Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CROWING I UNIVERSITY 01 Member of Asso Distributor o Founded January 30, 1908, with Robert Ellio Gonsales as the first editor, "The Gamecock" published by and for the students of the Universit The opinions expressed by columnists and lettei writers are not necessarily those of "The Gami JACKIE SOUTHERLAND, EDITOR MURRAY SEAMAN, MANAGING EDITOR ELLIOTT WARDLAW, BUSINESS MANAGER News Editor Ruth Barke Campus Editor ........ Tommie Herber Sports Editor . .. . .. Ralph Gregor; COL1 Bill Novit, Mordecai CARTOON! BUSIN] Pedie Hiers, Bobby REPORTO Jinx Wilson, Leo M. MacCourtney, Bi Davidson, Bob Cameron, Billy Watsor Arn Look 1 This is High School Weekend. Tomor row boys and girls from various high schools throughout the state will visit us, will look us over, and decide whether or not they want to be a part of us. This edi torial is dedicated to them, to help them decide, or at least give them a little of the scoop on the school. You're here. What do you see? A univer sity, a bunch of buildings, brick paths in the wrong places, confusion a little larger than back home. A campus that is old. A campus that is historic - a campus. Trees and shrubs feel ing spring. People, girls and boys - men and women. Maybe this university looks a good bit different from your high school. Maybe the guys sitting in front of the fraternity houses (if it's a pretty day) are pretty disconcert ing. Maybe it's unique to find a canteen on campus. Maybe the class schedules are com pletely new, but all that is on the outside and makes little difference. What is the university really like? Whal makes it tick? Who runs the machinery thai runs the campus? Who pulls the switche and who takes the bows, and how does oW come to be a big wheel? I don't know about your high school, bu I do know about mine, and perhaps it i: rather typical of~ most. First, there was Politic Spring is here. I know. For my grades have reached the nothing ness of nothing and Sunday I wore a pair o summer shoes. And people are speaking to me. So I knov that Spring is here. The grey gloom of winter's deadness lift; and we raise our chins from our collars an4 look up and speak and half smile and fee good and wonder - "Is he running for office?" The advertisements say, "Change you oil," and the politicians say, "Change you officers." And the signs smile down at yoi and the politicians smile up at you. It is not consciously done, I think. I thin1 the reasoning is, "He doesn't know me; so must speak and let him know me." So the elections are upon us and I mus repeat the old platitudes, "Vote for the bes man." "I don't care how you vote, but vote. Now I have done my duty and printed th words. I have fulfilled my obligation to what ever I have an obligatiori. But let's face it. Offices in this university and perhaps in many others, are given a honors and not as work. Each year we elec class officers and each year the duly electe< one feels pleased to think that the honor ha been bestowed upon him and then - nothing With one exception, perhaps - Studen Body president - a job that can run yoi from hezre to there and back and nowhere We have been fortunate this year. We have had an excellent president, Floyd Spence. He cocc 'OR A GREATER ' SOUTH CAROLINA elated Collegiate Press r Collegiate Digest tt of South' Carolina weekly, on Fridays, during th< Is college year except holidays and examinations. y 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 Hutt< r Exchange Editor ..... . A. Nonymous t Circulation Manager ......... Bobby Smith V Asst. Business Manager ..... John Parasho JMNISTS Persky, Josef Euringer 3T - Al Simso.n ,SS STAFF Smith, Nedra Gilmore RIAL STAFF rbara Thompson, Mary Bloodworth, Chuck , Bill Leggitt, Valerie King, Alan Baker, ie Green. [Is Over clique, not exceedingly powerful, but it was there. Secondly, if you wanted to work even on the annual, you had to be elected. There wasn't much of a chance to prove your own merits if you weren't regarded as socially acceptable. Well, here in the university there may be cliques. Maybe there are groups backing student body elections, but as for the work ing organizations on campus, such as the Gamecock; "Garnet and Black," annual; "Carolina Review," magazine; WUSC Radio Station, the staff members elect their lead ers. The leaders are selected on their experi ence, the amount of work they do, their ability and their interest. ' Who runs the university? Well, we have a Student Council. At present it has not too much power, in fact, not enough; but it is gaining after # good many years of stagna tion. We have a student Honor Board and Council that tnke9 care of cheating. We also have a faculty discipline board, one of our p t complainta, for the tude.ntshave nu voi on it. We have the state legislature that takes care of our athletics - and, oh, yes, we have a football team. All in all, we have a pretty good univer sity here. It has its faults, many of them. b It has some bad faculty members and it has a some bad students. But we like it. (Take i note, I have praised !) -- J. S. s Aguin has wvorked hard. He has worked hard with - nothing, for the Student Council has no f power but the power of highfalutin words that mean - nothing. Spence has started something; he has weakened the walls of "I dlon't care" andl "I dlon't give a damn if they a don't have any power ; don't give it to them !" I And Spence has proved that students are I men and women, that they are intelligent, that their foremost instinct is not destruc tion andl ridicule. Spence has started some r thing; the job was given to him more as an r honor than anything else, but he made it a work, and he has made just a beginning - who'll take it up? But we are lackadaisical southerners and Iour mind and our temper is to drift along and receive our honors and let them go at that. And now we form those resolutions t andl we say, "Elect me and I'll see that some t changes will be made. Doggone it! -- we'll really go places." And we mean it - now, e For Spring is here and with the season 's - change into a new coat, we put on our new coats, or change our skins; but Spring's coat ', b)ecomes old and useless and so do ours. s All right, we'll do something! This with t determination and perseverance in our voices dl All right, we'll do something? What? Gair s more power to do -- what ? Build a closeness 'in the student body? t And ambition washes dlown the sewer with i an April shower's (debris - except for some, .like Floyd Spence. And I have said --nothing. And I have accomplished - nothing. And yoan?