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%GAM CROWiNG P0 UNIVERSITY OF Member of Ameia Dietribater et I Founded January 80, 1908, with Robert Elliott Gonzales as the first editor, "The Gamececk" 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 COLUI! Bill Novit, Mordecai I CARTOONIST BUSINES Pedie Hiers, Bobby Si REPORTOR Jinx Wilson, Leo M. MacCourtney, Barb Davidson, Bob Cameron, Billy Watson, Arnie The Otl Last week the faculty approved the cur riculum changes proposed by the faculty council. The changes say that each arts and science major must take six credits of either Latin, Greek, math, or logic. It also does away with the double major and the minor. Two weeks ago I presented the why's and wherefore's against this plan. Today T want to print the why's and wherefore's for it. I have not changed my mind, but I think it only right to give both sides of the picture. Dean Norwood is considered an expert on curriculum planning. It was under his guid ance that this change, under consideration for years, has come about. He and the com mittee have their reasons for asking for these changes, and they are as follows: The elimination of the double major and a minor would tend to build a stronger major 0 Some Closim There are a good many things that I have wanted to say for a long time, and for some reason or other have not said them. They are disjointed and incomplete, but here they are in all their miscellany. Number 1 is about the honor principle on this campus. Several months ago I, let go against it - claiming, among other things, that it did not work. Now I think someone has satisfactorily explained to me why it has not succeeded wholeheartedly. A professor was sitting next to me at a meeting and the honor subject came up. He claimed that the reason for its lack of sup port was that we are a nation who have been taught to detest informing, squealing, stool pigeoning, or what have you. We have been brought up in the tradition that carrying any report of another's dishonesty is equivalent to the professional rat in the underworld. Other nations, such as England, regard it as a duty to report on wrongdoing, and there is no such stigma attached there. So evidently our feeling'is not inherent, but cul tural - and how can we change an entire cultural heritage in four years of college? Every honor board member will urge any student to report cheating; yet how many students do, and how many honor board members do ? Without a doubt, any informant feels guilty after doing his duty, for in each of us this trait is so deep as not to be up rooted or laughed at. To explain that this is not the right way to feel and that informing is no sin is useless - a bunch of words for justification, but a poor comfort to a con science conditioned to silence. Don't ask me whose fault this whole idea is. Don't ask me the cure. Don't ask me for advice. I can only say that I think the pro fessor hit the bulls'-eye with his interpreta tion. And this reasoning well explains stu dents' lack of enthusiasm for reporting honor violations. Number 2 contains a few suggestions for improving this university. Tops along im provement lines lies the abolition of sororities and fraternities and the abolition of a foot ball team as It is now. Sororities and fraternities, I think, tend more to pull apart this university than could anythinr else on campus. I admit that they coca& R A GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA ted C.euglat. Press coUeglat. 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 'eraky, Josef Euringer - Al Simson S STAFF nith, Nedra Gilmore IAL STAFF ara Thompson, Mary Bloodworth, Chuck Bill Leggitt, Valerie King, Alan Baker, Green. ter Side and permit more electives. These electives would be controlled by the major dean, and in most cases would be correlated to the major field of study. The double major has been put in as an al ternative to math. This change would do away with the double major, and leave math, or logic, or Greek, or Latin. The reason for requiring one of these is to promote logical thinking. Dr. Walsh, of the psychology de partment, agrees with this theory. I do not know what the connection is between lan guages and math, but there must be some. A student may still minor or double major, if his dean approves. I still disagree with the six credits due in math, Greek, Latin, or logic. If a student is still allowed to double major or minor if he wishes, then I will not argue. The plan has passed.