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Gameco Fall, The Gamecock has been asked what its policy for this term will be. It is, therefore, the purpose of this editorial to set forth that policy. As a college newspaper, The Gamecock is an organization which has as its underlying purpose to inform and stimulate the further ance of a greater Carolina. The ways and means of doing this are many. Sometimes it will call for criticism, often 'for praise, and more often for simply bringing out issues which should be in the minds of the students. It is not the purpose of the paper to blast any group in the overall campus organiza tion-including the students, the adminis tration, and the faculty. However, if criti cism of any one of these groups is necessary and warranted, then it will be printed. If such a group feels that it has been unduly criticized then it may write to the paper presenting its side of the question-and its letter will be published. The underlying fundamentals of any newspaper must be accuracy and truth. These The Gamecock will try to guard and respect, recognizing this not only as a duty to good journalism but as a necessity for the loyal support of its patrons. The paper is the product of student work. It was founded in 1908 by students and has now run for over 42 years under student direction. It is paid for by the students and by advertisements. It is, therefore, the voice of the students. It has no censorship and will not have any. It will be guided by the ideals of good taste and good journal ism, always asking itself, "Will this help Carolina ?" We Ask This is a word to those who are entering Carolina for the first time. To you we want to say, "Welcome, we're glad to have you; we hope you will enjoy your stay with us." These are the things you have been hearing ever since you arrived on the campus. So we add our greeting to you. But we do not wish to stop with this. We also want to re mind you of a few other things. First of all, you are now considered adults. Whether or not you are worthy of the title only you can decide. And that you must do. For the rest of your life, you must make your own decisions. No one else can do it for you, nor do you wish them to do so. You will be faced with many new ideas in the next four years. One of them will be the question of which activities to join. We can say only that you should join those to which you would be willing to give a little bit of yourself-for that is the only way you will profit by it or it by you. We would ask f/ GAMco< CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROL Member of Associated Collegiate Pres Distributor of Collegiate Digest FoundedT January 30 198 wI sRobert Eliott Gonzales University of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, during year except on holidlays and dluring examinations. Teopinions expresed by columnIsts and letter writerstar endorsement. The right to edit Is reserved. EDITOR........ ........O A MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER NEWS .e CAMPUS . .~ SPORTS L SOCIETY Ad EXCHANGES Mr COPY.. FEATURES Jci CIRCULATION. STAFF REPORTERS . Rt akr COLUMNSTS BabaraM BarlJ :k Policy 195 It will not attempt to tear down anything good unless something better can be put in its place. It will not criticize without pur pose nor will it praise without purpose. It will attempt to stop any disreputable prac tices on the campus. From time to time, it will make mistakes. It will, therefore, expect criticism, but will realize that criticism does not constitute dis loyalty, only a difference of opinion, or a new way of looking at, things. It will de pend on the support of the students for its existence. This is the hope and the trust on which it works. It will also recognize that all students do not take the long view of matters and will consider this when forming opinions. The opinions of The Gamecock columnists are not necessarily the opinion of The Gamecock, but are the ideas of the column ists themselves. By way of summary, we may say this: (1) The Gamecock will serve the students, making itself responsible to them. (2) Its loyalty will be to the university. (3) It will decide for itself what to print, keeping in mind the principles of good taste. (4) It will try to inform the campus, re flecting campus life and thought. (5) It will keep truth and accuracy as goals always before it. (6) It will attempt to give praise and criticism without prejudice, realizing that prejudice is the result of a narrow mind. This, then, is the policy for Fall, 1950. At the end of the semester, we hope to have maintained our All-American rating. More than that, we hope to have made Carolina a better place by our "crowing." O.T.E. You... that you not join so many that your study ing will be seriously affected, for this is the prime reason