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See!!Allmria 'Trhe Red Shoes',C Rtn State Theater UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volume XLIV, No. 28 C-LUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA8 MAY 12,1950 Graduatio 'For 10 A.] By USC NEI Dr. David E. Finley, South of the university, will delive at the university's graduatioi This was announced this w M. Smith, president. More than 800 students will re ceive degrees, and the university will confer honorary degrees upon Dr. Finley, who is director of the National Gallery of Art in Wash. ington, D. C.; Dr. Mason Crum of the Duke University faculty; and U. S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia. Dr. Finley and Dr. Crum will receive the degree of Doctor of Literature and Senator Byrd the Doctor of Laws. The commencement program will begin Sunday, June 4, with the baccalaureate service at the First Baptist Church at 8 p.'m. Mem bers of the graduating class, in academic costume, will assemble at the flagpole on the campus at 7:80 and march to the church, where they will be met by mem bers of the faculty, also in aca demic attire. The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered by the Rev. F. Clyde Helms, M.Th. pastor of the Shan don Baptist Church of Columbia. Commencement Day On Monday students and faculty will meet at 9:30 a. m. on the cam pus and will be arranged by uni versity Marshals for the procession to the Field House scene of the graduation exercises. The exercises will begin at 10 a. m. with Admiral Smith presid ing. After the graduating class has filed in to the strains of organ music by Prof. Robert L. Van Doren of the Music Department, the Rev. Carl A. Honeycutt, pastor of Ebenezer Lutheran Church of Columbia, will pronounce the in vocation. The assemblage will sing the National Anthem, after which par ents of the graduates will be recognized. Dr. Finley's address will follow this traditional ceremony, and then degrees will be conferred by Ad miral Smith with the assistance of Registrar H. 0. Strohecker and the deans of the schools. Singing of the Alma Mater song and the benediction by Dr. Lauren E. Brubaker, Jr., university chap lain, will close the exercises. University commencement mar shals will be under the direction of Prof. A. L. Ragsdale of the Physics Department. The chief usher will be Lamar Collie of Nashville, Tenn., president of the student body, and his aides will include three members each from Omicron Delta Kappa and Blue Key fraternities. Ushers will be selected from Kappa Sigma Kappa -and Alpha Kappa Gamma, campus service fraternities. Speech Training AL USC Asked By Leader Group Several leadership organizations, including student council, have en dorsed a plan whereby the univer sity would augment its English curricula with several more courses in speech training. According to the originator of the plan, Joe Stringer, the univer sity only offers two courses in speech, and these are limited to Juniors and Seniors who may take them as electives. "Speech is a basic element in anyone's education," Stringer pointed out. Schools benefiting from the addition of such courses would be education, business ad ministration, engineering, arts and sciences, and pre-law, he added. Such* courses -as oral reading, fundamentals of speech, voice training, radio speech, elements of persuasion, etc., should not cause any additional expense to the uni -versity, according to Stringer, and it would perhaps bring some stu dents here for majors or minors, who otherwise would not come. The groups endorsing the plan, besides Student Council were: Blue Key, Kappa Sigma Kappa, Eu phradian Society, and Clariosophic Literary Society. n Planned I. June 5 NS SERVICE Carolina native and graduate r the commencement address i exercises June 5. eek by Rear Admiral Norman M. Tannenbaum Talks Tuesday At. IRC Banquet Mannie Tannenbaum, Intercol legiate Zionist Federation of America field worker, will be the guest speaker at the annual ban quet of the International Relations Club which will be held Tuesday night, at 7:30 p. m., at the Green Derby restaurant. He will discuss the state of Israel's place in world politics. Monday afternoon, he will ad dress the Columbia Zionist Youth Commission at its luncheon. Tues day night he will speak at meet ings of the Hillel Society and the IZFA chapter. Native of Texas and a veteran of the United States Navy, Mannie took part in two invasions in am phibious craft. During the war for Israel's independence, he was in Jerusalem during the entire siege of that city. Junior Recitals Will Be Given Tonight At 8:30 Hugh Williamson, director of the university Department oi Music, will present the last of a