Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WHAT DO YOU THINK? Pay WoL Your Pap The Finance Committee at one time made it a point to see that the more responsible members of the Gamecock staff were re warded for their efforts with something more than mere glory. At that time it was whispered across the campus that the editor drove by the treasurer's office in an armored car to pick up his weekly allotment. Since then, the committee has standard ized a few things, and the responsible mem bers of this staff have been left with little more than responsibility. The glory of the armored car whispers has departed and left a ringing vacuum in our great journalistic halls. Because there has always been a justifiable tendency to condemn mercenary leanings in amateur activities (and especially in student activities), an explanation is necessary to a proper support of the mercenary leanings. And we intend to prove that our support is a proper one. Four members of the editorial staff have what we interpret as really responsible posi tions. These are: editor, managing editor, sports editor, and society editor. If any of these four should neglect his duties the Gamecock could not be published. Every time a paper rolls off the press, it means that these four have spent as much as twenty hours each in writing and obtaining copy, obtaining pictures and engravings, laying out pages and correcting proofs. As a result of their work on the Gamecock, these students cannot undertake any jobs, not even part-time jobs. This virtually makes responsible staff positions jobs for plutocrats who don't need any cash. Sometimes this Good Gosh, G No matter who stars in tomorrow's game, the oddsmakers claim we'll be the goat. So don't read this too hastily. Hold onto Some Tips For An Easier Big TI LETTERS TO Dear Sir: for parking in th I am writing to make recommen- charge was ma? dations for a stand by the Game- game and has n cock on two matters in regard to This hrese football games. view of the thous Often students are annoyed to park there, the find others in the seats they have no charge foro paid for. I believe that many will the fact that th< appreciate a request by the should reap adeql Gamecock that each occupy the other enterprises, proper seat. Last year at the Clem- overlooked somet) son game it seemed that some sat tioni and if so wvhere they pleased regardless of being pointed out the numbers on their tickets or on I would say that the tickets of others. would appreciate Last year at the Clemson game the Gamecock tc a charge of fifty cents was made tion that this ci %(- GAA*'Co< C:ROWiNG FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAR( Member of Associated Collegiate Pre Distributor of Collegiate Digest Founed Jaury 30 1908, wth Robert Elot onzal year excpt on hlidayCaln during exanatIonas ui lythe on exrsed by columists an ltter wrterst endorseament. The right to edit is reserved. EDITOR .MORDEC MANAGING EDITOR JACKIE SOU BUSINESS MANAGER ELLIOTT ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER NEWS CAMPUS SPORTS SOCIETY .Tor EXCHANGES Sa COPY. FEATURES Mary 1 CIRCULATION MANAGER SECRETARY STAFF REPORTERS Furney Hemingway, Jinx Wilson, Phillip Moody, Don Unger, Mary Patricia Davis, Leo M. Laurens Irby, Theodore K. Matthews, F. J. Bi Smith, T. L. Buffington, Dan Kipper, Barbar Ethel Mathewes, Martha Wooddali, Chuck D Cameron, Billy Watts. COLUMNIST BUSINESS STAFF Lawson Yates, N id Make er Better works out all right and sometimes it doesn't. Our solution, remuneration for labor and responsibility, works all the time. It worked well for years at this university. And dur ing those years the Gamecock received a half dozen All-American ratings from the As sociated Collegiate Press. Last year, during the Fall semester, the board of publications met. They were in a standardizing mood, and campus radio sta tion WUSC said salaries were not beneficial to the operation of their organization. After a careful study of how much money could be saved by abolishing salaries in all those organizations which fall under its jurisdic tion, the board of publications decided in favor of the abolition. The members of the board did a little keen thinking and came to the logical conclusion that what won't work in a radio station won't go in a newspaper. That kind of logic never quite dented our skull. It just perched on our ear and pecked away. That pecking is the driving force behind this request for cash. If the students do not think a full-time job that falls under stu dent activities should be rewarded with cash -in order to increase the quality of the job and of the activities in general . .. he should let us know. And he should let the board of publications know. Meanwhile, the Gamecock, working on precedents set at every other college that publishes a newspaper of any substantial size, asks for the following subsistence for its four responsible editors: One hundred dollars each, per semester. Let there be no whispers. -M. P. imecocks, Go! it for awhile and turn the words over care fully in your mind and heart. If APC's won't cure paper poisoning, they may be our last. Lursday THE EDITOR e fairgrounds. No It appears to me to be a taking of le for any other opportunity profit by the large t been this year. crowds attending Carolina-Clemson s unreasonable in ands of cars that games. act that there is At all games I take my time in ther games, and leaving the stands and wait a short fair association time in the car before returning to late profits from town. I find that I can travel just Perhaps I have inintisiu-as quickly without so many starts v.ill appreciate it and stops. Perhaps others might to me. Otherwise care to do this for their own con I believe students venience and also it wvould thin the a suggestion by congestion. the fair associa- I appreciate the splendid way the arg belesend.Highway Department handles traf _____________fic at the games. Sincerely, KEN ROBERTSON IDear Editor: 'Tho Gamecock has been derelict LINA in its duty to announce coming events. Careful perusal of the October 19th edition fails to pro ae ts(duce any advance notice of any the college campus activities scheduled in con enonee- junction with the gala "Big Thurs constitute anday" affair. Probably it is the decision of AI PERSKY the staff that those announcements THERLAND should be withheld until the Oc WARDLW toher 24th edItion, or possibly Bill Novit there are no announcements to be Ken Powell made. alph Gregory Does it not seem that if plans nmie Hebr are to be made for a festive oc Ruth Barker casion they will be made on knowl ~velyn Rogers edge and circumstances existing a Bobby Smith week before the holiday rather than Patsy Hutto at the last minute, haphazard rush caused by a last-day announce Bill Leggltt, ment ? KaCute,BOB R AIFORD ite,Tmy (The (GAMECOCK makes every avidson, Bob effort to inelnde nil essential news as soon as possle. However, due Wlam ay to limited space, very few itenas can IlamHy he printed more than one isaue In tncy Mitchell advance.