for your presence here. Some one has paid for your education and you owe it to him to help get his money's worth. You will also be faced with new ideas in regard to your principles, your morals, or your religion. We ask you not to destroy unless you can replace with something bet ter. We ask you to hold on to those things which you have found true. We say that if you doubt, have enough curiosity to try to find the answers, not to lapse into the lazi ness of not caring. We ask you to develop in your four-year stay, a loyalty and spirit for Carolina which will go with you throughout your life, so that even as this loyalty to its ideals will help you, so may you help it. We call you men and women. Have we made the right decision? O. T.E. ON MAN Life is cruel and life is kind and life is interesting. And the cruel est, and kindest, and most inter esting factor in life Is man, or NA men. They are tall, short, handsome, ugly. They are the personification of conceit. athe first They are huge, raging beasts; the college they are little boys with stubbed toes and hurt feelings. niot neces They are blind and they are mnetitute an clear-sighted. A smile or a flat EDWARDStering remark from a girl and they EDWARDS are lost. The same from a man OGM PRICE and they are on their guard. WL4 FIELD They demand frankness, but are masters of the art of beating my Knowlton around the bush and do not know ara Derrick what frankness Is. . Tankrsley They admire sophistication, but Tankesicy are amazed when the sophisticated ea Chandler woman does not turn into a model, Bloodworth domesticated housewife. BbySih They are strong and brave, but obySih tremble at the door of confusion Southerland and darkness. >nPrho They are a maze of inconsisten chiPrsh es, but who like. the monotony Ken Powell of consistency ? ick Walther . S. BARBARA McSWAI Wha YouE If a survey of the student body were taken tomorrow, probably no two people would make an iden tical list of the things they expect to get out of the four, or two, or seven years they spend at Caro lina: Most of the new students have not made up their minds .even vaguely as to exactly what the purpose of college is, anyhow. They have been swamped by girls and boys who make them wonder whether there is any college life at all outside of the sorority rooms in Sims or the myriads of frater nity parties. Other groups lead' the wonder ing freshman to believe that a person is "just nobody" on the campus unless he wears a string of keys three miles long and holds the presidencies of at least five organizations. Those athletically inclined some times suggest to new students that the real way to get "in" at col lege is to sacrifice studies and activities in favor of sports. A few-very few-factions at Caro lina tell freshmen that this is all bosh and that the thing to do is shun social functions, organiza tional meetings, and athletics. "The purpose of college is educa tion; a true student has no need for any other activities than those which improve his mind." Well, Guest Editor: Jimm The Disrobin Apparently the "Invisible Em pire" has at last been seen. Now that the freedom loving peoples of this nation know what they are looking for they can see this "em pire" more and more clearly. The Ku Klux Klan has been disrobed. Hailing itself as a "patriotic, benevolent, fraternal order," rep resenting "law and order, freedom of speech, freedom of press and freedom of conscience," the Klan is "opposed to all manner of mobs, and to mob violence in every form, and the destrution of public and private property without due proc ess of law." One of the most enlightening pieces of literature of the century was recently uncovered at the huiume of the "Grand Dragon" in the form of "Principles and Pur poses of the Klan." This document tells us that "the time Is at hand when no self-respecting American Protestant can hold himself aloof." More vehemently it claims "you must either join the Klan and throw your influence on the side of decency, Christianity, and lawv en forcement, or join the law break ers, Negro preachers, Roman Catholics, or Jews.'' This Is one reason why the "In visible Empire" has been seen. There are so many more of us law breakers, Negro preachers, Roman Catholics, and Jews, than there are "patriotic, benevolent, and fra ternal" souls who desire that cer tain brand of "law and order." Another reason thnt the Klan is It's Up T Honor, Y This may seem a rather foolish question to ask. We think, of course, the answer will always be yes. However, this Is a question that Is asked of every student on the camptn .every day, and unfor tunately ti answer 1s not always yes. We thir.k that the answer will be yes because we think of honor in terms of some far-off general ity. It doesn't seem to be a thing that affects our everyday lives, it's out