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I would rather live in a co without a government that ernment but without news; .New Floyd Spence is the president-elect of the University of South Carolina student body. The blonde haired rising senior from Lexing ton defeated Don Johnston of St. George by a vote of 702 to 346 in Monday's election. The new president will receive the student body gavel from Lamar Collie, retiring president, during University Day ceremonies May 3. By polling 67% of the votes cast, Floyd Spence has demonstrated his tremendous popularity among his fellow students. He has been very active in campus life (religious, athletic and social) for the last three years and has managed to maintain a "B" average in his class work. These accomplishments speak well of our new prexy. The Gamecock adds its congratulations to the many already received by Floyd Spence. We feel sure that he will continue the out standing work that has been characteristic of him in the past, and by doing so will be come one of the best student body presidents World N Last week we printed a letter to the edi tor that suggested national and international news for The Gamecock. The writer, Ares Artemes of Maxcy 217 and Chester, also sug gested that The Gamecock conduct polls and surveys on various subjects of student in terest. Lack of space in last week's issue pre vented us from commenting on Mr. Artemes' proposals. Therefore, we take this oppor tunity to express our views, and at the same time, we apologize for being a week late. In the past, The Gamecock has used stories concerning the international, national and state scenes when such stories concerned either directly or indirectly the student body (i.e., eighteen-year old draft, veterans' af fairs announcements, general assembly ap propriations, liquor stores near campus, col legiate basketball fix scandal, and many other similar subjects). To attempt to furnish coverage of world wide news events would be impractical. In frequency of publication, as compared with daily newspapers, and lack of wire service From A Contemporary 'The La "The Daily Bruin," University the "Bruin" staf of California at Los Angeles, has Ieditorship on 1 been putting out papers the last Council had thrc two months without an editor. The openf. trouble came when the Univer- Following Re sity's Student Executive Council ment, Brower I (SEC) refused to select for editor, fus edtorsork o the candidate endorsed by the someone who h paper's news staff. mcmber of the s The SEC also turned down the into a top positi staff-endorsed candidate for fea- lieve that howev ture editor. Jerry Schlapik, acting ageeon tise editor, was given three aeparate members should votes of confidence by his staff- and earn jobs. I Finally, on Feb. 22, the Council promised a gret appointed Martin Brower, veteran afair bea'n, ant reporter for the "Bruin," as editor lastsrentl,.B and Rex Rexrode as feature editor- in accord with h Rexrode had never before been on news staff perso: CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROl Member of Associated Collegiate Pre Distributor of Collegiate Digest Founded January 00, 1908, with Robert Elliott Conzale Universit of South Carolina ubl y on Fiuy dfo rinsi year except on holidays and during examinations. Theilopinions expressed by columnists an letterd writersa endorsement. The right to edit is reserved. EDITOR ........ MANAGING EDITOR MORDEC BUSINESS MANAGER P ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER Ell NEWS .Jackie CA MPUS.. - SPORTS ....... R SOCIETY. EXCHANGES COPY FEATURES ...Mart CIRCULATION MANAGER. STAFF REPORTERS Ruth Barker, Mary Evelyn Rogers, Sandy Cra Blalock, Furney Hemingway, Don Hays, Mary Fred Dunlap, Frank Wright, Billy Lema COLUMNISTS .. .... Barbara McSwain, C BUSINESS STAFF .......Lawson Yates. Ni untry with newspapers and i in a country with a gov paper. -- Thomas Jefferson Prexy the university has had. Go to it Floyd, and good luck !-T.P. While on the subject of the election, the number of votes cast indicates an increase in student spirit and interest in campus affairs. With about 2800 regular students on the campus, 1048 showed up at Omicron Delta Kappa's Chi circle to vote. Roughly, that's 37%. A report from a fall election at a neigh boring institution stated that 12% of that student body appeared at the polls. If 37% of the electorate were to show up for the next president election, something like 25, and a half million votes will be cast. If previods elections are any criterion, how ever, less than half that number will vote in 1952. These comparisons tend to indicate a healthy increase in student interest on the University of South Carolina campus. May this interest continue to mount. lews Etc. facilities make such coverage impossible. There is nothing as stale today as news pub lished by another newspaper yesterday. In recommending campus-wide surveys on questions relating to the world situation, Mr. Artemes has a good point. We tried a similar experiment recently, however, and received some very juvenile answers. The student body seemed to take the question, "Are you in favor of the eighteen-year old draft pro posal?" as a joke and such answers as "I'm agin' it," and "I think women and children should go first," were received. Despite the unfavorable results of the last survey, however, we have considered con ducting others. A recent slash in the size of The Gamecock from eight to six pages due to a financial deficit has placed space in our columns at a premium and kept surveys at a minimum. We feel that the news that happens on the campus comes first and, as long as space is limited, the daily newspapers of Columbia will have to satisfy the students' desires for world news.