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One - More For Telephi A column in last week's Gamecock urged a change in the proposed telephone system which is scheduled to go into effect this fall. The column suggested that the system would cost the students more than the university would save in installing a dial system. Under the new system all phones in the dormitories are to be dial phones-pay phones at that thus doing away with the university ex change. The column opposed the set-up because it would cost the individual student ten cents each time he or she wished to call into town. That could run into a sizeable amount over a year's time. Service on the campus will not cost any thing. The student will be able to dial other campus phones simply by using a special three digit number. The administration's offices will still be on an exchange system. In response to student opinion that the new system would cost the students more than the university would lose under the old system the administration has tentatively offered a compromise. The proposed offer would place dial phones in certain locations over the campus which could be used to call into Columbia without paying the ten cents which the other phones would require. Of course they could not be used for long dis tance calls. We approve of a plan to alleviate the bur den of paying for every off-campus call a student makes. The placement of phones over the campus seems hardly sufficient, how ever. It seems that the easiest way to solve the problem is to put dial phones in place of all those which now operate through the university exchange. These should not be pay Cafeteri Bull Replies on the ballots concerning the cafe teria system continue to trickle in and the results have been unanimous. Every ballot that we have received condemns the present set-up. Each one thinks the system is worse than under the old university management. Still most of the complaints are that the food is worse while the prices are higher. One received this week commented, "At least CHEATING STEMS FROM THREE LEMONS RESENTMENT .. . NORTH CAROLIN Washington State College is Life at a North thinking of introducing the honor Cleefaent system, and at least one psychol-stagtlmn ogist there has a feeling it will plc ofsae work. lie is Dr. James H. Elder, Asuetoea who sid i an aticl in te Dalleg convitedrni F~vegren: Thedelghtul x-police confstTed whichin owns the hf perience, for teacher and student which soae t$50. alike, that comes through a sue- wvas acquitted, e: cessful honor system, is worth machine, which i wvaiting for and wvorking a long court order. time to get. KEEP IT PUBLIC "...Cheating is an expression The era of hot< of resentment toward the teacher has enmled at Ohi for using dlefective procedures ...of hotel rooms b To eliminate most cheating, it is private group p)art necessary to correct these proce- Violation of the (lures................"a minimum fine of 5i4 GA Cot CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTh CAROLI Member of Associated Collegiate Press Founded January 30, 1908, with Robert Elliott Cosales editor, "The Gamecook" is published by and for the stu. University of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, during year except on holidays and during examinations. The opinion. expressed by columnisets and letter writers arn sarily those of "The Gamecock." PubMshinag does not c endosement. The right to edit is reserved. EDITOR RALPH MANAGING EDITOR .TOMMIE BUSINESS MANAGER JOHN NEWS EDITOR CAMPUS EDITOR A SPORTS EDITOR SOCIETY EDITORM FEATURE EDITOR COPY EDITOR ..JE CIRCULATION MANAGER ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER 13 STAFF REPORTERS Betty Jean Nicholson, Jack Bass, Mark Buy< Timmons, Delight Tiemann, gCenneth Flynn, S Arthur Contras, James Covington, Jr., Sara JTane ( Giles, Tres Lee, Mary Wideman. COLUMNISTS John Duffy, Hunter Rentz, Terrell Glenn, Bill Nov Persky, Lowell W. Ross. BUSINESS STAFF W. . Bffngton, Dan Donovan, Wes Sanders, CARTONISS .Bob Cameron, Stanley Papajohui PHOTOGRAPHERS ........Gus Mant Suggestion mne System phones, however, but regular phones such as are found in homes and offices. The only difference in these phones and tny other dial phones would be that the university phones would be rigged so thatI the caller could not call long distance. Since the long distance operator is reached by dial ing 110, the phones could be so fixed that when the digit one is dialed as the first num ber, the circuit would be broken and the long distance operator could not be reached. This system would allow the student to call city numbers without paying ten cents for each call and at the same time the univer sity would be protected from students call ing long distance and having the charges made to a university phone. To allow for long distance calls there should still be a few pay phones at strategic locations on the campus. Keeping a supply of change for pay phones would be a problem to the students as well as expensive. If the university wants the students to help pay for the telephone service it can adopt a telephone fee which would be required of every on-campus student. It could very easily be paid along with the room fee. A committee of student leaders met Wednesday to discuss the problem. At this writing there was no way of knowing what they would recommend as a solution. We heartily endorse a plan to provide for some way to call without paying for each call that is made. More calls are probably made into the city from the campus than are made from phone to phone on the campus. Phone service into the city is more important than phone service on campus. It's not such a problem to go across campus to give a message or to receive information but it's a long walk to some of the Columbia locations that are called by students.