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BASKETBALL OPENS WITH NEWBERRY CONVOCA TIONS TOMORROWTOA EN UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA VOLUME XLVII, NO. 12 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, DECEMBER 5, 1952 RelIgi APO State Opens Here Representatives from sevc meet tonight to open the fi: vention of Alpha Phi Omej Columbia. The Convention, under the chairmanship of Al Lane, presideni of Iota Mu chapter here at the university and state chairman o1 APO, will convene with a fellow ship dinner at Camp Barstow al 7:30. Lane will address the dele gates at this dinner and is ex pected to make a speech of wel come and to outline briefly the program and objectives of the con vention. Delegates from Clemson, Cita del, Wofford, Newberry, and Erskine colleges in South Carolina and representatives from Univer sity of North Carolina and the University of Georgia will partici pate in the convention scheduled to last until Sunday morning at ap proximately 9:80. Some of the objectives of the convention as outlined in the bulletin sent to all the chapters of APO in the state are as follows: To report chapter activities, to discuss administrative methods, to gain from the experience of other chapters, and to plan future activi ties of APO in the state. After the fellowship dinner this evening, there will be a meeting of the discussion group leaders, chosen previously by correspond ence, who will direct the discussions on the duties and responsibilities of the various officers of APO. These discussions will take place tomorrow afternoon. The entire group of delegates is scheduled to meet the president of the Univer sity, Donald S. Russell, and other of the administrative heads tomor row morning during a conducted tour of the Carolina campus. Luncheon tomorrow afternoon will be taken in Steward's Hall, and there will be a formal banquet tomorrow evening at the Bamboo House in Five Points. Frank D. Wood, Atlanta, Geor gia, national treasurer of Alpha Phi Omega, will be the principal speaker at the banquet tomorrow evening. He will address the dele gates on the subject of basic organization of Alpha Phi Omega Chapters. The convention will close Sun day morning with breakfast in Steward's Hall and a report of the discussion group leaders and the recording secretary of the Con vention;-William S. Roth, Univer sity of North Carolina. Belser To Speak At Phi Bleta Kappa Annual Meeting Irvine F. Belser, Columbia at torney, will speak at the annual scholarship meeting of Phi Beta Kappa at 8 p. m. today in Petigru College. More than 500 persons have been invited to attend the meeting which marks the 176th anniversary of the founding of the national scholarship fraternity. An annual event for 20 years at the university, the meeting en courages scholarship and recog nizes those who have attained academic honors. Among the guests will be new students who made excellent show ings on entrance tests, Columbia Phi Beta Kappa members, faculty members, dean's list students, spring semester students with a 2 average and first semester stu dents with a 2 average at mid term. Mr. Belser is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University. He received a master's degree at Yale In 1911 and a bachelor of civil law degree in 1914 at Oxford University, England, where he studied as a Rhodes scholar. At the university he was class valedictorian, president of the Euphradian Society, member of varsity football and baseball OuS E Convention Tonight n colleges and universities will st South Carolina State Con a at Camp Barstow outside ODK Taps Six New Members At Stunt Night By MARK BUYCK Staff Reporter Six men were tapped for mem bership into Omicron Delta Kappa, national honorary leadership so ciety, at the Inter-fraternity Council Stunt Night program last night. The new members are Jim Abert, Robert Bland, Johnny Gramling, Jake Jennings, Spencer Liles and Roy Nettles. The cere mony was conducted by ODK President Bill Novit and all mem bers took part. The neophytes and their accom plishments follow: James G. Abert has been the recipient of a departmental scholarship in. the school of engi neering, maintained a B-plus aver age, won a letter in a minor sport, and was a member of several intra mural championship teams. He is a member of Kappa Sigma Kappa, "Y" cabinet, rifle team, and the NROTC championship drill platoon and was a counselor at the fresh man "Y" camp this year. Robert Bland is president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon; member of the honor board and KSK; vice president of Alpha Epsilon Delta, honorary pre-medical society; and listed in "Who's Who in American Colleges." He has maintained a B-plus average, is vice-president of the junior class, and has served as a counselor at "Y" camp and is on the "Y" cabinet. John Gramling is a football and baseball letter-winner. He was president of the sophomore class. He is a member of Student Council, honor board and council, KSK, and Block "C" Club. Jacob H. Jennings Is editor-elect of the Law Quarterly; member of the Wig and Robe, honorary scholastic organization; treasurer of the Law Federation; and has a B-plus average. At Wofford College he was president of Kappa Alpha Order, Editor of 'the Year book, member of the Blue Key Honor Fraternity, a literary so ciety, and the debaste team. He was named as one of the four most outstanding seniors during his final year at Wofford. Spencer Liles has a B-plus aver age and received an honorary math award as a freshman along with an Air Science scholarship award. He is vice-president of the local chapter of the American Society of Chemical Engineers, was chair man of the Carolina Religious Council, and Is secretary of Phi Kappa Sigma, and a member of the "Y" cabinet and