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BOXING TOMORROW CAN WE "DO IT NIGHT: CAROLINA TOJX AMRE VS. QUNTICOCOME AND SEE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volume XLV, No. 21 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MARCH 16, 1951 Founded 1908 Parlian Rentz Is Named B( Oratorical Contests Hunter Rentz was judged the best orator in the Euphradian So ciety Tuesday night at the close of the oratorical contest given by the society each year. Mr. Rentz used as the topic of his address, "Our Constitution, Worth Having-Worth Defending." He brought out in his talk the many forms of govern ment studied in framing this im mortal document and the vital need for its preservation in this modern age of political dissension. Mr. Rentz won closely over Dave Parrish who delivered a talk on "World Government or What?" The judges for the event were: Dr. J. B. McConaughy of the Po litical Science department, Eric Oppenheimer of the History de partment, and Captain J. F. Camp bell of the Air Science department. Dr. McConaughy announced the de. cision of the judges and gave a brief critique on the merits and mistakes of the contestants' ora tion pointing out manners of de livery and content errors. He stressed the need for exactness in text and proper delivery. Another contest will be held after the spring holidays to decide the best debater and best declaimer in the Society. On May 2, univer sity awards day, the Euphradian Society will give plaques to the winners of this contest and to Mr. Rentz. The awards are given each year by the society to stimulate interest in public speaking. The awarriq are restricted to members of the Euphradian Society. The Society recently accepted into its membership Bill Gable, Frank Drucker, and Isadore .ourie. Extensioii Division Booth Is Planned For Teacher's Meet The Extension Division is plan ning a booth at the South Carolina Teachers' Association meeting. The booth will be decorated in the uni versity colors of garnet and black. Chairs will be added for the com fort of the alumni. All visiting alumni and others are invited to visit and use the booth in order to rest and contact friends. Members of the Extension Division staff will be there to meet the visitors and welcome themi back. Episcopal C( Set For Corn The annual Canterbury Club con vention will be held the weekend of April 13th, 14th, and 15th at Camp Gravatt. "Life and Death ini 1951" will be the theme for the state convention of Episcopal col lege student groups. Under this theme subjects suchi as the problem of college and the] war in Korea will be discussed. The Rev. George R. Alexander willi be the officiating minister for the convention. He will lead many of< the discussion groups and will con. diuct all services. Representatives from about six< colleges are expected. Each school will send two voting delegates and as many more as want to come. About 80 students will be present lent M tst Euphradian int By Judges Deadline For Senior Orders Is April 1st The last date for filing orders for invitations, caps, and gowns, and calling cards for June grad. uates is April 1, according to Joe Lawrence, university postmaster. Four hundred and forty seniors have not yet turned in their or ders. Seniors not ordering caps and gowns should contact the postmaster. Samples of the invitations and calling cards are on display at the parcel post window in the post office. Caps and gowns will be paid for by the Veterans Ad ministration for veterans who are attending school on the G.I. Bill through June. Placement Bureau Interviews Will Begin Tuesday The university's Bureau of Placement announced this week that a series of interviews will be held on the campus next week foi students desiring work after their June graduation. On Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. in Mc. Cutchen 24 a group meeting will be held for business administration graduates for positions with the Life and Casualty Insurance Com pany. Appointments for interviews are being accepted at the bureau. On Monday and Tuesday an in. terview for engineering graduates for surveying and cartographic en. gineer positions with the U. S Geological survey will be held in Hamilton College. The bureau has been notified also, that General Electric Com pany, Schenectady, New York, is interested in college women being graduated with majors in mathe. matics, physics, chemistry or home economics with science courses te assist engineers with important war work. GE will also have openings for engineering assistants, work iin economics and business administra tion, liberal arts majors and col lege secretaries. Interested per. sons should contact the Bureau of Placement. mnvention ing Month The Rev. Louis R. Blanchard, he minister in charge of college york with Episcopal students na ionally, laid the plans for the con rention in South Carolina with the tudent director of Trinity Church ni Columbia, Betty Varien Crews. Wr. Blanchard is from New York )ut spends much of his time travel ng from city to city to help direct ,he student work in the church in oliege towns. One of the purposes of the con rention is to coordinate the work >f the Canterbury Club of the tate. It furnishes a weekend vhen the students may get together o0 experience fellowship in the Janterbury Clubs, Harry Bull of saargetown. state president, said. embers NI Pictured above are the new of Gary Newton, treasurer; Jim Sneat Hartman, publicity committee chi committee; B. J. McLean, secretary mittee chairman. (Photo by Munn-'1 Anna McLaughlin To Have Senior Recital Tonight The department of music, Hugh Williamson, director, will present Miss Anna McLaughlin, soprano, in her senior voice recital in the Chapel tonight at 8:30 o'clock. Miss McLaughlin is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Mc Laughlin of