Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

You're On Parole Mid-semester is over. The day of trial has come and gone. We now await the verdict from the registrar's office-our mid-term grades. If you think you're making a straight "1" average, then stop reading this right now-this is strictly for us dumb ones. What if you don't have that good an average-what if you're close to failing on every subject? First, you'd better try to find out what is wrong. You know, it could be that you're taking too many activities-they're a lot of fun, but you are here mainly to attempt to get an education. Of course, we realize that such activities are a vital part of learning but how are you going to stay in them if you aren't in college? The second reason -could be that you have a playboy complex. You know, that old familiar party feeling. That's fine sometimes, but a steady diet of it can cause classes to be cut by oversleeping or because you didn't study that lesson. And let's face it. Perhaps there are courses that are just too hard for you-after all, you're no mental genius. So what? It is possible to study a little harder and you might even be able to find someone who can coach you in the monstrosity. Whatever the reason, you've got until the last of January to bring those grades up. You're on parole, so why not be on your good behavior and make them a little easier to take by the end of the semester? While we're airing our views on grades, we'd like to say that the registrar's office is doing a fine piece of work in getting the grades out in a hurry. Thanks! Why Don't You Know It? Often we have heard the pep songs of other schools and liked their words and the catchy tunes that the students remember and sing even when walking from class to class. Our neighbors up the way-namely Clemson-have just such a song. The cadets sing it on practically every trip and many of their own campus meetings. This is true on many other campuses-but do you know the first line of our song? No? Well, you are responding just as everyone else has done. This is an abominable situation. The pep song has been printed-it has been played at pep rallies-it has been dis tributed at football games by way of mimeographed sheets but it is not known. Why? Because the students are not enough interested to make the effort to learn this part of their work at Carolina. This may seem a small matter, but what about putting a little effort into it and learning these words: CAROLINA FIGHT SONG Carolina, let your voices ring, to you to sing our Praises High Ring out Sing out on to victory, forever Fight we'll do or die Carolina Fight with all your might let all unite in nru aoim Then battle on together one and all forever fight we've got to win the game (Fight! Fight! Fight!) Garnet and Black we raise Gamecocks forever praise So fight for Carolina Cheer for Carolina Hail to the U. S. C. Betsy Knowlton HONOR BOARD MEMBER SPEAF Last week The Gamecock pub-upmybanstdo'.'mkd lished an editorial criticizing the o ieteltl ooe o h Honor system at Carolina. The lkdt odw ntecla n following speech, which was madesapemlse.Lnigorto by Ann Ready to the members of froedyadfligi ecm the faculty, answers most of the u rpigwt yu n ad questions raised in that editorial. 'od aem ogeeult After Miss Ready's talk, theitopruny' faculty sent her a letter of thanks "' eea ersnaieo for her fine speech on the sub- teHnrBadadCuclt ject. That letter is also printed els h nhsatcspoto followving Miss Ready's speech. eahoyuinurttmto "Standing before a group of hnrsse.Tefaeoko people who speak on their feet tesse eea aoiai daily makes me feel my inade- md po he itntprs quacy very keenly. As my grand- itefcly h oo or n Mebe. f sote Clite Pitteclrdsoh Founed anuay 3, 198, ikoedto glot Gone as the celrs an edior,"Th Gaecok" ipblse andl folassestudening ofero yer xcptonhoidysanadrin eomne atIons. aln iecm Theopiio. eprese bycoumnst adripping writ yr upo nesaid sarly hoe o "he ameoc."uitsh dopprtnt'.sitte endorsem"nt. Therrigh toreditesentreserved AST.BUINSSMAA Ec Ellouiot Wardemtaw NEWS syset Knofamwonko SOCIEY.......... the.. system...Anreat Canrias EXCHAGES....made... up.. of..tMree Bdisictprts FEATURESulty, Jthke Southrlaand STAF REP ROWENS F Ruth arER, e oel Distribtor oGeorgegiaeaDrgee year xcepononay at Narncy exMitns. David Parrish In The Beginning There Was Man "Most thinkers have a faith that at bottom there is but one Science of all things, and until all is known, no one thing can be completely known. Such a science, if realized, would be Philosophy." These