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A Blood' With little effort on your part compared to the great sacrifices they are making over there, you will receive an opportunity to help the fighting men in Korea when the Red Cross bloodmobile returns to the Carolina campus on November 17 and 18. While Americans-including an out standing alumnus of this university-were dying on the battlefields of Korea last year, you, here on the campus, were con tributing meagerly to the blood drive in comparison to the student bodies of most colleges and universities. The Air Force and Naval ROTC units re sponded in large numbers to the plea for blood last year. The remainder of the student body responded very apathetically although drives were sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, Student council, and a student faculty committee headed by the popular Prof. Kit Fitzsimons of the account ing department. This year-although it shouldn't be Why Not Our Par Most universities have two weekends which are the highlights of the year-one honoring the institution's alumni and the other honoring the students' parents. Of these two, Carolina observes only the former, and that in a very half-hearted man ner, as one of The Gamecock's columnists comments on this same page. Perhaps we should make Homecoming weekend a success before suggesting another, but we cannot help feeling that our mothers and fathers are left out because Carolina has nothing which resembles a Parents weekend. Last May we suggested in an editorial column that University day be combined with a Parents day or that a Parents week end be held. We presented advantages and disadvantages of both ideas and suggested that a committee be set up immediately to Southern Gentlemen Letters To Dear Editor: citizens, and I As an alumnus of Carolina 1 gientleman of s was interested in the enclosed arc not leag quotation which I discovered in teachers for the an o1ld Harper's Magazine. I fraudulent exa thought it might be of interest trickeries of ste to you. lists of questior The following appeared in Har- copies of lessons pers Monthly Magazine, January, rooms, mutual 1869, page 198. It was written by chased composi John William DeForest of Connec- of the Charlest ticut, Captain in the Yankee army assured me tl of occupation and an administrator detected such of the Freedmen's Bureau in South years of tuitio C'arolina (luring reconstruction, the University "The honor of the Southern Carolina, told student is not college honor as that he had kn( it is understood at the North, and instance, and perhaps in Europe; it comes much the two crimin nearer to the honor of good leave by their $6 GA4- co CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAR( Member of Associated Collegiate P' Founded January 30, 1908, with nobert Elliott Conz editor, "The Gamecock" is published by and for the University of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, dui ye'ar except on holidays and duifng exanminations. The opinions expressed by colummnnsts and letter writer sarily those of "The (;amecock." Pu,blishing dloes n endesr'ement. The right to edit is reserved. EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR RAL) BUSINESS MANAGER JO! NEWS EDITOR '1 CAMPUS EDITOR Leo ~1 SPORTS EDITOR SOCIETY EDITOR FEATURE EDITOR .Bar COPY EDITOR . A EXCHANGE EDITOR CIRCULATION MANAGER ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER STAFF REPORTERS Furney Hemingway, Bill Leggitt, Mary Elle ,Bass, Bob Cameron, Betty Jean Nicholson, A Bennie Turner, Sonny Gray, Kenneth Flynn, Don Vanlandingham, Mark Buyck, Hannah T Covington, Jr., Delight Tiemann, Carolyn Kot Mishoe, Jerry Rolling. COLUMNISTS Gloria Roddey, John Duffy, Terrell Glenn, M< Hunter Rentz. BUSINESS STAFF W. L. Buffington, Dan Donovan, Wes Sander, CA RTOONISTS .. Al Slmson, Bob Cameron, Sti PHOTOGR APH ERS .....Gus Mi y Battle! necessary-two free passes to the State theater will be given as an incentive for students to do what they should do out of sheer patriotism. This incentive, along with the fact that Carolina's Student council has challenged Clemson's student body to a "battle of blood" should certainly make every able student turn out to give blood on November 17 or 18. The need is there! Ask any of the more than a hundred Korean vets on the campus what blood means to the guys over there. They will tell you that the men in Korea need the blood ; you don't ! The one pint of