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Carolina's G "Any coaches would be justifiably reluc tant to schedule games at the garden in the future. I believe we-will not want to go back there until the situation is cleared up." Thus Athletic Director Rex Enright summed up the feelings of the Carolina ath letic department concerning the super-col losal scandal that is rocking the collegiate basketball world. The Gamecocks became the first South Carolina school basketball team ever to per form in Madison Square Garden when they met Long Island university on New Year's day. Since then, eight players for three New York city schools, including Long Island university, have become involved in the big gest and dirtiest "fix" scandal ever to hit collegiate sports circles. The three LIU players involved are Leroy Smith, All-Ameri can candidate Sherman White, and Captain Adolph Bigos. In a transcribed coast-to-coast broadcast over the National Broadcasting Company fa cilities last Sunday night, Basketball Coach Frank Johnson echoed Coach Enright's statements and added that he thinks the game should be returned to the college gym nasium. Carolina is not the only school to indicate a reluctance concerning return engagements in the garden. George Washington, Bradley, Denver, and Oregon State universities have also said that they will not return until the situation clears up. We understand perfectly the reasons that Coaches Enright and Johnson gave as argu ment against returning to Madison Square Garden. The scandal is a bad thing and any thing that might remotely connect the uni versity with the tye persons who partici pate in such activities should be approached with caution. At the same time, however, we do not be lieve that the university should boycott the garden. Promoter Ned Irish, who runs the garden basketball shows, is an honest man, and is in no way connected with the fix. We consider it an honor to be considered good enough to play in the garden, and feel that Our Cont4 The Bigger the Accusation .. . some truth in The Young Republicans club at great.". the University of Texas lashed out Something's Roti recently at the "Daily Texan," call- j Within one mo: ing it "full of half truths and white at Arkansas St lies." Further accusations included been mnjured at "socialist line," "factually mis- kcrossing. One nor leading" and "biased." killed and anot front-page editor At the same time the Young Re- lege Herald" cal: publicans conmplained that Texas' "stop the slaugi department of economics is "so- way road" by a cialistically inclined," and that its which demands professors distribute CIO litera- make the crossin ture and "try to mold the minds of You Mean 'Whitt young students to believe that cap- The "Iowa Sta italsm s evl."cently "pleased Declared the "Daily Texan, "Now availability of a it's really nice to see a group of for graduate stt students joining in political discus- University. But sions. But the Young Repubs pleased at the should re-check their 'socialisms' "These fellowshij before wafting political mudballs- sons of the Cauci 'The Texan' is merely a pro-Tru- "Why hide it man sheet with slightly liberal the "Daily." "W1 leanings, while the Young Republi- who are 'white'?1 cans make noises like their hal- are white, and lel lowed scion, Joseph McCarthy. brown and all "...The Young Republicans, damned." like McCarthy, are depending on "Anyway," th the 'great accusaton'-so great cluded, "our race the people consider there must be white." CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROl Member of Associated Collegiate Pre Distributor of Collegiate Digest Founded January 30, 1908, with Robert Elliott Gonzalei editor, "The Gamecock" is published by and for the sth University of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, durirn year except on holidays and during examinations. The opinions expressed by columnists and letter writers al srily those of "The Gamecock." Publishing does not< endorsement. The right to edit is reserved. EDITOR. ..... MANAGING E DITOR ..MORDEC BUSINESS MANAGER . ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER Ell NEWS .. .....Jackie CA MPUS.. SPORTS ...I SOCIETY. EXCHANGES FEATURES ....Mart CIRCULATION MANAGER. STAFF REPORTERS Ruth Barker, Mary Evelyn Rogers, Sandy Cra Blalock, Furney Hemingway, Don Hayes, Mary Fred Dunlap COLUMNISTS ...... .. Barbara McSwain, C BUSINESS STAFF. .. .. .. .. .Lawson Yates, Ni arden Future if the Gamecocks are invited again next sea son, they should accept the invitation. We do not believe that the fact that the games involved in the fix were played in the garden indicates that teams playing there are more easily corrupted. All of the schools involved are New York schools and they are victims of circumstances. They are crowded into the largest city in the world and have little or no campus space. Classrooms are in multi-storied buildings that are next door to office buildings and other commercial estab lishments. This environment places these schools virtually in the power of the leech with the stubby cigar and the bundle of cash to be offered to the struggling student for just easing up a bit when it comes to throw ing a basketball around. We are more fortunate. Small as our cam pus may be, we are not quite so crowded, and our atmosphere is a little more healthy. This does not mean, however, that an invita tion to play one or two games a season in Madison Square