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Here's How, Maybe: Chap. Needs C Somewhere below is a plan which the stu dents of this university can either accept or reject by their reactions to it. To accept it they must react favorably. To reject it they have two alternatives: an unfavorable re action or no reaction at all. The subject of the plan is the university chapel period, a project to which current stu dent reaction is next to non-existent. In the space of one year, chapel attendance has dropped from nearly 2,000 to a current 200 odd. Explanations for the drop are numerous, but of varying validity. First and foremost, in our opinion, is the obvious decline in the quality of the chapel programs themselves. At the time of their origination in the fall of 1950, the programs gave USC students a chance to see and hear Will Durant, Louis Untermeyer, Romney Wheeler, Hodding Car ter, Franz Polgar, and others of similar stature. This season not one "name" attrac tion has mounted the Field house rostrum. There have been interesting lecturers and learned authorities on various subjects. To sum up, several of the programs have had their share of entertainment and educational value for those who attended, but their lack of drawing power would make the St. Louis Browns hide their heads in shame. Secondly, the novelty has worn off. The university started its chapel project last season with a bang that shouted quality to high heaven. If large crowds are to be main tained after the novelty wears off, quality must be increased instead of decreased. Had the project been begun with Scandinavian and Soviet authorities, tellers of Gullah tales and monodramatic females. consistently large attendance might have been main tained. As it is, students are still waiting for another "name" before foregoing a ten o'clock study period. Unless they get one, low attendance will be as steadfast as Gibraltar. Prior to the advent of the chapel period, 10 Monday was one of the most popular class times. It was because this hour met the standards of convenience that led to its popu larity that it was selected as the chapel hour. The faculty committee found it difficult to forego this period from their class schedules, but their hearts were won by the argument I Thanks From The Red Cross To LETTERS TO November 28, 1951 November 15th, ts The Faculty and Student Body thirty of you cam< The University of South Carolina nation; from this ni Columbia, South Carolina dred and thirteen Dear Members of the Faculty tained. These tw and Student Body: thirteen pints w< In behalf of the Richiand County sponsible for Ri< Chapter of the American Red going over its quol Cross, I want to thank you for to each of you v your wonderful contribution to the obtained donors as Red Cross Blood Program. When of you who assiste our mobile unit visited you on ation, wve are mos1 56 GAMaco< CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROI Member of Associated Collegiate Presi Distributor of Collegiate Digest zunded January 130 1908, with obyr Endot onzle Universt of soth Carolina weky n Friday's, during The opinions ex?resed by colmists an letter writerstare endorsement. The right to edit is reserved. EDITOR .ODC MANAGING EDITORJAKESU BUSINESS MANAGER ELIT ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER... NEWS ..... CAMPUS. SPORTS .i SOCIETY ..... EXCHANGES .a COPY FEATURES ...ry... CIRCULATION MANAGER . STAFFEPORTRDE Furny Hminway Jix Wlso,CPIEi Mody, COLUMNI.T.... BSESSE TALwsnYt,N STAFF HOTO AFF REPORTERS FArTneHingayTS n Wilon Phimmylipmdy I Plan verhau that a good hour would bring the best at tendance. Attendance, then, was one of the principal goals of the committee. They had every in tention and desire to do this thing right, and in addition they were equipped with the money it takes to procure the services of big time lecturers. So they forewent their ten o'clock class periods in favor of the attend ance that would justify the hefty expendi tures they planned. Now that they no longer have the attend ance, they cannot logically justify either the expenditure nor the lost class period. Other uses of the ten o'clock period do not strengthen the case for its retention as a free period on Mondays and Wednesdays. ROTC drill, which used to be held at 1 p. m., now blocks the hour in question from use as a meeting period for the various student or ganizations. Unless the. ROTC members, some 900 strong, feel and can show why they need it for their drill, the ten o'clock hour must revert to the student body at large to be used again for classes. The current chapel attendance figures vir tually make it the committee's duty to resume 10 Monday classes next semester. When and if duty leads that group to take such a move, we hope it will not be with the idea that their project should be entirely dropped. On the contrary - it is our belief that the chapel project can be made even stronger now that experience has shown that other plans must be made in order to have a more successful project. Obviously nothing will become of the chapel programs unless they are "quality" unless they are designed to attract. That is the paramount consideration. If the pro ram attracts, and has its share of educa :ional value, it will justify the lopping off >f ten to fifteen minutes per class period on he morning for which it is scheduled. That t s the plan, with apologies to Religious Em )hasis Week. It seems to us that the necessity to save :lass time would lead to fewer, but better )rograms, and the fact tthat the program night be scheduled on any of five (or even ;ix) days a week would undoubtedly lead to t Lm aforementioned strengthening of the en :ire system.