Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I would rather live in a cc without a government thai ernment but without news This This is it as far as the incumbent staff of The Gamecock is concerned. Tonight, the staff gets together for its once-a-semester shindig at the Market restaurant. The high light of the evening will be the naming of the staff for the fall term. That staff will get its baptism of fire by putting out next week's paper, the last of the spring semester. Of course, many of the names on the new staff will be familiar ones, for we work on the merit and experience system with prior service on the staff a prerequisite to an editorial position. Most of the names will be familiar, but the titles will be new as far as the new editors are concerned. For some staff members, this will indeed be it. That age-old malady that finally gets all college students has finally caught up with us. We refer, of course, to graduation. Martha Matthews, feature editor; Colum nist Barbara McSwain and Olga Edwards, and yours truly will be leaving the friendly halls of USC come June 4. We hope that our tenure has been a beneficial one for the university and for The Gamecock. We experienced a mild crisis when the cost of printing, etc., drove us deep into the red and forced a slash to six pages per issue. The cut was unfortunate, for it forced us to tighten up our pages and elimi nate a lot of good news matter for which we did not have room. It had its good points too, or it made us better judges of news and etter editors. The Gamecock has witnessed much im rovement on the campus during the emester. We have seen new buildings begin ing to rise; we have witnessed increased interest in Student Council activities by its embers-brought on through the efforts of columnist on The Gamecock staff-; we ave seen the university begin again to par icipate in "Who's Who in American Col eges and Universities" listings; and we have seen several other intelligent acts of progress ioMed on the campus. W'e even saw a p pai't being applied to our oldest and est buIldAigs. We never expected to see battleship grey adorn those venerable ls. Unfortunately, however, we also saw a ew things happen that we do not consider -ither progress or profitable to the univer ity. Several weeks ago the administration aw fit to c .ncel a dance scheduled by a uni ersity group for the benefit of the Crippled hildren's Society. The sponsors of the event ad neglected to register it at the proper ime, the- dance was scheduled for a week ARBARA McSWAIN Are Our Besi School times are wvonderful, We But that is su probably feel more strongly and thought that it is think we think more deeply than It should not be at any other time of our life during Why shouldn't these years. us be even bette: Parents, relatives and friends hind?i have been telling us that for years. boothool years shi "These days in school are the Theotrie we spen best years of your life." You'd bet- to our whole life ter enjoy them while you can." Ispend in courtship f/ GA4eco< CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROL Member of Associated Collegiate Pre. Distributor of Collegiate Digest editor, 'The Gmecck is published bysd for hestu Unearst ofp nSouh Carolinad wekly, on Fridas, during srly ~o,e o "'ree amecok. Publishin does qot endorsement. The right to edit is reserved. EDITOR..... MANAGING EDITOR ... . MORDEC BUSINESS MANAGER .... . . P ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER ElI NEW S .......... ... ...Jackie CAMPUS ......... SPORTS . ..... SOCIETY.. EXCHANGES. FEATURES . . .Mart CIRCULATION MANAGER . . 4 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 BUSINEBS STAFF.....Lawson Yatan. Ni untry with newspapers and i in a country with a gov papers. - Thomas Jefferson Is It!! night, and the university does not allo% charity drives on the campus. These were the reasons given for calling the dance off. We do not condone the neglect of the sponsor in failing to register the dance, Technically the administration was right on that point. Since that time, however, a Uni versity Day dance was held on a week night, and for years the World Student Service Fund has solicited funds on the campus. Al though we have had a good deal of progress, incidents like the one just mentioned show that we still have a long way to go. One of the major problems facing Stu dent Council at present is the date ticket dilemma for next football season. The retir ing Student Council last fall recommended that all students purchasing date tickets be given seats in the end-zone. Council felt that the adoption of this system would do much to reduce the scalping of tickets that has been so prevalent in the past. The Board of Trustees approved this plan, but the recently elected Student Council has expressed dissatisfaction with the new plan, and is working on improvements for the old system. Council hopes to present its modifi cations to the Board of Trustees in the near