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USC Law Fed. Names 7 New '53Comnittees Committee assignments of the University of South Carolina Law Federation, student body organ ization of the law school, have been made for the fall term, Peter D. Hyman, of Florence, president, announced today. Committees and their members include: building committee, Wil liam H. Ballenger, Walhalla, chairman; C. H. Padgett, Walter boro; Thad E. Saleeby, Hartsville; W. A. Reiser, Edgefield; and Wil liam C. Spencer, Rock Hill. Library committee: Budd Cade Mathews, Columbia, chairman; Rembert Parler, Hampton; Bill Fant, Anderson; Jesse M. Ray, Piedmont; William Clayton Davis, Greer. Publications: Marion Riggs, Manning, chairman; Paul Barnes, Bennettaville; Thomas' Kemmerlin, Jr., Batesburg; N. H. Tedder, Florence. Social: Emory Bush Brock, Spartanburg, - chairman; Marion Hardy Kinon, Dillon; Austin Latimer, Simpsonville; George Dial, Columbia; J. C. Mills, Pros perity; Paul Barns, Bennettsville. Program: Herman Sammy Bershtein, Woodruff, chairman; John K. deLoach, Camden; Lewis Peyton Howell, Columbia; Dave Wilburn, Union; Robert Monteith Holmes, Columbia. Interaction: A. C. Clarkson, Columbia, chairman; Joe Earle Berry Jr., Columbia; Albert John Dooley, West Columbia; John Kennedy Grisso, Anderson; A. A. Coleman, Pamplico, Fla.; Pat Wolfe,, Columbia. Publicity: Ruth Williams, Char leston, chairman; Robert Hamp ton Baxter, Clairton, Pa.; Dexter Hamilton, Dillon; Fred Riley Blackwell, Cayce; F. K. Abbot, Cayce. Other officers are: Vice-presi dent, Perry Weinburg, Sumter; secretary and treasurer, George Lee, Columbia. Sumwalt Will Attend ASEE Meet in N. Y. Dr. Robert L. Sumwalt, dean of engineering, represented 25 south eastern colleges and universities at the semi-annual meeting of the American Society of Educational Engineering in New York City on Wednesday, Dr. Orin F. Crow, dean of the faculty, has an nounced. A member of the general coun cil of ASEE, Dr. Sumwalt repre sents the Southeastern region of the United .States on the council. Following the ASEE conference, he represented the university at the semi-annual meeting of the Engineering Council for Profes sional Development, also in New York, on Friday. Flynn Will Preside Over Newman Club For Fall Semester Tom Flynn of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., was elected president of the Newman Club at a recent meeting. Catherine Ficling of Columbia was elected vice-president, and Jack Colcolough of Columbia is ~the new treasurer. Delight Tie man and Catherine McClain, both of Columbia, were elected cor responding and recording secre (taries respectively. Mark Buyck of St. Matthews is the new publicity director. Better Reading AbilityNeeded, Says Dr. Gray "The need for the improvement Sreading is not peculiar'to South Carolina." So stated Dr. William S. Gray, author, specialist in the teaching of reading, and Professor Emer itus of the University of Chicago when he lectured before a capacity crowd at Drayton Hall last Sat urday morning. He spoke during a regular class period and many visitors from the surrounding area were present, besides the regular class members. Dr. Gray was the first of a series of lectures to be p)resented by the School of Education at the university. Others scheduled to appear within the near future in clude: Dr. Helen Robinson, direc-I tor of reading at the University of Chicago and Dr. Byron Calla-a way of the Uiniversity of Georgria. FAR FROM H1OM1E . .. Three their respective homieland.%. The of Sweden. (Staff photo by Lum Exams At UJ1 After Neither Nor Courses By MAR' Feati "One thing that surprisE to go to classes," Ulla Hedr from Sweden, said, remer campus this fall. "At home i have courses. At the begir handbooks. Then we have q just read the books that are i quired and when we feel that are ready for our examination go to the professor and tell hi Some people, if they are rich, a scared to go up-they just at there for ten or fifteen year she shrugged. "Yes, but I imagine the exar nations are so strict that you doi need classes," Wen-pei Li, a F4 mosan student who is doing po graduate work in English, said. "Oh, no," Ulla said, "they a very informal. I took my exar nation on the history of ideas a sciences while I was sitting wi my professor on a bench in t park. One boy that I know v invited by his professor to tA and sat discussing the course w! him for some time. The next moz ing the professor told him tI he had received his examinati and had gotten the highest marl "I remember when I took r examination in English," Pei sa "There were five professors in room and I went in and they asked me questions." "Pei," as a is called at Carolina, added th she did not like examinations any form. "Most European universities u the same system that is used Swecden, don't they?" Sara Kwoi asked. SAra, a Chinese stude1 has an assistantship in chemist at Carolina and plans to retu to teach in China. "I believe