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Forward Together On to Charleston-the Battery-The Citadel ! This week THE GAMECOCK is sponsoring a caravan to Charleston in order to watch the Gamecocks fight-and beat -the Bulldogs. It is generally felt that more spirit would be aroused if the students left together and arrived in Charleston at approximately the same time. Therefore, the caravan idea seems the answer. The stu dents will have some organization-they will be together and can help each other if car trouble develops-they will travel the state as a unit, thus showing that the spirit is present and the support shown by such a move would help the team. This is the last game of the season which will be away from home. Therefore, it will be the last chance for students to watch the fighting Gamecocks perform away from home. The caravan will also be an advantage to those who would otherwise be unable to go to the game because of transporta tion difficulties. Those cars which are not filled can get their quota from the waiting list. Gas costs will be divided equally. Students who must be in Columbia early will be placed accordingly and those who wish to stay to the Carolina-Charleston Dance will be sent in cars which also plan to attend. Carolina colors will be distributed at the meeting place before leaving. This will be an added advantage over having to buy colors individually. This move was sponsored in order to help the team spirit-to unify the students-to help present ourselves and -our school favorably in the state-to provide those who do not have transportation a way to go-and to help the stu dents have a good time in their support of the team. Its success depends on you. To be successful, at least 25 cars must attend. With six students in each car, approxi mately 150 students will be going. We feel sure that 150 students will attend the game anyway so why not join the crowd? If you can use your car or borrow one, please call THE GAMECOCK as soon as possible. If you do not have a ride but desire one, a short call to our office may help with this difficulty. Further information may be found on the front page. We have a good team-noW let's show them that we really think so. O.T.E. Oh, For Some Mail At the first of the year, THE GAMECOCK requested letters to the editor expressing student opinion, on any and all subjects. It stated that such letters would be published in current issues. So far, only a few have been received. Most were sent as anonymous letters. They were there fore worthless. If no name is signed, the letter has no right to be published. Only signed letters are accepted for publi cation. The other letters which have been received were from misinformed sources. Since many things stated as facts in them did not stand investigation, their value was lost. An effort was made to answer these privately. At present, we anxiously await mail, since this is one of the main ways in which students may express themselves. No mail is an indication that either the students do not think or do not care-neither of these is a good sign. We need your ideas-your agreements and disagreements-your criticism and praise. We shall continue to wait. CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Member of Associated Collegiate Press Dlstributor of Collegiate Digest Pone anucary 130 190, th' R*bet Ellot onale as thefrt Uniye ecpof Sot Carolnad weely xon Frdays, during the college Teopinions expre sed by colunists an ltterdwriter,tare not necs endorsement. The right to edit Is reserved. EDITOR ......................... OLGA EDWARDS MANAGING EDITOR ...... ........TOM PRICE BUSINESS MANAGER .....PAUL FIELD ASST. BUSINESS MA NA GER .. ..Elliott Wardlaw NEWS .................BtyKolo CAMPUS ................BabrDeic SPORTS. ..MreaPrk SOCIETY ..AnraCnde EXCHANGES.MryBowrh COPY ...Bbb.Sit FEATURES ... . . .Jci oteln CIRCULATION.. . . . .J h Paah 3TAFF REPORTERSRuhBre,KnPwl COLUMNISTS ~ ~Barbara D,Jc aterc GMoreaBrerk BUSINESSbySTmFF * Boby cMaon, awsn ut Nacyr Kentoell Jimmie Howle "Society Of Organizations" Practically every card we re ceive now, announcing the meeting of this or that organization pleads, "bring a prospective member." We go to the meeting and they ask us, "what can we do to increase attendance?" There are more than a hundred organizations on and around the campus which 3,200 students can join. With most of these organi zations needing about 50 members to function properly and about three-fourths of the students not belonging to any club, society or fraternity, those of us who do join have to belong to seven or eight organizations. About half of the organizations on and about the campus meet weekly. These meetings consume three or four nights out of seven unless they come two or three at a time. Some organizations, such as The Gamecock, University Play ers, and "The Carolina Review," re quire from one to 20 hours a week. Other organizations have their so cial functions which deprive the textbooks of more hours. One