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45TH YEAR STDNSLEVmO OF PUBLICATION MARYLAND TONITE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Vol. XLVIII, No. 6 COLUIMIIIA, SOlUI'I CAILINA. O(C011:11 21. 1953 Founded 1908 Honor Ej Week WiJ Monday 1 (Ed. Note-See additional on page 6.) Next week, November 2-7 Honor Board as "Honor Emph * An attempt will be made d Honor Principle to the stude realize its importance in camp Bobby Jones said. As a result of Honor Council action, a student was asked to take an Economics 24 exan for the eccond time. As a result of Honor Council action, a student was suspended from the University for a period of one week for cheating in a Biology 11 class. Included in the week's plans are visits and lectures to freshman classes, addresses to various stu dent groups, conferences witli faculty members and a forum over WUSC, campus radio station, to emphasize the functions of the honor pledge. "Since the founding of the university in 1801, its ideal has been that the complete life of every student be based on the principle of personal honor and ,gentlemanly conduct. But, as we vil know, some choose to ignore this ideal and as violators of it they must be taken into considera tion," Jones said. Violations With the small student groups of the past, detection and punish ment of dishonest practices were quickly handled. Often the student would not face a hearing, but would merely withdraw upoi1 learning that his dishonesty had been discovered. At another time honor violation cases were heard at public trial with legal counsel from the School of Law serving both the defendant and the prose cution. As the school grew, the honoi violation cases evolved througli other types of hearing and trial methods, for the public trial sys ten fell into disrepute with it attacks and denials and public iidicule of the accnsed. A closed and strictly private method ol hearing was instituted. By 1935 the rapid growth of the university had led to the inevitable conditions and opportunities for dishonesty which large groups bring. Condi tions were such that the faculty was contemplating the abolition of the time-honored Honor Principle to rep)lace it with a proctor systen for examinations. New System Created A group of students then askec permission to create some systen whereby the students would take (Continued on page 6) Gamecock Train Leaving Tonite For Maryland As the Gamecock went to press yesterday about sixty tickets had been soldl for the trip to Mary land for the Carolina-Maryland football game. Ticket sales ended yesterday at 5 p.m. In a'ddition to the group which has signed up to make the trip the Carolina contingent will be bol stered by the Gamecock band. The entire group will leave Co lumbia tonight at 8:45 on the Silver Meteor. The train will arrive in Washington at 6:10 n.m. tonmorrow. For the return trip the group will leave Washington at 1:50 p.m. Sunday and arrive ini Columbia at 10:58 p.m. Chaperones for the trip will be Registrar Henry 0. Strohecker and Mrs. Strohecker. The group' will stay at the Plaza Hotel ini Washington, D. C., and will travel eIght miles to and from C'ollege Park, Md., for the game. There will he a special meeting of all people making the trip at 4 p.m. today in the Chapel, student council president lzzy [curie an vnphasis l Begin at USC Honor Emphasis Week stories has been designated by the asis Week." uring this week to present the nts in order that they might us life, Honor Board President Allocations Are Distributed to Organizations The student allocations commit tee, disbursers of the student activities fee, met last week to make allocations to the various student organizations. Mrs. Arney I. Childs, chairman of the group, said the Garnet and Black and Gamecock received the largest amount of the allocationsi fund which is taken from the activities fee paid by all full-time students. The Garnet and Black, university yearbook, received $2.50 per stu dent and the (;anecock got $1.53 per student. Approximately 3,000 students pay the activities fee so that the Garnet and Black will re- V ceive about $7,500 for the first t semester and the Gamecock will net about $4,590 Total activities fee is $15 per semester per student. The Ath letic Association gets $8.50 and the A allocations committee gets the additional $6.50 per student to allot to the other campus groups. Other campus groups received the following amounts. The figure in parenthesis is the fi amount per student and the second sum is the total amount of revenue expected from the allocation. Band-($ .15), $450. t1 Carolina Review-($ .15), $450. of University Players - ($ .10), sa $300. WIJSC--($ .15), $450. YM-YWCA-($1.02), $3.060. in I)ebate-($ .15), $450. It Y Camp-($ .50), $1,500. a Contingent Fund-($ .25), $750. tY The literary societies and the Co-ed Association requested allo- cc cations but were denied funds. w c One Act Play To Be Staged b, By 'Players' c A one-act play will be staged Tuesday, November 24, at 7 p.m. u by the University