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Our Fate Pends. .. On October 18, nine students, as representatives of the student body, appeared before the Board of Trustees of the university in a request that the resolution setting up a Board of Publications be rescinded. This resolution read: "It is the sense of the Board that an advisory committee on publications, composed of the President of the University, Dean of Women, the Dean or a Professor of the School of Journalism, the Director of Student Activities, and Director of the University News Service, and the Head of the De partment or a Professor of English be authorized to repre sent the University in its relationship to all student publi cations except the Law School publication and be empowered to advise the staffs of the publications, and to do whatever may be necessary to promote and insure accuracy, decency, fair criticism, and impartiality in the student newspaper so that it will present to the public a fair and correct report of the life and thought of the University." After consideration of the Board, it was decided that the students would be referred back to the Student Affairs committee of the Board of Trustees, and that the resolution would be sent back to this committee for reconsideration. Therefore, the fate of the board is now pending on the decision of the student affairs committee. The students are asking that the Committee look back into the resolution. It asks that the last sentence be read and that the committee recognize that any idea printed in THE GAMECOCK could be changed under one of the ad jectives "accuracy, decency, fair criticism and impartiality that many things could be construed to appear partial or critical, which were actually written in a sincere effort to better conditions here. Thus the students wait for their verdict. We try to wait patiently, but find patience a hard virtue. Those who will appear before the committee will present the case to the committee to the best of their ability. Again we say that we do not object to investigation, but do object to control. We say that an investigating committee which would make its recommendations to the student Board of Publications or to Student Council would not find any objection to its existence. Last week, we said that we could not compromise our principles. This is still our stand. Since the resolution does violate our peinciples of a free press and not a eontrolled one, we remain in our opposition to it. We depend on the support of the students-and from the expressions of support from every organization and every section of the campus, we know that we have it. . O. T. E. Your Help Is Needed With a goal of $2,259, the 'Y' Finance Campaign will begin this week. Of this amount, $1,514 will go to the Y.M.C.A. and $745 to the Y.W.C.A. As the most active organization on the campus, the 'Y' goes forward into this drive this year without Father Bell, who, in years before, directed the finance campaign among the faculty and was the guiding light for the students. Whether the campaign succeeds or not depends on YOU. The canvasser will not be asking for ten-dollar contri butions but will ask that each student contribute something to this cause. Some of you may never have attended a 'Y' program, but have you never played pool in Flinn Hall? Or been to vespers ? And what about those deputations teams which help to publicize Carolina? Included in the finance drive is the annual membership drive. Therefore, you will be contacted for facts about your self for records as a member of the 'Y.' Some of the money for the 'Y' is given through the Student Activities fund, the rest is up to you. Won't you give? %Ae GA At Co~CIf CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Member of Associated Collegiate Press Distributor of Collegiate Digest Fonded January 0 0, wth Robet E lottonzle astue the firt Unearsit ofSouth Crolian a y n Fridays, during the college The opinions exVressed by columnists and ltterdwriterstare not neces endorsement. The right to edit is reserved. EDITOR ...........................OLGA EDWARDS MANAGING EDITOR ... ... ...TOM PRICE BUSINESS MANAGER ..........PAUL FIELD ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER .Elliott Wardlaw NEWS ........................BtyKolo CAMPUS .....................BabrDeic SPORTS ......................L C.Tkrle SOCIETY ....................AnraCnde EXCHANGES. . . . . ..........MayB rh COPY ... ..... .. .. ...........BbySit FEATURES .... .............Jci oteln CIRCULA TION . John .ar. . STAFF REPORTERS . . uhBre,KnPwl COLUMNISTS ~ ~Barbara McD,Jc aterc Boby cMao - L -o YatebbyncyMithe h Barbara McSwain Time Cures All Ills: But Why Wait On Time? Throughout the past hectic but wonderful week-end one insistent thought has kept cropping up in a one-man invasion of the holiday. merriment. Some discreet eaves dropping finally dragged the idea out into the light. Here it is, for all who will to note: Almost without exception, the alumni who came to town for Big Thursday week-end felt nothing for Carolina except the deepest of de votion and tenderest of loyalties. No emotional scars were left from those frenzied hours of cramming for exams that meant either grad uation or another semester of study . . . no black thoughts about the professor who invariably said the one thing that irritated the stu dents most . . . no remembrance of the many, many times they breathed, "If I ever get out of this place I'll never come near it again." All of these scraps in the patch work of college life seem