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- Editorial Made For Arguments This is a statement, designed to provoke thinking. If the reader is afraid of think ing he should go no further. It is incon clusive and contains no moral. It is poorly presented. It has been "designed." We have a wit, you and I. Otherwise we would not be together here. This wit is the motivation in our life. It is the fuel of our existence. It is by wit that we will become alumni. It is by our wit that we will suc ceed or fail in every day. Knowing is a result of research, methodi cal or haphazardly. Either way, the wit is at work. One way, the wit is aimed and productive; the other, the wit is useless and prostituted. Thinking is man's tool for survival. It is granted that there are those who do not think, who survive nevertheless. The think ing of a few supports the thoughtlessness in the many. Yet each man can think for himself, imbeciles and idiots notwithstand ing. Who are the few then who survive through the wit of others? They are para sites. They constitute the maw of a drain down which all the progress of centuries has been patiently poured. We have a wit, you and I. It stinks in its putrification. It is rotten through dis use. It is congealed. We have a wit which allows us to sit in lectures and accept the postulations of art and science indiscriminately. And we go out and call it culture and expect it to be a shelter for life and living. And it is only a foundation on which a shelter needs build ing. The life shelter is never completed. It is built with ideas. Ideas derive from think ing, from discriminate selection in what we would make of ourselves. And ideas are impossible in the haphazard wit. The life shelAer rises slowly for a methodical wit. It never rises with a haphazard wit. We must never be satisfied with what is and what has been. We must be nervous and improve what is and what has been. The wit waits for exploitation. Life is to be exploited. If we are satisfied and calm, life will ex ploit us. You and I have a wit. It will give what is demanded of it, nothing more. It demands by its definition that we utilize it, always-to survive, to create, and to destroy. April Oneth Spoils A Month Today each man, woman, and child in our community might rejoice. Today, it has been disclosed, the merchants of Columbia banded together in a spontaneous burst of gratification for the consumer market rep resented in Carolina. These merchants have said that tomorrow begins "Operation Discount.'' Each student at the university, merely by being a student, becomes eligible for the 15 per cent dis count on purchases made in most of Colum bia's stores and shops. "Operation Discount" will mark the growth in Columbia of a practice employed in many other university cities. The mer chants are to be commended. An unpunched athletic card is the only identification necessary for the student to become eligible for the generous discount. This simple idlentification certainly becomes much more valuable than the $15.00 it cost. Remember, tomorrow, April Fool's Day, will initiate this benevolent project. Patron ize the stores with the 15% engraving on the doors. CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CARO Member of Associated Collegiate Pre Distributor of Collegiate Digest Founded January 00, 1908, with Robert Elliott Conrali editor, "The Camecock" is published by and for the at Unilversity of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, durir1 year except on holidays and during examinations. Tb.l opiin C mse k co un ad letterd wrterst endorsement. The right to edit ii reserved. EDITOR .RI MANAGING EDITOR . JA I BUSINESS MANAGER JAC: NJEWS . .4 CAMPUS .. B< SPORTS... SOCIETY .. EXCHANGES ..Ma COPY. ..-- R FEATURES ......Ba CIRCULATION MANAGER ASSISTAN BUS TT. MGR. Gamecock Reverts To Critical Policy The problem is this: to reconcile the uni versity and the organ which gave it life, and givea it life. The university is a yard stick of the state. It measures and corre lates the state with itself. But no solution is presented here. Conditions in the university are known. They have been presented with and without prejudice. There is no malice here. The president's report to the-legislature perhaps presents the truest picture of Carolina. South Carolina has bulk and form; it is 31,055 square miles in area, has mountains, and plains, rocks and soil. It has a popula tion of about two million ill-educated people. It has over 11 million acres under cultiva tion, has a per capita income of around $1,000, and has had a busy and nervous history. Yes, it has form