series of junior recitals tonight at 8:30 in the Chapel. This joint recital will be' given by Miss June Niggel, organist, and Miss Anna McLaughlin, soprano. Miss Mary Cockfield of Scranton will be the accompanist for Miss McLaughlin. Miss Niggel is the daughter of Mrs. C. J. Niggel of Columbia. She is a graduate of Ursuline High School and Dreher High School and is a member of Kappa Delta sorority. Miss McLaughlin is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. McLaugh lin of Florence. Upon 'her grad uation from Tans Bay High School, she attended Salem College at Winston-Salem, N. C., entering the university in June, 1949. She is a member of, Delta Zeta sorority. Miss Niggel is a pupil of Robert Van Doren, and Miss McLaughlin is a pupil of Mrs. Evelyn Potter Williamson. The public is invited to attend the program. Music will include selections by Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Schumann, Bizet, John Duke, and Widor. Petition Protesting Free 10 a. m. Hour Plani Is Circulated A petition asking that the facul ty "rescind, revise, or reconsider," the plans for the assembly period and the free 10 o'clock hour on Mon.-Wed.-Fri. of next semester, has been circulated on campus. Several particulars of the objec tions, represented by the petition, are presented here. The main objection of those sign ing the petition lies in the concep tion that the 8, 9, 11, and 12 o'clock classes will suffer an increase due to reserving the 10 o'clock period for assembly, club meetings, etc. The petition states tat the plan will "generally disrupt class sched ules of students who work part time, who have laboratory courses, and who have only a limited num ber of advanced courses to pursue. Also, "Many students who are limited by time or financial con dition in completing their degree requirements would be drastically and harmfully affected by the omission of all ten o'clock classes." The petition points out that "the majority of students and faculty will have an hour of time wasted three mornings each week. . . . This indicates that many students and faculty will not have cause to attend the assemblies, a peti tioner said. Shown here are the newly initia Delta Kappa, national honorary lea Seated, left to right, are Frank brell, Benjamin Goldberg, Ralph B Standing, left to right, are Bar aid Sanders, William Fairey, and I Absent when the photograph w bey Golden. (USC News Service pi Council Renews Plan's Support Student Council again renewed its backing of the recently ap proved faculty plan of setting aside the 10 a. m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday periods for orientation and student activities meetings at its meeting Monday. A discussion was held in which the council members told the arguments they had heard from the students for and against the plan. The council was unanimous in its support of the faculty's action. Student council will meet again Monday to hear reports from the social affairs committee. The com mittee is expected to bring its de cision on the proposed plan to raise the students activities fee 50 cents. If the plan is approved by the committee and the board of trustees, the activities fee will be $15.50 next year. J. B. Jackson, dean of men, and Barney Dusenbury, student, have worked out a plan giving students better representation on the dis cipline committee, according to Lamar Collie, president of the council. Under the new plan, the presi dent of the student body selects six candidates to be representatives on the committee. From these six the student council elects four. From these four_9ean Jackson will choose not more than two to meet with the rest of the committee each time it gathers. The four elected at the last meet ing of student council are: Barney Dusenbury, Mitch Graham, Joe Ingram, and Hilda Adams. New members of the social af fairs committee were appointed. They are Isabel Thomas, Lamar Collie, Sam Manning, and Barbarai M cSwai n. This committee will meet today to work on a plan for a standing student fund to underwrite dances and other entertainment programs at Carolina. Ne Menmbers of Blue Key leaderah 28, are, left to right: Joe Stringer, Bernie Rubenstein, Charlie Mc Dad ODK Initiates ted members of the University of E tership fraternity. H. Martin, Charles Marritt, Arlen ( tiley, and Louis Lempesis. ney Dusenbury, Peter Hyman, Hichm 'loyd Spence. is made were Ter rell Glenn, Robert oto.) Chorus To Pre. Thursday Nigh The University Chorus, under the direction of Professor Robert Van Doren, will give a concert at 8:30 p. m., Thursday, in the Uni versity Chapel. The chorus will present the same program that was given on the Spring Tour this month. The concert includes selections of a