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ATTEND PEP CLUB DANCE OPE R, TONIGHT GAMECOCKS! UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Vol. XVVII, No. 1 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 19, 1952Founed 1908 Law Studen Degrees Fr( D)onald Stuart Russell, fori and an alumnus of the Unive formed his first public duty t last Saturday when he conferr students. Mr. Russell, a former law Byrnes, assumed his new duti miral Norman M. Smith who I In his first official address Mr. Russell told the graduatin United States have a primary trast to their position in most "Hy the very nature of their position," he said, "they symbolize individual free enterprise. If we are to have freedom, there must he a body of laws above the caprice of any individual." "The nation is based on free en terprise through law," he said, "and the law controls not only the weak but the powerful. There must he men who see to it that the law remains above any executive or tyr':nt. That is the role of the legal profession," he told the graduates. Graduated in 1925, Mr. Russell was recognized as the first honor man in his class, and in 1928, when he received his LL.B. degree here at the University, he received that honor a second time. He took special courses in the federal prac tice and procedure at the Univer sity of Michigan before entering the practice of law. In 1929 he married Virginia Utsey of St. (eorge, South Carolina. He moved to Spartanburg in 19:39 to become a member of the firm of Nichols, Wyche and head of that firm. In 1942 he left his Spartanburg practice to take a position with .the War I)epartment as a member of the Price Adjustment Board. When .James F. Byrnes left the Supreme Court to become Director of the Economic Stabilization Board, Mr. hRussell became his assistant. Since that time Mr. Russell has followed Mr. Byrnes first into the War Mobilization and Reconver sion bureau, then into the State department, and finally a law practice in Washington. When Mr. Byrnes returned to South Carolina to run for the gov ernorship, Mr. Russell resumed his practice in Spartanburg. This was in 1950. Next Friday, Donald Stuart Russell,. the seventh alumnus to become president of the univer sity, will make his second official address in that capacity and his first to the entire student body of' this institution. Both Mr. Rus sell and Mr. Byrnes are scheduled to open the Fall semester serIes of assembly programs with addresses to be made on the horseshoe or in the Field house depending upon the wea ther. Faculty Adds Four Doctors Four' faculty members have re turnedl to the university for the fall term following leaves of ab sence to complete requirements for their doctor'al degrees, Dr. Francis W. Bradley, (lean of the faculty, announced recently. Dr. Cecil I. Tucker and Dr. W. D). Nixon, both p)rofessors of ediuca tion, were awarded the Doctor of Education dlegree by Columbia University. Dr. F. DeVere Smith, associate professor of economics, received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in economics from the University of Kentucky. Dr. T. H. Lee, adjunct professor of mathe matics, has earned the Doctor of Philosophy degree in mathematics from the University of North ('arolina. Pep Rally A pep rally will be held this afternoon at 6:30 in front of Mc Kissiek library. The cheerleaders will be there along with the band. The Gamecock Pep Club is backing the rally and will distribute song sheets for the Alma Mater and Fight Song. There is the proba ts Receive )m Russell nerly a Spartanburg attorney rsity of South Carolina, per ts president of the university ed degrees on thirty-four law partner of Governor James F. es this month succeeding Ad ias retired. to students of the university, g class that, "Lawyers in the position in public life in con European countries. Assemblies To Begin Next Week The 1952-53 Assembly programs series will begin on September 2G with the presentation of President Donald Russell to the student body by Governor James F. Byrnes. Governor Byrnes will speak and present the new president to the student body after which Mr. Rus sell is expected to make an ad dress. Cecil Brown, Mutual Broadcast ing System's top commentator and news analyst, is scheduled for the October 3 assembly program. Mr Brown, who recently returned from a trip around the world, iF expected to comment on the worlc situation from his own first-hant observations. The Doyle O'Carte Singers ari scheduled for October 17. Richar< Walker and Helen Roberts, who are the top stars of the Doyli O'Carte Singers, will headlines program from Gilbert and Sulli