to have been ripped from alumni memories. Only the bright good times and pastel reminiscences remain. It seems logical to assume that, out of the hundreds of alumni who returned here last week-end, at least a few must have had as much trouble with studying as we are having. At least some must have had as may worries and feuds. Life at Carolina couldn't have been peaches and cream for everybody all the time! That should have some meaning for us. If our post-college days are to be enlivened, as the aluni's seem to be, by returns to the alma mater - if friendships made here are, as theirs, to be some of the most lasting we shall make - if memories of the four years at col lege will really be among the most cherished we ever have - then shouldn't we realize it now, while ws.'re still here to appreeinte it? Can any of us afford to throw away these college days, which others hold so priceless? Those of us who are on the last lap of our college careers can al ready feel a difference in feeling toward Carolina. We are half "col lege kids" and half men and women ready to be weaned from our Alma Mater. But to realize these things partly when you're a senior and fully when you're an alumnus is not enough. It's not enough for us and it's not enough for Carolina. Let's wake up to the fact that we are experiencing something for wvhich people all over the wvorld are envying us. Let's realize that there are people all over the world wvho may have done great things, given the opportunities we have had. We don't have to get out and blow a horn to prove we're loyal sons and daughters of Carolina. We can do it in so many small wvays: yelling our heads off at foot ball games, attending the assembly programs, backing the 'Y,' uphold ing the honor system, supporting the student council, using the trash cans on the campus, and hundreds of others. Let's be the alumni classes that come back gladly and unregret fully. Let's never have to say, "Yes, those wvere good days, but .. ." Betsy Knowlton Foreign College Has Rat Week Rat week was a howling success! Perhaps some of the obedient freshmen might not agree with that but the sophomores are very happy. It might comfort some of the rats to know that this isn't the only university where rat week happens. A letter was received last week from a French student attending medical school in Paris. He says: "Yesterday (Oct. 6), there were hazings for new students -- I have seen some of them. One was obliged to walk on the Boulevard Saint Michel with his .iacket on inside out and a saucepan on his head. Another one had a red herring hung to a string and he was obliged to suck the tail every five meters. A mathematics new student was measuring the length of the boule vard with a ruler of 20 centi meters. "When I was to college I have been hazed also. I have been bliged to measure the length and the width of the school's yard with a match. I did must give the sur JACK WALTHER What About F Recently there has been a good bit of dissention between segments of that body which is vaguely termed "the administration" and various factions of the general mass of students who term them selves "the student body." This difficulty has arisen over the ques tion of which of these parties is to control the campus publications and what are the duties and limi tations of each in regard to the other. "The administration has de fined its purpose by stating that it intends to exercise this control by setting up a committee which will establish regulations for elec tion of staffs for these publica tions and which will have the power to develop general policies concerning their operation." This is at best a vague and elas tic definition. We may rightfully inquire as to its real meaning. What are the regulations for the election of staff members? What are the general policies that "the administration" has seen fit to im pose? And lastly, what are the alleged causes for this administra tive action? - We may only guess at the an swers to these questions, but with out knowing the true motives be hind them we can safely defend the position of these publications. This university is supported by the people of the state. They have Guest Columnist: P Not Much Alike, During my stay at the U.S.C. I have often been asked, how the German universities compare with the American ones. In the follow ing I will try to give some ideas of what a German university of today is like. The average age of people en tering a German university is 22 to 23. This is due to the fact that many veterans, returning from captivity in Russia and other coun tries, try to go through university. All German universities are over crowded, so that a boy, just having finished high school finds it very hard to be accepted, because natur ally the vetorans have priority. Usually h' .to wait for . year before he will be accepted. It is clear that under these circum stances the university authorities only try to pick out the best stu dents. The way of studying in our coun try is quite different from that in America. We do not have a credit system as I found it over here. A student, entering university, is sup posed to have completed his funda mental or general education. That is to say, that he has a general idea of German literature and his tory, that he knowvs the funda mental facts of mathematics, and that he at least has studied an old and modern foreign language for several years. So the student is completely free to choose those sub jects in which he wvants to specialize. There are twvo wvays in wvhich these subjects are