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Gamecock Hears Ugly Talk; Invites Faculty To Verify How about an investigation of The Game cock? There are many second-hand reports from sympathetic students that several respon sible members of the faculty doubt the veracity of the propaganda which The Game cock prints. Letters, personal inquiry and opinion, and open criticism from these responsible mem bers will be honored. If the student paper has become as malicious as certain of the faculty and administration whisper, why has no ac tion been instituted against the paper? The Gamecock prints the facts as the facts are to an interested observer. But note, it does it 'openly. There is no whispering be hind hands. There, we will be called malicious again. Pride In Law School Deserves Recognition The administration must be complimented on the new law school. The chain-fence ar rangement, together with the landscaping and seeding of the surroundings will no -loubt produce a proper setting for the building. The building itself is an engineering feat inside and out, calculated to produce an ef ficient place of learning. It is progress standing on the back end of our campus. It implies that the administration wants to go forward. Tiling Would Reduce Hazard Of Fire In Harper The Euphradian Society attempted to re decorate its hall recently with the addition of a new carpet. This carpet suddenly be carne cause for hot resentment when the society was informed by President Smith that the Columbia fire chief had vetoed the idea on grounds that the carpet would in crease the hazard of fire in well-seasoned T-Hrare Colleg. The president, we understand, offered a counter-suggestion, namely that tile be placed on the floor. Columbia Fire Chief A McC. Marsh re ported that tile would reduce the fire hazard in Harper by 50%. It is a way out for the society. Remember, there are men living in the Harper fire trap. Tile the floor, by all means. BARBARA McSWAIN Have Parents Push Legislaf "The only wvay wve can help Caro- stacran~ lina is by enlisting the aid of our we l h a parents. We've tried harping ontoehrtee the faults of students and facultychceoscc for years now and it hasn't done cudcmaer any good. It's time to try new auiidefr tactics." These are the words ofdionude h a Gamecock reader,.agtr r t He continued with the followving euain suggestion: Let each Carolina stu- Motlrtsh (lent who lives near Columbia in-tiehircld vite his parents to visit him. Let aet aeee him take thenm on a tour of thewihagino campus. Point out the falling plas-maypobl ter, broken floors and crumbling mc hn.o wood. D)on't forget the tenements "id ae fp andl moldy classrooms in Legareinteyewn and McCutchen colleges. Showcuontelgt0 t h e mn the temporary buildings pando itii which are so cozy and warm in fl hog o Summer and so brisk and airy in for Winter. Eeyoya Then urge them to talk to theirththeeodi senators and representatives aftertobfun.W they have seen the wvhole picture.setivsnth I think the plan is reasonable i rnti e~t and feasible. I'd like to add an- ko tte u othe sugeston t it.If e cold n bln and ifr MemberofAssciated Coegae Pre Founed Jnuar 30,1908wit unfert Efot zae edior "Te amcoc" s pblshdion b ndr thit Univrsiy o Soth roin dweely,on rs, a rinat yea ccep o hoidys nddurngeduciation. The p~lns x?sse bycolMnissdltte parets ar sady toseof'heGamcoc." uishe oern chid endrsmen. he igt t eita erved. eve BUSINESScMANAGnRJCK NEWS tle0o p CAMtheSey whe cutonOhRlghSo ASSIStoNTeBUS.nM.RW senatvesinth itointi dbt We Attend A Fee Circus I got the fees. It is a horrible affliction. Fees here and fees there, but mostly in my pocketbook. And I stand in line to catch the fees. I got room fees, activity fees, course fees, music fees, and change of course fees. I got Summer school fees, term fees, com prehensive fees, transcript fees, and diploma fees. Not to mention the library fees, revalida tion fees, cap and gown fees, laboratory fees, and diploma fees. Did you ever have the heebie-jeebies? I got heebie-jeebie fees, too. Along with medi cal fees, thesis fees, maintenance fees, and millions of little miscellaneous fees. If we lie down with universities, we get up with fees. So I got late registration fees along with the physical education fees I picked up try ing to pick up tuition fees. When I itch, it is scratching time. I got fees. Have I got fees? Do you have any fee powder? Charity Begins Where Cancer Begins There is considerable comment prevalent today concerning President Smith's refusal to countenance a basketball game for charity purposes. We can appreciate the urgency with which the president disposed of the matter. He is a busy man, and receives many re quests each week for permission to use the field house, Drayton Hall, etc., not only from students but from off-campus organizations. Also we can appreciate the shallowness of the thought which the president gave to the basketball idea for the Damon Runyon Can cer Fund. Charity begins, in this instance, where cancer begins; charity begins at home. We wonder what might be the fate of lesser or of greater ideas in the hands of our president. There is a plan to bring a foreign student to