Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Let's Ni Any Mor An administration founded in insecurity finally gave way to outside pressure last week.' On the day before the university's board of trustees met in "executive session," Rear Admiral Norman M. Smith, U.S.N. (Ret.), announced his resignation as presi dent of the University of South Carolina. Since he was rushed in under the wings of shifty state politicians, Smith and his ad ministration have been the acme of failure. In all fairness to this man, he has tried in his inadequate way to do his job. He has spent up to fourteen hours a day working at being a college president. For various reasons these 14-hour days have resulted in monumental bungles and a continuous loss of prestige for the university. In retrospect, the Admiral's term of office can serve as a criterion for selecting Caro lina's next president. Smith has shown us what we do not want; he has set certain standards of undesirability which the pres ent board of trustees--a much more level headed group than it was at the time of Smith's appointment - cannot overlook. Standards that indicate the following truths: 1. The presidency of a state university is a career, not a retirement. 2. The president of a state university should be young. He should be a man of sound intelligence, which has been tried and accepted elsewhere. He should be well spoken. In short, he should look and sound his office. At present the likeliest choice for USC's top position is Donald Russell of Spartan burg, a nationally prominent attorney who was assistant secretary of state to James Letters To The Editoi Helmut Writes To At Dance, And A Ca (The following letter is from I am especially Helmut Stockmann, a German ex- Alice McCartha a change student who attended Caro- band, Dr. Carl Mc( lina last year. The letter was de- their influence ar livered by James LeGette, who very excellent iml visited Helmut in Germany this ern American educ summer. LeGette, who is still a tainly gave me ti Carolina student, was requested to have the willingne make this letter public domain attitude to impr< through The Gamecock.) understanding. My dear friends. I am glad that I am indeed very thankful to tunity to have Jir "The Institute of International my fellow studen Education" for giving me the op- versity of Soutil portunity of studying in America. wvith me here ii I certainly had a wonderful time had the opportu at the University of South Caro- family, and a pai lina, and I will always remember More American all the nice friends I met there. I come to Germany am very thankful to all of you for and their conditi< your kindness and for your com- help to bring the radeship. ship closer togeti Many of you gave me your ad- Mustafa Dahir dresses. I am unable to write per- Louis Szilagyi, sonally to everyone, so this letter Carl Littlejohn, may be for all of you. Lionel Bischoff. $l,GA -co< CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CARO Member of Associated Collegiate Prei Distributor of Collegiate Digest Foundedjanuary 30, 1908, wIth Robert Eliott Gonzales Univest of South Carlina wely on rays ot year except on holidays and during examinations. sanDy the of 'TeCameoc. Pubshin doe not0 endorsement. The right to edit is reserved. EDITOR ... M..... MANAGING EDITOR JAKE.O BUSINESS MANAGERELOT AS8T. BUSINESS MANAGER . . .1 NEWS ....................... CAMPUS ....... ...... SPORTS ....... SOCIETY ....o... EXCHANGES .................Sa COPY .... . . .. FEATURES . .M.ar.y... CIRCULATION MANAGER STAFF EPORTRE Smih, . L Buflnton Da Kiper . Tobri Camero, BilMaWattE BSESE TAL snYte,N STAF PHTOG AHE REPOTER FArTnHingway JixWisn PimmylipMody L2auren Irby, Theoore . Mathw, .J.B it Have Snuffies! Byrnes when the latter held that position in the national government. Although he has been condemned as a political choice on these grounds, it seems to The Gamecock that Rus sell possesses most of the necessary qualifi cations. He is young - in his forties - and respected for his soundness of thought and eloquence in all quarters. He frequently argues cases before the supreme courts and various lesser tribunals all over the East. Donald Russell may or may not be a wise choice. It is not The Gamecock's purpose to further Russell's cause. It is even possible that he would not be disposed to accept the position if it were offered him. Our purpose is to further the cause of the University of South Carolina by proposing the following plan to help insure a wiser choice. The Gamecock suggests that the following people be allowed to sit with the board of trustees at the time the new president is t chosen: A FACULTY MEMBER ELECTED FROM THE FACULTY AT LARGE (NOT A DEAN), TIE PRESIDENT OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, THE PRESIDENT OF THE STUDENT BODY, AND THE EDITOR OF THE GAMECOCK. With this group on hand, I not as voting members but merely as an ad visory body, tihe board would have an in finitely larger (and, we believe, more un biased) store of information and opinion from which to draw. It is our confirmed opinion that this fact alone would insure the i wisdom of carrying out our suggestion. t If this suggestion is ignored, politicians may reach in and foist another Snuffy on the University of South Carolina, its faculty, o its students, and its reputation.