taught at the university: the lectures and the seminars. (In addition you may have experimental and laboratory work.) A lecture is usually at tended by 100 to 200 students. (Sometimes the attendance runs as high as 800.) It is clear that in such a group no discussions can take place. It is mainly that the student here gets ideas and sug gestions for his private studies. The seminars have much smaller groups (20-30). Hlere problems are discussed, and students are asked to make reports on books or on problems they are working at. The most valuable and most important I have measured during two hours and a half with a boy who looked after me. There were about 3,000 matches for the length. The haz ings are very funny for the spec tators but not for the victim. "Unfortunately there are no haz ings in medicine school. I should like to haze Michel who is begin ning his medical studies. He has a very bad character and does not like to be teased." Jacques tells more about his school life in the same letter. Rat week only lasts two days and after that the students take their work very seriously. They study about ten hours a day and attend class about five'hours. They have very few extra-curricula activities. ''I am just finishing the first part of my examination and I am quite tiredl (biology, physology, ree Discussion? contributed their money and their patronage for the educational and social advancement of those who are qualified to attend. The very existence of the university, there fore, is intended to advance the interests of its students. In this sense we may say that the uni versity belongs to the students. The administration exists solely for the management of their interests. That is not to say that the slight est whim of the students should be gratified. The rule of reason should prevail at all times. In this case, however, the stu dents have not been unreasonable. They have established publications which have consistently contributed to one of the most essential func tions of a university - the promo tion of free discussion. Unless this spirit prevails a university stag nates. It is impossible to go for ward without looking forward. The status quo may seem comfortable but there is always the possibility of something better. Whether it has been unconscious or not our publications have fur thered these ends. No one has been barred from airing his views. As a rule, those who have volunteered opinions have done so with an eye to the sentiments of the entire stu dent body. Is it for this that our publica tions need to be controlled? eter KahI I.. part of our university studies, how ever, lies in the private study, in the individual work in the library or in the laboratory. After 6, 8 or 10 semesters (it depends on the subject you are studying) the student can apply for an examination which is usually taken before a state board. For this he has to write a thesis, which sometimes may have the size of a book. and tnkl An oral examination in each subject he has studied. Be sides that he may study for a Dr. degree, which is similar to the American Ph.D. or M.D. The Ger man university does not offer the degree of a Bachelor or a Master. These lines may cause the im nrsin that the absence of tests, mid-term or end-term examinations make the studying much easier. This may be right to that extent that one can concentrate better, and perhaps spend more time, on one particular subject. But seen as a whole the strain on the stu dent is much harder. There the student is fully responsible for himself, nobody cares, whether or not he studies, or whether the sub jects he chose will give him the right training for his job. There are of course advisers and guid ance programs to lead those stu dents, wvho don't know what to do. After 4 or 5 year~s of study the student shall be able to report on the subjects he has studied. This does of course not mean that he shall only memorize facts, but I mean to say that he shall under stand the principal ideas, and that he shall be able to discuss them. A student having finished univer sity shall, as a German professor said, "have developed a good abil ity of scientific thinking." It is by no means the only aim of the German university to teach and to train people, to make them fit for their job, it is more than that. But that may be discussed in another place. It is as the wvords over the en trance of the University of Ham burg say, "Der Forschung * Der Lehre * Der Buildung" (For Re search, for Teaching, for Educa tion). Greek, and anatomy). I work now for chemistry and histology. I have to work very hard until Dec. 21. I shall go after in the south of France during two weeks and I shall be able to take a rest. "My sister has been accepted to her examinations (age 17) and she must begin to learn philosophy dur ing one year -- poor girl II She is much to be pitied. She wants after to work in chemistry." He attends American movies regularly if he has the money. "I have seen two American films in Paris during the month, 'Iwo Jima' and 'Francis.' 