Florence. After her graduation from Tans Bay high school, she attended Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., for two years. Miss McLaughlin entered the university. in June, 1949. She is studying voice with Evelyn Pot ter Williamson of the faculty of the department of music. Miss McLaughlin is a member of Delta Zeta sorority, holding office as treasurer. She is second vice president of Delta Omicron, na tional professional music fraternity of the campus, a member of the YWCA, Hypatian literary society, and a former member of the Uni versity Chorus. She is active in the musical life of Columbia as well as the university campus, be ing a member of the choir of St. Paul's Episcopal church. Miss Betty Breazeale, Columbia, a music student, will be Miss Mc Laughlin's accompanist for the re cital. The public is cordially in vited to attend. Don't Dance Disgustingly: Take Free Lessons At "Y" Free dancing classes, sponsored by the YM-YWCA, are being held in Flinn hall every Tuesday night at 6:30 p. m. The class, which started last Tuesday, is now learning the shag. During the remainder of the semes ter, the students will take up the fox trot, rhumba, samba, tango, and mambo. The lessons are being taught by Jim McWhite, assisted by Chic Martin. Senator Browi Stories ii Sen. Edgar A. Brown, chairman of the senate finance committee, said he was "fed up" with state supported institutions. The Barnwell senator's outburst came when Col. William H. Mon crief appeared before the commit tee saying that under present ap p)ropriations the .state sanatorium would be operating under a deficit. Colonel Moncrief informed the committee that under last year's appropriations he "didn't have enough sheets to covye r the patients." lenator Brown maid, "Why do Will D ew Pep Club Officer ricers of the University Pep Club. L4 I, president; Ernest Hartman, progr irman; "Pop" Eaddy, vice-president ; Elmer Davis, sergeant-at-arms; and real.) Film Society Ti Sold At Inform Blood Donors To Sign Up Today In Post Office A booth will be set up today in the lobby of the post office in which the names of students who want to donate blood will be taken, Alvin Lane, Alpha Phi Omega president, announced. Representatives from campus or ganizations assembled in the chapel Wednesday morning to dis cuss the blood drive. Each representative wa, asked to help get the names of the stu dents who are willing to donate blood. The names will be turned over to Alpha Phi Omega to be put on file. Each week the Red Cross will contact the APO and from the files they will send students to the Red Cross center to donate blood. Alpha Phi Omega, a service fra ternity, has been appointed to head the drive on the campus, but it will take the cooperation of the entire student body to make the drive a success, Lane said. Wildlife Week To Be Observed On Monday; Hampton Will Speak The university will observe Na tional Wildlife Week Monday at 10 a. in., in the chapel. Harry E. Hampton, author of the "Woods and Waters" column in "The State" newspaper will be the speaker. He will talk on "The Imn portance of Wild Life." Hampton was born and reared in Columbia, receiving his degree fronm the university in 1919 and shortly thereafter becoming a re porter for "The State." In 1942 he became associate editor.] Hampton is chairman of the cen tral district of the State Park Ad visory committee. He is past presi-1 dent of the Isaac Walton League . and is now president of the Co lumbia-Sumnter Hunter's Club. The Richland County Bird Dog Associa tion has been holding field trials on his property for several years. i Gets Fed Up I efore Listening you and everyone else come in hereoi with long sob stories and try to i play on our sympathies?" i "It's not a sob story, Senator si Brown, it's the story of patients $ suffering because of a lack of money," replied the Colonel. F Senator Brown said, "I can't g understand it. Last year we made a complete investigation of all state u institutions, possibly the most comn- a plote in the history of the state, S and we thought everyone was get- E~ ting what they needed. . . . I'm a alarmed at the attitude of these institutions. p "I don't know where we are go- if ebate I I eae ft to right around the semi-circle, ams committee chairman; Gerry and chairman of ways and means Don Johnston, card system com ckets Are ation Desk Jane Brooks Marshall of campus information, president of the Uni versity Film Society, has an nounced that the society's tickets may be obtained from her or at the window in Drayton Hall on Ma~aiday asiglats. The film society presented the fifth in a series of ten movies last Monday night. It was a French film with Eng lish sub-titles, "Crime and Punish ment," based on the novel of that title by the Russian author, Leo 'olstoy. The University Film Society meets every Monday night to pre sent for a nominal price outstand ng films that are very old and are io longer being shown as box of ice attractions in the city the iters. The film scheduled for Mon lay, March 19 is "The 39 Steps " The films already shown in the pring series include "Thief of Bagdad," "The Baker's Wife," 'The Lady Vanishes," "Pyg malion," and "Crime and Punish ment." Approximately 200 people attend .hese films. The student price is wo dollars and the non-student >rice is three dollars a semester. r'ickets are still available for the -est of the spring series. These *ilms will include "The 39 Steps," 'Bombshell," "It Happened One Vight," "Morocco,'' and "The )amined." Work of 3 Artists [s In Maxcy Lobby Now on exhibit in the lobby of d1axey College are paintings by .H. Crane, K. Morton and Louis Cimball. Mr. Kimball has paintings from is travels in Italy and Mexico lone in 1947 and 1950. Vith Sob To Carolina 's ig to wind up. If we acquiesced all the requests, we would be debt $2,000,000 before