future. Another thing that we don't think is quite fair is the price set on date tickets for the 1951 football season. Each student that purchases a ticket for his wife or (late will be charged the full price of $3.60 per game, or $21.60 per season ticket. Date tickets are sold only in season books. Faculty and administration tickets, how ever, sell for $12.60 per season book, or half price for each home game except the Clemson game. The full $3.60 is charged for Big Thursday. Each faculty member or adminis tration employee may purchase one ticket for himself and one ticket for each of his dependents; all at the $12.60 price. If he is unmarried, he may buy one ticket besides the one for himself for the reduced price. Is it fair to allow the wives, children and sweet hearts of faculty members and administra tion personnel to attend the football games for half price, and at the same time charge the wives, children and sweethearts of the students the full price of admission? With these words, we end our career with The Gamecock. The last three and-a-half years have been pleasant ones for this writer and we hope that we enjoy working in the journalistic field for pay as much as we have enjoyed working for fun with The Gamecock. Now we will pull a General MacArthur and just "fade away." .--T.P. : Years Over? ch a pessimistic a preview of much dfeeper feelings hard to believe. and real thoughts. true. At Carolina, as at most Ameri the years before can colleges and universities, stu r than those be- dents play a lot and think a little. ould be a sort of ESome say that they party often what lies ahead. just to break the monotony of loaf d in school to be ing all the time. American students as the time we just aren't expectedi to worry too 'is to marriage- much about anything. We do live in a kind of dream world. But a dream that continues too long can turn ito a nightmare. Each age of life has its owvn golden period. In school, the golden part is carefree fun and the in Atense excitement of turning from a adolescents into adults. .. ~. ~ But the joys of adulthood must det te be just as great as those of youth, mTo help the newv generation onstituate an through problems you recognize as your old ones, to gain toleraper TOM PRICE and understanding which you ofter AI PERSKY lacked in youth, to share your lift AUL FIELD with a husband or wife and know Iott Wardlaw the exquisite joy of marriage an( Southerland parenthood, to set up a busines, ...Bill Novit and feel the satisfaction of success ilph Gregory through hard work, to get a jol Marlene Rast and know that you are filling it t Ken Powell the best of your ability-all these Bobby Smith -things must be sources of deep ha Matthews rich pleasure. )harlie Woo Most of us, with a little intro spection, could find that the "bes1 years of our lives" are these righi nford, J. M. now, regardless of whether "righi Bloodworth, now" means age 16, 20, or 60. Il eks we take off those dark glasses, the Iga Edwards grass really Is a whole lot greene' may Mitell Ion this side of the fence. Letter To Dear Editor: In a recent Issue of the Scho lastic Editor I noticed that your publication received a p e c I a I honors among the school papers. May I offer my sincerest con gratulations for your success in student journalism. After such an achievement I hope you. can advance your field of Journalistic ambitions and give a hand to some Filipinos trying to be writers. It will not be too difficult for you to help. All I ask is that you send us some old copies of your school paper, whether magazine or newspaper. For my students they will serve as mo dels and inspiration. Most of the boys and girls here in our high school and college (there are more than two thousand students) have not had the opportunity to see a really good school paper. Here is my situation. I am an BILL NOVIT Date Ticke If a student desires to take a date to the football games, should he be required to sacrifice a 40 or 50-yard seat and exchange it for a seat in the end zone? Student Council says an em platic NO! The consensus of the members was that a solution must be made to the problem, but that the proposed solution, which is stated above in question form, is not satisfactory. For years, trustees, faculty mem bers, and students have been try ing to reach a solution to the date ticket problem. Several plans have been tried, but each has failed. The one bottleneck seems to be the problem of scalping. It must be said that the new plan was given serious thought by the Board of Trustees before be ing turned over to Dick Anderson of the BAM Club for administra tion. The plan had the approval of a student committee headed by Lamar Collie, which also consid ered the plan at great length. The need for the changes was felt because the many students who purchased date tickets last year sold them to total strangers at a profit deprived other students of such tickets for their dates. The benefits do not merit the change because