-M. P. t USC THE EDITOR vo hundred and We hope to make a return visit to make a do- to your campus in the Spring; so umber, two hun- we shall certainly appreciate your pints were ob- continued support. o hundred and are largely re- Sincerely yours, blIand County's HELEN WALLACE MIMS a this month; so :Recruitment Secretary 'ho donated and Richland County Blood Center well as to thoseHMIw d with the oper grateful. (The following is a copy of a letter written to Jake Penland, sports editor of the Columbia State. It was forwarded to the Gamecock by Its author, who believes It will be of interest to the students of the university.-Ed.) ~INA November 29, 1951 Dear Jake: ms r My brother, Judge Win. B. Mc the college Gowan of Greenville, played on not nces. the University of South Carolina natitute an 'varsity football team in 1911, 1912 and 1913. Part of the time he used I PERSKY the name Brand. He played on the 'HRLAND famous team of 1912 wvhich beat ihn Parasho Clemson that year. ..Bill Novit A fter receiving an A.B. Degree Ken Powell from the University of South Caro Iph Gregory lina in 1914 andl teaching two years mieC Habr in West Virginia, my brother at luth Barker tendedl the Law School of the relyn Rogers University of Virginia, where he lobby Smith receivedl the LL.B. Degree in 1922. Patsy Hutto His Law School course at the University of Virginia was inter Bill Leggitt, rupted by World War I, (during tier,oTmmy which he served as a Lieutenant in Thompson, the Field Artillery, 81st Division. vidson, Bob Before the War my brother played one year on the ineligible team at Yilliam Hay the University of Virginia and *ney Mitchell after the War, upon his return to k Turbeville the Law School, he played on the .Al Simson Virgrinia varsity football team for "Okay, can the 'taIl BILL NOVIT '51 Grid Points To With the exception of a dozen or so bowl games, the 1951 college football season has been wrapped up. The season was a good one from the standpoint of good and exciting football, but for the wel fare of the game itself, it cannot be said that the year did football any good. The woes of the game began be fore a single player donned his helmet and shoulder pads for the '61 season when the cheating scan dal at West Point, which involved practically the entire varsity team, was revealed. It was intensified when it was uncovered that the transcripts of football players at William and Mary college were tampered with. As a result of these scandals, about a dozen colleges have aban loned football altogether, and many ollege and conference officials tave called for investigations and 1 ave advocated de - emphasizing d ootball by cutting out susidiza- q ions, eliminating spring football 14 ractice, and banning post-season t owl games. Our own President c mith has gone on record as favor- 'I g the latter fwo modifications. d Yes, it really seems that many hings were revealed in 1951 which C ecessitate a change on the part of hose at fault if college football t 4 to survive. The question is: Vho is at fault? Surely we can't blame the play r's, for they are told that they1 ire to go out on the field and give heir all for dear old Alma Mater nd that they are to emerge vie orious. They realize that they are letting a free education because hey can play good football, and if they don't play good football, well ... The coach's job is similar to the players. HeI is getting paid to pro duce winning football teams and if the college goes along with him and gives him the "green light" to ob tain the material that he needs, he has a good chance of producing a winning team. You can place some of the re sponsibility on the public (and that includes me). We all like to see winners. We want winners andi some of us demand winners. We< like to see a hru'Ising fullback from Philadelphia, Kalamazoo, or any-< where else. We don't know, or care, I wvhether he is getting twenty-five 1 dollars a wveek and a new car to I one year--1920. He was Line Football Coach of the Universityt of Virginia in the fall of 1921. After that he was Assistant Coach under Sol Metzgar at the Univer sity of South Carolina and later an Assistant Coach under Billy Laval at Furman University. My brother attended the South Carolina-Virginia football game at Charlottesville this past November 24. I quote a clipping from a recent issue of the "Greenville News" re garding his