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Pessii Lost we forget, the General has not considered any plai solidation of state-supported stitutions. The General AE headache and possibly a bacl strain of pitching around budget. Economics is our weak poi well, a bit rusty, but capabl the waste inherent in the ol eral parallel curricula in schools, i.e., engineering at Citadel, and Carolina. Then there is the matter o several different boards of t of expenses for one board f tutions. South Carolina is not a landed state. It is rather c cating curricula in several this compactness is not an It is stupid. It is expensive, Occasional reports indicate satisfaction with the menu at Gourmands and gourmets ai dent body therefore may taki suggestion to heart. Pigeon pie is a feast for fricassee and southern-fried , wise delicious. And yet, it i pigeon and squab have nevc menu at the tavern. Pigeons abound on the ci they make Davis College an make it obnoxious also. They follow the men who Wolf Reinbacher 'S Traveling 'Twas the night before Christ mas. For us, at least, the crazy foursome, consisting of Dick Dun can (the brainstormer), Trudes Suverkropp (keeps money tighter than Fort Knox), myself (no com ment) and last, but not least, the '41 Ford Convertible, which had not even been asked whether it would run. In the wee hours of April Fools' Day, around three in the morning, Dick crawled out from under the car, where he had diligently misplaced 8 pistons plus rings, one oilpan and lost track of the crank shaft. We had our important part in humoring him to get everything ready. We got it ready, and in the after noon finally we rolled off, away from Carolina where everybody thought (thinks?) we're nuts. Evening shadows soon fell over us in Georgia, and 5 o'clock shadows later in Alabama. When Birming ham's furnaces threw their flicker.. ing light onto the highway, the car was still running, despite the dire prophecies which foamed after us on the road, uttered in disbelief by our Rhode Island companion, Dick. Yet, may from Olymp come grace to him: his doubts, which unexpectedly did not come true, kept us optimists in check, and surprises were much greater. Mississippi Meanders The sun, that never sets on Carolina students, had to find us Sunday morning in the rolling hills of Mississippi. The Ford, in ac cordance, rolled, too. And as soon as we had fought our way through the Memphis traffic, the Missis sippi River rolled under us. Wider than any river I have ever seen, CROWING FO UNIVERSITY OF Member of Associa Distributor of ( Feended aa601906, wt yea eet e heUdays and duik T e , Ce4e ~ou 'drnm he rst t. edit Is EDITOR........ MANAGING EDITOR. BUSINESS MANAGER NEWS ........... CAMPUS .......... SPORTS ........... SOCIETY .......... EXCHANGES....... COPY ............. FEATURES ........ CIRCULATION MANAGER. ASSISTANT BUS. XGR.. ... nistic Ass Assembly still tfrely logical, i for the con- without end. educational in- It might w4 sembly has a South Carolini cache from the space and tim a burdensome the distance f ured by saddl ters. t. Arithmetic, It might bi e of adding up have missed i eration of sev- bility snowbal several state It might bE Clemson, The prove the edu standards of t )f expenses for to favoritism rustees instead It may be t >r all the insti- tious, or ignoi But whatev tremendously The economic )mpact. Dupli- ing the budge schools within good and rott illogical thing. This sentim But it is en- ber of the Ger Pigeon Pies; quab Fricasse occasional dis- on the campus Stewards Hall. the seeds befe nong the stu- These are pi the following There are tho. ing the pretty kings. Squab grounds that iquab are like- ture. These s s certain that with their tee r adorned the We have pl several days. mpus; indeed, hunt the beas aviary. They to snare them. pains of our I sow the seeds cleanliness of trictly Continental' Columnist Makes R we slowly and admiringly crossed the long bridge spans over the Old Man River's muddy forces, into Arkansas, the land of opportunity. Riding along for hours in the middle of flooded areas, barren trees, swamps, and more flooded areas, we hoped for the best op portunity to get out of this state. In the meantime, the motor, ex pertly equi)ped through Dick's skill, had been broken in, so that our speed varied little from a solid 50 miles. In between we cooked our first meal on a little gas stove; we ate fried eggs, while the flies ate us. Arkansas Travelers From Little Rock on, the sce n ery became moreively, anid when in the wvarm rays of the evening sun the Ozarks shone over the Arkansas River, wve even put the top) down. This practice was short ly abandoned with a twvo-thirds majority from Europe. Driving slowly through Fort Smith in the early dark, the en tire sky in the west was lit by lightnings about 10 sizes bigger than the factory seconds ob served in Europe. And soon they became much bigger, blinding bright so that the yellowish beams of the headlights were al most useless in the short mo ments of darkness. 