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.

Progress The semester is almost ended. We face its end with many regrets, many new ideas, and some old ones. We have listened to the complaints of the campus and have tried to weigh the just and the unjust ones. We have found that almost nothing on the campus is above the reproach of someone, including, and most violently, ourselves. We think that most of these have been given as constructive criticism, and in that spirit, wish to bring something of a concensus of observations and views of the university. The first of our criticism is toward the students. Main opinions on the campus are that the students are not interested enough in the extra-curricular activities and the under-current workings of the school. They often come here only for classes and do not develop the spirit which makes for an inter ested and active alumni. The interest in football seems to be good enough but it does not seem to always continue after graduation or into other phases of the college career. The general lethargy of the campus toward not thinking and not doing more than abso lutely necessary, seems to be becoming worse with each semester. So we must say that it is the duty of each student to remember Carolina after graduation and to make it his main occupation during his stay here. The spirit is fair, but unless it is backed up by work, it is useless. The second comment is to the faculty. As rule we have found that it is good, with ome excellent professors in each depart ent who are kept here by what seems to e a loyalty to the school or to the state efinitely not by the salaries- among the owest of any state university in the nation. owever, we have also found ridiculous and hildish petty jealousies which often cause a if' btween members of departments-not aking for the best interests of the school r the students. As intelligent adults, it eems a shame that such is the case in some f our departments. The last part of our comment goes to the dministration, which naturally catches the lame for most bad conditions on the cam us. The badly needed new buildings of the ampus, including a new science building, re now just about ready for beginning onstruction. It is hoped that the war situ tion will not make the construction of these mpossible, especially after the campus has aited so long for them. Another thought comes in the form of he morale of the faculty, which has dropped onsiderably in recent times. This is caused artly by the low pay rates which do not allow the professor to do any summer re search in order to better his academic rec Letters To To All Carolina Students: most - to peo) Did you ever see the letters ,fortunat opihan t CCSC on a poster or in the Game- cern should be fc cock or elsewhere'? Do you knowv whose need is gra what they stand for? They repre- Yet the Carolir sent the Carolina Christian Service ice Club is one o Club. Ever hear of it? Know what ganizations at C it is? Probably most students have the reason for ti heard of it, but a great many, I in the fact that believe, do not know exactly what aware of the club it is and what it does. I believe that The Carolina Christian Service on by the Ca Club is the most important organi- Service Club wil] zation on this campus. That, of wvho feel that th< course, is my owvn humble opinion, suit them for 01 But it is definitely my opinion. ligious work. Here's why: First, it is a Christian Let me tell you organization, and in my book of our work. a truly Christian organization Each week a gr o u t r a n k s all non - Christian visits the Richli organizations. Second, it renders valescent Home service to those who need it around forty n CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROl Member of Associated Collegiate Pre Distributor of Collegiate DIgest Founded January 30, 1908, with Robert Elliott Conzals editor, "The Gamecock" is published by and for the sft University of South Carolina weekly. on Fridays, durini year exoept on holidays and during examinations. Teopinos expesdby coiwuists an letterd wrtsai endorsement. The right to edit is reserved. EDITOR . . . .... ...... . .O G MANAGING EDITOR .............OG BUSINESS MANAGER .. ...P ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER Elli NEW S .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bei CAMPUS ...........Bar SPORTS......... .Mor SOCIETY ............ ..And EXCHANGES ..........Mar COPY .. . . . . .. . . FEATURES ....................Jackie CIRCULATION...... .. . ASSISTANT..... STAFF REPORTERS Ruth Barker, Ken Powell, Mary Evelyn] Sandy Cranford, Bill Novit COLUMNISTS ............Barbara McSwain, J Geo BUSINESS STAFF Lawaon Yate.. I Or Not? ord, and mainly by the tenure plan here which grants tenure after two years but is not a very sure thing after it has been granted. Another main reason is the system of pay raises which are Indiscriminate, de cided by a few people and differ in each de partment as to qualifications. This also applies to promotion in rank of those not qualified-a very unfair practice. As the school which has received more money from the state than any other state *school during the past five years (and this is still not enough), we have shown very little progress. Therefore our comment is not so much on regression as on the stand still which we seem to have taken. As a university, it is completely necessary that we advance and not become the self-satisfied tool of the' "highways" of politics of the state. In view of these observations, we there fore suggest the following points which might help begin an advance: 1. A thorough investigation of all fi nances and books by an outside firm with published results and suggestions-not so much in suspicion but to remove all doubt of bad handling of money. 