there somewhere and we'll pick it up sometime. What a trag edy! As long as we maintain this attitude we can never hope to achieve the label of an honest man. Right now, today, is the time to start building our lives on a code of honesty. There Is little question that our college years are our most formative. We have a choice to make-Honor, Yes or No? One of these leads to respect, success, and inner peace. The other leads to loss of respeet, failure, and per sonal conflict. Still we feel that this is not the time for the real anie. but it is. N tDo xpect? not many freshmen, or any other students, are bothered too much by that theory. However, it does rep resent a possible school of thought. The thing is, the freshman is confronted by all these people at one time. All of them seem con vincing. They talk like they know everything there is to know about how the freshman can get out of college what he wants, regardless of whether or not he is exactly sure of what he does want. This is when the freshman has to begin growing up. He has to teach himself to "sift the wheat from the chaff" in the arguments to which he will be constantly ex posed. Most important of all, he has to decide for himself just ex actly what he does want to do w:th the time and money he is invest ing in college. He must learn the truth of what somebody once said, "There are well-dressed foolish ideas as well as well-dressed fools." For the student who dissipates his, talents and energies in inef fective and half-hearted attempts at orientation, Carolina offers lit tle or nothing. For the one who can reach a decision about his con duct and activities and determine to follow it, Carolina offers "riches untold" toward attainment of the truly full and well-rounded life. y Howle g Has Come being seen is that we are begin ning to understand the Malikian truth of their claims: "Not to vio late the law but uphold the law not to oppress or persecute man kind but to uplift mankind-not to create racial strife or racial prejudice among men, bui, to cul,i vate brotherly kindness among men-not to crush the down trodden, but to protect the weak." We see through these things because we know that the Klan violates the law by taking it into its own hands. They do oppress and persecute because their pur pose is to frighten the ignorant and superstitious. They do create racial strife and prejudice because they stand for white supremacy. We must continue to see these clans and empires, for we can never be free so long as the rights of other free men are denied. We must learn to judge men according to their individual merits and not because of their color, creed, or race. We must not tolerate in tolerance. The work of such men as Sher iff C. E. Sasser of Horry Gounty and Circuit Judge J. Duncan Bel linger will'do much to speed the disintegration of these invisible empires, but the big job is ours. We must destroy these mad mobs of ignorant cowards who try to cover their sins and follies by coy ering their faces. --By Jimmie Howle, a White, Male, American Protestant from Darlington County. o You - - is Or No This same question applies to our Honor System here at Caro lina. We have a Board and a Council that are working to insure and guard our Honor Principle. This group composes 24 .represen tatives elected by the student body. These students are only a small percentage of the campus. It is not their job to be a secret police or a Gestapo. The choice is yours -Honor, yes or no ? First of all it is your duty to conduct yourself with a code of Honor, -md sec ondly, it is your duty to help your fellow student. If you see a stu dent cheating, call him aside, warn him, or if you think it wvise, re port him to the Honor Board mem ber from your school. Do some thing about it; don't start wild ru nmors. Too many ugly tales are going around the campus about groups without any real basis. If you know someone has cheated, turn him in; don't just gossip. It's up to you-Honor, Yes or No? .-Terenl 1lenn The Price Of Things By TOM PRICE GREAT TO BE BACK It's great to be back among these many shining happy faces again. At least it's great for them to be back for we were here all summer. That summer school was rough. No fraternities, no sororities, no parties, no dropMin, no Jackie Southerland with her water pistol-no nuttin': Things have changed a bit for all of us since last June. For one thing, there's a shooting war on again. This ugly fact will undoubtedly affect most of us in one way or another during the next few months. Some of us will be called into the service-indeed, some of us already have and those of us that are lucky, will remain and carry on on the home front. We hope that this space in The Gamecock will not be wasted in the few months to come. If you don't think there's a real war on, just listen to this: