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CROWING Fa UNIVERSITY OF Umber et Amoch Distributee of Founded January 80, 1908, with Robert Elliott Gonsales as the first editor, "The Gamece'k" 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 WARDLAW, BUSINESS MANAGER News Editor ................ Ruth, Barker Campus Editor ........... Tommie Herbert Sports Editor ............. Ralph Gregory COLUW Bill Novit, Mordecai I CARTOONIS'I BUSINE8 Pedie Hiers, Bobby Si REPORTORI Jinx Wilson, Leo M. MacCourtney, Bar] Davidson, Bob Cameron, Billy Watson, Arnie Gse Stumb es Well, finally we met - the Student Coun cil's Student-Faculty Relations Committee's (Gripe Committee). And it promises to be at least a violent committee. As for accomplishment, we completed the organization of the committee. The organi zation had to elect two faculty members for the board and it did - Dr. F. B. Herty of engineering and Prof. Harry H. Jenkin! of the school of journalism. Also, the committee elected to meet once a month. We started right off chewing on the ten o'clock hour-and right off our teeth reached an unchewable lump. It seems that the ROTC's have to use that period to drill. For merely they had marched during lunch hour, a habit not conducive to healthful digestion. So, the ROTC's had us stalemated. A suf ficiently large proportion of this university takes part in them to cause us to pause and to think before doing anything. Someone suggested that the units drill before classes in the morning; to the ROTC students pres ent at the meeting the suggestion was met with all the enthusiasm of a cold squashed egg. This huge sturuiing block kept us from proceeding farther in the matter (along with the fact that time was up). Therefore, we took no poll of opinion to see whether the committee was or was not interested in end ing the ten o'clock free (so-called) period. The fight isn't dead by a long shot. An Stassen's The people of Minnesota know a good bet when they see one - and I don't mean Eisenhower. Harold E. Stassen served his state three terms as governor, served his country with Admiral Halsey in the South Pacific, and is now serving as president of the University of Pennsylvania. All of these accomplishments are impres sive but not necessarily indicative of good presidential material. There are many ways of filling these positions; there are many men who have filled similar ones and yet could not be classified as men we want for the presidency. But StsNEfr in-s-yo4gg man, a point defi nitely in his favor. He can be changed, he can grow intellectually and in foresight and in understanding. Another point: we know where Stassen stands. This is no slur on Eisenhower, I like the man, and so do a lot of other people, evidently. But Eisenhower is a military man and as such must be loyal to the govern ment, no matter who is in power; therefore, he can not say what he thinks - and I for one would hate to wait until he had been elected to find out his policies. There is a chance that Eisenhower, who rolled in an unprecedented amount of write In votes In the Minnesota Primary, would be an excellent president. But we know for certain tHiat he has definite talents in the job that he is now doing. This may be a state of stagnancy - when no experimental step is taken, but experiments with 150 mil lion people are not to be taken lightly. -But Stassen we know -and ifwe do not know him, we can find out. His policies as governor of Minnesota can be examined, his speeches can be read, and his book, "Where I Stand," can be Mtudied. R A GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA ted Coneiate Prm 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 Bergman Feature Editor ....... Furney Hemingway Copy Editor ..................Patsy Hutto Exchange Editor ............ A. Nonymous Circulation Manager ......... Bobby Smith Asst. Business Manager ..... John Parasho INISTS ersky, Josef Euringer - Al Simson S STAFF nith, Nedra Gilmore AL STAFF wara Thompson, Mary Bloodworth, Chuck Bill Leggitt, Valerie King, Alan Baker, Green. - unittee To A Start idea occurred to me that perhaps drill could be scheduled as a regular class on the time sheets, but then I found out that the Navy sometimes drills almost not at all, while the Air Corps indulges twice a week. In the case of the Navy, if drill classes were sched uled as a regular class, almost an entire month of otherwise class periods would go to waste for the sake of one drill. However, if the drill were so occasional, an occasional lunch hour wouldn't wreck anyone's health. In the case of the Air Corps the idea might work. Anyway. it's a mess, and I am no statis tician, or whatever it takes to work out the problem. The Gripe Committee has more involved and more serious problems to consider, but I suppose we were sort o hedging to feel out the situation before we' plunged into some thing difficult and world-shaking. Student Council is backing the idea of having voting students on the Discipline Board. Surely this is a logical and intelligent