The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 09, 1953, Page Page Two, Image 2
Somebod
On Cut
Last spring, a committee of the student
faculty relations committee was appointed
to revise the cut system with the misgiven
idea that harsher attendance rules would
raise the scholastic average of the -student
body.
That committee spent several weeks draw
ing up a proposed system that would reduce
the student's unexcused absences in a class
from six to four. That part of the proposal
was for the common mass of the student
body. The one-sixth of the student body
whose scholastic average was 3.00 or better
was given "unlimited" cuts. Another part of
the proposal was to give excuses for one-day
illnesses, whereas under the old plan a stu
dent had to miss three or more days of
classes.
The plan was jammed through, without
a vote by the student body; without even
a consultation with the student body. It
is true that there were students on the
committee but they all ate humble pie in
the presence of the sage faculty members.
All but two of the committee stood still
while the plan was passed through the
student-faculty relations committee, then
on to the faculty itself where it slipped
through faster than Carl Brazell on a
quickie.
The students were incensed but figured
with the one-day sickness excuse they would
be able to meet their emergencies with four
cuts and then take care of any slight or sud
Sprinkle:
To Be I
Long advocated by the Gamecock was..
some method of insuring the university
buildings so that the student and his
property could be protected from fire and
theft. Now the administration has begun a
program to provide more protection from
fire, thus lowering insurance rates so that
each building can be insured individually.
Sprinklers are now being,installed in each
of the older buildings on the horseshoe. Be
ginning with the remodeled dormitories for
graduate students workmen have now
reached the School of Journalism in Legare
Letters to
Dear Editor: 1directory so tha
I see that pay phones are being town knows abou
installed in dormitories around maybe he can re
the campus in some sort of at- personal messeni
tempt to relieve the phone situa- ing these pay 1:
tion. But pay phones aren't listed present directory
in the city phone directory. I versity of Sout]
wonder if any move is being made *2-.5641 might h
to list these pay telephones in the ,thing would.
% GAI co4
CROWING FOR A GREATER
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROl
Member of Associated Collegiate Pre
Fonded Jaury 30 1908. wit obert Elott Coniale
Uniersity of Sout Carolin wekly, on Fridays, durina
asiytos o b"Te Gamecok. Pubihn dotes tt
endorsement. The right to edit is reserved.
EDITOR .....RAP
MANAGING EDITOR . - A~HI
BUSINESS MANAGER DAI
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
NEWS EDITOR .....
SPORTS EDITOR.....
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CIRCULATION MANAGER . W.
STAFF REPORTERS
Jack Bass, Faris Giles, Curtis Watson, P,
.Margaret Roof, Paul Hanks, Bruce Parrish, Ben
Jr., Dew James, Al Stuart, J. R. Roseberry.
COLUMNISTS
John Duffy, Faris Giles, J. Allen Tison.
BUSINESS STAFF
We Sanderi, Al Perry, Gibby Dean, Jack Fiel<
CARTOONISTS
Bob Cameron, Stanley PapaJohn
Goofed
Systen
den illness with excused cuts. They weren't
happy but as in most of the decisions passed
down they reluctantly agreed to it. Those
who had "unlimited" cuts weren't satisfied
with the system either since they found out
too late that the unlimited cuts were in
reality no more than under the old system
since they would be cut out if they missed
more than 25 per cent of the class meetings,
in the average three credit course about 12
cuts.
The system went into effect this fall.
At such an early period in the term most
students have not had occasion to cut
more than once or twice. Therefore, they
haven't found out yet that when they go
to get the old one-day sickness excuse
that they will be told they have to miss
three class days before they can get an
excuse.
While we haven't written proof that the
new system called for one-day sick excuses,
we feel certain that the student body was led
to believe that one-day excuses would be al
lowed. At least that was the impression
gained by the Gamecock for it ran a story
last year stating that one-day absences for
sickness would be allowed.
Cutting down on the number of unexcused
cuts may conceivably have been a good idea.
