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CROWING IC UNIIVERS1TY OF Member of Amseoc Dtribute of ? unded January 80, 1908, with Robert Elliott QoaZes as the first editor, "The Gareosk" is pubished 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 WARDLAW, BUSINESS MANAGER News Editor ................ Ruth Barker Campus Editor ....... ... Tommie Herbert Sports Editor ............. Ralph Gregory COLU] Rudy Thigpen, Mordeca CARTOONIS'I BUSINEI Petede Hiers, Bobby REPORTOA Jinx Wilson, Leo M. MacCourtney, Bar Davidson, Bob Cameron, Billy Watson, Arnie Do Of ANe The Gamecock may go underground. By underground we do not mean that it will become subversive (or more so). By underground we mean that it may die and be laid away in its six page best. Dwindle, dwindle, shrink, and shed. Three years ago the Gamecock was a ten page paper. The next semester it was an eight page paper. Now it is a six page midget. Money. The Allocations Committee will meet Thursday (yesterday by the time this paper comes out) and will decide the fate of this newspaper. Money. We would save and yet we cannot. And why can't we hoard our few pennies? Beeause of a contract. Our photography is done through a professional service. Silly, isn't it, when we have a photography set-up in the journalism school and a campus flooded with amateur shutter-snappers? We got the idea that a student photog rapher would be the answer to an overworked pocketbook's prayers. We investigated. The journalism school fell in with the idea and offered us the use of its photo lab and its student photographers. A student offered to be on call when we might want him to snap a few pictures. We were set. The services would be free. At most each picture would cost six cents, in contrast to $2.75 per picture paid out to professional photographers. We were stopped short. It seems that laid away in the Business Office is a contract a contract signed and agreed upon without our knowledge. The contract is with a pro * fessional photography studio in town. It reads that student organizations will be "en couraged" to use the facilities of the studio. The Business Office interprets this to mean that the Gamecock must use this photog rapher. We cannot use a student photog rapher was the decision of this business Letter To Dear Editor, During my two years at Carolina I have often been on the brink of writing to the Gamecock editors and after the Feb. 22 issue I finally resolved to register my complaints. It has been said that "Optimism is the privilege of youth," but apparently this has been misread by our journalistic neophytes as "radicalism is the exclusive privilege of youth" and, moreover, is one that must be energetically pursued; for in each issue the editorial page is solely devoted to complaints about university, state, or national adminis tration. Complaints which are in no account distinguished by~ the authoritativeness of their source. The few critliitis of the school which could well be constructive are so ve hemently worded that they no doubt pre de4ide officials on the Issues they concern by tur1ging them dogmatically againist them. -Taking an example from the current Issue of the Gam.eock, I take Issue with Jacie. in her ditorial concerning Gov. Byrnes she Attribte his -(the governor's) lifting of a ma#datory public school system as simply a means Whereby the governor attempts to *how his di*d. r for President Truman. Let dme remiaht you, Jlaekie, that the same pelbge@ $h56 Mtt S f. Byrne. governor p~0i9z1to the SOUTB CAROLINA ited Colleglate Press Coleglate Digest of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, during the college year except holidays and examihations. cock." Publishing does not constitute an endorse ment although the right to edit is reserved. Society Editor .......... Norma Bergman Feature Editor ....... Furney Hemingway Copy Editor . ............. Patsy Hutto Exchange Editor ........... Patsy Hutto Circulation Manager ......... Bobby Smith Asst. Business Manager ..... John Parasho KNISTS I Peraky, Josef Euringer - Al Simson 18 STAFF Smith, Nedra Gilmore IAL STAFF bara Thompson, Mary Bloodworth, Chuck Bill Leggitt, Valerie King, Alan Baker, Green. uth wspaper office. Our plans crumbled. We passed up the student. photographers. We passed up the journalism photo lab. We passed up saving money. We wuz robbed. Prices are rising, not-steadily, but in leaps and bounds. Printing jumped three per cent last February and another three per cent in June, with revenue remaining constant. Printing at present has cost $4,074.60 from September to Feb. 15. Engraving has taken $317 in the same length of time. Distribution of papers has accounted for $64. Various other expenses have eaten up $319.95. And photographs have used up $76.76 since September. We run an average of five or six pictures a week. Just think, if we had a free student photographer, five times nothing would equal nothiYg;' and we would spend $0 a year on photographs, not counting engraving costs. Also we are endeavoring to knock out