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Is Cut Justified? Board P Cuts US4 The State Budget and Control Board this week submitted its 1952-53 budget proposal to the house ways and means committee, which will draw up a bill from the board's recommendations. The committee's bill will, in turn, be submitted at the opening session of the South Carolina' legislature on Janu ary 8. This university has ample reason to be dis satisfied with the control board's recommen dations. Off of a $2,562,540.70 budget re quested by President Smith, the board has slashed some 53 thousand dollars. Evi dently the budget group is satisfied with a $1200 increase over last year's allotment, and chooses to ignore the rising cost of operation expenses. Of the amount suggested by the university, the following two items alone would have Goodm By, At the end of the Christmas holidays, into which the Gamecock staff will lapse as of this issue, the university will be minus one of its more competent and popular employees. Elaine Ross, senior secretary in the office of student activities, has become so much an integral part of the extra-curricular program of this university, that this farewell will be struggling against circumstance if it tries to avoid superlatives. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to take advantage of Miss Ross' serv ices have found her many times poring through student records and regulations with a phone balanced on her shoulder, fingers on By A Campus Gulliver: An A Into The N (The following piece was sub- soul. You suppose mitted under cover of the campus student, but I am mails by a resident of Preston than a single month dormitory who says his place of hairs from a jetty abode compels him to remain to weaken my linr anonymous. We can see why.-Ed.) string my nerves, s (Contemplated sequel - "The frighe neast ex Murders in the Preston Morgue.") know I can scarce We had now reached the level place without getti of the loftiest floor. For some "Yumsge minutes the young man with me ce, adtey seemed too exhausted to speak. Sosueyouhv I interposed in my own feeblethtImgtav voice,.hnscudnv "Not long ago," said I at length, Frammn "and I could have guided you on this route as well as the youngest i i ys of my father's sons; but, about soy three months past, there began "tsesol happening to me events such as ao"si ,"h never happened before to mortal i efc elh eve suvivd o lng o ellof tey, aid they andtheendesshous o dedlytsuly yelo haedi terrr wich hae enure eahaI me. h And avre Membe ofAsoiten, Coneing a Pe Univiy ofSouh Caoli ago~ ," sa Fidy, d"whn ear exrept onaholidaysaandodmainhaexahanationin ever survived eso relong o lumfiste advteritd ae andtheenles hours ofTh Geadcky tful eot e erorsemich Ihe ertoedi eac resered.Anfor MANAGIN RE WINO FORACKETER SOCIRSTYTFYSUT TAo EXCANE.ber.of.A...e..ted.Co..egiatePe PUniyveitygofSot Cainxa Weiyon Phridaoys,rn yerxeton Ldaa Patdrag eDavi,ato. Lernorbyent Theore K. att es,.3.E SmAith, EDIORL.. .ufn n Da JKipE Ba0Ur BUSIESl MAt NAGER ...........EaLLIOTTcD CAmSSon BINESy WAtson. NEWMS ... EXCHNES .F Laso Yaes Nat STAF PHTO AFF REORER CArTOnHeITSay.J.n.Wilson,.Pimylipmody Budget absorbed the following large increases: presi dent's salary, $10,000; and increase in gen eral contingent fund for president's home and private automobile, $38,000. It is hard to say where the budget and control board lopped off its $53,000, because its only recommendation is in the total form, and is not broken down into seven pages of small print statistics like the university's budget request. With three additional buildings and seven additional professors to maintain, it is some thing more than obvious that the $1200 in crease over the '51-'52 allocation is inade quate. If ever the lobbying of influential persons genuinely interested in the welfare of Carolina has been needed and justified, it will be during the state legislature's opening session.-M. P. MIss Ross her typewriter, and eyes on anything else that might have been in question. Miss Ross has been a kind of secretarial one-man band serenading those she served with an over flow of personality and willingness to work. After six years of faithful service to the multitudes Elaine Ross has decided to de vote her time to a .husband, one of which she'll have after December 25th. The Gamecock's congratulations to Mort Smith and his bride, and felicitations to the University of South Carolina, which will have a hard time filling a gap not only in its administrative personnel, but in the hearts of its students as well. cent laelstrom me a very old unfortunately someone left the ot. It took lest cages open somewhere, and since to change these that time I have been reduced to black to white, ibs, and to un- the pitiable wretch that stands be o that I tremble fore you now. rtion, and am "It is, of course, difficult for hadow. Do you you, young man, as a visitor from ly think of this the civilized world, to realize the ng giddy?" torment I have knowin. Were it not ove thse an-such a dangerous undertaking, I ovnr these"fan would most assuredly suggest that rungh m "Fr you remain wvith me tonight and the leaure f witness the cause of my distress. the pleasuho Nowv, mind you, I am not implying me hapnd she., that there is physical danger, nor hapen her."that the animals we have here are I hesitated, but homicidal; it is merely that they urious perplexity are unusually