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Our Reply Last week we printed a copy of a column published in "The Daily Tar Heel," one of our neighboring papers to the north. This is our reply to Mr. Hauser. First of all, we would like to say that we tend to agree with Mr. Hauser on some of his statements. Our buildings could stand a coat of paint-and we do not like the eight "Beat so-and-so" signs painted on the campus by a few unthinking students in their misguided efforts to show school spirit. These conditions we have endeavored and shall endeavor to better. They are certainly not the attitude of the entire student body. The painting of the buildings was done during the last war and, due to inferior paint, is now beginning to peel. We hope to see them painted soon. However, the blue paint smeared on the outsides of two fraternity houses on the campus was placed there by visiting North Carolinians-not during raids between fraternities. True, the streets of the campus are blocked off-but only over an area which is three blocks long and two blocks wide. This is broken by the horseshoe in the center where cars can be driven if necessary. To have open traffic anywhere else on the campus would be foolish. It is unnecessary in so small an area and would be dangerous and a nuisance to the students. The total enrollment of the school is 3,267. Of this num ber, 504 are out-of-state students who had had the possibility of going to another school. In fact, 103 are from North Carolina. Entrance requirements are standard with all other univer sities. One must be a high school graduate with 16 units or pass a suitable test which shows the ability to do college work. A transfer must be in good standing and eligible to return to the college from which he came. These are the facts. We don't think Mr. Hauser knew all of them. However, we do think that we, as students, must begin to work more earnestly to correct the conditions men tioned in his column which could very easily be corrected. Several of these conditions are inexcusable. We know the spirit to change these is present because we saw it in the amazing response to Mr. Hauser's column. We would also like to ask Mr. Hauser to return to our campus at a later date and make his presence known to us. We will try to make his stay as pleasant as we have found ours upon visiting the University of North Carolina campus. Christmas Is Near Religious Emphasis Week is over and Christmas is near. Perhaps we do not think to relate the two-but they are very much alike. Both are the time for a deeper introspec tion. Both a time to try to straighten out to some extent the confusion in our lives. To those who are Christian this holiday should mean most. It should be remembered for its religious significance and not just the "Santa Claus" significance. To those who embrace other faiths, we say that the same introspection can apply to them at this time-that their lives can be deepened by the atmosphere present at Christ mas. To those who would say that they have no religion, we would say to look inside, see what your religion actually is, and ask if it is worthy of you. Letters To The Editor THAT COLUMN gesv n eresfclymm ...To err is human; To forgive br,gendfo mn h is divine. Your trash has made us gnu fti tt,ohrsae lose all claims to divinity,.n vnfrincutis h David H. Crum. leiltr shud xrcete Terrell L. Glenn. rihofeietdmntoc Dear Editor:ladajcntoteuirsyfr The state legislature, the uni- epnigti nttto,t ul versity alumni, and the civic lead- lbrtr ulig,nwsrc era of the state are responsible trst elc h a eprr for the retardedness, or at most bidns n vnt rvd the very slow development of thispaknlofrstdtsndac university. The state legislature ut.Telgsaue oevr ought to recognize the importance ogtt osdrbsoiggat of such an institution as the sourceofmnytousadgseir of intelligent manpower to be cul- adgaut tdnsfrcnut tivated among the teen-agers ofinreachnsoalwk,pit today, tomorrow, the next day, and ia cec,adtepyia n the next generation. More moneyapldscees should be made available to the Efotculbemdtoxpn nierityfo hih ualtyandag tersi glaned circulaongo the Mebe fsocaeniu Cofitei Prstaestersae Founed anury 0 108awit evbernlit Gonreign aonrs thefis edior,"Te Gmecck ipulegisladrtue souldnxerciseh h Uniersty f SuthCarliniwekl o Frdysmingen oailtocon Theopiion e~ess b coum mnt and r fitesae roertyan sariy thse f Te Gmecok. pliing does io cnstitution aobul endorseuent. Therlggitolediteismresereed andWgraduaeuts Knowltondut ingMeseachi scarbr Derrikpl icalOsience andethe prysian SOfortsYcoudrbea Cadlerxpn mieXCt fhAgS.quality ...and ...ag- Mhie ary ciclaoofthe CRTAFF REORAGTER Duth trr, o Ken PollgMay DEeys ogr F ded San d y ra0 r, oBill ot et COUNIstS t Baoiarbaky o rdas,ding Jack Woltege BUSIN1ESS MAAGE ... Laso Yate L Na FItELl Betsy Knowlton A Pink Elephant I don't know what the pink ele phant always is but it sure is hard to find. Maybe it's the number of credits you need to graduate, or who the dean of music is, how to get in touch with Admiral Smith, but nobody ever seems to know how. I wanted to find out who won a certain scholastic contest one day and the chase I was led on would make a marathon runner look sick. First there was the telephone. When 2-5641 was not busy, every other line was. What on earth do people find to talk about on the telephone so long? Whenever I pick up the phone it's always busy. I have a very bad effect