blood won't do you a bit of good in your veins, but in Korea it might easily save a life. - The actual blood-giving process is one which will not bother you at all. You don't even have to leave the campus. Men and Women of Carolina, let's all turn out and give Clemson as sound a defeat in the "battle of blood" as the varsity gave them in the Big Thursday gridiron battle. B. N. Honor ents? look into the possibilities so that another year would not roll around without our officially remembering our parents. We expected results; We got none! We thought that Student council or some other responsible organization would investigate the possibilities, at least. But to this date, nothing has been done to our knowledge. Paying the bills is about the closest con tact that many of our parents have with the university. If they do happen to drive up to see us on a normal weekend, they see an almost empty campus after they are greeted by the heavy chains which still remain up on Sundays and which prevent them from driving onto the campus. Compare this to Clemson, where an entire weekend of activi ties are planned solely to entertain the parents.-B.N. The Editor he honor of the "TeciaruSotrnnd ociety. The pupilsgrda,atlathieurond uied against thebyhsntemoaatopr, purpose of passing ntinations, by thecoidrhiel gnteafrs aling the preparedadastdnafear.Wn S, carrying furtiveonrmebsthsrngh f into the recitation- cleeepi ecrs hs at postings, and pur- ehbta niiulsrnt n tions. A professor urteswihi soihn n on Medical Collegewhcmut sset,flte at he had never fcliso aeadhradwt a cheat in thirty ev.Isol xli htm ni. A professor oftetmnontipitrfrsnl at Columbia, SouthtoSuhCrla,ndImyhe. a friend of mine fr aedantolrea n wn of but one such frnei xedn yelgu that in that case t l otensuet. als were forced to Sneeyyus graduat le, Ameiast whlurondeiin rby his geating oa atmore,n micaas te fis coresiesief th genlma rlt studentdensaferwrd.the collheclle ee espit hae cops,n the et are nethibit,an iefovedthisstrength aod upritntestesnAlhough i hast onihing ad BILL VIT which ust in writtet, wel aent fHGE R aculsoarl arniveabouwt envy.SH th Ioutmedt epaies thavem 'omme Hrbetsetelmonn ofi oinsierabole Macourtne Suteiy Carolia an (iemaiy ofere Paul hillps ftrest iaedn to lartie themelve June Prsn feroectsu inrextexcsvesings lgu rThopso the t alftor rituet." SBob Pits poliicly pagnrs,hvnt on classutes bEorE hpb. TheirsTT. The mentryican mehor of declim-o esther Cours vhcsgting maktpac hei morewnd students Jamtes Ore lte majo seof thed jrt ninerhe Johlege wheide,wl ae me statndo viont are ot ne,,. bafremeti.echyu A>fe woes,ao,tuteapene onAthogazn ithat clmed eta BILNVI thsEv e ing majriuen was lise wit aHGGOY pariuarph satingehepsi iaout NBtt P ASHO firs Eisnoe.rothe Sateshve ome PHerbert so.eletatment wer cosierle .a aorty intgrocaitypece, and siyon 're already ten minutes late, and irst team in action! t Body Be Alert students want. He must give voice to their major aspirations. But if you want conclusive evi dence of the intellectual stagnation of the students, sit in the canteen and listen to the conversation around you. Nine times out of ten it concerns sex or sports. Now I have nothing against sex or sports, but it has always seemed odd to me that the students should be interested in them to the ex clusion of everything else. We gather our knowledge of sex and sports in grammar school. They should have become dry topics by the time we reach college. What is wrong with a student being an intellectual and discuss ing an intellectual topic? What is wrong with a student exhibiting to others the knowledge he has gathered in class? Isn't that what we came here for; to gather learn ing for our use, to raise ourselves above the dead level of mediocrity? Perhaps the majority of students cannot raise themselves to the point of intellectuality. Perhaps they will never be able to discuss Plato, Aristotle, or anything else. There is one thing they can do for the good of the university: They can act like college students, even if they can't think like college students. Clppings mered, "will that work ? I'm registering for my husband." R(OOM WITH VIEW .. . Want ad in the "Michigan State News": "Single room for male student with parking space, on east side of Lansing." IAMBIC CANDIDATE . . . To Vice-president elect Nixon from the "Daily Californian," University of California: "Bare foot boy with cheeks of tan, what have you done with