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More One of the world's most distinguished dip lonats, Rene Pleven, will be on this campus on April 15. On that day the attention of the entire nation will be focused on the univer sity. Coast to coast radio hookups will con nect the university with a potential listening audience of millions. That's the kind of pub licity that we need. We've had chances to grow through the efforts of many individuals in this state. Some attempts have proven successful but all together they have been painfully short. This one speech will attract more attention and award more prestige to the university than any number-of events that have trans pired heretofore. Mr. Pleven is well known. He is influential in world diplomatic circles and his appear ance will be noted by the world's best known diplomats, politicians, educators and indus trialists. These men will take note of the Here's A ToC The Rev. Wilson 0. Weldon, a 1931 grad uate of the university, is offering Carolina students a chance to sound off on ideas for improving this institution for pay. Mr. Weldon established the Gamecock's motto, "Crowing for a Greater Carolina," when he was editor of this paper. He has always been interested in the university and its improve ment. Students are perenniel gripers. They have all sorts of ideas about what's wrong with the school. Many even have suggestions as to the means of correcting these faults. How ever, these ideas very seldom get out of the bull-session stage. One of the best ways this Do We N Night C The students send in complaints in various forms to this paper. Witness for example the letter on bells ringing at night and the car toon on the same subject. Both are legitimate gripes about a situation that should be remedied. It would take only a little effort to correct the obnoxious bell-ringing in the middle of Letters To Dear Editor: bells toll? For whom do the bells toll? At JOHN j ten minutes till and on the hour Box 4 from 2 a.m. till 7 a.m. our class____ bells have been ringing. Has the University suddenly acquired a Dear Editor: series of early morning classes for I have just wit which ambitious students must be gravest injustice aroused at such hours? Twelve pens on this canm time. a night for almost two concerned--the weeks is a long time for our class Queen. bells to ring unobserved and un- Of course it h stopped by whomever is in charge for some time, of such things. After so long a about time som time, it can get downright annoy- about It. What hr ing. Please-For whom do the large group of (ROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CANO Un of .e 1 CAeims., en Fddess, dud EDITOR RALPGm EDIOR EDITOR -80 GITY EDITOR TMI NEATUR EDITOR COPY EDITOR. CIRCULATION MANAGER ASIT. BUSINESS MANAGER STAFF REPORTERS Betty Jean Nicholson, Jack Bass, Mark Bu Timmons, Delight Tiemann, Kenneth Flynn, Arthur C'ontras, James Covington, Jr., Sara Jane Gils, Tres Lee, Mary Wideman. COLUMNISTS John Duffy, Hunter Rents, Terrell Glenn, Bill N( Persky, Lowell W. Rosa. BUSINES8 STAFF W. L. Buffingto, Dan Donovan, Wee Sanders P R PN ERT..BoCameron, Stanley Papajol Have levens University of South Carolina and a few will decide that it bears watching. If enough people start watching some are going to be come interested enough to want to come here to teach or to aid in the growth of this insti tution. Mr. Pleven is the kind of figure that does more good in the way of publicity with one appearance than any number of the lesser lights that have appeared here before. Of course, he is not one of the persons selected by an assembly committee to appear here and amuse the students. Credit for bringing Plevin to this campus belongs almost entirely to President Russell. It is his desire to see the world's notables as guests of Carolina. We'd like to commend the move and ad vocate a continuance of the policy. It'll be an honor and a benefit to add the name of Rene Pleven to our list of those with Caro lina degrees.-RNG Chance iripe university could be improved right now is for those students who continually talk long and loud to enter this c6test. Of course the $50 award isn't going to be made for some smart aleck idea. The award is to go to some constructive suggestion that would benefit the university program and make a greater Carolina. It could be written in the form of an edi torial or essay. Possible questions for dis cussion could include the instructional de ficiencies, the lack of student facilities, or the student body itself. At any rate it's a chance for criticism and suggestion with monetary reward thrown i i. -RNG ow Have Mlasses? the night. After all, a student needs sleep to sit through some of those early morning classes. Even with a good eight hours sleep, it's hard to stay awake in some classes. When the bell ringing is allowed to go on for nearly a month without any correction, it shows a careless attitude on the p)art of whoever is responsible.