-M. P. , ti Carolina Alcohol Cl rtoon From Denver U thankful to Dr.' Miss LaBorde, Miss Matthews, and - nd to her hus- all the other nice friends I found be 3artha. Through at U.S.C., I thank you for your A d help, I got a friendship and wish you the best >ression of mod- of everything. It would be real (1 ation. They cer- nice to spe you again. I ie inspiration to I am indeed very sorry that the n ss and the right year of study in the United States n ye International is already over. That year will al- a ways b)e one of the most important la I had the oppor- events of my life which I shall al- e i LeGette, one of ways remember. It is not only that a :s from the Uni- I took advantage of my studies in f Carolina, visit the United States, but on the other e Germany. He hand, I found so many new friends. t nity to see my This, in my opinion, is one of the i t of my country. most important aspects of the Ex- d students should change program - to bring young C to see the people people of our two nations nearer ns which should to each other. band of friend- I was very much impressed by Ler. Amierica, its progressiveness, rich-c Vladimir Russ, ness, industriousness, and its kind Robert Jordan, people. I am strictly convinced Earl Thomas, that it should not be possible for Miss Knowlton, these twvo nat ions, America and t Germany, to combat against each I other, because there are so many t close relations among these two na /tions. However, we have to realize that in spite of the great com munistic danger, which exists for I LINA all of us, we have to stand together for the safety of our great West sen culture. I am quite sure we can save this culture as long as tents ofth we stand together, but being the cllege divided, we can be sure of losing it. ecnotn:ee- I am indeed very thankful for having had the opportunity of A! PERSKY studying abroad. I really would THERLAND .like that more German students WARDLAW should have the opportunity to ohn Parasho study in America for the benefit . Bill Novit of friendship betwcen our nations. Ken PowellSicrl alph Gregory Sneey imie Herbert HEL4MUT STOCKMANN idy Cranford H'arixbeck-Bez. Munster Ruth Barker Dorf 166 velyn Rogers Germany Bobby Smith Patsy Hutto- - Dear Editor, BillLeggtt, I would like to address this note tieCr,Tmmy to President Smith, Dean .Jackson, Thompson, Blue Key, the faculty, The Game *vidson, Bob ,cock, or anyone concerned. When Dean Jackson spoke to the William Hay new students in the chapel at the ~ncy Mitchell beginning of the year, he said that c Turbeville there would be no alcohol on our Al Simson campus at any time. Wha hs. "You'd think he could leam to bal BILL NOVIT Carolina-C Too Man When a football game arouses I group of students to the point of nob violence, then perhaps, it is ime to consider the elimination of he gridiron encounter. Now I enjoy the Carolina-Clem on game as much as you do, specially when our boys play ball ike they did last Thursday. I also mjoy the shirt-tail parade, the >onfire, the bell ringing (even hough my bed is less than fifty eet away from the source of the ioise), and the burning of the tiger, is they are proper pre-game ex >ressions of school spirit. There is, however, a time ionored tradition which once again ook place this year. This tradi ion reached a new high, or a low, ast Wednesday evening when a roup of Carolina students tried to verturn a car replete with Clem on supporters on Main street. The usual practice of bombard ig cars with juicy fruits and vege-|, ibles on the streets bordering the impus was of course carried outl8 is year also. c Automobiles were made to stop Ad the question, "Carolina or c< emson?" is shouted at them. p ually before a reply could be fi ven a barrage of missiles rang g from bulging tomatoes to o ushed beer cans was discharged. o en done to enforce this rule? o bsolutely nothing! s The night before our Gamecocks' i] )less them) victory over Clemson, v went to the armory and paid ad- \ ission in order to attend the an- 2 ual Blue Key dance. I was o mazed to see that students from I oth colleges were inside the rmory drinking. Isn't the naval I rmory considered part of our riendly campus? It was friendly, 11 right. All good friends were here and a good many of them ecre "stewed." Where there's r'inking there's trouble. A couple f "lit friends" started fighting ,hich was broken up. It could asily have turned into a riot. Yours truly is no angel, but if e were a Blue Key member, you ould bet something would be done. am, howvever, an insignificant rat," influenced by my upperclass ion. There wvere bottles in the rash can and I saw a member of he track team at the dance with a eer can in his hand. What am I o think? What do you think, Ed.? 