and bulk; but it has no breath except that feculent breath of its bloated politicians. South Carolina has many things, but it does not have a progressive and coherent legislature. Its citizens live in a form ol peasantry, playing feudal tithes to their overlord lead ers, the politicians. Education is a pain and a woeful expense. Voting is a farce and a bother . . . "will I vote for this Democrat crook or for that Democrat crook, and if I vote I've got to ride into town to pay my poll-tax, and then at the polls, the fish-eyed poll manager watches how I vote. . . " There is something stinking in South Carolna. We could mention a 30-odd thou sand word concoction of 1895, and rotten politicians. We could mention other dead things that rot out the life of the state. But who wants to know? The vise has squeezed for so long that the pain has gone. We are numb and dumb. Unless the mire of corruption and incom petence is lifted in the state, the university will continue to deteriorate. The state will go along with or without the mire. Citizens do not seem to care. Why should we? Advertising Plan WouldUseStudent Advertisements have been known to pay off if they catch the eye and ear. We have a university to advertise. How can we make that effective advertisement? There are many ways. There are as many ways as there are faculty, students and ad ministrators. Each of these is a salesman, or an agent. To sell the university there must be a university to sell. We have one. It is called the University of South Carolina. The student council could act for the stu dents. They might devise an advertising p)rogram to supplement that already in ef feet by the administration. The student council could organize a pro gram similar to that which will be used in one dlepartment here. It is this: High school visitations by members of the studenIt body. These students could be rep resenitatives of the leadership and service groups, and other organizations. Their job would b)e to carry Carolina to the high sch ools. Carolina has been waiting for the students to come to it. The administration's publica tion program has aide(d in carrying Carolina to high school seniors. Why not take Caro lina to every high school student, in the persons of Carolina students? The cut-throat competition between the state's several tax-supported institutions de mnandls top)-notch p)lanning to meet. All the money the legislature might give the univer sity is useless in the face of the fact that enrollmient will drop further and faster un --~~--- less an all out effort is made to make the university known and (desirable as a choice for eligible y o u n g men and women. LINA THE BALLADEER MOANS aIf my eyes were arms to hold you, idente ofthLkeap-pdhlsae, g the college Laikeape-ohodapant omltiely could I hold you? Le iea tea-cup hoTds its tea, constitute an Like a tea-cup holds Its peko. JDY RIVERS And if my eyes were lips to kiss JE W. DOWE you, C ATHR ow hungrily would I kiss you? ( ATIR Like a fire-fly licks a light, )lga Edwards Like a fire-fly lick. a light bulb. tsy Knowlton Tom Price I dreamed in sleeping Ann Chandler You held me in loving arms; rnie Manning And wept on waking uthe Kleckley To find you taking, rb)ara Derrick The love of a red-haired moor. John Parasho Like a pea-pod holds its pea.... Paul Field ..R... It's No Bolony By JOE MOLONY Trustee Cry: $14.40 or Bust! Year in and year out the football date ticket problem pops up to plague students, faculty and university trustees. These representatives meet annually to attempt to clear up the trouble. But after. the meeting, and when the dust is settled, the problem remains unsolved. Such is the case again this year. Student Harry Cline, pinch-hitting on the student-faculty athletic committee for ailing Jim Dye, sat in with the trustees at a meeting last week. They discussed, argued and finally suggested (to Cline's disappointment) that stu dents would be charged $3.60 per game with one game on the house for date tickets. These tiekets would be bought in a five-game book. This decision met with disapproval from the student rep resentative. Coach Rex Enright apparently wasn't pleased with it, either, for he'd preyiously agreed on a $1.80 price for four games and $3.60 for the Clemson game. This would make a total of $10.80 per student for a season date ticket. But today the "agreement" calls for $14.40 per. ' But if I sound pessimistic it's unintentional. There's still a ray of hope left for a lowered, price for date tickets. Student council representative Jim Dye talked with Presi dent Norman M. Smith Tuesday afternoon and, with op