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New B Last week's announcement by the adminis tration that work will begin in the near fu ture on two new buildings for the university is gratifying news indeed. Added to New Petigru law school, these two additions will make three new buildings for the campus since World War II. Who knows, we may even replace our temporary buildings some day. One of the new structures, a three-story engineering laboratory, will be built on Green street between Steward's hall and the old laboratory at the corner of Main street. Two frame cottages will be razed to make room for the lab. The second building will house the several science departments and will occupy 75,000 square feet of Gibbes Green facing Pickens ANeM This week The Gamecock finds itself with a new managing editor. Betsy Knowlton, elected to the position for the spring semester, was forced to resign due to serious illness in her family. This sudden resignation should not be construed as any reflection upon her or her ability. It was brought about by tragic, unavoidable circum stances. To Betsy we say, Good Luck, and thanks a lot. To her mother we wish a speedy recovery. Our new managing editor is Mordecai Persky, erstwhile sports editor, columnist and poet extraordinary. He has had experi ence with make-up and should do a capable job. Although most readers don't realize it, the managing editor is the key figure on The Gamecock staff. He is responsible, in directly, for the make-up of the entire paper, and personally makes up pages one, three and six of an eight-page edition. It is usually Internation President Kenneth Holland, of of more than 1 the Institute of International Edu- 1949. The Institi cation has reported that the num- private agency in ber of persons participating in In- I studnt with tw stitute student exchange programs between the Ui last year totaled 3344, an increase foreign countries Letters To ATTENTION, COLUMNIST jtheory was not PERSKY Persky, who gr Dear People: in his sports colt; Before reading further, consider the editorial pag that I'd rather jest for a king than evidently a poor wvear his crown. These lines I write was getting off t are all in fun, as I take that which Could I ask fc is poked at me by Persky to be. Persky's last col (In reference to his column of give proof of my last week) What subject he says? tion. The headinh Any subject, I reply! He has the Results From Ib adIvantage on me, you know; a col- dwells on this for umnist may fire at will. When I tiring of it perhal write sports for Rudy, poorly tho remarks about ti I do it, I must, says he, stick to p)ast journalism sports, that being the subject. This us to call it tha $w GAM{co4 (:ROWING; FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROl Member of Associated Collegiate Pre Diatribubor of Collegiate Digest Founded January 30, 1908, wIth Robert Elliott Gonzales editor, "The G;amecock" is published b,y and for the ats University of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays. during year except on holidays andl during examlnitions. The opinions expressed by columnists and letter writers a sarily those of "The Gamecock." Publishing does not, endorsement. The right to edit is reserved. EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR MORDEC BUSINESS MANAGER .I ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER Eli NEWS Jackii CAMPUS SPORTS SOCIETY EXCHANGF,S COPY FEATURES Mari CIRCULATION MANAGER STAFF REPORTERS Ruth Barker, Mary Evelyn Rogers, Sandy Cri Blalock, Furney Hemingway, Don Hayes, Mary Fred Dunlap COLUMNISTS Barbara McSwain, ( RUSINESS STAFF Laarann Yates, N, ulidings street just north of the new law school. It will be a four and a half story edifice. The administration deserves a well done from the student body and alumni for suc ceeding in getting the money appropriated for these two buildings. These are trying and unsettled times and many might contend that it would be unwise to build now. Also, South Carolina is a poor state and the ob taining of an- appropriation large enough to finance two such buildings is no mean ac complishment. For these reasons we say, Well Done, Gentlemen, but at the same time, PLEASE don't rest on your laurels. The political science, psychology, philosophy, fine arts, and secretarial science departments are still housed in inadequate temporary buildings. Won't you try to give them a new home, too?