Players in con- a: junction with the Carolina Rell- tU gious Council, wvhich is sponsoring the Inter-Faith Thanksgiving pro gram. The location of activities has not been determined. Readings for the play will begin at. 1 p.m. November 6 in the Caro- te lina Playhouse. Any student in- gi terested in panrticipating may E attendl. E Serving on the Religious Coun cil's Thanksgiving committee are Mary Calhoun, chairman; Joe * Brown, and Libby Mahaffey. Alton Brown is president of the Players. at HONOR BOARD) MEMBERS. . organizations during the coming week Cravecs, JosephIne Boyle', Mack Hlalfi Jones, p)resildent, Lynn Derrick, Bill 1 Photo by Landis Perry) LIIoe( Pifteel x iFIRMARY WING ADDED . e hiterior of the wing being adde4 ace for 10 more hed-. (Gamecock Vorkers Begin dditional Wing In Infirmary Work began last week on an dition to the university in mary, dean of administration . H. Patterson announced today. The additi'onal wing will double e capacity for the men's division the infirmary, Dr. Patterson id. The new wing is 20 by 40 feet area and will contain 10 beds. is constructed of fireproof block id will feature Miami awning pe windows with concrete floor vered by asphalt tile. The wing ill be equipped with an inter imunications system which will nnect. it with the main part of e infirmary. Included in the new wing will new bathroom space and a drug *om! The addition is expected to st approximately $10,000. All wvork is being (lone by the iversity maintenance department d is expected to be comp)lete by e latter part of November. Euphradians Hear Hollis Professor Dan Hollis of the his ry department spoke of the owth of t.he university and the uphradian Society- at this week's aphradian meeting. Two new members, Marvin Wat n of Ware Shoals and David hite of Anderson were initiated this time. .Pictured above are nmembers of an a part of Honor Emphasis We rd, Hlarriett Travers, Dolly Deni .enn 111. Spncer, 1.1,< J.ack W.t iCan( :ii . Dr. It. B. McNulty. uni,-er-itY I to the university infirmiary. Ii staff photo bI Landi. Perry) University For Funds By Presiqe University President Donald S Russell appeared before the Statu Budget and Control Board las. week to present the university', request for funds for the 1954 55 fiscal year. Pres. Russell uited the mait university need as an mecrease ir the faculty and instructional staff He presented figures on the uni versity's increased enrollment ovei the past two years and said th( increase has placed a strain on v faculty that was already over burdened. le requested $250,000 in addi. tional funds to provide for the in orease in the faculty and alsc asked for an increase in the main tenance fund. le told the Game cock reporter that about $85,000 will be requested to increase th maintenance fund. Most of Russell's requested itn irease was to offset the increase n enrtoll ment,. he said. Durti ng the past. two ye*ars the freshmani enrollment has i ncteased front 5241 to 874 students. Increases of 20 alnd 25 ler cent have Education aind the School of Butsiness Admin ist ration, lie said. Of theit requestedo iticrtease of $250.000, Russell said $35.000 is being tequest ed for theit School of Edtucation and $25,000 for the School of Business Adtminist ration. Hie also cited increases in the undergradluate andl graduiate work in the science departments and tddled that facutlty improvement is nieeed in these departments. Requests for maintenance did the Hlonor Honrd whto will visit ek. Front row, left to rightt: F"ra s, and Benntfor't Law. Seconid row: r .eii..ti rel oh.. J ot...... . ... El ctil lidates phy-ician. slows two of the nuraes wilng. to co)t $10.000. %ill provide Request Presented nt Russell not Ilinude the figure needed in addition to tOhe amount usually reve ived . lZu -e11 said ian $85,000 inr I' ea Se is neeicde however. In cluded in the maintenance fee is the improvelent of dorllitol'ies on the bi lit o) , addit ions and renovationls in thi infirmary and relocation and repair tlthe stealil heating systemll. In discussing the renovation of the dormitorlies. ltu-ssell said the dormitories CoUld Ie completely repatired for about $125,00 while building dorilitorie- to accom1 Ilodate the saille num111belr of stu dnt. woi 'Cost appoxinmately $750,000. 'Y' Finianc Drive Ends Tomiorrow. Conmmittee Says Theii Y M-YWCA~ Finance Drive has prottceded w ithl sutccess, direc tor 'ii Ted Ledeen has allntounte'd. Thei comiIttee' which has been wp'rking on1 t he drive states that the $1,500-goa! drive will defi niitely en t'itomorrow.V All solicitors andi captains will have a report nmeeting .\onday. Octobe'r 26 at 5 .Johilny Ciss of Roanoke, \ a. andl Pat RhIode's of F,st ill are in charge of t he finance dive. frethma ctul 'aiisroomsi. and itut mkt ices Lump1kIin, Hetsy F.hrhardt, Sue I)an Donuovan, Jug Sawi er, Bobby Iank ....e, n .a ,n....