a $430 deficit from last year. At present we receive $2,295.27 in alloca tions from the university. This is approxi mately $1.12 from each student. We need $400 more. We do not want to go down to a four page paper. We do not want to leave the post office boxes empty on Fridays. This is your paper ; we work on it ; but it bears your announcements, your ' notices, news for you, humor for you, editorials for you. Hey, you, how would anybody know that there is going to be an assembly, a meet ing of your precious club, that Janet Dingle hoffer has become president of your club If it weren't for the Gamecock? We have cut down on expenses. We have cut out the slight salaries for the editor and managing editor. We were urged to cut out our banquet. We wanted to use student photographers. We do not want a four page paper. Do you ? -J. S. The Editor Couldn't it possibly be that the governor took steps to give the majority of the people exactly what they indicated at the polls that they wanted? Can't you see that you editors get so en tangled in your own self-righteous crusades and quarrels with various personnel of various administrations that you lose all per spective of the larger unit, whatever It may be, and thereby draw issues into very boring personal denunciations ? If I may,. I should like to suggest what would, in my opinion, be a much better use for page two of the Gamecock. As the Game cock isn't a daily you necessarily couldn't carry current news, but you could carry current topics especially in their application to "the average college student." This analy sis should of course be based somewhat on some authority and be intersticed with quotes and interviews, if possible. To further illustrate let me suggest the lead-"The Rus sians are using Korea as an advanced train ing base." Interviews with various rturnees from Korea could be obtained and this and other topics could be discussed with them. 'This letter has been intended as construc tive And not vindicative, I hope that It copn veys that intention. Sincerely, Jtohn C. Feitham, Box 1806 'TAIN'T SO, SAYS NOVIT, JOSEF EURINGER The Adoption 10,fh Shakespeare The idea of writing this article 1has been -suggested to me by Dean Norwood after he had mentioned to his class a book written by the dean of the English faculty of the University of Munich, Dr. Clemen, on one of the basic aspects of Shakespeare's plays. I have had the privilege of being a student under this eminent scholar for three yeass. The achievement of this scholar is only one in a'long series of contributions made in the field of Shakespeare studies which have been going on for a long time in Germany. Germany does not only regard Shakespeare as the supreme figure of the English speaking world but she also endeavors to incorporate his noble wisdom into her culture. The Stratford-man's plays have become part of Germany's theatrical repertory to a point that people quite forget that this venerable man was an Englishman. Once, after per formance of Hamlet, an unsophisticated young boy said to me: "Of the German dramatists I prefer by far Shakespeare to Schiller and Goethe." He was greatly astonished when I told him that his favorite playwright was born on that island which Shakespeare himself had called "that precious stone set in a silver sea." A foreigner, attending a performance of Shakespeare's plays in Germany, will meet with considerable difficulty in understanding the text unless he has a fair knowledge of modern German, for the plays have been rendered into modern German. The merit of having prepared this out-, standing translation into our tongue is August Wilhelm Schlegel's. He has arduously pursued the task of giving a German equivalent of the Englishman's puns, plays on words, Images and conceits. To give an idea how well he succeeded in this task, here is an illustration. An English friend of mine and I went to see a performance*of "Twelfth 'Xight or What You Will." My friend being greatly amused by both the audience weeping with joy and the players doing their utmost to cause the audience to laugh said to me : "An English audience could not enjoy this play more in English than you do in German." 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BllyEckTmaing p the Bfine omsialuni. tin andCout Baic,a par taced imora byatst Wafe whathel is opinth god usi feld wll ot'o earlyo piao.srutr makethei apparace tereAo- ill Atie. isquomara tey cbncrt. anc if ouaebacka; stirkine he ame Hiftest vibrant t theTownshp and urned e ater he futua , amter ontest.l packedrous, into anoin, frn- ewsqikysindu yEr MORDECM PN -KY For The rige I Our consultations with old Noah W. over the rela definitions of the several words in this language are all infrequent. For that reason we take a certain judicio limited pride in presenting the following dissertation on merits of these two specimens: 1. prudence, and prudishness. It is only fair to let the reader know that we are stepping suddenly from our chosen field of campus co troversy into word-study. It is simply that