van, the costumes and voices i which are reported to be superb. On November 7, the Muirs Emily and William, famous Amer ican artist and sculptor, will pre sent a joint program, demonstra tion and showing of their work. The Dean of the American poets Carl Sandburg will present some of his own poetry and song al Drayton on Friday, December 6. The Assembly programs are un der the supervision of the Assem. bly Committee headed by Chaplair Lauren Brubaker. All programf are scheduled for Friday morning at 10:00 a. m. so that they wil not conflict with. classes. Most o1 the programs are scheduled foi Drayton Hall this year instead o: the Field house. Debate Team To Hold Tryouts For New Members Any new or old students inter ested in becoming a member o: the Varsity Debate Club, thi University debate team, is urgei to see M. G. Christophersen, pro fessor of English. Professor Chris tophersen may be reached In Build ing C, room 16, any afternoor between two and three next week No experience is needed to joir the Varsity Debate club which ii the only organization In the school ever to have won a nationa championship. The University de bate team won national champion, ships in 1946 and 1949 and tool second place honors inl 1951. It hai ranked among the top four debati teams in the Southeast for the lasi ten years. This semester the debate tean will compete in the Wake Foresi tourney in October and it will meel NYU, Rutgers, and the Universit3 of Pennsylvania at the Middle east tournament. On December 7 it will go to the Southeast tourna ment at Gainesville, Fala. The homi team will play hosts to the Caro lina Forensies on November 18 This last has been an annual affahi aeet for last ye.. ' One of the largest freshman groi are a few of the new students getti1 students, including transfers, was ea Munn-Teai) Students Ii1u System atWa By JACK BASS tl Staff Reporter a Tomorrow night's football game n at Carolina Stadium will see the e card system in operation for the first time. Dickie Timms, head cheerleader in 1951, will be the director of the card system. Six hundred students from the fresh man, sophomore, and junior classes will operate the cards. The athletic department has set aside about 15 yards of choice seats for the card section. The operation of the cards is very simple. Each row of 18 per sons will have a monitor hand out the cards just before the half. The cards will be in leaflet form and c have six colors. Each set of cards will also have a master card to , give the color for the individual trick. For example, the card might read: trick No. 1-Green. There fore when Timms announces over 1 C Secretarial Scholarship Is Offered The Palmetto Chapter of the National Secretaries Association is offering a scholarship In the university Secretarial Science De-. partment. The scholarship is valued at $184 and is designed to pay all1 tuition costs for the year 1952- . 1953. Miss Mary' Ann Roberts, a former university student, is chair-c man of the scholarship committee ( of the association. To be eligible, an applicant must be a girl beginning the second year .1 in secretarial science and must continue her registration in this departenent for the entire year. An applicant should give her full g name, local and home addresses, : date of birth and place, names and vocations of parents or guardians, a statement as to financial need and the methods by which her * college expenses are being paid. and her purposes in seeking a col- t loge education. All applicai.- 3 must be in the hands of F. DeVere Smith, Head t of the Secretarial Science Depart- E mont, by October 15, 1952. The ' selection will be made after a r view' of rcorda by a faculty corn I Same Old Story ups in recent years enrolled for tg their first taste of registering :pected to go above the one thoi tiate Card >fford Game he loudspeaker for trick number ne, the individual looks on his aster card and uses the green ard. No experience iw nr aaary nd there will be no practices.The ard will be placed directly in ront of the face but will have a mall hole in the center for vision Iry purposes. The cards can be used to form ictures, words, or can show a equence such as a Gamecock hasing a Tiger or a flag unroll ng. Pictures can be made to hange color almost instantly by imply flipping over the card in se. They will be used at halftime nly. The various formations will be forked out on graph paper by 'imms, head cheerleader Phil Gar inkel and other members of the ep Club. There will be no work t all for the 600 members of the ard section. Their only responsi iility will be to come to the games. Phe cards will be in use at all iome gamnes. The Pep Club furnished most of he money for the cards and stu lent activities also chipped in. ?ndividually, Don Johnston, Dickie rimms, and Phil Garfinkel did most >f the work and got up the idea. Littlejohn Fo Edit Fall Law Quarterly Carl W. Littlejohn was recently leeted fall editor of the South ~arolina Law Quarterly. Other officers are: Assistant 2ditor, Dave Ervin; Note Editor, toy Nettles; Case Editor, Jake ennings, Scanning Editor, E. C. Iurnett, Jr.; Book Review Editor, tusty Weinberg, and Business lanager, Ruthie Williams. 