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Voting Intelligence Will Make Or Break Every enrolled student has a right and a privilege to vote in student body elections. Every student can vote secretly, a thing uncommon in the fair state of South Caro lina. But every voter does not vote. Nor do those who do vote use their ballot wisely. Because there are pressure groups and vig orous campaigning around the polls, the voters who vote often allow themselves to fall into the pit of suggestion: Intelligence is a first requisite of a voter. The candidate for an office assumes other wise. The voters are so many sheep. Come Monday, a measure of the sincerity and determination of the "sheep" in their drive for unity will be given. This measure will be great or small according to intelli gence. Candidates for some of the offices are not, and never will be, qualified to assume the burden of the new determinism in the student body. Next year the office of president of the student body will be more demanding than in many years. Those candidates who lead popularity polls of the various political fac tions will need something more than good clean features and a gift for gab. Next year's president will need an energy to withstand the rigors of extra-curricular activity; he will need to know who is who, what is what, and how is how. Student representatives from the various schools will need some of the same stamina as the president. Class officers may also find themselves saddled with an integrated, unified class, which will demand action. Last year the voting was heavy, heavier than ever before. The officers were, in the main, chosen intelligently. All day Monday you will have an oppor tunity to cast your ballot. Next year's spirit may well die at the polls. There must be many acts of intelligence in the balloting. But vote, by all means. -R.R. Rude Awakening I had an unusual dream last night. I was sitting in the new Carolina student union building, with each of my 3499 fellow students present, hearing a talk by Presi dent Smith. Smith was affectionately surrounded by members of the Gamecock staff. A dark haired gentleman member with an "accent" was holding a glass of water which the president lovingly sipped. Subject for the speech was what to do with excess money that the legislature had insisted that the university use this year. Smith reported that he had attempted to return it to Senator Edgar Brown but that the senator friend of Carolina had replied, "My sole interest is in the educationi of the young so that they may replace me when I retire next year." The Admiral went on the say that every building that he had requested since 1945 had been constructed and the university's faculty was the best-paid in the world. He asked the students to vote on what should be done with the money. He sug gested that the Gamecock become a daily paper, with staff members receiving salaries. One student suggested the building of a zOo in the middle of the horseshoe. But then I awoke suddenl.y. The plaster over my bed was cracking 1/e GA4co4 CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROl Member of Associated Collegiate Pre Distributor of Collegiate Digest yea einept on holiday and durs emtonsdri emderasmeat. The uight to edit is reserved. EDITOR .. ......Ri MANAGING EDITOR .JAI BUSINESS MANAGER JACI NJEWS ........ CAMPUBS........ BE SPORTS ..... ..... SOCIETY ........................ EXCItANGEBS......................a COPY............................ ... R FEATURES....................... .. Ba CIRCULATION MANAGER ASSISTANT BUS. MGR. . . .. Materialism Seeps While Ideals Bum Often the student fails to see eye-to beyond-his-nose-eye with the particular uni versity administration with which he deals. For instance: There is the case of the "million-dollar floor." Some of the ancient caricatures of a bygone architecture on this campus have "well-seasoned" wood floors. These floors, when polished, are rather at tractive. When cared for, they represent an investment in the future. For that day might come when they'will become the ob ject of national curiosity, and the curious will pay a small fee merely to view them. The fire hazard of "well-seasoned" timber is negligible, of course. Then there is the case of the student newspaper. The radical element seems to gravitate naturally around the sensational aspect of printing derogatory truths. (It is said that exaggeration may color truth.) Student reporters 'and editors live their short careers and expire. They become em bued with a desire to set the house in order. They meet the various administrative maids and housekeepers. There is almost immedi ate disagreement. The nose obstructs the view. And just think, they have done a decent job each year, else the school would have collapsed. Editors are cross-bearers anyway. Many less ambitious communities