-J. S. g Thoughts are called on for many jobs and that they usually fulfill them, over the loud protests of many individual members. But would it be necessary to call on the sororities and fraternities if the students themselves were more united as a whole rather than as individual groups ? Only one third of the women on campus belong to sororities, and that leaves a great deal of the coeds out in the cold when many things arise. Then again, I shall never forget the day, three years ago, when I walked down to the post office the day that sorority bids to preferential parties were sent out. One girl came rushing from her box to say, "I got one from every sorority !" Another little girl went to her box with a half-smile on her face. She returned to her group of friends who looked at her wonderingly. "I didn't get any," she said. Her face was a mask of emptiness, her tone was flat. I cannot for get it. As for the football team - I had the naive notion when I came to college that it was a place for learning, not for the support of a football team. I learned differently - learned that the boys are not playing becausE they have a school spirit, but because they are obligated to play - for they have beer collected and fed and given scholarships t< come to the university - therefore, they must play the game. Wouldn't it be bettet for students to play other schools through a love of the game - as a sideline to studyingi And this dislike of football brings u; another question. Someone told me, when] first entered school, that it was dishonest t< give away my football tickets. I believed him It took me till my sophomore year to see thai there is another side, perhaps much mor< rational, to this football ticket deal. After have finished my senior year, I will hav4 spent $68 on football tickets. I have gone t< two games, hardly worth $68. Something ought to be done with that great bit 01 money, if only to give a friend a free foot, ball game - which costs too much anyhow So my opinion has swung and so has my $6f - perhaps to give scholarships to someone who has no desire to study In a university. .. These are my last thoughts, as I said ; the3 are a little jumbled, not half developed, bu1 there they are. . . .-J. S. The Spring Staff Retires &nior 3Swan Sn It's a good thing I'm graduating because I have run out of deodorant and soon will lose all of the friends that I have made with boxes from home and visits to Sox's. My sheets are thin enough now to make my wedding nightgown from, though they were stiff and new in Sept., 1948. My brain is also worn out from loafing and cramming through four years, eight semesters of final exams and nightly parties. My clothes are ready for the Salvation Army and my stomach is howling for some edible food, so I guess it's time I left the battle grey walls of Carolina. My mouth is tired of smiling and speaking at election time and sometimes there after, and my tail end is tired of sitting in the eighth grade desks at Davis. They say I have been sheltered too long in the alcoholic arms of my alma mater and that I am ready to be kicked out of the bar into the cold reality of the gutter. That may or may not be so, but I know that they had better put air con ditioning in the Field House before June 2, because I have run out of deodorant.-M. F. Stough JOSEF EURINGER Furewell To USC It is one of the odd notions most of us cherish that to say goodbye means handkerchiefs soaked with the tearful out burst of emotion. I've tried in a more laborious manner to conform with that sort of convention, yet my efforts have never beer sucgpssful. I just cannot get sentimental or sad when I have to leave from somebody or from somewhere. A few days more and I'll have to say goodbye to Columbia, to U.S.C., and to many friends I've made over here. And I am about to do something any other slightly normal human being would do in this case; I let pass before my mind the nine months I've been allowed to spend at this school. During these months I have been called at least a thousand times "Kraut" ("damned Kraut" only by my better friends), I've been taught how to play poker (but my illustrious teach ers forgot to teach me how to get back the money lost in this type amusement), I have acquired noteworthy patience in studying while exploding firecrackers made the seat beneath me shake and tremble, I've become convinced that the proper moment for an enduring waterfight is only after midnight, i've become aware of the fact that a dormitory is a place where you can do anything except sleep, I have .. . And yet, if somebody should ask me in Europe how can you get to know the Americans best, I'd tell him: Spend a year in a dormitory at an American university ! There you'll meet with the predominant characteristics of the Americans. For it was in the intimacy of McBryde that I have learnt to know and to appreciate America. Yes, you can learn in McBryde how to appreciate America. On September 22, at one o'clock p. mn., I arrived in Co lumbia. A few minutes later I was in McBryde. You can't imagine how I felt ! Five thousand miles away from home, in a foreign country, nobody whom I knew, everything new to me. This would be reason enough to make anybody feel uneasy. This one wanted to help with that, the other explained to me this, everybody was helpful in an unobtrusive manner. They did not bother me with questions about where I came from, .why I had come here. They just accepted me, saying to themselves: Well, he is here; we can't kick him out of the place, let him be here! Only one harsh word I heard. That was Bam Bam's (my roommate). He came in late and some how he managed to fall over my suitcase. He said in an un mistakeable tone: "Damn !" I raised up from my pillow, he looked at me and said: "Sorry, boy !" From that moment on I was at home. In this tenement I've met that friendliness, that genuine helpfulness and downright honesty that are the main charac. teristics of the Americans. And, not to make you Americana conceited, I'll tell you I've been exposed in these nine