Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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It Takes Money, Though More Researc USC A Great The State of South Carolina and the Uni versity at one time, in no small measure, furnished intellectual leadership for the na .tion. This was before the War Between the States. Of course the War and its aftermath made the University lose its position of leadership and fall by the wayside in the field of education. South Carolina is once again on its feet and the University should once again be able to attain the position of intellectual leadership which it once held. This, of course, cannot be done over night, but it can be accomplished over a period of years under true leadership and with the cooperation of the students, alumni and faculty of the University and the Legislature and citizenry of South Carolina. How can Carolina regain this high position which it held when the faculty had such men as Leiber and Cooper? By doing more in the fields of advanced studies and research is our answer. A university is known and remem bered for its discoveries, explorations and contributions to civilization. These are the things that have made our great educational institutions great. Making explorations into the fields of pure knowledge and seeking to Proposed Pla Professors Professors are human, and as such are not perfect. Many of their faults cause them to lose their effectiveness in their teaching pro fession. If these faults were called to their attention, perhaps, many of them could be corrected. A number of universities have instituted in recent years a faculty evaluation system in which the students may often hell) im prove their instructor's classroom perform ance by offering constructive comments and suggestions. The system which has proven successful at many colleges, large and small, is based on a mimeographed form which each student receives in each of his classes. The form gives the student the opportunity of grading his professor on such things as methods of instruction, use of class time, personal habits, fairness, and knowledge of subject. Sheets You Can| Between January 2 and January 31 the tradlitional "March of Dimes" dIrive wvill once again app)eal for polio-fighting funds to be used in patient care and scientific research. This year there is greater nieed for hellp than ever before. 1952 wvas the worst polio year in American history and the fifth year of high incidence. So todlay there are more polio victims to be taken care of than in any recent year. Polio research now is on the threshold of %l: GAA* Co4 CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUT'II CAROl MtlIebr of Asoiatedt Collegiatte Pre Founmdedl Janmuary 30, 1908, with, Roht-rt Elliott G;onzalu editor, "The. Gamecock" is puablished by and for tihes University of Soumthm Carolinam weekly, on Fridays, dumrini year except on hmolidnays ~andl during examinations. Thea opinions expressedl by cohlunnists and letter writers sarily th%w ofn "The Gamecoick." Publishing dloes not endorsmeant. The right to edit is reserved. ED)ITOR MANAG;ING ED)ITOR RALPJ BUSINESS MANAGER .JOHI NEWS ED)ITOR Toi CAMPUS EDITOR Leo M. SPORTS EDITOR SOCIETY ED)ITOR FEATURE EDITOR Barba COPY EDITOR Are EXCHANGE EDITOR CIRCULATION MA.NAGER ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER STAFF REPORTERS Furney Hemingway, Bill Leggitt, JTack Ilass, Nicholson, Arthur Coutras, Sonny Gray, Kennetl Vanlandingham, Mark Buyck, Hannah Timm, Kominers, Jerry Rollins, Delight Tiemann. COLUMNISTS Gloria Roddey, John Duffy, Terrell Glenn, Mort Hunter Rentz. BUSINESS STAFF W. L. Buffington, Dan Donovan, Wes Sanders, CARTOONISTS .Al Simson, Bob Cameron, Stan PHOTOGRAPHERS . Gus Manos, Gary Lee, Lo h Could Make :er University know the truths are the main functions of a university. Let's build up our graduate schools, pro vide more scholarships for graduate students and allow our faculty more time for research. Of course these suggestions will cost money, but the money must be provided either by private endowments or by the Legislature if the University is to be regarded as a leader in education. Funds to provide for fellowships enabling qualified students to pursue graduate courses are needed and funds to acquire more pro fessors in order to take the teaching and administrative load off of our outstanding faculty members so that they will have time for research must come forth from some where. "A great university-one which we'll have to apologize to no one," this is the aim which President Donald Russell outlined in his initial address to the student body upon assuming office. This is our aim. Whether we reach this aim and attain the position we had 100 years ago will largely depend on whether the University received the support which will enable it to engage in the research which great universities engage in.