than campuses have been labeled "plot-after-plot plotters." It fits the University of South Carolina. Plot after plot has continually attended to the propagation of species, and plan after plan for liberal action always meets the conservative check of a harassed yet remarkably calm administration. Is this wholesome? Liberals say yeas, con servatives administer nays. Are well-seasoned floors, student news papers, and eternal planning wholesome? Together or categorically? And it boils to this. The root of our evil is money. It is materialistic madness. May we rest in peace. Gamma Nu Chapter Deserves Vote Of Thanks Catching criminals is not the ordinary occupation of the fraternity brothers of Sigma Chi. Indeed, it might well be that some obnoxious hydrogen explosion will have ended all occupations before the chap ter here apprehends another desperado, The amateur sleuthing of the men in the case here and the final exposition of the imposter ends a two-year career. The man, who was wanted in three states and had served three terms in the federal peniten tiary, will fleece no more suckers for awhile. Chapters of various national fraternities over the nation, and especially the East Coast, owe the Gamma Nu chapter of Sigma Chi a vote of well-done. Points of no return and of no further venture; seen in Graduate Record Exam inations: ."A frog's heart has three chambers; what is the advantage of the four-chambered heart of the mammals?" Also, "When the apical bud of the ger anium stem is pinched off, the lateral buds begin to ..." And, "What are the advantages of the gastrovascular cavity in the Hydra over that of other mammals ?" Knowledge is a wonderful thing? Wolf Reinbacher 'S Summer Traveler And it came to pass that this 4lNA summer a group of Ameriean stu adents is going to Europe for edu cational travel. Since some Caro linians expect to be on that tour, I would like to offer some uncalled adate IIwt for advice pertaining to my home * the coil.se country Six Don'ts 1. Start shaking hand., when "emo,,- you meet somebody, when you talk to somebody, after you talk to ,somebody; even after you have [DY RIVERS gone, go back and shake once !E W. DOWE more. You will be popular. CWLHR 2. a. (for girls) Come well CW THR armed, and prepared for assault )Iga Edwards and battery. itsy Knowlton b. (to boys) In some big town, . Tom Price go along dark streets some night, Ann Chandler to learn the German underworld. rnie Manning Not that you will find it, but-.. uthe Kleckley reason above. rbara Derrick 8. Don't try to dissuad, people John Parasho from the idea that you are a rich . Paul Field Texas oil magrnate or a aNe York It's No By JOE - Every Dog Has It's ] What is this new disease spi dents? Frankly, I've never exp full of zest and enthusiasm, school. They're interested in ma like it was before December 1 Maybe it's because I'm a veter They say this disease is ci contaminated. In fact, in my never seen the disease take r SCHOOL SPIRIT, or somethir It nearly caught hold back crazy-head cheerleader, led a at football games. But after there. Nope, the disease just 1949- were even worse becausq the mostest out of the leastest Today, we're in 1950 A. S. (I Since I haven't seen this dise first-hand account of its effeel with you a lifetime, or until an have a habit of turning people' school spirit. Lives are at at rallies or what have you. Th( some men, boys. They make 3 But all's not lost. With me, erans. We've had our day and I believe we might've flubbed proposition. You see, we vel disease. NO BOLONY-After checkini readers, were we embarrassed dents to send in their nominal university for the past 50 y Exactly none ... Should hav( fessor, W. C. McCall, handler ing madly from one end of th collecting papers and pencils 40 yards in six seconds flat 1! professor in the business adr his usual expert's touch in h tional Boxing Tournament for coaches, referees, and all oth highly successful tournament, SIBT notes picked up here ai liams has his eye set on the Williams' wife, Laura, "just lo, to Virginia, she'll take South ( 145-pound southpaw from L Bourgeois, former Carolina j graduated in 1949 and went to ord" as a reporter ... When i trochi fight, Referee Williams since 1935 . . . Carl "Spook" Pt weight who lost to Ray Avan Conference tournament a coul refereeing the exhibition mate the field house wasn't filled! asked for a drink of water morning. The guy in charge So I sat for another two hour Just wait 'til you take 'em. talking about . . . What's goii nie there's going to be a pep r the intra-squad football gain jerseys and recognized by the talking, Dumas Turner's sins PEP club's going to get it's about you, but I'm going over BARBARA McSWAIl Friendlines, As Election It's hard to believe but wonder ful to witness. Everyone seems to be anxious to make his friends the friends of the