the university for a year's study, on money (lerived through various activities. Currently there is a Red Cross campaign. The legislature is at present contemplat ing appropriations for the university. These are all charitable enterprises. What will be the president's decision concerning them? Is there no room for a heart in the bodiep of administrators? ure Into Giving Us Money eek or week-end showing clearly wvhat concern they nlts couIld he here have for the state university. s.l( heC Toe hese men don't have to worry actions and mak~e about mo)st of us yet. It will be o better the con at least a fewv years before many ch their sons and of us cantf vote. But they do have mp)ting to get an to worry about our mothers and fathers. They knowv that it was ye learned by the their votes that put them in office en reach college and that those same votes can take yth ing they say them out. salt. That's why Talk to your parents. Ask them lidn't worry too to come down here and just look came home with around. If they once attended aster hitting him Carolina, all the better. They can he reached up to see haow~ much it has changed. Or when Billy com maybe they will he more surprised his leg when he to see how little it has changed. e in his tenement Talk to your representative i9 studlent council. Get a definite Carolina knows parent week-end set and plans be ons are too true gun. If something isn't soon (lone *ether ou repre- it won't he necessary to worry legislature kn~ow~ about doing anything at all. There ble. If they~ don't won't be anything here to do it to. ;t be deaf, dumb You can't expect prospective stu they do they are dlents to tear dowvn the walls in their eagerness to enroll when they knowv the wvalls are about to crumble anyway. Wolf Reinbachuer 'Si And Rarely the college In my sp)are time I sometimes like to fool around with mathe matics, unless the problems seem on"sttel to exceed the level of the multipli cation table. And I do have amaz ing results many times I thus )Y RIVERS mediitate. One of my favorite E~ W. DOWE eqjuations is this one: Number of WALTHERfraternities on the campus multi WALTHER plied with $50 equals 270 days of Iga Edwards happiness, with a lot of democracy sy Knowlton friendliness and learning thrown Tom Price in as a catalyst. This very fine enn Chandler p)roblem (it is not even an equa nie Manning tig.n, because the result is manifold the Kleckley the invested capital). I know, be bara Derrick cause an instance of far-sighted ohn Parasho ness on this campus has made me Paul Field the guina pig in one ofhsea It's No. By JOE M Is This the Showd The two new developments (L athletic office saying toe Fort ' season game with Carolina for Frank Johnson getting the ok Miller Tire Company to play, Smith vs. Charity cause. This means that everyone c charity game is in favor of it. dent Norman M. Smith. We have not visited the rat no further reason for discussin his statement of last week. H( Tom Price that the subject be air of finality. So, as far as ti has nothing more to say about So much the better, becausE more than enough. In fact, I thority in this ticklish matte turned his back to the cold fact died of cancer in 1949. He did s cock reporter, knowing full we go on record before the student the president has no more to si Regardless of whether the : Damon Runyan Cancer Drive wi of this embarrassing situation, versity of South Carolina willfi do its bit for the good of ma4.tii ot specific questions. In this cr good reason for the president's - Never before has this writer never does he intend to do s< open revolt to display their fee tion. This is absurd. Not only i Our only concern is finding < sued his edict. If we're critical don't mean to be.k If we step the process, we're sorry. But m come to a head, aired out befoi cided once and for all. When we originally suggest, game with proceeds to go to the : we never realized we'd create s and administrative personnel. byword as "Come the revolutic students. We only hoped to I by suggesting means for the i acquire good publicity to offset dals and other adverse publicit papers. Because of the above-mention we mentioned it in the first pia the student body we'll stick by nearing. We only hope that aJ happy when the dust has settle NO BOLONY-We saw where a solidated with the Borden cori the dairy food field. If the co' six state-supported schools in at it? Just goes to show you, t even behind the cows in progre dishing out compliments to the hesitantly takes a stab at it wi trar's office" for a job well dor you'll agree, has clone a good jol and deserves a pat on the back. lumbia University gets an er What does Carolina get? You And who said our alumni forge Don Johnston, energetic cheerle will introduce a new pep comm Pep Committee." Don got thi Southern cheerleaders' meeting that the university was the on mittee. It's a good idea. But it support. . . . Check this. After the air, and land down face firE Maryland, a fan behind us rer Brother, that's what you call si -rictly Continental' -icans Have! Appreciate| experiments, and I could tell every b)ody interested many details why * it was a success. t On the other hand, I sometimes h also