-RlNG The Editor selected to run. The one who gets L. WILKINSON, the most votes gets May Queen; 4.the secondl, Maid of Honor; and ~.the third, nothing. I can see no reason for running it that way. What in the world would be wrong with running four or five girls? nesed neof heThen there would be no oddl man. s tht eer hl).It certainly couldn't complicate pus s fr asI'mmatters and it would alleviate that election of May awkwar~d "third man," or should I say woman. Who decides matters as been going on like that anyway ? but I think It' might add that I am not the ething was done only one who feels this way about appens?thOut ofra the matter. Can't something be girl, treearedone* about it ? Sincerely, LU;CRETIA~ McKEY. LENA (The number of g'irls, eligible to es make a bid for May Queen is un t .* limited. The practice was adopted budthe e4nese to eliminate the candidates to an a - three by a judging committee. The HEOY purpose of this system was multi 3 HERBERT fold. Not the least of reasons~ was 9 ARASO to cut the number down so there Ar11 esArte would not be so niany runoffs, If Johnny Ry the 13 or more girlM who were Gus Manos first on the list were on the bal erob tn lot it would take several elimina Bobby Smith tions to narrow the choice down. Ru,Hnnh Itnning tour or five girls is not Bonny Gray, solving the problems of being that Quinn, Fars "awkward third woman." If there were 35 girls some would be hurt vit, Mordecal and others would accept their defeat. The choice of three is just Betty Seay. to expedite the voting process. mn, Al Simson moe. Bill Rosm Ed-) AND, 3TA RVIN4 rtfe NEXT DAY ASOur ome, i .sN FOR BELL$.... oUr TtER ARE NoN4e. TOMMIE HERBERT Comprehen Useless Ir Graduating seniors not only have to ,take a bunch of senior comprehensive examinations, but have to pay $4 to take them. Without the comprehensive exam inations a senior cannot receive his diploma. The comprehensives are used by the University to see how they rate with other schools. Very few graduating seniors are interested in knowing how they rate in com parison with the graduating seniors of the rest of the nation. By the time a student gets close enough to commencement to have a vague hope that he might grad uate in June, he is weak enough just plain to acquiesce. To get his diploma, he is willing to pay for the exams without too much rage, but when the quizzes are given the week before mid-semester examinations, even the most pleasant person becomes a little irritated. When one is depending on this semester's credits toward his graduation, he becomes some what frantic over his courses. In the examination one's major subject quiz is given to him in the afternoon after he has been taking exams from 8 o'clock until 1. He is by that time convinced that he is an utter idiot and should not have tried for a college education in the first place. He feels parti cularly bad when his grades come back and his major subject irate puts him about in the catagory in which he had considered himself during the test. The comprehensives are used by A CP PollOpp Most college students are against discriminatory clauses ir fraternity and sor-ority constitu tions, according to the ACP Na tional Poll of Student Opinion Clauses which discriminate agains Negroes meet with more approva than clauses which discriminat< against Jews. The poll was taken last Decem ber against a backdrop of increas ing student dlissatisfaction witl national bias clauses. Fraternit; chapter-s at Williams, Amhiers and elsewhere have r-ecentl; violated their national constitu tions by admitting,elther a Negr or a Jew. Student government at more than a dlozen universitie and colleges have set deadlines fo frater-nities to get rid of bia clauses on penalty of expulsion. Last month the student councl at Rutgers University, N. J opened a nationwidie drive to hel Greek chapters persuadle their na tional organizations to change th clauses. ACP asked the question: Som frater-nities and sororities hay clauses In their constitutions stat ing that they will accept as memi bers only individuals of the whits race. How do you feel about thi policy ? The answers: A pp/ove 25% Disapprove 66% No opinion 7% Other 3 WHY S1 oro WNe W I I00 cMI ier~, ro eo ~ rife CLASS ALL ftl4tjr ives Contain iformation the Placement Bureau. If they ever have seen one of the tests, one wonders why they use the scores. At the beginning of the instruc tion booklet there is a paragraph that says, "The sample questions given in this prospectus are illu strative of the types of questions which will be included In the tests." . . . "The