-T. P. st Straw' f. He applied for paper is now being put out by hearing that the SEC, until a permanent editor can wn the race wide be appointed. SEC's chief objections to the xrod's ppoit--original staff and Its endorsed can xrod's ppont-didates seemed to consist of the romptly resigned followving: e declare,wh e- "The .Daily Bruin" did not go nas paer wena ahead wvith SEC's recommended taf neve been au changes in internal policy. The taf byasEC be-pu biggest change concerned a cub on byuC. the-af training program which SEC felt bere hte staffl was not being handled properly. point--that staff Coverage of the editorship is be abe towork sue was too extensive in the eltbe had ork registration edition of the ft dead orn-ti "Brui" and should have been t deas inceou the saved for the following week I tisis bot te whIen more students were on owver's staff were campus. im, for the entire The "Bruin's" choice for fea elrsge.Te ture ediitor was not a good one. mel esined.The The candidate was a member of AYD (considered a Communist front group) and SEC feared he wvould not be able to put out "an objective feature page." Commented Browver in his "good bye'' editorial: "Some day the JINA Great Conspiracy against the ,, "Bruin" will come out in the pub lic. As for now, it is better for the as the first school that no one, not even the dents of the studenJts, know the true facts. the college "So ends a great era in college -e not neces- journalism . . . I personally cannot :onstitute an be harsh with the people who killed the "Br'uin"--they think they know TOM PRICE so much, they know so little, they AI PRSKY have so much to learn." Al PRSKY(Editor's note: Editor's of AUL FIELD "The Daily Bruin" are elected by iott Wardlaw the student body of UCLA in a Southerland campus-wide election. Previous Bill Novit .service and experience on the alhGeoy (paper's staff is NOT a prerequl slhGeoy site to nomination. The same Marlene Rast situation exists at the University Ken Powell of North Carolina where elec Bobby Smith tions were scheduled this week. ha Matthews Of the four candidates for the Tharlie Wood editor-in-chief's job at UNC, one was a veteran reporter, one wan an associate editor, one was a cub nford, J. M. reporter without editorial experi Bloodworth, ence, and a fourth was a co-ed, cks non-staff member, with no edi torial experience. We're inter Iga Edwards ested in learning the results of mevy Mitchell that election.) Stanzas in Wood and Cardboard (With Apologies to Joyce Kihmer and Other Interwted Persons) I think that I shall never see A poster stapled to a tree No painted cardboard on a gum Held there with tacks applied by thumb. Who shall defile the mighty oak With insolence of hammer stroke? A new protector of the tree Is set up by a new decree! Elections shall not force the pine To shed one drop of turpentine; Dauntless-our administration Again stands for sap-preservation! -mort Jackie Southerland Only Experimenting There is no evil. This is a flat, thoughtless statement? This is a lie. This is flagrantly sacrilegious? I think not. Are you evil? Of course not. You make a few mistakes here and there. You have too big a time occasionally. But you are not evil. Everyone's entitled to a few slip-ups, or shall we say, a few cuts in the class of impeccable deportment. There is no evil, for no one considers himself evil, nor that which he does evil. Or, if he considers that which he does evil, he separates himself from the evil. He is an inherently good, and any evil which he does can be washed out with soap and water, or a good night's sleep. He did not really mean to do it; therefore he did not wrong. I run through stop lights occasionally, but I am not a law breaker. I am in a hurry, or there is no one else on the road. After all, laws were made only for those who need them. And I do uiol need them. Thus is the reasoning of man. The habitual drunkard is not evil. He has a right to burn his body and his mind if he wishes. is not evil, for he is simply enjoying himself and not botharing anyone else. Be sides, he will taper off any day now. The ruthless big businessman is not evil, for he will stop his distasteful deeds when he is on top. This he says, without thinking that he must then fight to remain on top. We"lie once, but that does not make us chronic liars. And that evil rubs off and is forgotten-by us at least. Man may experiment, to see how the "other half lives." But the evil that he does at that time is not really evil, but only the necessary part of an experiment. Thus there is no evil. If man is only experimenting, or only slipping accidentally, then he is not evil. And if man is not evil, there is no evil. Justification is our comforter. BILL NOVIT Harry's 'Fair Deal' Harry Truman's "Fair Deal"thmotbilntyugennte program has been verbally kickedntinaexmpfrm ilty about from one end of the campus srie to the other, and perhaps justly Utltepeettm,teui so. fr faslir alr aie Harry's latest fair deal is beingoramnwscnidedvdne criticized and opposed, too; but