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45TH CAR GAMECOCKS, TERRIERS OF PUBLICATION VETMRO UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROUNA Vol, XLVIII, -No. 9 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, NOVEMBER 20, 1953 Founded 1908 Big Clean-U] Is Started ( An extended clean-up cam campus began this week with combining with the State Hig] the areas behind Preston and t Included in the work is th< around the boiler room and I building. The highway department has provided workmen to widen and piair the drives through the area iile the university forces have concentrated on repairing the buildings. The drives between Preston and the boiler room have been resurfaced in the places where the surface has been dug up. Other repairs will be made to the drive running between the boiler room and the present music practice building, according to Carter Burgess, assistant to the president. The wooden temporary building which has been used for an engineering lab and store room will be removed and the drive be hind Hurney and Woodrow will be widened, he said. The coal yard in which the uni versity's supply of coal is stored has been repaired and a sliding door added. A box used by janitors for deposit of trash has been re moved and Burgess said a cinder pit at the boiler room will also be removed. Brick Borders '1rick borders are being erected around the lawns of several of the fraternities. The area now occu pied by the temporary building will also be enclosed by white stone markers for borders. Traffic has been routed one way since the work began and will con tinue that way after the repairs are made. Work is also being done on the building used by the maintenance forces. A paint shop is being added on one wing of the building to provide a place for university workmen to repaint damaged fur niture. It is expected to be com nleted by Thanksgiving holidays. Dr. W. H. Patterson, dean of administration, also announced the purchase of a machine to pick up and pulverize leaves. The machine is operated by a motor and as it passes over the leaves it lifts them into the machine. The leaves are chopped up by blades inside the machine and the pulverized ma terial is then blown back out. Anthology to Publish Poem By USC Poet 'Harriet A llen, Carolina co(-ed, has haid a poe~m ne(ceptedl for pulica tion in the Ananual An - thology of (College P'oetry, the (7National Poetry Associaution has an non aced. Thliis is thle s'cnd consecuitive year that MIiss A llen has had poetry accepted b)y the anthology. Last year her sonnet, "0 Hidden Love," was pubilished. The title of her work which will be used in this year's publ)1ication is "Blecaulhse of Tlhee," a sacredl poem. A junior from lBennettsville, Ia'et is a transfer student from FloNa Maedonald College in North Carolina, wvhere she had a number of poems published in the college literary magazine. She is a music major in piano. The anthology is a compilation of the finest poetry written by the college men andl women of Amer ica, representing every section of the country. Selections for this year's edition were made from thousands of poems sumitted. Rush Party Bids Go Out Tomiorrow Girls participating in rush week will receive bids for the Sunday night party through the university post office Saturday, Frances Lumpkin, president of Pan-Hellen1c Council, has announced. Replies must be back in the campus mail by 12:30 Saturday also. p Campaigr mn Campus paign of the university bac the local maintenance fore iway Department to renoval he boiler room. 3 removal of several eyesore :emporary wooden laborator Educator Is Visiting Here This Week Dr. Ralph W. Tyler of the U1n versity of (hicago, a national known consultant in the fields curricnlum an(l measureien t tdtication, is visiting the universi in connection with the extensik preparations being made towai a proposed( doctorate program education. Dr. Tyler arrived yesterday at will remain at the universi through today, working with t1 joint committee, an inter-depar mental group, and the staff mer bers of the School of Education relation to the doctorate progra soon to be offered in that field. I is helping in the screening at selection of candidates and in cor bining the efforts of the schoo toward that goal. Also the director of center f< advanced stu(dy in the behavior sciences, Dr. Tyler holds the pos tion of (lean of the division ( social sciences at the Universit of Chicago. He has held that pos tion since 1948. Dr. Tyler's visit is the result an arrangement between the Un versity of South Carolina and ti University of Chicago on a co sultant agreement which hE enabled the school of educati< (luring the past year to benef from varied and exceptional qualified consultants. While here, Dr. Tyler is not on acting as a consultant for the joi: committee, regarding inter-depar ment efforts toward the proposc program, but is also working wi' the staff members of the scho of education, relating to the stud of courses to be offered in tI doctorate field. 