Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Three sem.etst a we entered for tl G.aemcek offioe, whibh, it seemed to us, ho hustlingest staffs in the history of college writers bussed and rang on both sides of a lar looking young men leaned over the typewril old cigarettes. hanging out of their mouths, a ing, worldly look in their eyes. Occasionally tl for something-probably coffee. Definitely, tl newspaper look, and the staff had a we-kno side-down-backwards-forwards,and - right - si conservatively estimated that we had about of breaking into this outfit as we. had of r bootlegging in the home offices of the WCTU But we stuck around. We wrote some poen staff. The subject of one of our poems broke I notice was taken of the fact that our poem I thing might happen. We got our first noti dread. Two semesters ago we returned and huni midway through the term the sports edito they replaced him with us. People began to followed in the wake of the-infirmary. One semester ago we came back again ai some more. The managing editor's. mother g managing editor had to make room for us. ] grow pale when we entered the room. When the time came for selecting a ne' put himself in the way of our ascendancy. Ye frightened anyone into the editor's office wit: Senator Brown and an envelope-ful of APC's Here we are. It was fate. BARBARA McSWAIN A Day Of R The day has come. We are le&ving. It is strange to feel this mixture of glad ness and sadness right now, as we prepare to take our diplomas from Carolina and close the door on our college life. We are glad to be ready to take our place in the world and thankful for the training we have had to fit us for it. We are a little shaky about how well we can apply this training. We are just beginning to get the full meaning of those wor4s "When:rondly, sought thee, thy Chdr to be . .. Now, when the time has come to leave, we feel most keenly the deep attachments we have at Carolina. All of the everyday scenes are acquiring their own special significance and are burrowing into our memories. We remember the wonderful give and take-mostly take-and sense of friendship in the publications buildings ... we can never forget our freshman year, when the horse shoe looked so pale and misty and beautiful under the lamplight, or the way everybody acted like a kid and threw millions of snow balls when the quick flurry of snow fell that first year-how even the dignified fraternity men from the other side of the campus came out and joined in the fun ..,. we remember going through rush week and we shudder to think of all the faux pas we made . . . we wonder how we ever made it through eight registrations, especially after that first one when we lost all of our materials and had to start over ..,. we remember our "Y" big sister and wonder what happened to her after that first leter ... we can still feel our awe at the upperclassmen who knew their way around the campus, and our amazement at the bold !/AGA4CO ( ,CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROL Member of Assoeiated Collegiate Pre. Distributor of Collegiate Digest year ercot on hoidy.ad ,r dmaluring The opion ear sed by counsand ltswrites ar eadorsemnent. The right to edit is reered. EDITOR... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. MORDEC MANAGING EDITOR . JACgIE SOU BUSINESS MANAGER .........ELLIOTT ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER ...... , NEWS......... CAMPUS .....,.... SPORTS ... ...... . . . . . . ...R SOCIETY .......... ...... ........... Toy EXCHANGES ............ ............ai C O PY ... . . . . .. . .. . . .. . . . . . . PEATURESB......... .............Mary E CIRkCULATION MANAGER ......... * , STAFF REP'ORTERS 1.Mso6ok, Furney Iemingway, Don Nas *worth, Fredt .Danlp, Frank Wright .'OUMNkUS . .. .... .Barbara Me8wain, 0 W Carolinea en fwst *me a used one of the weeklies. Type. te hall. Grizsled ers with week- R nd as all-know- 8 zere was a bark ie place had the w-thiagaime-up. de - up lak We 1 is much chance - aaking a living Ls for the sports dis leg and some hadsaid such a Mo e on a note of around. About r got sick and notice that we id hung around ot sick and the 'eople began to v staff nobody u couldn't have h a snapshot of -M. P. smembering ness of the girls, who actually sat out in front of fraternity houses. We remember the wonderful football games and the excitement of new hats and the band and the people and the parties bc Core and after and the way we got cold chills every time we stood to sing to our Alma Mater . . . we remember the strain of exams and how every one left us wishing more and more for the day when we'd be me.of4%hem ... we'll never forget our flirta. tions aVad our excitement cvcr each'new "one and only." . . . our parents will never forget how they ranted and raved at us to stay home sometime and how we patiently explained over and over that such and such a group just couldn't get along without us (while that club had invariably met the day before and sonlehow gotten along beautifully) .. . we remember dreading the "sophomore slump"-how it hit us anyway and left us believing we were total failures . . . we re member our disgust and pity for those few who hadn't learned to get along without cheating-and how we wondered what they would do when it. caught up with them later on . . . most Qof all we remember the friends we have made and we are glad about them. And we know, in remembering all these things, that Carolina lives because of memo ries