playful. The only agan telling my real danger to you lies in the ir~ reparable harm a stay here might a short while do to your mental equilibrium. n I enrolled here However, I am afraid that a ra And my friends tion al mind such as yours could ,I'm sure, when not long remain intact under the to let this beau- strain. Therefore, I shall en rice become my deavor in a fewv words to satisfy iany days I was your curiosity about my plight, e, too, but then and then we must go, for I fear any moment that one of the more agile of the anthropoids may ascend to the transom and over hear us. You see, they are par ticularly frisky at this time of (lay, especially the ones who have their lovely black uniforms on. I am IAtold by a prominent zoologist that LINA this is a most common trait among e all the simians, not only here, but also in the touring circuses and a side shows of the outer wvorld. I of.1lb recall one notable example of uni :~* ~ form complex which occurredI here no nees just a short while ago. These ani ammtute a" mnais, though paragons of imbecil ity generally, have a remarkable ikI PERSKY facility for grasping current P'HERLAND events, andi one of the more dra WARDLAW matic members of the black-uni ohn Parasho formed tribe found poetic sublimity .Bill Novit in the parting words of a deposed .Ken Powell 'big chief' of his khaki-clad broth alph Gregory ers in arms. The result, of course, imle Herbert wvas a daily, nightly, and past mid dy Cranford nightly subjection of the entire Ruth Barker floor to the soul-shattering rever velyn Rogers berations of his mournful voice. Bobby Smith For wveeks on end he reiterated the Patsy Hutto stirring farewell lines of the old soldier who never dies, but just Bill Leggitt, fades away. The creature that I (acCourtney, have just mentioned also, at tier, Tommy various times, has had delusions of Thompson, grandeur, but these are usually evidson, Bob very short-lived for rarely is he able to deceive himself or his fel VillimHa low anthropoids for more than a week at a time. There was the ney Mitchell Itime, for instance, when he sud k Turbeville denly became president of the coun Al Bimson I try, hut wvas forced to dnneo SL LIc "But the decorator se CR0' AND CRI By KEN It's bad enough to have to walk a distance such as that between Hamilton and Wardlaw colleges in ten minutes, but when one has to cross a busy thoroughfare and con tend with automobiles moving at speeds up to fifty miles an hour, it's near impossible. Such is the case of students who have education classes in Wardlaw followed by classes in Hamilton. The crossing, or lack of it, is the chief cause of such cuts or demerits as are awarded if the trady is in a military class. What are we advocating? A traf fic light for the benefit of Vedes trians who must cross Sumter street at the entrance to the horse shoe. We have witnessed many near misses of persons by speeding auto miles at that block which is ag gravated by cars traveling in and out of the horseshoe, the dirt street facing the horseshoe, and Sumter street. Someone won't be so lucky f the situation is not remedied. If a traffic light were not avail ible for the purpose, then a police nan, either campus or city, would iid the cause of education students ind others who must use the cross ng. The type of light we had in nind Is one which is operated by he pedestrian. It would only be n use between periods and around ioon when Sumter street is flooded .'ith traffic. When a person wanted to cross the street, he vould simply ""ress a button on !ither side of the street and a red ight would stop traffic long ?Inough for several persons to cross without. risking the possibility of )eing run dowvn by cars. T here is no reason why such a light couldln't be procured. They are in use for grade school cross ings in many towvns, but knowving Columbia, wve advocate a campus policeman as an alternative. himself as a fraud after only eight| days in office. But even in this masquerade he showved doubly his remarkable facility for current happenings, for he timed his in augu rat ion so perfectly that his en tire tenure of office wa spent on vacation in F'lorida. This creature is usually an insipid bore, though, so I wvon't delve further on him. IHe is ingeniously capricious, it's true, but I fear that he lacks the inhere'nt menitalit y, and especially the eou rtesy, of his caged brethren of the outer wvorld. Hlonestly, the entire species that is here appears, by its actions, to have beenI reared among the Yahoos or some other arboreal cou nterp)art. "Tlhe tribal functions of these creat ures have, ini reality, been the means of my uindoinug. At all hours of the. n ight and day they mass in the hall wayv and conduct t heirx diabolic ri tuals, and shout end lessly, it seems, in a pagan jargon utterly incomprehensible to me. Of course, ait t imes, as I have saidl be fore, certain individuals of the tribe can be rather amusing andl even en joyale, as freaks of nature so commonly are; but the whole tribe together is undoubtedly an i ncor rigible me(nace( to one's peace of mind. I have often suspected that they' pool the powvers of their feeble minds when t hey are to gether, and are thus able to achieve innumerab,le pranks that couldl not so much as be conceived b)y thle al most negative faculties of the in dividual. While on their group) sprees I have known them to in geniously detonate firecrackers in the