world. Introdue tions are flying right and left. In this smiling and rose-tinted fairy-land that is Carolina there is one tiny flaw. A little mosquito trictly Continental' s Offered Advice millionaire in underwear. Dine 4. About wine and spoody-oody: Don't drink it or don't blame me for losing connection with your group. Places of Interest: Munch--the Plaza Frankfurt--the Plaza Bremen-the Plaza. Don't miss! (At least on the way home.) 5. If language difficulties arise, don't cuss in English, because due to the contact with the U. S. Army, anybody over there can out-ouss you. Culture Remedy 6. About culture: If unavoid able, be prepared for long discus sions. May be used as sleeping Pills, in small doses only, excess proves fataL These are the six don't,. The six do's I'd rather not m'ention, because your chaperones won't 1et you do it anyway. Bolony (LONY )ay--We've Had It I -eading amongst Carolina stu erienced it. Those youngsters, are beginning to change our xking it a "Joe College" affair 1, 1941. I don't like it a bit. an. But I don't like it. itching, but I'ire never been four years at Carolina, I've oot here. The name of it is g on that order. in 1946 when Chick Shiels, a wildly cheering student body the games, spirit just wasn't couldn't catch on. 1948 and there was no Shiels to get fter Shiels),eand I'm leaving. ase in action, I can't give a ;. But I understand it stays other war comes along. Wars 3 minds to bigger things than akd, not football games, pep ,y also make boys, men; and ,ou serious. I'm taking a carload of vet although I hate to admit it, the dub on this school spirit berans were immune to the r over the list of No Bolony I I found out by asking stu ions for the best men at the ears. How many wrote in? seen veteran education pro f senior examinations, dash e Naval Arinory to the other after exams. He made the . . Kit Fitzsimmons, adjunct ninistration department, had andling the Southern Invita the second straight year. The er principals involved in the seemed to agree . . . Some id there: Referee Billy Wil legislature in Virginia . . . res Columbia." She says, next ,arolina . . . Buddy Bourgeois, SU, is a cousin of Harold ournalism student, who was work with the "Columbia Rec isked about the Thrash-Quat said it was the best he'd seen dkinen (Clemson '49), welter t in the finals of a Southern )le of years ago, looked good h last Saturday .. . But still A student (namely, me), luring senior exams Monday said: "Okay, but only one." ,frothing at the mouth !... You'll know just what I'm rig on today? Well, they tell ally at the field house before 3. Players are to be issued ~ir fellow students, Enright's ing and the new Gamecock baptism of fire. Don't know myself. M s Rampant Day Nears' like insect is trying to shatter the beautiful rainbow-hued bubble of belief into flecks of nothing. The insect is named WHY? WHY? is an extraordinary in seet. He has some thoughts about things that aren't any of his busi ness, just like a lot of humans. As he buzzes around the campus WHY? therefore prys into many places he really has no right to be. And as he travels, WHY? picks up some bits of informatlon that are a little disillusioning. He found out that a lot of these "friends" aren't really friends at all. Some of them have nothing but self interest behind their smiling faces. "I wonder why?" the little in sect asked himself as he flew along. "Why did this thing sud denly happen at Carolina?" He got so worried that he finally flew right straight back through the years to the Carolinas that have been. "Don't worry, WHY?," he was told by the students and faculty of long ago. "About once every year this rash breaks out in the student body and there's nothing that will help it. It probably won't last over a week or two." Little WHY? still wasn't satis fied. "But what about all this handshaking and backalapping?" he asked. "It would be a good thing if we could keep that symp-. tom of the rash, If the other p..t "Not the Sian Milkay, CespIght IM by (Ei, 11. Reprint JANE W. DOWE Pep Club Ch For Giga Triall-tonight at 6:80 in the field house. A trial Is called to determine whether pep and spirit Is still alive in the Carolina stu dent body. Special jury called for the occa sion Includes Coach Enright, the USC football team, charter mem bers of the Gamecock Pep Club, representatives from the BAM Club, and administration members. Determining the results will be YOU - AND, EVERY STUDENT WHO IS ENROLLED AT CARO LINA! To forget the legal terms and state the facts, the first organ ized pep rally on this campus In a long time will begin at 6:30 to night. It will continue for ap proximately one hour and will be followed by the intra-squad foot ball game on Melton Field at 8 p. m. . The Agenda But this will be more than just another pep rally. Look at the agenda-playing and adoption of the official