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10 CROWING FOR UNIVERSITY OF S Member of Associat Distributer of C Founded January 30, 1908, with Robert Elliott Gonzales 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 Pe CARTOONIST - BUSINESS Pedie Hiers, Bobby Smi REPORTORI) Jinx Wilson, Leo M. MacCourtney, Barbai Davidson, Bob Cameron, Billy Watson, B Arnie C An Idea's Students have no representation when they are brought before the Discipline Com mittee. On this committee, composed of teachers, there is one student, the president of the student body - and he has no voting power. ] A custom of our country is that a man should be tried by his peers, that is, his i equals. A student's equal is another student. t This university should definitely not be c classed in a backward, or a medieval category. i Our laws at the university should be the equal of the laws of our country. e l It is not that we think the faculty mem- i bers are giant ogres ready to grab up and horribly devour some erring student. It is t not that we do not expect justice from them. I It is not that we, think they enjoy being i judges. Rather, we think that a student can see I the reasoning in anot ter stadent better than could a faculty member. There would be little need for a complaint that the students were treated. unfairly. Most schools at which students are rep resented on the disciplinary councils find that the students tend to be harsher than the faculty members. This fact may tend to allay the fears of some professors - that the students would lean over backwards to ac commodate their friends or fellow students. All of this has been said before - but Gone Are A disunited people - we. The conductor walked in. Applause rose. The orchestra shuffled and became quiet. The conductor turned toward* the audience and said, "Will you join us in our national anthem -" He raised his baton and began an introduction to "0 Say Can You See." The audience rustled and bustled - and yawned. It slowly rose to its feet. The introduction ended, the verse began -- and we stood confused. Are we supposed to sing - it dloes not matter - we have for gotten the words. In the box to the right there stood three little girls. They sang loudly, with en thusiasm, and with a sure knowledge of the .words and the tune - I was ashamed. And I remembered a month or so ago when the Dixie Division had occupied the same space. It had struck up "Dixie" and a surge of patriotism had lifted the audience will ingly to its feet. The crowd was raised into high spirits and a thrill went up Its collective -spine. Grins broke over a mass of faces. A feeling of unity bound the entire audience -- and the individuals were one. And I reniembered the last war when every concert .started off with the national anthem. The people felt a union, a patriot ism. We were one, we were a nation, we were an ideal struggling for our existence., But' the war ended - and so did our unity. A GREATER )UTH CAROLINA d Collegiate Press lleglate Digest of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, during tle college year except holidays and examinations. cock." Publishing does not constitute an endorse ment although the right to edit is reserved. Society Editor ........... Norma Bergmai Feature Editor Furney Hemingway Copy Editor ................Patsy Hutto Exchange Editor . . A. Nonymous Circulation Manager .. . . . Bobby Smith Asst. Business Manager ..... John Parasho ISTS rsky, Josef Euringer - Al Simson STAFF th, Nedra Gilmore LL STAFF ra Thompson, Mary Bloodworth, Chuck ill Leggitt, Valerie King, Alan Baker, reen. Progress progress may be waiting patiently to take a step now. The Gripe Committee met again and lunged right into a discussion of student epresentation on the discipline committee. Vost of the active opposition developed tround the supposition that students are not nature enough to handle or participate in he disciplinary problem. Proof of this was ffered with an example of student stupidity n Preston and some of the other tenements. True, students may not be quite so ex erienced in campus misbehavior problems s are the faculty members; but I take issue vith the idea that they are immature. Cer ainly there are many immature students, >ut just as certainly there are students who -ecognize responsibility and handle it with tkill. In any group there are bound to be :hose who behave on a childish scale - there ire such even in the faculty - there are 3uch everywhere. But counterbalancing im maturity, there are people in most groups who are conscientious, thoughtful, and un derstanding - and such is the case on this Lampus. The Gripe Committee is still in the discuss ing stage about the idea. But interest and life are being shown. If this committee would endorse the idea of student represen tation, maybe something would be done. -J. S. The Duys Now we are fighting again - we ? Rathei say some men somewhere are fighting. Bui this fracas is of no importance. A more important battle is raging ii Washington and in the minds of recognition seeking mud slingers - at least the noisi made indicates that this must indeed be : much more note than Korea. For the politicians in tearing each other'i hair are tearing apart this country. And I remember reading that