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Room Reservations Pie Throwing Due May 3 May1 UNIVERSITY OF ' SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volume XLVI, No. 25 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, APRIL 25, 1952 Fudd10 estix Student Breckenridge, Ingram Named Campus Leaders Duncan Breckenridge, of Colum bia, a rising senior, heads the new slate of officers for the 1952-53 school term as president of the student body. Other student body officers elected were Joe Ingram, Cheraw, vice-president; Helen Coggeshall, Darlington, secretary; and Charles R. Jones, Columbia, treasurer. Senior class officers are Stanley Hamilton, of Knoxville, Tenn., president; Charlie Ferguson, Brooklyn, N. Y., vice-president; Patricia Davis, Georgetown, secre tary-treasurer; Eugenia Holliday, Anderson, and Francis Rast, Man ning, historians. Junior class officers are John Quincy Adams, Laurens, president; Robert Bland, Sumter, vice-presi dent; Frank Boensch, Mt. Pleasant, secretary-treasurer; and John Criss, Roanoke, Va., historian. Sophomore officers are Glenn Bell, Columbia, president; Joe Brown, McCormick, vice-president; Ann Davis, Columbia, secretary treasurer, and Judy Anderson, Dunwoody, Ga., historian. Student Council members elected from the college of arts and science are Bratton DeLoach, Camden; Frances Hagood, Columbia; David Field, Georgetown; Miller Lide, Columbia; and Billy Watson, Cheraw. From the school of busi ness administration, Joe Bull, Georgetown; Jane Cureton, Colum bia; Homer Derrick, Greenville; Philip Garfinkel, Charleston; Es ther LaBruce, Columbia; Ted Salceby, Hartsville, and Gene Swann, Georgetown, will serve on the council. Madelyn Campbell, Columbia; Patricia Davis, Georgetown; Libby Lewis, Whitmire, and June Mar shall, Anderson, will represent the school of education, as will *Don Edney, Georgetown; Harold Nor man, Marion; and William Penn, Little Rock, Arkansas, from the school of engineering. Journalism students chose Jackie Southerland, of Decatur, Ga.; pharmacists chose Dennis Taylor, of Graniteville; and students in the law school elected Jim Reagan, of San Marino, Calif. Members of the honor board chosen from the school of arts and science are Robert Bland, Sumter; Mary Chase, Columbia; Bobby Jones, Columbia, and Bill Lewis, Columbia. From the school of busi ness administration, Dolly Dennis, Charleston, was chosen; from the school of education, Bob Korn, Wheeling, W. Va., and Gene Wil son, Fayetteville, were named. From the engineering school, Bard Allison, Philadelphia, and Beaufort Law, Fayetteville, N. C., were chosen. From the school of journalism, Charles Davis, Saluca, Ala.; and from the school of pharmacy, Betty Jean Wood, Johnston, were elected. Cheerleaders for the coming year will be: Helen Coggeshall, Darling ton; Dolly Dennis, Charleston; JTean Rikard, Batesburg; Margaret Riley, Bennettsville; George Floyd, Mont Clare; Philip Garfinkel, Charleston; James Munn, Florence e U r Council Sixteen Ca Are Tappe Seven students were selected for membership in the university chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa, national honorary leadership fra ternity, Wednesday night at tap ping ceremonies on the campus. New members are Roy Bedford Moody, Columbia; Charles Robert Jones, Columbia; Francis M. Rast, Manning; Joe Pearce, Greenville; George H. Grant, Spartanburg; Charles A. Robinson, Rock Hill; and Eldridge Brown, Bishopville. Moody has made the dean's honor list, is a member of Phi Mu Alpha national honorary music fra ternity, and a national committee man for this organization, student manager of the university banid, an officer in his social fraternity and is a member of the YMCA Cabinet. He has also earned a band key and band letters. Jones is a member of the student council, member of the YMCA cabinet for four semesters, con tributing editor of the Carolina Review, student literary magazine, dean's honor list and odiaer of his social fraternity. He has also held a number of offices In the univer sity YMCA. Rast is sports editor of the Garnet and Black, campus annual, and a staff member of the Game cock, student newspaper, and of the "Carolina Review." He is a mem ber of Kappa Sigma Kappa service fraternity, a member of intramural championship athletic teams and has held offices in his social fra ternity. Pearce was a member of the sophomore YMCA cabinet and vice president of the Canterbury club, student denominational organiza tion. He was president of his fresh man class and is treasurer of the student body, president of Kappa Sigma Kappa service fraternity, a member of the honor board and president of his social fraternity. Grant Is business manager of the South Carolina Law Quarterly and a member of its editorial board, a member of the honor council, presi dent of Phi Delta Phi legal fra ternity, member of intramural