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Don't Let ROTC Outgrow Its Place Gripes have come into this paper by letter (see below), phone anI4 personal visits concerning the recent sale of ticket* to tb* ROTC dance scheduled for this month. Accord iWg to Wnoat of them it was suggested that they either buy the tickets or face possible expulsion from the corps. Of course the reinark was made in a spirit of jest by some of the advanced students but it reflects the general attitude of the corps. When a student is ready to enter the advance unit he is interviewed by one of the officers who are instruc tors in the depart#ent. According to some of the cadets they were asked two questions: (1) Did you attend the dance last spring? (2) Did you contribute blood during the blood drive? If the answer was no to either one of these questions, the interviewee was told that it would be hard to get him in on the contract prograin, which pays the cadet during his final two years in school and gives him reserve active commission at graduation. The tickets for the dance were being sold by the students themselves and according to reports the instructors were unaware of the pressure being put on the freshmen who were the main victims of the "buy or else" campaign. When one of the cadet officers who was unknown to the iftrs was given the strong arm treatment he immediately reported it to the staff and the situation was supposedly remedied. Col. Sears reports that no one was actually required to buy a ticket. All the cadets were urged to do so but none were forced. As a matter of record only about 350 ticket were sold and there are more than 800 boys in the unit. This isn't a military school. Most of the boys are in the unit because they want to stay in school and are not ready for Korea yet. Only by being in the reserve corps can they get a deferment. Because the military has' the boys over a barrel is no reason to coerce them into contributing to anything that they are not interested in. Off the drill field and out of the class rooms they should be as free as any other student on the campus, without outside work required. This isn't a military state yet and this university isn't quite ready for martial law. The ROTC should be secondary to the cadet's loyalty. First he is given the benefit of an education at a state-supported school. Then he should be given the right to get his commission without being subjected to the task of living the life of a soldier before his time comes. No doubt the sale of the tickets was done by some of the over-zealous cadet officers but some of the other actions seeping from the ROTC are equally as objectionable as that of mandatory buying. RNG General Assembly Budget Debate The appropriation request debates were begun by the General Assembly yesterday. Among the other sections which will be argued during the coming weeks will be the college requests. The University is in its greatest period of growth in many years. The continuance of that success will depend to a great degree on how the legislature decides to interpret the requests of Pres. D)onald S. Russell. It'll be a history-making budget, -anyway. RNG From Another Campus Columbus, 0. (I.P.)-The Ohio Staters Activities Scholar ship Development Fund committee plans to provide financial aid for students taking part in activities on the campus of Ohio State University. The scholarships are designed to attract more students into campus activities. The program is a long range idea. Building for the future, the committee's goal is $5,000 in five years. Scholar ships will be on a yearly basis and will total $300 annually. This amount will be dlividled among students according to their needs. The money collected to date is invested with the Treasurer of the State of Ohio and is drawing 6 per cent interest. Only the interest will be used for scholarships. A board of directors will dectermine disbursement of funds. The board will be composedl of the President of the University, the Dean of Men, Dean of Women, and eight students. Two of the students must be juniors. %L GA4-cocU CROWING FOR A CREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Member of Associated Collegiate Prces ete 'h Gaeok" I. pub ihe b and for the student the University of Seath arolina weekly,e Fridays, during the eelkge arly She cE "Teme*ek. PublIshiag doe t osttute a en endorseet. The right te edit is reserved. EDITOR . . .T* RALPH GREGORY MANAGING EDTRTOMMIE HERBERT BUSINESS MANAGER JOHN PARASHO NEWS EDITOR .. . Bill Leggltt CAMPUS EDITOR Area Artemes SPORTS EDITOR ..Johnny Ray SOCIETY EDITOR Mary Murray FEATURE EDITOR . .Barbara Thompson COPY EDITOR Jerry Rollins CIRCULATION MANAGER Bob Pitts ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER Bobby Smith STAFF REPORTERS Betty Jean Nicholson, Jack Bass, Mark Buyck, Hannah Timmons, Delight Tiemann, Kenneth Flynn, Sonny Gray, Arthur Coutras, James Covington, Jr. COLUMNISTS John Duffy, Hunter Rents, Terrell Glenn, Bill Novit, Mordecal P.rsky.BUSINESS STAFF W. L. Buffington, Dan Donovan, We. Sanders. Betty Seay. .CA RTOONISTS Bob Cameron, Stanley Papajohn, Al Simson PHOT'OGRAPHIERS . . .......... Gas Manos, Bill Ross UF-E 01fK TUr. N A ViRt BILL NOVIT Soviet Hate The recent outburst of anti Semitism in Russia and her slave states should be of concern to free people all over the world regardless of their religion. This treacherous, ugly campaign is based on hate. It reflects not only hatred of the Jewish people, but hatred of the United States and of all other countries which refuse to surrender themselves to Communist serfdom. The only op mistic note gained from this Sovift hate campaign is that it is speculated by some people that the campaign indicates an element of uncertainty and per haps an inner weakness in the Red regime. A power sure of itself would not have to hold purge trials such as were staged in Czechoslovakia and which it ap pears will be staged in Russia, itself. A government confident that it had the faith and support of its people would not have to blame its evils and shortcomings on a small minority of the people. This trick is old, however. It has been used throughout the ages, and in our own time by Adolf Hitler. Day by day, the victims attacks seem to be expanding. Instead of Jewish officials in Czechoslovakia or Jewish doctors in Moscow, leaders of Israel and even the United States State Department are now the targets. Israeli lead ers are being accused of being hostile to the Soviet Union which is the worst of all sins in the Kremlin's view--and are charged with taking orders from the United States Department for espionage--and even of being anti Semitic! To me, this Is utterly stupid. Such fantastically ridiculous lies seem to be the work of idiots or Colliegiate New Haven, Conn. (I.P.)-Dis-1 'losing for the first time pre liminary results of a five-year study into the drinking habits of American college youth, Robert Straus, research associate at Yale University's Laboratory of Ap plied Physiology, reports that four out of every five college men who dIrink began their drinking before entering college. "We hope the study will help create a better understanding of student behavior on the part of persons affected by such activities, such as residents of the college town, alumni and parents," he declared. Data was secured by the Yale survey at 27 colleges and univer sities in the country. A total of 17,000 students took part in a wide sampling of student drinking habits and attitudes toward drink ing. "The probability that a young person will drink at all," Mr. Straus said, "is closely rela'.d to the practices of his or her parPnte Of the men whose parents both rirink, 9'0 per cent are themselves users. However, only halt of the men (51 per cent) whose parents both abstain, drink. An even more striking relation ship between parental use and own use in seen for the women. "Where both, parents are users, 83 per cent of the women drink on occa sion. However, when both parents babtain, only 19 per cent of the women students drink." Of the Ameriann women students who Campaign madmen worse than those em ployed by Hitler. There Is a purpose underlying t these violent displays of anti Semitism just as there was in Hitler's day. Tie aim is not only 1 to provide an outlet for the < cramped emotions of the people under Communist domination who may be growing tired and critical of the Communist regime, but also to sow hate and distrust through out the world. Although the Communist p&op aganda says that their intentions are peaceful, they are obviously trying to split the free world. The unity of the countries fighting together in Korea and the. North I Atlantic countries banding to- V gether are set-backs for the Reds, but they are not giving up on their idea of dividing the free world. By attempting to spread hatred r of the Jews, Russia hopes to stir I up more trouble in the Near East and also hopes to win the friend ship of the Arabs who control the valuable oil lands which the Reds would like to get their hands on. t Russia would also like to frighten p Israel into dropping its opposition 0 to Communist slavery. The "Hate America" campaign waged by the Kremlin is familiar to us, but because it 4as gone i on for months does not mean that we can afford not to worry about it. The aim of this campaign is to weaken us with our friends and allies who are joined together toL preserve freedom and peace. r We American college students c must realize that the campaign r which Stalin is waging poses a greater threat to our security and to the world than any campaign wvaged by Hitler. For if Stalin' succeeds in splitting the free t world, we may be doomed!t Clppings drink, 65 per cent also started drinking before entering college, the survey disclosed. Striking differences appear In the types of beverages most fre quently used and types preferred by college men and women. Among college men, seven out of ten (72 per cent) reported that the beverage they most frequently use is beer. However, only 47 per centi of these men expressed a prefer ence for beer. Among the college women, 41 per cent reported most frequently using beer although only 17 per cent prefer it. Wine was more often used by women than by men. Approximately 42 per cent of the