-T. P. ~M... his lot to work till the wee hours on Monday and Wednesday nights so that a newspaper will be delivered to each student's campus mail box each Thursday night. The managing editor is also responsible for the pictures that appear in The Gamecock. It is his duty to contact the photographer, secure the prints, take them to the engravers, and furnish each picture with appropriate captions and cutlines. The managing editor also spends a goodly portion of his time each Tuesday and Thursday at the Vogue Press, some fifteen blocks from the campus, where The Gamecock is printed. He is responsible directly for checking pages one, three and six for errors, and is indirectly responsible for the other pages. For these reasons we say that the manag ing editor has the toughest job on the entire staff. The editor-in-chief gets the glory (oc casionally the blame), and the managing editor gets the work. Mordecai, do you have a strong back? i Education D00 persons over Mr. Holland stated that this ite is the central growth reflects the strong desire the United States of people today to achieve closer ..wy exchange of understanding between nations. s, and specialists We agree with Mr. Holland. iited States and Let's have more of that under standing. The Editor followed by Mr. may have been, and honored tho awled at Hauser we wvere to be mentioned in the inn as well as on worthy one's work, we jovially re 1.SneHue ssent being under the title "Con ~. inc Huse ~ fusion." Since he who would vie tport, I think this with the mighty McSwain's pen be subject a little. prwes has nothing to offer this r more than Mr. humble soul besides confusion, umn (Feb. 9) to he'll get no "refund" from me, and laughing accusa- I'll ask him to read his owvn column says "Confusio for evidlence of the claims I made. aspell and te, Yours for better journalism ps eispsig(from those of you wvho are cap le quality of our al fpouigi) If he will permit George LaBruce. t). Clumsy as it (Note: Many a columnist has fired at will only to learn that he was shooting a boomerang.-Ed.) A STUDIENT'S OPINION Editor: Student opinion see'ms to be a ~INA thing of very small consideration to our adlministrators. Our presi (lent has refused for three consecu as the firs tive years to give the one night dent of thneedled for a "D)amon Runyan Can cer Fund" drive. As suggested re nt nees- (heaven knows how many times) this worthy charity could be aided by a night basketball game. I be TOM PRICE lieve the Admiral owes us an ex AI PERSKY planation; perhaps there is good AUL FIELD reason why this can't be (lone. I iott Wrdlaw for one would like to know. The iotherland p-resident's complete lack of con Southrland sidieration of students' opinions Bill Novit leads me to believe that a change tudy Thlgpen in administrative policy would be Marlene Rast beneficial to the whole student Ken Powell body. It is the students that make Bobby mith ot b>reak a university; if the ad BobbySmith ministration isn't behind the stu ~ha Matthews dents, the students certainly won't Charlie Wood be behind the administration. Bill Malmberg mnford, J. M. (Note: We were unaware that Bloodworth, the administration had been ap proached directly more than once concerning a proposed basketball alga Edwards game for the benefit of the Damon iney Mitchell Rnn. Cancer Fu... E da Won't You Be OLGA EDWARDS Twas The "Twas the first of the semester, And all through the school, Every creature had studied, For the first week, that's all. But me in my kerchief with books in my lap, Had just settled down for a long class' nap." And that is my reaction to the second week of the semester-al though I have a fear that I may soon be jolted out of it. So with all apologizes to Samuel Clement Moore, we shall continue this col umn without further attempts at poetry. The most interesting bit of news for the week came from a radio program by Drew Pearson last I Sunday night. It seems that Mr. Pearson has heard something about the 'politics' of South Carolina. On his program he reported that the Senate Investigating Committee would soon investigate the "Barn well Ring" of South Carolina. The reasons he gave were that a "group of narrow-minded poli ticians" had bought land in Aiken County after finding that the H bomb plant would be built in that vicinity. It was most interesting that a BARBARA McS WADl Afternoon In Uneasy stillness abruptly e tick . . .a sniff in the far end< the cok(l . . . the restlessness of; back andl forth in a tyro's futile fort . . . the steady flick-click dent avidly absorbs every mor BIRDS PROVE No Place Like Home "There's No Place Like Home." And we have statistics to prove it. Although we have often been toldl that statistics can be found to prove anything, wve cite a few here to substantiate our theory that there is no place so friendly as the old1 homestead. We use the Gamecock basketeers as examples. As of Mondlay, the Birds had an overall recordl of 11 wins and eight losses. Of these 11 wins, eight came on the friendly floor of the local field house. Of the eight losses, seven were administered to the Gamecocks while invading for eign soil. The Frank Johnson charges boasted a home record of' .888 last Monday. In this (lay of fireball basketball, that is a record to be envied. On the roadl, how ever, the Birds' three wins andl seven losses gave them a p)ercent age of .300. Not exactly champion ship play. In all games, the Gamecocks have scoredj a total of 1271 points to their opponents 1113. They have averaged 66.8 points per game; their olponents 58.6. At home, the Carolinians have scored 625 points for an average of 69.5 per con test. Their opponents have racked up 461 points for an average of only 61.2. On the road, however, the Birds h'ave been outscored 645 to 652. Tru1y, there's no plna lmk hoie My Valentine? First... front-page