Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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)7 "Still looking for ani honxest man, Diogenes'." Messeng( slows ComI A fc\w minutes past midnight last week, whien miost ieolfle have retired for the nlight, Registrar Ht. O. Strohlecker w.aS con)I tacted at his, home and arous;ed from bed by anl anxious and possibly irate parent. The caller had beenl trying to reach his Son], aI StUdenIt at thle univerTsity, inl Order to inl form him that one of' the boy's, relatives had died. Due to thle present set-up of' the phone syNstem the caller had been unable to contact his Son because the dormitory inl which the boy lived wvas without a phonie which couldd receive long distance or- Off campu1)LS Call1S. The operator had not been able to contact the bo(Y to tell himi to call the parent back. M "r. Strohecker finlly succeeded in COn t, ti IIg 4 l ))\ it tatig h by ftrcoming from his home to Tenement 29. Th'le Solution to the prob lem then was only a matter of time as the boy searched for coin-operated telephone and made a return call. The message was f'inally deivre aferalas ofafwhus "sfar loiffer an praiset for it Prslwsv Cre ontathi son hav0e f ode it even hare than o the nalig the girls'I dormThoeds ave a.o syTem calerhaee teyicng tuz each hir sin, aimsul a ite-omunirstios e sytm in formpite that ofact, the os hatvesal as many tomepaintsetbout the phstema temby. thalrhad beetn thereis tonl conc paoy phie was ithou an phone wih oulde rcneilongsta erve some of0 camps cls Th sptde hnnt counci abcomm to apoeared tboyt Prelidentoussll tenenyto bace tosen eqet 2forll a change to the system What thea conlyte reuster oftiwas thou wa( y serhdf (1 thining I1Ortenal tl e andn Concive l ated as fo a change hs.htl That as only conversef te ereivle call stancesfo off the cnenenepu igs.Ue ha as askingsanlyffor wiha the stent stervlies5 as' an citize of the universty,t have as he is ettled toi paised inhs omor lBac rn whae trist cetourya theirn was hequd t rn harde twnhean the wa ihter. Cetil thems univest haveld operte whreb hepy cnwi but flea girhe Sims pacdtc Elimincationof ssemurilr fro aep stuentht roomth ods ave early aus ay mainaboutt the syster sithys.A thplni artrng thany isu onlyac Iny thoe lSms.nse pi he uiheruside' coetyonsrovd serme smean 3or gimtob snt atedyhs faesor abusgeinesse ssem .No . . . justall oulside phonle!" Service municotions ciates. Very often students are employed in town in their spare time. Many of them support themselves, paying their own tui tion and living expenses with part time jobs. Certainly, many times their employers I need to contact them or they need to call their employers. We have advocated altering the dial sys ten so that all the phones would have off ("1am1pus service. We proposed that the phones could be so wired that the user could not dial the long distance operator. After conferring with officials of the Southern 1I1ell Telephone Co., we find that such a wir ing scheme is impossible. The only system that would allow the restricted phones to call off cam)us without long distance serv ice would be to route them through a manually operated exchange. That would mean keeping an operator on duty to handle the outgoing calls. Now our proposal is to increase the stu dlent's room fee. At t he Present time the situdlent pays $'40.50 per semester for his r'oom fee a nd key dep)osit. If that were icreased by fifty cents per semester we leel that it w%ouild pay for an extra ol)erator to make the system feasible. Un ider this lprop)osal we feel that the stu dent could make his campus calls the same way, b)y dialin3g. I lowever, to make a eall into the city he couldl dial the operator and ask for thle number. That way he would not mak(e a long dlistanlce call over a univer sity phone. If1 such a system were p)ut into op)eration it wouldl naturally work the opposite way so t hat the oplerator could also connect all Incoming calls with the person for whom thle call is made without having to call some uini versity of'fici als or relying on a studlent from another (dormi tory or floor going to look for the desiredl person. As this is written we dlon't have any idea what the admnliniistration will say to council's Iroposals. TIhe administ ration has already Promised the addi tion of paly p)hones andl a Ii mi tedl, very limni tedl, number of' non re(st rictedi phones. Possibly they will refuse t o see the sit uiationi Ironm its most serious aspect, thant outtsidters cant't get in touch with a studlent. To te(st. thle l)resenIt sys temn we mlade a call f'rm off t he campus11 in an attemplt to contact a sitidenit in one of thle dorm itories. When we asked for the dorPm itory floor' the opera 03r inf Iormned us t hat t here was no~ phone at t hat location. We asked how we could conta't. t he student t.h(n. The operator's only solution to the p)roblem was to come dlown to the university and look the studoent up. 