just like these. We feel akin to those men and women who lived through their own "Censorship" excitement or who also loved the horseshoe in the springtime. We want our children to knew the same memories that we have known. We have tried Carolina and found her true. She is our Alma Mater. Lette Dear Editor: It is indeed refreshing to find such enlightened criticism in the atrics as in the Gamecock 5-18-51. AHemingway is indeed a man (or is a it a woman) of discerning taste and intellectual integrity. He found little to praise in "Charley's Aunt" loso e and was full of encouragement for the s.De,. the fine production "Voice of the Turtle." I'm just wondering how -=usen much was influenced by public opinion and newspaper reviews in the latter Instance ? A critic to be a critic must hold A! PERSKY himself aloof from others' views, PHERLAND yet when he goes to a performance WARDLAW the critic must take different cri 'onPrso teria depending on whether the ohn Prasho performance is professional or ...Bill Novit amateur. Certainly, if memory is . Ken Powell correct, the Town Theater, in its alph Gregory easp notes, makes frequent mention imie Herbert of the fact that its cast, or mem id rnod bers thereof, have professional dy Crnford badkground. On the other hand, our Ruth Barker 'University Players are definitely velyn Rogers simon-pure neophytes ..,. or am I Bobby Smith off base? While in "Charley's Aunt" there were those "obviously amateur" occurrences, still there is some Mary Blood- thjng. to be said In its defense. First of all the choice of the play Iga Edwards was excellent for reason of the moy Mitchell aceants--uch thinganno-t. be oref. m ' " " =' up " By y .loylitoil 0 dpa " " 'C $A-4 JACKIE SOUTHERLAND Our Hypocritical Survival Man is a hypocrite. This he must be in order to survive. Talk of your self-sufficiency, your independence all you wish, but the fact remains ... man cannot live alone. Society has built a village and established a governing body called opinion. And if man is to live in that village he must abide by the laws of that body. - And man must live in that village, for, to repeat, man cannot live alone. If he is to accomplish anything, or if he is merely to exist, he must live in that village. The structure of our lives, makea, ua-ling,olluging vines-each dependent, upon the other. We take our nourishment, our growth, both intellectual and physical, our means of living from another. And that other person depends upon us, or our kind. So, man is necessarily a hypocrite. If he has ideals, he must see them trampled by the laws, written or unwritten of this village. If he has a conception of the values of life, he must see them ridiculed and ignored. He must conform if he is to live. He must hide his feelings, his ideas; he must put them away and kill them with disuse, or his very soul will constantly remind him that he Is a hypocrite. Pity the fellow who remenmbers his Ideals and realizes the truth. His spirit cries out for release, for freedom. He strains, he argues, almost to the point of freedom, .but the realization hits him, and he knows that he cannot live alone he returns to the village. Shakespeare's Polonius said, "To thine ownslf be true." Ah, Polonious, if you had only thought. Discord would reign if we follow your command. Harmony can be reached only through the sacrifice of the individual, and his .Ideals. We ridicule the village standards, for they are trite. But we join the village, and we stay there. We who know that we are hypocrites take a walk and laugh our cynical laughs. We stare' at our reflections and laugh at the smugness of the village that is written across our faces. It is better not to know the truth, that We are hypocrites, everyone. rs To The Editor ignored; in a school one finds many players have a sincere pat on the accents. Secondly the diretion back where deserved. And it is not (done by an amateur) was- superb. at all difficult to see the good [cean't help but think bask on the qualities of such a performance as Iuite poorly done "Sigas CMa was presented in Drayton Wedees to," which received seolades in day nite. the Gamece as elehr- pee Yours truly, ly done in the foregoing respects. PAUL STONE. As for Reagan's supporting the pla, I can say only -ths--nt-ery (We let Fnrn~ey Hengway, play can have starring or Osuntral who has ben cale eveyha role. for the entire cast. Guanted up to and including Ernet since that the play wol lm -~ faMes his eritique appeared in the through had Reagan petformed GAMECOCK las wek, awer bal, the othe roles were al quite the- charge. himself. His rel aseeptably done. may prove hism to be the frst Let Hemingway remember that man to threw glass hem..s at it is froms thme amateur stage that Stem (See. below.)