11:52 Central Standard Time: There it was. A rain storm broke loose, the like of which I could ab stain from in the future. Road in visible, we had to stop, wvhile the canvas roof creaked undeir the force of fist-size raindrops, mixed with hail, and streams of water sloshed around the wheels. This, I thought, was evidently overdoing it. -Coc)GI R A GREATER BOUTH CAROLINA ted Collegiate Press ~ollerIate Digest Robert Elliott oonzales as the first ned by and for the students of the ,on Frld., duing the oolege ses and letter writers are net nce Pulsig does not constitute an ...........RUDY RIVERS JANE W. DOWE JACK WALTHER Olga Edwards ....Betsy Knowlton ........Tom Price ..... .. ..Ann Chandler ....Marnie Manning Ruthe Kieckley ....Barbara Derrick . John Parasho ............ ..Paul Fiald embly as has been pointed out time ill be that this generation of ans is victim to the illusion of e prevalent in the past when rom here to there was meas e sores instead of speedome . that wide-awake politicians ieeing governmental responsi 1. that any decent step to im :ational, economical, and social he state is in direct opposition and nepotism. iat South Carolinians are cau ant. ar it might be, this is certain: future of the state and balanc t, looks good indeed. It looks an. ent we share with each mem teral Assembly.-R.R. trying glesperately to eat all re they sprout. ,tty arguments for pigeon pie. ie who would object to utiliz bird for the dinner table on pigeons are tame and a fix mtimentalists would argue so :h full of chicken. anty of pigeons. Enough for Let us outfit a safari and :s. It would be a simple task It would relieve the growing iwn, and it would add to the teveral of our buildings.-R.R. ocket Trip But it did not last very long, and after we had fought our way for twenty miles through a detour of wet sand and slick gravel, condi tions seemed to return to normal. By the time we pulled into Okla homa City, we could see the blacki skeletons of innufnerable oilwells against the moonlit sky. And if we hadn't seen them, we could have avoided them by the smell; strong but rich to some people. Texas Scenery With our "kicks on Route '66" we crossed into Texas, where roads are so straight and level, that you can see in the morning whether a car is going to pass you in the evening. To make up for the rain, a sand storm hit us after Amarillo, hot and dusty. The lack of a fan on the engine made the cooling system boiling mad. After much cussing wye decided to spend the money for an extra water bag. We never used it. The radiator was rehabilitated. Dear reader, if you dislike scen ery descriptions, wvet your fingers and leaf on, because I cannot go over the following hours without trying to express what our eyes conceived. The color scheme in the Mexico deserts, broken by flat topped'miountain chains, is not for a human artist to- paint. The red golden glow, bright and dull, dark and soft fields of green and black intermittent with a yellow strip, or a purple haze, forms a con glomeration of desolate waste and graceful beauty. Till late at night wve sat up tasting this sight, till the loud and demanding roar of Diesel engines turned our heads to where in its shining length the silver body of the "El Capitan" thundered by. Fifty-one hours after our start, our brave V-8 had the first chance to cool off when we fell dead tired over and on some beds in Albu querque. A trip through the U. of New Mexico campus filled us with whoo of envy, but all too soon we encountered again the rem nants of the Navaho. selling genuine mass productions of things anybody does better with. out. Before we entered Flagstaff (Arizona) in the morning to begin our Grand Canyon Tour, we had crossed the Rio Grande shortly after we had aroused a gentleman at two o'clock at night just to see the meteor crater he was guard ing. Only a fast statement as to our countries of origin and our peaceful intentions saved us from a free sample of buckshot. So we stood at the rim of the crater, won dering about cosmic powers, while a scratched record described this non-plussible phenomenon. Fifty cents plus tax. I shall not even faintly attamnt BARBARA