262 Students Enrolled In Field Classe. A pproxinately 2G2 stidents ai enlrolled in field class centers Greenville and Aiken, the extei sion division has announced. These ate the largest of the I centters int South C'arolina that ai sptonsoredl by thle exteitonI ii sit( of the uni versi ty. The enrollmten t consists main) oif G reentvilleI bus intess peop)le ar thle p)ersonnel of the Savann:t river projec't ne*ar A iketn. Mris. 1,uey Crawford , stupervis< of (list ribu tive educta tijon for tI GrteeniivilIle city schools, is coord imi ttr of the Greenville center. Abot 200 students are enrolle itn the twelve courses offeredi G reetnvilli. T'he cour tses are psy3 chiology. Fretnch, Sptanish, Germai personnel management, typing shorthand, accouniting, pulbli speaking, algebrai, ECnglish, atn social work. The (lasses meet twice a wee in the Greenville high school. A but one are taught by qjualifie Greenville personnel wvho have bee approved by the departments cor cernedl. Professor Walter IBentrui head of the department of socit work, teaches a class in socti case studly that meets on Saturda mornmng. The Aiken center has bee organizedl by the extension divisio with the cooperation of the Aike school officials for several year It has an enrollment of 62. Fix coutrses, including physics, (hen ical engineering, ECnglish, secr< tarial science atnd accounting, at of fered. The classes meet weekly in tlt Aiken high school. All are taugi by Aiken personnel except a conrs in chemical engineering, whlich taught by Professor II. L,. Bake of the university. Post-Doctoral Man Is In kResearchWork The university chemistry depart e ment has a new post-doctoral stu (lent engaged in chemical research s experiments. y Ie is Dr. Louis A. Cartino, 25 - year-old research assistane of Des Moines, Iowa. )r. W. Richard Wilkerson of Greenville, a post-doctoral student who at-tended th? university last year, is continuing his study in the field of chemistry at the Cali fornia Institute of Technology at i- l'asadena. y Dr. Cartino is at-tending the uni )f versity under a National Science n - Foundation fellowship for one year. y IHe is engaged in a research project re with Dr. 1). F. )eTar, associate d professor of chemistry, in the in mechanisms of intra-inolecular pre radical reactions in organic chem id istry. A 1950 graduate of Iowa State e College, Dr. Cartino completed his graduate work for his doctorate in June, 1953 at the University of n Illinois, where he studied under Sl)r. H1. R. Snyder, eminent scholar e in the field of organic chemistry. 209 Students Donate Blood To Red Cross y SThe response to the campus wide Red Cross blood drive was >f definitely more that the blood i mobile could handle in its one day on the campus last Thursday, Prof. i Christopher FitzSimmons, member n of the campaign committee, said it Wednesday. Y The final number of students who donated blood was 209, four it of whom made their donations at - the blood center in town. Thirty d three were rejected for reasons of h health, and others were turned away for lack of time. About a hundred Air Force ROTC men were turned away for lack of time. In full about 400 students were willing to give. he bloodmobile was manned by five nurses, and an average of 34 pints of blood were drawn per houir. The committee is planning to have the bloodmobile on the campus for two (lays during the spring campaign in May. Religious En ~Adds TwolM y Two speakers, Ruth Isabel Sea ul hury', a Christ ian internationalist h and world traveler, and Walter Van Kirk, executive director of r 'the Department of International e Justice and Goodwill of the Na -tional Council of Churches, have been selected to speak for Reli dl gious Emphasis Week here Decem n her 6 to 10. There will be nine speakers for ,the event, not all of which have e, been announced. eDr. Seabury Is educational see ul retary of the American Boar-d of Commissioners for foreign mis k sions andi, in her work, has visited iI twenty-seven countries, and travels d thousands of miles annually ad n dressing various professional and - religious groups in this country. , In 1938, Dr. Seabury was one of I only 49 American and Canadian LI delegates to the Madras Confer y ence in India, an ecumenical 1 church meeting. She has recentlyr n returned frm a four-months visit n to Africa, and other trips have n taken her aroundl the world into< s. the Near East, India, and Japan. e As an author, Miss Seabury has -specialized in books on understand -ing the world mission of Christian e Ity, and