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CROWING I UNIVERSITY 01 Member of Awo Dlutrlbitsr a Founded January 80, 1908, with Robert Ellio Gonzales as the first editor, "The Gamecock" published by and for the students of the Universii The opinions expressed by columnists and lette writers are not necessarily those of "The Gami JACKIE SOUTHERLAND, EDITOR MURRAY SEAMAN, MANAGING EDITOR ELLIOTT WARDLAW, BUSINESS MANAGEI News Editor ................ Ruth Barkk Campus Editor ........... Tommie Herbei Sports Editor ............. Ralph Gregor COL Bill Novit, Mordeca CARTOONI BUSIN Pedie Hiers, Bobby REPORT( Jinx Wilson, Leo M. MacCourtney, B Davidson, Bob Cameron, Billy Watso Ar Like I Woman Seventy-five per cent of the university 204 faculty members would like to live i faculty houses located near or on the caniput There are only six faculty houses. Half of these persons would be satisfie to live in inexpensive apartments, but thes also are non-existent. Two faculty homes are unlived-in at pres ent. Both are on Bull Street, next to th university infirmary. One is now used t< store medical supplies and equipment bough as war surplus. The other home is to be converted into i dormitory for women graduate students Space is being made for fourteen or fifteel girls, plus a housemother. The house ma: be ready by next semester. The other four faculty houses are noN occupied by Dr. Waddell, Dean Bradley Dean Derrick, Dean Crow, Dean Motley, ani Dr. Babcock. Deans Bradley and Motley re cently gave up their houses on Bull Stree and moved to Sumter Street. Two members of the university personnt are now living at Carovets. Both men, Harr W. Freeman, biology department, and Gu Hlempley, athletic department employee, ar veterans. A Board of Trustees law rules that whe faculty houses are vacated they shall be use for other university purposes. Leiber co lege, McKissick-Wauchope house, McCu chen, the faculty club, and three of the E: tension Division's buildings were former) faculty houses. As they were emptied I their occupants, the board's rule was o1 served and the houses were made into clas rooms and offices. Admiral Smith has tried to obtain monm from the state legislature for building fa ulty houses. The stumbling block lies in ti Their Wuys And so the legislature appropriates $10( 000 to beautify McKissick-Wauchope hous Money and I are not exactly familiar wil each other, but I seem to have a faint ide that $100,000 is a heck of a lot of mone and could buy a new house or two withol any trouble. Surely McKissick-Wauchope needed sori work done on it. No house could be inhabitV by a bunch of girls for as long as it w without needing strenuous repairs. Girls a messy creatures and can often foul up place worse than the boys with their d liberate destructiveness. Biut even a gang of girls couldn't $100,000 worth of damage! The guys Preston couldn't do that much damage wi1 their most vivid imaginations! Of course we want our president to ha a house on campus. Of course we want hi to have a nice looking house, but, oh, o aching appropriations I So what are they using the money for The house is being made into one lar building, instead of the two good sized on it was when the ADPi's and the P1 Beta Ph lived there. Two elevators are being added. The bull coc -OR A GREATER F SOUTH CAROLINA slated CoUeigate Pros r CoUegiate Digest Lt of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, during the La college year except holidays and examinations. r- cock." Publishing does not constitute an endorse s- ment although the right to edit is reserved. Society Editor ...... . Norma Bergman Feature Editor ....... Furney Hemingway . Copy Editor ................ Patsy Hutto :r Exchange Editor ............ A. Nonymous t Circulation Manager ......... Bobby Smith y Asst. Business Manager ..... John Parasho UMNISTS i Persky, Josef Euringer ST - Al Simson ESS STAFF Smith, Nedra Gilmore )RIAL STAFF arbara Thompson, Mary Bloodworth, Chuck n, Bill Leggitt, Valerie King, Alan Baker, ile Green. !he Old in a Shoe s low rent which would be charged the faculty n residents. - Until recently tne federal government would lend money at 31/2 per cent interest for houses for personnel if defense purposes e were involved. Thus, the university was not eligible then. Now the government will lend money to colleges and universities on the self-liquidating plan. Rent charged for the faculty houses, however, would barely cover t the interest and not touch the capital, says Admiral Smith. The legislature asked the state colleges and universities to get together and decide , how they would divide $10,000,000. The schools met and decided that the university would receive $3,000,000 for dormitories and faculty residences. This money would be ob tained through self-liquidating bonds. The Board of Trustees authorized further study, and in May Admiral Smith will report his t findings. The same trouble remains, though, that the faculty houses would not be able to pay off the interest and the capital - and, if higher rents were charged, there would Sbe little advantage in having residences on scampus for the faculty. e A persistent rumor that we would obtain the U iversity Terrace Apartments and use n them for faculty houses was squelched by d the Admiral. The rumor was