Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Profs Shoul Clock-watcl There are a number of professors at Caro lina-as we imagine there are on most campuses-who are so conscientious and so engrossed in their work that they habitually continue lecturing after the bell rings which indicates the end of the fifty minutes allotted for a class session. With the new Engineering laboratories on the western side of Sumter street and the new Leconte college bordering Pickens street, classes are becoming more and more spread out. This makes it more difficult for students to get from one class to an other when a professor over-runs his period and continues lecturing during the ten minutes which should be devoted to a student's getting from one class to an other. We cannot blame a professor for wanting to bring his lecture to a polished close and It's Your Ri The Gamecock is very pleased that its suggestion that students be granted excused absences to go home to vote on November 4 is acceptable to the administration. The administration has done its part by giving excused absences and the Gamecock feels that it has done its part in stirring up On Display Judging, Assemblies a: Letters To Dear Editor: much better tha Witness a highly irate fraternity Infclosing member who seeks justification by intended in no the parties concerned of a gross from the effort, and apparent wronging of his presented other fraternity, Phi Kappa Sigma. rather merely to Now follows a statement in ex- s invte one planation of my openin sentence. Each year a winner is selected in ficials" concernet a contest of displays commemorat ing Big Thursday. Now it has al- Sincerely ways been my impression that the OWEN best man, the best organization and Box incidentally, the best display ulti mately wins in an overall competi tion. Unfortunately, it is my con- -Editr's que: sidered opinion, nay the opinion of u th foloui the majority of the viewers of the Big Thursday displays that in fact, Applicability or p the best entry was not selected ality, workmanshi winner at the judging. A different diligence spent. winner was selected by the campus Although the at large. Quite incidentally, the agree with the consensus was that the Phi Kappa judges, it seems t Sigma display was head and with the Inter-F shoulders above all other entries!anthprici If this be construed as castiga- tejde i tion of the judges, determine in adslce h your own mind, readers, if it isthiopnnwa just, for I do intend it to be exactly IF,hwvr that-a reproof of the selectors--sm rtei n but well-founded. I defy any or allththejdew of the judges to justify their selec- wa ocnie tion and would ask this one ques-wehtogiee tion to elicit a justification. What Oeo h u criteria determined the winner? thtteywr? Let me suggest a few stand-tiea5p., dards -- Originality, Applicability bfr h rtr to the occasion, Complexity (indi-Thswsroa eatig idusry ad igenity intwenekhd jus eo its onsructon)colo, adfiall the effrties justplan had wrk. f yua reeging oero thatmin ar far sandrds and er_mrely_t if yu viwedthe ipays,Isla tus Dea Edthor: the eletio toyou.I tinkthe In refeecme. 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We are not suggesting that class bells be eliminated and replaced with starting guns for students should be expected to wait out the completion of a logical se quence of thoughts which the instructor is presenting. It is, however, no more inconsiderate for a student to come to class a few minutes late than for a professor to lecture over into the ten minutes alloted for the changing of classes.-B. N. ght--Use It interest in the election by remaining neutral and by publishing every editorial and letter to the editor in behalf of either candidate which was submitted for publication. It's up to you now to vote. Vote Tuesday ! Vote wisely !-B. N. nd Flowers The Editor n it did in the in the October 22, 1952 Gamecock if the ROTC did not request the me say this was 10 a.m. MWF hours for drill, and way to detract since they were quite content with of those who drilling at 1 p.m., then let's go displays -- but ahead and begin in February the I detract from the scheduling of classes at this hour. c icials" as judges. This would give the majority of g at from the "of- the students an easier time in t I and any who scheduling classes. The statement I have heard that a 10 a.m. Monday is for Orientation g classes is untrue, for only about e CEDARBURG one-half of these classes are at c 706 l0 a.m.; the rest have to be at other hours due to the many i In answer to Mr. students in the AFROTC drilling ion, the judges at the 10 a.m. hour on Mondays. g as a criteria: I quite agree with Mr. Artemes ertinence, origin- assembly programs would be to p, and time and that the best way to schedule t clip 10 minutes off each class r editor does not that day, as is done (luring i decision of the Religious Emphasis Week. Also, 7 hat the fault lies at present, because of the 10 r raternity council o'clock hour's coming on MWF, I ting fraternities no