words of the learned William James sup plies food for thought. If Philos ophy is the Mother of all sciences, what is her role today? This, of course, is a leading question which brings forth two more questions. Is Philosophy the true Science of all things; and, if so, how will Philosophy he able to control such sciences as Physics and Chemistry? Let us look at it this way. A wise Mother with young children has a similar problem. She real izes that if her children are to de velop into maturity they must first go through the stages of infancy, childhood and adolescence. This wise Mother knows that each stage has its peculiarity. The children must explore, experiment, and ex perience the trials and tribulations of growing up. But there must be limitations and directions of energies. This is accomplished through an elaborate and compli cated system of education. Through education the children learn about themselves. They come to under stand their environment; what they can expect from their environ ment; and what is expected of them. What has this to do with Philosophy? Just this. W h a t Philosophy has needed for many years is an educational system for these sciences which need control. This answer to an educational sys tem is beginning .o be realized in Psychology. In the beginning Psychology's aim was directed toward the understanding of hu man behavior. Is it not true that a complete understanding of human behavior would enhance the control of human behavior? Only through Psychology can human behavior be controlled, and only through Psy chology can the application of the laws of the natural sciences such as Physics and Chemistry be con trolled. With this in mind, has Philosophy failed in its role as the Mother Science of all things? It still deserves the name of preserver of all society. In the beginning there was man and in the end there shall also be man. 5S TO FACULTY a wvhole. Without the full coopera tion of each of the three we can not be expected to put out 100% efficiency. I'm here to urge you to carry out your particular part of the bargain. "A positive attitude toward the honor system, rather than a neu tral or an indifferent one, can do the most toward creating an at mosphere in the classroom which is conducive to good, hard work on the part of the student. Your failure to take a positive stand may leave its mark on the student. Your apparent indifference toward the situation may allow the stress of wanting a good grade to justify his sacrificing his ideals of hon esty for the moment. Now I'm not suggesting that you preach or that you pry but there is a middle ground there, a happy medium through which you may convey the idea to the student that you have no adImiration for any dishonest practice. Anything that you do to discourage dishonesty supplies the stimulus which goes toward devel oping the attitude in the student that honesty is not a thing apart from everyday living, that it isn't only for classroom application but that it is a basic character trait, a way of life. "Now it's perfectly natural for a professor to feel that his subject is of prize importance to the stu dent. However, in my own opinion, a student who enters your class weak in character and leaves at the end of the term with the prin ciples of honor firmly embedded in his character, even though he may fail the course, is infinitely better off than one receiving credit who leaves it confirmed and justified in his own dishonesty. "Rev. A. B. Ferguson of Main Street Methodist Church here in Columbia from time to time in prayer voices the petition that worshippers in his prnenen may U1e lb JACK WALTHER Somethii The pressure of exams has been heavy. Our recent inglorious de feat at the hands of The Citadel has left us in a general state of despondency. There are other fac tors which contribute to this state but let it suffice to say that we are sick in body and spirit. Since I too am a victim of the aforementioned conditions a n d therefore rendered incapable, I have found it expedient to reach beyond the walls of our own dear campus to the green hills of Clem son for our guest columnist. He is Dr. Bovine U. Rawhide, profes sor of natural history at Clemson College. The title of his essay is, "A Bird and a Beast." "The bird that I am going to write about is the owl. The owl cannot see by day and at night is as blind as a bat. "I do not know much about the owl so I will go to the beast which I am going to choose. It is the cow. The cow is a mammal. It has 6 sides - right, left, and up per, and below. At the