But disallowing sick excuses at the same
time is making it rather hard for most stu
dents. Especially when these excuses were
originally promised.-RNG
r System
nstalled
.College. They are installing sufficient
sprinklers to prevent the outbreak of fire,
or at least to convince the underwriters of
the safety of the buildings.
A fire in Tenement 29 last semester dam
aged several hundred dollars worth of a
student's clothing. A potential disaster was
prevented when the occupants of the room
awoke in time to prevent the blaze from
spreading. The administration acted
promptly to replace defective fire ex
tinguishers and now have undertaken a
costly project that will pay off in safer
dwelling places for the student.--RNG
the Editor
t if someone in your information, the star(*) be
t where you live, fore the telephone number indi
ach you without cates that there is a switchboard
er service. List- at the othe, end here on campus
hones under the to help you with your call when
heading of "Unii- you call in--Hah!
Carolina . . . Sincerely yours,
alP a little-any- Frank Drucker.
Incidentally, for
___________ P. S.: There is only one im
provement which I can see in this
new phone system--but I'd better
not say what it is for fear that
it might be discoveredI and
changed back again.
(Ed. note-At the rate the
INA installation of these pay phones is
egoing you probably won't have to
.. ~. ~ worry about that service for some
adents o,f the time yet.)
the college _____________
re not neces
Donsititute an
.GREGORY
JOHN RAY The Gamecock is intended
Bill Lggitt primarily as a voice for stu
..Gus Manos dent opinion and news. W
Sonny Gray welcome letters from any
etty Jo Land student or memoer of the
ir Wemn faculty under the following
.Bufntn provisions.
itsy Penney, Letters must be signed
R. McElveen, with the writer's mailing ad
dress. We will withhold the
writer's name if the letter
requests it. However, we
will print no letter that is
"Still trying to get a (late wit
FARIS GILES
A Look to
Amid all the clamoring blasts
and harangues published in last
week's Gamecock, this columnist
feels that someone somewhere is
due a little praise.
In the telephone situation, we
indeed have a problem. This is
granted. It is a problem because
it concerns every student on the
Carolina campus. Eventually, this
problem will be alleviated.
Let's look now at status quo
here at USC. Things aren't so bad
as others would have us think.
We have not reached the celestial
heights that UNC has reached,
we are told. Our enrollment and
physical plant cannot yet compare
with those of our sister state in
stitution to the North, they tell
us.
This writer feels that whatever
the status of the two schools may
be, USC is in a very favorable
position. We must head in but
one direction and that is upward.
We have yet to reach the zenith
of our development. President
Russell realizes this, for we see
that the administration is plap
ning a gigantic building program
which we read about in this paper
each week.
This building program may, in
the long run, affect each of us
more than this telephone does.
This program is not restricted to
the building up of our physical
plant, but it takes in the progres
sive improvement of our faculty,
by the addition of outstanding
men of learning. We have read
in the Gamecock of the soon-to-be
Collegiate
BOSTON, MASS. - (I.P.) -
Northeastern University will re
ceive $3,000 from the Bethlehem
Steel Company for each graduate
of the university that the com
pany hires for its annual training
program for college students, ac
cording to the contents of a letter
received here from E. G. Grace,
chairman of the company. It is
the company's aim to provide fi
nancial assistance to selected
colleges in return for value re
ceived.
The company feels that if in
dustrial progress is to continue,
there must be more educated men
and that the universities must be
the ones to supply them. This
Grace plan will go into effect this
year and the company hopes that
It will continue for years to come.
Northeastern University was
one of forty-three universities and
colleges selected from those in
the Unitedi States At NU the
company will select students from
all three (lay colleges with slight
emphasis on engineering studeonts.
The Bethlehem Steel Company
normally selects 100 men for their
training program which is known
as the Bethlehem Loop Course. It
is here that they receive their
preliminary training which is
designed to acquaint them with
the business, and thereby enable
them to advance to higher posi
tions.