religious and secular nature by outstanding composers. The chorus is made up of 55 Pep Club Plans St For Team On Mon By JOE MOLONY Carolina's baseballers will get a rousing send-off Monday morning at 9:50 in front of McKissick li brary for their all-important two game series with the Clemson Tigers Monday and Tuesday. The Gamecock Pep Club has ar ranged for a motorcycle escort for the team, cheers and several num bers from the band Monday be tween 9:50 and 10:00 a. m. Questionnaires have been sent out to each student and faculty mermber asking if they are inter ested in attending Tuesday's game. Transportation is being arranged by the Pep Club. Cars will be on hand to take care of the crowd, President Don Johnston reported, and a big turnout is expected. The motorcade will meet in front of the Field House at 10:00 a. m. Tuesday and will leave immediately for Clemson. Enough seats have been arranged with Clemson's pub licity department and athletic cards will be honored. Entire cost for the trip will be about $1.25, to take' care of eats, transportation and other expenses. w Blue Key Memb4 Ip frateruity who were Installed at Joe Ingram, Bill Seals, Ray McK s. Mike Callahan., and Prof. nHubrt outh Carolina chapter of Omicron 'otter, L. W. Hill, E. Smythe Gan rd Marelli, Robert Schumpert, Don Osborne, Basil S. Norris, and Har ;ent Concert t In Chapel singers. Each section is well bal anced in both quantity and quality. Professor Van Doren has stated that at none of the previous cam pus performances given by the chorus has he seen the chapel filled to capacity. He, along with members of the chorus, would like to see the chapel filled at this last performance of the chorus on the campus for the current school year. Everyone is invited. nd-Off Rally day Morning The Big Four championship and a possible shot at sectional, regional and national collegiate baseball honors hinge on this Clemson Carolina ball game. The Gamecocks have to win both to be in. The Pep Club held its regular meeting Tuesday afternoon at Le Gare 101. Plans were completed for the Variety Show, which was held last night. It was agreed that new members will be elected next fall instead of this semester. but officers will be elected Tuesday. NOTICE Distribution of the 1950 edi tion of the Carolina annual, the "Garnet and Black," began yes terday morning and will con tinue until each student has secured his. The hook store, in the basement of Maxcy College, is handling the distribution from 9 a. m. until 1 p. m. and 3 p. in. until 5 p. m. Ann Davis, editor, and Doris McClary, business manager. have expressed their pleasure in giving this annual to the stu dents. This is the earliest the annual has been distributed in several years. the fraternity's banquet on April manue, Lamar Collie, ", flaga, Bnigmer- (UTRC phe by T.er . TeL Fillingm, Bennett A The Algernon Sidney Sulliv Miss Beth Fillingim and J seniors, on the basis of loyE versity while in school here. Christie Benet, Attorney-at other Sullivan award for a ni The 14 outstanding seniors ship, service, and personalit3 lingim, Ann Mood, Betty Moc Rudy Rivers, Ken Leland, Al Greer, Jem Newbury, Frank I Joe Patrone was given the KSK award for meritorious service to the school. The Blue Key award for the most outstanding athlete went to George Wright. The winners of the "Carolina Re view" short story contest were announced. Al Munn won first prize, Robert R. Carpenter was second, and Andrea Chandler was third. Delta Omicron, music fraternity, chose Barbara Raffield and Joanne Weaver as outstanding music seniors. They each received a pin in recognition. May Herbert and Eugene Webb won the Beaufort Watts Ball scholarship for outstanding work in journalism. The Caroline Mc Kissick Belser scholarship for the most outstanding student in jour nalism was presented to Waltan McDonald. W. C. Sanders received the award for the business administra tion student with the highest aver age (1.2) which was given by Alpha Kappa Pi. Epsilon Lambda Sigma fraterni ty gave Joe McCalley the award for having the highest average of the students graduating from the ;chool of electrical engineering. He had a 1.08 average. Literary Awards Euphrosynean Poetry Contest Cup was won by Marjorie Duckett. Clariosophic awards went to Joe Ingram for the declamation con test, to Ed Cottingham, for tho oratorical contest, and to Gene Rogers for the debating contests Euphradian awards for declama tion went to Sanford Zahler, and to Foy Dickson for debating. The Lois Reynolds' medal for the most representative Euphradian gradu ating was given to James Patter son and to Jack Nettles. The Pi Beta Phi scholarship award for the graduating Pi Phi with the highest average went to Jean