back it has a tail on which it hangs a brush. With this it sends the flies away GEORGE La BRUCE Something To E It is hard to sit here with the radio playing and the coeds walk ing by outside and realize there is a war going on somewhere in the world. It is hard, because we see so little evidence of it. Yes, we have friends and relatives; when it gets close enough we will feel the war, but now there is that trip home and the family waiting with a big dinner tomorrow. A cele bration because you are home, maybe, they think, for the last find it 'easier to do right and harder to do wrong' by having been there. By the same token, do students in your presence for an entire term, at the end of that term find it equally difficult to do wrong and easier to uphold the standards of truth, the principles of honor and integrity for which our Honor Board and Council stand?" The following letter was the re sponse of the faculty to Miss Ready's speech: "Dear Miss Ready: "By unanimous resolution of the Faculty, I have been directed to convey to you its gratitude and hearty congratulations for your able presentation of the aims of the Honor Board and Council. "It was the sense of the Faculty that your message was concise, beautifully expressed and very much to the poInt. Indeed, the most facile orators in your audi ence should look to their laurels lest they come off second best in comparison with so charming a speaker. ''I know that the Faculty stands united behind the Honor Board and Council, and deeply appreciates the Board's ceaseless efforts to cher ish and sustain that 'fair shrine of high honor' which has ever been the heritage for the Men and Women of Carolina. Sincerely, H. 0. Strohecker, Secretary." lve Gm9Qva le. ig Light sc that they do not fall in the milk. "The head is for the purpose of growing horns and so that the mouth can be somewhere. The horns are to butt with and the mouth is to moo with. Under the cow hangs the milk. It is arranged for milking. When people milk, the milk comies and there is never an end to the supply. How the cow does it I have not realized, but it makes more and more. "The cow has a fine sense of smell; one can smell it far away. This is the reason for the fresh air in the country. "The man cow is called an ox, It is not a mammal. The cow does not eat much, but what it eats it eats twice, so that it gets enough. When it is hungry it moos, and when it says nothing it is because its inside is full up with grass." P.S.-Clemson is not conspicuous for originality. The professor's es say bears a striking resemblance to that of an unidentified English lad which was published in the May issue of the Chicago Natural history R alletin. le Thankful For time in a good while; but you don't think about things like that. There is that dance to go to, that ert twie. W ? tha t and enouh Whe itiwarryi?mo, n Soewhere say r awayngt in beausoe itsinidfi full upwae a soldierass."h this-Thansnout suus fotiinalwhy he psofighting es wa bears ayberikin reembnc tof things ofis an unientfied Ehishw suiad, whic save thelibhedrty thei Ma s fthe Chicagyo life;al he fgTsthakfl oFormgh ntm incom goodct ofwhie Soviet dnonthn abu thePoings likthat Tr is hadaes tor hard to that me thn frasuans to he healn fulltll of eralier of te backite Natonsahnyo re wonin tn nhis tory,kgivi r waot isulay tings as tyhe i figtwng and don't for? timaybe reme me tho think "arou some aggresiowar Thwis soier isroughtigfrlt ofWhings fiurst home altfhis wnd survival tou save th liberty that to theiAeicabou wy oflie; haso hae fgt be thatkful f usa othert note beoe subjectd tof the Svget Uon goand war, oriepe tae' bee isombed, yeur hard, destroyd ore halrn casalinerestnd thle hearlie thaelos pospenrusena backin thefac ofwhen youareh wen daeing evrlnyw day thaiEu WakeiFrstndingonever ae mak tig etirhe shwi owton.Bu do't you thin wemaye tes tmeeo to think abou ohi of thi wlar butsdoean ha heo othr oppo Whniie yo'r thotme thisa wen suposhouldgioo ba liter tie pat mthin abutk wtoc wfte hvet Thanksgivingknpc and hobec o hae ethankfulfo that thnshvoteras melay nthe have. Our hountr has than Glo ta, our aepl halve' ben bombed tou hmesha destroyed, outhilden mallsilmed ale toiworry ropeanfoandalsiaticsfaniliestof siarh tndnnevrhaei The Price Of Things By TOM PRICE Our Religion One week from Monday the university's annual Rel. gious Emphasis Week will begin. For an entire week there will be discussion groups, student assemblies, guest speakers and other religious activities throughout each day. We have never been in favor of