arrive at less inspiring con chusions. Lot us variate the above I formula and this is what we get: t Number of fraternities on the r campus multiplied with $200_ ' equals 2 parties with a big naime band. It may come out alright for t the band, and It may rome out h airight for you, who like to (lance 7 away in two days some thousand I dollars. But there are some people it does not come alright for. The t< boys and girls who endure long a years of hard labor, drabness and d Bolony OLONY own? Could Be ,t. Maletti, of the Ft. Jackson vould be glad to play a post :harity and Gamecock Coach ay from semi-pro champion also) add more light to the onnected with the potential That is, everyone but Presi ired Rear Admiral. We see g the matter with him after suggested to Sports Editor dropped. He did so with an ie president is concerned, he the matter. this corner feels he's said ie's assumed dictatorial au r, and by his attitude has that 189-000 odd Americans o in the presence of a Game. 11 that his statement would body. No, there's no wonder ly. game is played or not, the 11 go on. That . not the irony though. Why did the Uni illy say "no" when asked to id? We like specific answers ise, we haven't been given a refusal. dealt in personalities. And . Students have suggested lings before the administra s it absurd, but it's childish. )ut why President Smith is in our hurried concern, we on some big man's toes in ,e believe this matter should ee the student body and de ad a post-season basketball Damon Runyan Cancer Drive uch a furor among students ,,e didn't intend for such a n" to develop among angry elp, in our own little way, iniversity, for a change, to the Maxcy and Smith scan y dished out by local news ed developments, we're sorry ce. But now that it's before our guns. The showdown is 1 principals involved will be Raleigh dairy has been con ripany, nationally known in Ars can do it, why can't the south Carolina take a crack he humans in this state are s!...Not being used to administration, this writer tha "hats off to the Regis e. H. 0. Strohecker's staff, for the past couple of years ...Did you know that Co 'dowment of $197 million? uessed it-exactly nothing! t us when they leave?? .. . ader from St. George, today ittee to be called "Gamecock idlea when he attended a at Miami, Fla., and learned ly one without such a corn won't work without student seeing Don Cox go up into t, writhing in agony against narked: "He asked for it!" yhool spirit!!! f lesser blessed countries, maybe nder the pressure of communist roups moving In, with inadequate ood for their mental efforts, and o whom democracy is only the glow t the horizon or far-away time, iay it be in a country, where this low means the sunrise, or, tho unset. Look, friends, I can't write sob tories or soap-operas, but some Lies I feel dead-earnest. When I ave to leave this neighborly place, knowv what I have learned, what shall miss, and what I shall work awards back home; it would give ie, and my co-students in Europe, therever, a helping assurance to now, that somebody else is going a experience America like I did ere, like 2,000 others did this ear in that great Institution of yarning, USA. I can just see a political agita r walk up to me after I get home ndi try to convince me for his irty little scheme, whose promises f heaven are kept by sending JANE W. DOWE Student NeedAC By JANE W. DOWE Spirit Among Students "Why hAve school spirit? I come to the campus, sit in classes for three hours, and go home again. What in the world is there to have school spirit about?" So say nearly a half of the Carolina students. And their logic is right. Only on rare occasions does the student body have an opportunity to get together and to see the faculty and themselves outside of the classroom. Religious Emphasis Week was one such occasion, and congeniality was at a high that week. Univer sity Day is another-and on that day the campus spirit is something wonderful to see. But these are uncommon occa sions. One comes in December, and the other is in May. For the rest of the year there is usually a lackadaisical "I don't care" atti tude toward the university. Athletic events have little effect on this attitude, except for the Carolina-Clemson football game. These events are often at night, are not for the student body alone, and, strange as it may see, do not interest all students. The vespers program, although well-planned and serving a worth while purpose, does not re'ach the many who are away on week-ends. Organizations, clubs, and so cieties are here, hut they seem to attract only the extroverts. And most of them, excluding the leader ship and service groups, generate group spirit rather than school spirit. Carolina Needs Carolina needs something more than talk to generate this spirit. It needs student action, supported by the faculty-now! When we came to this campus in 1946, the weekly chapel pro gram was still in existence. It was held on Tuesday noon, when there were no classes. This program was discontinued the next year be cause cooperation and attendance had dropped. LeLLer - - - Dear Editor, Usually I keep my nose clean and do not question the decision of the