timism in his tone, Dye reported the following: President Smith apparently isn't sold on the suggested $14.40 price for tickets, either. He told Dye that Enright, Trustee Chairman Rut Osborne and himself were going to get together soon and re-analyze the situation. The president said the committee was going td get the dope from other colleges on their date ticket problems, ana lyze it, compare it, and then make a final decision in the very near future. So, maybe all's not lost after all. NO BOLONY-Despite a barrage of publicity, the pre-adver tised "giant" pep rally scheduled for last Friday in the field house drew only 212 students and most of them were either candidates for cheerleader, football players or members of the club itself . . . Further proof of student interest in their school and its athletic teams . . . But the small crowd didn't seem to faze the speakers: Coach Rex Enright, university president Norman M. Smith, George Wright, Dumas Turner, Carrere Salley, et al. They gave the new Gamecock Pep Club a send-off it won't forget in many moons and, in the process, made quite,a hit with the few "old faithfuls" on hand . . . The new pep song, written by Salley in 1938, went over with a bang. It probably will become Carolina's fight ing song. It has spunk to it . . . Several candidates for politi cal offices gave The Gamecock a hard time in their speeches. They didn't like the paper's approach to current campus problems. One of them referred to its columnists as "those Yankee columnists." . . . Students are reminded that the views expressed by columnists and letter writers in The Gamecock are not necessarily those of The Gamecock and don't constitute an endorsement . . . Several candidates for political office reiterated a "stand pat" attitude toward our present student-faculty-admiiistrative relations. If they're serious (and I don't believe they are) it'll probably mean another five-year extension on the lifetime of the temporary buildings, less and less appropriation from the General As sembly, less student control, less student government and, in the main, a generally staid University of South Carolina! . . . But then only about 10 per cent of you seemed interested enough to hear these "stand pat" boys give with their spiel . . . I've never seen 3,500 people vanish as quickly as did the Carolina students Friday afternoon. Only a handful were at the political rally, fewver attended the pep rally and a meager crowd saw the intra-squad game. Was everybody at the dance? . . . What (do you p)eople want for nothing? Blood ? . . . By the time this gets to you, the new student officers will have been elected-by you, of you and for you. If the wrong guy got in, don't kick about it. If you have a kick coming, deliver it yourself, personally, because you put him in office!!! Wolf Reinbacher 'Strictly Continental' 'Movie U. Presents Major Problem If the editor-in-chief gives me ke(o,s aMviU.ndf the five inches more I have beenfe*'tcegrs,oththed pleading for, and which he has taken away from me last time, I crn g rus e itrsec shall have enough yardage toofteunrtadwihtbig acknowvledge the friendly advicelord Adhwaouafe from my foreign student advisor cussi Euain"pcue of Movie University. Good oldwhcarenrtingswlls M. U. I still don't understand euainl tcnb dctoa some of its functions. ) esbepo nayo h Major in Movie U. vroscass n yasnil As I see it, M. U. has given thesouinIca'tkeoomy third degree more often to me than dne-ahn ap ns to the actors, however sometimes odgHad covered with pain relievers such as AIothligansec.Ir the Twin Peaks of California. But pa htsaeetfly ae' the actors are not my main source hda(aesneIwoeta.Fr of com'plaint, it's what they act. gv e Somehow, I cannot make up my Yuse .U ssilamz o mind, what major to take at M. U., Ishl ten lseslk though I have covered a broad field, without coming to k conclu- (i eoe u on ht hl ton21o Wlon.ne 1 Romance? I have enough of that already.StpnosCloal War? I have enough of that, Oetigmr:Weed oi too,.e e h i od o hi Detective? Possibly, if it is apevws Acodntohs,1 good course. Mostly it Is not,. ae' enaHolwo rdc No, I cannot approach it thattinythawsnosupdu, way. clsa,frtrt,adeeyhn Age Limits, Crib Courses wihsvnslaesototeE And why NOT age limits? Can ccoei rtaia little boys come to Carolina and ThtsalIhveacsst7 take graduat ~ ~ mae courses atynMoeloU. i o now.f SORRY, THIS 0] BARBARA McSWAIl Students Coul School Weeker Fifty high school girls will be the guests of Carolina Saturday and Sunday, April 1 and 2. The girls will be here at the invitation of the Coed Association. The purpose of