HAYS, KANS. - (I.P.) - The
crowded lines and long waiting
periods traditionally accompany
ing enrollment days at Fort Hays
Kansas State College were shor
tened this year by joint action of
the Student Council and Regis
trar's Off ice. Last spring the
council came up with the follow
ing solution for improving the
enrollment system here.
A clock was -wound up tight
and the face lettered with the
alphabet divided into eight see
tions as nearly equal as possible.
The council decided that wherever
the hour hand pointed when the
clock ran down, the students whose
names begin with that correspond
ing group of letters wulds be the
IL
, your girl out at C square?"
the Future
constructed, much-needed Student
Union Building which will cost
more than one million dollars. We
are informed that twenty-five new
professors have been added to the
faculty. The tenements on the
horseshoe are being completely
renovated, and the University
Terrace Apartments have been
purchased for use as freshmen
dormitories. In the near f6ture a
new girls' dormitory, an audi
torium, and other buildings are to
be built. Already, the unattractive
temporary buildings, for the most
part, have met their just end.
This building program of both
a physical and an intellectual na
ture will perhaps affect our future
here at Carolina and afterwards
much more than the fact that we
are compelled temporarily to lo
cate a pay telephone to make a
call out into town.
As I stated once before, the
telephone problem will certainly
be alleviated as soon as possible.
In the scheme of things, it is but
a minute headache which occurs
when great progress is in the
making. President Russell is a
man of foresight and action. We
are indeed fortunate to be led by
a man who has the capability of
seeing much further than the tip
en( of his nose.
Patience asserts itself as a
timely virtue. Through patience
and cooperation, we can do much
in aiding the Administration
realize the ultimate destiny of
USC.
Clippings
first to enroll. This procedure
met with the approval of Registrar
Standlee V. Dalton, so it will be
repeated each semester In the
future.
Enrollment for the fall sessions
startedi with the tuvwsyz's, be
cause that's where the hands
pointed when the registrar's clock
ran down. The groups now have
a half-hour betwveen each section,
which allows sufficient time for
everyone to secure class slips,
without waiting in line all morn
ing, Dalton said. Also included
in the new plan is the use of en
rolling permits. Each student is
given in advance, a card with his
name, classification, and day and
hour of enrollment. He must pre
sent this card at the door of the
registration arena for permission
to enter the arena.
IGNORANT TEACHERS
BOSTON, MASS.-(I.P.)--The
average teacher's "blissful ignor
ance" of current educational and
psychological research and the
lack of ability to sift out signifi
cant discoveries, that have definite
educational value, causes a lag of
30 to 40 years between early
knowledge and actual classroom
use of new Leaching techniques
and tools, according to Dr. William
C. Kvaraceus, Boston University
professor of education.
"Most classroom teachers' con
tacts with research findings
are through delayed secondary
sources," -he said, "without the
teacher's awareness of the second
hand nature of this reporting or
through 'interpreters' who are
found in large numbers on summer
session campuses."
This lag prevented for many
years the general use of such tools
as intelligence tests, standardized
achievement testa, audio-visual
aids andi the unitary approach to
learning, in sharp contrast to "the
ready acceptance and use of peni
cillin and aureomycin, which have
become household words over
night."
Among the remedies suggeeted
hv nr. Kvaraeuns were g..e.ter
Sir flewton fllaLe3
A Saturday e7bate
Sir Newton mounted his faithful charger, Big Mamoo,*
poised his lance and rode off in the direction of Ashen. He
had an important message to deliver at that place and he
knew the ride would be a long one, so he was starting before
dawn.
It had only been a short time that Sir Newton was
forced to ride the many leagues to Ashen. Bofore that
time all the knights had been able to send their messages by
the drums that were now used only for communication inside
the castle.
The king had ordered that use of the drum system be
limited to the castle yard. To deliver a message or receive
one from another lord's castle the knights had to ride to
the place and deliver the message in person.
