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" - CROWING FOR UNIVERSITY OF S Ma.ber of Associat4 Distributer of C Founded January 80, 1908, with Robert Elliott Geasales as the first editor, "The Gamecock" 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 COLUMI Bill Novit, Mordecai P4 CARTOONIST BUSINESE Pedie Hiers, Bobby Sm REPORTORI Jinx Wilson, Leo M. MacCourtney, Barbi Davidson, Bob Cameron, Billy Watson, Arnie I Speak Gree Back in the old days of giants and dragons there was a villain with a peculiar sense of humor. It seems that this monster, by name Procrustes, opened up a tourist court con sisting of one bed. Now his customers were often cranky and complained that the bed was too short or too long; and Procrustes was an obliging fellow; so he squooshed up his visitors or stretched them out so that they would be more comfortable, at least as far as length was concerned. Right now the faculty may be trying some thing of the same sort. It seems that the university is trying to cut the student to fit the school rather than vice versa. Well-founded rumor hath it that the new curriculum changes advised by the faculty council, the formul:ting of the faculty group, would definitely be a setback. The changes would serve to eliminate the double major by demanding a few more "must take" courses. The changes would insist that each student in the school of arts and sciences take six credits of college math, logic, or Greek. I do not know the purpose of this change, unless it is supposed to promote more scien tific thinking. I think it would rather serve to promote fewer-students at this university. Many students could not go straight into college math and would have to take the creditless math 6, high school algebra. This alone would be a great inducement for many students to go elsewhere. For a note of reminiscence - when I first came to the university I worried about tak ing math. I could do it, but I didn't enjoy it. I asked Dean Depass, then dean of jour nalism, about it, and he said, "Can you add up your pay check?" "Yes.') I answered. "Then you don't need any math," he said. And I think he was right. Many students have absolutely no need for such a subject, whereas they could definitely find courses which they might need or might enjoy more than six credits over mathematical figures. The same argument holds true against Slow Dow. Whoa there a second! Put down that bag and give a listen for half a column. Thursday is University Day, and if you're contemplating spending the day at home, give it another thought. Thursday will be a bundle of activity, a well-stuffed hot dog to satisfy you through the examinat.ion's starvation siege. It's a well-filled, adventurous day. It's a day to cut loose (to a degree) and have a lot of fun. It's a day of a free lunch, a little house cleaning, a beauty parade, a dance, and on and on. It's a day when some of the hard working leaders around campus get a little glory for their efforts. University Day is the one day that makes this campus our university. It's a day of a lot of tomfoolery and just a plain old good time. And you're thinking of going home! Well, frankly, I was too. But Joe Pearce said, "Jackie, how about writing something ask ing people to stay for University Day in atdof going home?7" I choked ungrace t*and muttered, "There goes the opera," ~1ging home to see hordes of people OCIC A GREATER OUTH CAROLINA ed Coflegiate Press sieglate 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 NISTS srsky, Josef Euringer - Al Simson I STAFF ith, Nedra Gilmore kL STAFF ira Thompson, Mary Bloodworth, Chuck 311 Leggitt, Valerie King, Alan Baker, Green. k At USC? logic and Greek. I may be wrong, but even t if I were in arts and science, I don't believe I would ever have an opportunity to speak i any Greek. As for logic (philosophy profes- r sors forgive me) but from what I have seen it is the logical method of proving an illogical idea. The trend in education today is definitely away from compulsory courses toward a e wider choice for students. In other words, the student can make his own bed, not the bed the student. The students to whom I have spoken here s on campus also definitely have the idea that b this move would be a step backwards. Many of them were a little stronger in their opinions, and not one have I heard who was e in favor of the change. Rather, they all urged choice in students' planning of their y curriculum. The change cannot be considered passed t until the faculty approves it. The plan has already passed the faculty council, over very n active opposition, I hear. The faculty, the first Wednesday in May, will hear the min utes of the council and may approve or dis approve them. I hope the faculty will not let the minutes glide by and be approved without notice being taken of the curriculum . changes. The new planl cannot go into effect, even if passed by the faculty, until the new cata logs come out. The custom here is that any student may finish the university under the catalog which was in force when he arrived, or under any subsequent catalog. The change, therefore, could not affect any of the pres ent students. Since the change could not go into effect until next semester, it should wait, perhaps, until the new president could indicate his approval or disapproval of it. This would be only common courtesy, for the change would affect his administration, not the present one. I ask you, the faculty, to consider this plan carefully.