'Francis' is very popular in Paris. It is a good satire and very funny. I cannot say that 'Iwo Jima' is funny. It Is very impressive. I prefer that to the stupid films about cowboys in your far west." The Price Of Things By TOM PRICE A Little Reminiscing The greatest day in the sporting calendar of the State of South Carolina has passed. We must wait 12 months, 62 weeks, or 365 days-take your pick-for another Big Thursday. Now that the 1950 edition of the great spectacle is history it might be best to let sleeping dogs lie, but we just can't help reminiscing a bit. About 4:30 p. m. on Thursday, October 19, approximately 35,000 rather wrinkled individuals filed out of Carolina stadium. Very few of these many persons were happy. The ladies had hoped to show off their new Fall finery as per custom, for Big Thursday has been South Carolina's number one fashion show for over 50 years. Jupiter Pluvius stepped in, however, and the fine female fashions were hidden beneath unsightly rain gear and many a shapely ankle was concealed by a ponderous waterproof boot. The rain ceased shortly before game time, however, and before the end of the first half a few soggy chrysanthemum cor. sages began to peep out from hiding. Most of the new styles were crushed and mud-spattered by this time, and as far as the ladies were concerned, Big Thursday, 1960, was a total loss and shouldn't have happened to a duck. The real football fans-the alumni and student bodies of the two schools-filed out of the stadium in frustrated silence. This silence always follows a tie with an arch-rival. To the Clemson supporters, that 14-14 score was a bitter pill. They had come to Columbia to see their invincible, un beaten, untied, unscored-on Tigers humble the Gamecocks from the Columbia "night club" school. They hadn't seen what they had come to see and those who were gambling men were considerably poorer besides being sadder and wiser. To the coaches, the outcome also meant frustration. Frank Howard came into the stadium with a team of solid favorites and was lucky to get out again with a tie. His dreams for Clemson's greatest season under his tutorage had fallen in the mud around him. Rex Enright had seen almost sure victory slip away in the waning moments. His boys dominated play throughout most of the contest and he should well be proud of their showing, but no coach could be expected to be anything but disappointed after being- so close to victory. There was another small group of frustrated persons also. They wore the scalpers who cornered extra tickets to the classic and offered them to the hungry public for a price several times the market value. Those scalpers who got rid of their holdings several days before the game were all right, but those that held their ducats with the idea of peddling them at the stadium gates, really dropped their candy. The weather brought the price down and for fear of being caught with unsold tickets after game-time, scalpers were selling for the $3.60 face value of each ticket 15 minutes before the game started. One couple came all the way from Macon, Ga., and bought two tickets at the stadium five minutes before the kick-off. Into each life a little rain must fall, but also, every cloud must have a silver lining. The silver lining to the sloppy Big Thursday weather was the come-down in scalpers' prices for tickets. Quite a few deserving citizens were able to see South Carolina's greatest sporting spectacle of the year without being fleeced by these scrounging individuals who managed to corner a sizable block of tickets and hold them for exorbitant fees. GEORGE LaBRUCE Why We Have Universities "Learning without thought is knowledge is invested and conmes labor lost."---CoNFUCIUs . . . forth with Interest. When I was a freshman I won- Imagination is youthful: the dered what courses to take and why young often act on it without fact so many were required that I didn't -- the aged may act on fact alone, think I needed. I also wondered without imagination; the univer just why we had universities and sity must act as a bond betweenl what their place in,our society was. experience and imagination. Because I wondered and sought an The world around urn more and answer, I attempt to explain it now more is coming to the realizption for what good it may do you. of the necessity of an aesthetic Our country ranks first among quality in knowledge and fact. nations in the expansion of its uni- Many industries advertise more versities. This growth in size, and better products through number, and complexity of organi- imagination In engineering. zation shows some danger of de- The scientist does his work be. stroying the sources of its useful- cause of curiosity and immense ness. This Is due to widespread interest in the workings of nature lack of understanding of what pri- and their rationalization. He mary functions a university should literally imagines what will hap serve, pen in a given came and puts his Universities have always been facts and knowledge of techniques schools of research as well as to work to find out. schools of education. The basic It Is necessary that we work at reason for their existence, however, something we like in order for us is neither; either could be per- to get the most from life. The formed chpaper elsewhere. Uni- multitude of courses and personal versities exist then, because they adjustment equipment in a univer preserve a connection between sity enable us to find that work to knowledge and the enjoyment of which we are best suited, it being living; they form a basis for uni- a balance between aptitude and in fication of ideas by young and old. terest. If a person has ability along A university Imparts knowledge, more lines than one, his relative but must do so imaginatively if It Interest in them should decide for is to be of service to society. The Ihim which to choose. Those who feeling of curiosity drawn from fail in their search for the right imaginative teaching causes a 'life work, also fail In their propel transformation of knowled.- Thsjsriet oit n hmevs