that when the 1- apartments had repaid the government loan b-and interest, they would revert to the uni C- versity. Admiral Smith investigated the mat y ter when he took over the presidency in 1945. y He found that there was no written basis a- for the idea and that the university had s- absolutely no claim to the apartments. So, the faculty is without residences on ~y campus and without any real prospect of c- getting any. eAnd so what happens? Are Strunge ,- ing is a three-storied structure. I've made it e. to the top floor many a time. hWalls are being knocked out, rooms are a~being rearranged. Little of the building will y, remain the same, except for a few original at bricks here and there - maybe. I asked the obvious question. Why not eknock the thing down and begin all over ad again? 'Twould cost more to build a new one than to improve on what is now there. $100,000 a - good great glory I How much does a house ,_cost ? But, anyway, I have been assured that this way is the cheapest way. Admittedly, we want something nice for nour president. Admiral Smith has seen to It hthat the president gets a home and an office at last. Ironic, isn't it? His successor will step right into them both? eYes, we want something nice for oui .president. I have looked at the plans drawri uir up for the house; and the completed build ing is entirely different from what It once was. The house will look very good, everi re the outside of it is to be changed. All of 1t es will be ready, supposedly, by September. L's The house will be good-looking. It will be something to be proud of. But, ye gods d- $100.000. -T. S. !r / The pennant race-maybe! ERWIN RIENAUER Where's Our Culture? A small audience assembled in Rutledge Chapel to listen to the senior voice recital of Jackie Stukes. Judging from that it was really not much of a big event. But I had listened be fore to three other recitals given by the Carolina music de partment, and full of expectations I joined the group. I was right: that recital was the most gratifying experience I have had since I have been staying on this campus. Surely enough men more competent than I have congratulated the vocalist and Professor Williamson after that performance, But I feel that it is high time to give public acknowledgment to the work that teachers and students are doing in Leiber college. The richness, warmth, flexibility and stability of Miss Stukes' voice is a great gift of Nature; but it takes the patient and skillful care of an expert teacher to develop those qualities to that perfection which she proved. More over, Joe (Joe Euringer) tells me that her French pronuncia tion was excellent, and both of us could scarcely find any flaws in her German. And she did not waste her time while attending thery classes, either, it seems to me! In fact I have been sniffing a little around the music department myself; and while I wish the students there would not study just all day long, I should like to meet more singers and instrumentalists at evening performances. Jiow about a chamber-concert once in a month? Majors and minors, auditors and members of band and chorus could form a nucleus and help together to advance individual interest in musical activities. Good music, I know, thrives best in an atmosphere of in timacy ; but are you really sure that you appreciate your music department? I am quite convinced that it is capable of growing to a cultural center of wide influence in South Carolina - if you will not forget to give it due attention and support. TOMMIE HERBERT Share-The- Rde Omicron Delta Kappa, national honorary leadership fra ternity, is planning to inaugurate a share-the-ride plan. For the success of this endeavor, it is necessary that both the stu dents with cars and the students without cars express an in terest. This could be a means of financial saving on both sides. The plan would include a flat rate per mile. The num ber of passengers in the car would be left to the discretion of the driver. The arrangements would be made through a means readily accessible to the students. The method has proved successful when used for car caravans to out-of-town athletic events. This would be on a much larger scale, but would work on the same basis. Those interested are requested to send in suggestions or to express an opinion on the feasibility of the plan. This could prove a means of meeting other students from the same home town. In turn the friendships gained through this could be a means of strengthening the alumni chapters when these students graduate. The county organizations on the cam pus in the past have served this purpose, but for the most part they are no longer in existence. One of the foremost obstacles to be overcome is this matter of causing people to want to group together to back a better Carolina. The share-the-ride plan would be the means of more fre quent trips home. Students could sign up for a car leaving at a specific time eliminating the problem of having to wait for someone to finish classes. There will be the necessity of working out a -meeting place so that no one would be left through a misunderstanding of this nature. The success of the plan is entirely up to the student body. Without encouragement the idea will be dropped. A great deal of time and energy will be consumed in working this out. No one wants to work hard on something only to see the whole matter dronpped an . If ieh id - m a itkon JOE EURINGER Week -Enoman, And Heaven "Frailty, thy name is woman !" exclaims Hamlet. "am. let, thou errest I" exclaims I. It's. the men who are frail Proof: I had set my plans how to spend this week end Every minute was disposed of. But Jackie Southerland was the female seducer who lured me away from my set inte.