college men expressed a pre ference for hard liquors, but only half that number (21 per cent) can afford hard liquors as their 1 alcoholic beverages of most fre quent usage. At Oklahoma A&M, as well asi at other institutions, a policy ofj charging studen'ts one dollar for every class they drop, add, or 4 change after registration, has1 worked exceptionally well. This i plan, we understand, was proposed1 at UT, but quickly dismissed for fear of upsetting the nation's economic stability. * * * Folks up at Kansas State can't tell who's who. College officials have decided to outlaw the nation-wide Who's Who selections from the K-State campus, because, so the admin istration says, there Is a lack of 1 uniformity in the system. )oar Editor: In the Gamecock of January 9 here was a letter to the editor in vhich the writer was almost pre >ared to say "to Hell" with this lamned school. He or she further luded to ignorant and illiterate nen in the State Legislature, if I tave not misunderstood intent. 'he writer's name was withheld. It seems to me, first of all, an ntellectual poverty to approach problem in such intemperate knguage. Then there is the con ideration of poor taste. And inally the writer has accused rithout standing as accusor-that 3 to say, beyond failing to be pecific in a matter of this grav ty, he or she takes away direct ecourse, shirks responsibility of is or her own views. The Gamecock of January 16 iresents President Russell's re tuest of $8% million funds. On he editorial page of this issue, fr. Rentz gives further insights f practical problems of the Jniversity. Sir, $8% million is a lot of ioney! This sum is asked of the ,egislature of the State of South ,arolina. This means that our ,egislators are asked to appro riate said sum from the revenue f the State. Eventually we ar ive at the consideration of the roductiveness of the State. My point is that we would do rell to inform ourselves what is aking place today and then add to hese efforts such productiveness a we may. Won't you agree ? Sincerely yours, RUDOLPH R. STEUER, JR. (Ed. Note: Naturally we need o inform ourselves of the prob. ems about us. We need, however, nore funds to make this Univer ity the producer of leaders. To wuild up the state of South Caro-. ina we need to produce our own saders. The state-supported Uni ersity Is the moldings cast for eaders or at least it should be. Ve don't agree with the writer's ntemperate language and it cer ainly won't favorably influence he legislators.) )ear Sir: I think it is about time that omebody let the Air Science De >artment know that its strong ,rm methods are noticed. As a tudent and a cadet I was dis rusted to see Advanced Course ktudents selling Military Ball tick ts to freshmen, telling them that vithout attending the Military lall, a sudent will be dropped romn the Air Science Department. Advertising their wares as tick its from "Korea" and the only ray to dodge the draft, these union "officers and gentlemen" vere quite an attraction in the air Science building and in luilding C. This is not the first ime that the Air Science Depart nent has exceeded the bounds of rood taste, and I suspect that it nIll not be the last. However, it a a disgrace to our beloved Jountry and to this university to ~llow such shameful and obnoxious behavior to pass without comment. NAME WITHHL1D BY RLEQUEST Ed. Note: For our opinion on he matter see editorial on this MORDECAI PERSKY Couning A classical wit whose name is reQorded elsewhere said the only way we can get any conception of infinity is through observing the extent of human stupidity. Aside from the fact that he was a classical wit, the quotation is further evidence that this fellow never attended the University of South Carolina during the months of February through- May. ' As we embark for the last time on that little hunk of eternity called the spring semester, we called the above quotation to mind, tried to remember who said it, thought about that for awhile, and then passed on to greener pastures. * * * This will come as a belated congratulation to the genius be hind the checking station, an ap parently minor function which is rapidly establishing itself as an institution at USC registrations. Two short semesters ago when this function had not yet made its comet-like appearance on the registration scene, we personally felt a great void between the armory and McKissick Library. Other students will recognize this sensation as an awareness of the out-of-doors. Of course, the void is still there, but it has been con veniently split up. Now there is time and space to get a breath of fresh air, and, of course to pause for some much-needed spiritual refreshment in the chapel. * * * The University Film Society, which is a worthwhile and usually TOMMIE HERBERT Student To Work Why boycott the University canteen? Some of the women's groups on the campus have a rule by which a member of their or ganization may stay in the canteen only a limited time, such an, fifteen minutes. The girls are no more to blame for this situation than the boys. In the past I have heard the com ment, "Why is she in the canteen? Who is in