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E as Alpha KapF Point Syste There is a point system in use on the campus which ostensibly is de- I signed to develop and to destroy at one and the same time. The point system for co-eds stinulates that "no co-ed may hold two 20-point offices. The purpose of the system is to more evenly 1 distribute campus offices held by women students." There we have a pup chasing its tail. This system would encourage ' and develop leadership in the less I w-fivp en-pd, hu 'roqfrieti"ao n"d. fla-.i stroying initiative in the more ac- I tive one. Observe the choice of < words here: the degree of active- i ?teas. A horse can be made to go I to water, but if made to drink he I may drown. Council Ne Against Po The student council, which was elected last week has a job cut out for it, a distasteful job. It needs to ban politicking in the immediate vicinity of the polls. Many of the new student council members owe their election to this very practice. This will make it distasteful for them to have to legislate against it effectively. Politicking around the polls has gone overboard. It is equivalent to walking through a Chinese fish market to attempt to vote, except that here the odor is not notice able. The clamor and clatter arei the same. The ends are the same; that is, "to get that fish in the bag," or in the office.1 The only pleasant thing about voting nowadays lies ini viewing the pretty pictures of pretty girls 1 CROWING FOR UNIVERSITY OF SI Member of Associate Distributor of Co Founded January 80, 1908, wIth Ri editor, ''Ihe Gamecock" Is publishe University of South Carolina weekia year ezcept on holidays and during The opinions expresed by columnist saurly those of "Te amecock." I endornemest. The right to edit is r EDITOR ....... MANAGING EDITOR. BUSINESS MANAGER NEWS ..... CAMPUS ...... ... SPORTS. ...... -... SOCIETY ...... ... EXCHANGES....... COPY .............. FEATURES .... .... CIRCULATION MANAGER ASSISTANT BUS. MGR....... ter ia Gamma m Fai s Co-eds aren't horses. They can ie led and pushed. They can also irown. If a co-ed can actively Participate in several campus of 'ices, exclusive of political offices, hy crush this ability with an ob loxious sum of points? Alpha Kappa Gamma's point ysteni was approved by a vote of tiajority. In the light of the above arguments, the attitude expressed iere will be offensive. This is not 11j intention. We advocate that he system be reconsidered in view f the ability, efficiency, and will ngness of some persons who can told several 20-point offices better han others hold one 20-point of 'ice.-R. R. eds Rules litckimg vhich are thrust at one by pretty tirls. This notwvithstanding, the >olls are no place for campaigns. ['he surest way to get votes may ie in the tactics around the polls. ndeed, some of our best officers ire elected through this means of ersuas ion. Yet there have been reports from onscientious voters that the mob round the polls became unreason ble; there was the co-ed who trolled past and was lassoed by strange hug and made to gasp 'rom the bad breath of a character vho said to "vote for Mop Head." Dr. J. Rion McKissick used to efer to the students as men and vomen. Perhaps this politicking eads to the present reference to is as "boys and girls."-R. R. A GREATER )UTH CAROLINA di Collegiate Press IIeriate Digest bert Elliott Conzales as the first I by and for the students of the r, on Fridays, during the 'college examinations. and letter writers are not neces ublishing does not constitute am ierved. ........RUDY RIVERS JANE W. DOWE JACK WALTHER .Olga Edwards ....Betsy Knowlton ....Tom Price ..Ann Chandler Marnie Manning .Ruth. Kleckley BarbarA Derrick ..John Parauho ...........Paul Fild JANE W. DOWE Service Orga Perform Wid Recently we have been showing favor toward the newly organized Gamecock Pep Club, but we have not meant to show disfavor toward the other Carolina organizations. A few of the fine ones include the 'Y,' the leadership groups (AKG, ODK, and Blue Key) and IRC. But we have two which, in our minds, stand apart from the others in giving service to Carolina. They are the Co-ed Association and Kappa Sigma Kappa service fra ternity. Last weekend, Co-ed Association entertained at its second annual high school week-end with senior girls from throughout the state at tending. These girls are deciding which college they will attend, and this well-planned week-end prob ably will influence many of them. And have you noticed the dark green velvet curtain on the stage of the chapel? This, too, is a -con tribution of the Co-eds to the fu ture of the university. KSK has well lived up to its name of "service fraternity." Re cently, under KSK sponsorship, the university guide service was formed. BARBARA McSWAI Carolina I=/ Carolina has revived. The popu lation has completed its evolution from a mass of weary and mature people who have seen and tired of the world. Now an eager group whose main ambition in life is not to graduate and support a family forms the majority. Results of the change give every evidence of being permanent. The most obvious example was the swarm of students who formed lines at the polls last week. About 1400 students turned out. This is not as many as there should have been, but it is certainly a healthy sign. Last year's vote was the largest in the history of the uni versity and only 1700 exercised their privilege then. Another sign is the crop of physical changes which have been made on the campus. The fresh men are responsible for many of them, such as the big "Feed the Tiger" trash can outside of the canteen. The underclassmen are also get ting results in their plan to de A Brief Vie' ByH (Editor's note: The Gamecock is privileged to present a series of three articles written by Dr. H. H. Turney-High, head of the department of anthropology and sociology. Dr. Turney-High is on leave of absence from Caro lina to fulfill a research