Garden should be sneered at. In the first place, the All-America teams for the past ten years or so have been domi nated by the teams that play in the garden. This is only natural since appearance in the garden focuses the national spotlight on the participants. We believe that if Jim Slaugh ter had been given the opportunity to play one or two games per year in the garden dur ing his four years at the Gamecock Roost, his chances of gaining a first team All America berth would have been increased many times. We owe it to our players to accept any at tractive invitations to return to the garden next year or in the years to come. At the same time, we should impress upon our ath letes the trust that we place in them and their responsibility for the keepiig of that trust. Anyway, next basketball season is a long way off and the New York District Attorney is noted for his efficiency. Let us hope that he and his men will have the whole mess cleaned up long before the dribblers take to the hardwood for the 1951-52 season. Didn't Coach Rex say "until the situation is cleared up?"-T. P. mporares it because it is What's Going On? ... Two college newspapers com en in Arkansas plained recently that nobody was ath three students giving them the news. "The Pitt ate College have News" declared, "Whether Univer the same railroad sity underlings are mistakenly -student has been afraid to make statements without er injured. In a running to the Chancellor or al the "State Col- whether the Chancellor himself ed on students to wants it that way, wve don't know. ter on the Cara- But we'd sure like to find out." igning a petition And the Park Stylus, Park Col thsaethe railroad lege, Mo., was wvondering just what ' ae was expected of it. "Do the stu ,Don't You? . .. dents and faculty want a news te Daily" was re- paper or do they want a weekly to report" the and monthly organ whose sole pur new scholarship pose Is the publication of literary dies at Columbia wvorks and free publicity for vari It wasn't so ouis activities on the campus?" offer's wording:- ul ocl uc is are open to per'- ul oil uc isian race . n The modern college student is this way?" asked alarmingly passive and ready to ly not say people conform, according to Oscar Hand Yes, people who lmn, associate professor of history, the yellow, black, Harvard university. other races be In an article in Atlantic Monthly Handlin remarked, "This genera e editorial con- tion welcomed the shackles of or is more pink than thodoxy -- all those eager faces looking up at the platform, waiting to .be told what to believe. There was delight in dogma; know thc ,authorities, accept the classics, and wash your problems awvay. "When I hurled these charges at groups of them, they sat back INA |complacently. What 1 intended as epithets, they took as compliments. ia Released, they would tell me they were so well adjusted because they d s tof frt were better brought up. the college ". . . If Emerson's America was -e not nees the country of young men because musatitute an it believed in prograss and had faith in Itself, has our America TOM PRICE ceasedl to be the country of young AI PRSKY men because it has lost confidence AX PRSKY and no longer believes in itself ?" AUL FIELD No Premium On Queens .. . iott Wardlaw "The Kansas State Collegian" is Southerland a little jaded by all the queens on . Bill Novit campus. It declares: "Ever stop to udy Tigpen count them? Don't. It takes too ~udy Tigpen long. Marlene Rast ". . . Since queens are so comn . Ken Powell monplace these days, a co-ed feels Bobby Smith accomplished if she manages to get ha Matthews through school without the honor. 3hri od The fifty per cent who aren't )hrl od elected a queen or attendant are flattered to think they've kept nford, J. M. their Individuality. Bloodworth, "- - - It would be better to lean more to quality instead of quantity and thus keep our queens from Iga Edwards getting lost In the shuffle." ncy Mitchell Knowledge. No End Ia Itself .. Theth Drop-inth Confuthe Me I! BARBARA McSWAIN What Price Ego? "Communists sneer at our belief in human dignity and the supreme worth of the individual. Can you prove them wrong?" A question like this would make most of us indignantly begin spouting forth such phrases as "Freedom of the Press, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Government Of, By, and For the People, and Liberty, Equality and Fraternity." That question was asked by Howard Whitman in a De cember Companion article, "What You Can Do Personally to Stop Communism." Mr. Whitman set out to show that we may inadvertently be doing our bit every day to prove the Communists right. One of the aims of Communism is to encourage race hatred and violence, because such things help split any coun try and serve as an advance weakening agent. Years ago Ben jamin Franklin recognized our need for unity when he urged the colonists to hang together so that they wouldn't hang separately. We face the same fundamental problem the colonists did ... how to prevent inner dissension from splitting the United States and leaving us in the power of a united enemy. To pretend that the race problem is not complicated would be shortsighted and useless. To assume that it is unsolvable would be more so. Having been brought up in the atmosphere of white su premacy, it is sometimes easy for us to laugh at cruel race jokes. It is almost innate for us to feel that we would be eternally degraded