McSWAI - Vetera Boosts Before the holidays there ap peared in this space a column which some Carolinians seem to have misinterpreted. It was very definitely not intended as a vehicle to berate any veterans in any way. If anything, it was intended as just the opposite. There was of fered justification for the attitude of some veterans. The article stated, "No matter how hard they tried and wanted to, most of them could not regain the enthusiasm and desire for college life they had before they went away." The trouble with that statement was that it did not mention the very concrete accomplishments of -many other veterans. Perhaps it is true that the exceptions should have been commented on instead of the majority. To make a belated effort to give credit where it is due, take Bill Keith for example. Bill is no longer in school, but when he was, he was known all over the campus for his wit and personality. As an orientation teacher he was a vig orous and convincing salesman of Carolina life. Another v e t e r a n orientation teacher, Jack Hand, had started a private campaign to keep students off the grass and beautify the campus long before the freshmen started theirs. Joe Molony, Al Munn and Jem Newbury, the journalism trio, are outstanding examples of the good veterans can do. Joe has been one of the sparkplugs in almost every movement at Carolina to boost school spirit. Al and Jem have JANE W. DOWE G| Joe His Con One of the most influential de velopments of this century will be almost over in June. We are speaking of that of the veteran in American colleges and univer sities. In our opinion the GI is the finest thing that could have hap pened to an institution that had tended to become more social than educational before the war. Today the scales have been turned the other way. Young pao ple' realize that intellect, culture, and hard work are more important in college life than "knowing the right people" or "joining Dad's fraternity." And the veteran is responsible. He has generally raised the stand ards of the American university and has promoted keener scholas tic competition. The many stu dents of tife pre-war period who went to college because their par ents insisted have diminished. GI Joe offers an education him self to his fellow students through his "travel-tales" as well as through the knowledge and com mon sense that a few years "out in the world" have given to him. He has often been an example to describe Grand Canyon. The more I say, the less it would be. I climbed down into it a few hundred feet without coming visibly closer to the bottom, and no matter from where the spectator looks, the im pressive magnitude of this river's fight through rock and ages sur passes in beauty and eternity any human creation. Even mighty Boulder Dam, at night, with spot lights blazing over concrete and steel and black waters, still stood in the shadow of this great revela tion, Grand Canyon. California, At Last! On through the night, we quietly slipped into California, where we were searched for fruits, vege tables and nuts. Nice difference from European gontrols; these of ficials even let Dick sleep, and he needed sleep, since he steered us often more than 18 hours a day through new adventures, a Casey Jones with one foot on the accele rator, one on the clutch. Brakes were not much good anyhow. Through orange groves and vine. yards we "picked" our way through to Huntington Beach. With haste I undertook to embrace the Pa. cific's branding waters, but the cold reception forced me to a hur ried retreat. So we rode up te Santa Monica beach, through Sun. set Boulevard and the area of Hollywood. where only few thing. impressed me, like the Hollywood Bowl, from where I have often lis tened to the concerts under the stars with my head inside my radic back home. Our last view o ath+ IN n Spirit Carolina shown their talent for getting in terested, and staying that way, about projects that might benefit the school. The majority of fraternity presi dents are veterans. Many of the members of our basketball, foot ball, track, baseball and tennis teams have served in the armed forces. Ken Leland, recently retired chairman of the honor board, has worked tirelessly and conscien tiously for the promulgation of the good reputation of USC. Joe Stringer, one of the most fiery and forceful members of this year's student council, served in the Navy before coming to Caro lina. Freddy Atkinson has worked tirelessly to get Carolina on the road to national fame by bringing name bands down.' Richard McIn vaill has done a thankless but terrific job