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T-bUcat] wheel that turns forward and another t turns backwards would have a great 1 of trouble making any progress. The y way it would have a chance would be o1 have one wheel bigger than the other. The University is much like that cart with wheels that work against each other. The new administration is having a fight with the more complacent element that fights progress at every turn. The president and his staff consistently strive to make this a progressive school, with better equipment, research, and instruction. Right now they are more concerned with the physical makeup of the school and the faculty and haven't had a chance to delve into the student's work too much. The multiple committees whiah govern the student and his activities are consistently retrogressive in their decisions and actions. Witness for example the Board of Publica tions which after deciding to try to catch up with other schools by rewarding those who spend their time in student activities, turned right around and abolished it. Other schools had been following that practice for decades. The issue of salaries doesn't affect this staff so it can't be termed a selfish fight. A Solut Surplus : In opening debates over the South Carolina appropriations bill last week one member of the General Assembly spoke at length on spending the state's surplus funds on secon darv education rather than on the college level. He advocated better high schools for those people who are unable to acquire a col lege education. Apparently this legislator hasn't taken into consideration where the teachers for secondary education come from. He wants to improve the high schools but he doesn't want to start at the obvious beginning . . . in the colleges-where the teachers are trained. The University has the only education de partnent in the state that offers graduate Letters To Dt-ar Editor: haps if one wou I am ashamed of the trash that instead of outw is being offered for sale in the he would not magazine rack in the University 'criticize. Store. Since whenl an- we o dim The A ROTC e witted that all we want to readl versity in 1949. is Movie L.ife. Charm, True Con- grown rapidly an fessions, etc. Where is The At- at all times to lantic. Harpers. The Saturday eral welfare of thI RCeview. TIhe Amnerican Scholar, example, it has and other periodicals of at least the college day p a semi-literature nature? Where schools to promt ithe Atlanta .Journal, the the l'niver'sity. Washington Post. the New York also givenI the Times, and ot her such news- puablicit y throug papers ? The lIniversity Store is such ats piarades, not locatedi at a cross-roads in~ rifle team, andi a hick town. This is the big city, The' ROTC dI andi the most cultivated community egltaUnvr in a great state. There are sometlittofeshn hicks around . . .butt not many piui orc that, might not pick up some uo rdain larnin' upon exposure. l.et's ex- ~ cdtf pose them to something of a little i h r highergulars.nyvars fthat tetofes th NAME WITHHEL.D also allows man: BY REQUEST tain their college being called int IDeara Editor: their country.i In your editorial of February 6. what other colle I think that you have unjustly course compares criticized the rosition of the course, there isi AROTC at the University. Per- of the importanc CROWING FOR A CREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROl Member of As.ociabed CollegIate Pr Sounded January S0, 1908, with Robert EAiett oemna: editor, "Th. e mock' in published by and for the r, Univeretty of South Carolina weekly, en Fridars, due ,a ear em boHiday. and durn examinatione. The epEae expressed by celu,uniat and hetter writees sarnly t.,of "The oamecock." PnbUstang does n:t enndor,ease.t. The right te edit le reserved. EDITOR RALP MANAGING EDITOR TOMMI: BUSINESS MANAGER JIOHI NEWS EDITOR CAMPUS EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR SOCIETY EDITOR F'EATUJRE EDITOR COPY EDITOR CIRCULATION MANAGER ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER STAFF REPORTERS Betty Jean Nicholson, Jack Bass, Mark Bu Timmons, Delight Tlemann, Kenneth Flynn, Arthur Coutras, Jasmes Covington, Jr., Sara Jani COLUMNISTS John Duffy, Hunter Rents, Terrell Glenn, Bill N( Persky. BUSINESS STA FF W. L. Bffington, Dan Donovan, Wee Sanders CA RTOON ISTS Bob Cameron, Stanley Papajol PIIOTOGRAPUERS Gus Mai tons Stl1 ularies Salaries for this semester's staff were al ready approved so the Board magnanimously allowed them to be paid. It's for the value of future publications, especially The Gamecock, that we ask for reward of some kind for future staffs. The arguments for salaries have been stated fre quently in this paper so there's no need to go through them again. Reward need not be in the form of salaries. A much simpler way would be to reward academic credit for work done on publica tions. Both salaries and credit in class work are given at many schools. If none of the above proposals is adaptable to this campus, consider the plan of Ohio State University which has set up an Activi ties Scholarship Development Fund (see Gamecock of February 6). This program is a long range idea with a $5,000 goal in five years. It will be divided into scholarships to be awarded to students in campus activities. A similar plan, begun now, would be one of the greatest steps taken in recent years to aid student activities, not only the publica tions but also the various other groups on the campus that represent this school to the state and nation. Get both wheels rolling together for a change.