hallway throughout the wee hours of the morning; and for the past two months a special group of them (one of whom is the old soldier wvho never dies) have de voted at least six hours. of ea iid it would be just right." WING TICISING POWELL Columbia-A One-horse Town? While we are on- the subject of knowing Columbia, dirt street, and horses, this neophyte journalist would like to pitch in a second to the statement of an irate Jake Penland when he branded the city a one-horse country town. Pen land's column carrying the brand appeared after a meeting of city council at which the council was about to discontinue the Columbia Reds baseball team. We call it a one-horse town on different grounds. A city which allows a street to remain unpaved which is only two blocks from the capitol building and which faces the main campus of the state uni versity is either a one-horse town or doesn't appreciate the presence of the university. Maybe the uni versity should be moved away from the overgrown country town. The loss of money which students spend from their meager allow ances, underpaid professors from their salaries; and money which is spent by other university officials probably wouldn't be noticed in this boom time of city prosperity though, which brings us to another point in this rambling column. Why aren't there places provided for the soldiers who wander aim lessly over town. About the only places that Columbians have pro vided to get the servicemen off the streets are t h e many cheap gambling dives which line Main street. We understand that there are a few places where they can relax or enjoy recreation, but the bottom hasn't heen scraped in pro v'iding facilities as evidenced by the Main street confusion. Maybe we shouldn't get off on city administration, but we would like to have Columhia resemble a college town, if it doesn't wvant to be a metropolitan city. niight to playing with the master light swvitches, which have become the prime toys in their section of the menagerie. They have some few other diversions of a minor nature such as burning crosses on the dloors of tmdesirahles and throwing water through open transoms (or closed ones, too, for that matter), but these acts are too inartistic to do a group of these creatures jus lice, so I will forego telling of them. "I am afraid, sir, that your re maining here any longer would jeopardlize your chanices to escape; so we really must go. I see that the time is rapidly approaching for me to attempt vainly another ef fort at study. And that seems to be the usual time for the creatures to start crawvling out of their dens for another night of merriment. Also I have noticedl that the in fernal machines, which the high wvay dlepartment has so graciously p)lacedl outside, have been un cranked for the night, and there is nothing else in the world that wvill awakeni the animals here so effec tively as silence. Perhaps if we hurry there may still be time for vou to he spamredl the ordeal." I took the young man's hand and suddenly I knew him nom more than I would have known a traveller from the spirit-land. He had changed the same as I. His hair, which had been raven black a few minutes before, was as white as mine is now. I saw, too, that the wvhole expression of his counte nance had changed since I had told him my story. But, even with its effect on him, I wonder if he really believed it. I now tell it to you and I caln scarcely expect you to put more faith in it than would even the merry fishermen of ,ofoden. BILL NOVIT Allocal Who Sa College students are said to be a skeptical group,. particularly when it comes to%pending their own money, and yet how many of us have ever wondered - let alone asked - where out Student Activ ity fee goes. Whether we realize it or not, each of us pays a fee of $15.00 upon registering every semester for "student activities." What are these activities and who determines how much money each shall receive? We'll get to where the money goes presently, but first let us con sider who says that it shall go there, as that is far more im portant. Until last week Student Council thought that its finance advisory committee - or allocations com mittee, as it is commonly referred to - had this power. But once again Council was reminded that its committees are purely "ad visory," as this one's name states. Yes, once again student govern ment realized that it had no pow ers and that all that bunk in the catalog, orientation book, and else where about Carolina being a stu dent-governed democracy is propa ganda. Article VI, section 5, of the Stu dent Body constitution s a y s: "There shall be a Finance Advisory Committee whose duty shall be to allocate, subject to review, such portion of the student activities fee as is set aside for apportionment. This committee shall be composed of seven students, three faculty members, and .the director of stu dent activities." At a glance, it would appear that the students run the show. It looks like the students have a 7 to 4 majority and can therefore deter mine where the money shall go, but such is not The case. Why isn't it? Well, first of all the General Assembly, upon the recommendation of the Board of Trustees, decides that the fee- shall be $15.00. The trustees also deter mine that $8.50 of the $15.00, or 57 per cent shall go to the Athletic association. So you see that the Trustees not only determine how much the fee shall be, but also