if a differently colored person sat down beside us on the bus or attended the same school. Often it gives a little boost to our ego to feel that there is a whole race of people inferior to us. But we have no right to inflate our egos at the expense of any human being. Discrimination rarely stops with one victim. We may someday be the victims as Baptists, Masons, Catholics, Lutherans, Boy Scouts, Christians, red-heads, blondes or college students. One prejudice gets a foot-hold, any group is eligible for victimization. What, after all, is the difference between the German who considered himself superior to German Jews and the Ameri can who feels himself superior to American Negroes? By what omnipotence do we judge ? Can we prove the Communists wrong? OLGA EDWARDS - Romulus And Remus Once there were two little boys. They played together. They worked together. They declared that when they grew up both would do the same kind of work. And so they grew up. Now the names of these little boys were Romulus and Remus. Their parents insisted that they go to different uni versities so they parted with sadness. However, they were in the same state, that of Poliways. So they corresponded, andI upon graduation, they began to teach at the schools from which they had graduated. Now Romulus was at a crowded university, without much space, andl for a short while he was perfectly happy, until the day when he received a letter from Remus, who was at a large college, where he had a great dleal of space. Dear Romulus, I have just been asked to accept a job at another college --the salary is more, but here I have security. As long as I follow the rules of human decency, I can know that my job is secure. I can even express my opinion on political issues. In fact, just last week I wrote an article on the Marsonians in the state in which was stated that they should be given equal opportunities, and the article even hinted that they were sometimes more intelligent than us. We are paid on an equitable basis in relation to our ability and seniority. This is quite a fair system and one which those of us situated here like very much. In addition, we have al ways been sure that when our state gives us more money, we will receive our share and that it will not be spent on the enlarging of the local powder bowl. Our school has offered to loan us money to help build our homes and is trying to provide places for us and our families to live in comfort. We are allowed to run our departments as we please, not having everything we need checked by anyone except the head of the department, unless a very important item. All in all, life is rosy. Of course, we have a few difficulties but they are always ironed out in discussion groups and by arbitrary means. If you are ever near here, please drop by to see m'e. Your friend, Dear Remus,Reu Please send name of the place that offered you job. Your friend, MORDECAI PERSKY Drop A Fe When we threw away our freshman and started to call sheer memory, we were alread ditions of the Preston telephor ever, did we go as far as inv gleaned from that investigatior are no fluke. No other dormitory can make that statement with half the assuredness of Preston. In the building which combines Burney, Woodrow, and Snowden colleges, right next door, there are 141 men and nine phones, or about one phone for every 16 men, which is about right, and about average for the rest of the campus. In Preston, Ameche preserve us, there are 305 men and six phones, or about one phone for every 60 men. Obviously then, something is wrong, and our suggestion for righting the wrong is: More Phones For The Big Dorm. Without actually having lived there, we long since discovered that the only reason a Preston man answers the phone (when it is un occupied) is to get a little silence from the bell, and sometimes he is not even interested in that. We have called there and know. Seems that each fellow has an idea that the call is for the other 49 guys, so he waits 15 minutes for one of them to answer it. Not a par ticularly misguided notion either. Actually, the chance the call will be for him is only a little better than that it will be from Stop the Clock. Our request is for a little equaliz ing of service from the campus Bell System - say about two phones near the middle of each floor, with two at the ends as before. Then the east and west calls could be divided according to proximity of the rooms. ~ How about dropping a few lines over that way, marshal? Jackie Southerland An Ideal At last an ideal! By his very in difference to the superficial, un real qualities of "approved" man hood, he becomes a real man with out affectation. This man is brainchild of the late George Bernard Shaw, the cynic and satirist. The play is "Arms and the Man." Why is this man, Captain Blunt schli, so great, in my estimation ? He is great because he laughs at greatness. are is great because he laughs at the supposedly important issues of life. He is great because he enjoys life. People worry too much. They are too serious. I have seen girls break into tears and go into mild forms of hysteria when they are loaded down with work that "must" be done. Surely it isn't the inten tion of any teacher to drive his students to this p)oint. Surely It isn't the intention of any organi zation to overburden its work horse. This man, Bluntschli (where in the world did Shaw dig up a name like that?), looked at life with amazingly