'Te faculty advisers are: Dean .R. Prince, George King, Cole ian Karesh, and bave Means. Its first Fall Issue Is due to come ut sometime in September. Along with the regular Decem er issue there will be published supplement on Water law. The reason for the publication of his supplement is because of the eed for a law in South Carolina n water, Editor Littlejohn said. The South Carolina Law Quar arty is publis'hed quarterly by the outh Carolina Bar Association nd the faculty and students of he University of South Carolina chool of Law, and is a member of he Southern Law Review Con !?eservation York Trip By Leo Ma Campus Today is the last opportunit vations for the trip to West tickets and hotel reservations i today. The reservations now beint fice are $38.00. This price w: to New York City, hotel accon a round-trip bus ticket to Wes As this story is being writt ticket sales reports that they h. Who's Who Names 23 Of Faculty Twenty-three members of the university faculty are listed in the current (1951-52) edition of "Who's Who in America," bio graphical dictionary' of notable liv ing men and women published every two years by the A. N. Marquis Company. They are: Dr. lavilah Babcock, head of the English department; Walter C. Bentrup, director of the school of social work; Dr. Francis W. Bradley, dean of faculty; Dr. Wilfred H. Callcott, dean of the graduate school; Dr. Orin F. Crow, dean of the school of education; Dr. .1. McTyeire Daniel. professor of education; Dr. S. M. Derrick, head of the department of econom ies and dean of the school of busi ness administration; Dr. W. E. Hoy, head of the department of biology; Dr. Louis E. Kulcinski, head of the department of hygiene; Dr. Carl W. McCartha, professor of education. Also, John M. McFall. lecturer in economics; Charles F. Mercer, head of the department of physics Dr. Earland N. Nelson, professor of psychology and philosophy; J. E. Norwood, dean of the school of arts and science; Dr. Samuel L. Prince, (lean of the law school; Alfred H. Rawlinson, head of the department of library science; Dr. George R. Sherrill, head of the department of political science; Dr. Laurence L. Smith, head of the department of geology; Dr. Robert L. Sumwalt, (lean of the school of engineering; Dr. Harry H. Turney-High, head of the de partment of anthropology and so ciology; Dr. M. K. Walsh, head of the department of psychology and philosophy; Dr. Robert H. Wienefield, head of the dtepar-tment of history; and Dr. Wyman . Williams, head of the depart ment of mathematics. Reorganize Is President elected were D)on .lohnstoni of St. George, vice-preside.nt; Hetty L.in dlau of C'olumbia, secretary; andi Bill Novit of Charleston, pr-omo tional chairman. Hlarvey Goldeni and I sador-e Lou rie,. bothi of ('olumtin bia, were elected to the execut ive committee. Four additional mem bers will he elected at the meeting next week. State Chairman George Kindal. a recent graduate of the university, addressed the group.. LaVant Hlol comb, state vice-chairman and president of the Columbia chapter, was also present. The meeting wlas presided over by Dr. Douglas Carlisle of the political science department until Louirie was elected temporary chairman. Six students will officially repre sent Carolina at the Young Demo crats' state convention Saturday. They are Don Johnston, Stewart Teal, William Hartwell, John Harrison, Irv Liskov, and Morris Levy. President Hyott says that the Young Democrats club is an auxil lary force to the national and state Democratic party. He extended an invitation to all interested students to attend the meeting next Thursday at 8 p. mi. in the L.aw Schnnl anditorinm. J . ;.. he 1952 fall term. Pictured above for classes. The number of new sand mark. (Gamecock Photo by TwoBuildings Are Named For Former Presidents Two university buildings have been renamed in honor of two former presidents. A building formerly occupied by the Law. School, now used by the History Department, has been named Currell College for the late Dr. William Spenser Currell. presi (lent 1914-1922. This