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Your Opinion? The following comment appeared in a column by Chuck Hauser of "The Daily Tarheel," University of North Carolina publication. It is printed this week; next week, editorial comment will be made. Meanwhile, we would like to have student and faculty opinion about Mr. Hauser's remarks. It might be the typewriter, but I think it's mainly the subject matter. Columbia, the capital of South Carolina and site of the University of the same name, just does not in spire my two typing fingers to create. We headed south on Saturday morning about two cups of coffee past 9 o'clock. We' sat down in our seats in the stadium on the fairgrounds at Columbia approximately five hours later, just missing the kickoff and the first few plays of the football game. The reasons for the slow trip were varied, but they in cluded one poorly marked route sign, a state highway patrol man and several coffee stops. (The coffee was good all the way down, compared to the Book Ex, which isn't saying much.) South Carolina doesn't have a bad football team, and when it cones to football, you'll find that the students there have some spirit. But in anything else connected with the uni versity,. they don't much give a damn. The school is old-founded in 1801, just six years after the University of North Carolina enrolled its first student and it has a student body of between 4,000 and 5,000. Neither of those facts prove anything, but they might be interesting to somebody. If you strolled through the campus-you've got to stroll, the streets are blocked off-you would see buildings that look like they were all built in 1801, and haven't received a coat of paint since. Actually, most of the buildings on the main campus are darned near that old, and I think my -tn clusion on the paint job is not far from wrhg. -There are no fraternity houseg at South Carolina's state university. The chapters there have set-ups very similar to Duke, with fraternity "sections" in dormitory-type buildings. But whereas the Duke sections are good-looking, neat and attractive, those at South Carolina are ratty, falling to pieces, and generally reminiscent of stables that haven't been given the Hercules treatment for a long time. The school provides paint for the chapters to paint their own rooms, and the resultant mess is really something to see. In addition, a great deal of the paint is used in fights, raids on other fraternity sections, and to paint up the campus with "Beat So-and-So" slogans. The cam pus is well painted. Almost the entire student body at South Carolina is com posed of South Carolinians. I may be doing the school an injustice, but apparently the only reason anyone goes there is that he can't afford to go out-of-state or to a private institution, or he can't get admitted any other place for academic reasons. And there is no reason why anyone from outside of the Palmetto state would want to go to its state university. The most confusing thing about the entire Columbia trip with the use of the term "Carolina" by both hosts and visit ors to refer to their school. I hereby pledge never again to mention my alma mater while speaking to strangers without carefully inserting the word "North." Just Another Commnttee? Monday afternoon, members of a student-faculty relations committee were appointed by student council. This action was taken under a part of the student body constitution which places the President of the university, Dean of Women, Dean of Men, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Secretary of YMCA, President of Student Body, two faculty members chosen by the faculty, and one student from each of the eight schools represented on student council. Students appointed Monday were Don Johnston, Mary Gillespie, Charlie Cox, Denos Siokas, Elmer Davis, Floyd Spence, and Joe Ingram. This is a large committee--16 in all-and since it has been established, why can it not be made one of the most important committees on the campus? Its organization is not new, but it has been able to accomplish very little in the past. Included in its works could be the promotion of discussion groups, fireside chats, andI other idleas which could bring the further unity of Carolina. However, if the committee is to be existent in name only, we ask that it be abolished now. There are too many suech committees already. So, its up to those of you on the com mittee to make it what it should be on the campus. Good luck! Ae GAA#COcIr CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Member of Associated Collegiate Preass Distributor of Collegiate Digest Founded January 80, 1908, with Robert Elliott Gonzales as the first qiditor, "The Garnecock" is published by and for the students of the Unearei t o Sot Carolinad weky oan Frdays, during the college Thse on e'ressed by columnists and letterd wrtersenot nZtneces endorsement. The right to edit is reserved. EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR .........O G DAD BUSINESS MANAGER PU IL ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER..ElitWada NEWS .. CA MPUS ..Besy.nwlo SPORTS. SOCIETY .. odclPrk EXCHANGES.MayBodot COPY. FEATURES Bob.mt CIR CUL ATION...........Jci Sutean Elli ohn Wardaw Ruth arke, Ke Powll,Barybvely Roerric Sandy CrAndoea BihlnNlei Ronald Adams A Lack of Time Three weeks ago our football team played North Carolina in a homecoming game. The festivities for this game were to be the most elaborate and most capably handled ever staged on this campus. The interfraternity council was to be in charge of the celebration. They planned to have a parade the night before in which all the organiza tions on the campus would place a float and awards were to be given. to the best entries. This was an excellent idea, but what did the interfraternity council do? About two weeks before the big game they dropped the idea and turned the piogram over to the Kappa Sigma Kappa. KSK, not having the time, de cided to follow the plans of last year's successful performance, at which many of the campus organi zations presented skits at half time for the Queen and her Court. Due to the lack of time the KSK could not arrange for a trophy to be given to the outstanding skit, but basically the set-up was the same as last year. This should have worked out successfully since it was not new to .anyane and surely all h,4',rganizations had planned to have some type of display for the homecoming game. On paper, this sounded good. But what hoppin? Someone mis cued! The students had little to thank themselves for and what about the alumni who came to see what their organizations were do ing. Many of the sororities had dis plays in front of the sorority houses but few had a skit at the game. The fraternities did almost nothing nor did other campus clubs. What happened to the school spirit? Does this represent Caro lina? Surely everyone could have pro du:cd a skit fcr the ceremonies. All that was required was one idea, a little time, and two minutes of exhibition. Was it because of lack of time? Or lack of an idea? Or maybe lack of a trophy? What ever it was it was inexcusable. With a spirit like this prevail ing on the Carolina campus how can we possibly expect to win foot ball games? Betsy Knowlton Activities -Office Keeps Student Activities Record George R. Tomlin, director of studient activities for the univer sity', has been playing the part of sleuth for some time. In his of t ice he attempts to keep some rec ords of various activities of in.. dividual students. These records are called for frequemly by busi ness firms - future employers considiering students to dletermine their abilities in some way. Mr. Tomlin has been doing the best he can with Gamecocks to keep his records up to date but it is impossib)le for him to keep uip with every single student that way. Some information he gets by hear say and the rest he must leave out because nobody has got the kind of instinct that reveals facts about peop)le that he doesn't even know, He urges not to let modesty hold students back from dropping by his office to let him have a list of their activities. It is simply a mat ter of giving him information which wvill be of far greater im portance to the student than he is awvare. Most employers like to know something else about their employees besides grades. Some times, campus activities tell more about a person's abilities than his grades. After a student graduates Mr. romlin proposes to turn these rec ards over to the alumni office where they will be held for the same purpose that they are used rnow. Any time It is all right to drop into the office and leave the list with either Mr. Tomlin or his sec reta ry. The Gamecock is very pleased to report this week that loud speaker system used in the fiel house fo.. Jack Walther What Goc We emerge from the post office with our mid-semester reports. Our faces reflect with fair accu racy our relative satisfaction with our grades. A "1" will usually register as a broad smile, a "2" as a twinkling of the eye, and so en down the scale to the "7's" which register on the facial barometer as a variety of unfashionable scowls. What is the power of these grades? What possible meaning could they have for us to influence us so profoundly? These grades which we hold so dear are a necessary evil. They exist only as the meager instru ment of the educator in measuring the intellectual prowess of his student. If intellectual prowess can be measured, the grading.sys tem ranks high as a method for doing so. There can be no harm in attempting to classify the stu dent's knowledge. The story does not end here, however. If it did, our grading system would result in little that is not beneficial. The damage exists in its effect upon the students. The American student has inad Barbara McSwain Why N What Yo What does this page mean to you? The editorial page of The Game cock represents to at least four of your