--FAl) "Someone left the lid up an' I JACKIE SOUTHERLA WhAose Just P "The future is in your hands." This they all say as they stand big and pompous before a gradu ating class. "The world is yours." Everyone of us who has ever attended a graduation exercise has had these words pounded into our ears. The politicians, the kindly college presidents, the famous sons of famous states have all said it to us . . . the gullible. So it all belongs to us, huh ? Oh, yeah?! We listen to their speeches and glow with hope and ideals. These old duffers, we think, have made a mess of things. Give us a few years and we'll straighten things out. These guys are anxious for us to take over. We'll end preju dice, wars, corruption, and make a fairy tale world. So we don our shining armor, and, on a glistening white charger, i we go forth to right the wrongs - of life. We get stopped at the first red i light. We come to a screeching I AND CR By KEN I There is a structure with high ceilings, plaster walls, and stucco exterior located in the center of1 the campus on the horseshoe. It is empty. There is another building, E Pluribus Unum that is located on1 the campus but not on the horse shoe. It is a one-story frame building, with low ceilings, asbes tos shingle exterior, and interior of cheap wood and prefabricated materials. Specifically, it is the temporary building which houses the fine arts department. Now visualize the first men tioned building after being reno vated by the university mainte nance force for the purpose of providing a much nicer home for the fine arts department and after being re-decorated by the interior decorators of that department. The seemingly overlooked build ing on the horseshoe is the Mc Kissick-Wauchope House. Formerly housing two sororities, it has been vacant for over a year and a half. AdministratIve o f f i c i a 1 s will MURRAY SEAMAN Cun On Outweigh Today is probably not the most opportune time of the year to say sacrilegious things about the Caro lina-Clemson game. But because people think that anybody who sits in front of a typewriter is a little balmy anyway, we'll attempt It. Tomorrow many thousands of fans (short for fanatics) will de cide whether the South Carolina football season was a successful one or not. After this game is overi they will be either violently happy or violently angry. There is no] medium for a true Carolina backer. I So far this season the Gamecocks< have played four ball games, win ning two and losing the same num her. However, this will all be for gotten over the bottles tomorrow night If Caroin bea Clm o 'VII damn near drowned." ND Future assed? whoa and tumble from our steeds. And after that first disillusion ing fall we either stay on the ground with the rest of the mental and ethical midgets-aiming no higher than a squatty toadstool, or battle Don Quixote's windmills. Who put up that barricade of red lights? . . . Those very fel lows who told us to go out to re form the world. Go slowly, they say. We must be cautious; the world is not yet ready. We must not upset the scheme of things; the world will slowly evolve. Let's not be hasty; this old world has been getting along all right for years, heh, heh, they joke. They kindly pat us on our shoulders and encourage us in a backward way. So we wait and fret and strain against their friendly restraints. And finally we stagnate ourselves )elieving that we are just waiting or the right moment. Like those >efore us we believe that we are etually accomplishing something. And thus we stay until, glowing vith high ideals, we tell the next reneration, "The future is yours." FICISING probably say that this is not a lack of planning since the new science buildings and other new buildings will enable departments sow in temporary buildings to mtove into the vacated permanent uildings. But last spring a Gamecock :olumnist advocated that McKis sick-Wauchope House be con rerted into a badly needed student uinion building. This suggestion was probably ignored because of the cost of converting it into such a building. With the interior decorating classes doing the decorating and with university maintenance men doing the renovating, the cost o'f converting it into a home for the fine arts department would be small; and we consider a building such as McKissickWauchope more appropriate for the fine arts de partment than a long awaited elassroomi would be anyway. Or are we waiting on' the next G. I. Bill so that the building can again become a dormitory? m Game i Seuson? ~he season will be officially enided even though there are four- more games on the schedule. If they should lose (I'm liable to be called a heretic) the season also will be mnded but in a very emotionally hifferent way. The coaching staff would be in Ianger of needing new jobs and ~he players might just as well hang ip their cleats. It will not be aken into consideration that Clem ~on has a stronger teamn on paper. ntense rivalry alone is expected o win the game for Carolina. Of ourse die-hards don't stop to igure that the Tigers would prob bly like to win this game as much a we would. What I have been trying to get iround to In- Why .hou ther BILL NOVIT Fightil Should Be Certainly in troubled times such as these it is necessary to build and maintain a large standing army by drafting eighteen year olds, and no one can deny that a man eighteen years of age is old enough