'That's all well and good if one has the tme a nd means1 t.o come dlown to the uni versity (every time he wants to c'ontact a studen'it. We wondel(r how many (do have those rettuisites. The phone was invented j1ust for the puripose of speeding up com munication but a misdirected economy plan has revertedl it to almost nuseeness. fNu J. ALLEN TISON Ike's I Spotligi Back in August, when Congress men indirectly lived up to their campaign promises of tax reduc tion by refusing to appropriate the extra billion or so dollars requested by the administration Ike and his people were, and still are, on the spot. Secretary Humphries, Treasury Department, said that It would be impossible for the government to meet its obligations with the amount appropriated - this re mains to be seen, but the facts are that if Ike can keep the govern ment out of bankruptcy, the Con gressmen can take credit for "reducing the cost of government and improving the possibility of an early tax reduction," and Ike can take credit for "further clean ing up the mess in Washington" and will prove himself to be an able administrator in(deed. If this should be the case when Congress reconvenes, antd the a(lministra tion requests only nominal appro priations, the Democrats will have tactfully adimitted that they had sone 50,000 or more unnecessary pople on the national payroll. Don't get too "wampted-up" at the British; they're going through a perio(d not too unlike our own Reconstruction and subsequent loss of prestige. Besides, about 99% of their criticism of our people and policies is coming from their Laborites or Socialistic ele ments, andI they're against every thing that is not good for all the peoplei at the same time. -Ike is catching on--le has JOHN DUFFY Public A Toward Gi The striking political fact of this year, 1953, is the apathy of the people. Durkin's resignation, Stevenson's an(l Truman's blasts at the adfministration have made less impression on the American people than the birth of Mysteri ous Yokum. The average person reading this column (indeed the writer!) knows -more about the affairs of the mythical Dogpatch ers than he loes about the present policy-domestic an(i foreign-of his government. Tlhere are many r'easons for this lack of interest. The summor heat, the menltal exhaustion following the camp)aign, the fact that this is ani off-year, all contribute to the p)resent situation. The major rea son, however, is simply this: The A merican peop)le love a winner but they love a contest as well. Mar ciano and the Yankees are popular chiamp)ions only so long as t.he people can be led to believe that La Starza. and ,te)odgers are worthby opponents. If they are not convinced of the latter fact by the press, the champs will still be champls, but there will be no box oftfice. So it is with politics. Campus By CURli l"reshmien always find out that they are living and learning in a far different atmosphere than that of the ordinary high school. Very often they are dismayed, dlisillut sionedl while others enjoy the change finding themselves be'ing treated as adlults. The Gamecock, in an attempt to find out how the freshmen felt about. college life, posed the fol lowing query to some "Rats" at random: What's the biggest dlif ference you've noticed, so far, be tweena classes at Carolina and yourt high school classes ? Among the answers given by the'mnale freshmen were these: "T'Ihere's an air of nonchalance that exists in this fine institution, which proves to be the main dlif fe renc." "I finad high school a crip com - paredl to c'ollege. You really have to be on the ball here. You are not madie to studly, as in high school. The p)rofessors don't (are if you pass or fail, because it's your money that's carrying you through.'' "College sub1jects are far more advanced than high school. There is more detail in the lessons you hae to stn(ly You're graded J Ex Cuts