the 18 grand. kens isn't an ounce of originality in the suggestion that follows. Since the idea is being ignoredl so totally, it should deserve at least this re statement: A government publication, to be issued to every voter before major elections, containing statements from major candidates and parties telling In a few wvords each prob lem as they see it, what they have done about it, and what they will do about it. The facts in these statements to be carefully checked by both the parties and some im partial group. Such a publication would, it seems, make the elections a battle of policy, the results of which would indicate the will of the majority much more clearly than is now possible. And it would provide a merciless check on un kept promises. Meanwhile, we are consoled that neither candidate offers a very radiical departure from the political philosophies we have grown to accept. As the Gamecock rolls off the presses, we'll be celebrat ing with the winner, anxiously waiting for him to put our plan into effect. Aw! . . . What's the use. We that means we miss seeing our f JOHN DUFFY Studen Should This university boasts of 3000 students. It possesses a faculty without parallel in this state. Its physical plant should be a matter of pride to the people of South Carolina. Its two well equipped libraries are a boon to scholars. Unfortunately, it takes more than a large number of students, a qualified faculty, new buildings, and numerous books to bring into being a good university. The major requisite is an alert student body. Frankly we do not have such a student body at this university. If you need proof of this fact, read this paper. The two male literary societies rarely report an attendance of twenty-five each. A recent political poll reported in this paper revealeed the startling fact that only a little over one hundred and fifty people partici pated. Our editor evidently be hieves that the way to make this school another Harvard is to in crease the student body until it is equal to that of Harvard. His major concern last week seems to have been that the students were held a minute or so after the ball by the professors. This is meant to be no criticism of the editor. After all, he must write what the Collegiate PROXY NEEDLE... Registration usually causes a uo f confusion, and a coed at North Texas State college almost got the wvorst of it. She wvas going through registra tion lines when she was ushered into a separate room. There a nurse told her that since she had no record of a previous vaccina tion, she would have to take one now. "But," the young lady stain ting Chi( were at least eloquent. But it wouldi have taken a discerning language student to detect an) dlifferences of opinion, except as to which party was better qualifiec to (10 the job. In the hour of decision, that is not enough. The voter does no' have time to investigate every boast and accusation even thougl he may feel that many are eithei untrue or unfair. The political campaigns spend millions to coax to weedle, to cajole--but they arn robbed of their original purpose: to inform. A camp)aigning politician cannot "inform," because it is impossible for him to be impartial. He lacki a common meeting ground, where he andl his opponent can give con. cise, unbiased information on bott the policies, and voting record' of himself AND his party. The press fails in this because it ii not supplied with, any concise, authorized information. Party propagandja pamphlets are, in the vernacular, a total loss. We have a bowing and scraping acquaintance with the length of political science parallel lists thus' we are positive that thore TERRELL GLENN Home To What? On November 15, the campus will participate in another annual homecoming and once again it will pass up a golden opportunity to increase alumni support and interest in the school. In the six years that this columnist has been a student at Carolina there have never been any outstanding activities in conjunction with the day. A small amount of investigation indicates that nothing will take place on this Saturday to make it different from the rest. Comparing this school to others has become an unpopular method of criticism; however, in the present case it should be well taken. For example, the recent Duke-Georgia Tech game was homecoming for Duke and was covered by "Life" magazine. It is admitted that the game itself prompted this coverage, but if we were lucky enough