idea, and one that should be handled through the Gripe Com mittee. And as always, there will be individual and group complaints from students about professors and vice-versa. That's why the committee is here - a place to go when you don't have the darndest idea of where else to go. -J. S. Our Man And I think that Harold E. Stassen is our man. As for his views on Russia and Commun ism, let me quote from his book written in 1947: "I believe that peace and co-operation be tween Russia and the United States are pos sible. For all our differences, our grave mu tual suspicions, war is not inevitable. Wars between powers are inevitable only when one *or both of the powers makes up its mind that war is inevitable. I don't think Russia believes at this time that war with us is inevitable. (This statement was made shortly after Stassen had a personal inter view with- Stalin in which Stalin had said, "The possibility of co-operation always exists, but there is not always present the wish to co-operate. I want to bear testi. mony to the fact that Russia wants to co operate.") Also, "No isolationism, no iron curtair could ever keep a country permanently alool from the example of our way of living, not can any dictator's restrictions prevent the spread of our culture." And, "The more we see of the results foi the workers of a planned economy, the more impelling are the conclusions of the value ol our individual economic freedom." As for labor and management, about whicl I know nothing, Stassen has had wide ex. perience with both sides during his terms as Minnesota's governor. He is not biasei either way. In his testimony before congress on the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill, he found its weakness and Its virtues. As we all see labor can become too strong as also manage. ment may become too strong. He solved the problem in Minnesota and could probably solve It elsewhere. A pessimistic note: I don't think he has a chance. .-.J. S. "Coming to the Ball - ch, Miller?" Dear Editor : The forthcoming Ugly Man Contest, sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega, - national service fraternity, has a more far-reaching signifi cance than becomes or will become apparent from the humorous pub licity it is receiving on bulletin boards throughout the campus. Your penny vote not only will help to elect your candidate to the rather dubious honor of the Ugliest man on the Carolina campus, but also it will help buy food for a refugee student in France, or at Decca, Pakistan, or it might even help pay for a bed for a refugee student who is a TB patient at Assam. You see, the money you donate in voting for your candidate will be turned over to the World Student Service Fund, and it will be used to give one less fortunate than you an ex perience you take for granted - an education. Need I reiterate the shape this world is in today? To do so is but to repeat all that one can read on any editorial page any day in the week. Nor is the theory new that holds that education is a way out of the darkness. the conflict, the crisis in which the ;:crid finds ltoeli. But education presupposes a student body financially able to bear the brunt of the inescapable price of that privilege and an educational plant furnished with adequate facilities. To these ends, the financial assistance of the refugee students of devastated areas and the im provement of the sites and facilities of the schools in those areas, has the WSSF been dedicated. :Whpt tast it accompflshed? There are- two types of refugee students' in 'the world: those who, once provided with the necessary financial assistance, are able and allowed to travel to the U. S. for their education; and then there are those tens of thousands who, because of diplomatic restraint, cannot come here to study. The WSSF has provided four hundred full scholarships for those students who are allowed to come to the United States. 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The..o BILL NOVIT Mind Your Manners! An idea, which has been in the back of many of our m inds for several years, will become a reality one week from to. morrow. On that day, April 5, the University of South Carolina will have its first annual High School Day. This is the culmination of the effort of a group of juniors, which began when they were freshmen. Three years ago Joe Pearce, Glenn Gainey, Jack. Jones, Buddy Derrick and I nuet with the Dean of Administration, John Chase, and suggested that we have an annual eveit which would bring high school seniors, in large numbers, to the university campus and which would have as its purpose interesting them in attend. ing Carolina upon their graduation from high school. Dean Chase agreed that it would be a wonderful thing to work toward, but that the university was, at that time, unable to undertake so large a project. Since that time, members of the junior class have not let this idea die of a natural death, as so many do on this cam pus. In September, KSK passed a resolution that a high school weekend for boys be