Messages from the other manors could be sent by drur*
all they pleased but communications experts here at Socar
simply refused to receive the message. They informed the
other manor by drum, the only time the drums were used
for outside communique, that they would have to send the
message personally.
Of course, very often the messengers came to Socar
and used the drum system to transmit their message
throughout the castle. Oce they got that near, however,
they usually contacted their party and delivered the message
personally.
Sir Newton rode to the drawbridge where the keeper of
the moat asked, "Where to, Sir Newton, at such an early
hour?"
"I'm bound for Ashen to ask Lady Emsquair to accom
pany me to the king's ball Saturday."
"Well, don't take any plastic drumsticks," called the
moat-keeper.
AL PERRY
USC School Spirit
Do we or don't we have school seat in the various tricks. The
spirit-good school spirit-here at only thing-the all important
Carolina? Evidence that this thing-left for the occupant to do
question has arisen is shown both is to hold the correct card for
by the fact that this article is each number when the number is
being written and by the fact that called by the card section captain.
there have been many pro and con This very simple operation re
remarks concerning the card see- (uires the co-operation of the
tion, cheerleaders, and the all- student. Certainly, this is not too
important spirit of each member much to ask from any loyal caro
bf the student body. We may be lina man or woman.
making a mistake in expressing Speaking of co-operation, what
too much destructive criticism
based on personal views whereasinseto?Athlatgm,w
constructive criticism based onweertroudn,osath
facts would do more good. les,bthhaduofceswo
Let's see how things stack up taee phr rmCtdl -
when the facts are made clear,.aeadsdatg nhvn
First the card section. The Pepfe chrswih oudpbal
Club has the responsibility of sudda ihi,o esn
planning and organizing the card cern,bti ol enc
section. This job consists of t r tadfn u.I ed
choosing the tricks to be used,thsitwlgvehecerads
allotting the trick cards to each a netv ogtmr prti
seat in the card section, providing terato,ntta hyae'
the cards, and insuring a suitabletrighdno,btt'hado
number of capable persons whosepualyo hveititwn
job it is to supervise the tricks,.h eut aes ebe
These people are assigned as row Atepryrmdyfrhi
captains and one man directs the wudb ouemr fe h
tricks from in front of the cardfechrsttgtcmaaiey
section. The rest-a comparatively go epnefo h tdns
simple job--is up to the studentIe.teryh cer.Ocos,
occupying the seats in the card i' tl pt h tdnst
section, which has now been cer
located in sections 10 and 11. Po tednea h e
Although the Pep Club has Rlis seilyo h ato
fallen down In its first attemptth upecasn,aslode
thIs year by not providing enouik tre rm orsho prt
men to supervise the job, the Tderlisaesosrdb h
failure of the system to work Ischelarswopua tof
certainly not entirely their fault.wokitthcersnltoav
As was shown at the last homeahaduofsdetcmeuto
game (Citadel), there was little, if tecritik ilb xlie
any at all, co-operat Ion from the a h e ale,tu lmnt
students occupying the seats in the igtennfmlaiywt h
card section. ThIs was definitelysytmwihsnwsopean.
a bad mark on the student record.Ths eraledeiteynd
The way the Pep Club has theabadthu.Wihaan,t'
system arranged, each seat in the t he;wtotoe tsams
card section has a nuimbered card, sr ob lp
showing the color of the trick Do'watfrheterelw
card to be used for that particular t aetefrtmv oad
working knowledge among teach- lrn ihtecer.Ltsec
ers of library resources, familiar- oeo sso h te he
ity with journals published espe- dnsta ehv lnyo
cdally for those working in special-sprtadw'lutoaget
ized teaching fields; use of li- so o umn lmo,N .
brary files of graduate theses in adWfod ihc-prto
the field of the exceptional child, fo vr tdn,w'ld t
and Inter-library loans of similar wtoti,w a'.te' e
matrilsamngunvesiie, ith t hold thow corectcad.o