to receive national attention to our homecoming game, what activities would be worthy of note? The University of North Carolina has a very colorful parade preceding their game. All the sororities and fraternities participate in the parade and receive beauti ful trophies for the best floats. In this field the Pep Club should promote more participation in displays since we do not have a parade. They should create the incentive for any organization, not solely sororities and fraternities, to build large and outstanding displays. These groups should be given ample advance information concerning the nature of the displays desired and the exact time of the judging. The foregoing should set the stage for homecoming. Dis plays in themselves do not attract the alumni to the campus. There should be some place for the alumni to go when they reach the campus. This could easily be accomplished by al lowing the fraternities, under proper chaperoning, to have open house before and after the game. Certainly they would be more than willing to cooperate in this for they would not only be serving the school in building alumni support but also themselves. The matter of a large dance sponsored by the student body as a whole has become such a controversial issue on this campus that it is mentioned with some reservation. On the other hand, a big dance following the game would certainly be a drawing card for some of the younger alumni. The good work that the Alumni Office is doing certainly deserves recognition and praise; however, the question is are they doing enough concerning homecoming? Perhaps this office should assume leadership by being the coordina ting body for all the activities of the day. Of course their main job should be in getting the alumni here for the game, but beyond that they should provide attraction to the campus itself. This article has not had as its purpose the singling out of any organization or any one person for criticism. The fault does not lie here. Perhaps the failure of homecoming is an other reflection of the general apathy of the campus to participate in a group effort. We must admit, however, that alumni support is essential to the well being of the univer sity; therefore, it seems a tragedy to miss this chance in which to build it. At the completion of this article, it was discovered that KSK is leading a drive to build homecoming to be a big (lay. It is hoped that they have not waited too late to accomplish their desired end. The entire campus should readily fall in behind KSK's leadership for a bigger and better homecoming. GUEST COLIJMNIST: ARES ARTEMES Should KSK Be A bolished? I don't believe KSK is needed te eal~e oji D{ n on the campus and should there- Bu e vudb lcdo h fore be abolished. OKpitrqieet hr Now, wait, don't get me wrong. sadn~,amme fOKcn I think KSK is one of the most worthwvhile organizations on the ntji leKy n ytai campus. Kappa Sigma Kappa has ilbebonnxtmthame done a lot for Carolina.be*oBleKycntjinD. We now have Blue Key and Thsviltn(1 vawthbh Omicron Delta Kappa, two Bu e n D optn o honorary leadership fraternities,thsmeosaniglde,ad wvhich really serve the same pur- Crln vnthv omn p)ose. According to their constitu-horayrtenis.Iflth tions, they serve 'different pur-moehnryfatniesW poses, but they almost always endhaetemoev'rdfain up serving the same purpose,.h ups fhnrr rtri which Is to recognize outstandingtis leaders on the campus. Of course, A o h evcsKKi O Blue Key publishes a directory 1efrig e D aes~ which is very helpful on the o h rjcsadBu e h campus, gives some kind of ath- rs.Bt raiain ilte lete award, and fosters better rela- b efrig mc rae tions with Clemson. ODK sponsorssevcstathyrenw Awards Day, presents a scholar- Al)itoineetautKKi ship key, and also gives a scholar- ta elyKKcno ekof ship to some needy person. Yet I sKpaSgaKpa hT don't think these projects areisantolscalfteit enough to keep thenm busy.knwasKpaigaap,ad My opinion is let a student beiftaornzton alti a member of both ODK and Blue(vicIdo'thnitoe)te Key. If a student has shown sca rtriycudbigCr service andi a desire to (10 hisliasKKtcortomk K share to make Carolina a better cag t ae place In which to live he wouldi I vr raizto st e~ then joined Blue Key insteadl ofa(eintpuosonhecipl KSK as the situation is now. ThenthnKKsolbealsed0 if a student in Blue Key or any ara togln rw ewe other student, as far as that goes,tepuossfOKan lu has theenobntslforedDto jeishouKd Key