Welch with 1.5. The IFC cup for the fraternity with the highest average went to Phi Lambda Pi for the third straight year. The Chi Omega Social Service prize of $25 went to Frances R. Steele. Four members of the Law Quarterly staff wvere awarded a 'ertificate for outstanding service n makinert the quarterly nationally known. They were Marshall Mays. (editor; l.anville Mengedoht, JTohn Eck, and Bernard Maybank. The Gonzales Medal for Oratory went to Ed Cottingham. The Keitt medal for extempor aneous speak ne was won by Harvey Golden. Melton Kligman won the Don Hemphill trophy for forensics. Sports In the intra-mural sports awards, Kappa Alpha won volleyball, foot ball, and basketball. Also winning volleyball were the Carovets, and the Independents wvon in football. The Block "'C" Club won basket hall. SA E won the swimming con tests and the Sigma Nu's, the track meet. The $30 prize for the outstand ing student in painting in the art department was divided between John Bell, Gene Caughman, and J. Bardin. The interior decorating award went t.o Mary Ann Davis. Betty Dorsey won the costume de signing prize and the outstanding art student chosen was Denise Gary. The Kiwanis Cup for the best n'ivel drill platoon went to its leeduer, Tom MacFie. The electri oeal enrgineering branch contest was won by Dick Morelli. Claire Turner came in second. Departmental Awards Robert Naylor, the most out standing nm a t h student, was awarded the Rion Scholarshin. Winners of two competitive math contests, who were awarded $25 each, are Robert Naylon, W R. Mason, rclaimed an Awards were presented to )hn Mason, both graduating Lity and devotion to the uni Law in Columbia, received the n-student. chosen for character, leader , are: Ann Davis, Beth Fil d, Doris McClary, Jane Dowe, Munn, George Wright, Benny 3ppes, and John Mason. Motely, Bard Alliston, and Eugene Payne. George McGregor w o n the Hutchinson award for scholarship. Delta Sigma Pi, business fra ternity, gave a scholarship key to William Sanders who has the high est over-all average for his four years. The secretarial award was won by Carolyn Moore. The outstand ing student in education was Jane McBride. The Manning geology award was won by Dan Ross. Alva Raye Ballantine won the Harper chemistry award. Superior work in English by Dessa Turkette was recognized. The Bates medal for the best literary production was awarded to four students, Al Munn, Jem Newbury, Harris Graham, and Robert Floyd. Alpha Delta Pi's scholarship award went to Frances Plyler, with a 1.5 average. Mrs. Marie Collum won the Delta Zeta scholarship award. Ann Davis was given recogni tion for her work on the "Garnet and Black." The program, of which Charlie Jones was master of ceremonies, closd with the playing of the band. Wright Explains Assembly Plan By GEORGE WRI(;Hr STUDENTS!!! Last week the facuity at its meeting passed the plan offered it by students to have an assembly next year. Some students hearing of this plan have presented the following objections. They complained that the plan would cause more conflicts in classes than already exist; that students who have to work will not be able to get to their classes at convenient hours and hence hamper their work. Fortunately, none of these state ments are true. The plan of an assembly at Carolina was origi nated, instigated, and p)resented to the faculty by members of the student body. It had its origination in Student Council this past year and has been pushed by the YM YWCA, KSK, Blue Key and other campus organizations. It is not and never has been a plan of the faculty. Since the ten o'clock MWF hour is the fourth most popular class hour on the campus, the faculty chose thIs hour as being the most convenient. As for morning labs being ruined, it was brought out by lab professors that it was tho best hour for them, because their labs are given in the morning from 8-10 and 11-1. The 10 o'clock as 'sembly would give them time to clean up after the first lab andl to be ready for the second. There will pro6iably be a few more eight o'clock sections offered than previously, hut no more after noon classes will be organized as a cause of the plan than have been offered in previous semesters!! Since it is the consensus of tho majority of the students at Caro lina that the school needs more unity, more closeness and fellow ship, this plan was presented to the faculty and passed by the fac ulty. The Monday meeting will be compulsory for all freshmen be cause orientation wil, be taught then. For upperelausmen, the Monday and Wednesday hour will be used for organisational meetings. Fri day the assembly will be held for the whol, student body, with a studemt-faeulty committee planning the pro=ramsa.