story in "The State" on that same day was about this ring. It stated, and we quote, "The Barnwell boys are back in the saddle . . . the so-called Barnwell ring has been a political whipping boy for city, county, and state can didates for public offices in South Carolina for decades . . . The Beau fort Gazette summed up its regard in which the Barnwell ring is held when it said that it had planned to oppose a general sales tax for the state until it heard one of the Barnwell members was predicting the passage of such a tax. . . "Having," the paper said, "some small familiarity with the opera tion of government in the glorious old Palmetto State, we shall fore go those comments on the basis that they would constitute an un pardonable waste of precious news print." We wonder whether this was so much regard or simply the reali zation of the power of the ring. With a set-up that may require Senate investigation, we do not doubt that the state of affairs in South Carolina is quite to be ex pected. Tut, tut, gentlemen, when will we learn that crime does not pay? The Library nded by the clock's crashing >f the room from the boy with i chair's scrape as it is p)ushed qluest for knowledge and comn of pages as the exchange stu sel of the book's contents... the comical and pathetic lost ex pression on the face of the boy cramming for his first ten-minute quiz next period . . . another tick of the clock .. . the thin-faced graduate student frowning as he synchror,izes his wvatch, setting it 15 minutes fast . . . the sound of strident voices down the hall... the blanket of stillness beginning to suffocate . . . the embarrassed squeak of new shoes mercifully easing the too-still quiet . . . the thud of pigeons against the screen outside . . . the lovers animatedly whispering in silence-shattering undlertones . . . the clock double ticking and jumping back a minute ...the freshman, armed with bravado, coming in to request a synop)sis of "The Scarlet Letter" ...the freshman skulking out, looking abashed . . . the nervous and irregular clickety-click of the typetwriter in the office . . . the library personnel whispering to each other in the reading room and talking normally in the office, as if the openi door separating the two were filled with sound-proofing ...a horn's blatant peal filling the room for a split second, then evaporating into the sunshine... one snatc'h of a lusty male voice fervently bellowing from the horse shot, "HIallelujah, T h i n e the G;lor'y!" . . . the entrance of the boy who comes)~ in once every hour, looks around the room and leaves ...his exit . . . the conclusive slap of the hook as it is closed for another day and a half ..,. the tick of the clock . . . and uneasy silence again settling over the remaining few. >od Week ted throughout the nation as This period of time between irthday is a period of rededi. respect for people and human life. is the principles stated in the Preamble to the Declaration of In. dependence. These, in turn, date back to the Judeo-Christian con cept of the Brotherhood of Man under the Fatherhood of God. This week is an occasion for re. dedication to a more united America, and a more united wotid. Across the wide variety of back. ground and interest which con. stitutes modern America, there is a unifying bond of historical re. sponsibility to transmit to our chil. dren the freedom and the security which we have inherited from those who have preceded us. Better un derstanding in America may well become the basis for better under. standing throughout the world be. tween all groups and even between nations. America can not preach world peace and co-operation until there is peace and co-operation in her own back yard. Our forefather created a federal system which was the first step toward unification across differences; it remains for us to carry their principle further, so as to establish a society which will be united amidst differences of cultural background and even religious affiliation. Throughout a large part of to. day's world, people live in constant terror of secret police and are afraid to say what they believe in. A few words laid end to end in the "wrong" order may cost a man his head; a political view contrary to that of the ruling power may wipe out a whole village. We Americans enjoy the price less protection of due process of law. Our fathers guaranteed us "certain inalienable Rights, and among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." If this be not true - wholly and entirely and literally trup - our liberties rest indeed on shifting sands. Let us remember this dur ing Brotherhood Week. Let us re member this and practice this throughout the other 51 weeks of the year, too. The following poem, which is quoted from this week's issue of the "South Carolina Methodist Ad. vocate," is full of significance dur. ing this week and carries a mes sage which must be read more than once, with careful thought and open mind, to be understood because its real meaning does not appear on the surface: "The flame bright truths are those we scorn to heed That man--blown atom-does not choose his race Nor