-B. N. n Might Make Proficient do not bear the signature of the marker, and naturally the students are expected to mark them honestly, and conscienciously. When the student has completed the form, it is col lected and turned in anonymously with the forms of all in the class. After the professor receives his forms, he studies them and tries to benefit from them. The faculty evaluation system has proven successful at other schools because the pro fessors were interested in doing a better job and the students were interested in their being more efficient. The Gamecock believes that the University faculty memb.rs are interested in becoming better instructors and that the University students are interested in helping their pro fessors improve themselves, so why not in augurate the evaluation system next fall. --B. N. Help, Too! many important dliscoveries, and costly ex p)erimentation may be needled to complete the task. Remember this needl, as the March of 1)imes gets under way. Give more generously than ever, for your contributions will help to wip)e out forever the crippling dlisease, polio. Join the 1953 March of Dimes--January 2-31. c Collegiate ANALIKE HARRY IN SLOBIOVIA.. MN At Brown university there has ucet fthe been considIerable discussion over g the ollege a piece of sculp)ture gracing the ir o ee- Quadrangle, principal walkway on Constttetcaanus. An editorial is the lILL NOVIT IBrown D)aily Herald says its ab i GREGORY surd( to place. a statue of Augustus i PARASHTO Caesar amid Georgian Colonial n1mie Herbert archiitecture. MacCourtney As out of place, says the Herald, Johnny Ray as a statue of Washington in the June Presnell Coliseum, or of Harry Truman in ra Thompson Lower Slobovia. s L. Artecmos BOKTA AlBobBa'tt AL 'ITlERATrION... Bobby Smith H[eadline from Akron University Buchtelite: "Faithful Fans Forget Feet for Football. Betty Jean i Flynn, 1)-n THANKS, MORtT rns, Carolyn Old Editors never die, they just fade away until they're calledl upon for service. lecaiPerskThis week Mordecai Pesky re :lciPrk, turns to the Gamecock office to act in the capacity of the man aging editor, who is out of Betty Seay. town. ley Papajohn THANKS MORT well W. Ross The Editor Too man JOHN DUFFY Is Adver Threat To l "Give us a good product and we can sell it," an American advertis ing man is reported to have said. Ordinarily that statement would seem just another burst of business bravado to which most of us are accustomed. Unfortunately the ad man was using the word "product." in an unusual sense. He wasn't referring to soapflakes or an under-arm deodorant, but to a presidential candidate. His remark, then, is worthy of serious consid eration. Most of us have realized for some time now, that man does not act by reason alone. One of the most cogent proofs of that fact is the modern phenomenon of mass advertising. The whole aim of advertising has been to sell the people goods which they don't need by preying on their more primitive emotions. By making people feel, that in some way, they're odd if they don't use Mum, smoke Camels, or drive a Ford, American adver tising has managed to move goods which otherwise would be either slow sellers or non-existent. That this has helped the economy is a generally accepted fact. But in spite of its beneficial effects the fact remains that advertising is an appeal to the non-rational in human nature. As long as advertising confined itself to corn-flakes and soap, there was not much to worry about. In recent years, however, American hucksters have expanded GUEST COLUMNIST A Pig In Would the Greeks of ancieni days have built the Acropolis ii they had expected it to be inhabitec by swine ? Or would the Americar nation have sp)ent millions oi dollars in renovating the Whit< House for the p)urpose of giving some pigs beauty and comfort1 No! The Acropolis was built t< house the Gods, andl that it did do The White IIouse was built t< house humans, and that it has don< andl will do. Live Like P'ige But unhappily the purposes o: a structure are not always ful filled. For example, take the Uni versity of South Carolina, mor< specifically Tenements One througl Twenty Nine, Maxcy, andl Preston These were built to house mal4 studlents, but even upon the mos cursory examination, it wvould ap pear that they are not so inhabited for wvhat species excep)t that of pig could inhabit the pigsties s< in evidlence? A conglomerate masi of (lust, dirty clothes, dirty be< sheets, emp)ty containers, 01(d news papers, dry cleaning papers, yin taged toothbrushes, chipped beds and scratched wardrobes fill thi rooms. The student is apt to say "That lazy janitor has been hitting only the middle of the floor again.' or "What's the use of cleaning ui these old (lumps ?" But the very fact that the student (does criticiz< and does nothing, when he couh improve the condlition of his room seems to prove the fact that pas generations of pigs have made th4 room what it is todlay, not th4 room turned the human into a pig Students Are Guilty We have all heard people say a one time or another of sonme po:1 family: "Dirt poor, but clean.' This brings to mind a picture of: small house in need of paint, hu spotless within: of sack-like, muel patched clothes, but always neatl: laundered and starched. The poin is, that though our rooms are a the opposite extreme from thi beautiful interiors of the Ta Mahal, we can keep what we havi clean. With the little time that thi janito hna to allot toach roo CAR y to name. tising A 0emocracy? their field. They have pushed Bibles, Charities, and now they are pushing a "way of life." The ad vertisers boast of selling a presi dent, the chief spokesman of democracy, to the people. In