'lease comment. A freshman, -B. Y. K. (The Gamecock intentionally ig Lores its policy of not printing let ers with vague signatures to bring 'ou what it considers a pertinent 'iew point on a pertinent subject. )ur comment ? . . . Thank Jupiter t isn't track season !-Ed.) Denver, Colorado October 26, 1951 Editor rhe Gamecock iniversity of S. C. lolumbia, S. C. Dear Sir: For muore than thirty years I invo been an enthusiastic supporter WHO SAiD T HIS TIE FEROCIOU k when he wants something." lemson y Mobs? Most of the unfortunate victims stepped on the gas and drove away :ursing the University of South Carolina and its student body. Last Big Thursday eve, however, one man stopped his car, got out, and challenged collectively and in dividually the group, which by that time was already running at a speed expected of cowards. In due time, the mob reappeared and built a bonfire in the middle of Pendleton street in front of Maxey college. Feeling that a sta tionary target is easier to hit than a moving one, the students had ar rived at a wonderful way of mak ing the cars stop. Well, it re quired the Columbia fire depart nent to put out the conflagration nd the police department to rid he street of the students involved. It was only a small part of the tudent body which participated in his misconduct, and most of those nvolved were in some state of in hriAtinn mnh ^r bott!c fr.duced. et the blame for this event is iven to the school and everyone annected with it. School spirit is one thing; en )uraged violence by irresponsible arties is something entirely dif wrent. Let's continue beating hell out f Clemson, but let's not ruin hell at of Carolina! f the Gamecock football teams. I till pleasantly remember the grid -on feats of such Carolina stal ,arts as "Rock" Snipes, Frankie ieyer, "Joree" Wheeler, Eddie obei, "Bru" Boineau and many thers. I formerly lived in Rock lill, S. C., but for the past fifteen !ears have lived in the Rocky viountain area. Throughout these rears I have continued to be a larolina fan. To say that I was elated at the iewvs of Carolina's 20 to 0 drubbing >f Clemson on October 25 is to nildly describe my feelings. I hink Rex Enright and his entire ~quad deserve much praise for do ng the job so well and so com >letely. I have a friend here who is quite in artist and cartoonist. At my 'equest, he drew wvhat I consider most appropriate cartoon con erning the Gamecock victory over he Tiger. I am sending the car oon herewith, and you are at iberty to reproduce it in your pub ication. If you should run it in I'he Gamecock, I would appreciate rour sending me two copies of that >articular issue. Wishing your publication and the ilarolina football teams many, nany years of continued success, am Sincerely yours, W. T. ALLEN P. 0. Box 329 Denver 1, Colorado (Thank you, sir! The cartoon Irawn by Mr. Allen's artist-friend a reproduced below .-FA.) CR01 AND CRI By KEN I Noises, noises; yells, cheers, laughter, jazz bands, radios with a variety of programs, sounds of tin cans on concrete; bottles breaking, water battles which develop into ink battles. All this and more too. Yes, this is Preston; the biggest, finest (and one more adjective, if you don't mind-noisest) dormitory for men in the state. It's next to impos sible to study in the place, but if it's card sessions, bull sessions, jam sessions, or any other kind of ses sion you're looking for, you'll find it in Preston. It's a swell place for the pro crastinator but not so for the de spised introvert who likes to study in his room. Maxcy is a little less noisy than Preston and the tenements are the quietest, pardon; they are less noisy than the larger dorms. It's actually possible to study without going to the library if one lives in one of them . . . sometimes. This is probably a reason why there is usually a trek of upperclassmen going from the larger dorms to the tenements at the beginning of each year. Not having the privilege of ob serving the various noises of Sims or Wade Hampton dormitories, your reporter is unable to report on the possibility of study at those quarters; however, they are large dorms too, so that eliminates the possibility of any treks from other dorms. The fact that they are! WILLIAM HAY The Ev OR1 A T?