attendance at that game which I think may be of Interest to you: ''JUDGE M'GOWAN ON ROTH 'SIDES' "One of the most 'colorful' visitors attending the University of Virginia-University of South Carolina football gam las week 4 F ho' stuff, where's the fox?" Season Changes play football, as long as he scores those touchdowns on Saturday afternoon. Most of the demanding which we have just referred to is done by the alumni. Now when the public -and particularly the alumni doesn't get a winner, it begins to complain. There is only one place where these gripes can go and do any good. That's where the real trouble lies. The college presidents and trus tees (some of them, anyway) for get that a college's primary pur pose is to provide an education when they hear the gripes of the nublic who are tired of seeing a osing footbalr team week in and veek out. They, therefore, feel hat they must do something about t. They usually do something ibout it, but it is not necessarily he right thing. They probably decide to throw little more money to the athletic S epartment each year for the ac uisition of more and better ath- s ?tes. They seem to pay no atten- t ion to what they realize their r Dntributions of money are doing. ' 'hey seem to forget their real uties as officials of the institu- c ion. Some of these gentlemen at r olleges throughout the country " ave appeased the alumni and fans I o such an extent that they've aade their school a big-time busi tess concern and their football c C earn goes into competition with the ro teams for players as well as rate receipts. These prexies don't have the ourage to say something like this: "Our job here is to provide an hducation for our students, not to 'un an athletic show to amuse and mutertain the public. We feel that ~ootball is a good thing when the ~layers are students who are gain-t ng something from college other ~han experience which wvill helpt hem when they play for the Washington Redskins or Philadel phia Eagles." It seems that the prexies of t southern and Southeastern confer mee schools (excluding Clemson, Wlaryland, and maybe one or two >thers) are determined to do some hing about this predicament which ollege football is in. Whether the . tep they are taking is in the right irection or not, we cannot say, ut we do say that if college foot pall is to survive as college football, here'll be some changes made. end in Charlottesville, Va., was Judge William 13. McGowan, who went up for the classic accom panied by his wife and their daughter, Mrs. Francis M. Rich-c ardson. On one lapel the Judge wore University of Virginia colors, while on the other were pinned the colors of the Univer sity of South Carolina. You see C Judge McGowan is a graduate of both universities. He first re-t celved his A.B. degree at the ' USC, then completed his law ~ education at UV. The Judge had t played on both teams and had also done coaching for both. On returning to Greenville he re marked to a friend, 'We Beat U.,' The McGowans spent the week end in Charlottesville with an other daughter, Mrs. Rupert I Fulton." r With best wishes, I am Sincerely yours, FR AN P. McGOAn u JACKIE SOUTHERL Beggars Befuddle Rich man, poor man, beggar man. . . thief ! t eformed, normal, with words, with gestures, they line the city streets, frequent the drive-ins, and are like a barb in the conscience. Some have printed cards, some sell pencils, some do nothing but ask. They sit or stand numbly, seem ingly oblivious to my footsteps and my hands darting nervously at my pocketbook. Unfortunate men, some call them; beggars, others say; out ind-out thieves, yet others insist. Are they honestly men and women who have no chance to earn i living other than by selling their honor? Or are they lazy men with no turn for industry and no self esteem, other than in their accom plishments to hoodwink the public? At Christmas time my conscience bothers me like a permanent cinder in the eye. Believing, either through faith or cockiness, that the thought of the Christ brings a cer tain sympathy or gullibility to the American public, the alms seekers turn out in hordes throdghout the cities. And for each one that sings a tune, peddles a pencil, or mutely sits holding a cup my eyes fill, my nind smiles, my conscience pulls. Dry practicality speaks in my head vith, "Okay, Southerland, put a VURRAY SEAMAN The SIto And Than Two weeks ago I went home for 'hanksgiving, just as did thou ands of other students all over the ountry. And just as these thou ands of other students, I gave no hought to giving thanks for the any things that I very lacka aiscally take for grani.ed. Of ourse I made the usual perfune ory remarks to the cook (who in ur family also happens to be my nother) of how good the turkey vas, but that was the extent of my ersonal thanksgiving. However, at 7:30 Friday night finally began to think. The cause f it all was when the living room gre, the television set, was turned n. Of the three channels, two of ered cowboy pictures some fifteen 'ears old, and from the third lashed