as chairman of the elections committee. Many veter ans have taken active parts in helping conduct the elections. Don Johnston, Bill Hutchinson, and many, many others deserve men tion for the good they have done. The list of those who have done bang-up jobs could go on and on. Many, however, find it impossible to get back into the "swing of things" when they return to col lege. The fact that this negative ele ment has gradually decreased to be replaced by ever-increasing numbers of happy and unbothered youngstera still appears to be a good thingl Makes tribution who is followed by the younger boys. School spirit has not suffered because of the veteran, and we disagree with recent remarks to this effect. Two veterans were responsible for the beginning of the Gamecock- Pep Club, and vet erans promoted the recent Boost ers' Club. "Carolina" to the student of the post-war days will always mean such names as Vernon Sloan, Bill Keith, Frank Eppes, and "Ham" Jones-all burning with a Caro lina spirit that few of the younger msen have. Although most of the veterans will have been graduated by next year, their influence will probably still be felt ten years from now. They are practical men that dif fered from the play boys of the twenties and thirties. College spirit is more than the "rah-rah" of those boys of the last generation. It is lasting. And we predict that our veteran students will be our most valuable alumni just as they have been the most valuable humanity to fall on uni versity soil since the admittance of coed students. A Brief Viel By H (Eds. Note: This is second in a series of three installments of an article by Dr. H. H. Turney High, head of Department of Anthropology and Sociology at U. S. C.) The American undergraduate in a Belgian university might also consider the system of instruction somewhat impersonal. The pro fessor is not known personally or socially to the student, who does not even want to be known by him until he is on his way to the doc torate and has proven his possi bilities of a career. The Lycee or high school, public, private, or re ligious, pretty well says who shall go to the university. The Lycee takes the student through what we would call the sophomore year of college. It is here that the real advising takes place, for the Lycee instructor knows by then who and what his students are. The student is supposed to know what degree and major he wants, and when he pays his en trance fees he is given a catalogue with detailed tables showing what courses he must paws. He obtains Pacific Coast was in the settling night from Angeles Crest, showing in its wide and colorful bright posi tion the city of the Angels. Let us go from hero into the next installment. It's No Bolony By JOE MOLONY What Do I Have to Offer USC? When a new student comes to Carolina what's the first thing that usually enters his mind? I don't know about you, but I wondpred "what does the University of South Carolina have to offer me?" And I learned, but fast. Carolina has nothing, nothing at all, to offer you. This is, if you jump into school with an attitude of "something for nothing." The main question is what do you have to offer the university? When you find the answer to that one then you'll be more qualified to ask "what does Carolina have to offer me?" If every student would take stock of himself when he first enters Carolina, ask this question, and set out in his own way to do something good for his school, there would be less dissention, criticism and ignorance among the troops. Students would be interested ih finding out what makes their school tick. They'd ask questions, demand an answer, whether it be evasive or not. Their Record Speaks for Itself Upoif hearing that Dean S. C. DePass and Prof. Frank Wardlaw were both leaving the university in June, the Phi Epsilon Nu journalism fraternity immediately made plans for a testimonial dinner in their honor. Well, the banquet's on. It's to be held this Sunday evening at the Columbia hotel. What's the purpose of a banquet? It's only a gesture on the students' part to thank Dean DePass and Mr. Wardlaw for "a job well done." These two men have virtually "carried" the school of journalism here since 1936. They've produced some of the most outstanding newspaper men in the state. They're both modest and have never spoken of their proteges, but believe me, they have 'em by the bushels. They've worked hard and long. Upon leaving, they'll have liltle to say. Their record speaks for itself. NO BOLONY-Wonder why they nailed bottle stoppers to the edges of the chalked lines in mid-court