we even tarted next year, even with the 30,000,000 sales tax money. "I'mx fed up with it all, I tell you. ed up with it all. I tell you it ets on my nerves." The finance committee had been or king overtime to hear witnesses nywhere from the University of outh Carolina to mayors of towns. veryone wanted a larger cut in ppropriations. The senator closed shop at 6:22 m. after a conference with the [ollinen committee. [n Field Lowndes An Talk On Eu G. Colin Jackson and R. L. British Parliament, will de Stand ?" at 10 a. m., today ii regular Friday chapel for uni In Britain Mr. Jackson h1 speaker, writer and broadcas USC To Defend National Title The university debaters will de fend their national debating cham pionship at Oklahoma A & M next week. The university won the de bates two years ago, when it was represented by Jim Simons and Melton Kligman. The debates are held every two years. Furman McEachern and Sanford Zahler will defend the champion ship for the university. The de bates are sponsored by Pi Kappa Delta, national debating fraternity. Approximately 260 colleges will be represented at the tourunaet, pi'vbabiy the largest one ield. Zahler and McEachern have wor 29 debates and lost 3. Jim Stevens and Ed Cottinghair will represent the university in the Southern Speech Association Tour. nament at Gainsville, Fla., or April 2. This team, which has wor 16 of its 21 debates, tied for first place for negative teams at the Southern Atlantic Tournament re. cently. Student Easter Program To Be On Wednesday The student Easter program will be presented in the chapel at ten o'clock Wednesday, March 21. This is the annual program planned and presented by students for the stu dents and faculty of the university. The committee is planning a pro gram of reading and music. This will be centered on the Easter story itself as it is presented in words and music. Participants in the pro gram include Lowry Betts and Ter rell Glenn, who will interpret the story through the spoken word. Charlie Jones, soloist, and a quar tette from the music department will present the story In music. Ann Ready will be the organist. This program, which in the past has been held at 7 a.m. on the last day of classes, has been shifted to the 10 o'clock hour on Wednes day in order that as many students as possible might attend. The planning and presenting of this program is the work of a com mittee of students headed by Ter rell Glenn. Other members of the committee are Margaret Anne Everton, David Thaxton, Cynthia Harrison, Bobby Jones, and Mar gie Beane. Air ROTC Pistol Team Record Is Told By Brown The A ROTC rifle team here has wvon four of the seven matches that it has fired this semester, M/Sgt. Rawdon T. Brown, coach of the team, revealed Tuesday. Sgt. Brown, said that Carolina had wins over the University of Missouri, Montana State Univer sity, Eastern Carolina Teachers College, and the University of Texas. Air ROTC loet to Texas A&M, North Carolina State, and the University of Georgia. One match remains to be fired this semester. The competing team will he West Virginia. I House id Jackson gland At 10 Lowndes, both members of the bate "Where does England i the Field house. This is the versity students. as a reputation as a popular ter on world problems and is making a special study of student affairs in the English speaking world. Having returned from England only two weeks ago, Mr. Jackson will he able to give an accurate picture of the present political situation there. He is a graduate of Oxford University and is a bar rister. At Oxford he was treas urer of the Union Debating Society and president of the Law Society as well as debates organizer for the National Union of Students. At the moment he is a Parliamen tary Labor Candidate for Harrow. In the autumn and winter of 1940-50 he iwade an extensive tour of the United States speaking at many colleges including: Boston University, Colgate University, Dartmouth College, and the Uni versity of Denver. This tour was interrupted by the General Elec tions in February, 1950, when as a Parliamentary candidate he had to return to Great Britain. R. L. Lowndes will uphold the Conservative views in the disc! sion. As a New Zealander by birth and a Parliamentary candidate for the British Conservative Party since 1939, Mr. Lowndes has made a speci study of British Empire affairs and has addressed audi ences in most parts of the Empire. In the last general elections, Mr. Lowndes was adopted for the third time as prospective candidate for Parliament by the Conservative Party in the Clapham district in inner London. He is the only New Zealander in the British Conserva tive Party. During the War Mr. Lowndes was a Captain in the British Army and in the second New Zealand Division of the Eighth Army in the Middle East. He was captured in Libya by Rommel in November, 1941, and was a prisoner of war in Italy and Germany until treed by the United States 3rd Army in 1945. The university sponsors an as sembly program in the Field house once each month under the chair manship of Dr. Lauren E. Bru baker, university chaplain. Other notables who have spoken at past assemblies include Louis Untermeyer, poet and anthologist; Hodding Carter, Pulitzer prize win ning editor; Dr. Franz Polgar, hyp notist; and Andre Maurois, French biographer, novelist, and essayist. Dr. Brubaker has announced that the audience should have no diffi culty in hearing the speakera be.. cause an entirely new public ad dress system has been acquired. Easter Topics Are On Vespers Slate "The Significance of Easter" will be the topic of the Y veapor services on Sunday, March 18, at 7:15 p.m. M. F. Stough will be in charge of the program. There will be a special service on Wednesday, March 20, at 10 a.m. in the chapel. All religious committees of the Y are in charge of this nrogram.