this high school week-end is to acquaint prospective Carolina students with the university. Having these girls here gives us the op portunity to do two things-to give Carolina a boost in the esti mation of these possible stu dents, or to lower their opinions of us. Tea Dance Saturday A tea dance will be given on Sims porch from 7 to 9 p. m., Sat urday. It will be sponsored by KSK. Other entertainments will be sponsored by the WAA, AKG, and various campus organizations. None of these functions will carry as much weight with the young girls as the actions of the people they meet here. They will enjoy or not enjoy their visit at Carolina because of the entertain ment they are offered and the fun they have while they are here. But this will not make their deci sion about whether to attend Caro JANE W. DOWE Outdoor E Exercises We favor an outdoor graduation in .June. Graduatio.n is only two months away, and plans for it must be made now. As members of the April Fool To You And T o Y ou A glance at. my calendar informs me that the long-awaited day is just around the corner. The day when I can legally lie is only twenty- four m houris awvay. (Though I don't know wvhy I should wait until then to tell a fib or twvo.) Tomorrow morning my grand mother wvill wvake me up and tell me that I have overslept and missed two classes. When I finally find my shoes, wvhich she has carefully placed on the roof, I will ramble on to the bus stop where I will be informed that the bus was wrecked and I will have to walk (after all, what's wvrong with a ten-mile hike to school?). On the campus the first person I meet wvill he Joe Molony, who, with jubilation in his eyes and~ hallucinations on his breath, will shout that the plan for consoli dation has been passed. The next victim will be those poor inmates of our tenements, who will be told that a new asylum is being built for them this semester. Then as their hopes rise, the merciless joke ster will yell, "April Fool!" As a first-class prophet, I know all of this will happen. As a mat tern of fact, why bother to get up Saturday morning? P. 5. Did you know that a family of rabbits lives behind Mc iE IS TAKEN! d Make High id Big Success lina or not. That decision will de pend on every person they meet while they are here. Almost every Carolina student will meet these girls. The high gchool coeds will be walking around the campus in groups all during the week-end. Official university guides will be in charge of the tours, but none of the guides will L)bject to students' friendly greet ings or helpful additions to infor nation being given about campus sites. Your Attitude Needs Just as much harm can be glone by a disinterested,' bored, or tolerant attitude as good can be done by a helpful one. These girls will be eager and interested in college and college students. If we let them down by our treat rnent, they won't forget it when they make their final choice of :ollege. Here's our chance to do more ,han just talk about school spirit. If we take advantage of this high whool week-end, we will be more .han repayed for the effort we spend by a future better Carolina. 'rad uation Sought raduating class, we are the ones who should decide where we will receive our diplomas. Tradition says that graduation exercises should be held in the F'ield House. But, when a tradi tion interferes with common sense and progress, we favor discarding tradition. Last year we attended the graduation exercises, but, after an hour-and-a-half in that steam heated Field House on a stifling, June day, we left. We felt pity for' the graduates and parents who could not leave. How many hours of our college career are spent in the Field House? Very few. We can muster no special affection for its bleach er and its high ceiling. But the horseshoe is, in our minds, the physical symbol of Caro lina. We have strolled across it daily-had pleasant visits on its grasses--picnicked there on Uni versity Day. Leaving Carolina will not be easy, emotionally, but how much better it will be to say goodbye in a place that we love! And how much better those cool breezes will feel than the smoke-filled still,iess of the Field House! Chairs would have to be placed on the horseshoe, but we think that each candidate for graduation would be willing to place five chairs for the privilege of our out door graduation. We would. We believe in democracy--in ac tio,n, and the only democratic method, from our point of view, is for those wvho will be graduated in .June to vote on where they wish to receive their diplomas. "The Bible of Freshmen," the "Y" handbook, was first issued in 1911.