equal results can possibly be reached without send ing students down behind the goal post. Each student could be given a student activity card (as was given in the past before the issuing of the books), except that each card should have a space in the corner for a photograph of the student. A student would thus be required to have one of these small photos taken during registration, a n d when he wvent to pick up his JACKIE SOUTHERL These Bro it is a pose, they say. This I am glad to knowv. It has wvorried ime for years... these broken necks, I mean. They t(ll me now that it is a beautiful, alluring pose. The naturalness does not matter. It is, as they say, allur ing. They are there . . . on mantel pieces, in yearbooks, on society pages, everywvhere. They are there ...with smiling faces and bent necks. They are here, there, all around. They become a phobia, a mania. Trhey haunt my dreams. I find myself rubbing my neck. I even visit chiropractors. To no re sult, their pictures remain, and the girls with their heads bent so al luringly and so pleasantly still re main-andi my neck still hurts. Why, oh, why, can't they sit up straight ? Do the heavy bags under. neath their smoldering eyes drag down their shining heads? Didn't their mothers teach them this thing called posture ? Are they tired ? Trhe subjects for these poses are gone. But the poor images that shine from conspicuous places and torture my bones and dreams re. main. I forget that there is nc actual suffering, for a picture tc me Is alive. And there I see some human soul in torment, and 'r can. The Editor American Catholic Missionary from Indiana and have been in educational work since my ar rival in 1947. In this post-war educational boom there are many students interested in becoming newspaper workers and writers. If we could examine copies of your school paper I feel sure our own publications would greatly improve. Please mail us any back issues of your school paper or magazine that you can manage. We will be glad to send you issues of our papers if you wish. With deepest gratitude I am, Sincerely yours, Rev. Raymond Kunkel, SVD. Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines. (Editor's Note: Such a letter is very gratifying as we labpr over our last issue before relinquish ing the reins to a new staff. The papers are on their way to Rev. Kunkel.) t Dilemma activity card the photo would be attached to the card. Under the plan which this col umnist is advocating, the student would be required to show the card with his photo at the stadium en trance. There would be no doubt that the student and the student only was using the ticket. If a student wanted to take a date to the game he would get the card which had his photo on it stamped "date ticket" after pay ing the appropriate price. This would enable him to take a friend to the game, but it would make it very difficult for him to sell the ticket because the person buying it would have to go into every game with him. This system may not be nifal lible. It does, however, seem to be much closer to infallibility than the present system or the proposed plan. Mr. Anderson reports that there will be no reduction on date tickets this year as has been the policy in the past. In other words, date tickets will cost $21.60. This is quite a bit of mony for the aver age college student to shell out. Many married men will have to leave their wives sitting home un less the price is lowered to a price resembling what it has been for merly. Bobby Smith has come up with an idea to improve last year's ticket issuance. Hie suggested that students be checked off of a class roster wvhen getting tickets, so that freshmen will not find sitting in the senior section as easy as it was last year. Perhaps it is too late to alter the plan for next football season, but if it is not it is sincerely hoped that changes can be made in order to give the student an even break. IWhat do you think ? ALND -_ _ ken Necks not help. I have tried straighten ing the p)icture; this does not work, for then the head is straight, but the m-ek droops off at a forty-five dlegree angle. I have tried turning the p)icture to the wall, but the neck seems to crane and strain some more, andl the cocked head comes aimund and stares at me. I tried closing my yearbook, but invariably some familiar face with out a name pops up, and I must check the identity. And there they are again . . . rowy after row, page after page of uncomfortable, but bravely smiling, heads on aching necka. Such it is. It is art. It is the style, it is the fashion. Comfort mattereth not. Beauty is all. The aesthetic ruleth over the practical. I am not aesthetic. Do not tell me I am uncultured, uncouth. Do not tell me I am batty. Do not hold my hand and soothe me. I am not violent. There is no need for sympathy and caution. I only know . . . My neck hurts. STUDENT COUNCIL ABSENTEES, MAY i8, 1951 Bill Gibbes, Johnny Gramling, Ted Kennedy, Lightsey Murray, Jack