to fight. It is being shown at this moment on the battlefields of Korea-as it was shown in the two World wars -that a man in his late teens is capable and qualified to handle himself ably under fire. Why, then, don't the leaders of our nation think that men of eighteen, nineteen, and twenty are old enough to vote ? Young men in this age group are old enough to serve their country, but are not old enough, it seems, to participate in its gov ernment. To them the nation looks first for its defense, but last for bestowing its privileges. They may handle bullets, but not ballots. Critics have said that these WILLIAM HAY The ei Needs Yc Those who read intelligently, will agree that some letters are of sufficient irrelevance to require no answer. Friday afternoon proved to be a most interesting one for several of us from the university. We ex perienced an easy and fine way to lose weight. Each of us lost about one pound within five min utes. Our method for doing it simply required a trip to the local Red Cross Blood Bank. Last year an effort was made to get university students to give blood in the Red Cross drive. Re sults were not inspiring. Most people here were apparently too aatisfied with existing world con mons to maxe an ar. . prove them. Others contented themselves with claiming that the Red Cross took blood, gratis; only to sell it to hospitals for a fat profit. This is an absolute lie! The only money received in respect to the donated blood is that which the hospitals charge the patients for the act of Sandy Cranford and] Seeingf "What are you going to do now ?" "I'm going to run over to the journalism school." "What ? I thought you had a free period." "I do." "Well, let's go somewhere and get a Coke and relax." "That's exactly what I'm going to do." Conversations on this same or der have occurred more than twice the past two weeks. Why ? Be cause where else can one find a soft drink machine, a coffee pot, plenty of ash trays, the latest news, the most comfortable sofa imaginable, and off the record humor other than in the lounge on the second floor of Legare. We do not know whether Dean Ross P. Schlabach installed this lounge for the comfort of his students or whether he just wanted to keep an eye on them. In either case, the students are very much In favor of it. Above all, this lounge is an ideal study hall. The only noise that could possibly infiltrate is the noise of the AP teletype machine, the dozen typewriters in the next room, the cars whizzing by on the Horseshoe, the yells of the boys from the neighboring dormitories, and the chatter of the 20 or more people also attempting to study. This may appear to be a little be only a one-game schedule every year? Why not go all out for every team? Most teams in the country have a traditional rival. But each Saturday before that game the rival is forgotten and an effort is made to play a winning football game. I don't say that the play ers do not go all out against others. But the abnorma impotanc that ig Age Voting Age citizens have only a textbook ac quaintance with government, but there are some individuals now voting who have no acquaintance with textbooks. The best educated r citizens are those who can serve their country best and in these days of compulsory high school attendance and increased college enrollments, the citizens in the younger age groups certainly have absorbed more learning than their predecessors. It has been shown in the world of business, on the battlefield, in the classroom, and at the polls that a man or woman under twenty-one can be a mature thinker. It is our duty that we who are in this age group work to secure constitutional amendments to permit eighteen. twenty-one-year-old citiezn to par ticipate in all the machinery of government. d Cross ur Blood transferring the blood. The Red Cross gets not a cent. For the past few years, the Co lumbia area has used more blood than it has given. This, in effect, takes blood that otherwise may have saved a life on the battlefield. On November 15, the local Red Cross will have its mobile blood donors unit here on the university campus. All students over 21 are requested to give a pint of blood to the drive. Those under 21 must have permission from a parent or guardian. The necessary form for this permission may be picked up at WUSC. Take one of these blanks home during the State Fair holidays. IS.nv att y, Li.t!e I1ta. ,1t! co1- ' lected in this area comes from sol diers and from men in the State Penitentiary. Many of us are de feired from military service be cause we are in college. The very least we can do is to give an even break to those who have to fight. One pint of blood is a small price to pay for saving someone's life. ifary Evelyn Rogers distracting at times, but it pro vides the proper atmosphere for training recruits for the city room of a daily newspaper. Another thing, the professors don't have to persuade their students to come to class--they just go in the next room and drag them to class. This lounge Is a blessing in other ways, too. It serves as a congre gating place for the students. The students get to know each other, they get to know their professors, and their professors get to know them. (That's good?7) Other part. of the fournalism building get in their share of ac tivities, too. For instance, the lights in the downstairs photog raphy laboratory room burn until all hours of the night. Journalism 35 students tear their hair every week trying to get 1500 words of news copy from their various beats. Having a lounge is an added convenience' that more school' should think of. Not only is it 10ts of fun for both students and fiC ulty members, but also students just might absorb a little educa tion from the environment in addi tion to what is taught in the classroom. A few social mnoments among students and faculty con tribute to adding a little spice to the steady diet of learning. is put on the Clemson game na turally tends to hinder the team's performance *gainst other oP ponents. I do not advocate doing aWay with intense rivalries. Basically they are good. But when one garne takes more importance than the other eight put together, it is titus to have a recount or a reshuffle.