not o nelgneadptits o on the campus. This is becausethswoweedaedswlls Mr. Truman's latest fair deal isthvouers directed toward us, the college stu- Bunothrelcam fte dents. It is his draft defermentCopithfurewlntben plan for college students, and itunfr.Tewilbwaigci truly is a fair deal for us. vlaicohsa h nvriis Then, wvhy all the complaining?Thracinwenoessamn Well, it is unfair to the farm popu- iauiom a eta ews' lation and other elements of mrenuhtsayotfte Americans who are unable to at- Srie tend college because of financial Nodn'geuswn,Mr difficulties. Tua n r ese,w r A more important danger of thetikepnkhaweheteo plan to exempt from the draft col- pruiyt ealt iihcl lege studlents of exceptional in-le. telligence is the effect that it Thearmnygorass might have on the morale of the Wyyugmno xetoa n armed forces.teignesolbeaowdor In order to keep that moralemanicolg.Mnfr a, high, the country and the membersyon scetsswlbemr of the armed forces themselvesvaubeipraatofrWrl must believe that American fight-WaIlthnwlbeyugs ing men are the cream of the crop des -the very best that the nation has Bualotealyiornts to offer. temrl.Auiomsol e It will, however, be difficult tomanaarofpieaditi. keep that belief when confrontedtinotsmhngneetfr wit te efnie nowede hafllngi the emnttime tenn. BARBARA McSWAIN From A Senior's Point Of View "That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines." That quotation is from a translation of "Phraedrus" by Henry Thomas Riley. This week it fits me well. In the hurried writing of last week's column, I incorrectly listed Roger Ready, treasurer of student council, as vice-president. The in. accuracy was needless "heedlessness." Another quotation from Thomas Moore, in a book called "How to Make a Good Politician," warns further: "Ask a woman's advice, and, whate'er she advise, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise." That might be the right way to "make a good politician," but by now everybody here has quit thinking about politi. cians and begun thinking about good leaders. Advice So, in complete disregard of the maxims of the sages, wrapped in the self-sufficiency and venerability of exalted seniordom, we say these things to the newly elected officers of the school: Congratulations! Your fellow students had faith in your ability and honesty. They showed it by going to the polls with their votes. You have been given a rare privilege . . . the chance to affirm their faith. It does not come to many and may not come to you again. Second The second piece of unasked advice is this: Go into office free from any personal prejudices against student, faculty or administration groups or individuals. You are not acting on your own, for the rest of this year and all of next year. By accepting your office, you agreed to be the personal repre sentative of the Carolina student. Third Third, try to realize that every single office you hold is worthy of your wholehearted effort. It' tho little cogs that make the wheel go around and it's the little duties, well-per formed, that will make Carolina a greater school. By now we seniors should have learned that we cannot help the rising classes profit by our mistakes. We became deaf, dumb and barely tolerant when other well-.meaning seniors tried to. show us the right way ! As Seneca said, "To one who knows, it is superfluous to give advice; to one who does not know, it is insufficient." The main thing we want you to know, anyway, is this: We made mistakes through ignorance. But through these mistakes, we sometimes learned. So, don't accept the stand ards we set. You can attain higher ones for yourself. OLGA EDWARDS Coronation Ball In about three weeks, an event will come which should be well attended by all students of the university. This is the Coronation Ball-to be held after the crowning of the May Queen on Thursday, May 3. Name Band For the first time, a big name band will be present for this dance and it is hoped that a precedent will be set to be followed for years to come. The band will be Ray Anthony's, one of the leading bands in the nation. The dance should be a big success, since it will be one Of the few campus-wide dances of the year, allowing any student on the campus to attend. For this same reason, it should be one of the ways that students can show their school spirit by supporting a project of the entire school and not just ofle of the organizations of the school, The orchestra will cost $1000--the place (Memorial Youth Center), $85-plus cost of publicity and tickets. Tickets will cost $2.00 per couple and $1.50 for stags, which means at least 500 couples will have to attend to clear expenses. The contingent fund of the Student Activities Office is backing the dance but unless expenses are cleared through attend ance, there will be no chance of ever having another such dance. Organizations Help Different organizations on the campus will be asked to help sell tickets. If they will cooperate with the committee it will certainly keep the dance fromn being a burden on any one and help make it a success. Committee Members of the committee who have been appointed to make plans are Martha Petty, Lamar Collie, Bob Thoren, Joe Ingram, Don Johnston, Ish Thomas, Barbara McSwain, and Eugenia Holliday. So plan now to attend-from 9-1 on May 3. Show that you have some school spirit, and have a good time while you ar don i.