Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I would rather live in a cot without a government than ernient but without newsp ' Whither Draft I There has been a great deal of confusion, both on and off campuses, concerning what the new government draft policy entails, what it will lead to and what objections have been raised to it. Here are an assortment of facts on this subject that may clear up some of the confusion: All college males, of draft age, will be al lowed to take a special examination, known as Selective Service College Qualification test. In order to be deferred, the student must have a grade of 70 on this test. Seniors planning to enter graduate school must get 75. (May 26 at Carolina). But students may be deferred on another basis. Freshmen must be in the upper half of the class; sophomores, upper two-thirds; juniors, upper three-quarters; seniors (going into graduate school), upper half. Under those conditions the student will be deferred regardless of what he gets in the special ex amination. Many educators, according to the New York Times, are in accord with this plan. Dr. Francis J. Brown, consultant for the American Council of Education, said college heads were "enthusiastic." He guessed total drop in college enrollments next fall would be about 15 per cent. Some Orchids, Some Brickbats Letters To Editor's note: During t h e the second page course of a semester, many let- read by such a hi ters from students and othermrc Ye,oy readers of The Gamecock pass may seem even SS across the editor's desk. Some of with whips and ot these communiques throw brick- precate a good j uua, anu bunk uunubs; otners admit that he is throw orchids, still others don't qualified to be call throw anything. Some ask ques- now, what was it tions; some answer questions. No! Let me give cr Some are directed at the editor; is due. It was so some at his columnists; and some captain who put th at the paper in general. youngster's mouth, All this leads' up to Juat. ne captin was "airll thing - iutetest! Whether you iy neiinher t.he agree or disagree, the fact that crusader were int Some are itreted a h enoghto iservic. tht wa or write down your opinions and they been they wot comments a~ gratifying. ly remembered boo The target of the pen-and-ink ithe equator, even missiles this week is not the the captain?) and editor-in-chief, b u t Columnist hell raising. 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SPORTS ... ........................Ra SO C IE T Y ... .......................... ... EXCHANGES COPY ..... FEATURES ........Marth CIRCULATION MANAGER ...C STAFF REPORTERS Ruth Barker, Mary Evelyn Rogers, Sandy Cran Blalock, Furney Hemingway, Don Hays, Mary: Fred Dunlap, Frank Wright, Billy Lemael COLUMNISTS ...... Barbara McSwain, Olj BUSINESS STAFF .. ....... Lawson Yates. Nar ntry with newspapers and in a country with a gov apers.-- Thomas Jefferson rhe New 'olicy? But many objections to the plan also have been voiced. Those objecting fear an "aristoc racy of brains." They want to know why one boy, just because he is better at head work, is allowed to sit in a classroom, while another boy, perhaps equally as capable with his hands, must fight a war. Another objection to the plan is that limited manpower in the military will result. It is estimated that about 75 per cent of all the students will be permitted to remain in college, and it is thought that an unusually high number of high school boys will be en tering college under the new plan. Still a third objection is that the plan may make a virtual draft board out of college pro fessors. It is pointed out that deferment de pends, in part, on a student's grade, and that this grade is decided upon by a professor. It is feared that this is putting both too much responsibility and too much pressure on the faculty. Others feel that going to college is too much dependent upon one's financial set-up and not enough dependent upon one's qualifi cations. They say that the boy who cannot afford to go to college should not be penal ized. The Editor where they are your momma's apron strings are indful of us ad- showing. es, strong as it troopers armed Dogmatically, her weapons ap- G. A. Decell. >ke, and I must overwhelmingly Dear Mr. Novit: ed one. Let's see he did say? No! May I commend you for your edit where credit editorial in last week's (week be ae alleged army fore last, e n t i t 1 e d "I Was e words into this Ashamed"--Ed.) Gamecock. I trust that the We have but to think of the orps." Undoubt- motto on our university seal, to see captain nor the how right you are. I give a free the same armed translation: "She (the university) ow of, for had softens the manners and does not ild have certain- permit ungentlemanly conduct." t camp, crossing West Point (for Yours truly, all their glorious Sallie B. Anderson. "horrible" and *e sanctioned by nt or didn't "Li'l Dear Mr Novit: Lbout this? They hey serve to Although a Clemson alumnus I emotional and am an ardent reader of the paper that the learned for which you write a column. so suggestively. Through the generosity of a friend in psychology I have been given a subscription. meaning of the Several weeks ago you wrote a English depart- column which dealt with the :h a fine job on Byrnes educational program for South Carolina. There were several theuniersty,references to the 3 % general retail te uhniversitng tax which most people believe will rsebtakno