those who h made publishable'jokes into a controversial question se,' to confuse prudence and prudishness with a near-rhythm' regularity that we must at least attempt to reduce. Let's clear this thing up at the beginning: prudence ' the ability to apply reason-prudishness is excessive ap: affected modesty or propriety. Those who charge the rece4 efforts of USC joke editors with unpublishability imply tht there would be prudence in eliminating the blue-fringe jol" from college literature. This, -in our unbiased (and widelp _ held) opinion is a manifestation of affected propriety, 4 in a word, prudishness. The funniest short anecdotes usua involve risque situations, and if their spice and candidn are mixed in the proper proportion they will appeal to ev the subtlest senses of humor. This does not mean that there are not certain jokes whi4 are offensive even to the non-subtle. Perhaps their huni' does not justify their lack of propriety, or perhaps thei. impropriety is designed so that the result is a joke "on"' some human deficiency or abnormalcy peculiar to a group. And it is even possible to distastefully overstep the boundt of unaffected propriety. Because it is so difficult to set up criteria for determinin whether or not a joke is publishable, some take the easy wap out and suggest the blue fringe be eliminated, which to prudishness. Our suggestion is prudence. Enemies of the fringe hint at one criterion of publis4 ability. The suggestion Is that If you can't read the jok~ to your mother, you shouldn't be able to read it to yours from the pages of a campus publication. That isn't our idea"> For private reasons, momma may deny she follows ou' cue, but we read the jokes silently and leave them lying-, around the kitchen. BILL NOVIT A Defense Aside from the food at StevWtrd's hall, the 'lack Student Union building, and the high prices in th6' Boo store, possibly the most often criticized service-or lack o?4 service-on the campus is the telephone exchange. It seems as though I have acquired a reputation of bei quite critical during the past three semesters of writi editorial column for the Gamecock. For this reason editor-in-chief has asked me to write this column. She, as well as most of my readers, will no doubt be surprised to find that I am not going to be my own mead self, but instead I intend to defend the operators. Perhaps It is that I woke up on the right side of the bed, but it I, more likely because I spent an hour in the operators' o#ws learning about their routine and their many problems. -Perhaps we do often have to wait three or four minutd before someone politely asks "numlaer please." This den not,.however, mean that anyone is loafing on the job. Op, possibility is that the person, using the number before y# did, did not hang up the phone,efficiently so that the i~ could be disconnected and a light flashed on the switchboard Mrs. Ruth Dugan, head operator, says that not hanging up the phone properly for a moment or two between esilt wastes a great deal of time. Mrs. Dugan has had more thn 23 years experience working at the USC switchboard, and certainly should know how to operate it efficiently. *Mrs. Dugan also stated that students could make the operators' work a lot easier and increase their efficiency by notifying the switchboard of all changes of address. Also she suggested that students ask for the tenement numib and not the fraternity name when making phone calls. Her job Is not an easy one. As well as being a telephoU operator and supervisor, she also serves as a complal& department. Only last week she received a call from ~ irate parent who complained that her poor son failed on *' English theme because he used green ink. It seems that a partial solution to the operator's dlliDl would be to have someone at the information deak all and until the switchboard signs off at 11 p. m. NowtiS information desk Is vacant from 1-3 p. m. and from 8.11 p. m. During those hours there Is no one to give informaitOe6 and every time an emergency call comes through, one $ the operators must leave the switchboard and go next dq9 to look up the information. The university eould certainly get students to man.I~ information desk during those vacant hours at very -IJ~ cost. It would certainly make the telephone service offisient. If this cannot lie done then the information # should be moved into the next office so that theoer would not have to jump up and run into the other This is especially time-consuming when there is only operator on duty from 9:80-11 p. m. A better, but more costly solution, would be toen someone at the information desk who has had operator perience so that he or she could serve as an operator d the rush period when the three operators receive as mx 800 calls an hour or when one of the operators suddenly sick. At any rate, it must be said that the opersbra SPEe efficient, cooperative, conscientious, human (.)thouA dents don't act so judging by their rude voices *tt interested in giving good' service to the facxulty tion and student body. -