-J. S. t A Minute stomp up and down a stage and sing loud songs in loud voices. I started thinking and decided with no ef fort that Joe was right. At first from a sense of duty (and hearing that sister dear had confiscated my opera ticket), I said to myself, "Okay, I'll write the editorial and then of course I'll have to stay to attend the doings." But the more I thought, the more I re membered how much fun University Day always is - no pompous speeches, no classes, no responsibilities. And always there has been a clear, beautiful day just right for the accumulation of a bit of sunburn during the May Court's procession. This year something new has been added, if slap-stick comedy in the form of pie throwing can be called new. For a price, from 2 p. m. till 4 p. m. Thursday, you can throw pies at your most unfavorite profes sor. And something almost new is the second annual May Day Dance, with a nationally known band if we can get one. So start unpacking your bag. You're crazy if you miss University Day - even for the opera !-J. S. Why Are You All Smiling? Caro vi. i mer I love trees. In the spring their leafy branches form a :ombination that only God can make in harmony - the pair ng of green leaves against the blue skies. "I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree," says Joyce Kilmer. I love trees. But I do not like them on the left fender of my car. I have nothing against trees. Not for the world would I car or mistreat one-unless it were a choice against hitting he Cadillac on one side or the tree on the other. I rode blithely around the horseshoe for the first time n my three years' existence on this campus. I was proud of ny skill - not one car had I sideswipped . . . when all of a udden I saw it. Its roots reached out graspingly to encroach upon the oad's pavement. I shuddered. To back or not to back around he entire horseshoe; be sensible Jackie, you had a hard nough time going forward. There was no choice. I closed my eyes and gently stepped on the accelerator-' groan and a creak and an anguished cry from a tree-and ap flowed from its bark as blood from a wounded pedestrian. I stopped and looked and wept. The poor tree, buffeted y mankind. I rationalized and comforted myself, for my 'ork was merely a slight gash on top of many scars. It )uld not pain him much, I thought, for his bark has grown )ugh and he is inured to pain. But my conscience would not be stilled. I thought of the ears that this young tree had suffered. I thought of the ars of sympathy shed by a thousand fenders. I thought at the tree must grow and eventually root up the pave ient, and as each new ring was added to its trunk more and iore fenders would scrape its hide. And someday a fender would leave campus bearing a tree. And I thought of our materialistic world that puts the rice of a fender above the life of a tree. And I realized hat I, too, had done the same. I had valued the price of a adillac fender plus the expense of a Dodge body over a liv ng, growing tree put together by the hands of God-a riiracle far and above that of man-molded steel. But our pocketbooks are materialistic and realistic and he amount of money cannot be increased by fantasy; so he choice lay in one direction only-squeeze as close to the vandering tree and pray. But my prayers did not reach the guardians of trees and fenders and I did not make the queeze. Little tree, I apologize, your life has been short and full >f miseries. Some day a fender will cut your lifeline and rou will wither and your leaves turn brown and your sap Iry up even in the very green of springtime. Must you uffer until you agonizedly die away, or will some kind iearted soul come to move you, or even to end your life iuickly ? The space between tree and car is too small. The tree nust go-or I should get glasses.-J. S. spring - Fooey!... (A student letter to the "Daily Californian," University of lalifornia): Now that it is spring and the decolete dress has once. again come o the fore, I can see where the University of California women are iot of the best. Standing at any campus landmark, watching the parade go by, I am riot at all thrilled with what I see. In the first place half of the girls dIon't seem to know it's spring. They are buttoned up like this was Alaska. I don't know which is worse: that half, or the half which loes uncover. That's what happens when you have a big, intellectual university ike this one. The girls are more interested in studying about life than in going out and seeing what it's all about. Music, Spring and Pandemonium .. . The first day of spring at the University of Michigan arrived with the blast of a trumpet followed .by utter chaos. It began when a student who was practicing his trumpet was answered by a trombonist. The two musicians engaged for some time in a music duel. Shouts of "Knock it off," a loud gramophone playing "Siaugchter on Tenth Avenue" and a sonorous fog horn prompted dormi tory residlents to rush outside and add to the confusion. Then firecrackers started popping, and this was followed by the arrival of the police. By this time about 600 students were milling around. The police took one look at the crowd and got back into their ears, whereupon some of the students jumped on the fenders and rocked the autos. The mob swarmed through the streets and into various dormitories. C'oedis invaded men's dormitories and the men reciprocated. At 1 a. m. a sudden rain called a halt to the proceedings. University officials said they plan no disciplinary action. The dean fILL NOVIT A Human Faculty? Ever