pick his mother's skin, his father's creed; His mind, his body, nor his cradling place; That each, with infant being like a lamp Kindled amid the world's myster ious dawn, He comes he knows not whence, and bear the stamp Of time-old powers whereof he's but the pawn. Only remember this! and we no more Will swear at men for being what they are. As soon condemn the waves because they roar, Or blame the twinkle that reveals a star, Only remember this! and feuds shall pass L,ike fleet cloud shadows over April grass. --Stanton A. Coblentz. in the spirit of fun, answer in that same spirit, and find that the an swer has afforded someone oppor tunity for more laughing accusa tions than can be answered,'wlth out seeming to wander among emotions as well as subjects. Allow us to say this alone in our defense: All sports columns shift subjects at the drop of a hat. Per haps you had not noticed it, but that is their charm. Poor sports like Chuck Hauser are sport' nevertheless. And we had to an swer him, just, as you did. If you feel that some of the above remarks are in bad taste, perhaps you are right, and WO apologize for them, but we also~ swear that any insults are all in fun. Fire at will if you will George and if you will, forgive and forget. Next week we change the subject again, so help us. BILL NOVIT Brotherh This week is being celebrE American Brotherhood Week. Washington's and Lincoln's b cation to the basic ideals of rights, essential to our way of Brotherhood Week reaffirri JACKIE SOUTHERLAND Must Abolish Fairy Tales Durn it anyway! There is some irritating, almost, unchangeable law that orders the growth of man. One must grow up, become mature, responsible, and practical. That's what I'm cussing - the practical part, actuality. "When I was a child, I spake as a child" - and I thought as a child. When I wanted to daydream, I wasn't plagued with, "Silly, that couldn't possibly happen!" But now my hero turns into a campus cat with twirling key chain, and my knight in shining armor falls from his white charger and tar nishes and bends his armor. My heroic rescue of all the passengers of a crashed, broken, and burning airplane, becomes a polite murmur warning some old blind woman that the red light is against her. Oh, for the days of fairy tales. I can't tell my little niece of Jack and the Beanstalk without wonder ing what brand of fertilizer Jack used for such large beans. And a flying superman becomes a hope less farce when I contemplate the law of gravity. According to those old fairy tales, there was a right and a wrong, a white and a black. That's all, no mediums or greys. But now as I add a few years of knowledge to my battered head, I find that people aren't all good or bad. The guy with the had reputation has his good points, some teachers are human, and the "other woman" isn't always a cunning, conniving I hereby announce the formation of a new club . . . the foundation for the abolition of erroneous fairy tales. Why bring us up with 11 lusions of the beauty, the correct ness, and exactness of life, only to disillusion us with reality? The great majority of us survive the shock and adjust ourselves to the normal lives of warped, biased, useless adults. But, why be hit over the head with a bucket of ice water when such action is not necessary? Therefore, we must abolish fairy tales. Or - there is another solution - why not abolish reality and live in dreams and fairy tales? By such a method we could do away with the necessity of making decisions for there could be only right and wvrong. Come to think of it, how do we know which is reality?... enough, wve'll save that for another day! After careful cnnsideration, -I am in favor of the latter proposal. All one has to do to live in a dream world is to drift off to sleep, and being a lazy soul, I find such a p)rospect delightful. But reality versus imagination injects notes of practicality into my dream world and prevents me from being a child. Such is life. "When I was a child, I 'thought' as a child" . . . and 'had a heck of a lot more fun! MORDECAI PESKY The Wanderer Just this afternoon, while wan dering idly from subject to subect as is our custom on afternoons, wo trespassed in and around the edi tor's office and discovered a letter to the people. That letter is re printed elsewhere on this page, but we saw it before it got there. Obviously then, we are the missing link between George LaBruce and mankind. It is a position we will be proud t'o fill, temporarily at least. Sir, please do not apologize to the people for your past journal ismi; that is a privilege reserved for those who have made great stridies of progress in the quality of their work. As yet you have not had the time, nor do we think you have expendedl the effort to show the necessary dlegree of improve. m ent. We grant that you may write as well, or better, than we do. We said your work was clumsy, but that does not mean that it is art. less. And we weren't commenting on all your work--only the line or so in which you referred to us a. being a meanderer among cate gories. All that we ask is that you keep a closer guard on your "laughing