ltt be used to finance a school build rspaper articles ing bond issue, the legality of Sanwwvofwhich is in doubt; to give pay a schoo waews- raises to public school teachers; hrt solvews-u and to operate the bus system. hort sembar Your comments regarding the n, laughing boy, purpose for which this money is to be used are exactly those that were - used by the opponents of the sales tax, not the education program. I am in full agreement with you that a "alf a loaf" is not enough. As teAppropriations Bill finally passed it is apparent that about 16 millions of the anticipated 31 mil Alion dollars will be applied to this NA part of the current budget. The other goes in large measure for "slush" or whatever the proper uth Li term might be. he coes You also endorsed passage of a Senate amendment which stated no nce. that the proceeds of thesaetx would be used for educational pur poses. This passed and it sounds OM PRICE good, but It is a neat trick of de I PER8KY ception. It costs nearly 60 million UL FIELD dollars to meet the school budget and we are just changing pockets tt Wardlaw to finance various agencies. It is Southerland still obvious that some 31 million . Bill Novit dollars in "new revenue" will be phGeoy coming into the tills this year and phareeRys just half of this sales tax money ~aln at will be used to finance the educa Ken Powell tional program. lobby Smith I only wish that there were more a Matthews newspapers and columnists who ariWod would be honest and not deceptive ariWod n attempting to sell the people of South Carolina a "bill of goods" fr,JM. as regards this new tax ad infini Bfodworth, turn. Bdot,Yours truly, CU Earle E. Morris, Jr., ra Edwards Member from Pickens County cy MitchniU House of Representatives. G 0 No Job Proble BILL NOVIT Memorie! University Day f951 has come and gone, but its pleasant memories will long remain with us. The entire event reflects credit upon the student body, faculty, and administration because none can deny the success of the day. Credit especially goes to Kappa Sigma Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Alpha Kappa Gamma, Blue Key Fraternity, and Student Council for their outstanding work in planning and sponsoring the various functions. Highlighting University Day, of course, was the Ray Anthony dance Thursday night. Students perhaps were not cognizant of the importance of the success of this dance. Had we not supported this dance as we did, Carolina men and women most probably would have had to wait many a year before they could again have a school sponsored, campus-wide dance. We have shown the administration that we are capable of having a suc cessful dance with a name-band, and we can expect to have more such dances in the future without encountering opposition from those in control. Orchids to Martha Petty, Joe Ingram and Ed Royall for a job well done! The usually pompous crowning of the May Queen was as impres sive a ceremony as ever. We must admit that the little children who acted as flower girls, train bear ers, and crown bearer stole the show away from the royalty, how JACKIE SOUTHERL A Sno There is a snowflake. It t itself. In a short while it beco magnet all the other snowflak, This thing called public oj same as this act of nature.. sometimes destructive. You say liquor brings foi sleep is a balm? You say you with dope ? Forget those reni one that is not so hard on ti trying to the conscience. This remedy is called the ci of repentance, for the majority you remember your cares, for bership may be bought with e: There is, of course, a st whiskey. It is the stimulation. tion of movement, of anger, ol Public This thing called public o violence. For public opinion is an unthinking reaction in ha reactions. Do not think that this "oi and usually is, bent and curv Sometimes it is so directed in times .. . A man stood up in front of ists. He was, he said, fading as star had such a hell of a lot of a masterpiece .. . of what I di masterpiece of vegetation, the leaves and growing from a ye this form of vegetation is de ate it up. The public can be led. In presents a constant picture of United we stand, divided v munism, it will be because its trying to figure out what was ILECr ivs iERVice m For Seniors Remauin ever. "Old Reliable" Don John ston had to save the day by bring ing the crown to the throne after the little crown bearer backed out. The Awards Day program was witnessed by a disappointingly small crowd. This is the one time in the year when we should pay recognition to our fellow students who are deserving of such recog nition, and yet it can be said that the majority of those present were either presenting or receiving awards. It is hoped that in the future more students will attend this function because it is this event which takes the place of our classes, and if enough students do not attend in the future, the uni versity might feel justified in hav ing classes in the morning. One other event should not go by unnoticed, and that was the showing of Preston the Magician Wednesday night under the aus pices of the university YMCA. This show, which was certainly worth-while entertainment, was not attended by us in as large num bers as it should have been. The show was a benefit performance with the profit going to the "Y" Camp. With the warm weather here, we certainly should realize how much we would miss the "Y" Camp if the payments on the mort gage could not