championship athletic teams and President Of his social fraternity. Robinson was president of the Westminster Fellowship,. student denominational organization, a member of the YMCA cabinet, vice president of the Carolina Religious Council, a member of the campus vespers committee, member of Kappa Sigma Kappa and an officer of his social fraternity. Brown was a member of several Intramural athletic championship teams, a member of the Pep Club, member of the ROTC crack drill platoon and president of his social fraternity. The new members will be initi ated at a banquet on May 2 cele brating the 25th anniversary of the founding of Omicron Delta Kappa at the university. Methodists Play The Wesley Foundation, the Methodist student organisatIon, Is presenting "The Lost Crown," a dramatization of Paul's defense before Agrippa, In the chapel at 10 o'clock today. The characters are portrayed by thme foflowing student.: Marcus Agrippa 11, Bob. Myers; Bernice, his wife, Dolly Dens; Poenius Festers, procurator ot Judea, S. M. Johuatem; Paul, the Apostle, Tommy Simmeis; ,and a guard. Piakney Watam. 0 ive rs Officers rolina Sti dFor AK SC Student Government Meets Here The South Carolina Studei Government Association will hol its annual spring meeting at th university this Thursday and Fr day, April 24 and 25. The group, made up of studer body officers, from eight college and universities throughout tI state, was founded last fall s Carolina. Floyd Spence, Lexingto of Carolina, was elected presiden1 Lester Bates, Columbia insuranc executive, will make the main a( d ess. President Norman M. Smii of the university will give ti address of welcome, and Floy Spence, of Lexington, will intr duce the delegates. The program will consist pri cipally of discussion groups c various aspects of student gover ment as the honor principle, I nancing student government, tl powers of student government ar student publications. Other officers of the associati< are Ted Chalmers, Greenwoo vice-president, Erskine; Marn Manning, Columbia, ' secretar U. S. C.; and Lester Bates, Ji Columbia, treasurer, Furman. Committee on leca! arrang ments includes Joe Bull, Georg town; William Penn, Little Roe Ark.; Madelyn Campbell, Colun bia; Billy Watson, Cheraw; an Joe Pearce, Greenville. Member schools attending wi be: University of South Carolin Clemson College, Erskine Colleg Purman University, Presbyteria College, Newberry College, Colun bia College, and Anderson Junic College. Prospective members a tending will be Lander, Limeston and The Citadel. Reserved Rooms Deadline Looms Room reservations for the fs semester should be made ne: week, April 28 through May 3, fa both men and women students. Students must pay the Trea urer's Office $16 for which the will receive a receipt. Men studen should take the receipt to the Des of Men's office and women studeni to the Dean of Women's offic both in Maxcy. In the women's dormitories thei is no carryover of rooms throug the summer. If a man student d4 sirea a change in the present rooi isslgnment, he may leave his r4 iuest in writing with the Dean c lien, who will endeavor to accoir nodate him after May 8. If requested by August 16, me tudents will be refunded $10. An nan student now rooming on tb sampus who fails to complete hi room reservation next week wi rorfeit his assignment. Law students desiring to reseis a room on the campus for the sun ner term must also pay $15 an present the receipt to the Dean c lien. Reservations will be made I Burney College. Dean Orin F. Crow, 110 Wardla, College, Is collecting the $5 roow reservation for male and femal students desiring to room on tli satapus this summer. Rooms wi be IWed iR the order of reserve tons made. ity D Elected Ldents G, ODK Nine girls were tapped for membership in Alpha Kappa Gamma, honorary women's leader ship sorority, Tuesday night at Sorority Song Feat. New members are Madelyn Campbell, Columbia; Pat Davis, it Georgetown; Frances Hagood, d Columbia; Eugenia Holliday, An ,e derson; Suzanne Lewis, Charles - ton; Jackie Southerland, Decatur, Ga.; Jackie Stukes, Davis Station; it Marnie Manning, Columbia; and s Kitty Willson, Columbia. e Campbell is president of YWCA, it president of State "Y," and a mem , ber of student council. She has also t. been secretary of the Euphro e synean Literary Society and pledge - supervisor of Chi Omega. h Davis is president of Alpha e Delta Pi, secretary-treasurer of the d senior class, and a member of the - "Y" Cabinet and debating team. She is listed in "Who's Who." - Hagood is vice-president of n YWCA, treasurer of Pan-Hellenic Council, and Rush Chairmen of Kappa Delta. She is also a member iof student council. d Holliday has been president of Co-Ed Association and treasurer in of Euphrosynean Literary Society. , She is also historian of the senior e class, rush chairman of Alpha * Delta Pi, and a member of