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Can You C Can you compromise your principles? Are you willing to cooperate with that which is against them? If not, then why should The Gamecock be expected to cooperate with that which is against its own standards? Why should it be put under a board which has the power to take away its freedom of expression? This is the question which has come to the minds of those on The Gamecock staff again and again. We have been told that we should co operate with the new Board of Publications until it does something to offend-until it starts a control program. Yet, if we knew that a thief was coming, we would not wait until he had stolen our money before trying to bring about preventive measures. Such is the situation of The Gamecock. It cannot wait until the action is taken. It can not afford to sit back until the final author ity of the board is brought upon it-whether now or ten years from now. Some members of the administration ask why we are wary of the board. In answer to that we ask another question "What were the * motives of setting up the b)oard ?"-especially in view of the fact that the student board of publications was functioning. Was it finances? This was one of the rea sons given to The Gamecock. It is said that the publications of the campus cost approxi mately $50,000 per year. Yet we again re mind that the money from these publications is centralized in the student activities office and that the students coul(l not mishandle it. Was it the need for a system of setting up editorships for "The Garnet and Black"? Surely, this could have been done by the stu dent council, without taking it to the Board of Trustees. What Comes What can be done with the free periods on Friday between the regular speakers? Evidently this question has already been considered. The students were shown movies of the Georgia Tech-Carolina football game during one of these times. These were well attended by members of the student body. This was an excellent idea. We would like to see it continuedI with other games away from home. Another suggestion which has come to The Gamecock is that of having several one act p)lays p)ut on by the University Players. D)irected by Prol'essor M. G. C~hristophersen, this group has p)roved its worth on the cam pus with its many fine productions. How ever, we are afraid that too many studlents are ignorant of its talents. This is a way CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTrii CAROl Member of Associated Collegiate Pre' D)istribuator of Colegiate Digest Founded January 30, 1908, with Ronbert Elliott Gonzaltes editor, "The Gamecock" is published by and for the stul University of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, dulring year except on holidlays andt during examsinations. 'The opinions expresseud by columnists and letter writers al sarily those of "The Gamecock." P'ublislhing does not endorsement. 'The right to edit is reserved. EDITOR .......OLGA MANAGING EDITOR. BUSINESS MANAGER .P ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER Eli NEWS Be. CAMPUS ..Bai SPORTS L SOCIETY . . .. And EXCHANGES .Mar COPY ..... FEATURES ..Tackie CIRCULATION... STAFF REPORTERS Ruth Barker COLUMNISTS .. .. .. .. .. ..Barbara McSwain, , BUSINESS STAFF Bobby McMahan, L.ann Yates, Nancy 1 -ompromise inciples? We were told that the Board was not se up for The Gamecock. Last week, a copy o: the original resolution made in the meeting of the Board of Trustees was read by mem hers of The Gamecock. One part was entirela about "the student newspaper." We have also been told that The Gamecoci could become Communistic. Any stand in tha1 direction would immediately be stopped b3 the students themselves, who are very much against Communism. If such a thing could possibly happen, this writer and all members of The Gamecock staff would join in the halting of it. However, it is felt that the con trol of a free press is the beginning of Fascist inclinations. Why was the Student Board of Publica tions not sufficient in governing The Game. cock? It had kept it in running condition for 42 years-even to the point that in 1947-48 49, The Gamecock was voted All-American top rating in the United States. Complaints have not been made to the Student Board about the editorial policy in the last year. This Board is made up of six students and two faculty members. It is reasonable to be lieve that any complaint which might have been made would have been considered care fully, and if justifiable, some action would have been taken. We are not defiant to the Board of Trus tees. We merely feel that they did not realize the potentialities of the Board which they set up. We feel that when they do see the lossibilities of totalitarian-like control, that they will rescind the motion setting it up. We believe that the members of the Board would not want The Gamecock to compro mise its principles any more than any one of them would compromise his. In-Between? for the students to become acquainted with them in an interesting program. Another idea is that of having a student talent show. With 3,256 students, a great deal of talent should be discovered on the campus A little hunting would probably bring thai talent to the front. If you have other ideas for programs, w( would like to' hear them. ,Just mail them tc The Gamecock, Box 79. Meanwhile wve would like to say that the first two speakers have been excellent. We wouldl like to applaud the committee whichi set out so late last year- to find speakers and( found the list wvhich they have-and every member of the student body who has attendled these meetings, making them a suc cess. Jack Wat'er 0The Forgotten Man INA . Ye(sterday I wa the business mann, the teacher, the housewife. Today I am the alumni. I have come' from all p)arts of the state, bringing my family and my a~ tme *r~t friends. I have come to see thc dents of the game. the cllegeI have come with an alir of