other words, some people are willing to admit that the scientific exploita tion of the irrational in man has been used to elect an official in a democracy. Admittedly, the exploitation of the irrational has been a factor in presidential campaigns since the beginning of the Republic; but this is one of the few times that spokesmen for a party have glee fully declared that to be the main factor in electing a president. My point is simply this: Democracy is based upon the belief that men are capable of rational decision. That is the ideal. There are those, however, who are now attempting to sell democracy in a way which is in direct violation of that ideal. These individuals might consider the objections which are raised to the violation of the democratic ideal as "tender mindedness." The same people would glory in the title, "realist" and suggest that democracy become more "realistic." I would not argue with such people. I shall merely refer them to two excellent examples of governments which glorified in their irrationalism and embraced this "realism"-Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. : DAVID CRUM the Purlor he cannot thoroughly clean it, especially with the occupants throwving everything hither, thi ther, and yon, making absolutely no effort to do their part. It would help if the student would stop writing on wvalls, chipping paint, throwing butts on the floors, kick ing in doors, breaking windows, tearing shades, destroying screens, andl allowing such filth to accumu late that nothing short of Hercules app)earing on the scene could ever get the room sp)otless again. Janitors At Fault, Too There is a joint responsibility betwveen the janitors and the stu dents to (10 their part. But in many instances both have failed. What then can be done about the p)roblem? Firstly, the administra tion should keep behind the jani tors so that they occasionally, at the very least, clean one or two of the spots at the outer edges of the rooms. Secondly, some system of student responsibility should be incorporated. A possible plan is that the adlministration should con duct two spot inspections a semester. Any (damage found done to a room should he borne by the studlents who live in it. Furthermore, if the authorities found a room that had not been damaged, but was being kept in a chaotic, dlisrep)utable condition, then steps should be taken to remedy that situation. Perhaps there should be some type of pro bationary system. If after several inspections the rooms were still dlirty, then the student or students mainly responsible would be toad to move off campus. He would not be deprived of schooling, but lhe would have to stay out in town. Such would he the fate of the stu, (lent who had the responsibility of keeping a room which he shirked. After several semesters of exe cuting such policies, there would he no pigs in the parlors on this campus. In fact, there might even he a little pride in good house keeping. TERRELL GLENN University A Tuinte There appeared in this column; last week an article concerning the practice of allocating the prof its from the University Stores to various departments on the campus, specifically the Athletic Department. Since that time, with the help of the faculty and em ployees of the University Stores, it has been possible to obtain several facts on the history of this organization. In the Fall of 1946 the Board of Trustees set up a committee to investigate the University Stores and make necessary recommenda tions for a permanent organization. Professors C. Fitzsimons and C. M. Gittinger along with Mr. Roy L. Garrett, the business manager of the university, were appointed to this committee. This committee in turn submitted to President Nor man M. Smith a thirty page report on the University Stores. In this report it was re'eommended that the organization be headed by a Board of Directors composed of three members of the Administra tive Staff and/or Instructional Staff, to be appointed by the president, three student members named by the Student Council, and the manager of the University Stores. The Board of Directors were to be charged with the responsibility of advising, cooper ating and assisting in the policies, administration and actual operation of this activity. Suggestions Not Carried Out Such a committee was appointed by the president. It functioned until the Fall of 1947 when the Student Council failed to appoint the student members of the com mittee. The committee was to authorize any expenditures of the profits from all parts of the Uni versity Stores. During the exist ence of the committce several sug gestions were made for the improvement of the physical plant of the bookstore and canteen. Nonp of these were carried out. Since then some remodeling has been done to the canteen, but nothing has beeni done to alleviate the crowded conditions of the book store. The committee made no authorization of the allocation of funds to any. department on the campus. The only expenditure that was even tacitly approved by this committee (at that time consisting only of faculty members due to lack of student interest) was the purchase of new uniforms for the band. Where Do the Profits Go? The question at once arises, what has happened to the profits of the stores? It