-RNG ots Continue they could wash the silver which we have to use." The more we receive of these comments, the more we feel that a few must be legiti mate gripes and that some investigation ihould be made. Whatever happened to the :ommittee that was supposed to check on the new system? These comments by mem iers of the student body should give it some masis on which to begin investigations. -RNG AT newv ruling, student social fune Aroin - -tions "mybe held only in public CaolnaSat rom. A social function is house changed described as "all dances, parties -res to three recently wvhen and entertainment of any nature a nickel slot Iwhere both men and women are ~sement. present." ng the machine The Columbus Hotel Managers' made to pay ascainsy h uesago alumni group ascainssthruesaod rtriyhueone and promises to help enforce Everyone else it. :cept the slot NIllLECTOWN, CONN. (1.P.) ras junked by --A survey of scholarship men at Wesleyan University indicates that . . . he Honor Roll requirement is a i oom pates" eteret to partic'ipationi in ex State Univer- .auriua afar,'a, vla banned the use Iracriua far,a ela y students for a cause of an over-emphasis on es. marks for their own sake. rule will mean Question nair-es were distribuitedl $25. Unader the to the scholarship men in the - - -- Classes of 1 94t thtrough 1955, in an. effort to r'e-evaluate the scholar ship awardls here. The studly wvas condluctedl by the joinat cooperation of t he lFacult y Committee on Schol - arshi ps and the Alumni Council. AThe honors requ irenment was Aternmed too stiff and rigid by a large p)ercentage answering the am &e irst question naires. Many felt the re ttsothe quirement especially burdensome the .tie. dur'ing the first two years, as a st**5 result of requiired courses. A bout 55'', expressedl desir'e to part ici pate GEORY in mocre activities if the scholastic PARASHO requilre'ments wvere low(eredl. A bout Bill Leggitt 25' st atedi that the pressu re of res Artemec t he honors average caused( t hem to arny uRy wit hdraw from some ext ra-curric Gus Manos ular activities. rr RolinsOver-emphasis on marks wvas r'e obbybSmit Peatedly menitionied. Men fromn var'ious c'lasses wrote' that their' k, Hannah Ibasic' at ti tude towardl studies any Gray, chanuged fr-om trying to u nderst and uinn, Faris a subject to merely achieving a good mairk. In some cases the t, Mordecai sc'hoilarship holders stated that they had alte'redl their course of study, away from their real in 3et meon- teests, Jni or'der to r'aise their s. Bill Rosa I averages with easier courses. "Number, hell, I y TOMMIE HERBERT Sound New Cut On Wednesday, March 11, -the subcommittee for the Student Faculty Relation Committee made a recommendation for a renova tion of the present cut system. This would be a drastic change for the average student. Yet the students just sit back and do not voice an opinion either in favor of the new system or in opposition to it. Are we going to wait until the suggestion has become a real ity before we even express an opinion? Do the students prefer the suggested cut to the absentee system? Next semester another "bone of contention" will be put into prac tice-abolishment of the double major, with the addition of re quired courses in logic, Greek, mathematics, or Latin for Arts and science majors. I don't know About the other curricula, but imagine six cuts will hardly supply he need in this group of studcnts. Four Cut Limit The Student-Faculty Relation ommittee passed the four cut imitation suggestion made by the mnbcommittee. It did not pass ecomm11endations for double cuts M Saturday or before holidays. [OHN D)UFFY Academic Fre There is a great cry today on he part of a certain pressure roup) for academic freedom. This ~roup is madi(e up largely of uni 'ersity professors and1( well paid >rofessional "'liberals." These elf-sacrificing gentlemen are isking everything to bring their nessage to the people-t he pro essor must he free to teach wvhat It believes. They have invented a Onspiracy which plans to take tway that right. Actually, how wver, thle re arec few people who ,vouldl bother thc great majority of )mr professors, since, in the main, ~he average person agrees with hem. In fact, the profe ssors admit that when they speak of academie freedom, they do niot mean to in ulude the frecdomi of C oiimunists, Fascists, or even Socialists (unless of the relatively harmless Norman Thomas type.) So why all the noise abiout academic freedom ? Thle professors only want it for those of them wvho conform to the basic A mericana ideals. They point with pride to the fact there are so few crackpIots in thle profession. In fact., the height of radicalism among college professors s(ems in~ he adherence to thle D em ocrat ic plart y. Int ellectunal Fight If thtle Amnerican intellectuals