on tele phones. Then I tried visiting. I visited lots of people, secretaries and such whose employers had left for "I don't know where for, or don't know how long." Finally in des peration I tried a cup of coffee in the canteen. Just for laughs I asked someone that was leaning against a post. He suggested I go and read it in the newspaper. (I work for the Gamecock.) So over to the library I trotted, obediently. Even the library was difficult. I tried one entrance. It was locked. I tried another. It was locked, too. Then I tried still another entrance. It wasn't locked but the door to the stairway was. So I sat upon a bench and ad mired our beautiful campus. Sud denly I saw someone coming out of the library. If people can get out, surely they must be able to get in also. Quickly I darted up to the door she left and made the mistake of pushing. It was a "pull" door. Someone has since had the gall to ask me how I got that knot on my head. After I waited on the line to finish reading the paper (there certainly were a lot of people read ing the paper that day) I finally got it. Then something very strange happened. I could not re member what I had been looking for all day. I had caught that awful "I don't know" disease, too. I read "Mutt and Jeff" and the headlines but nothing happened to enlighten me. So I telephoned the Gamecock to see if they knew. They didn't know, either. And that is why some news story was neglected this week. That student who won that silly contest will never get the publicity. I am very sorry. I tried. Please, somebody, the next time a reporter wants a story, at least smile if you don't know. It is so very sad to go from frown to frown in search of something some one must want to know about or I never would have heard about it in the first place. "Carolina Review," sending copies to every high school in the U. S. A., a graduate or senior student, with a special grant, should be made the editor-in-chief, particularly an English or Journalism student. The program of monthly speakers could be expanded and continued--with a loudspeaking system worthy of the speakers; the efforts of the lJni versity Players and the University debators deserve more considera tion, as do many other similar ac tivities which are still in an em bryonic stage. There are many other opportunities at this univer sity which a virile and aggressive central leadership could exploit. John E. Westburg. Dear Madame Editor: It is sheer treason for mae, an alumnus, to agree with Mr. Chuck Hauser of "The Daily Tarheel," but I must say that be is a very discerning person. Conditions at the University are scandalous and a dlisgrace to the Palmetto state. South Carolina annually pours so many millions into highways that the ternm "asphalt jungle" might well apply to the state. New state office buildings are being erected to house an ever-increasing horde of Bureaus of This, Depart ments of That, and Commissions of Who Cares What. Meanwhile the state's schools are reduced to the level of crying, "Alms for tho love of Allah I" South Carolina evidently dloesn't :are to raise its youth above the savage level--but those savages will ride in oblivion on super bighways. Perhaps the University isn't so wrong when it has the campus post >ffice stamp all outgoing official nail, "Our Campus-The State." Sincerely, Vernon A. Taylor, (Class of '47). )ear Editor: Mr. Hlauser's case could be one >f two things. He could either ave been narrow.minded or Jack Walther An Open Le Critic From A My dear Mr. Hauser, Have you ever had a friend? Maybe he's a gawky friend with a Barbara McSwain WAS HOUSER ALL WRONG? Last w e e k' s thunderbolting North Carolina editorial was em barrassing. The humiliating thing about it is that, although it was obviously biased, so much of it hit home. There was little defense to be made to the supercilious remarks about the ramshackle fraternity tene ments,- dingy college buildings and drab-looking horseshoe. Perhaps we as students don't have much influence to change these conditions. That may be a partial retort to Mr. Hauser's re mark about our lack of spirit for anything concerning Carolina ex cept football. But what defense can we raise for our lack of school spirit when it comes to activities over which we have exclusive control? Ac tivities like student council? We may ask what We would get out of a better student govern ment system. Here are a few of the possible advantages: 1. Constructive effort made toward acquiring such student sought improvements as yearly name-band dances and a student union building. 2. Active student participation in policy-making administrative and faculty committees. 3. Efforts made toward the bet terment of facilities in needy de partments. This year's council has accom plished nothing so far. The meet ings have been sporadic and many of the members lackadaisical. ' In fact, not many more than half of the members have attended any meeting since the first one of the year. When your representative misses meetings, your voice in gov ernment is also missing. There is no reason for this stu dent council to be the weak, dor mant group it now is. The consti tution gives it the power to "act for the student body." It is the representative of each individual student here. Why don't we make it take advantage of its hard-won rights? Here are a few of the rusty pow ers granted council by the consti tution: 1. To name committees "for the investigation of any matter prop erly within the power of student council . . ." Why isn't there a committee to investigate the possi bilities of a student union build ing? 2. To establish "a committee on Student Faculty Relations." This committee, which is potentially the strongest and most unifying group on the campus, was elected last week, three months after school opened. 