programs can be scheduled on judges because Tuesdays and Thursdays. The last conscientious job suggestion mentioned would per one which in mit assembly programs to be held the best. any (lay of the week. should set up Sincerely yours, a point scale so FRANK DRUCKER muld know exactly and how much Dear Editor: ich factor. WHO courted disaster by having ges also reported yellow flowers for the Carolina eady to start on sponsors? And WHY? We might but it was 5:45 have been saved 56~ minutes of iities were ready. anguish! ly because rush Maybe "next year" wve can have ided and most of something more appropriate than were engaged in Eyellow Clemson flowers! ties. C ongratulations to the Team and coaches for overcoming the jinx of yellowv flowers! your statement MRS. S. S. SEIDMAN Artemes's letter Class '27 GUEST COLUMNIST: Why I'm INA If I were voting in the Novem- I her 4 general election, I should das the first choose to remain in the p)arty of the college my father and grandfather, and re not neces-3 vote for the Democratic candidates, consitut an Governor Adlai Sevenson and ILL NOVIT Senator John Sparkman. [GREGORY The Republican Party poses as 'PARASHO the "hope of tomorrow" and yet, amie Herbert let us look at what they have MacCourtney dlone for us in the past. They say Paul Phillips they will ''clean up the mess in une Presnell Washington," but the greatest ra Thompson scandals in American political his L. Artemes tory have occurred during Repub Alan Baker lican administrations. One needs Bob Pitts only to remember the bribery of Bobby Smith public officials during the Harding administration or the infamous Butler, Jack Teapot Dome scandal. The Re dur Coutras, -publican party has always been illy Watson, against what we in the South mons, James stand for, from the tragic Recon iers, .Johann struction era up to the present day1 when they support high tariffs and oppose southern industrial expan ecai ersky sion. It was the Republican eca Pesky controlled Congress which killed Woodrow Wilson's immortal dream of a peaceful world through the Betty Seay- L4eague of Nations. ey Papajohn Last June when General Eisen >s. Gary Lee hower stepped off h. is , plan i tA a Bowski must be a good student in his work. GLORIA RODDEY The De Of The I Nothing has so impaired the >rogress of man as the concept hat progress can go in any moral lirection and still be progress. 3ecause man is today going in very direction and terming it Progress, progress now has no alue for it has no absolute.. In the medieval concept, going p was the accepted direction for rogress. In the materialistic oncept, going down . . . that is, oing to the corporeal and the angible . . . was the direction for rogress. Today, going around and bout, which is the direction one oes when he wishes to answer very whim, is the general pattern f movement. Because progress as an absolute as been destroyed, progress as .n opinion has been substituted. his, very simply, is individualism. TRUE INDIVIDUALISM Now this is the thing that has pset modern man 'tho he will ot admit it. Let us examine what s good about true individualism. ,rue individualism allows each nan to rise as high as he is ca able on the ladder of intellectual, piritual, and social progress-but he ladder, a definite structure vith definite directions, is pre upposed. True individualism de >lores the retardation of the spirit f man--but it gives man freedom o attain a certain goal. False ndividualism gives a man freedom *o hike out in directions for wvhich here are no ladders, it allows him ielf-expression even wvhen it is self-destruction, it creates a society n wvhich everything is tolerated >ecause nothing is evaluated. D)ECLINING INDIVIDUAL It is in this sense that the indivi lual has (declined: IBecause his ictions have no ultimate value they yan have no compulsion to be just, rhe greatest threat to the modern wvorld is the man who must do as e wishes, who must express him FLYNN HARRELL Still A D Washington, he seemed to he the progenitor of a real crusade. Now he has become a political tool of Taft, Dewey, and Lodge, andl has diegeneratedi to the un-American tactics of McCarthy an(i Jenner, two of the Kremlin's best friends in the United States. General Eisenhower is for one thing in one section of the country, and then for another thing in another sec tion. It is improbable that a man >f his background and experience is familiar with the domestie issues which face us today. It is sonceivable that he would be lictated to by a small group of iardcore Republicans on such mat ;ers as farm and labor problems, >ublic welfare benefits, taxes, etc. The standard-bearer of the Democratic party, Adlal E. Steven ion, has the background, the educa ~ion, and the training to make a treat president. As assistant to ~he secretary of the Navy, as asist,ant to the secretary of state, is delegate to the U.N. assemblies, nd as governor of a great in lustrial, agricultural, and densely 'opulated state, Illinois, he has ecome familiar with the problems hbat should facea