2. A systematic and unbiased method of raises and promotions. 3. A plan by which professors may be helped to continue some academic work without interfering too much with his live lihood. 4. A building plan which will be carried through just as the state grants money to the university with no waiting for federal funds. 5. Finally, we suggest that a student committee be set up-made up of the presi dents of Student Body, Alpha Kappa Gam ma, Omicron Delta Kappa, Kappa Sigma Kappa, Blue Key and the editor of THE GAMECOCK-which would appear before the Board of Trustees each semester to pre sent praise and criticism of conditions on the campus. This committee could present the faculty views and the student views which would be impossible for the members of the administrative committee to present. It would bring the students into closer con tact with the Board of Trustees and would help the school as a whole. These are our ideas for the progress of the school. We doubt if all the suggestions will be taken-indeed-none may be. How ever, we do know that unless progress starts and continues, regression, which has quite effectively reared its head, will soon set in. Our days of lethargy are over! O. T. E. The Editor >le who are less Most of thenm are old. Some are !e. It is my con- crippled. Others are sick or handi sat our first con. capped from various causes. But r those among us all are, for one reason or another, satest. unable to earn a livelihood, and ta Christian Serv- they have no one to take care of f h mleto-them. These people have few visit. Crohena.allestier- ors and little with which to occupy risa Is belound their time. They are in great need so few people are offriendship. They need to be anditsactvites.made to feel that they are not for andit ativtis,gotten; that there are people who the work carried care whether they live or die. We rolina Christian have adopted the simple expedient appeal to many of person to person visits. We feel nir talents do not that nothing can take the place of her types of re- a personal chat and personal friendship. briefly something Also, each week we take a movie out to the John G. Richards Indus oup from our club trial School. This is a reform mnd County Con.. school for Negro boys, juvenile de wvhere there are linquents under seventeen years, ten and women. There are around one hundred and forty boys there at present. A great many of them are mere chil. dren, around ten years of age /project. We need your suggestlonm and your help. On one occasion this semester two of our girls took an enter. JINA taining program out to a class o1 eunderprivileged children at a small country school. the unfr, We have especially enjoyed visit dte oefe ing the Richland County Children's Home. A few days before Christ St nee- mas we carried the children a movie. We also arranged for Santa EDWARDS Claus to visit each child there. If TOM PRIC they appreciated Santa's visit as ott Wardlaw much as they obviously did the sy Knowlton movie we married them, then our bara Derrick efforts were not in vain-far from decal Persky it. rea Cande The CCSC plans to carry a Bobby Smith movie to these children as often Southerland as it can. rohn Parasho The Carolina Christian Service )harlie Wood Club offers opportunities to r Christian Service and education of Rogers a sort that can be obtained through no other organization on the cam ack Walther, pus. We invite you to join with rge LaBruce us in this work. Janey Mitcell AUTTrI RLEY George LaBruce ANe1 This writing requires a setting, and here is one. It is Sunday night, or to be more explicit, Monday morning, 2:00 a. m. Two hours ago man-made thunder ushered in the New Year for some of us. Many hours ago in Korea the same thing happened. For those of us here, the new year was a lot of noise. So it was also for the soldier in the foxhole, but his noise was bigger. It shook the ground he clung to, and the sin ister smell of cordite turned his nostrils into dry pieces of leather. Still it was a new year, 1951, a year looked forward to with gloom by many, but could it be any worse than the past one? It's quiet outside now, except for the whistle of a train in the distance, a train that may be carrying more men on their way to fight for the freedom of a people being oppressed by the armed aggression of a country or a group pf countries that are sworn to rule the world. A gov ernment professing peaceful aims and equal rights for all, but doing its utmost to destroy democracy wherever it is to be found. A bear wagging a friendly tongue, while its claws tear apart a young rab bit. When we look about for reasons why we do not condone the com munist form of government, we often say that it is not Christian, that they believe in no god but power, and this, we say, is wrong. How many of us have gotten down on our two knees and prayed to the Almighty God we say we be lieve in and asked him to help us in such a time of trouble? Do we think we are sufficient unto ourselves to defeat an enemy more than twice as large as we? Yes, we say we are a Christian nation, and God is on our side, surely he will help us. Have we bothered, to thank him for the blessings we received last year, or last week, or yesterday? Is God truly on the side of a country