since matriculating at Carolina, I have heard talk of the student-faculty relations problem.' In my eyes, gen rally speaking, there seepis to be no dilemma any more. This fact has been exemplified many times during this emester. First the Student-Faculty Relations committee often mistakenly called the "Gripe" committee-has started unctioning again. The YWCA.has started an extensive pro tram, and strangely enough it seems to be the faculty and cot the students who are cooperating. As a part of the 'Y's' rogram, they have drop-ins at Flinn hall during the Friday norning free hour. At the last one, there were more profes ors than students. Those there seemed to enjoy them ielves, but why weren't more students there? The program s planned primarily for us to meet our teachers on a more riendly basis. Of all the schools of the university--although enrolled in either of the two-I believe that relations are at their best n the law 'and journalism schools. This is, I believe, be .ause there are lounges in these two buildings where the stu lents can-and do-meet with their profesgors over a coke mnd discuss common problems and get to meet each other ;ocially. Several faculty and administration members have done much recently to better relations with enrollees at Carolina. rhey have shown an interest in the students' needs and ac tivities. The faculty helped greatly in promoting the recent Blood drive on the campus, and Deans Childs, Jackson, and Chase and Professor DeGravelines certainly showed their great sportsmanship by agreeing'to clean the chapter rooms f the fraternity and sorority which donated the highest proportionate share of blood. Another example of the faculty showing their coopera tion and good sportsmanship is their good response in volun beering to be on the receiving end of a pie as a part of the Pie rhrowing contest on University Day to raise money for the DDK scholarship fund. When approached by members of Phi Epsilon Pi and ODK, very few faculty members declined the offer to participate, and those who have volunteered to participate include professors from most of the depart Filents of the university, as weil as Dean Jackson and Chap. ain Brubaker. It is things like this which make the students appreciate -heir professors. It makes us realize that they aren't just 'stuffed shirts," but are willing tQ cooperate with the stu lent body. Let's hope that the faculty will continue taking )art in things such as this to help cement better relations, )ut let us not forget that the students should do their part, :00. Daseball For Money The Columbia Reds and the Montgomery Greys will play !ach other tonight. and a portion of the profit will go to the university Y camp. For those of you who have never seen the camp, let me lescribe it briefly. It wouldn't qualify as the most beautiful spot in the world, but it has been made by the students and therefore has a special beauty all its own. I was a second semester sophomore before I ever saw the camp. We drove down one of South Carolina's well-known sandy, tricky roads and rounded a curve. "There it is," they said, and pointed out to me a bunch of one-room buildings and a baseball diamond in the making. There was sand and the peculiar scrub vegetation familiar to South Carolina. Then just a little farther along we topped a slight rise and saw the lake with a long lodge facing it. Over to the right was another lodge, the kitchen as I later discovered. rhe little huts were cabins for weekend retreats and the like. Each weekend as the weather grew warmer, a bunch of us piled out to the camp, to work and to play (mostly the latter). The lake with a raft and something like a mon strous inner tube was an ideal place to collect a little horse play and a lot of sun. The lodge was made for square dancing and singing and talking. In the summer I discovered that a lifeguard was on duty every day and with this protection we went swimming almost every day. I found out that the camp is for the use of every group and every individual. I have seen some groups that were somewhat In opposition to the Y freely use the place. There are only two stipulations: permission must be granted (ex cept during the summer' when the lifeguard is on duty) and no drinking is allowed. The camp Is unfinished. The bedrooms in the lodge are not completed, neither is the kitchen. A bath house Is needed. The baseball diamond and the volleyball courts should have work doine on them. The Y has many more plans for the camp. Groups of students often go out to repair and to build. But as always money is the absent factor. So the stu dents are selling tickets to this baseball game between the Reds and the Greys. The tickets are 90# and the game is to be played at the Capital City Park at 8 tonight. Don't for get the game and don't forget to be there for It. How Do You Like Your Tobacco?.. . The Maryland Diamondback, University of Maryland, thinks there is a subtle analogy between women and tobacco. It declares: "Sophomores want their women to be like cigarettes, slender and trim, all in a row, to be selected at will, set aflame, and when the flame has subsided, discarded only to select another. "A junior wants his woman to be like a cigar. They're more OX' pensive, make a better appearance and last longer. "A senior wants his girl to be like his pipe, something he be~omes~ attached to, kn6cks gently but lovingly and takes great care of at all times. "A man will gIve you a cigarette, offer you a cigar, but will never' share him pipe."