Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CROWING FO UNIVERSITY OF Member of Associa Distributor of Founded January 30, 1908, with Robert Elliott Gonzales as the first editor, "The Gamecock" is published by and for the students of the University The opinions expressed by columnists and letter writers are not necessarily those of "The Game JACKIE SOUTHERLAND, EDITOR MURRAY SEAMAN, MANAGING EDITOR ELLIOTT WARDLATW, BUSINESS MANAGER News Editor . Ruth Barker Campus Editor Tommie Herbert Sports Editor Ralph Gregory COLU: Rudy Thigpen, Mordeca CARTOONIS' BUSINE! Lawson Yates, Nancy Mitchel REPORTOR Jinx Wilson, Leo M. MacCourtney, Barbara Thompson, Mary Bloodworth, Chuck Davidson, Bob Cameron, Billy Watson, Bill Leggitt, Phillip Moody, Daydi "La deedda, la dee do, Fee, fi, diddle-dee (lee." "Whoa, Jackie, where are you off to in such gay spirits?" "To the students' activity building, where else? They're officially opening the place today, cutting the ribbon and all. Coming with me?" "Yeah, sure thing. I wouldn't miss this for the world. Thought for a while back there that they might just sort of reconvert the gym instead of putting up a new build ing. That would have been all right with me, just any old place to putter around be tween classes or spend a lazy afternoon." "Hurry up, they're opening up now. This is one story I'm glad to cover for the Game cock. Gee, whiz, doesn't it make you feel good just to look at it? Not very big, of course, but size isn't too important. "Look, ping pong tables, a cafeteria, a study room, an auditorium, a comfortable living room, sort of, with the morning paper and magazines. They even moved the can teen in here (now maybe the law students wop't yelp so much about having to walk "way" over across the campus for a snack). How do you like this place?-radios, record players, and all. I heard that they're gonna have informal Friday night dances, just with records, to keep us students entertained and maybe out of trouble. Right in the middle of the campus, too, so no car problems. "Let's try a little ping ponig. Where's the ball? Here it is, what's the matter, too heavy, soft and furry . .. "Yeow !" And here I wake up to find kitty Sylvester clawing my hand as I try to bat him across the foot of the bed. A dream, a dIream of the future, I hope. The idea of a student union building is not new, nor' is it impossible. Recently Ad miral Smith suggested to the South Caro lina legislature that funds be appropriated for a new building, a building to be used for the students, for their pleasure, for their Across 'I Old enough at last to vote in a presidential election-in Georgia, that is, where the legal age is eighteen. "IIey, Mother," I said while home between semesters, "can you vote in Georgia on a p)residlential election when you reach eighteen ?" "i think so," she answeredl. "Well, how (10 1 go about registering ?" I asked, not r'ernembering my half-hearted sltudIy of political science. "D)on't b)other," she saidl. Before I could dIraw in the br'eath I had exhaled in surprise, she addled, "Herman is going to do the voting for you this year." Even when explained, the situation is as confused as it was when I first encounteredl it. Simply, it's this. Georgia's legislature voted to give the governor of the state, Herman Talmadge, the power to cast Georgia's twelve electoral votes in the presidential campaign to the candidate' he so chooses. This bill, which was signed by the governor Monday, will last for four years ...just long enough to see that Georgia doesn't go for Truman, if he is the (demo-. cratic nominee. Not too long ago many newspapers ran the story that President Truman had snubbed Talmadge, when the latter passed the president in a review. CocI& R A GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA ted Collegiate Press Collegiate Digest of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, during the college year except holidays and examinations. cock." Publishing does not constitute an endorse. ment although the right to edit is reserved. Society Editor ........... Norma Bergmar Feature Editor Furney Hemingway Copy Editor ... ..... ... Patsy Hutto Exchange Editor . Don Hayes Circulation Manager .. . Bobby Smith Asst. Business Manager John Parashc 4NISTS i Persky, Josef Euringer - Al Simson 3S STAFF , Bobby Smith, Nedra Gilmore IAL STAFF Laurens Irby, Theodore K. Matthews, T. L. Buff ington. reunus pastimes, for a roof over their heads that would not cover beds and radios and junk and a half dozen or so boisterous roommates. The future will probably look back into this which will be history and call President Smith the Architectural Admiral, for in his reign plots of empty earth have shaded themselves with a science building, an engi neering building, an administration building, and a law building. The students' studies were put first and their personal, individual lives were remembered at the finish. This may be as ii, should be; at least it is an improvement, for those who have gone be fore have done little of either. I am what is called a day student, or a town student. I spend the daylight hours from nine a. m. till six p. im., or sometimes midnight, on this campus. I do not have a place to hang my coat or leave my books. I do not have a place to while away a bit of time between meetings or classes. I do not have a place to eat that is geared to student needs or finances. Dear legislature, we do not ask for a large building. We do not ask for a modern build ing. We ask for a comfortable building. We ask you to remember that all work and no play makes Jack and Jill pains in the neck. Dear legislature, please remember that we are human beings, not just trashcans into which knowledge must be poured, then capped with a diploma and sent out into the world. We need a place to get together, for we are gregarious creatures. We need a place to relax, for our brains are of limited capacity and endurance. We need a place to eat and a place to sit when a speaker comes to this campus. We thank you for what you have given us, but now that our mental needs are in the process of being fulfilled, our human needs too feel that they should be recognized. We will survive, of course, without a lodg. ing, but survival will be sweeter with one, Please remember us, dear legislature. -J. S. 