prnesin. s a' -&f I notice he takes a lot of interest dine ndividual self to the hilt regardless of the cost of the rest of mankind-the man who is too, too intellectually nauseated by the thought of resignation, silence and prayer. Man has a right to freedom, but not to a void of absolutes toward which he can direct his free actions. Freedom is a man's right to do what is best for him, presupposing some standard out side of himself toward which he may act. LIFE CIRCLE There is nothing so tragic as the life-cycle of a man which be !omes a life-circle. Humanity, un like nature, cannot preserve its Drder without effort, for while nature acts by forces, man acts by will. Man may either go toward Drder or turn away from it. This is the quality that makes him an individual, a personality. 1Kan, in Dur Intellec ual age, hias UU1ishud absolutes but he has not abolished aspirations. It is merely that he looks for order in every direc tion . . . which is the cradle of disorder. In doing this, man has made himself tremendously un happy. He has driven himself in sane, he has thrown himself into prisons, he has blasphemed against goodness because he has made himself cynical about goodness, he has made biological and sociolog ical forces god-substitutes and he has calledl God the chimera created by man's inability to do his owvn job. This kind of man is not happy, he is only in hysterics, screaming and laughing out of utter shock for what he has done. Thus individualism, the destruc tion of absolutes and creeds, has made a wveary, fast declining in dividual who often as not finds himself in the brooding world of the psycho-pathetic simply because even the most far-flung whole of him had not the p)ower of but a single absolute. emocrat running mate, Senator John Spark man, of Alabama, nas always rep)resented the interests of the South, and he wouldl continue to do0 so as vice-president. The old adage, "within any barrel you'll always find a few rotten app)les," eqlually ap)plies to the Democratic party. There are the Trumnanites, the Moodys, and the Hlumphreys, wvho would like to throw us out of the party. Fortunately the South is blessed with able senators, who control 90% of the committee chairman ships in the Senate, and courageous governors who will stand up and fight to preserve Jeffersonian democracy and the states rights principles in which we believe. Let us stay within the Democratic party and fight to maintain it as the party of our fathers and grand fathers, and not join the party which has always fought us, the Republican. This is why I choose to remain a Democrat and support Stevenson and Sparkman--the true represen tatives of the farmer, the laborer, and of all the people! HUNTER RENTZ A Desir When the old pedagogic curri culum of Greek in the original, logic, rhetoric, and Theology, evolved into the more modern curriculum of the University an other great and profound transitiorl was being manifested in the life of the student. The fraternity move ment found its way to the South Carolina, College campus during the hard and trying days of Re construction. Since there was not nearly the same amount of time spent in daily preparation as be fore, leisure time became more abundant; and there was need of diversions of the fraternal natur< to meet this new situation. Whether the trend that this transition initiated is desirable o not has been the subject of much polemical thought and writing. I will not try to expound at length the assets or liabilities of such a movement, but only throw out a few observations for what they might be worth. When a person aligns himself with an organization whether it be a political party, religious organization, social club, athletic team or fraternity, he becomes im mediately under certain demanding obligations that require his firsi loyality. In a social fraternity monetary obligations are equally as demanding. Rush weeks, pledge duties, as well as the needs and desires of the brothers cuts int< LEWIS THORNTON The Ans Political Is the ability to understand Latin a necessary qualification for political maturity or for intel lectualism? Is the failure to dis play a so-called "highbrow" atti tude evidence of lack of intellectual capabilities? I believe not! Of course there is nothing wrong with having an intellectual presi dent. Furthermore, so far as ] know there are no rules restricting the office to "regular fellows.' However, I do believe that Ike's I.Q. is a little more than 100. Al least he has a vocabulary that is sufficient enough so as not to necessitate the use of vulgarity to express his ideas. An intellectual person is very seldom a puppet to a person less intellectual than himself. A genuine intellect could never con. form to the general ideas and reae tions of a person less intelligeni than himself. Certainiy we can ai agree -that lack of self-control narrow-mindedness, depedency or vulgar language to express thoughts, and1 an over-all '.what] say goes" a'ttitudie could not b< considered intellectual. I do not deny the impllortanc.e of inte'llectualism.