building was formerly Petigru College, a name now as signed to the Law School. - A building formerly designated as LeConte College, used by science departments, has been renamed Barnwell College for Robert Wood ward Barnwell, president of the South Carolina College 1835-41. The name LeConte will be trans ferred to a new science building now nearing completion. Intraniiiu'al Notes Intramural Volleyball will start September 29. The last date for team entries will be on September 24. * * * There will be a meeting of all [ndependent anid Fraternity ath letic representatives 5:00 Monday. September 22 at Flinn Hall. Young Democrats On Campus: Hyott A nucleus of more than fifty students met Wednesday night in Building C to reorganize the Young D)emocrats club on the campus. La1w Student Troy Hyott of Cassatt was elected presidlent. Also Euphradian. Plans Sm~oker Tuesday For New Students The Euphradian Society will hold a smoker-meeting in honor of new male students in their hall Tuesday at 7 p. in., President Hunter Rentz has announced. The hall is located on the third floor of Harper college. An informal discussion will be held on the subject: "Should all practices of hazing new students on the campus he abolished ?" Re freshments will be served, and cigars will be distributed. All in terested students are invited to attend and participate in the dis cussion. President Rents has revealed that the 146-year-old forensic or ganization is making plans to con duct a mock presidentIal election on the campus next month, and it will have a smoker on November .1 so that all studtents ('-an get en s For New Due Today ACourtney Editor y for students to obtain reser Point next Thursday. Train vill be on sale up until 2 P. M. sold at the campus post of 1i include a round-trip ticket imodations for one night, and t Point from New York. en the committee in charge of we sold approximately seventy such reservations. This is no in dication of the spirit with which the forthcoming West Point trip is being received, however. Philip Garfinkel, student council representative and member of the committee selling the tickets, has announced that approximately four hundred students from the university plan to make the trip, but that the iaijority of these students plan to travel in auto mobiles. At least two fraternities are planning to make the trip en masse. They are Sigma Nu and Phi Epsilon Pi. The ticket office of the Univer sity has sold approximately three hundred and fifty tickets for the Black Knight tilt. The train is expected to leave Columbia at 4:3o p. m. Thursday and to arrive at !t:00 a. m. Friday. Accommodations have been secured at the Wellington Hotel for Friday night. Buses will leave the hotel for West Point at 9 a. m. Saturday. Prior to leaving for West Point, however, the group will go to the Pennsylvania station, where they will check their baggage ?or the return trip to Columbia. The Carolinians will have lunch con at West Point after which thev will see the game which is expected to begin at 2 p. m. Admission to the game will be $3.6o and it is important to note that neither the admission price for the game nor the food costs are included in the $38.0d. While in New York City all male students are at liberty to come and go as they please. Co-eds, how ever, are subject to a two a. ml. curfew and will he chaperoned. Campus Briefs Pep Club Dance The Gamecock Pep Club will sponsor a campus wide dance at the Field House tonight from nine until twelve. A new combo called The .Jumpin' .Jacks will 'provide the instrumentals and background music for Connie. Magoulis, their vocalist. The dance is an informal af fair and admission has been set at $1.50 stag or drag. Tickets are now on sale in the post office and will be sold at the field house tonight. Captain Campbell of the Air RtOTlC departmient will act as chaperone for the dance. 'Caroina Review' All students interested In literary and art work are invited to attend a meeting of the campus literary magazine, "The Carolina Review," Wednesday, September 24, at the magazine's offices on the third floor of McCuitchen. The meeting will be at 5:00 P. M. Post Office Boxes Post Office Box assignments will be completed by Monday, Sep tember 22. Anyone who has not yet received his post office box number is urged to go to the cam pus post office to get it no later than Monday afternoon. Joe Lawrence, campus post master, requests that everyone notify his correspondents of his post oftice box number in order to expedite mall delivery. Organisations may complete their mailing roster by contseting, Mr. Lawrence anytimie after next , Monday.