organized and run in conjunc tion with the one sponsored by Coed Association for the girls. Then the ball began to roll, and it naturally picked up momentum as it progressed. KSK and Coed Association acquired the cooperation of Dean Childs, Dean Chase, Dean Jackson, and other members of the administration. Then High School Weekend was no longer a dream; it was in the planning stage. An executive committee, composed of representatives of the top organizations on the campus, met with the adminis trative leaders and formulated a program of four high school days on consecutive Saturdays in April. ODK and KSK pro. tested that they felt it would be much better to have one big weekend instead of the four smaller ones. The adminis tration said that we were unable to sponsor one big weekend this year, so a compromise was reached to have one big day on April 5. This was not even a compromise, but we felt it was a good beginning, and that next year we could have a big weekend for them as does Citadel, Newberry, and most of the other colleges in the state. We realize that we are a. tually in competition with these schools and that we wo have to present something as nice -- if not nicer - than theirs even if it was condensed into one day. So the execu tiVe committee, headed by industrious Helen Coggeshal!, got to work and hasn't stopped yet. More than a hundred students have been appointed to com mittees; but what can you do if you are one of the other 26 or 27 hundred students? What can you do to make this en deavor a success? You can act as college students, not as many of us act when we see high school students on the campus. By this I mean the following: When you see high school students on the campus be friendly to them, be helpful to them, and be courteous to them. If they look lost, help them find what they are looking for. If the girl is especially cute, still don't whistle at her; if she isn't cute, don't make fun of her. Treat these high school students as you would treat a guest at your own home. Do you remember how you felt the first time you stepped foot on the Carolina campus ? If you do, remember that these visitors will feel just as you did. Then surely you will be doing your alma mater a lot of good. You will show the high school students that Carolina is a wonderful place and that the student body is even more wonderful, and you will show the administration that the students can plan and execute a successful program. .Diced A Little, Huh! The Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit the Carolina campus Tues day, 1 April, 1952. Our quota is 300 pints. This will be the third time blood will be collected here. Last time only 218 pints were COl lected. Little Presbyterian College gave more than we. Citadel and Clemson each gave three times as much. Are you proud of this show ing? This visit is of vital importance to the men whose lives will be saved by this magical fluid. All blood collected will be shipped to Korea. Students and faculty members will now be able to show con-~ cretely their patriotism and their willingness to help their fellowman5f. On the practical side, pharmacy students may procure a practical demonstration in the first stages of biological product production. At great expense and difficulty the Red Cross sends mobile units to every corner of the land to collect and process this wonder fluid whose presence or absence is a literal matter of life and death. Blood is the only biological product that must be produced by man. Other b)iologicals are more easily and preferentially produced by other warm' blooded animals including the horse, cow, sheep; bacterlocides and bacteriostatics are produced by fungi, microorganisms, or synthetically. Researchers have, for years, attempted to produce substitutes for blood. As early as the 1750's Jean Baptiste Denis, physician to Louis XIV, killed a man by giving him a transfusion of blood from a lamb. Contemporary attempts at substituting blood which does not closely match the recipient's blood have had similar results. The plain fact 15 that there is no substitute for blood, it must be produced by humanS beings. There are men treading our campus today who owe their lilel to the fact that somebody gave the only substance that could benf5f them: whole blood plasma. The Air and Naval ROTC's have given without stint. Pharmacy students are especially cognisant of the worth of blood through the required first aid class, which was ad only since the heightened danger this area faces through Its poII to the Hl-bomb area. Prof. Plaxco, the professor who teaches it, tO the entire class out to the Blood Donor Center. This actiori als5 demonstrates a practical branch of the sciences of pharm'aCol0$ and pharmacognosy: the source of drugs. Aside from the value as % teaching device, students will gain that which cannot be had ' money. The feeling of having been of service and Importance to tb who are protecting us so far from our shores. An American life depends on your decision. Will a man die because youfa gieli fe?