . In the past we have advo ated utilizing the limited, resources on hand. We will con inue to do so until we can see some other way out.