-RNG. on For Spending work. If the future teachers of this state get their education and graduate work in another state they are quite likely to remain in that state after finishing their college work. This legislator would be defeating his own purpose if his proposal to turn back all the surplus funds to the secondary schools was approved. The future of the development of greater educational opportunity for the masses lies right here in the development of qualified educators. Spend Part of those funds on better equipping the graduate school here so that it can turn out more and better trained teachers and your secondary problems will be practically solved.-RNG. The Editor Id seek the facts and these extra benefits, it seems ard appearances, rather small to criticize the ROTC be so quick to for asking its cadets to show enough interest in the cadet pro ame to the Uni. gram to participate in its functions since then, it has even though it might on rare d has endeavored occasionls require time outside the >romote the gen-.eheduled classroom hours. e University. For According to the editor of the participated in.Gamecock, all this adds up to rograms for high "martial law" and t..at "the stu te enrollment in ,dent is being subjected to the task The. ROTC has , f living the life of a soldiier be University much fore his time comes." Does this h its activities, sound logical? O f course, it ('*cremnies the doesn't. ts (lances. The editor also objects to man iffers from the datory buying, of which he accuses ty program in the ROTC and of which the ROTC StudenCft the op- is not guilty. But the position of ive a commission the editor seemis contradictory It pays the ad- upon this point since he is the r his final two editor of a college paper which is ram and provides subsidized by mandatory subscrlp nd uniforms. It tion rates leviedi on the student Sstudents to oh- by means of a student activities education before fee. > the service of* In closing I want to point out sow, I ask you, that the ROTC is strictly a volun ge curriculum or tary program on the part of the with this? Of student and that the advantages ione, and because offered by such a program e of the outcome dec'isively outweigh any dis advantages It might have. Sincerely yours, Duncan Breckenridge. Dear Editor: The article concerning the ROTC IAin the Feb. 6, issue of the Game L cock Is a bunch of bunk. It is my belief that in order to be classi 'aa e~I fled as a good reporter andi to * eb.e e.ass hold a responsible job on a news *re .. ..., paper, one should get all the facts *.mmitue am before printing an article. This Fl GREGORY seems more important than filling C HERBERT up an empty space with biased i PRASO statements which are hearsay Brll At rather than fact. Johnny Ray I really feel sorry for these poor Mary Murray little boys who aren't ready for Guis Manos Korea yet. I wonder if the 125, Jerr R~o lnu 000 boys killed or wounded over Bobby Smith there were ready ? I'll venture to say that there are many men in yck, Hannah the front lines of Korea who would Sonny Gray, ,gladly change places with these Quinn' unfortunate lads even though It vit, Mordecai would mean giving a pint of blood and S3.50 for a dance ticket. It is my opinion that a boy who Bet S.y does not have enough interest in ocs. Bill Rose an organisation to support its VA Op a o "Red meen sep. guen l o BILL NOVIT Political Would Chec Paul Field and KSK service fraternity have come up with a worthwhile idea which could make student government on the Caro lina campus a great deal more effective in future years. Field proposed, shortly before his graduation last month, that two rival political parties be formed on the campus. KSK adopted his proposal and plans to take the initiative in establishing the political parties. The idea is not a new one. It works successfully at the Uni versities of Georgia, North Caro lina, Miami and others. There is no doubt that the system creates more interest in student elections and government. and the more in terest there is. naturally the more effective student there will be. Students of similar interest would form a party, establish a platform and nominate candidates which would be bound to carry out the platform if elected. I feel that the idea is a good one because those elected for high positions on the campus would be elected because the students like the platform that the candidates and their party stand for, and not merely because they are popular. Under the present system, the best man is sometimes elected and sometimes neglected. The students actually don't know who the best man is. With the two-party sys tem, which would be modeled after our national political scene, stu dents will know who and what they are voting for. Students will no longer have to vote for John Doe because they have heard his natme b)efore or because he is good Collegiate Madtison1, Wis. - ( l.P. ) - Ford Foundation scholars, those bright lI -year-olds drawn from over the nation to the U niversity of Wis consin on that curious educational experiment known ats the Pre functions does not belong in that