where more than half of it shall go. One would sup pose that the committee would at least have the right to-dish out the other 43 per cent, but the follow ing words are found in the consti tution for this committee as well as for others: The committee shall ad vise and act suibject to review. The constitution neither saya whom the committee shall advise or by whom it is subject to review. it seems that in this case the committee advised President Smith and that he reviewed the allocation for the Gamecock and made a minor change in it. The change amounted to only about $40.00 - Sandy Cranford and Seemng Some p)eople consider football a seasonal sport, beginning with the first game of September, and end ing with the last game (in our case) in November. Whoever started this fairy tale must never have gone Christmas shopping. Have you, dear readers, been down on the Main street lately ? The same plays used on the gridiron probably served you in good stead. For instance -the teams are in fo'rmat ion on each side of the street with the traffic light serving as the official time signal. (The poor orficials being more universally known as policemen.) The light turns green and the play starts. (P'lease note that both teams plunge through for a first down while some fool tries to make a run around left end. He usually gets left in the middle of the street.) Then comes a string of halfbacks who think you'd belong in a mara thon race. The only one who gets tackled is the unlucky policeman. Points are made when a player manages to get to a store and make a purchase, If a player purchases something that some other cus tomer' wore in he has made the con version. If he buys his own pair of gloves the other team gets the -Ios - -- rs What? an insignificant amount, perhaps but it showed that enough confi. dence was not had in a committee composed of the Dean of Men, the Dean of Women, the Director of Student Activities, one other fse. ulty member and 7 students, and that this committee could decide nothing but could only advise. This is where our money goes: Boys Girl, Band ... ......... .12 .15 "Carolina Review" . .30 - - .20 Clariosophic ....... .03 Eupbrosynean -.-.-- ---... .02 Contingent Fd. .... .15 .. .20 Debate . ...... . . .20 . .20 Euphradian .. .03 H ypatian . ............... .02 Gamecock .... .-. 1.17 . 1.21 Garnet & Black . .. 2.70 .. 2.70 Univ. Theater ... .15 .20 YMCA .. . . 1.00 Y W CA ... ... ............ .95 W USC ...... ..... .15 .15 YMCA-YWCA Camp .50 .50 $6.60 $6.60 Ath. Fund . .. 8.60 . 8.50 $15.00 $15.00 At first, it might seem a little odd that the girl might pay more toward the support of one organi zation than the boy pays, or vice versa, but there is nothing strange about it. It is all a matter of book keeping, as every student -- male and female - pays the same fee. The reason for the difference is that there are about three times as many male students as female students and that it simplifies the division to do it thusly. The committee met several times and carefully went over the budget, minimum expenditures, etc., of every organization which asked for financial aid, and after hours of arduous mental work decided on the above figures with a slight dis crepancy in the Gamecock's appro priation; they decided to give the Gamecock $1.26 from the girls. The student-faculty group co operated very nicely and had a tre. mendous job of dividing only $6.50 into the treasuries of eleven or. ganizations plus the contingent fund, which is set up for .mWa. gencies. The job was indeed a diffi cult one because enrollment has dropped (less people pay the fee) and most of the organizations, par ticularly the publications, had rises in their costs, but since the fee which could be divided was set, very little could be done to help them. This leads us to the conclusion that either the fee should be raised or the athletic association's share should be cut. Let us sumniarize by saying: 1) Student Council should have more power, 2) Students should take a greater interest in things which concern them, 3) either the fee will have to be raised or the Athletic Fund will have to be cut. MIary Evelyn Rogers Pass plays are necessary if pur chases are to be safely carried from the store. Players workingf in pairs pass and receive their packages and thus gradually make their way down the field. Once out of the store our play-' era are now on the 40-yard line trying for another touchdown (the gifts aren't home yet). Still work ing in pairs, the players charge down the field, one running inter ference, the other carrying the ball. These poor unfortunate players now have to ride In some public conveyance used by the rooters of the losing team. As the bus ap proaches with bulging sides, these valiant players drive into the bus by means of the split "TF." This is no place for a fumble. rThey are now in the huddle.. The scene ohanges. The teami is now home. In one corner stands the triumphantly lighted Christmnas tree. A whimsical piece of mistle toe dangles from the chandelier. A Christmas wreath hangs in the window. The mantlepiece is be decked with Christmas cards. And on the table, proudly displayed, are many neatly wrapped Christmas presents, a boA of candy, and a bottle of A P tablets. Under the table, at pe e with the world (or out of this orld, as the case may' be) lie o valiant, all-Amdean Mr. and, Irs. Touchdown- U. s- A. By t way, how is your rushing yarda