really want a fight, if they want to com11bat somet hinag besides an imaginary conlspiracy, wvhy don't they really come out for academic fre(edomii? Why not allowv anyone who is competent and by compe tence I mean one who hias the edu cational requircements tec'h any th ing lit pleases - Conmmunism, Aniarchism, Athe ismi, Taoism, Vegetarianism, or whatever he believes. TIhe only check upon any idlea should be other ideas, not professorial blacklists or vigilant truistees. Education (ont rolled Ed~(ucation in this c ountry is rant my peanuts." Off on System The recommendation passed would give freshmen only four cuts, any upperclassman with an average below a 3 a limit of four cuts, and voluntary attendance to the stu dents who keep their semester and mid-semester averages at 3 or above. Dr. Patterson said that the issue came up with the president's ad visors but was not definitely discussed. Madelyn Campbell has informed us that the suggestion has been sent to the president's office from which copies are to be sent to all the faculty members. Faculty Meeting A meeting of the faculty will be held within the next two weeks to give a positive decision on this matter. Are we just going to let it pass without even any opposi tion? There is no sense complain ing after it passes. Maybe they were trying to stop complaints about the present cut systcni and show us that after all they could make us worse off. At any rate, it probably will cause enough students to cut out of school or decide to go to another school and solve our crowded housing conditions. edom.. .Why? effectively controlled and that control is as effective as that of aniy totalitarian state, although it is more subtle. Thrce forces con trol education, either separately or jointly, the state legislatures, the c'hurch, and the wealthy. All three are forces for conservatism and conformiity. As long as .these forces control American education, there are three things which can not undergo any attack on their fundamental basis: our political system, our religious set up, and our economic system. Thcre may be and there are criticism of all three, but this criticism is never fundamental. Of course, there is no other agency capable of adlministering education any better- andl even if there were it is dIoubtful that there would be any increase in indlividual rights. Any group would administer in its own in terests. The fundamental enemy of freedom of idleas in our educa tional institutions is the fact that they are institutions. An institu tion can tolerate no ideai which might destroy it. New Ideas New ideas then will originate, as they always have, outside of our institutions. The outcast, the dIreamer, the individualist will continue to p)rodulce change. The solution, then, would seem to be freedom for this group. Freedom for these people is the right to be independlent of institutions . whether political, cvonomie, or acadlemic. The aim would be not to encompass these p)eople, but to tolerate tht'm. The true friend of intellectual freedom should strive not for academic freaIom, wvhich is little more than the right to shock the D).A.R. or one of their dull-wittedI sophomore sons, but for a much broader intellectual tolerance of those who choose to remain out side of our present ideological BILL NOVIT Stick Ar U nivers Acxt Wednesday is University Day. It is the day set aside by the faculty and administration to recognize worthy and distin guished men and women of Caro lina who have served their alma mater faithfully during the year. No classes are held to conflict with the award's program. A Day In May University Day is a day set aside every May by the student body to incrcase and improve school spirit by enabling and allowing students to let their hair down and have a lot of fun. No classes mar the fun of University Day and several enjoyable and cntertaining events are held. Certain students - specifically the members of ODK leadership fraternity, KSK service fraternity, Phi Epsilon Pi social fratcrnity, the University Band, ard Student Council-put forth a great deal of effort to present the students with a worthwhile University Qay program. It is unfair to these people for hordes of students to leave the campus and go to Sesqui, the beach, or home. Actually, however, it is the students who leave the campus that miss out on some thing fine. They deprive them selves of a day of fun and enter tainment at very little or no ex pense since the Coronation Ball is the only event which costs money. The first actual event of the day is the ODK Award's program which we have already discussed. Following this, fraternity houses are open for all studemts-male and female-to visit. It is the only day in the year on which it is permissible for co-eds to visit all fraternity houses. Munch Your Lunch At 12:40, a free lunch is served to all students on the Horseshoe under the supervision of KSK. The meal is always enjoyable since it is served out-of-doors under the shade of the trees on the main campus and since it is an occasion in which students and faculty Guest Columnist: MI Do We N Organi In reading Miss Herbert's article, "We Need More Useful Organizations," (Gamecock, April) one wonders if Miss Herbert is aware that there are some eighty five student organizations on the campus, each theore.tically