student spends two hours a day rehearsing a play in Drayton Hall-she dashes for the publi cations building to write several news stories-an hour later she in hales her supper before speeding into the radio station to answer the telephone. With three other weekly meetings and an occasional dance or movie, how can this girl be expected to join the "Society for Those Who Plan to Become Old Maids?" Another student spends the afternoon pushing pledges around, contacts 10 people who might write articles for the "Carolina Re view," breaks a date to attend some unscheduled meeting, and upon returning to his room is asked to join the "Society for the Preservation of Pin-Striped Suits." Some peopl jusi, will not join. Every year a new group of Fresh man joiners come in but just as many Senior joiners graduate. If the officers of the organiza tions of any importance would maintain their consequence they must destroy these parasitic or ganizations which merely add to the space in the "Garnet and Black." They must organize the organizations. Barbara McSwain Chance For More Voice In Affairs Awaits Students We argue that we are not given enough voice in student govern ment at Carolina. We say that there is too little contact between faculty and student. We are vo ciferous and insistent in our ex pressions of opinions on campus topics. Often our opinions serve no purpose but to relieve ourselves of tensions, as the textbooks say. No good is accomplished. The dis cussed conditions remain. There is, however, an organiza tion which is designed especially to prevent this state. That organi zation is the student-faculty rela tions committee. This committee was originally composed of a group of interested students and faculty members. The idea behind it at first was to meet once or twice and try to iron out some problems about which the stu dents felt they needed more say-so. Both groups of members became so< interested and enthusiastic about] the possibilities of the committee,< however, that they decided to meet again. Finally they began having ;regular meetings. As student or 1 faculty vacancies occurred, the< group elected new members, always people whom they knew would work I toward the betterment of Carolina.4 Dean Arney Childs, who was a member of the first committee, said that the committee was one of the I most solidifying and influential on I the campus. As the committee continued, it grew stronger and more useful.1 There was no restraint in the meet-1 ings. Both faculty and student i mejnbers were free to voice any I ideas they had. Then trouble developed. A mis understanding grew up around a I project the committee was spon- I soring. Then the war began and< the rigpid turnover of students< made such a committee practically 1 impossible to continue. The constitutional committee of I 1948 included the following section 1 about the student-faculty relations I committee: "There shall be established by Jack .WaIlther The Passin "Six Chinese Divisions Reported [n Korean War." These are the headlines that shout to the eye from the evening newspaper. Four hundred million Chinese Ire ex pressing their sympathies. The wind is blowing. Which way? Why? At Carolina, John Smith steps from the shower and stands drip ping before the closet door. He surveys his wardrobe. "What to wear, what. to wear? 'Saturday night and what to wear?" Aerogs the campus George Jones emerges from Sims with his date. "Davey Crockett at the Carolina and something with William Holden at the Palmetto. That's all I can remember. It's up to you." When they reach Main Street he turns to her again. "Which is it?" They enter the Carolina as a newsboy bellows from the street, "Six Chinese Divisions Reported In Korean War!" Back on the campus somebody's fraternity brother is pretending to be drunk. He mounts a stone bench and delivers an oration to the night air. "I wouldn't say this if Jackie Southerland I ndivid Individualism . . . it is a word that has been hounded and pounded to death. It is an idea that has been harped upon and sucked upon and exhausted. It is now a shell, without content, without meaning. Individualism is wonderful. It is a separation of a person's mind from the beaten tracks of his predecessors and his contempo raries. Too much individualism, though, is like too much weight Lost on a slightly plump girl . . a little is fine, but too much leaves Loo little of the person. So it is with individualism. This philos )phy, this creed, this idea can be arried and developed so far that it eventually hides the natural, treat, God-given qualities of man kind. Believers in individualism :end to become afraid to exhibit my human qualities, for they must )> "different." Thus, they de stroy themselves, for of what use is a man who cannot give to and give with society? Then there are those cowards, hose weaklings, those inferior eeiing people who hide behind the ;kirts of individualism. They are itrong, they say, and they need to one; but fearing to be called owardly, they fear