clear eyes. He saw through the pretenses of the world and laughed at the little children who run the world. As a soldier he carried choco lates in his cartridge pouch in place of bullets. He deplored the fact that one who ignored text books on how to win a battle could nevertheless win. He laughed at those who believed in war. Any matter for worry was a matter for laughter. There are flaws in Shaw's idea, fo'r serious ness must hit us all. The idea is still good, as is the conception of such a man. Life is only a brief second. It is only a sort of prerequisite. The things that happen here, the events or the false standards of man have no importance later on. There are wars and deaths and conquerors and dictators, but the earth heals its wounds and continues to give life. Did you ever wander outside your worried thoughts and gaze at a clear and bright night sky ? Did you ever notice the bright beauti ful stars ? Did you ever think that they are just pin points? Did you ever observe that the universe Is huge and we are small, Infinites imal ? Perhaps we appear as small to some midnight watcher on an other planet as his home appears to us. If there is human habitation of those planets, then each of those beings bas a problem. There are approximately 150,000,000 people in the United States; each one has a problem. Among trillions of wor ries what matters out diffieculty? An observer from another planet would hardly notice the disappear. anee of this world, We ar -mal w Lines... :ompass as a second semester ends of Preston floors froln ly aware of the crowded con. e lines.,Not until today, how. estigation. And the statistics a prove that the crowded lines Bill Novit Haunted House Ghosts on the Carolina campus! Don't be rediculous. There are no ghosts, but there certainly is a haunted house which is just as rA. diculous. It has been more than a year since university co-eds were po litely ousted from their only home north of Green Street, the ic. Kissick-Wauchope House. Since that time the house on the main horseshoe has served no purpose. Certainly the move was a nee. essary one, for it has saved the university a great deal of money which was used to operate this girl's dormitory in addition to Sims and Wade Hampton. But, what about the future of the McKissick-Wauchope House? Will it remain unoccupied for an other year? The administration has complained to the General As sembly that we need additional buildings, and yet one standing in our midst has remained vacant for more than 12 months. Many will say that this building should be turned over to the de partments that are now housed in temporary buildings, which are in. deed an eye-sore to our campus. LeConte college, however, will be vacated as soon as the new science building is completed. This build ime could certainly he ennvartM into the classrooms for these de partments. If not, it would prob ably be another haunted house on the campus. Students have clamored for a Student Union building since time immemorial. It is true that the university cannot build such a building when they had such a time ubtaining the money for such needed edifices as a new science building and an engineering lab oratory. Here is our chance, how ever. It would, of course, cost money to convert the former sorority house into a Student Union build ing, but the cost would be little compared to constructing a new building. The building previously has been converted from a private home to a sorority house; cer tainly, it could similarly be changed to Student Union building where students could gather for just p)lain friendship and fun. Flinn hall, which is the student's present "home away from home," was once a faculty home. This building was successfully converted from its original use. The "Y" staff in Flinn Hall is doing Its best to meet the needs of a Student Union building, but the facilities are entirely inadequate to handle the "Y's" full program and serve as a Student Union Building, too. The need for the recreation building exists. The need of a de cent meeting place for campus or ganizations to meet in also exists. To this wvriter's knowledge, the halls of the Clariosophic and Eu phradian Societies are the only meeting place on the campus which provides the p)roper, dignified at mosp)here for- a meeting. Hardly a day goes by without the presidents of these worthy organizations get ting a request to dse their halls for a meeting, initiation, or other pro gram. Many of these requests must be turned down because of con flicts.' Other schools spend huge sums of money to construct such a build ing for their students, but usually only after- the students have ap plied pressure over a period of years. This pressure should not be necessary when the cost would be as little as would be necessary in converting the building which al ready stands in an ideal locationl. Will we continue to have a haunted house in our midst, or will we be able to tell prospective col lege students that we, too, have a Student Union building? chiefly important only to our selves. Why worry ? We live only a short time. The fact that I have a book to read for tomorrow and a history lesson to study will not af fect the course of history, of the universe. I shall do the best I can; that is all. I shall do all I can in reasonable limits. But I am a per son, an individual who hates to struggle unnecessarily; so I wil not. As I said, what a man was 0O9' tain Bluntschlif