serving some purpose useful to the student body. Does she possibly think that further subdividing of the student body can result in anything more than another means of gaining points for one of our three service and leadership organizations ? Can we possibly need another source of communication for our three block campus that two radio sta tions, a newspaper, a magazine, and a public speaking system can not supplace? Need Less It wouIld sec'm that the Univer sity needs not more, but less organizations. We all in our in dividual clubs are starve<$ for apportionate appropriations which would be much more propitious andl much more useful if they were to be dlivided among fewer organ izations with fewe r duplications. For instance we have a philosophy club, a graduate history club, and an international relations club, discussing world problems, while our four literary societies wrangle about parliamentary procedure. We have in addition to the YM-YWCA nine dlenominational groups, the Christian Service Club, and the Inter-varsity Christian Fellowship Organization; in addi tion many students take part in an interracial intervarsity organiza tion in Columbia. Although we have no depart ment of dramatics (indeed we have no courses in dIramatics), we have a professional fraternity in that field, a speech and debate fraternity, andi the University Players. We have eight "honor ship and leadership" organizations, twenty-eight "professional and de partmental" organizations, and many of these have no function which is not being duplicated by some other campus organization. Indeed they cnn fil no fun.ion cund for ity Day members usually sit down and a casually. The University Band adds to the gaiety of the occasion. Pie In Your Eye From 2 to 4 p.m., one of the most hil4rious events of the year will take place. It will be the' second annual Phi Ep Pie Throw ing Contest. Anyone of the several hundred students who saw this event last year will tell you that it was a lot of fun. Can you imagine seeing your "favorite" professor smacked in the face with a pie? It's a good way to have fun and to raise money for the ODK scholarship fund. Queens, Jean and Jean The May Queen Coronation will give Carolina students an oppor tunity to watch history being made for it will be the first time that two May queens will have been crowned In one cercmony ho People all over the country Wi' probably see pictures of the coronation in the newspaper since it will be such an unusual event. One would think that the students here would want to see it. Good entertainment has been planned for the coronation, too. Climaxing the day, the annual Coronation Ball will be held at the Youth Memorial Center Wednes day night. It is the big social of the year for all the students. It is the only dance, except for the Air Force ROTC Military Ball, which brings a name-band to the campus. Speaking of the Air Force ROTC, their day was a success. Why can't the University's day be a success? It can-and will-be a success if the students stay on the campus and participate. Take my word for it. I have been here for three University Days and I have enjoyed every one of them. Another added incentive to stay here this year is being offered by the Garnet and Black. The Uig versity Annual will be distributed that afternoon. All in all, it sounds like a wonderful day. Why not be a part of the University and stay around to enjoy it? E KINGHORN eed More ations? since numbers are not large enough in many groups to facili tate any degree of working power. We have thirteen social fratern ities and seven social sororities, plus three "independent organiza tions." If the fraternity or soror ity member still feels that he or she is not on the inner circle, there is always the inter-f raternity council, the panhellenic council, the German Club, the Cotillion Club, the "service fraternities," the English Speaking Union (off campus), etc. Elections Farce In adidition wo go through the farce of student elections annually, although everyone knows that the elections are nothing more the'n popularity contests, entitling the winners to an extra picture in the Garnet and Black. We faithfully and diligently elect an hon' council on the basis of popularit -not honesty! Indeed with stu dents so divided into cliques, how do0 1 know how honest the member is ? However, it matters little, because Carolina students follow the "you mind your business, and I'll mind mine" line with the Honor Council. The only time we hear of the various offices is dur ing elections every April. Outside the few intellectual groups obthe campus and the student body government (which does nothing), it would seem from observation that the only real function of the many organizations would be to give students to pet, primp, or prattle. Even now there is a movement to organize the political groups of the campus into political parties. What, may I ask, would be the electioni issues? How Is each party to decide on its standard bearer without more sub-elections, sub-groupings, etc.? How in the name of reason could a student hody-officer be accused of malad ministration ? If we are to have ~~ active, vital groups on this camnps let us first cut out some of the deadwood which accomplishes nothing but the division of forces which might If united be a force