to admit their eed. They are rude and unman erly, but to hide their shame, they nsist that they never regret any hing that they do. And they in List that they can never be wrong n doing what their urges demand, *or they are "different," and the aws of society do not relate to hem. But they are frightened ittle people; to defend their ac ions, they insist that they do not egret them, while inside they feel ust "so-high." All this continues mntil they actually begin to feel hat they are superhuman, that hey are never wrong, that others Lre merely worms and creatures f the "common herd." And be hind all this, they really want to e members of that "common herd" which they supposedly de pise; but society will not accept hem, and they are too weak and roud to improve themselves. There is little need to comment he student council a committee on tudent-Faculty Relations. This 'ommittee is to be composed of the ~resident of the University, Dean f Women, Dean of Men, Dean of ~rts and Science, Secretary of the f.M.C.A., president of the student ~ody, one (1) student from each f the eight (8) schools repre ented on the student council and wo (2) faculty representatives hosen by the faculty." But the committee has not ha~d shadow of the "punch" it had in he pre-war days. Meetings have een sporadic and members have ecen listless. This could and should be the nloat important group at the uni 'era ity. We cannot afford to let t atrophy while we stand dumbly y. It should be the link between he faculty and student viewpoints. f we can re-vitalize it to its orig nal vigor, we will be in a more avorable position to enlarge stu lent influence and increase stu lent-faculty interest than~ we have >een since before the war. It's student council's job to see hat this group is re-activated. t's council's chance, too--to prove hat it has not only "the mind to onceive" but "the heart to under tand and the hand to execute. g Headline I was sober, but Mary Brown is the prettiest girl on this campus. She's the sweetest and the most innocent and the nicest and Where is she, where, where?" A gust of wind blows a page of a newspaper against his legs. These and others are the ques tions with which College Joe is occupying himself these days. They are everyday questions but essential questions. No one is tak ing time out from life, yet with all our complacency the wind is blowing, just as it did before 1860, 1914, or 1941. From whence will the next gust come and where will it take us? We are the masters of our fate only within the limits of these world forces. Meanwhile most of us will con tinue to enjoy a self-imposed lethargy. We will go about our business with only an occasional glance at the events which are shaping our individual and collec tive fate. "Six Chinese Divisions Reported In Korean War" will continue to be no more than a passing headline. : Guest Columnist ualism on those who profess to be indi vidualists because individualism is the style, the "thing." These have no rightful claim to the title, for they are only following their bet ters. These are the stubborn ones; these are the ones who consciously differ with the most truthful and the most actual actuality, because they too must be "different." They won't take the short cut, they won't give a simple answer, they refuse to enjoy the same pleasures as everyone else. Ask anybody you meet, "Yeah," they'll say, "I'm an individualist." How can everybody be an individualist, if individualism is a break from the "common herd?" People cannot be that dif ferent from each other, for they must live together. Individualism . . . as I said, it's wonderful. There should be more of it, but the amount should be increased according to an increase in people, not increased in those who already profess to be indi vidualists. Sn, whnt is tiu ii ual,oism?., 9 Darned if I know . . . George LaBruce What Do You Think? If we make others think, they will hate us. If we make them thaink they think, they will like us. If wve make them think we think they think, they will adore us the rest of their lives. The human brain, though high in its development, is none the less lazy. We see this in our studies; wvhen we find it easy to go to sleep while reading something that is distasteful to us, or when our minds wander to anything and everything else when we try to memorize (oh, vulgar word) some thing. People who will force them selves to think are such an excep tion to the rule, they are almost considered freaks or side-show pieces. To consider making some one actually think is to consider losing that person's friendship. There are just so many things you can do to make yourself popu lar and wecll-liked. They have been set down many times. For your information here is a summary. (1) Treat everyone you meet as if he were important (someday he may he). William James wrote, "The dleepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." If you stop to think about this, you will realize that the most im portant person in your life