the "Y" Cabinet. Lewis has been president of I Alpha Delta Pi, secretary-treasurer of the junior class, and a cheer , leader. She is also secretary-treas urer of Beaux Arts, religious editor d of Garnet and Black, and been listed in "Who's Who." 11 Southerland is editor-in-chief of 1 Gamecock, managing editor of the e, "Carolina Review," president of n Press Club, and a member of Stu I- dent Council and Honor Board. She r has also been treasurer of Pi Beta t- Phi, news editor and managing e, editor of Gamecock, and a member of the "Y" Cabinet. She has also made Jhe Dean's List. Stukes is secretary of Pan Hellenic Council, vice-president of Delta Omicron, and secretary and soloist of University Chorus. She has also been rush chairman of IZeta Tau Alpha and a member of rt "Y" Cabinet. rManning is secretary of the State Student Government Associa tion, vice-president of Euphro synean Literary Society, and a member of the honor board. She n has been secretary of the student a body, exchange editor of Gamecock, ', and vice-president, secretary, and pledge trainer of Delta Delta Delta. h Willson is corresponding secre tary of P1 Beta Phi, advertising manager of Garnet and Black, and a member of Wesley Foundation Council and "Y" Cabinet. She has also been historian of the senior class and an orientation instructor. Debate Winners s Jim Alford, Walterboro, and Ed il Cottingham, Bennettaville, won the Clarlosophic Society's annual de 6 bate championship Tuesday night. -The topic was "ftesolved, that ci South Carolina reduce its number f of counties to ten." George Couch, n Easley, and Fred Crawfogd, Dun can, were runners-up. Alford and e Cottlngham will each receive a key nt on awards day. e The Society's annual declama e tion and oratorical contests will be il held at later dates, and the win. -ners announced at awards day ceremanies. lay I Your Chance 4 Carolina's newly elected May gooey, custard pie in the fae of Tlet may receive this opportunity on U the first annual Phi Epsilon Pie T Munn-Teal) Phi Eps Offer I At Profs' And A bit of the old slapstick of vaudeville days will invade the university campus May 1, when at least 11 professors and many stu dents become targets for "pies at three feet." An old fashio ed Pie Throwing contest sponsorj by Phi Epsilon Pi social fraternity will bc Included on the University Day program. It's all for a good cause. Re cipients of custard and cream fill ing in the puss will be helping some needy high school kid go to college. Proceeds go to the Omicron Delta Kappa Scholarship fund. Students may bid against Paeh other to determine who gives and who receives. The guy who pledges the most to the scholarship fund gives. The guy who is outbid re ceives, right in the kisser. Professors, who have already vol unteered at the time the Gamecock went to press, include: Jesse B. Jackson, dean of men; Chaplain Lauren Brubaker; accounting prof. Kit FitzSimons; Capt. John Camp bell, of the Air Force ROTC unit; Maj. R. C. McMaster, of the Naval ROTC; English Prof. M. B. Seigler; and Profs. Robert Ochs, Dan Hollis, and Eric Oppenheimer, all of the history department. Representing the athletic department will be Head Coach Rex Enright and Dick Anderson. Sigma CJhi's, Tri-Delt's Win A KG Song Fest Sigma Chi fraternity won the annual men's song fest contest on Wednesday evening in Drayton Hall. They sang "Wasn't That a Wide River" and "Bless This House." Singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "Let's Not Talk About Love," the Phi Kappa Sigma's won second place. Kappa Alpha won third place with "The Last Chord" and "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes." Other fraternities competing were P1 Kappa Phi, Sigma Nu, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Lambda Chi Alpha, Sigma Phi Epsilon and Kappa Sigma. Delta Delta Delta won girl's song feat on Tuesday night singing a medley of "Time on My Hands" and "Manhattan Serenade" and "Where or When." Kappa Delta sorority won second place with "The Song is You" and "All the Things You Are," a medley, and 'Prayer from Hansel and Gretel." Zeta Tau Alpha sang "In the Still of the Night" and "It Had to be You" to tie for third plaee with the Chi Omega's who sang NOne Alone" and "Wanting Yon." Thu )f A Lifetime t e / t C Queen is shown about to fling a l _. cf Mc. .ko;C 1B. jacksun. 