gai ety andl of sadness5-a feeling of e nt ncee- idlentity and of loneliness. TIhe wo~ittC~~istfulness may show in my eyes Imust not let them see it. ED)WARDS Somehow I feel I am living ii TOM PRICE over again. Howv familiar the cam. AULI FIELD jus seems. How like the (lay I lefi it. Only time has changed, Carolini ott Wadlaw has remainedl the same. tsy Knowlton Here is the library, but wvhere bara Derrick are the hours I have spent studly. ing in its halls. Here are th< 3. Tankersley stately tre~es on the horseshoe, but rea Chandler wVhere is the girl I courted beneath y lowrh their branches. Where are my v lowrh classmates, my friends-my room Bobby Smith mate, Jim, who never bought his Southerland own toothpaste andl soap but al wonPrso ays uisedl mine. All are gone, yel ronPrso someh~ow they are here. My com Ken Powell ing has brought them back. rack Walther I see a thousand faces, hear a thousandl voices speak and sing of Carolina. They belong to the pres itcell at, I to te st. ey loo atm Betsy Knowlton Which GroL There are three types of citizens attending "the university these days. There is a vast number that attends classes and then disap pears for the rest of the day. r There is the class of joiners. A - much smaller number of students belong to the joiner class. They join everything and give service to none. Then there is a handful of dependable individuals that at tended a few meetings regularly and proved themselves reliable in a few small things. Then one day they awoke and found themselves elected to an office in the cock eyed organization. Elected t' an office meant more than being the executive for a certain phase of the work, and the sad thing is that nobody told them because very few knew that it meant the poor soul was planner, executive, committee chairman, committee, and doer of all dirty work. Like I said, the poor soul is reliable so he is stuck with a responsibility, that of doing half the work of the club. It is that handful of slaving souls who keep most of the cam pus organizations somewhere near the high ideas once set for that group. The joiners sometimes think to thank those (uiet, hard work ers; usually they don't think of it. What's wrong with that pic ture? Why are a few over Barbara McSwain Big Th Strikes At about noon tomorrow panicky coeds and boys will be flying around the campus looking for friends, cars, gloves :tnd other lo:t articles. Bright-eyed "first tim ers" will be looking forward to seeing the Gamecocks stomp on the Tigers and tear 'em up. There will be middle-aged men and women walking around with faraway looks in their eyes. They will be reliving the days when they were the often troublesome, sometimes radical, always exuber ant student body. Un'lr nth the atmosphere of intense excitement will be a cur rent of sadness-a nostalgic feel ing. For the first time the seniors will feel a deep kinship with the alumni. They will look with new found insight at the proceedings of the (lay. Every tree and build ing will have acquired in their eyes a beauty all their own. They vill feel the first stirrings of the feel. ing that makes graduating (classes return here year' after yeamr "'in search of lost miemor'ies." All morning mu ~sic will pour friomt tenement wvindlows. Sims will re sound1( with yells of "'What did you (10 with my last pair' of nylons?" Pin-curled heads will retreat hastily fronm wvindhows when early Guest Columnist: B In Vain With the restoration of Seoul, the war-ravagedl cap)ital of South Korea, a certain freedom has heeni returnedl to the )eo'ple' of South Korea. PThey' have been freed fronm the deceit. antd inthuanity of Comn munist rule. Th is freedomi was recovered at a tremendohums co(st to t hieI iite States. More thanm 2,000 Amuer icans gave t heiri lives. Tlhousands who were woumndhed will have to be hospitalized for' many months antd yearms. Add to this thec pi'obable cost of well over 50) million dol - lar's ini equiipment, anid moreit tmil lionis to rehabilitamte what we' have in wvonder. T1hey (do not rec'ognize me, but I knowv them, for in their' eaIger faces I see my owni anmd those of my depam'ted clhassmates. But if I am sadl I ami not de sponidenit, f'or' t here is a game to (lay-a game whiich sets my heart afire with vibrant antic'ipation. The band will p)lay, the cr1owd( will swell with a single ('motion, andI the hearts of all wvill fuse as one. Who can say that I aim niot a part of all this ? If Car'oinam wins who will be happier than I ? If by some turn of fate we lose, I shall have lost with her. Yes, I am still a son of Carolina. I have helped to make her what she is andl she is also mine. Noth ing- is lost but ti. rp Are You? worked, way overworked to keep up a little school spirit and to keep alive some of the old tradi tion. Of course, every single organi zation isn't as bad as all that, but far too many of them are. Some become joiners because 'their fraternity or sorority tells them to attend a certain number of functions a week. Some are honors hounds. A few got into too many clubs to serve any one well purely by accident. They ought to drop out of half of these. All of these clubs have some thing of the same purpose-to unite a group of students with a common interest and develop that interest constructively. How can such a purpose be carried out if most of the members belong to about six other such clubs? A joiner can't possibly serve any of then well. When all the work is left to the few sincere persons who want to see it amount to something, they have to work too hard. Often the only thing they get out of it all is a bad memory of four years of frenzied over doing, innumerable headaches, and a perpetual lack of time to eat and sleelp. Please, joiners, slow up in join ing and help make a few of the organizations you belong to worth your while. ursday Again bird ilaiti's foul t'verything up by coiniug early. Shades of pink, magenta, and ;iually garnet and black crepe paper will decorate every car in sight. Boys not carrying dates will advertise their hard fought freedom by affecting fa tigue caps and other oddities of dress, at which their girl-encum bered buddies will look wistfully. 