appoint ment at the University of Liege, in Liege, Belgium.) An American living in Belgium finds himself very much at home. So many Belgian ways are like our owvn, so many things they cherish are likewise great values among ourselves. Among these is a re spect for hard work and a great liking for the prosperity and good things such labor produces. Bel gium, though a constitutional monarchy with an officially ac credited, though politically power. less nobility, has the same passion for democracy and just as great a devotion to social justice as our own. Like Americans, they ap preciate a high standard of living, politics, football, hospitality, cour tesy, the latest gadgets, good auto mobiles, and individualism which is capable of resisting too much government interference. Buffer Population But the Belgians are an old people. The Walloons, or French speaking element, knew a high Gallo-Roman culture centuries be fore the Germans were civilized. Being a buffer people living on a cultural, linguistic, and partially a racial frontier, they consider in vasion, destruction and rebuilding, and occupation by a hateful Joe as endemic. Columbia has been de stroyed and occupied -but once. Liege has almost lost count. If you would like to compare old build ings, they will show you the foun dations of the Palace of Heristal, a Liege suburb, built by Pepin, grandfather of newcomer Charle magne. They will show you at Namnr how they trie t efnd nizations iout Fanfare High school students visiting the state house are taken on complete tours of the USC campus. Hun dreds of them, including Beta Club members, have been or will go on these tours during the spring. This is KSK's way of selling the university. . Another KSK project is the pro motion of a speech school for the twofold purpose of bringing stu dents to the university and giving expert training to our debaters, who must train now In their spare time. University Day-the picnic -on the horseshoe, faculty ball game, crowning of the May Queen, and the one occasion on which students get together for pleasure-will be here within a month. It is KSK sponsored. We journalists talk and write about finding a solution to Caro lina's problems, and we are often very critical. But members of Co ed, KSK, and other organizations are quietly solving these problems by promoting Carolina through ac tion and hard work. N cs Revived! crease the number of marring foot paths which straggle all over the campus. The ground has been plowed under in many of these paths and new grass planted. The logical paths will be converted to brick walks if possible. Another encouraging sign is the formation of the pep club. Such a club has long been needed to or ganize and push spirit-building campus activities. The outcome of the first pep rally sponsored by the club was disheartening, but the members are energetic. The idea of active schnnl spirit will take a little while to catch on among all the students, but the pep clubbers were chosen for their capability and resourcefulness. When the time comes they will be able to take advantage of it. "College is supposed to be a serious business," some of the people who oppose the new atti tude claim. It is a serious business, but it's not the grim one that it has been. Everybody knows that the era of the older student was unavoidable. The students in that period gave u Of The Belgian arry Holbert Turney the town against Julius Caesar. The country is not only old but intensely realistic. Belgium Is about half the size of South Caro lina, but almost the same popula tion in Brussels alone. It is a nation with limited natural re sources which must be hoarded, and judiciously worked with an eye to the future. Such things pro duce realism. It is therefore ex pectable that the American will find some things different. Belgian Professors and Education One result of this age and in tense realism is a healthy respect for an idealism which a mature people knows it cannot afford to overlook. Hence, the Belgian, re gardless of social class or economic standing, has a regard for learn ing for its own sake which will be unfamiliar to some Americans. Some parts of the old South had it once. The Boston area, too, knew it once, even if it did die a-bloom ing. Hence, the Belgian cannot understand the imported American movie which invariably portrays the professor as a comic character and the student as puerile imbecile. The Belgian professor is an Im portant dignitary of the state, a loved or unloved divinity, a patriot who had his health ruined in a German concentration camp. If a professor of philosophical, literary, or artistic subjects, he is a bastion of the nation's civilization. If his field Is practical, legal, or scien tific, he is thi protector and de veloper of the country's prosperity. Actually, these distinguished gen tlemen are the same human, fun loving family folk we have at home. Indeed, some may be so comic as some Carolina anthro pologists, but no one has the poor taste to call attention to It. Natur ally, as among any social eategory, there are some foolish students, too, but these young men and women are thoe who will main. DON'T up important years of their lives to go to war. When they came back it was impossible for most of them to regain the attitude they had be fore; they had seen too much. No matter how hard they tried and wanted to, most of them could not regain the enthusiasm and desire for college life with its many out side interests. The average Carolina student now is here straight from high school. He is ready for the full college life that he heard and read about before the war. Spirit is high; the long-awaited day has arrived. Universities -High tain the nation's Intellectual, lit erary, and artistic eminence, and are not considered irresponsible children. It is they, who as teach ers will develop the nation's chil dren, who as physicians will serve the public health, who as engineers will conserve