forcing religion on anyone. We have always believed that in a free country, a man's religion should be the freest of all his free possessions. That's why we like Religious Emphasis Week as it is conducted at Carolina. Some of the most able speakers in the country are brought to the campus to speak. Classes are shortened in order to obtain the necessary time for the speakers. Yet, none of these 'speeches are compulsory for the student body. Therein lies the success of Religious Emphasis Week at Carolina. Most of us have a religion of a sort. Some of us are much more religious than others, but almost every one of us has some knowledge of religion and practically all of us profess some faith. The fact that we do not all have the same faith, are not required to have any faith, and are free to pick our religion for ourselves, reflects the democratic system under which we live and is the first secret to our success. The fact that Protestants, Jews and Catholics here at the University of South Carolina can get together, discuss common problems, listen to speakers from each faith, and gain a more thorough understanding of each other is the most wonderful advantage of being an American. We have no Jews being driven from the country; we have no Catholics imprisoned because they are Catholics; and this reporter has been a Protestant Episcopalian for 24 years without being burned at the stake. Can Russia say as much for her citizens? A few of the names on the list of speakers for Religious Emphasis Week are: The Reverend Robert C. Johnson, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Greenville, Tenn., who participated in last year's Religious Emphasis Week; the Reverend Jonathan N. Mitchell, a graduate of the Uni versity of the South (1:piscopal Seminary) at Sewanee, Tenn.; and the Reverend Nathan C. Brooks, a Baptist min ister who has participated in several Religious Emphasis Weeks at other colleges and univorsities. Besides these three, there will be at least six other speakers, each of whom will be well qualified in his field. Dedication While thinking about Religious Emphasis Week, we should not forget the one man who did more in the past 30 years to further the spiritual ideals on the campus. He was a pioneer Religious Emphasis Week worker and devoted his entire life to the students of the University of South Caro lina and their spiritual problems. We refer to the late Robert Glenn Bell, who passed away severai weeks ago after serving as executive secretary of the YM-YWCA for 34 years. As we listen to the words of the guest speakers and take part in the other phases of Religious Emphasis Week, let's each one of us think of "Father" Bell. In our hearts, this Re ligious Emphasis Week is dedicated to him. Barbara McSwain Freshman Explains Carolina Life To Folks Back Home "We wvill not pass this way but Thonytighawrie e once" is an old saying, but here'sMo,ishaIgta""onret a letter from one who wvill prob-ti.BuIexctohaea"A ably pass this way many times i tbfr h n ftesmse before he becomes a sophomore. Itsodntwry is from a Carolina freshman to his B h a,d o hn O folks back home. (It got side-colsedmmyaowneaite tracked into the Gamecock officeealthsmn?Soef % en route.) Because of its touching bdisadIwr lyn hc sincerity, the editors decided to esadhvn e rnso print it, hoping that it will serve ml ntero h te ih as an inspiration to this student'sansoewsmefthbtlS classmates:gotundoeanthbywo Dear folks, bogtte nit htw i Just wanted to write and let you H lownshsraiglm know I'm missing you all. rpae.I o rknwe n Guess what. I got my report o h elswscaln rud card today. They'll probably send o h lo rigt aesm you a cop)y soon. I am right proudoftemlthtgtsied of it because I've really learned Watamne-thr'te fast since I left home,.hn.Wl,geswa,Mm They grade a little different Ta a yodpl h en i here from the way they did in wnst e eotaltl al Mooseleg High, though. That "X"foThnsingoldy.Itd I got on English 11 stands for ex- hmta olntb arbth cellent - you know -- tops. Andwolntaknofrnase. the "I" in Spanish means inc<*i-hnk- eee atsm osa parable. That's even better thanhoeawkortoferoldy an "X." The professor said hearov.Reknhkialks started not to give me that "WA" m,hh on algebra because he was afraid Wl,IgesIdbte onw it would cause jealousy among theThbosaegtiguanhr rest of the class. But being as he'slitegmofcckr.SeyUn a man of high principle, he gaveafedys it to me anyway. (It's short forLoe "What an asset.") These folksSoyBy down here are really strong on ab- PS o' ogtta hc,wl brtaiosioBu? xett aea"A