on the tennis courts? Never seen such goings-on before in my life!!! . . . Profs. Kit Fitzsimmons and F. B. Herty made interesting talks before the Pep Club last week. Fitzsimmons reminded the group that they had a big job ahead and the next few months' developments would either make or break the club. Herty said there's no reason why students couldn't be at tennis matches, baseball games, track meets and other Spring sporting events just as well as in football season. . . The Phi Epsilon Nu journalism fraternity was organized in 1946. At that time keys were made for charter members. On the keys was inscribed a slogan which included the word prejudice but it was spelled PREDJUDICE. No one knew the difference until a new member called it to the club's attention last week. Some wore the keys for four years un knoWingly. And the first rule of journalism is accuracy. Is my face red!!! A couple of university boys, Ira and Harold Davis, have started something new-a cozy, homey, dancing set-up over Doug Broome's strictly for university students at cut-rate prices. Sounds good, huh? Take it from me (and this ain't be ing paid for) it's as good as it sounds! ... Now th4t the new law school (Petigru, of all names) has been officially dedi cated amidst much pomp and splendor, how about old vacant Petigru? The journalism school is actually drooling over the prospects of getting this building . . . What's boxing coming to? The other night I was hearing the Lew Jenkins Beau Jack 150-pound fight at Uline Stadium, Washington, D. C. Jack was winning all the way up to the third, but he threw a low blow and wvas wyarned by the referee. He hit low again in the fourth and was warned again. He lost two points each time. Then, in the fifth, the Negro, a former shoe shine boy in Atlanta, Ga., aimed for below Jenkins' belt and slammed another low blow into the former cham pion's groin. It was deliberate, the announcer said. The crowd booed for some 15 minutes while Jenkins rested. After the rest period Jenkins still couldn't continue the fight. What happened ? You guessed it. Beau Jack won on a tech nical knockout over Lew Jenkins in the fifth round!!! w Of The Belgian Universities arry Holbert. Turney-High no one's permission to attend any student's work is good enough to particular course, Hie knows what merit commendation and encour he must do, walks in and does it, agement, he wvill himself call the or gets out, lie takes the responsi- student to the office. Should he bility for his own errors, for no think the student's work poor, he dean or petitions committee will. wvill announce his opinion to the The umiversity is considered no wvhole class and might advise him place for him If he cannot or will to drop the course. not read the regulations- Outside Research Work Duly matriculated, he starts to Aside from lectures and occa class, Hie rises when the professor sional "posod questions" the pro enters and sits when the learned fessor assigns several devoirs or gentleman begins lecturing. The tasks during the term. While the student may take notes or not, as gentleman would not consider hebpleases. If he finds the lecture grading quiz papers, he does read ad ore, he may chatter with the these student analyses of proposed la on his right, or make a date scientific or literary problems with with the girl on his left. The lcc- meticulous care and great skill. turer does not seem to mind, for His red ink comments on almost hednows he will have the last every word are the result of much word. The lectures, though, are midnight oil and exhibit his real ordinarily very carefully prepared, interest In his students. These re usually very worthwhile, and fre- marks are a serious part of the quently charming. The labora- student's education, and he had tories, of course, are conducted by better take them to hpart. At the persons of less than professional end of the course, and not before, rank The purofeso ould not the student pays a feo and is ex dam took quang his cass from amined orally by the lecturer. A a"ttoose andstonl'y rarel wil he poor youth or maiden Is ushered expoects qsi on,"l on w ih meito the office and asked one ques expess dinteigeTh aInformed tion which is supposed to reveal clas su ss n he cass over, his grasp of the course. H . is he suents rise and the professor given about fifteen minutes to an ure thi rankide where no one swer, the professor making no ndctek.n Apoftmeean wud dare comment. The grades are posted dIgknck.aint wt such next day, and I have seen no list dignitaries are almost unobtain- passing more than two-thirds of