vespers corn mittee. Eugene Leroy Nettles has achieved a B-plus average. He is a member of Wig and Robe; Phi Delta Phi, legal fraternity; chair man of the law school library committee; secretary of the Law Federation; and note editor of the Law Quarterly. They will be initiated at ODK's semi-annual formal banquet next Friday evening. All studenta in the School of Education who plan to graduate in January, June, or August must get an application to stand the National Teachers' Examination from Dean Crows office. c npha Pre-Registrat Set for Tom Today and Saturday are the last days on which students may earn registration priority next January. All students who plan to register for the Spring Semester should complete this during curriculum counseling week. Saturday at 1 p. m. is the closing time. Those students who do not com plete tentative pre-registration will receive the latest schedule tickets for registration for spring semester. Any student who does not know what to do should visit the person nel bureau, ground floor of Mc Cutcheon House, for consultation. If he has decided to change from one division of the university to another, all that is necessary is that he find the dean of the divi sion and make arrangements. Education majors should visit Dean Crow's office in Wardlaw College. Both prospective teachers in the elementary and the high schools should see Dean Crow. Seniors, juniors and advanced sophomores in the College of Arts and Science should report to their major professors, who are respon sible for advice and approval in Carl Sandbi Assembly P: Carl Sandburg will appear in Drayton Hall today at 10 a. m. He is one of America's foremost poets, but until he was thirty-six years yld, he was totally unknown to the iterary world. He published his rirst pamphlet of twenty-two poems in 1904. In 1914 he was awarded the Levison Prize, as one >f the "Chicago" group. Sandburg has been twice a P~ultzer Prize winner. His "Corn muskers" shared the prize for poetry In 1918, and his publication f the four volumes of "Abraham Lincoln: The War Years" won the prize in history in 1989. Sandburg's home Is at "Conne nara Farms," Flat Rock, North Carolina, the historic former home af Christopher Menninger. His home contains thousands of Lin :oln books and documents. Born of Swedish parents in 2alesburg, Illinois, .he had very little formal schooling as a child, and gained the majority of his knowledge from direct contact with he industrial part of America. lHe first began to think In terms of lis W S 'Ur ion Deadline [rrow at 1 regard to course selections in major-minor or double major fields of study. It is the responsibility of the student to locate the office of his major professor and arrange an interview. Pre-medical and pre-dental stu dents who are below junior rank should obtain proper forms and counseling service from their ad viser, Dr. W. E. Hoy, Room 214, LeConte College. Pre-medical and pre-dental juniors and seniors should first visit Dr. Hoy for copies of the major-minor course plan form, and then deal with major professors. Pre-law students, who are ful filling the first three years of required work in any school or college of the university, should consult with deans or advisers of the colleges or schools whose curri culums they have chosen for pre law work. Students in engineering, bus iness administration, education, pharmacy, journalism, and social work will obtain forms and assist ance from deans of their schools irg to Perfo rogram Tod literature when he entered Lom bard College in Galesburg. Sandburg programs have been enjoyed by audiences of all types throughout the country, and those who have heard him always want to hear him again. This lecture will be one of a series given to] college and university students throughout America. ek Be These five speakers will be among the nine present (luring Religious Emphasis week. Top row: Rev. William W. Lumpkin, Rev. Edward A. Maher, Rev. W. B. McGee. Bottom row: Rev. Ken neth G. Phifer, Rev. J. Claude Evans. Nominations For Secretary Will Be Held Wednesday Nominations for secretary of the student body and candidates for 'Miss Garnet and Black will be held in the chapel Wednes day, December 10, at 5 o'clock. Elections will be held Monday, December 15, and run-offs, Wednesday, December 18. Nom inations are being made for secretary of the student body to fill the vacancy left by Helen Coggeshall who is getting mar ried and will not be in school next semester. The nominees for secretary must be juniors. Girls nominated for Miss Garnet and Black must have been a student at the University of South Carolina for at least two semesters. or from designated advisers in the various schools. Students who prefer to remain free from degree requirements are invited to register as "unclassi fied" in the College of Arts and Science. Such students should refer to the directions above per baining to the College of Arts and science and do as directed. rm In ay at 10. He is a member of Phi Beta Kap a, the American Academy of Arts md Letters, the National Institute f Arts and Letters, the Authors ~eague of America, the Michigan ~uthors Association, the National ress Club of Washington, and he Harvard Alumni Association. Sandburg has been honored with legrees fronm many colleges and mniversities, among thenm Harvard Jniversity, Yale University, Laf iyette College, Wesleyan Univer iity, Rollins College, and Dart nouth. lie was awarded a special liploma by Lincoln Memorial Jniversity. Sandburg has performed the asks which have equipped him to >e the poet of industrial America. some of the experiences he had iven before his eighteenth year vere in work on a milk wagon, >Orter in a barber shop, scene ihifter in a theatre, truck-handler n a brickyard, turner apprentice n a