3. 'To have seven student mem hers of a Finance Committee, "whose duty shall be to allocate such portion of the student activi ties fee as is to be apportioned." At the meetings of this committee ab)out three student members showed up at each meeting. How can we afford to condemn Hlauser when what he said was so near the truth? Before we begin searching for defenses, let's build a strong de.. fense in our student council. Talk to your representative and find out what council is planning. If you don't know who he is, you can find out from Hilda Adams, secre tary. We can at least disprove Hau ser's argument that we have no sp)irit. Then we can begin working on the other charges. He'll wish he could claim the South in Carolina! grouchy because o! the taste of the coffee and his missing part of the game. Regardless of the state of mindi, he had no right to criticize our student body and school so unjustly. Therefore, from now on [I be very much like him when referring to my alma mater. I'll include the word SOUTH. To help straighten out this per son of circumstance we should in vite Mr. Hauser to visit us one weekend for a second time. It is very evident that the day of the Carolina-Carolina game was his first visit. W. F. Hardin, Jr., Maxcy 820, Box 11 Mter To Our forth Carolina peculiar shaped face and a broken nose. Maybe at first glance you considered him something of an oddity with not too much in his favor; someone to be ignored, or at least avoided. But then one day you heard him talk. Something in what he said appealed to you and you may have realized that you had him sized up wrong. So you introduced yourself and drank a coup of coffee with him at the canteen. Before long you were friends. His peculiar shaped face was still there and so was his nose. Only one thing was changed - you were friends. Those features which had once repelled you were quite tolerable now - you even began to like them. You liked them because you discovered something else about him which made everything else superficial and unimportant. You discovered his soul. That's the way we feel about Carolina. We have known her a long time- and she has been a friend. You have met her once and judged her by her face. You say her halls need paint. We know this, but we also know that thousands of students have entered them and walked out in spired. You say her fraternity houses are reminiscent of stables. We know this, too, but we also know that thousands of voices have cried out in timeless merriment from within them. You say she is poor. If you refer to her outward appearance we know you are right, but we also know that she is rich in spirit and tradition. Time has handled her roughly and has left unsightly scars on her body. They testify, not to her sub mission, but to the triumph of her will. All these things we know and she is our friend. We have taken the time and we have discovered her soul. tf you have misjudged her, we can understand, but if you meet her again we ask you in the sake of friendship to look deep. You, too, may discover a friend. George LaBruce We Love You, Too I"riends. Tarheals, and country meni ( Clemsonites),. lend nme anly thing you can spar'e till payday. I come not to Ibur y Hlauser, I conme only to rase him ; for if the column ist from abhove the line sticks to his p)ledlge to never again mention his alma mater while speaking to strangers withbout iinserting the word (retch ) North, the former will be t aken care of by those more capable than u . Paragraph by paragraph, i'll go through his work. It. might be the typewriter, but I think it's mainly the type. What is the object of writing against the state inst it ution of another and neighboring state in a manner not in keeping with good journalism. It is ino wonder that his wee pinkies bounced off the keyboard in such form. No comment on second para graph, nothing in it! We are glad t.o know the coffee is good and( our road signs poor. This is all the fault of the Uni versity of South Carolina, we gather, especially the part about the patrolman. it is very relevant to the subject. Incidentally, did he sell you a ticket to the game, the Patrolman's Motorcade, or was it "good miornlin', .Judge." South Carolina dloesn't have a hadl football team and the students have some spirit. This is a barometer of North (oh, vulgar word) Carolina's spirit,? In every thing else they (S. Carolina stu dents) don't much give a damn. The qualifying word. here is much. This explains why our debating team is one of the best in the South, perhaps the nation; it is because the students don't care about their university. The school is old - founded in 1801. My dlormitory is one hun dred years old. .This proves it was well built. So is my girl but she won't be a hundred for a few daya yet. Neither of these are facts, so why include them? So I have to stroll around the campus and leave my Rolls Royce parked on Sumter Street. I think the walk will do me good and the campus Is small, a fact Chuck overlooked. The buildings on the main campus w,ere paited d.... The Price