there that she wants to date ?" The canteen could be the logical place to make new acquaintances. As long as the comments are made, no one can expect the co-ed groups to change their rules. The fact is that a woman student doesn't enjoy going by the can teen if she feels that her reputa tion will be criticized. She will then only go with a set group of friends. This eventually leads to closely knit cliques. The men students are constantly complaining about the unfriend liness of the co-eds. Again, I have heard the remark about a girl who smiles and speaks, "Well, who is the cute little flirt?" The sorori ties have campus wide drop-ins to help students make new acquaint ances, but usually they can only count on having their friends come. After a recent drop-in the members were very much per turbed to find out that one of their guests had felt "left out." Since they felt this so acutely, one Is definitely led to believe that they are interested in making our campus a friendly campus. Dr. Patterson has said that he would like to see more girls eat ing at Steward's Hall. The co-eds HUNTER RENTZ Exam Ni Have you ever tried to c bellowing blows of a hamme heated brain ? Such was the c exam week in McKisslck Lib, I realize that the comfort be greatly enhanced by the ad was it necessary to schedule particular time ? Granted thi been contracted out and the v~ contractor so desired. Yet t made some allowance for the f building on the campus condi A couple of weeks one was created such a nuisance at t semester. Certainly this was not a on the part of the faculty to a to re-teach next semester. S greatly appreciative of our libi that has been installed, but ii forethought to consider the a particular hour. Chick4en3 wetl-run organisation, does have what .we consider a blot on its record. It doesn't sell single performance tickets. As this is written there is no way to contact a film society offi. cial, but the reason for this rule' is, according to information about a semester old, that "we don't want to be accused of competing with the theaters down town." This may be a valid reason, but it has occurred to us that the present system of selling only membership tickets makes the society vulnerable to an accusation that it is in competition with students, and possibly all its mem bers, a list which includes many faculty members and administra tive personnel. It seems unfair to force these patrons of the cinema to pay for pictures which they may never be able to, nor even intend to see. We think the film society, if it 4 proposes to be a progressively constructive organization run for the benefit of the men and women of this university, should re consider its present "strictly membership , ticket" plan of ad mission. It is not unfair to continue to sell membership tickets to those interested, and to reserve priority for these members. We humbly recommend that this much of the present system be retained. And, before finishing, we would like to commend the society for its consistently fine selections of domestic and foreign screen plays. :s Need Together will patronize the dining hall only when they feel welcome and feel that they will not be criticized. The campus dining room and the canteen are for the convenience of the students. If the students do not use them, they will neces sarily not be as good as they otherwise would be. If the students do not show an interest in the canteen, how do they ever expect to have a stu dent's activities building? Every one is eager for a modern student center, but do those very students use the facilities that we have? One cannot expect a building to be built for only the small number of students that have exhibited an interest. The number seems large at the ten o'clock break, when they are all in the canteen together. There are other times when a crowd is in there, but for the most part of the rest of the day, there ar., not too many students in the place. The men students are in the majority, as would be natural because of our enrollment. There does not have to be such a notice able majority, though; the co-ed enrollment is not that small. With all the student body work ing together, it would not be long before definite plans would be made known about the student center. As long as the student body is disinterested, they need not expect anyone else to be in terested. If all the students wait for someone else to do the push ing, they will just keep on waiting.* The senior class members willW not benefit from it now, but the rest of the students could if they would only use a little energy. ghtmare ram for an exam while the* r ring noisily through your ase a week before and during ary. of this spacious building will iltion of air conditioning. But such an undertaking at that it this endeavor might have 'ork had to be done when the hose responsible should have act that this Is about the only icive to profitable study. or the other would not have b'is - most critical time of the diabolical ubdermining effort isure them of having studente erlously, we as students are 'ary and of the added comfort ext time let there be enough tudent and his need. of tha