-. Ofn i rue Friend!iness comes in cycles. This is particularly true of the coeds here. Let's take the college career of a typical female fresh- 1 man. She comes to this strange and 1 different place from a town far removed from the worldly-wise en vir onment of Columbia. It may be from a town where she knows, and speaks to every one. Our pert freshman embarks on her quest for learning with the at titudes formulated at home. For the first fewv weeks, she speaks to1 every one. It doesn't matter wvhether she has been formally in troduced. She soon notices that the veteran) girls or upperclassmen are very discriminating about speaking to people. They consider it a major b)reach of etiquette to speak to anyone unless they are great friends, or unless the other person1 has achieved that magical omnipo tence of becoming a "wheel." Sandy Cranford and 14 Great were the cheers at last wveek's Big Game! Radiant were the faces of the joy-stricken Caro- I lina rooters. Many were the cele brating party friends after the game.i All this seems niatural, but some thing was amiss. The "third In gredient" was lacking. What was this missing link? We shall at tempt to tell you. As we saw it, everything was too orderly -- too orderly to be believable, orderly enough to be called an amazing feat on the part of somebody. The enormious amount of traffic moved rapidly and orderly (gosh, we're getting tiredi of this word!),1 the M. P'.'s escorted very few per-1 sons from the game, the partying dluring the game was neither too notieeable nor too loud (the noise was probably drowned by the hearty cheering section), and the occurrenice of after-game battles 1 remain untold to our ears.1 WING TICISING POWELL' women's dorms might discourage the move, too. And The Firemen Came to Put Out The Water Firemen are often called upon to put out fires but seldom to put out the water. But that's what happened Sun. day night when a hot water pipe burst in one of the tenements on the horseshoe. During the hour in which the occupants of the flooded suite looked for a campus policeman, the steam from the hot water coming out the second floor window con densed and rain fell on the per. fectly clear starlit night. To add to the excitement, wet light fixtures and electrical wiring began to crackle, pop, and sparkle. Finally, in desperation, the pa. jama-clad occupants, whose rooms (yeah, it had leaked down to other rooms by that time) were inches deep in water, called the Columbia fire department. When told that they would have a -fire to put out because of the wet wires if they did not come, the firemen reversed their decision that they were not supposed to come on the campus; and Capt. An. derson and his men soon had the situation under control by locating and cutting off the water valve in a basement which the boys didnl know existed. With the help of an upstairs window and a shovel, the men from the Columbia fire department then completed their task of putting out the water. )IUtiOfl nIs. Dmue Coea The neophyte quickly learns that 1 educated ~*coeds know who these special people are and also stars to be "discriminating." She learns that courtesy means being polite ,o people because you know them, " >r because it is expedient to do so. The ideal of courtesy as a genuine expression of good will is lost. Of course, there are certain times when the sweet young thing finds .t advantagcous to speak to everj ody. After all, there are campus clections, and rush week, and some ;imes it's hard to tell who's in' rolved in these events. By mid-semester, we find our foung Miss molded to the usual pattern; she has been wisely and liligently observant of the older set; she may even have made ;pecific social commitments which nark even slight fraterniaton . rith members of "certain organila ions" as heresy; she has become me who belongs, a true Carolina Joed. lary Evelyn Rogers tway from the ingredients of hare ess fun and a feeling of good wil nakes for the betterment Of ~riendly relations between tWO ong-standing rivals. After ale wo's company, three's a crowd,N0 rho wants that third ingredl5d rhe growing spirit of friendshiP md fellows'hip between these tWO natitutions has nearly reached its ecak. The violence, hatred, ph1U al ridicule of the days of 1001 ~go are now merely shadOWY nemories. Thank goodness! The clean sportsmanship of this rear's Carolina-Clemson game bBs >een praised from coast to CB2 Phis annual classic has attraCth iation-wide interest. Each 70r Jarolina and Clemson are wtb >y football fans all over the co0* ry. The game on Big Thur5ds1 his year was one of the bB2 roclamations of Carolina's sports' nanship ever to come forth. Wit nore games like this CarolinaWi oon have the respect of all w iear of this school. And with mor sig Thursdays like the last, WW eBs ee to it that they do hear of US'