they do," Pei sa "Hutchinson is trying that Chicago." Pci, who is sponsored the graduate school here and Pa Hlellenie, studied at Carolina la year, and appears to be more home than the other two. S :fresses like the typic~al Americ :oed and even smokes. "The trouble with studying language is that most people ta t too seriously, too scholarly," P laid, without a trace of an accer "I think the best way for an ne to learn how to speak anoth anguage is to go to that partic ar country," Sara added. "Th< ou have to. When I was in hij school we studied English, but wvas not conversational English. lidn't have any English in c< ege." But tiny Sara, who is foi eet eleven inches tall, does n tpeak with an accent. Of the three, Ulla has the mo pronounced accent. Often, in hi mnthusiasm, she cannot find tl right word and has to ha bruptly In the middle of a sei ~ence to think, and often she co: ~uses the tenses of her verbs. B1 o listen to Ulla talk is pleasai or she pronounces "j" as "y" ar ~er 'sentences always end more 4 ess up in the sir, which never fal o hold the delighted attention< ecr visitors. 11er walk is also d idedly European. Ulla won ti ~ilot Club scholarship and is doir )ost-graduate work In English. Ulla, Pei, and Sara are all vei appy with their classes, profe ors, and friends at Carolina, at ay that they can think of no coti >laints to make. "But wouldn't it be nice," UlI aid, "If, like at home, we didn ave any classes or courses. 1E ould choose the subjects that v vanted to study and just read tI foreign students now studying at Caro y are Wen-pel Li of Formosa, Sara Ki lis Perry) s.C. Seem Odd Classes In Sweden f WIDEMAN ire Editor d me about Carolina was having an, a graduate exchange student ,bering her first days on. the ve have no classes. We don't even ning of the term we are given eminars every second week. We * Steward's Hall ?.e m Open Early Sat. ay Supper at Stewards' Hall will 3," be served from 5 to 5:45 P.M. tomorrow, Mrs. Sellars, director ji. of the cafeteria, has announced. i't The change In schedule is due >r- to the BSU banquet, which will B. be held in Steward's Hall. re i nd "The Little Shop with th Big Values" he as t Mitchell's at Dn 1431 MAIN ly Id. .. Ill hie : 'HI 'gh 'FI'delity Se M.'Sc and kecOd Center it, ALL LATEST HITS ry rn - CLASSICS - d. 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Any student may try out. - Plans have also been made for t the presentation of a radio play, I "She Stoops to Conquer," by I Oliver Goldsmith. The play will be broadcast over the two campus stations. I The University Players meet t each Friday at 5:30 P.M. in the Carolina Playhouse. Anyone in terested in joining the group is invited to attend. Reauly Salon auty Service Your Budget .- Aone 3-0421 kLFOUR CO. - 1340 Senate Representative ATEST F Brand-new nm ws college stud4 year a survey was ighout the country whi colleges preferred Luc year another nationN sentative survey of all to coast. Based on thoi ews-this survey shows again-lead over all oti -and by a u'ide margin! r'. P. S. once again . .goes to every stud(enlt w for our advert ising. So IHappy-Go-Lucky, P. 0Be, O A.T.Co. P RODU C'r 0? s . 4Isan. University I On WNOK. "The University Forum," y 'esearch and creative activities ented by WNOK-TV Thursday, !tudents Entering Vied School in Fall' Will Take Tests Pre-med students planning to nter medical college in the fall of 954 should inake applications to 3 he Educational Test-ins Service t o take the required examination. V 'rofessor W. C. McCall, student iersonnel director, announced that he test will be given at the uni- F lersity November 2, 1953. E Applications to take the test t nust be received by the Educa ional Testing Service at its 3rinceton, N. J. office before Oc- t ober 19. Application blanks are low available at the Personnel V 3ureau on the ground floor of Mc- r ,utcheon House. . Dean of style...smooth, P1 AMERICA'S By ruE AF., , .ei See the latest Phi J. B. ILLETI itional survey mts prefer Luci mnade in leading col ch showed that smoke: kies to any other cigar vide survey was mad studlents in regular coil isands of actual studer that, as last year, Lu( ter' brands, regular or I The reason: Luckies1 ve're buying student jingles! $25 hose I.ucky St rike jingle is accep hurry! Sendl yours in right away 0. Box 67. New York 46, N. S TASTEI 4appy-GO LUC s Featured TV Show television program featuring at the university, was pre October 15, at 10:30 P.M. The program, the first of a eries, was devoted to scenic and istoric places in South Carolina, lustrated by photographs and lides from the University Press ublications. Appearing on the program were irs. Louise Jones DuBose, direc yr of the USC Press; Dr. Daniel 7. Hollis, Dr. Robert H. Wiene -1d, and Dr. Chapman J. Milling. . E. Lent, radio director for the xtension Division, was modera )r. The series will be given on al ernate Thursdays. 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