be met. There is only one thing wrong with University Day, and that is that it only comes once a year. LND wf lake wirls and whirls and adds to rnes a ball and attracts like a as. >inion or mob violence is the .unthinking, automatic, and -getfulness ? You say eternal want to leave your thoughts edies. There is a better one, Le body and not the least bit 'owd. It leaves no bitter grains is always right. It does not let it takes no brain power. Mem Ccitement and stupidity. mulation. It is like wine or )f belonging. It is the stimula closeness, of nonentity. [)pinion pinion is a step-child of mob not a thought-out opinion, but emony with other unthinking inion" is unguided, it can be, ed and pushed in a direction. the right direction, but other Sbunch of delegated confusion ray. Never before has a fading energy. They called his speech >n't know. Perhaps it meant a golden kind wrapped in green Ilow stalk. It so happens that liciously edible; so the public a mob it does not think. It confusion. 'e fall. If we ever defeat comn members wore themselves out gOingr on and juat "fad awy...". BARBARA McSWAIN - New Council Begins Work Absent : Bob Naylor, Buddy Long. Almost 100% attendance! The new student council has added an amazing something that has transformed the council into an alive, alert and in telligible group. Not only are members attending, but they are also voting and expressing ideas-good ones. Joe Pearce suggested that student council set up a central committee to help campus organizations avoid conflicts by registration of their projects. Council discussed the idea and elected Pearce, Pat Davis and Marnie Manning to investigate the plan and get ideas from campus groups before setting up the committee. The council recognized the attendance problem which plagued last year's council and worked out this solution: An executive committee, composed of the vice-president, Leo Hill, as chairman, the secretary, Marnie Manning, and the treasurer, Pearce, will be the committee on pardons. It will decide on the validity of excuses. The committee will follow the constitution's ruling that two unexcused absences mean automatic dismissal from council. A member may appeal the committee's decision to the entire council. Bill Gibbes objected to last year's council's work on date tickets. After discussing the situation, the council decided that the best way to reach a favorable solution was to talk to Dick Anderson, BAM club director. Floyd Spence, presi dent, will invite Mr. Anderson to talk to the council soon. The council discussed the advisability of continuing this column, with absentees' names printed each week. They de cided to have a publicity committee in charge of reporting the news. Absentees' names will be placed in a separate box on the editorial page. Jack Southerland, Bill Novit and Bobby Smith will be on the committee. The new council has made a terrific beginning. Practically every member has ideas and the conviction to back them up. This may lead to more friction than in the past, but it will be wholesome friction. Next year may be the red letter year for student council. It is important for Carolina that it be. OLGA EDWARDS A Bad Mistake First of all, this week we would like to apologize for a very bad journalistic mistake. In our column last week, we asked that Governor Byrnes not see fit to veto the part of the deficiency-supplement bill in regard to the university. Soon after the paper came out on Friday, it was called to our attention that the university was not included in the defici ency-supplement bill. For the misinformation, which we helped further, we would like to say that we are very sorry that it was a case of not checking carefully enough- result ing a piece of journalism that was not worthy of the name. We hope it will not reflect on The Gamecock since it was due purely to this writer. Here, we would like to again repeat what was said in an earlier issue. The Gamecock will keep truth and justice as goals before it-We hope that neither this column or any other will violate these goals again. More Publicity To go on to another subject, we would like to see a little more university publicity. This is not to say that the News Service is not doing fine work in getting out news about the school-we have seen many articles on the university day program, the athletic events, and the social functions. How ever, one part of the school seems to be neglected, and that is the activities and accomplishments of the professors on the campus. Many of them have outstanding backgrounds that would make excellent feature stories. Few of these have had any publicity except through the initiative of the downtown papers. The importance of publicizing our professors is seen if we realize that many of the people of the state consider Carolina only a party school-thait they do not believe their children will receive a good education from Carolina. If they could be shown that we have some of the most outstanding men in their fields here, they would probably be fore-in clined to enroll their sons and daughters-now high school seniors--in Carolina next fall. The best medium through which to do this would be through the newspapers. It is there fore our suggestion that a vigorous publicity program on our academic accomplishments begin immediately and continue throughout the summer. After all, it's time we displayed our brains alngo with the brawn, .a beauty.