& tions by strictly ordering me: "Joe, you write me a column, and I'll get it tomorrow evening," thus marring all my pla , I should have told her: "Write that column yourself1' I should have looked ferocious, shouting: "Who are you that you dare to ruin my week end." I should have.... But I did. not because we men are "frail." Now I'm sitting at my desk ruminating my bad hui I'm totally devoid of any inspiration. And all that because of a woman!! This is not the first time that a woman keeps from reach. ing my goal. Once my goal was to take a trip to a place near Columbia. (This was the beginning of my stay in America.) I went to the bus station. Being a foreigner I asked a lady for infor mation about the time of departure of my bus. The first thing that she did was not to tell me about my bus but asked me, "You're a foreigner ?" I: "es,' I'm German." She: "Oh lovely !" I: "Why lovely ?" She: "Because my dressmaker's cousin once had a German dog I liked so much." I: "Did you find any similarity between my features and the dog's, because you taxed the Germans as lovely ?" She, avoiding my question: "She was the cutest dog I" I, confused: "The dress maker?" She, with an angry look: "No, the dog. She was female !" I, wanting to show all my knowledge -of English: "She must have been a bitch." She, shocked: "Don't say that word when talking about a dog !" I, inquisitively: "May I use it when talking about a dressmaker?" She, thunder. struck: "Sir, you better brush up your English !" I: "I shall; but do tell me about the bus." She: "Where are you going?" I named the place. She: "Oh, lovely I" Then followed a de tailed description of the place, including the ancestry of the town's population. Meanwhile I had seen a bus out in the street passing slowly by. It took me but a minute to find out it had bean my bus. But, for justice's sake, let me tell you an instant whleh almost proves the contrary of what I've said above. Listen, how a woman almost made me attain my supreme goal, that is, leave this world of sorrow and go to heaven. I was sipping six cents worth of coca-cola when a devout looking lady started a conversation with me. She was talking to me in the manner a clergyman used so after I had told him the imposing numbers of my mortal sins. She looked at me with piercing eyes as if they wanted to penetrate into the utmost recesses of my supposedly black heart. To keep her from doing that I shut my mouth real quick. Seeing that there was no obstacle for her talking without being inter. rupted by me, she informed me about how much our Iad loved us in general, and me in particular. She quoted whole passages taken out from the Bible, thinking this would ha ten my willingness to depart for the seat of bliss. I Ws ready to bid this life adieu, especially since I knew I Ail owed the man at the soda fountain the six cents for my beverage. But being cautious by nature I first Inquired ab@ut her future plans. To which she answered that she had eel' siderable hope to go to heaven, for it was only then that I made up my mind not to quit this life, for being in hauta and having her around me would have been too much happ* ness for a meek mortal like me. A friend of mine, having entered the drug store a minute ago, helped me to dispell the last remains of my celestial aspirations by promising to pay' for my coca-cola. These are but two instances of my unfortunate relation with the fair sex. I've come to the'sad conclusion: Retreat from this world fly to a monastery; a nunnery like Winthrop would even be better. Campus Humor "Do you remember what Juliet said to Romeo on the balcony ?" "Why in the hell didn't you get orchestse seats?" * * * "How can I avoid falling hair?" ''Jump out of the way.'' * * * "Do you know, I started in life as a barefoot boy?" "Well, I wasn't born with shoes on." Golf Pro: "Tee the ball." Caddie: "Sure I see it, but why the baby talk?" * * * She: "Didn't you tell me you hunt bear?" He: "Madam, you wrong me. I always wear a hunting outfit? * * * A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and an@t woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. e * * Love consists of a little sighing, a little crying, a little dyit and a lot of lying. Butler (to new cook): "Mind you I'm not saying anything ab. your cooking - but there's been a terrible run on cheese and biesSt in the dining room tonight." * * * First freshman in math exam: "How far are you from the CO0I answer?" Second freshman: "Two seats." * * * Chemistry professor: "Thomas, what does HNO5 signify?" Student: "Well, ah, err'r -- I've got it right on the tig' e tongue, sir." Chemistry professor: "Well, you'd better spit it out. It'sgl acid." Manager: "Why didn't that man buy anything? What did be to see?" Salesgirl: "Me, tomorrow night." Judge (to accused): "Have you ever been up before me?"