- taf..f ons M Are E Parade a To Start I For Hom Fifteen candidates were i his week as Ralph Lewis, innounced tentative plans for lay. A parade of floats, homeco >f the queen will be included i Kill be highlighted by a footb ina and the University of No: Frosh Elections Begin Monday In 0DK Circle Members of the freshman class met last Thursday and nominated 'lass officers for this year. Elec ions will begin Monday in the )DK circle from 4 am. to I p.m. ind 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. In case of rain, however, 'maxey lobby will be the voting place. Run-offs will te Weinesday. Homecoming queen elections will ibe held simultaneously with class Hections. Freshmen ro>minee, are: for i)iesident, Lawrence Curry, Green eille; Virgil Duffie, Greenwood; Tommy (;est, Greenville; Jimmie Let' Martin, Greenville; Phil Moody. Aiken; Will Wilensky, 'leit-on; Hill Schoole r. George own. F11 vice-president: Legare oker. Charleston; Steve Ostrow, New York City; David White, AndersoNi; avid Williams, Green il : Gordon MceBride. Tampa, Fla. Fr secretat y-treasurer: Rachel Cole, Aiken; Estill Flickinger, T'ucson. Ariz.; Kay Harling, Edge rield; Lelia Panell, Spartanburg; Al Perrella. Atlantic City, N. J.; Zidney Smith, Beaufort; Joann Plrickett. St. Mlatthews; Rankin ,uher. Whitmire; Louise Town end, l.aurens; Wilson Pitt, Rocky Mount, N. ( .; Steve Stevenson, Rock Hill. For historian: Frank O'Neil, Iart sv ille; Peggy Skelton, Green ille: Beth Tyler, Aiken; Sloane 'atei (Camden. Sixteen New Phones Added Io Dormitories Eight new pay phones and eight ion-restricted phones have been itdded to the university phone sy.. em, Dr'. W. H. Patterson, dean of idministration, announced this veek. According to D)r. Patterson everal more non-restricted phones v~ill he added in the dormitories n the near future, as soon as out ide circuits are available. The new non-r'estrictedi phones rc dividetd between the men and som'nen's dormitories. One was ded~et in Mjaxcy, one in Miaxcy obby, onte in Prest on, one in Preston lobby, one in Tenement 28, wto in Sims and one in Wade F ampton. l'aty phones have been adlded to \ltelrydle. Tenement 18, Tenement . 'lTenment 25, the Freshman ete. c,II11 Pendleton St., the hirdt floor of Sims andl one in ht lohbb of Wade Hampton. l)r. Patterson also said an >perator' is on duty at all times 'tow to handle the incoming night 'aIls and try to contact students. sight guards check with the >perator' every half hour to receive ny emergency calls and contact onday; tered nd Dance 7 estivities ecoming iamed for homecoming queen alumni association secretary, Homecoming Day next Satur ming dance and the coronation a the two.day festivities which all game between South Caro th Carolina. Candidates for Homecoming queen are Peggy O'Neall for Alpha Delta Pi, Mary Emric for Zeta Tau Alpha, Betty Ann Hood foi Delta Zeta, Susan Day for Sigma Nu, Mary Calhoun for Phi Kappa Sigma, and Mary Alice Breland for Sigma Phi Epsilon. Also nominated are Nat Harri soi for Sigma Chi, Dolly Dennis for Chi Omega, Marcia Rosefield for Phi Epsilon Pi, Betty Jo Land for Phi Sigma Kappa, Bettie Fuller for Independent Girls and Gwen Tootle for Kappa Delta and Kappa Alpha. Others nominated are Nancy Moorhead for Pi Beta Phi, Tina McNulty for Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Delta Delta Delta and Ann Humphries for McBryde Brother hood. Festivities Planned The program will begin Friday at 4:30 p.m. with a parade of fraternity floats led by President and Mrs. Donald S. Russell and officers of the Alumni Association. The parade will begin at Elmwood and Main, proceed to the State House, down Gervais to Sumter and down Sumite to the univer sity campus. A pep rally will be held on the horseshoe at McKissick Library be ginning at 6 p.m. The Pep Club will sponsor a Homecoming Dance in the Naval Armory from 9 to 12 p.m. with music furnished by the Dave Merline quintet. A fea ture at intermission will he the presentation of the Homecoming queen. Beginning Saturday at 9 a.m., alumni and students will be regis tered at Alumni headquarters in front of Lieber College. Garnet and Black colors will be given to all who register. Alpha Kappa Gamma girls will assist with the registration. Alumnii Tour of Camnpua From 10 to 11:30 a.mn. alumni will tour the campus to visit the new buildings and the schools and departments. Especially stressed in ((Continued on page 6) Dr. Patterson Visits Auburn Union Building Dr. W. H. Patterson, dean of administration, and two architects working on the student union building plans, traveled to Auburn, Alabama last week to inspect the new union building at Auburn Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Patterson was; accompanied by William G. Lyles and Louis Wolff of the Lyles, Hinsett, Carlisle and Wolff architectural firm. The trio was met by Dr. David W. NIlllins, executive vice-presi dlent of Auburn. They were guests at a lunch given by Dr. Mullins andl his staff and spent the rest of the day inspecting the new build ing. According to Dr. Patterson the API urnion building cost $1,050,000 and is designed for service to 6,800 students. The Carolina union building is expected to cost $1, 250,000.