fellow students their personal views. Sometimes their columns are well written and thoughtful. Sometimes t h e y are hastily satd.ed-off articles thrown to gether with the sole aim of filling a certain number of inches before the editorial page deadline. The importance of The Game cock editorial page is not so much what opinions are expressed or how ideas are phrased as in your reaction to the articles. Occasionally a column appears which is a thoughtful, accurate, factual presentation of a situation. The author adds his comments and suggestions for improvements. What do you do when such an article is published? Some readers get enthusiastic enough to write a letter to the editor, congratulating or censuring him for his editorial views. Some read it carefully, comment to a friend that a pretty good idea was in The Gamecock this week and wander over to the canteen where they forget it im mediately. IHow many of us move to definite action wvhen wve feel that such ac tion would really benefit us or the school? There is no purpose in having an editorial page if it accomplishes no good. The wvriters alone cannot do the good. They can suggest and plan; most of the doing is up to you as the student who is to be affected by the plans and sugges tions. There may be times wvhen the columnists write things absolutely contradictory to your beliefs. Do you sit and splutter angrily to yourself, or (10 you take advantage of your right to tell the student body what you think about the matter ? You can, through the same medium that the columnists use--the editorial page. That is the purpose of this page -a full and fair presentation of the wvay the students feel about campus conditions. If the ideas don't always agree . . . well, that's part of the democratic conception of a free press. To quote from a journalism class,. ."With toleration, you may hear fi-om the second-rate man along with the rest. Without it you may never hear from the rest." autstanding guest speakers has been repaired by Billy Hay. For two out of the three na tional speakers the university has had, the loud speaker system broke diown in the middle and most of the students couldn't hear nine tenths of what Mr. Romney Wheeler or Mr. Louis R. Unter., myer had to say. To repair that loud speaker the school had to shell out $160, but it was well spent. It wan getting rather silly to pay several hundred diollars for these speakers and then no one be able to hear what they had to say because the loud speaker qjuit. The speaker is now repaired so it is hoped that those who were diiscouraged from going before will attendi the next talk. d Grades? vertently been taught to revere these grades. To him they are seen not as an aid to education, but as the end of education. The first grader is rewarded for his high grades; his intellectual curiosity goes unnoticed or he is passed off with a shrug. He soon concludes that if grades are good enough for papa, then grades are good enough for him. Thus his education is well on the way to being confined to the classroom. When he reaches college level he is infinitely more concerned with his grade in a course than with the knowledge or inspiration that it may harbor. Even under these circumstances, however, we would be naive to conclude that we must do away with such a system. As long as others are dependent upon edu cated men and women, some sort of grading system must be kept alive as a guarantee of their qual ity. Any improvement in its oper ation must come about as a change in the student's attitude. Somehow grades must regain their proper place as the instrument of society, while we, the students, pursue knowledge for its own sake. ot Say u Think? Make The Gamecock editorial page one in which the second-rate, first-rate, and all the rest are heard! George LaBruce Oh, Rats! All those who put an honest ef fort into their work are alad to find someone who appreciates them; but just how much ap preciation can a person take at one time? For those who have never experienced the receiving of a "rat letter" this column reprints one that it received during the last week before the holidays. It took some doing to decide just who was responsible for your author's get ting the thing, and he didn't want to print it until he was sure. Be cause he believes in co-operating with other schools in properly initiating the freshmen, the writer of this column takes his life in his hands, and prints the following just as it was written and as you may see, it is a masterpiece: Nov. 20 My Darling George, I have longed for this day when I would get the chance to write you. I'm going to try to explain how I feel about you. This is not easy to (10. It is hard to express howv one feels about a person. Darling, I knew when I saw your p)icture that it wvould be hard to live without you. I have tried all year to find out your address. Everything about you I have tried to learn, but it took me a wvhile to find out everything I wanted