'You, tooI niversity Day from 2-4 p. m. when hrowing contest is held. (Photo by Pie Flinging Friends' Faces Jobs Await Graduate's Applications A representative from the Ken dell Mills will viii .he university today to interview students in terested in working there. The Mills are seeking manager trainees, and a group meeting will be held in Room 24, McCutcheon house, at 10 a. m. Next Tuesday, April 29, repre sentatives from the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, in Atlanta. Ga., will meet with students at 10 a. m. in Hamilton 117. They are seeking civil, electrical, and me- a chanical engineers, and geologists. d Both of these companies were contacted by the University Bu reau of Placement, which is work ing to help Carolina graduates get jobs after graduation. The Bureau of Aeronautics, of the Department of the Navy, in Washington, D. C., is interested in 1 hiring summer workers in various fields. Electrical, mechanical and chemical engineers, and physics I students can be placed at several Naval Air Stations. In order to meet wvith second semester seniors and graduates who are interested in applying for post-graduate training as United States Air Force weather officers, Captain %. L. Simpson, Jr. of the USAF Air Weather Service will visit the university on Monday, April 28. Requirements for application are a college degree with credit for one year of college physics and mathematics through integral cal culus. Both men andl women are eligible to apply. Further information regarding application interviews with the visiting Air Weather Service Officer is available at the Air Force ROTC Unit headquarters at the university. Procurement Man To Interview Men Captain Cletus Peterson, avia tion cadet procurement officer of South Carolina, will be in Maxey c Lobby on Monday, April 28, from i 10-1 and 8-5. He will interview alI I students interested in the aviation cadet and aircraft observers pro- t gram.1 To qualify one must be between 19 and 26% years old, unmarried, ( and have a minimum of two years i of college (60 semester hours). Anyone interested in the aviationa cadet program who does not have1 60 hours may also be eligible bader a different prograin for which Capt. Peterson should be .onw 1 ated. .rsday kwards Program legins Activities kt 10 On Campus University Day, USC's com ination May Day and Cam us Carnival, will swing into ction at ten o'clock Thurs lay morning with its, tradi ional awards ceremonies. It vill close officially at one . m., Friday, after fifteen iours of free lunches, flying Ies, sashaying lovelies and student ouncil's nightcap dance featuring )ean Hudson's orchestra. The an iouncement was made by Joe earce, president of Kappa Sigma Cappa honor-service fraternity, vhich sponsors the annual event. The following schedule was re eased by Paul Field, chairman of he University Day committee: 0-11:30 Awards ceremonies on orseshoe; 11:30-12:30. fratPrnity pen house; 12:30-1:30, lunch on he horseshoe; 1-1:45, band con ert on the horseshoe, immediately ollowed by the Phi Epsilon Pi pie ;hrowing contest lasting until 4 . m.; 4:30-5, coronation of the May Queen; 6-7, campus wide Irop-in, sponsored by Delta Delta Delta, to be held in their chapter room in Sims; and from 9 p. m. to I a. m. Friday, the student-council lance at the memorial youth center. Of the half-hundred awards to be presented at the ODK-sponsored lid-lifter at ten, the most important will be the Algernon Sidney Sulli van award made annually to the most outstar.:iitlg girl and boy in the graduating class. Other important awards will in lude the Garnet and Black's out itanding senior recognition cer ificates for students listed in this rear's Who's Who In American Jniversities and Colleges, the Cappa Sigma Kappa award for utstanding service to the univer ity, the Blue Key award for the utstanding graduating athlete, nd the Omicron Delta Kappa ward for the number one student n the graduate record exam. )epartmental scholarships will ominate the remainder of the cere sonies. No clases will mar the beauty of lay Day fun. KSK's free lunch, consisting of ot dogs, potato salad, cokes, and few trimmings, will be available .o those willing to line up on the reen expanse of the university's enter-piece at 12:30. The band program will include ~he following, according to director Richard Zimmerman: Romberg'si student Prince Overture, excerpts fromn Rossini's William Tell Over ;ure, Clark's Carnival of Venice (featuring a cornet solo by Hey ward Moore) Fillmore's trombone novelty, Lassus Trombone; and a waltz, the Wedding of the Winds. Niarehes will include Alford's The Vanished Anme; Ganne's Father of Victory; and Sousa's Sabre and s purs. An account of Phi Epsilon Pi's >ie throwing contest may be found *lsewhere on this page. A list of Queen Allene Bland's court is de eted because of previous listing in he Gamecock. Delta Omicron holds Initiation On Saturday evening initiation xercises were held for the pledges f Delta Omicron, honorary vomen's music fraternity, in aieber College. The following girl, were 131 iated: Tommy. Roan., flock Hill; thoda Jane Johnson, Ann Lowmnan, ~nd Barbara WilliAms, all of Jolumibia; Nora Gable, Leziugton; nd Caroline Perry, Ridgeland. Following the ritual the group ttended a party at the home of ladame T'remblay-Baker', chapter dyiser, at her home on Woodtw Itreet. Other gusetsa tn We seem naattmmnmm petanemneed