Thomas Jef ferson said that the less government the bet ter. And I realize that now we have severa governments - the Republicans, the Demo crats, the vegetarians, the liberal Republi cans, the tight Republicans, the Dixiecrate the this, and the that. And each one is sur that it could run this nation much bette than the one now in power, or should I sa; the one that is in power in name. And even the party in power is a part: only in the sense that it is a rowdy party full of dissentions, like the noisy drunkard at the fraternity ball. I do not advocate complete unity of thinli ing, for then we would become yes-men an~ individualism would stagnate and die an ur fragrant death. But I think of the conductor and of th ordhestra and of the audience - and I wis that we would work together - And I wish we were a nation. .. .-J. S. P1 E -TtRoi ..... ..Left " b I Ct-. RUTH BARKER 72as Chan1e Coord Hoorah for the Interfraternity Council? They are still working on a useful project begun on the Carolina campus last year by the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. The IFC is sponsoring help week instead of hell week. For all practical purposes, the Carolina fraternities have adopted this idea, and are doing useful rather than destruc tive -things. Some fraternities still have the remnants of the old hell week, and take their pledges off into the country for a long hike covered with tar and such stuff, but in the main, the Carolina boys have reformed somewhat, and are proving that fraternities can be beneficial to the campus and town. The Block C club, not being a fraternity, does not ap prove of such things, and prefers to throw eggs at their pledges from third floor windows, beat the pledges with belts, and such pleasant things to be snre they have really captured strong athletes. Assorted fraternities have painted houses, churches, fences and helped people recommended by the Columbia Wel fare Agency. Alpha Phi of ATO last year painted the home of a crippled Columbia widow. Other grpups decided it was a good idea, and presently all members of Interfraternity Council approved it and agreed to participate. Good for them! All of this is due to the ATO's at Indiana. Bob Lollar, president of the Hoosier group, conceived the idea of sending their pledges out to do something useful. So in February, 1950, they went to the Christian Center, a nur sery and community house on the I. U. campus, and pro cecded to paint. They also shoveled snow and carried out ashes for an aged couple, and cut wood for a widow with five children. Immediately a favorable reaction appeared. The campus paper and the "Indianapolis Star" praised them. ATO's at Purdue adopted the idea, and painted a Lafayette church; the Cornell chapter shingled leaky roofs, hung wall paper and laid new floors for two needy families. Within a year, more than 20 of the 32 fraternities at Indiana adopted the idea. Butler, Bowling Green, and De Pauw followed suit. "Reader's Digest" printed an article in September, 1951, by Karl Detzer. All over the country more groups are trying out the new idea. The Indiana fac ulty is convinced that fraternities are doing good. They can see it. Indiana Sigma Chi's built a playground for the chil dren who lived in the trailer court. University presidents, surprised, are pleased with the re sults. At many schools they no longer have to worry about buildings suddenly being painted green, students dying of blood poisoning (as one did at Dickinson) or students with weak hearts suddenly dying. Not that this was the rule, but each isolated case built up national indignation against fra ternities, and made people feel that college students were extremely childish and destructivdi. Veterans, returning from overseas, were pleased to see that fraternities had changed. And it is no longer just the ATO's, but almost every fraternity has heard of the idea, and has either tried it or is 'considering it. National opinion of college fraternities has taken a favorable turn, and for good reason. Let's hope that the Carolina fraternities continue to work on the idea until Columbians can say with pride, "There are twelve fraternities at Carolina, and they all participate in help week." P. S. 1 am not a member of ATO. AT HOUSTON AND NEW HAMPSHIRE, A BUST AND ABURN... - The Science building at Houston University last week was, according . to "The Cougar," shaken by a "terrific explosion" in the chemistry lab. Nobody was hurt, but all the graduate students working in the lab were helpless wit(h laughter. Presently the head of the chemistry de partment, a Mr. Johnson, came rushing in to see what was going on. The graduate students pointed to a red-faced fellow standing in a Scorner. Johnson took one look and walked out. "Humphrey," he explained to a freshman, "was blowing up a balloon out of a rubber tube. It burst." * * * * * A Clean Race .. . The rowing team at Cornell UJniversity was stopped cold last week by a whirl of suds. - A prankster had poured some Vel soap into the practice tank, and I the harder the team rowed, the more suds they churned up. -* * * * ** Dozing... This one comes from the Notre Dame "Scholastic": Now I lay me down to sleep, The lecture dry, the subject deep; If 'he abould quit before I wake, BILL NOVIT