is you. So it is with every human being. Every one likes to feel important. (2) Be friendly. Smile. Assume that people will like you. They will. (3) Let the other fellow do the talking. If you want to make friends with a strange dog, you speak to it, feed it meat and rub its head because dogs like meat and they like having their heads rubbed. It is the same with people. People like to talk about them selves. Let them. (4) You can't win an argument (there is a vast difference between a friendly dis cussion and an argument). You can't win an argument, for if you win your point you lose yo... friend The Price Of Things By TOM PRICE A Well-Deserved Pat Two recent additions to the university band are Professor Zimmerman, the new bandmaster, and Olin Kearse, freshman drum major. These two men have added zip and color to the band's half-time performances at the football games and both deserve a pat on the back. In the past, the student body has been prone to criticize the Gamecock band, sometimes rather severely. Sometimes this criticism was deserved, sometimes it was not. This fall, there has been very little criticism of the band heard around the university. We have heard a few of the local "gripes" sound off with their usual "sour grapes," but on the whole the band has been mentioned in a favorable light by most students. That is the way it should be. National Anthem One of the best additions to the band's repertoire is the National Anthem, which has been played at the beginning of each home football game. Although some may feel that "flag-waving" is overdone, we feel that the National Anthem has a rightful place at all our sporting events. Professor Zimmerman has not renounced his Southern heritage, however. At half-time on Big Thursday, he formed the band into a giant flag with the majorettes unrolling the stars and bars of the Confederacy in the center. . Kearse Is Good The other star addition to the band, Kearse, has shown Carolina fans some of the finest baton twirling and prancing ever seen in these parts. A youngster of about 18 years of age, Olin is a native of Bamberg, but he attended high school in Alabama and Florida. He has twirled his baton in numer ous parades and festivals, and last year was voted one of the five top twirlers in the state of Florida. His "flaming baton" rontine at the Marquette game was a superb piece of maneuvering and deserves the highest praise. To Professor Zimmerman and Olin Kearse, hats off from one who doesn't know much about music, but knows enough to say, "you're doing a swell job." More Orchids While we're passing out urchids, we would like to mention Carolina's forgotten community and those who administer the affairs there. We refer to Carovet apartments, home to several hundred veteran students, their wives and children. When we came to Carolina, Carovet was frequently in the limelight and received much publicity. In the past year, howev'er, the veteran has become the vanishing American at Carolina and his place has been largely taken by "fresh meat".from the high school scene. The veteran is not com pletely a thing of the past, however, and he still holds an important, if less powerful position in Carolina society. Nice Inside Carovet is a group of converted army buildings located near the Confederate home at Bull street and Confederate avenue. From the outside this cluster of drab, one-story buildings looks anything but inviting. A closer scrutiny, how ever, will tell a different story..* Most apartments are arranged attractively inside. They range from one-room efficiency or "Zero" apartments for newlywed couples on the waiting list for a larger place, to two-bedroom affairs. In between are the three-room, one-bedroom establishments. Some apartments come with central heating at a slight in crease in rent, but most of them are heated by individual oil heaters. Efficient The manager of Carovet is James Leon Rampey, a stu dent, and he is doing a fine job of administering to the needs of his tenants. Conradl Vander Muelen is student accountant and helps Rampey with the administration. Both are married and live at Carovet. Carovet apartments are open to any married veteran attending the university on a waiting-list basis. Although veterans have greatly decreased in number in the past year', Carovet still has a waiting list of prospective occupants. and often make an enemy. To prove yupas noe oepol a person wrong is to injure his ego nvrd ntigbg and that is fatal-.to you. Avoid per- Wesndaltooutiehd sonal arguments and rattlesnakes igtig rmorevs f -- they are both dangerous. (5) pesn eoisw uhbc Try to see others' viewpoints. They utlw ogtte,bdhbt have reasons to believe what theywetyod-epaieOnopf do - try to find themi and under- i l etikw r rtys5 stand them. (6) Find the good in pol.Wa odru ol people. A leader must be generous ti ol ei l fu u u in his praise of others. He gets ban owr otelmto hi credit by giving credit. Don't wait cetv blte.Aa ls for some ~ ~ ~ evr o nthing bigt hpebfoehikgjaor.