1)espite their reserved seats, the whole student section will be out at the stadium hours before game time. The static of the pre-gamo loud-speaker will be drowned out by the bellowing salutations of hoys '-ross two sections of seats and the continuous buzz of femi nine voices. The sun's going to shine, the st.and:; are going to rock with the clee ring and everybody's going to be hapipy when the last, whistle blows. We'll all feel sort of tight thrioate d when we standl up to "I a il TIhee, Carolina," but the band will sound great, the major ettes will look good, and the half ttte. sp)teches w,ill be short. YouI know they say that Clem sonl has a pretty good team this year. Maybe wve'd better not count on beating them over two or three touc hdownas. ob Kederick Again? already detstr oyed, and you have the pi ce of a modern situation or "'jol ice actoni." Militar ily speaking, these costs were light. But step into any one of those 2,000) homes and you'll be told that the loss was the heaviest lhey couhl1( imagine. Was thle cost t.oo great? It eer-. tainly was if the Communists are allowed to sneak in and take over as they hav'e (done in parts of Ger many, Italy, and Poland. They (lid this after suthposedly free elee ions. Thiiis ('ost , inl some respects, coul be1to just ified if the UJnited Nations col e'stabl ish itself as a ruly effective force for peace. To do this the UN must form a mtilitary establishment capable of meeting andl controlling situations such as arose in Korea. This mili tary estaublishmient should be main tained as a tower of strength againtst t hose nations who insist upon agitating global brawyls. 'rThe UJnitedl Nations should keep a continuous vigil over all contro versial areas. No one can justify the loss of thte Uinited States without the hope of averting identical losses in the nea r fu tutre. To those who would justify these losses, may you remember that we cannot avoidl global free-for-alls by pulling dowvn the window shades andi humming "Hearts and Flow The Price Of Thin By TOM PRICE Are You Ready? A tense air of excitemen has begun to pervade the campus. Well over three thousand students have become "hopped up" for the big doings that are just a few hours away. Tomorrow is "Big Thursday." Those two words are magic on this venerable campus. When a Carolina man or woman hears "Big Thursday," his pulse quickens and a light comes into his eyes. To the loyal son of Carolina Big Thursday is more than an ordinary football rivalry. It is an institution a craze, an obsession, and many other things. It is a law as provided by the General Assembly-it is everything. We live for this one day in the year when our Gamecocks go forth on the field of battle to meet the hated Clemson Tigers and our hopes soar to previously unprecedented heights and burst into peerless ecstasy if we win and into un consolable sorrow if we lose. If we win we remain cocky and jubilant for the next year; if we lose we eventually shake off our sorrow and say, "wait 'til next year." Rex Enright and his boys aren't planning f6r us to have to wait 'til next year. Rat Week Begins Festivities Big Thursday begins early at Carolina. "Rat Week" began Monday and will continue until the big game. During this time all freshmen are tested thoroughly to ascertain if they are fit to be sons or daughters of Carolina. A new feature of Rat. Week this year will be the crowning of a "King and Queen" of the rats at tonight's preliminary contest between the Biddies and Cubs. Each of the twelve social fraternities on the campus and many of the sororities have again prepared displays for the occasion with the accent on gaiety. The displays range from booths serving fresh "tigerburgers" to beautiful color ex hibits depicting the inevitable triumph of "culture over ag riculture." The fraternity displays are sponsored by the Inter Fraternity council and a cup will be awarded to the display that is judged the best. Pan-llellenic society is sponsoring the sorority show and will also award a prize to the winner. For Whom the Bell Tolls At noon today the chapel bell will begin to toll and will continue sounding its tidings for twventy-four hours. The bell cord will be manned by a crew of healthy freshmen picked for the purpose by upper-clessmen. At 6 p.m. the bonfires will be lighted. These beacons will be kept burning all night near the main entrance of the Lampus. They, too, will be maryledl by freshmen. When the fires have been lighted, the annual shirt-tail parade up Sumter street will begin. A team of freshmen will draw an aincient horse carriage bearing Admiral Smith and Lamar Collie, president of tbe student body and tackle on the foot-. ball team. A truck loaded with screaming freshmen bearing the body of ole "Clem Tiger" will precede the parade. Th'je body of merrymakers will Proceed downi Sumter street to Washington street, p)ausinlg frequently to yell the praises >f the exalted Gamecock. The parade will turn left on Wash ngton street to Main, andl left on Main to the state house. The Cremation To the intense enjoyment of the happy crowdl, ole Clem Tiger will be ignited andl offered as a sacrifice to the gods with the state house steps serving as a funeral pyre. When the pep parade is over, the student body will hurry to Carolina stadium for the preliminary contest between the Biddies andl the Baby Bengals. After the freshman game there will be a (lance in the Fieldhouse, sponsored jointly by the Carolina and Clemson Blue Key chapters. Finally, the magic hour will arrive. It will be 2:30 p.m., Thur'sday, October 19, 1950. The Gamecocks and Tigers will be facing each other for the forty-ninth time in the mopst eolorful football rivalry in the nation. THIS IS BIG THURnSnAY I I I