its GOP given no indication as to his choice b for the Secretary of Labor, and a] has just given a one-sided nod to Governor Earl Warren of Cali- b fornia as his nominee for the Supreme Court. There were i many possibilities for this posi- a] tion, and of especial interest was tf Federal Judge Parker of Char- a: lotte, North Carolina who would have been in a delicate position in view of the anti-discrimination case to be heard and decided by a the court this year. ff Perhaps prior knowledge that di Judge Parker was not to get this position was the cause of Senator Maybank and Senator Johnston's d4 recent blast at the administration, ti or perhaps it was due to their fi disappointment of Ike's "elimina- w tion" of possibilities for the See retary of Labor. a But 'the most important vacant )ost is that left by Senator Taft of Ohio. The appointment of the man to fill out Taft's unexpired term rests in the hands of the tI Democratic governor of that state, h1 where all other public positions above that of Magistrate are held pa by Republicans. Considering the bf slim majority held by the Repub licans in both the House and Senate, it would seem that Gov- tf ernor Lausche is probably being in subjected to some amount of to pressure-chances are that he will appoint a Republican. st Those who joined Adlai Steven- Ii son's vocal group on the subject c of American prestige in Europe . are noticeably silent now; could St the recent elections in Germany have anything to do with it? (1( is v( in pathetic ; Is :vernment Eisenhower is still the winner. As a result the opposition has waned. But paradoxically (or is it?) the enthusiasm for him has disappeared along with the oppo- T sition. The fact is that the G American people have come to U believe that there is no opposition. Messrs. Durkin, Truman, and Stevenson have blasted in vain. o Their remarks get a column in the VC newspapers only to be crushed by ti two columns on the ineffectiveness i of their protests. The p)ress is creating the impression that D)emocrats don't exist. There is a conlspiracy of silence. fa: This silence is more dleadening for the Democratic Party' than wvas chl the former campaign of vitup)era- Ic tion. TheI D)emocratic Party relies upon big votes. Big votes are cast' only in periods of excitement andl g interest. Even bad puIblicity con-"' tributes to political enthusiasm. m No pubilicity means no enthusiasm. ni The Republicans who control the. newspapers are learning a valu able political lesson: a barbiturate, f skillfully administeren, is as ef- al fective, and less dangerous to ai handle, than a p)oison. o Opinion WATSON g strict(er andl you're on your own, in when it comes to studlying." a "I like the way in which you mI are free to (10 as you please. It 1) is your own responsibility tod s.tudly." eC The coeds also stressed the self-reli&ance which college re- m qmires.w ) OHN W. RAY A Unite Produce. A man without error ceases to a man; he becomes a god or i angel. None of us have nor > we expect ever to see such a !ing-not in this life. What pertains to one person, gically enough, usually pertains so to a group of persons, with te assets magnifying just a little id the weaknesses being. blown p to the size of a mountain. To -r. is human. Jonathan Swift, writing during time of mental vagueness and iness, perhaps, gave a rather storted view of mankind in -xulliver's Travels." Although s entire story wasn't one of munciation, he pictured, at one me, a Lilliputian society. The etional characters in the society ere not only diminutive in iysical stature, but in thought ; well. Swift, during this time, as disgusted with mankind. His cperience in life had been one frustration and, although prov g himself a creative genus, let ie society of his time magnify iman shortcomings in his mind. But Swift knew that, being a 1rt of that society, he too must classed with them or live as an trovert. He preferred the latter. Even today, at this university, ere is a constant struggle with some od the students in regard university society. There is a ndency, I think, for most of the udents to stand back while a nited number of other students rry on campus activities. There criticisni from practically all the udents when something goes for eir determent. But not enough )ise is made where the noise will some good. The usual method to dismiss some event with a !rbal denunciation if it does not eet the al)proval of that particu r student. Why? I think there a subconscious thought which ells this: "What can one person Collegiate LAFAYETTE, IND.