to know. D)earest, I think of you in my dreams and while I'm awake. I hope you feel the same wvay as I do, because love is a two-sided affair. I keep a picture of you con stanitly in my mind. My whole life concerns you and you alone. May be someday we can make our life together. I have something to look forward to, so please don't fail me at my hour of need. All my life I have yearned for someone like you, for the first time I saw you three years ago at the lovely Christmas Season, I simp)ly couldn't resist your hand some self. Really you are Van Johnson; you ought to be in the movies with those sky blue eyes and that lovely blond hair. Well, I'm looking forward to see ing you in my dreams. So long for now my dearest. Until I see you again in Georgetown someday, here's hoping that this won't be the end. With all my love and affection, "Rat Dalton" Yes, even a columnist likes to be appreciated, but next time, girls, don't hold a gun at her back and let the truth come out; of course I wouldn't print It, tho. Here I sit and fuss and fret While my seat is getting wet It's enough to make me fume Teacher, can't I leave the room? Why delay me when you know That I simply have to go. Really, teacher, I'm not feigning My car top's down and it is raining. --Shaft' The Price Of Things By TOM PRICE Congrats Perhaps we should let sleeping dogs lie, but we just can't help reviving memories of the now defunct 1950 football season long enough to extend the congratulations of this column to Steve Wadiak for being selected to the Collier's All-South, United Press, Associated. Press, and Coaches' All Southern, and Associated Press All-State teams. In addition, Steve was honorable mention All-American, and outstanding player in the Southern Conference. While Steve deserved every honor that came his way, and then some, he could not have made all the all-star teams that he was named to without help. We are referring to the help of his teammates, the boys up front who opened up the holes, and the boys in the backfield who handed off to Steve or led the interference. Publicity Helped Someone else we shouldn't forget is Don Barton, athletic publicity director who beat the drum for Wadiak throughout the nation during the late summer and fall. Old Skin 'n' Bones left the sports editor's desk at the Columbia Record in August to take over athletic publicity at the Gamecock roost. Every newspaperman in the Southeast will tell you that Don has done a more than adequate job of singing the praises of Wadiak and his fellow Gamecocks. The results speak for themselves. Not only did Wadiak make every All-Southern and All-State team in the book, but four of his teammates made All-State also. To these men, Lamar Collie, Dave Sparks, Larry Smith, and Bishop Strick land. who is an All-Stater for the fourth consecutive year, we also extend our congratulations. Performance is 50 per cent toward making all-star teams. The other 50 per cent is having someone around to tell the public about that performance. For being the boy that did the telling, we would like to say to Don Barton, "Well done, lad." Slaughter All-South At the risk of being accused of dwelling too much on the 3ports of this venerable institution, we would like to mention that Stanley Woodward includes Jim Slaughter on his All South basketball team for 1950-51. All-South includes the Southern Conference, Southeastern Conference, and all Southern independents. This is what Woodward says about Big Jim: "Jim Slaughter of South Carolina is six feet eleven, and should be placed at center on the All-South team. However, there is a penthora of centers, and so we have made him a guard arbitrarily on the hopeful theory that a man as good as he can play anywhere. He led in point scoring during the regular Southern Conference season with 359 last year. He is a hooker like most centers, but he also is a very good push shot man from the sides. On defense he is usually posed around the circle, and he has the phenomenal success in blocking lots of shots as they leave the opponents' hands." Woodward picked 10 men for his All-South team, eight f them from the Southern Conference and two from the University of Kentucky. Besides Slaughter, Carolina's Don Cox was listed among the top 50 players in the South. The mnly other South Carolina college player mentioned was Dick Eelinski of The Citadel. Religious Emphasis Ends Another annual Religious Emphasis Week draws to a 3lose today. This year's array of speakers was one of the best that it has been our privilege to hear. The committee that handled the programs, Burt Wheeler of the YM-YWCA, Thaplain Brubaker, and all who led in the staging of this Religious Emphasis Week deserve a "well done" for their fforts. TV Topic The recent announcement that Columbia may get a tele vision station within the next year reminds us of a statement made by a New Yorker last summer: "You never know who our friends are until om. television set breaks, do."