Our Neglected Parents From "pies and profs" to parents! Last week I wrote on the Phi Ep Pie Throwing contest as a feature of University Day. This week I have a more serious idea to present in connection with University Day.. Other colleges and universities set aside one day or week. end in the year on which parents of students receive recogni. tion and are the guests of the institution. Carolina, at present, has no sort of Parent's Day. Per haps this is the reason that the adults of this state do not have a clear picture of Carolina student life. Students know what Carolina is like, but it is difficult for us to describe it to older folks. Why not corfbine University Day with Parent's Day? Surely the parents would enjoy such festivities as the May Queen coronation, pie throwing contest, and picnic on the horseshoe. The parents of the 75 or 80 receiving recognition at the ODK Awards Program in the morning would get a thrill out of seeing their offspring rewarded. It is the one day in the year in which ladies may visit the fraternity houses. This is one point which cannot be over. looked, since what mother wouldn't like to see how and where her son was living? May Day also has its disadvantages, however. First, it is a week day, and it would be difficult for many parents, who work, to be here on a Wednesday or Thursday. Perhaps a Saturday during football season would be a better time to have it, from the standpoint of entertaining our fathers. But at any rate, a committee should be set up to look into the possibilities so that another year will not roll around without observing a Parent's Day. WHERE ARE YOU? Eighty-one organizations on the Carolina campus, and practically everyone of them has the same problem. How can we get more members? That is the question which keeps many a president or conscientious member awake at night. There should be some sort of coordinsting organiaticn, such as an activities council, which would explain to new students and those interested just what the purposes, func tion, requirements, and activities of each organization on the campus are. The first assembly program every fall - which should be compulsory to all neophytes, both freshmen and transfers should be an "Activities Fair," which would, by means of skits, explain the various organizations to those interested. It would be simple for an Activities Council to be set up composed of one representative of every organization (or group of organizations such as the Interfraternity councii instead of every fraternity) to meet and plan out such a program. There is a definite need for some means of bringing the right organiations and the right men together. Freshmen especially need an access to information about the many and varied -societies. This Activities Show would do just that. Its primary purpose would. be to give the clubs and activities a chance to give unattached students the word. If this proposed plan were adopted, I would not have to be sitting at this typewriter trying to fill up space when I should be studying, as the Gamecock staff would not be undermanned, and more qualified students than I, no doubt, could be found to take up inches on the editorial page. Campus Opimion Spring is here. At the time this page goes to press the weather is a bit chilly and a little damp; but the calendar says that spring is here - and who are we to argue? Though the thermometer may argue the season, USC students' minds have slumped to the regular and well-known stage of spring fever. And teachers see once again their prize pupils bite the dust of arn ignomninous 6 or 7. The campus has reached the hysteria that always ac companies the approach of examinations and the conflicting demands of a weekend at the beach or an afternoon on the golf course, or a day in bed doing nothing. There is an ex citement in classes only when one gazes at his watch and notes that there are only 59 seconds until the bell rings. Mnd there is the well-known, "I should study, but I think I'll do it later, 'cause the sun's bright and my heart's light and the thought's a fright." The Gamecock's nosey reporter, himself a victim of l0w grades and lazy mind, ambled lackadaisically.up to a few stii dents and asked them for their sure cures for spring fever. The answers, requiring much deep thought, are as folloWS! Kien Powell, journalism; A cure ? - a nice soft bed. Any thing else? - well, no, you wouldn't want to Include that in the paper. Jane Kirk, English: (Jane was hobbling about on an5n jured ankle received while, under the influence of sprinig, sh tried to jump around like Tarzan.) Sprain your anle aiK then you can't do .anything else but study. Anonymous: Just quit school. Anonymous II: Just get twitterpated (a word hafl3g something to do with a deer named Bambi) and forget abOSt everything. David Creel, political science: A cure ? - groaning, sl5' and aspirin tablets. Yes, it helps; It helps my brain cooI l, my eyes to stay open, and my mouth to stay open for #C0 one to pour down a glass of iced tea. These suggestions have all been offered In the spirit i friendliness and neighborliness. They are all the result A years of experimentation. If the cures don't work, crawl V to my tenement and wake me up - I've gone to bed to a* It off till fall.