Pep Club song, short talk by Coach Enright, Introduc tion of the football team, action from the hand and the cheorlisad. era, and, most hnportant to some 50 students, introduction of newly elected members of the Gamecock Pep Club. We told you last week about the WoIf, Mc Evokes Iroi By MORDECAI PERSKY Certainly there is no offense in tended for Wolf Reinibacher, a boy who can write more cleverly In a foreign lingo than most people can in their native tongues, but just the same this column doesn't want to pass up the opportunity to set him straight a b o u t American movies. It just isn't right to leave a guy with that kind of ideas. In the first place, Hollywood is everywhere. It can be compared to a big university, one which every American is absolutely required to attend as a kind of personal debt to himself, society, and Cecil B. DeMille. Courses offered at the university run in orderly cate gories: War, Comedy, Romance, Western, Detective, and Melo drama. Specialization is possible, too. For example, Western majors have courses such as John Wayne 101, Gabby Hayes 127, etc., open to them. Naturally there must be no age limit placed on movie-goers, for just as their pioneer ancestors were born in the saddle, so they must be figuratively and sometimes lit erally born in the front row at the Strand; as soon as a child is old enough or rather big enough to hold the seat-spring down, he must begin attending Movie U. That is he must begin amassing credits be. fore he is able to understand what he sees. In this way he becomes oriented to the various types of movies and is so used to them by the time he understands, that he doesn't object to censorship or 2 could be cured." "Yes, it would be good," the former Carolinians agreed. "It does seem to be getting better though. Maybe someday we will get to the point where all hypocrisy and dishonesty are drained frorr our systems and we can go through this period of our existence with complet siner.it, a honat.. the famous ski star?" d from April 1950 issue of ESQUIRE Doses Tonight: intic Rally Pep Club and Its organization. Now we are showing you what it will do. Your responsibility Is to be pres ent at the rally-to show the world that we have as much school spirit as students at any of the other great universities. Lend An Bar Your presence will serve a two fold purpose. First, it will prove to the Pep Club that such rallies should be continued. And it will show the administration and faculty that the club's efforts are not In vain and that the club is worthy of the support that it has received-and hopes to continue to receive. Secondly, your presence - and that of more than two thousand of your fellow students-will show the administration and the legis lature Carolina's need for a Stu dent Union building, when funds are available. It is Friday night. Let's put away the books (or playing cards!) for awhile, stop talking about school spirit, and begin to show our love for Carolina. And then, after we have given our "okay" to the Pep Club and its ideals, let's follow the crowd to Melton Field and yell for a football team that i going to win every game next year. vie CritiC, y In Writer pictures, or even popcorn (In fact, some extreme cases have been known to eat the stuff). There is a critical reference to holding hands in the movies, and rightly so. This is akin to viola tion of the honor principle since it constitutes an unwarranted aid to a fellow student. Also it consti tutes missing part of the class to attend to lab work, which should always be done at the drive-in. Americans learn about life at Movie U., so naturally it is a com petent and efficient organization and publishes its own textbooks which may be gotten at the cor ner newsstand for anywhere from ten cents to a quarter. It becomes immediately apparent to even the most casual student that the au thors of the textbooks are all ex perienced movie-goers with one ex ception. This exception is the re viewer, who carefully avoids all cinematic attractions in order to maintain his thoroughly unpreju diced eye. Of course, every stu dent (as well as every actor, di rector, and producer) realizes that this is as it should be, and that is why there are fewer casualties among movie reviewers than among test pilots, riveters, and sand hogs combined. Movie U. runs under a compe tent administration in which naval officers serve only as technical ad visors. The faculty, consisting of such notables as Hedda Hopper, Jimmy IMddler, and sultry-voiced Louella Parsons, boasts that all Its members have received the third degree at some time during their respective careers (some of them having received it more than once). These claims cannot be overlooked since they are backed up by prominent students.' Given a chance to look over the facts of the case, Strictly Con tinental will undoubtgily admit the