'he River Then, too, the FEPC is one of Truman's p)et projects, and as for Talmadge's view orn the subject . . . Recently Gov. Talmadge beheld on his television screen a fearful, bloodcurdling, and stomach-upsetting sight -Negroes singing with whites, Negroes or the same basis with whites--equality ! Many of us read the governor's comment on be. holding such a spectacle. (Gamecocl columnist Murray Seaman had a few words to say on the matter and suggested that the horrified governor turn off his TV set). No, Gov. Talmadge has no love for om president of the United States. He has no lov( for dlemocracy, evidlently, either. Now he has taken it upon himself to do the voting for ut poor ignorant Georgians, who might, in the governor's opiriion, cast our votes for a mar unsuited for the job. A nd the Georgia legislature backed him. . Oh, well, I suppose it makes no difference A circle of men with power nominate th( presidlential candidates anyway. We have n< say in that. We have very little say in any. thing-and now we Georgians have no sa) in anything, not even a superficial, appeasing vote to bolster our self-importance. Just a little note from your neighbori across the Savannah. Thought you mighi be interested. -J. S. REGISTRATION RUDY THIGPEN Scholastic Revolution Needed Each semester hundreds of freshmen come to Carolina for their first taste of college life. For some it is very pleasant. The curriculum is only a corntinuation of high school. For others the going is extremely rough. Many students with high scholastic averages in high school find it difficult to pass in college, while others with mediocre high school averages continue to pass with their usual mediocrity in college. Why is there such a great difference in the preparedness of students of different high schools ? The answer lies in the type and site of high school attended. College is designed to be just a step above high school. For the graduates of our larger Class "A" schools this step is not difficult to make. But what about the graduates of our smaller Schools ? For them the transition is often a greater task. Many of the high schools in our state are inadequately staffed, and. are lacking in facilities to properly prepare a person for college. To the graduates of these schools there is a definite gap to span-an educational gap. This educa tional gap 4ot 'only provides an,.unnecessary handicap on the student but often discourages him with the result that many quit college. 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I used to get behind the wheel of my car, point it in the general direction of my ultimate goal and press on the accelerator. For instance if I was going south I pointed the Ford down hill and with one eye on road signs and the other (I only have two) on the gas gauge headed for sunshine and orange juice. Now all this is changed. Last week on my vacation I used 4 a road map for a trip to Florida, (now don't get emotional and start calling me capitalist; I didn't get to Miami Beach but free loaded at a friend's house in Orlando.) Following this map I had the most enjoyable drive ever experienced on the return drive. Cutting over to Daytona Beach I acted just like any other tourist and drove my tin can on the famous beach from Daytona to Ormond Beach where I had to take to the high. way again or risk being sucked into the ocean by the tide. From Ormond there is a thin blue line on the map that indicates the most scenic stretch of road up the east coast, route A-A. The highway has just been repaired and offers smooth driving with an unobstructed view of the ocean, homes on sandy dunes that might have come right out of an architecture magazine with the blazing Florida sun sifted through overhanging palm trees. This has naturally done nothing to shatter my belief (maybe naive) that in America one can find all the scenes many millionaires go all over the world to find. Not that I'm advocating a stay at home policy but one can see America first and then if there are any shekels left, go abroad. To me, winding a highway through what used to be wilderness, is engineering magic. Of course I'm the type who can't even hammer a nail straight. The cynics may scoff (and I have been accused of being one myself), but to me this is just one more proof of the greatness of America. umpus Opinion Presidential nominations will be argued and awarded in the not too distant future. This is no secret; the headlines at least once a week 4ylare forth the name of some new seeker of the country's highest honor and severest headache. At present those who had evidenced at least an interest in the nominations are Senator Russell of Georgia, Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, Taft of Ohio, Gov. Warren of California, Gov. Stassen, Gen. Eisenhower, not to mention the question mark, President Truman. A survey of Carolina students revealed a variety of opinions and political leanings. One thing stood out-Taft was definitely not the students' favorite. Several students even went so far as to give somewhat derogatory opinions of Mr. Republican. At present, though, national politics seem to be leaning toward the GOP leader. If Carolina students really mean what they say, the South may secede again if Taft is nominated and elected. Party affiliations evidently mean little to the students. The general opinion is that it is the man that should be voted in, not the party. The two may be a little hard to separate. Even members of the solid South halfway backed Republican men for the candidacy. Anyhow, here are some of the campus opinions for candi dates for the candidacy: Jeanette Monts, secretarial science: I would like to see what Kefauver would do. If Eisenhower was not a militatristic man, I would want him, but I'm scared of militarism. I do not care a thing about parties (political parties not to be confused with social parties). I am not too eager about the democrats staying around. Mary Blood worth, education: I want Truman, but he has not announced himself. I would rather see Eisenhower stay where he is than be president. Taft is so conservative he would have us isola ed in no time. Ralph Gregory, journalism: I wouldn't vote for Taft for dogcatcher. He's a bum. I would not vote for any of theml. Whoever would be good has not announced himself. Johnny Parasho, pharmacy: I believe I like Truman about just as well as anybody. Tommie Herbert, arts and science: I would prefer Eisen hower, but he is a Republican; so I would vote for Kefauver. Dickle Timmis, arts and science: I would vote for Kefauver because he would do something to clear up all corrupt poli ticians. Maybe we would not have to get a committee to investigate the committee. The final tabulation is three votes for Kefauver, tWO for Truman, and one for a vacant presidential chair. AlmOSt a1l of the students questionedI had a soft spot for Gen. Eisen hower, b)ut evidlently southern instincts exerted too much pressure on them, and they decided for democrats; also the old scare about a military man in power seemed to steer them from ong nfr the Gna..