aristocracy. But the pro verbial straw has just been dropped upon this camel's back. I see in the GAMECOCK that Admiral Smith is opposed to a post-season game on the grounds (I) that it wvould affect the ama teur status of the basketball play ers. Now maybe I'm dense but I cannot see the difference between playing a game for old Alma Mater where admission is charged and a game for charity w h e r e admission Is charged. (2) That the intramural teams (52 of them) needed the field house. This game would take the field house for only one night; be sides, I cannot conceive of so low, so selfish, so utterly contemptable a person that would want to play a game for mere personal glory when the court could be used for a game whose proceeds wvould so greatly benefit those poor unfortu nate ones who are suffering from cancer. Admiral Smith, you state that you believe that charity begins at home. Just exactly wvhere do you think that the proceeds from this prospective game would go, to low er Slobovia, maybe? Did you know that approximately seventy per cent of every dollar will stay right here In this state. The other goes to the national foundation for re search to help the entire nation. We are still a part of the nation, aren't we? Admiral, did you know that one hundred and eighty thousand peo somebody to heaven with a .45 bul let in his brains. Just let him come, may his name be Hitler, Stalin, Neanderthal or Nepomuk Katzhuber, let him come and try to convince any of the students who have tasted, heard, seen, smelled and felt America. If you think this article is too short, read It again. Maybje it will then be even mcre than twice as long to some of you. In the mean time I have thought of another equation, which has been brought to my mind: One serious column multiplied by the number of copies circulating=no readers. True or false? s%e . bitizens ommunity But that was in the day of vet erans and older students who were absorbed with families and part time jobs. Campus Spirit Supporters Today we have a young group of underclassmen again- a group that will support campus spirit a group that looks at the weary seniors and wonders if optimism is wise. These young people will support a weekly chapel program, and they, as well as we, need it. This program should be reestab lished-in the chapel, armory, or on the horseshoe. It would be a temporary thing at first, and later, if successful, it would be a worthy institution and tradition at Caro lina. Money? This is not vital. Men such as Governor Thurmond, Jamtes F. Byrnes, and Archibald Rutledge would be better supported than speakers from distant states. Informal discussion groups - with students and professors - on pertinent subjects-would be sup ported, too. Most students are in terested in hearing most professors - out of class. Students to Work And there is student talent - musical, oratorical, and otherwise - that we do not hear. Let's hear it! In the '40 days this was a time for announcements and for an in sight into what was happening on the campus, too. Let's organize-"Y" and leader ship groups - and bring the chapel program back to the cam pus. Since twelve o'clock classes are scheduled this semester, we sug gest that the same schedule that was followed during Religious Em phasis Week he used. Tn this way students would be on the campus and would he able to attend with out missing a meal or a meeting. We admit that we don't know the answer to the "school spirit" prohlem, but perhaps this is it. 'Tis better to try and fail than never to have tried at all. And we may not fail. WHITE TRASH Who dis bruckra woman, What so much talk about? Been calling white folks nasty name, And shootin' of her mout. She ride with colored people, Go calling at their place; Wit Misses Dis and -Mister Dat, And kiss em in the face. Now, dat ain't natural business, And mnek for we to fret; D)is mixin up like she done, Gwine mak for trouble yet. I know about a lot of ting, And sure nuf I believe, When white folks pet up colored, Dey got something up dey sleeve. I hear a lot of talk bout she, And dis-is what dey say; When wvhite folks pass em on de street D)ey look the other wvay. I go to see my. white folks, From Battery to de' Mall. I got to go in side gate, But she can't go in at all. I tell dese newv young niggers, What's messing up wit she; De trash de white folks throw out, Ain't good enough for we. -A non ymous ple die of cancer every year? That makes one every three minutes. Are these peoples lives less impor tant than an intramural basketball game, huh? -GARY LEE (Ed. Note: We are inclined to agree.) in the past three weeks "The Gamecook" has received numerous letters-to-the-editor which bore no sina ture. "The Gamecock" will niot print such letters. If a writer wishes that his name be withheld, that is our command ; but no letter is better than the name that signs it. it is not a secret or a subtle thing to write a letter for publica tion. It is a secret and shameful thing NOT to sign a letter. This page always reserves apace for the comments of the students, faculty, and innocent bystander. Editor's comments are to be taken for their face value, and imply no reflection or ridicule on any