pottery, dishwasher in Denver md Omaha hotels, and harvest iand in Kansas whatfla. gins. Sunday 'Exist or Live' Is Theme Of Four-Day Program By BETTY JEAN NICHOLSON Staff Reporter Religious Emphasis Week will begin Sunday, December 1 ahd will end on Thursday, December 11. This year's theme is "Exist or Live," with "Seek the Lord and ye shall live" Amos 5 :6, as its text. The question: "Can religion change our present-day sense of futile existence to a way of life full of importance and meaning?" will be uppermost in the minds Df the speakers as they talk to and with students and faculty. The program for the week will include daily convocations at 10:30 a. m., seminars, classroom discussions led by the nine visiting ministers, and meetings at the various clubs and organizations. Sponsoring Religious Emphasis Week are the university, the local churches and synagogues, the church student organizations, and the campus YW-YMCA. No Retreat Instead of the usual retreat on Saturday at the Y camp, a "get together" will be held Sunday night after Vespers in Flinn Hall for the general committee and faculty who have planned this week. At this meeting there will be a discus-ion of the objectives of Religious Emphasis Week-what students and faculty alike should get from these five days of emphasized religion. Highlighting the week will be an opening service and four convoca tions which will carry out the theme with the following topics: "Love," "Know," "Obey," "Choose," and "Live." Rev. Oswald Elbert of Phila delphia, Penn., will deliver the opening service Sunday night at 7 in the chapel. The address will be "The Ultimate Priority"-Matthew 22:34-40. The context of his message is: "if we are to live we must be oriented to Almighty God, so that every and all aspects of our existence in this world are permeated by our commitment to Him." First Convocation The first convocation in the Armory at 10:30 Monday will be led by Rabbi Abraham I. Rosenberg of Savannah, Ga. His address "Two Ills with But One Cure" deals with "Complete 'standardization' and 'secularization' of our personal, family, business, and political life and how they have stunted the mind and stifled the heart of contemporary man. The remedy is only through an awareness of God and that which he represents." "Low Whisper" is the topic of the second convocation which will enforce the thought that "our much cherished American way of life is ouoted in the Personal disciplines that are taught by the Christian Faith." Dr. R. Bryce Herbert of Greenville will be the speaker. l'hifer Speaks In the third convocation, Rev. Kenneth G. Phifer of Alexandria, Va., will speak on "Being Genuine," taking his text from Matthew 6:1-21. Ile says: "Some of us live in pretense. We are 'phonies'." Life p'nctu"-s the false. It is incumbent upon us to choose genuine values. They determine between true living and mere existence. The fourth and last convocation has as its speaker Rev. William V. Lumpkin of Rock Hill, who will speak on "The Thoughts of Our Hearts," which is a brief study of the ''inner self" in Christian terms and in the light of Christi:n experience. Three "Marriage and Family" Seminars will be conducted in the Law Auditorium Monday, Tuesday, and WXednesday at 5 p. m. Leading these will be Rev. J. Claude Evans of Columbia, psresent editor of the "Methodist Advocate." The faculty will have an opportunity to learn of "Christian Faith" from three different points of view at luncheons in Flinn Hall Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from Rev. Lumpkin, Rev. Phifer, and Rev. Elbert speaking on those days respectively. Class Schedule The class schedule for the week is slightly different than usual in order to allow time for Convocation each day at 10:30. The 8 o'clock classes will meet at the regular time, but wvill be dismissed earlier than usual so students can get to their 9 o'clock classes by 8:50, when the last hell rings. The 10 o'clock classes will start at 9:40 and will get out in time for the students to get to the Armory and be seated before the Convocation starts at 10:30. Going to the 11 o'clock classes at 11:20, the students will be dis missed at 12, and the last bell for 12 o'clock classes will ring at 12:10. This change in class meeting times will only be active Monday through Thursday. The Friday and Saturday classes will return to the regular schedule, and all afternoon classes and labs will meet at their usual time the wvhole week. Flinn Hall Breakfast Monday through Thursday at 8 o'clock the general committee and the speakers will have breakfast in Flinn Hall. Leading the devotionals will be Dr. Roy 0. McClain of Orangeburg. Each speaker will meet with classes, luncheons, "Y" councils and eabinets, churches, dormitories, religious, social, campus, and honorary organizations (luring his stay here. Sims, Wade Hampton, McBryde, Preston, Snowden, and Coker, dlormitories will have such speakers as Drs. Herbert and McClain, I"ather Maher, and Revs. McGee and Elbert address them.. All the sororities will have meetings to talk with the ministers and all but four of the fraternities have arranged to do the same. An informal coke hour will be held in the lounge on the first floor of Flinn Hall on Monday and Tuesday afternoons at 5:80. The visiting speakers will be present at this time and all students and faculty are invited to meet them. Flinn Hall will be the scene of a book exhibit, comprising the best :urrent books and pamphlets on religious topics of interest to college students. The books will be on display from 9 a. mn. to 4 p. mn. Monday through Thursday and they may be purchased. Any students desiring private conferences with the leaders may arrange them directly with the speaker or by signing up at the office cf the YM..YWCA in FlInn Hall.