months in McBryde to more noise than I've been the 24 years of my previous existence in Europe. I've been forced to listen to four radios at one time, each one tuned in to a different sta tion, each one running full blast, at the same time another boy practiced trumpet in the bathroom, while two other guys were singing for at least fiv conseuiv tie teso. MURRAY SEAMAN Our Lazy Cmpus! Usually when one comes to the end of the road of a job that he has had for some time he feels compelled to give vent to his observations and ham things up with remi. niscences. I do not intend to recollect and have only one ob servation, and this is diot a too original one at that. The best way for one to learn about his fellow students is to work with them toward a goal. By participating in one or more of the activities on the campus, you get an insight into your friends, whereas otherwise you might only know them from sitting over a coke in the canteen. There is a difference. During this semester, which is fast closing, I have been lucky enough to have been a part of an organization and have had the opportunity to get to "know" some of you. On the whole Carolina is a lazy school. There is a lack of spirit, a lack of get up and go. Back in February I became manag. ing editor of the Gamecock. My first task was to place a conspicuous notice on page one for help from the student body. Then I sat back to wait for some eager reporters. None came. The same thing the following week, with the same results. Of course the job of putting the paper out each week was done regardless. However, had there been some semblance of response Ruth and Tommie wouldn't have had to work as hard. They didn't seem to mind. I guess they just enjoyed taking part in a school activity. This situation does not exist only on the Gamecock. I have noticed that in the pictures of campus organizations we have published the same faces seem to repeat over and over again. To be brief, the same handful of students are responsible for the continuance and success for the majority of Carolina activities. Needless to say, this should not be. Some sour grapes artist might say that the well known "wheels" hog all the positions. This may be true. But it might not be if some others appeared to offer competition for the same position. To come back to the paper, where I am more fam1y, every Friday I see the waste paper cans filled with it and hear cries of "Oh, the Gamecock, there's nothing in it." At the same time it is these complainers who, when asked to work to improve or for suggestions, dismiss this with a simple ahrfg and close the matter. A-IIai the Gamecock Lee be improved. I challenge you to point out what cannot. But gripes won't help, more manpower will. If I were writing this for some other type of publication I might express myself in more colorful language. However, it will suffice to say here that we are stuck with a crowd of lazy bones, who, if they would arise from their derrieres, could do some good. Student Council Student Council went on record Monday as favoring a fifty cent increase in the Student Activities fee. The money would be used to finance a dange a semester, one at Christmas time and one before the spring holidays. Any funds left over would go into the contingent fund to be distributed or used. This addition to the student activities fee would eliminate buying tickets for the dances. Every student paying a stu dent activities fee will contribute fifty cents to the dance fund, whether he goes to the dance or not. Admittance to the dances would be by athletic card. Every stag must have one. All couples must have at least one card, and any member of the couple without one must pay one dollar for admittance. The motion passed with a 20 to 4 majority. Before the new plan can take effect, it must be approved by the Student Faculty Allocations Committee and the Board of Trustees. Further business included discussion of the card system at football games and the setting up of an information booth during registration. SENSITIVE . .. At Buffalo State Teachers College, a student has admitted damaging 1,500 copies of the college paper because he didn't like the way the editors cut down an article he wrote. END OF AN ERA .. . A longtime favorite diversion for students at Princeton University - stealing signs from trains, streets and high ways - has run itself out. Police are threatening to throW student offenders into the country work house. "Tell Me Why." I asked myself: "Tell me why all that noise I" Life at an American school would be an experience for any foreign student because your schools are different froml ours. But this is about the only real difference I've found between Europe and America. I'm sorry I've so disappointed those among you who expect America to be something un known heretofore. For me America is like Europe. Let me tell you once more how grateful I am that I've been given the opportunity to come to this country!i If ime one should ask me what I thought about my stay in Aia..'ca I'd answer: Unforgettable. .. . In case any one of you boys should come to Ger.man,' come and see either Erwin or me, or better still, both of us' Our addresses: J. T. Euringer, Munchen 8, Zornedingerstr: 33 E. Rledenauer. Tohr /Maln, Ktaibachlatz.