McLean, Bob' Naylor, Joe OLGA EDWARDS Our Problems. Today we heard a lecture about crime and politics in the United States-we also heard a professor say that, in his mind, the beginning of the end comes when a general apathy begins. The answer-it's really not hard-set out to use your energy for something besides playing solitaire. However, it's not just in politics that we find this apathy -it has entered into every realm of life-into business, religion, education-every phase of society. Let's take a quick look at these. Look at Politics Since politics is one of this writer's major worries, we'll look at it first. In the school, we still see evidences of that old politician smile-you know-the one that says, "I'm your friend, vote for me." This was the' major criticism made in a poll of the orientation class last week about campus elections. Another was the fact that not enough people run for offices -that usually it's the same few. Of course, the problem still arises about the student government's not having enough power, but they do have to use what they have. Personally, we think that it has improved, and promises to improve even more next year. The printing of absentee names in Barbara McSwain's column seems to have caused a great deal more interest in student government lately. If the People Are Willing In state and national government, we see a picture of juxtaposition of opposites that is probably unparalleled. In the state, we see ridiculous examples of crookedness, along with some very earnest men who are working very hard for the good of the state. The answer here is for the people to get up and out to vote. The crime, the incompetence, the poor gov ernment of local, state and national government could be stopped-if the -people are willing to vote and to expend a little of their time in helping the better men win. If the people of each county would ask a few questions about the men they send to the legislature, the state's weak spots could be cleaned out. Look to Education We look to education-we find that it is better-in some respects. Teachers are being paid more-more people are literate than earlier in this century-These are good-for them we are sincerely glad-and yet, there is room for im provement. As in comparing an objective test to an essay test, there is becoming more and more the tendency to teach our children what to think-to propagandize-than to teach them how to think-how to find out for themselves. Thus we find a confused generation that becomes weak when it faces arguments from another factor. We have seen this happen. We have been told that democracy is the best way of life-but no one ever bothered to tell us why it is the only way. So when the weaknesses of our methods confront us, we do not know what to say-until we have taken time to think-if we have learned to do so. We must learn why democracy is best-we must learn if we are to cope with the fluent speakers of Communism and the other isms. Religion We see the same trouble in religion-we have said accept and have not prepared ourselves with the reasons for this acceptance-again resulting in confusion at some point. Our churches have sometimes become so confused with the busi ness of quantity, of form, and of dogma that they have left out religion. Religion must be an individual matter-this is not meant to say that the individual cannot be guided-but he must not be coerced. Even the one who says, "There is no God," recognizes the worth of the religion - all religion, Christianity, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, etc.-when it lays down the moral laws-the golden rule. We Hit Another Snare Here we hit another snare. We call ourselves a Christian nation-yet we see statistics which say that the United States spent one and one-half million dollars on all charity last year, including the churches, and nine and one-half on liquor. We find the great crime that stops at -nothing going on in the United' States-a civilized nation. We see the Capone gang still alive in Chicago, the organized syndicates in every large city-and the unorganized small gangs in the smaller ones. We see the politics of the nations being fed by crime in many instances-and yet we have no qualms when we break the laws. They aren't important, you say, I'm only one person. What if I do get some bootleg liquor or bet illegally on a horse race ? But multiply one person by 150 million people. Without each of us, crime could not exist. This is a definite indication that something is wrong. We say to ourselves that Christianity is a religion of love, but are we showing that we are followers of it? More Than Just Talking All in all, we find that most of our problems could be helped by doing more than .just talking our ideals-but by thinking and understanding them, by setting out to make them work. It is our challenge and our responsibility--We are the generation that must make world peace. It can no longer be the coming genatio1n_.._+me may be too .hort.