Is not denied that a large part of it has gone to the athletic department for scholarships. Some of the money may have been used for other pur poses, but there has been no notifi cation to any committee, student or faculty, of the disposition of these profits. The committee further recom mended that the University Stores HUNTER RENTZ Was It A The week just past was one that was thought about and p)lanned for over many long months, and the comments that are to be made will be accepted as constructive thoughts as well as thoughts of gratitude. The name Religious Emphasis Week would not be complete as a title if the word Emphasis were removed. It would be like taking United from the name The United States. Was It really a period of Emphasis on things spiritual? The canteen continued to run, practice for "Stunt Night" was not ter minated and professor's scheduled quizes during these four days with the short periods. It is certainly true that one can not be compelled to enter into such an emphasis, yet an effort to lend cooperation dur ing one of the more sober wee'ks in the college year would make for a more fruitful endeavor. If it is going to be called an Emphasis Week, then lets' put some emphasis in It by our interest and coopera tion. Though I can not speak as an authority, certainly the noticeable results and accomplishments of R. Stores dHistory ublish a profit and loss statement to be published in The Gamecock at the end of each semester- It appears that such a statement was prepared in the Spring of 1947, but the necessary approval for publication was never received from the president. Such a state. ment has never been released for publication. An attempt was made to find out where the profits went by a columnist for The Gamecock in the Spring of 1950. The Dean of Administration told him that he knew but had no authority to tell him. The president informed him that the Board of Trustees was the only body that had the authority to release this information. It is submitted that even the president didn't know how the money was spent after it reached the Athletic Department. Keep the Matter Quiet The obvious conclusion that can be drawn by anyone attempting to make any investigation of the University Stores, the operation and policies thereof, is that it is desired to keep the whole matter quiet. When the interest of 1946 waned within the year the matter was put back on the shelf. The sad fact is that either those mem bers of the administration, and even the Board of Trustees, who are responsible must either be blind to the situation, or they have chosen to ignore the problem. The statement was made con cerning the University Stores, "to let a sleeping dog lie." It is the belief of this columnist that if the student body and faculty were aware of the conditions existent they would not follow the above advice. Apparently the original committee has never been dis banded officially. Student Council should contact the faculty mem bers of the committee and in con junction with the student organiza tion who desire to remedy the situation conduct a thorough in vestigation. The ground work has been laid in the booklet issued by the old committee. 'With contined interest from the students aa faculty, then surely the admini stration will adopt workable and just policies. Down Payment on Student Union The amount of money involved is not small. No one seems to know for sure whether the stores should be run on a profit basis or for less than retail stores. The fact is that they are being operated on a large profit basis. The bookstore alone, not including the canteen and laundry, has done a $100,000 volume of business in recent years, wvith an average of 20 per cent profit., The money involved is student money and should be treatedi as such. $50,000) a year would make a healthy down pay ment on a student union building. This cloud should be removed from the whole situationi' and open to the students, administration, facul ty and employees of the university. Surely the books should bear inspection. This columnist would like to thank those members of tihe faculty and employees of 'the University Stores for their aid in bringing these facts to light. Success? Despite the failure of altering plans and the lack of interest of some independent groups the theme "Exist or Live" prevailed. Some found by attending the con vocations and seminars that there was a difference in just existing and genuine living. The answer to futility was seen as some sought new horizons of spiritual living. There were those that turned a deaf ear to the theme, and bragged that they had never parti cipated in a R. E. Week sic they came to Carolina. Whether the 'our dlays met your need I do not know, but I do know the week Was planned to reach the thought Of every individual regardless of his faith. About ninety-six per cent of our campus has sonme church or religious affiliation, yet I dlare say that there was not that' high ? per cent of participation in the opportunities of the week. Regardless of the lack of interest by some and failure to cooperate by others, let me express to each one that had a part in preparing and executing the week, a deeP feeling of sincere gratitude for your tireless efforts. Was it * success? You have the answer.