OfThings By TOM PRICE Lucky Thirteen Turn to the front page of this issue of THE GAMECOCK (not until you've finished reading this,N please l!), and near the upper left-hand corner, as the left of the dateline, you will see these words: "Volume XLV, Number 13." Now we have always been told that 13 is an unlucky number; and so it may be for some people. To us, however, the number 18 has always seemed to bring good fortune and happiness. What does this number 13 near the upper left-hand corner of the front page mean? It means that this is the thirteenth issue of THE GAMECOCK to roll off the press this semester. That's where our luck comes in. We consider ourselves lucky to be associated with THE GAMECOCK. In the past three years, THE GAMECOCK has been a source of much valuable experience and pleasure for us. We consider ourselves lucky to have served. Note of Sadness We do not send Volume VLX, Number 13 to press without a bit of sadness creeping into our heart, however, for with Volume XLV, Number 13, the final issue of THE GAME. COCK- for 1950 has been put to bed. Volume XLV, Number 14, will bear a 1951 dateline and another year at Carolina will have passed. May THE GAMECOCK continue to serve the student body of the University of South Carolina and at the same time continue to hold its high Associated Collegiate Press national rating. A Great University By the same token, may the University of South Caro lina continue as the great institution that it is. May the faults that we now have be corrected through student, fac ulty and administration cooperation with an even greater university emerging as a result. One Doesn't Like Us Usually the visitors to our campus say nice things about n a when they leave. One who spent a few hours here sev eral weeks ago, however, didn't like what he saw and pro ceeded to tell the world about it. We refer to one Chuck Hauser, columnist for "The Daily Tar Heel," University of . North Carolina student publication. Elsewhere on this page you will find a great deal of editorial comment concerning Hauser's statements, so ours will be brief. According to Chuck Hauser's own column, he left Chapel Hill N. C., after 9 a. m., traveled the 198 miles to Columbia, and arrived at Carolina stadium after the football game be tween North Carolina and the Gamecocks had started. That game was not over until some time after 4:30 p. in. After that time, on a Saturday afternoon with most of the student body away for the weekend, with no classes in session, and with all extra-curricular activities, with the exception of the football game, suspended, Chuck Hauser spent several hours on our campus, judged us and condemned us. He said we had no spirit for anything except football, no out-of-state students, and no one in our student body who is academically qualified to go elsewhere. This reporter has written Chuck Hauser a personal letter. We quietly pointed out some of his most glaring misstate ments and asked him to visit Dr. Arnold Nash, head of the University of North Carolina Department of Religion, who spent last week on our campus. Doctor Nash spent much more time with us--and is much better qualified to judge us than Chuck Hauser. We mentioned the university's debate team which has consistently been among the top teams in the country in the past decade, and has several national championships to its credit. We mentioned, not without a little pride, the national rating of THE GAMECOCK. To our mind, these and several other examples that we mentioned show extraordinary stu dlent spirit. We invited Chuck Hauser to come to Columbia when he' has several days to spare and be our' guest. We believe that then he will change his impression. . Merry Christmas As this final issue of THE GAMECOCK goes to press; as old Volume XLV, Number 13, takes shape and life as a newspaper, we take this last opportunity to say, "Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, enjoy the holidays, and don't eat too much turkey, to all." the war and the color is prettybrnmyeftcalasteni bad. We think the stucco effect isvestadnofiqutorah what makes them look bad, butbofr(leics maybe they are wrinkling their shy I ii naohrmt' oe little faces because of the remarksItrtofnthgodhaishe. people are making about them. ThsIwlmetotoimado I won't go into why there are no m red hnIlae fIfn fraternity houses on the campus.unlantesiwllbcrfl This "is not in my province." I wa a n~igi satuh walked by one of the chaptersujc.PrasiIswogtt rooms last. evening and it didn'tweithSaeofouhCrln smell like a stable, didn't tall on hv entuh ocnuto1 my head, and if there are any rats sle sgnlmnsol;bti in it, they were well hidden in the w er omr hnti,w 1 crowd. The campus is well painted, frmr dctdta oew so are our coeds; the picture ofkowIhaeerdftinslk South Carolina is not so wellth,bunerdiitnerY painted. The brush was loaded and fel idta tcudhpe the paint job was cheaply done,. eeI h ad fcuts n I have actually met some stu-hoptly.Aernsisdw dents.here who are qualified to at- adcrflytrsota dtra tend other schools if they so desire,.omn unn dw coli In fact I have met a few thousand tesm ra n o oaprn of them. I know of students in the rao.Wy torsho ed NROTC here from other states ipoeet ewl okt e who could transfer if they wanted,.t u o omoet rgu Few have. Maybe if all of us had truhtemdi niaieo lots of money, some of us would goamoieDdonofyubdby to thescool, bt Icoud Ife s Ia thisi kin aoipop? 'hme