-.S... "BREAKFAST" AT THE CANTEEN WantTo Be Rich? W tDear Miss Southerland : I am enclosing herewith a letter which may possibly be of interest to your readers. After you read it I ask you to remember that I have in the past received two such letters as this and also that the day before I received this letter Dr. FizGerald showed me one that he had received. This racket is known as the "old Spanish prisoner" racket. He represents himself as being in distress and hints that there is something very shady about his condition, as if he is trying to escape paying his just debts. That secrecy which he calls for would be a natural desire of a person of shady character. What happens if the gullible American traveler goes down there -and pays "the expenses incurred in connec tion with my process, so the embargo on my suitcases can be lifted" is that the Mexican gangsters associated with Sr. Carlos Lopez mulet him out of whatever money he has brought with him. This racket was exposed about ten or fifteen years ago when a gullible minister went down to Mexico and, in re sponse to the wiles- of the "old Spanish prisoner" got him self robbed. of whatever money he had. Up until that time apparently the people who had been thus mulcted had all been ashamed to expose the swindler, but this minister told the whole story and it was published widely. That was a matter of ten or fifteen years ago but evidently the exposure has not stopped the racket. Otherwise it would not pay to write letters on such fine stationery and pay airmail postage to send these letters all over the United States so liberally that two of them land here on the university campus within twenty-four hours of each other. He is really doing a big business. Cordially, F. W. Bradley i plexico City, March 24, 1952 Dear Mr. Bradley, A person w4 o knows you and who has spoken very highly about you, has made me trust you a very delicate matter of which depends the entire future of my dear daughter. as well as my very existence. 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S.. which . hav BILL NOVIT I-d Do It Agnin! Three years ago, I was faced with a serious problem one which would affect my destiny for at least the next four years of my life. It was not an unusual problem, for I'm certain that praa tically everyone at Carolina has faced a similar dilemma, at one time or another before he or she has reached this stage of life. This weekend, there are many visitors on this camp, who must make a decision similar to the one which we have made. These visitors are high school students who are here for the Vocational Guidance day. Their common problem, as evidenced by their being here, is, "What college should I go to?" Of course, we hope that they will make the same wise decision that we arrived at. We hope that we, who will not have graduated, can call them fellow students this time next year. Why should they choose Carolina? What does Carolina have to offer them? These are questions which cannot be answered in fifteen or twenty inches in the Gamecock, nor can they be answered in a one-day visit to the campus. These questions can be answered, however, but they must be done so on an individual basis, since no two of us have the same interests, desires, or goals. In order to arrive at an answer one must ask himself more questions. Ask questions to answer questions - that's a strange. way of putting it, but nevertheless one must care. fully examine his own mind and go through a period of self. interrogation. These are some of the questions which- I would ask myself, were I about to enter college all over again. Does Carolina offer what I want in the way of an educa tion? Brother, if Carolina doesn't, I don't know what school in the state does. As you can readily see by browsing through the catalogue, Carolina offers courses in everything from A to Z (anthropology to zoology). Wouldn't it be fun to go out-of-state to college? Ye it would be fun, perhaps, but what about the additional a pense? What about the potential life-long friends from com munities near your home, which you would miss the oppor tunity of meeting and associating with? Is the Carolina student body the type which I wish to be associated with? A very high compliment often paid to Carolina is the fact that its student body is religious, demo cratic, and friendly. Recent statistics show that 97% of CUr students have a religious preference. Take a look around you today. Hiding the beauty of the campus, you tee posters exemplifying democracy in action. Yes, we are in the midst of our annual election to select our leaders fqr the for coming year. On these posters we see names representing rich students and poor students, native South Carolinians and out-of-staters, students from all w!k$ of campus life and all religions. Friendliness is as much a tradition of Carolina as is he Caroliniana Library or the legend of Maxcy Monument. It really makes one feel good to hear a friendly "hey" from everyone you meet on the campus. It is something whieh visitors from other schools cannot get over. These are only a few of the questions which every high school student should ask himself this weekend. After car fully weighing the pro's and con's of Carolina and comparing it to other schools,' we hope that they, too, will "Hall, thee, Carolina and Sing Thy High Praise." Canmpus Opinion The question asked of a few students this week was: "If you had a magic wand, or some such fantastic gadget, and with it had the powver to do anything to this university, what would you do ?" The answers seemed overwhelmingly in .favor of a Stu dent Union Building, or something which such a buildingi could provide. To be entirely fair, students were nOt prompted or suggested any answer; but, nevertheless, stU dent opinion seems to be that this campus could certainly stand a building which looked after a little of the univer sity's recreational needs. Paul Phillips, journalism: "A new campus. We used to say, 'Thank God for Mississippi.' Well, what happened to Mississippi? We missed the boat when we had a chance0 move the campus. Don't kick any piles of plaster in the tenements; you don't know whose roommate will be under it?" Ares Artemus, pharmacy: "A Student Union Buildil& because the students need it. They need a get-together pied for all college students, and they need a cafeteria for boYS and girls to eat together." Anne Thomas, education: "To erect a Student Unie Building. Just so the student would have a place to f between classes." Murray Seaman, journalism: "I want new food over *t Steward's Hall. It's lousy now !" faculty relations. The group has $400 provided by the EU' ward H. Hazen Foundation and the university to suPPl0" a program of closer teacher-student ties. The Hazen foundation granted $200 last fall with t proviso that the university do the same. This grant 18 first aid in a long-range plan looking toward continlliS dent-faculty association. Their plan would be something similar to the Pln1 being put into operation.here at the university. UNC's mittee would discuss religion, mass education, tr honor system, etc. There's one big difference, though;-. has no mneny.