character and scope of the tests are such that special preparation for them is scarcely possible." They can say that again! One of the examples given in general mathematics is this: what shape is the graph of the equa tion-Sx"+4y' +2x-5y- 4? My poor mind, with a double major in English and fine arts, was given a choice of 1. hyperbola 2. circle 3. ellipse 4. parabola 5. answer not given. That was merely an example. The questions them selves were enough to make me realize that the preceding was merely an example. What use in the world would I have in my major fields for know ing the shape of a graph? Why should I be forced, in order to get my diploma, to take a lot of tests that mean nothing whatsoever to me ? Not only do I have to take the quizzes, but have to pay for them, too. I do not object to hay ing to pay for my diploma, because by the time that one is a senior, he does not expect the University to give him anything-only pre sent it, but these comprehensives embitter me. oses Bias I Groups -"I would have it no other way," says a student from the University of the South, Tenn., referring to all-white fraternities. LA freshman at the University 1 of Nebraska is sorry he approves of bias clauses. "Wish I felt dif ferently," he says, "but habit and -training are hard to overcome." S Students in the South are evenly ~divided on the question, while t students in the North are over 'whelmingly against discriminatory policies. Here's the breakdown: s North South s Approve 20% 44% Disapprove 71% 44% No opinion 7% 8% I Other 2%/, 4';, As for policies which limit P membership to non-Jews, student -opinion is as follows: Approve, 12 per cent; Disapprove, 80 per cent; e No opinion, six per cent; Other, e two per cent. - "People of the Jewish faith - usually have their own fraternltiea e and sororities," says a sophomore a coed at Richmond Professional In stitute, Va. Says a senior at the University of Toledo who disapproves of "Aryan" clauses, "I believe in equal rights." LOWELL W. ROSS America Its Sense If I were asked wnat I thought to be the outstanding characteristic of our nation, I would have to answer that we have lost our sense of humor. Take communism for example. In Italy, where com munism is a real threat, there is a brilliant satirist, Guareschi, whose Little World of Don Camillo is one of the most hilarious books of this generation. He pokes fun at both communism and Christian ity. He divests them of the precious possession of the dog matists, their dignity in self righteousness. One wonders how either party could ever take them selves seriously enough, after reading Mr. Guareschi, to try getting rid of the other. England produced George Or well who drew a terrible picture of a completely atheistic, material istic, planned society in his 1984; but he did it with such satirica) skill that one wonders if the people of England will ever listen to the technocrats, to the efficiency experts, without a sni.ker when they think of Mr. Orwell's picture of the future which these people plan. In America, on the other hand, we laugh and laugh at everything from Milton Berle to smutty jokes, but there is no humor. Al Capp, who came closest to being the satirist of our generation, pointed out that we have lost the ability to laugh at ourselves, at our own foibles. That is what humor con sists of-the ability not to take oneself seriously. In the America of the 1950's, there is no Sinclair Lewis, no Henry Mencken to point out the weaknesses of our society by hold ing them up to ridicule. To do so would be "Un-American," and to be "Un-American" is the worst crime of this century. It is per fectly all right to betray the public trust by taking money from corp ofeia THE DRAFT MAY REACH THE STUDENTS . . . Editors of Student Life, Wash ington University, Mo., asked a Selective Service official last month some jackpot questions about the draft-and got some unpleasant answers. The officer was Lt. Col. Irving W. Hart, chief information officer for Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of the U. S. Sdective Service System. Question: Is any change likely to be necessary in the student deferment policy ? Answer: "Nearly all -eligible men. in the older age group have already been inducted and we are now starting to take 19-year-olds in many states. The manpower supply is running short. We can not, therefore, afford to be as liberal with student deferments in the future as we have in the past." Question: If drafting of students is found necessary, what consider ation, if any, will be given stu dents who are married or are fathers ? Answer: "Under current regu lations a student who is drafted at the end of an academic year re ceives no consideration for defer ment on account of a wife... Under current regulations