that is rotten with cheap politics, foolish pride, selfishness,- and greed ? The Lord has given us free will and we have mis-used it. He will not stop us if we drive ourselves to destruction. The history of every empire has been the same. Countries build Eric Oppenheimer: Another The resurgence of reactionary, radical nationalism wvith strong Nazi overtones is the most danger ous, long-term problem facing the Western powers and the govern ment of the Western German Fed eral Republic. The ex-Nazis, the neo fascists, the militarists and the authoritarians are not going to take over Western Germany tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. But their sort of nationalism is gain ing ground openly among the dis contented classes, and secretly and insidiously among the followers of the established political parties. The task of the Western powers, it would seem, is to build up the non-authoritarian parties to save German democracy, such as it is, and to prevent the almost inevi table alliance between an authori t'arian Germany an authoritarian Russia. It is estimated that today about 10 per cent of the popula tion of Western Germany belongs to the radical right-wing parties or organizations. Ten per cent of the population plus the large num ber of unaffiliated voters among the discontented classes, ex-soldiers, ex-Nazis, refugees and unemployed represents a dangerous political po tential. The wildly chauvinistic Communist party of the Soviet Union numbers less than 10 per cent of the Russian population and seems to be wielding absolute con trol over Russia. Barbara McSwain POWDER BOWL TO BE PLAYED IN FEBRUARY The traditional Powder Bowl rivalry between the Tri-Delta and the Pi Phis will not be renewed this semester. Girls in both groups are planning the football game for next semester on February 15. The collapse of plans to play this semester was a disappointment to the sororities playing, but it must have been a real blow to the Kappa Deltas, who had already benn drilling practice fr thei v Year themselves up, make themselves strong, and then in the smug com placency of being self-sufficient, they become vain. Everything can be taken care of by the army and navy. We know all about govern ment, economics, and defense. We've existed a few hundred years and had many victorious wars. To what end? Where do we go from here? If we win this one it leads to the next one. Does it not show that some day there must be one body governing the entire earth? The communists know this, they want that governorship for them selves.. They have strength that could get it for them. They will use the means necessary to their end; will we? The atomic bomb is a terrible thing, but if it can save lives of our fighting men, should we not use it simply be cause it may antagonize Russia? We know that when the "Reds" see the advantage of using it they will not be bound by their love for us! The communists overlook one thing in their overall planning. The thing we must always remem ber unless we should go the way of the Romans, the way the commu nists will eventually go. That one thing is the freedom of man from slavery as ordained by God. A people can stand so much and no more. Even an iron curtain be comes corroded, and the ways of the outside world will creep in. These ways must be such that they will sway the people. Once the people of a country are dissatis fied, the government can not long endure. Today if right triumphs over wrong, it is because it has bigger and better guns. We must have those guns, but unless we work and pray for a really Christian democracy, though we win a war, we accomplish little. It is time we quit kidding ourselves about life. It is not enough to be a "good man," to go to Church when it is convenient, and to go elsewhere when it is not. One week of reli gion a year is far too little to satisfy our requirements. We must begin to think now about leading a Christian life or a com munist one! God hates sin, but loves the sinner. He will help us to save ourselves if we follow his commandments. Guest Editor Danger One encouraging factor is that the rightists in the United States zone generally have achieved only a minor degree of political unity. This factor must be weighed against the proof that a vast number of Nazis have re turned to positions of promi nence; the question is how long will it be before they begin to act together as Nazis and not as school teachers or civil ser vaints or businessmen with Nazi backgrounds. It must be remembered that the Germans never had a democracy in our sense of the word. Their back ground is one of divided kingdoms and principalities, all under vary ing degrees of autocracy until 1870, when the unification brought a strong, central, militaristic govern ment. The first timid efforts at dlemocracy of the Weimar Repub lic was soon smothered in Nazi totalitarianism. To expect Gertnan (democracy nowv or in the immediate future is to court certain disap pointmtent. What we have a right to ask is that the effort be made that some leeway be given in time and opportunity to the teachings and processes that could eventually b)ring democracy. It would be a tragedy that if, in our all-out struggle with vile communism, we should permit the recrudescence of an equailly viscious system. hal f-time. performance. Agreeing to drill meant that the KD's par ticipating gave up from one to three hours each afternoon. Now that plans have been called off temp)orarily, these girls will prob ably have to start from scratch