-ed.) professionals comec. And also let Mr. Stone: hnm remsember that in tMis area I only said it because it was true. partieularly drama needs sabht in Sam students on this campu the-arm. This can be dae.pe ' seem to, be afraid of the truth.I strustive erittism am emse.s often hurts, net fhostefr.If you and other students (I say Let me. also In a ce'png- yeAs stdeedetul foryoram ask Mr. Hemmingway Ifb dags Ist n Bue Key, inftaet, Mr. find Mr. Lind of the Town Theater Stone, I doubt that you exist), * trfe (? wooden? Doesn't the would like to continue to see medi handling of stage lights at times ocre productions at University reach a degree of such lihffeetual. Theater more power to you. I, for Ity as to be ludicrous? ian't the one, weeld like to see drama at the resene of a prompter al.evident niersity rise to new heights-It In "Vice?"has the. potentialities. This cannot In reiteration: Let us JI on-5 con\d6 tboit 6y praising sadeurish sat criticism, ye., but slt the work. - OLGA EWAD ..The Lum,twer We have come to the thirtp marka to our undergraduat career at Carolin*-ind with . it, we haye come to urdast column for The Ga necock. This does not come without a little 4adneps-for , we shall miss - the good times had at Carolina, the friends we have made, the things we have learned.. There are other things we shall miss-one is the very chool, the spirit itself. Some have said that there is no school spirit at Carolina. We have even noted the lack of it in this column. However, we say, to those who would say there is none, that it is not in them. For what is any spirit, if it is not in the individual? The spirit is here-if we bother to find it for ourselves. We entered Carolina as a freshman. During our stay we have learned many things. Some of them have been hard lessons. We have had to learn many through experience. Carolina has taught us much-about history, education, po litical science, biology, and most of all, about human nature. She has given us several of the happiest years of our lives thus far. If we gain any sort of recognition in our future lives, may we remember that a great deal of the credit goes to her. In the time we have been here, this writer has been con nected with The Gamecock in one way or another during every semester. We have seen and felt the many criticisms of it. We have been glad when there has been praise of it. In this column we have tried to point out things that were bad and praise the things that are good. Perhaps it seems that we did little praising but we have seen good every day on our campus. If this were not so the campus could not go on existing. In our opinion, the end of any organization must eventually come when the bad outweighs the good. It was, therefore, our intention to point out the bad before it ap proached this 'point. In doing so, we sometimes found our selves criticising severely. It was done mainly in hope that the fault would be corrected, and was meant without bitter ness and cynicism. To the students who graduate with us, we would like to ask that they keep the loyalty to the university after gradua tion, just as they have kept it while here. The real ways to do it are mainly (1) join the Alumni Association; (2) main tain an active interest in the affair2 of the university; and (3) encourage others to come to school here. To the, students who romain here, we say that we would like to see each of you take a more active part in camps life. Many of the organizations need reviving-you should help with this task. To those on The Gamecock staff, we would like to wish good luck. We hope you will put out a -better paper next year than any that have gore before. To the faculty, we give our thanks for their help and teaching. We've enjoyed most of our classes and have learned from all. We leave hoping that more money will be available to yo'u soon so that you may continue your good work. To the administratoin, the board of trustees, and the state legislature, we say that the future of the University of South Carolina rests mainly on you. We trust you will choose wisely to make it even greater than it is as we graduate. BILL NOVIT Underpaid -Profs. ---How Underpaid Can They Get? It is natural, indeed inevitable in ssin u etiki esn these costly days, that facultyabe sumto,Jdigfm members and non-teaching em- wa a noeo h oa ployees of the University should have been grieviously disappointed ppr,ta etit ato n by their last minute failure to getatinaknpriedoslre. the eight per cent cost-of-living in- TeAscae rs are h crement that they had expected,. tr ocrigtems aut It Is understood that not onlyanno-ecigmpyesThr has there been no recent generalreotsiththeecnGnra increase in salaries, but that manyAsebyatoid20prcn faculty, members are getting less pyicessfrnal l tt than they got last year. epoes upsmapora One cannot see how a facultyton,scasheuiriygt, member -- especially one -with a wr nrae nuht lo o family can live on the salary which sc a nrae,adyt ti he now receives,.eotdta nya5prcn a University professors cannot beicraewudbpove. expected to live on the salaries Tahn stehato n which they now receive. They, too,unvriyItsthsoehngha have to meet payments on homes,dstnuheandctialnti furniture, insurance, and cars6.uinfo l tes h nvr They too, have hungry mouths to st fSuhCrln a,o h feed. Surely the administrationwhl,* igyrepcae,n realizes the situation which exists,.oecssadsigihdfcl It is unavoidable that skyrocket- t.Ide,i sprastefns ing prices and stationary salariesuivrtyfclynthcoty should cause financial embarrass-fothsarywihtreiv. ment to many members of the Albrri otyo i ie faculty, who It is reported, are in Tesuet fteuiest,w general among the most poorly fe eti,ws h aut n paid in any Southern university,. o-ecigepoe.bavyg What specific action was taken ntereftsoobansais at the packed mass meeting last ta ileal hmt iei Friday afternoon has not been di-manrbftigherlvtd vsessdon,inceitwwashannexettiversaatus My ob s citi isto epotlt asOUmpIn udgng fro myraestepult fp ays, r, tA icer,m aJrt Gorge no rt ulct eessn TheJae ted Pessy carridyh patIhv aldte sI saw oryg cocrigth massck fLty ';Isalcniu od o at no-eahing emobyer,s.hr 7URUY ~MMQWY. itAaebl aussoried 203er cen