~ If I had cast ii aside as unimportant, I would ba TERRELL GLENN Someth' But Con It may seem in poor taste for a columnist in one newvspaper to criticize the style and policy of another paper; therefore, it is requested that the readler remem ber that this article repr-esents only the opinion of one student ir1 a college newspaper. The question for considerationi i.9 what should be the p)rinme functiori of a statewide morning newspaper, Should it lie in reporting and analyzing national, international and state news insteadl of reporting the activities of the various literary clubs in the smaller towns of the state and in discussing the beauty oif the lilacs and wister-ia trees? In the opinion of this columnist, the obvious answver is, yes. There are certain attributes of our morning paper which are at once pleasing to the native South Carolinian, but are they informa tive ? Its coverage of the activities of the Friday Afternoon Study club, Small Town, S. C., is tin surpassedl. To the fifteen mem bers thereof this Is interesting but to them alone. Reading an editorial on the beauty and virtue of an Azalea garden in Columbia In the Spring is quite Pleasing over the morning coffee. This bland diet of journalism would never leave us upset. The somewhat bucolic, local interest stories are vested with a certain charm, and it is not that their inclusion in the paper Is hbao self. Th... ul 3d Trend? a large portion of a man's time; especially if he is seeking to be diversified as much as possible in his activities, and has an education as his secondary objective. Initia tion fee, dues, and assessments can be listed as soutce of the monetary demands that subtract from the college boy's income. Often the question arises if the individual is compensated in return for as much as he invests. The brotherly spirit which fra ternities are supposed to enhance is maintained-yes, within the fraternal family. If separate houses were the fashion at U.S.C. then there would be more to this argument of a family circle of fraternalism. But where you have a half deteriorated tenement with one or two - elitely decorated and furnished rooms and a TV set, can you call that a. family at mosphere? Usually the noise is such that it is not conducive to adequate preparation on last week's assignment. If a person wants to aspire to social prominence by means of a segregated group, his desire is answered in the social fraternity. However, to be well-rounded in collegiate life would not mean to be inoculated with so much social proficiency that you would be im munized to the deeper satisfactions that can be found on a college campus. wer To Maturity very immature, politically and otherwise. I believe General Eisen hower can meet the intellectual qualifications for the presidency. I, for one, prefer an intellectual "regular fellow" to a dominated, intellectual highbrow! So, what is political maturity? Well, it is just the opposite of political immaturity. A good example of political immaturity was given to us by one of our sup posedly qualified state political leaders recently. He said, "I was born a Democrat, I have always been a Democrat, and I shall die a Democrat." What a rut he must be in! At least he isn't worried with thinking. He has someone to do it for him! In conclusion, I would like to express one more thought. Re member, when a new president is elected there is no turning back. It is next to impossible to "change horses in the middle of the stream." Think of the last four years before you scratch! For better or for worse, if you are a qualified voter, then VOTE. Vote, not as a party memb)er, hut as an American! Make your vote a politically mature vote! ng Timely troversial rests in the over-extension of this policy. Insstead of keeping this In its proper proportion, it has be come the prime, if not the sole characteristic of the paper. The fact that its circulation has remained the largest In the state might tend to make an outsider feel that the average South Caro linian prefers not to be disturbed by the affairs of the world. This is an unfair judgment, for surely the people would show themselves eager to be informed on the issues confronting them If Scripps Howard type were available. The American newspaper is the most effective means of disseminating information, and herein Is found its purpose. When a newspaper has forsaken this, then it has failed. Complete and fair reporting of all the news is essential, but It is also important that a newspaper should take a stand on the ques tions before us. That the paper has not been successful in either of these functions. is evidenced by such statements as: "I have to tead a Charlotte paper to get the news an(i views, better still At lanta or New York." "Even The Gamecock is brave enough to take a stand and stick to it." This reader would not annihilate the local feature of the paper, but he would appreciate and *XPeet something more controversial and timely than the nature and virtue of wisteria tre.