and develop the mines of Liege, Charlerol, and Mons, and who will keep the mills of Seraigh, Tournay, and Gent humming. As a man of affairs he will keep open the port of Ant werp and the banks of Brussels. Hence, the people are willing to be taxed to maintain the state universities. Character of Belgian Student The American student might also find the adult freedom of his Belgian fellow strange. The latter is presumed to be the product of a good family and a strict prepara tory school and therefore, a moral, law-abiding citizen. If he is not, It is the concern of the police of Liege, Brussels, Gent, or Louvain. Deans of men and women are not even considered, and it certainly is no concern of the rector (presi dent), dean or professor what time of night the student comes in or what beverage he might prefer. Daily, weekly, or shotgun quizzes and mid-semester tests would be grievously resented by the student, and if such pamperings were or dered by the Brussels government, the faculty would consider such a regime an intolerable invasion of their research and writing time. A professor who would take class attendance would probably be led quietly to see his colleagues In the university hospital's psychiatric ward. The student is absolutely on his own, and his only disci plinary spur is the thinly concealed knowledge that the professor would just as soon fall half the class. And It seems to work. (Ed. Note: Second installment in next lssue of THE GAME COCK.) YOU THINK IPD BE NICE TO 'PIN! It's No Bolony By JOE MOLONY Joe Key Goes To College Remember when you were a kid, how happy you were when you got a gold star on your report card. Those were grammar school days. You outgrew them-and the stars-when you began high school. But when you entered college, those "gold star days" returned, but instead of a star, you set your eye on a gold key. To get a key you had to belong to a leadership fraternity, or just a fraternity. You were tabbed as a campus "wheel." The key was the all-importarit thing. You hung around with the elite-only those who wore keys. The key was the trade mark. Whenever a new club was formed at your college, the formers looked for the students with the keys--no key, no membership. So member ship remained among the key kids. Joining the organization was of only secondary importance. The real question was: "Just what kind of key do we get? How pretty is it? How much does it cost?" And another key was added to the ones dangling on your shiny gold chain. In fact, the keys multiplied, so the chain had to be lengthened-thus: the zoot-suit chain, the double chain, the triple chain, and so on, became the campus vogue. Now you were in step with the campus big-wigs. You were represen tative of Joe College. But you never got to know Joe College. You knew only Joe Key. He was your idol, just as the kid with the gold star was in grammar school days. After three years of key-hunting, you finally lost your crave for beautiful gold keys. Suddenly, you found yourself an outcast of overall campus society even though you were "in" with the campus leaders. You learned, to your dismay, that the leaders weren't so big after all. You began to appreciate the little man and to realize that he, in reality, was your college, not the big wheels. But you woke up too late. A dividing line between the ordinary Joe and the key searchers had been drawn since the first day you began searching for campus honors. The gap widened as you remained in your shell with your disillusioned glory-seeking buddies. Then disaster struck. Your~ dreams of an ultra-Utopian college life were shattered. It wasn't college life at all. Taking off your rose colored glasses you saw, for the first time, your college as it really was. You had no real friends after all. Your followers weren't as numerous as your friends would have you believe. In fact, college life on your campus just didn't exist. At first you couldn't believe it. As you dangled your half-dozen keys, you wondered who was to blame. Then, another group of bare-chained students passed by, failed to salute you-their campus leader--and you realized then that you were to blame. Their representative had failed them. With a herculean jerk followed by an angry oath you tore the trinkets from your chain crying: "Oh, if I'd only known!" In reality you did know, but you were a little too selfish. You didn't want to go the way of common men. Only the best was good enougir'for you. Sure, you woke up-but it was too late. NO BOLONY - Mitch Graham, candidate for student body vice president last week, will never forget the number "18." It's his lucky number. Exactly 1,313 students voted in Wednesday's run-off election between Graham and Barney Dusenbury. Graham lost by 18 votes!!! % ...What do you call a man who marries another man? A preacher, you dope! What did you think, anyhoo? . . . Should've seen two Game cock bigwigs (reputedly) walking down Assembly street. One went into a loan office on the corner. The other went to one next door. Their mission? One hocked his typewriter and the other pawned his watch! Who said newspaper work paid off ?? ? . . . You know summer s just around the corner. Agnes, the cute and capable waitress at Ben Cogburn's eating place, is ready for the beach. "Any ole beach ikll do," Agnes says. "Even Folly or Sesqui." . . . Hmmm, sounds le a good idea . . . Prof. Kit Fitzsimmons, who handled the SIBT in Columbia the past two years, has some good ideas on rallies during bseball season, I understand . . . He'll probably work hand-in-hand with the Gamecock Pep Club on this proposition . . . How about yoa? Do you have any ideas that would help stimulate school spirit here and, in turn, give the Pep club some work to do? . Everyoe's heard thatcandidates for campus offices speak. They've heard promses and,cahat ave you. Now that elections are over, it would only seem ogial f th ghe successfully eleced polcans to prsent their plat