organization. Why should the Air Force give a commission to a boy not willing to put forth a little extra effort when there are plenty of boys who would jump1 at the opportunity ? Finally I would like to say that the ROTC is strictly voluntary. No one forces a boy to join or remain in thet corps. If he doesn't like it, let him get out atnd stay out. What's a commission in the Air Force anyway? ['im sure he would just its soon go it) ats an infantry private. Sincerely, .Jim Bessinger. (The so-called facts which this paper has failed to obtain are not pointed out in Mr. Bessinger's letter. It's a pretty sure bet that the boys in Korea would be glad to change places with these boy's who are forced to buy a ticket to a dance. It's also a pretty sure thing that those same boys would resent very much having' to buy a ticket to a dance because of the threats of some student officer in the corps. Certainly the ROTC is volun tary. But those 800 boys who are in the corps are there for the simple reason that they want to finish their education before ia hitch in the armed forces. It's a lot better to go in with a commission too than as a private. Because he needs a deferment is no cause to put a student on call to the ROTC. As for the matter of student .activities fee, no complaints have come to this office on the fee while numerous complaints have come from those boys who were told that they had to huy tleiets to te an... P1 OW "Now b #W Parties k 'Goof-Offs' looking but will vote for him be cause they agree with what he proposes to accomplish. Under the proposed plan, each party would present a platform of what. it hopes to accomplish, and the party's candidate would 'be obligated to uphold and fulfill this platform. If the successful candi date became lackadaisical during I his term of office, his party leaders would get behind him to live up to his campaign promises so that the voters would not lose faith in that particular party. And if the office-holder did "goof-off," naturally the rival party would point this out to the voters. This would keep the politicians on their toes and would insure the voters of a double check on the office holders. KSK has a difficult job in attempting to inaugurate this change. With the cooperation of the student body, however, KSK is capable of succeeding. '* * * While on the subject of student elections, let me suggest that student council once again obtain Ivoting machines for the campus elections. Either twice as many ,machines should be obtained as was had last year or else the elec tion period should be extended to two days so that students will be able to vote without having to stand in line as they did last year. The machines promoted a greater interest in the election last year. and consequently more students turned out to vote. The lines, however, dliscouraged some from voting when they got there. Clppings Indluction Scholarship p)rogram, "stack up with anybody in terms of general social adjustment," according to a report by Herbert M. Howe, professor of classics and adlviser to the boys. He adds that "on the whole it would not be easy to find a group as busy in campus activities as the.se boys." Prof. Howe confesses he felt a great de(alI of trepidation in the area of social change. It had been de(cidedl that as adviser his fune tion was to keep his eyes on the boys ye't his hands off. "It is a tribute to their general wisdom hat they dlisp)layedl such maturity of judgment under such light con trol," he says. Bty and large the young "brains,' got along with people. They dis layed''( self confidence, handled the funds from the scholarships wisely, and showed very evident (qualities of leadership, many of them serving as elective officera in various campus activities organizations and student houses Many of them were active in the University Band and Orchestra andl Wisconsin Players dramatics A t least half of them took pari in student religious organizations Nineteen of the 52 joined fratern. ities, a high proportion for a freshman group here. The athletic recordl of the Pre. Induction scholars was not distin. guished, liowe says, "although a normal number of them took pari in intramural athletics" and one of the scholars "was the 'cox' ol the freshman crew." IThis less than distinguished part of the story is not, as might be guesse d, because of physiques which did not stack up well beside those of the two-years-older class mates. All but one of the boya wer('e big enough to be indlstin. guishable from the older fresh men, and by making a determined effort to conceal their ages, most of the scholars managed to avoid the stigma they felt accompanied TOMMIE HERBERT Cultural Need A The University Players in production "Captain Applejaci each of two nights. The futur seemed bright. The membershi year had more than doubled-i to the genius and initiative of The Players are planning to semester. This is a change fro last semester. The Players we They had not only. no place to m no place to present their plays seemed not to care about the or When the students lose all tions, they deprive themseives taining a higher degree of cultu having to tell people that they wise the usual acquaintance woi A great many students co English, art appreciation, an these students go out into th< other educated folk, one rareI cause a little culture was