and re-learn the drills if they agree to march in February. Originally the game was planned for January 19, a Friday night. When it was found that a boxing match was scheduled for that night, the girls moved the date up one night to Thursday, January 18. A fter they had received permission to play on Thursday, the basket ball team scheduled a game for the same night. With this development both The Price Of Things By TOM PRICE Tempus Fugit Just yesterday, or so it seems; we stuck our size nine and a half brogans under this desk for the first time. The Price of Things was transferred from page seven to page two, and we set up shop. Fifteen issues, several months, and quite a few happen. ings of note have taken place since then. It was just prior to the final issue of the 1950 spring semester that we inherited this desk. Now, just prior to the next to last issue of this semester, we sit here attempting to compose our swan song. As has been the custom in the past, the new staff for the spring semester will publish next Friday's final issue of THE GAMECOCK for the fall term. We expect to be around the paper next semester, in some capacity, but the managing editor's chair will be filled by another. To him or her, as the case may be, we offer our sincerest sympathies and congratulations, both in the same breath. We offer our sympathies because it's a hard job, probably the hardest on the whole staff. We offer our con-, gratulations because it's an honor to be named managing editor. Next to being named editor-in-chief, it's the highest honor one can attain with THE GAMECOCK. To our successor we say, good luck and do your best. There are 15 rough issues ahead of you, but the effort and long Monday and Wednesday midnight oil-burning bouts will be well worth it in the end. We enjoyed every minute of it. Musician In Our Midst? Just in case you've been wondering about those weird noises issuing from the house on the corner of Sumter. and Green streets, Mrs. Alice Babcock hasn't been beating Doc's bird dogs. The doctor allowed to one of his English 129 classes that he thought that perhaps there was a bit of music in his soul and he thought he should take up mastery of the harmonica as a hobby. The class got together and presented Doc with a double barreled creation from the famous collection of one Herr M. Hohner as a Christmas present and the strange noises emit ting from the house on the corner of Sumter and Green streets is the result. At last report Doc was practicing up for Horace Heidt's next visit to Columbia. . Harmonicats in Leiber While speaking of harmonicas, there are a couple of right fair country harp-blowers hanging around Leiber college these days. We refer, of course, to those two handsome vir tuosos, Manning Harris and Don Barton. The harmonics belongs to Manning, but he can't play anything. but "Silent Night," so most of the wind comes from the Barton half of the duo. Don's not half-bad on "Tennessee Waltz." Some Are Leaving To shift back to a serious note, several hundred sons and daughters of Carolina will take leave of their alma mater in just two more weeks. Most of them will be graduated. A few will leave to enter the service. To all of them we say: Hon voyage and good luck; don't forget the friends you leave behind. Think of us occasionally. and most of all don't forget the dearest friend of all, your alma mater. Remember and cherish the many happy moments that she has given you. Here's a health, men and women of Carolina, forever to thee. Betsy Knowlton '2$tmehnedi WHAT ABOUITComnti ordThtiwy CYNICISM? The key word about the cam-lveofails pus now is cynicism and it is not T ih nte vrwl e at all surprising. Most of the men,queaterbemonofcrg, especially the veterans, are ter-bakdyafeielsIfwar ribly bitter. A few of us are just wligt oeoriel n plain scared of another war. Manycorgintefeofapbbl dread the,*long periods of anxiety wr hntewri led ot they so well remember from the TeCmuitwl aeltl last war,.rul otoligapol ih Now is the time, however, whenoufatanhpe it Is a necessity for us to renew Sr o r itr n a our faith and hopes and dreams. myhv ie oryas1eoe It is necessary to have our dreams b utfnsighseuain a in order to have the courage neces-bevnmridlyno,ads sary to face the dim future. dnyh a og gi o Communism attempts to redud~ eae onykwshw oig postpone the game, since all otherseupithprfsonlwld possible nights were filled. adsdetyhv olaeeey The Powder Bowl game is a tig ti icu~gn ohv good thing. Besides being popularjutsetyasndbodowia entertainment for the student body,pec,oltohvitsaerdb it serves a worthy purpose. Last seigyoewemn ocs year the proceeds went to the Mc- Srl o bv antma Kissick scholarship fund. This frpol olv naGdes year they are to be given to ODKhoes,lvlsstaeWecnt for its scholarship fund. ble,ta.W utbleeta The game has become a tradition H neddu olv sIdvd at Carolina. Two Gamecock writ-uashoer mrfc,tivn ers originated the Idea in 1940,fohapnswihtlettead when the Tri-Delts and Pi Phisofaih played the first game. After the W antgv porfihi war enthusiasm and interest in thethuliaendTatfthIor game were again manifested,. togs epn togrIb The Powder Bowl game has lee nteln u hnbms brought Carolina favorable na- I snttolt e omk tional publicity as well as localonmreNwYa'rsluin fame. Several colleges and uni-onthtmsbekprgadssf versities have adopted the idea andwhtmyce,haofolign play the game every year, withtofihadop,Ioretoav sororities or other girls' groupash eesr org od ht plain.ite may sbecoesr necourAerca