fathers cannot be inducted." Question: Is any change likely to be made in the policy of defer ring students enrolled in Reserve Officer Training Corps units ? Answer: "Students enrolled in ROTC units are deferred by law.. .. Question: Speculation has been that if the need for dIraftees in creases, the government will be forced to begin drafting either students or fathers. Which group is likely to be called upon first? Answer: "The off ice has no way of knowing. . . . Question: How many men are now being drafted and what change in the number is likely ? Answer: " . . . The secretary of defense has announced publicly th.at he expects to call approxi mately 50,000 men per month for the balance of the fiscal year. Should it be decided to increase the size of the monthly calls, that decision will be made by the de partment of defense." Question: How many students are now being deferred on the basis of the Selective Service Qualification test and on ROTC enrollment ? Answer: "On Dec , 1062, ATEABAS dM 9 A waJ4p Is Losing of Humor orations interested in legiblation, to forge pictures which cost patriotic senators their jobs, t destroy reputations without proof, but don't be "Un-American" whatever you do. This lack of humor is flot a monopoly of either conservatives or liberals. Here, in America, we have one of the most absur situations in our history: MC. Carthy investigating schools, schools investigating McCarthy everybody investigating every body. But does this situation strike anyone as funny? No, everybody is deadly serious about it all. I would like to suggest that this deadly seriousness is the result of our Puritan heritage coming to the fore. Whereas the humanist can laugh at man, the Puritan would not dare laugh at the han9 work of God. To the humanist, this earth was a place to be developed, man was a creature to be perfected. To the Puritan, this earth was a hell to be endured, man was a creature whose future was already determined. The humanist could laugh at man's imperfection, yet at the same time work to remedy it. The Puritan dare not laugh and he ' had little hope of remedy. Once more in America, the Puritans are to the fore. We dare not laugh. We stand in awe of what we feel to be the reality of this temporary hell, but as Puritans we shall find no remedies because deep down in our heart we feel there are none. As Purltans we will strike blindly against the external manifesta tions of evil, rather than investi gate its causes. But worst of all, we will continue to live in this sombre atmosphere without love, without humor, without laughter, unless some American Orwell or Guareschi laughs these solerp souls into obscurity. Chrppingi Selective Service had deferred ap proximately 185,000 college stu dents on the basis of class stand ing or test scores, while upward to 330,000 ROTC students were deferred . . . In addition, there were many more students who had not yet reached the age of liability (18%) or who were rejected for service. . . . THERE'S A BRIGHT SPOT .. . Male students who have been casting suspicious glances in the direction of their draft boards, got some reassurance recently. A federal judge ruled that a draft board acted illegally when it Inducted an honor stuent in New Jersey because he flunked a chem istry course. The student, now at Fort Dix, will be discharged from the Army and return to Upsala College. The court based its ruling on the fact that the student actually did not have to take the chemistry course but enrolled voluntarily In summer school in order to grad uate early. RUTGERS TAKES UP THE CUDGEL... The student council at Rutgers University, N. J., has launched nationwide attack on fraterni bias clauses. The council has sent question naires to more than 800 colleges and universities throughout the country, along with a plan to help chapters shake off discriminatory clauses in the national constitu tions. It recommended~ that each col lege, by a vote, set a deadline of 1960 for getting rid of bias clauses. If a group fails toieet the dleadline, suggests the Rutgers student council, it should be punishedi. It is hoped that results of the poll will indiceate that fraternity members are against discrimina tion but are being forced to dis criminate by binding "Aryan" clauses in their charters. The Rutgers group calls this "in voluntary discrimination."-, WHO'SGOT1 50 BUCKS? ... Who should foot the bill for dasmage done in a panty raid last ' sp)ring is the question at Spring field College, Mass. The bill is $50. The student council president says his group doesn't want any part of it, since It is not respon sible for the actions of individual students. HIe says the girls' flut tering of their undies down from the windows was not "done in an effort to wad off attaker."