force Not only has dramatics shov -and therefore the lack of off societies, the musical productio this deficiency. The Columbia Art Museum but few students other than th( see the exhibits. Each year the chorus and programs at which only a spri represented. One cannot expe working for their programs, tinuously by the lack of an au( The literary societies lost tI social groups supposedly. The these groups are active. The t different needs entirely. There The literary societies have bee of the University. Membership a student to the art of debatin informed guest speakers or mi The "Carolina Review" is ai having a struggle with ind,iffei of Carolina there should be fA poems, short stories, and essay zines. Everybody apparently terested at the same time. Su the fact that this generation is When anything is not use( very small percentage of the a the organizations. Some stude in student activities, because t] wheels on the campus." The w to become a big wheel. The o are interested in a student w: them. Very few groups are so1 a student who has shown that A suggestion was made to i to the effect that applications 1 would make for a more democi used now would eliminate a gi her and therefore could not ta no one is to blame, this is unf group. The foremost purpose o nize a coed's ability in Englisli checked on to see that they ha admittance to the society. The ing its membership selected fr would be interested enough to The literary societies for w their method of electing men remove the primary objection< organization before a studenta bership. Having the membership ba the society on the honorary les courages students to make beti ing of satisfaction to have hon LOWELL ROSS Meet The Presiden The change of administration' which was announced with the retirement of Admiral Smith by the Hoard of Trustees last October, was the biggest boost to student morale that I have witnessed on the Carolina campus, with the ex ception of a yearly victory over Clemson on Big Thursday. The choice of Russell as Admiral Smith's successor had a tendency to add to the uplifting of student ego andi brought with it a great deal of speculation and optimism. Since the announcement, however, students have had little evidence for the conviction of their ex pectsations. What I am saying is, since President Russell accepted office at the beginning of the fall term he had addressed the student body only once and that wra.s nhi Groups Boost 1939 were able to stage the with an entirely new sta* a of drama at the University p in the first semester of that i thing which they attributed Professor Christophersen. present three productions thi rn the inactivity of the group re ousted from Drayton Hall.. ieet and practice, but they had . Even some of the -members ganization. interest in cultural organiza of a painless method of at re. They then find themselves are college graduates; other ild have no inkling of the fact. mplain about having to ta?e d music appreciation. After world and are thrown with hears them complaining be :I on them. vn the lack of student interest icial interest-but the literary is, and the art exhibits mirror is one block from the campus, >se in the art department go to the band give unusually good nkling of the studeT)t body is ct these groups to continue if they are discouraged con lience. ieir hold on the campus to the y at any rate decline when wo types of organizations fill is room at Carolina for both. n outstanding in the tradition in one of these groups exposes g and discussions led by welp ambers. ioth'er literary product that is -ence. In a university the size >r each issue enough original s turned in to fill three maga has become lazy and disin rely the reason doesn't lie in just untalented! 1, it usually "fades away." A tudents are active in most of nts use the excuse-"I'm not iey are always run by the big ay to remedy this situation is -ganizations as a general rule men he becomes Interested in mndemocratic as not to vote in he would like to be a member. * he Hypatian Literary Society >e made for membership. This 'atic organization. The method 'l simply because no one knew ble her nomination. Although air to the student- and to the f the organization is to recog .The applicants could still be 4d the other qualifications for society would benefit by hay om these girls who obviously be active members. omen have been criticized for ibers. This suggestion would >f having to be a friend in the vould have a chance for miem-0 sed primarily on grades keeps rel. This is good in that it en er grades. It also gives a feel est endeavor recognized. Students, I Russell formal introduction to the student body last October. I think the president should make his presence more pronounced in our midst by keeping us abreast of the changes and plans of the administ ration in addresses to the 'student body during Friday assembly programs. The students and faculty have a right to see the president and have an opportunity to know his ideas and proposals concerning the University. I think I am safe in saying that there are a number of students on the campus who have never even seen President Russell, not to mention hearing him speak. Mr. President, don't hide your self in your great matrieulation on administrative duties; let us aee and hear you. A pr.eident should be seen and heard by his studentst