Ben Boddie, journalism alumnus of '49, recently with the "Charleston News and Courier," has been called to active duty as a navy Ensign and has been assigned to duty aboard a destroyer somewhere in the Pacific. Bob Dockery, '50, former tackle on the Gamecock foot ball team, has enlisted in the marine corps and is now at Parris Island. During World War II, Bob was in the navy. Jack Granger, pharmacy senior from Greenville, received greetings from his draft board Monday, but has hopes of being deferred until graduation. Harry Bryson, journalism senior from Asheville, N. C., was called by his draft board two weeks ago, but was tempo rarily deferred to finish his education. Harry lacks only 10 hours for his degree. Bruce Currington, freshman footballer last year, has been called to active duty as a marine corps reservist. EVIL LITTLE VOLUMES The newly issued student activity books are pretty little things with their red backs and multi-colored coupons. Their practicability, however, is doubtful. The old student activity card was just the right size to fit into a card case, wallet or billfold. The student activity book is too thick and too long to fit into a wallet without bending. If one crams the bulky book into his wallet any way, he will walk around the campus looking like he has a pillow in his hip pocket. As far as the conda n' rnteerned, their purses aro1 ready crammed with lipstick, cigarettes, matches, and the like. A nice thin little student activity card would fit much easier into those crowded containers than does the fat bulky student activity book. Several days ago in the depository a somewhat bewil dered freshman was try to cash a check. When asked to show his student activity book as identification, he replied that he had left it in his room. It was too bulky to fit into his billfold. We realize that the reason for supplanting student activ ity cards with student activity books is to prevent students from passing their cards out to buddies who are non students. If it were left up to the university this practice r would probably be tolerated, but when someone who is sup posed to pay his way in gains admission to the field house or stadium by way of a student's card, the federal govern ment fails to collect the tax on a ticket. Uncle Sam doesn't like to be rooked out of his money. That is, not by his native sons, anyway. Internal revenue men were present at the field house for all events last year to watch over the Gamecock flock and make sure that uncle got his rightful cut. This year the thick student activity book with a separate coupon for each event has replaced the student activity card. These coupons will undoubtedly make the internal revenue department's work much easier. Meanwhile the student body wanders around with bulging billfolds; not bulging with money, how ever. There are 15 coupons in the student activity book. Each coupon is good for one event and is to be torn out when the student enters the field house or stadium. Why not return to the old student activity cards after this semester and have 15 small numbered squares on each card-one square for each event? When the student enters an event, the corre sponding square could be punched out thereby preventing the card's being used again for the same game or match. This system should satisfy the internal revenue depart ment and assure the government of enough taxes to feed Europe, as well as fight the Korean war.4 It would probably save the university a few bucks, too, for there was no more paper in the old student activity card than there is in the cover'of the student activity book. 'tOG10St Of Carolina" By JACIj WALTHER tlkdThogitalYUcnt There's a ghost at Carolina. hl u es i rd--n o You may find him in your class-wilelthsa. rooms or he may rest with you in Buhewlwany,tisgo. the afternoon shade on the horse-thtyu utnoretnhi shoe, but you may know him bestlars,tthiacopsme. at night when the campus is stillbeogthianifyureo and dark and the buildings loom as saehspieyums rv shadows,.oref oty He is a friendly ghost, this Adwocnbaehm "Ghost of Carolina." He will talk Truhteyashsnm a to you and tell you vaguely ofbenlatdasagrneeo himself, of the registration lines Inprsiefrtoewodevd which he has stood, of the courses nn.Hsvr olhsbe he has taken, of the footballmardbthinoptnef games he has won and lost, ofthswoalwetemlvso the days he lived and the days hefalBuinsteoalthse died. He will tell you of the day i o itr o ieb iewt he -'first came to Carolina whenthspeedrsavbenoer it was born as South Carolina wob ok fteronhv College and that since that tipieadetohsuban. he has never missed a day. If H satmls hs,br you are willing to list2n he willofacmlsen,lthd n describe his classmates-the waymeoyHecntdibuheI j the drsse an te wy tey epedt fo hi earnyo,thi ons, that ou m st no res on is