the Stork Club program. l'his is a fifteen-minute bit of non ense that is televised three times veekly from Sherman Billingsley's xtremnely choosy night club. Here s where famous (or infamous Walter Winchell spends most of his onscious hours. However, Walter ias never been seen on this par icular show. This is to his credit. For the benefit of the uninitiated, he Stork Club is the place that ports the gold chain beyond which he greater segment of the common olk will never sip champagne or Lance to a rumba band. This is he same gold chain beyond which movie stars sock young ladies over tuffed pandas. Here is where the thanksgiving art enters. Here is a man WILLIAM HAY The Ri What Sho Have you read the Letter to The ditor in the current issue of the Carolina Review?" We wish to o on record as b)eing in hearty ac ordl with the sentiments of Dr. 'itzgerald. There are many reasons or our feelings about this matter. Ine of the best is to be explained y the Latin inscription found on very Carolina class ring. There are words to the effect hat we are supposedi to be ladies nd gentlemen; that our tenure or tay at the university is supposed n deepen and strengthen this ieal. Are we to consider this inatitu ion of higher learning as a place o become mature adults while be. ng educated, or is it merely a rade school? For those who be eve in the latter idea, there are ther trade schools where training nay be had in a much shorter and nore intensive manner. Concerning the policies of the Carolina Review," does the label AND ; Bother d JackIe dime in each cup held out frol one end of Main St. to the other then you'd better walk home, kid, 'cause you won't have carfare left. How do you know these guys aren't laughing at you?" So I don't drop in any money that is, unless it's in an out-of.t1w way or dark spot. I'd rather be a sucker than a worldly, sophisticated individual. But, if I am being taken in, let it be a secret. Let me bathe my conscience in the softening agent of money. Let me sleep with. out tossings and insomnia. Let me be a sucker, unknown, rather than a sleepy-eyed sophisti. cate. All right, you religious, ten me I'm trying to buy God. Tell me I'm taking the line of leas resistance. Okay, you,psychologiete and psychiatrists, tell me I'm a child trying to grope between the world of myths and fairy tales and the world of reality. I only know that, honestly, I do not know. Whether these appeal, on my wallet are from good men or bad men, I do not know. Whether they are honestly ill and deformed, I do not know. I am not alone. I have seen many others look away as they pass an extended cup. I have seen many set their eyes straight ahead. I have seen a few walk on, turn around, and walk back. Someone please tell me the truth. My conscience is tired and my pocketbook is flat. rk Club aksgivlng (Billingsley) who admittedly came by his first large sums of money during prohibition days as a boot legger in his native state of Okla. homa, who, now that he has mi grated to the big city, has the right to bar other human beings from eating and drinking in his place of business. It's quite a country we have here. The haughty aristocratic families of New York who twt of family trees descending back in to American time to John Smith (they'd have you believe) not only have made a peer of this law breaker (running whiskey was a crime then, even though it was looked on as sport), but now look up to him for acceptance. After all, if their conduct is not of the best, Sherman may bar thenm fromn the Stork. There are not too many othw countries (I can't think of and where such a man can rise to such a plane of importance, depending of course on your ratings of the importance of the Stork Club and other entertainment spots of the same ilk. It no doubt has hap pened, hut not when the man openly admits, and quite proudly, that he was a government wrongdoer. In all of our enemy countries there is great 'hue and cry of the evils of our capitalistic economkc system and our decadent dem* racy. As long as we stay on such a level and individuals have the opportunity to rise above their sur roundings and backgrounds, I say let thenm shout themselves hoarse. eview: uld It Be? apt description? A literary maga '.ine does not exhibit the best works of students in a literary vein 05 onie page, and peddle carrion onl the next. It may well be that the deceilt stories in the magazine are merely there to give legal front age to a rather cheap joke sheet. We are sure that these stories are read. Unfortunately, we are sue certain that there are hundreds 0f avid perusers of the "anecdoes rep)lete in each issue. Although our publication ae tivity is primarily in the field of radio, we wish to speak as a reader of the "Carolina Review." In thatt capacity, we suggest that the school continue to support this periodical, but that this be Wi' the understanding that it d001 clusively with humor, or be 0 pletely literary. Let us not hide trash behind S cover depicting theseqi* nial of the University of Carolina.