-(I.P.) ie Committee on Grades and rading Standards at Purdue niversity, after considering ree nmendations from the faculty the several schools of the uni rsity and reviewing the regula nis pertaining to grades in the liversity code, has recommended veral changes in the system andl ese have beeni a pprovedl by the culty and1( the execut ive council. The most obvious oif these anges will be the assignment of L1er grades instead of ii nmbers. "will be t he n ighest passing adei, "D")' will bb the lowest, "will be a c'onditional failure; utch as the grade of 2 heretofore. " will denote failure. A grade of 'omp)lete, ''0,"' will be assigned r' class work which was unavoid ly not completed by the student id may be removed by fulfillment the requirements of the course. D)etermiinat ion of the' stude'nt's dex will be much the same ex lt for one important change. A ade of "F" will receive two dex points rather than the one failure receivedI previously. This cans that the stude'nt will not be nalized to the extent of two in x points for failure to pass a uirse. For the purposes of index dleter ination the grades will be eighed in the following manner: 'n.w w1...re - ciu fiE d Group i Results (1o about it?" Some students don,t take time to think this, but, rather dismiss the controversy with the feeling that everything will eventually turn out for the wort anyway. No student reaction consequently, is recor(ed beeause society is Oictured as being s unfair that a personal oplydo %on't even be considered. Student opinion on this cainpus has a peculiar way of not be recorded. Even in campus elee. tions an infinite number of Stu. dents voice their preferences Most students here don't even have preferences. Not that a college election is so important-it may or may not be, but college stu dents are now, or soon will b voting citizens. What then? If we don't know what's going on, at a small university, can we be expected to have sufficient knowl. edge to Participate in national affairs? A great many students think fraternities run camnius affaire. Some think they are getting a raw (teal w,ith the advent of the new cut system and, even more so, with the new phone leal. Very few. voice their grievances either in vote form or in form of editorial comment. Student needs and wants are going unheard even as this issue goes to press because of -the thought that society shuns the opinion of one man. Campus so ciety does not shun -he opinion of anyone. While, as I said many para graphs ago, no one nor any group is perfect, there are things that need to be criticized on the campus. Five or six persons can not (1o it effectively. It requires the voice 'of the students-not a few, but many students, to both praise and criticize the various elements of society embedded in the student body and the faculty. Clippings. "A" will be worth 1; illdex points; "B" will be worth 5 index poits; "C" will be worth .1 iinldex points; "D" will be worth 3 index points; "E,"o "F"' and "WF' will be worth 2 index points. UNC IE'ORT H'IIA':L HILL, N. C.--(I.P.) Undergraduate nstr uct ion. high lights the 12-page "\Mission of the UJniversity" report,1 c omp)iled by seven professors ifom the Conhol idatedI Univerlsity' of North Caro linaii. The repor0 t callIs for admini- - istraitive leader-shi p in improving the w~or-k with underagraduates. "It ' would do this not by any dIranmatic, pulicity-char-ged act ion threaten ing the distinctive activity of the university, hut by ietly and' systematically ssearc-ihing out the good teac-her-s whom we have and who may dlevelop, and ac-knowledg ing their- distinction) by official expr-ession of apprl)eciat ion and by advancements in rank and pay. "inding the good teacher is not easy. Being a poor1 scholar does not make a good teacher. Popular ity wvith studients is not ai depend able criteiion oif t he quality of teaching. T1eachiing is a highly indlividual proc-ess and individuals are( p)roverbially' diverse. This real difficulty too often leads har rassedl pr-esident s and burdene/ faculties to give up the attempt before it is made'. They have not succeedled because they have not really tr-ied. As soon as we have a real concern for the improve ment of teaching we shall begin to schieve it," the r-eport continues - I mv phane?"