has written several popu lar books. e Dr. Seabury is a graduate of *t Smith College with an Honorary< e Degree of IAtt. D. from Elon< s College and L.H.D. from Cedar r Crest. She Is a board member of the student voluntary movement, Fraternity Reprimanded By Council A formal reprimand was handed to Sigma Nu fraternity by the Inter-Fraternity Council Monday ror illegal rushing. of students by Lhat fraternity, John Speer, presi lent of IFC, announced. The reprimand was meted out to the fraternity at the regular weekly meeting of IFC at 5:30 in Flinn Hall. At the meeting Presi (lent Speer of IFC related that an unidentified member of the council had informed him of the violation Df IFC rules by Sigma Nu. During , the -discussion which followed Sigma Nu representatives admitted the violation, but stated that it took place due to a mere technicality. In view of the ad mitted guilt of Sigma Nu, the members voted by secret ballot as to the degree of punishment, each fraternity receiving one vote. The results of the balloting were that Sigma Nu should receive a formal reprimand for the offense with no fine being levied. Vets Required To Pay Fees In Advance Effective with the spring seme ter veterans will be required to pay at least 50 per cent of their rees at the beginning of the term, Dr. W. H. Patterson, dean of ad ministration announced this week. In general, payments will follow the procedure used for deferred payments from all students, Dr. Patterson said. The veteran, how ever, will not have -to pay either the carrying charges or maintain a "3" average or better. This change in policy has become necessary because of the amount lost by students who drop out in the middle of a term without hav ing paid any of their fees, Dr. Patterson said. Sherrill's Book May Be Published "Government and Administra tion in South Carolina," a book by 1 Dr. G. R. Sherrill, political science head, may be published next August, according to the Political Science Department. This book is one of the Com monwealth Series being published by Thomas Y. Crowell and Co. I phasisWee >re Speakers Dr. Van Kirk 'oard member of the joint Comi- a nission on Missionary Education, member of the National Pilgrim a 'ellowship of Reconciliatiaon and IE f the wider Quaker Fellowship. C Walter Van Kirk is executive L lirector of the Department of nternational Justice and Goodwillt f the National Council ofi 3hiurches. From 1925 to the pres nt, Dr. Van Kirk has attended mnd taken a major part in various onferences and meetings in eleven I lifferent countries. He has acted as observer and consultant at I neetings of the United Nations in 11 an Francisco, Take 5uess,n Paris a Council Give SI On Disc USCHost to Ct Tourney Todt About 90 debaters representing ,welve Southern colleges and uni 6Fersities are expected to meet here today and tomorrow for the fifti innual Carolina Forensic tourna. mnent, Prof. M. G. Christophersen lebate coach, has announced. The schools which have enteret are North Carolina, Carson New man, Wofford, Agnes Scott, Geor Zia, Georgia Tech, East Tennes. ee State, Richmond, Georgetown 'ennessee Tech, Mars Hill, an South Carolina. The university, which has woi the tournament three of the foti years it has been sponsored, ha declared itself ineligible this yea for any of the six trophies awarde< the winners. Contestants from thi university, however, will activel! Student Rates For Movies AreAvailable Certificates entitling Carolina ;tudents to a 20 per cent discount >n tickets for .the motion picture 'Martin Luther" may be obtained ,hrough the "Y" office and the ienominational organizations on he campus. The picture will play it the Ritz Theater the week aftei rhanksgiving. "This motion picture, made inde pendently under the direction of ,he Lutheran Churches and shown onnercially, has received ravc iotices," Chaplain i auren Bru 3aker said. The regular price of admission .o "Martin Luther" is $1.20. Ca*o ina students presenting certifi -ates at the box office will he ad niitted for $ .90. -Committee to Program Dr. Seabury nd New York. A graduate of Ohio Wesley. n ud Boston Universities, Dr. Va'i :irk received Honorary Degrees f Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of ,aws, and Doctor of Humanities. Included in his work has been he writing of several books and nagazine articles. From 1936 tc L949 he was an N.B.C. commenta or on "Religion in the News." For uis service in this capacity, the fatlonal Conference of Christians ad Jews presented to Dr. Vani irk an Award of Distinguished 4erit for Outstanding Services by u InAividnal in Radio. Resoluti Ludent R ipline Co trolinaDebate ry, Tomorrow participate. Their wins and losses will be counted as usual. Six rounds of debate will be held in the Law School auditorium on the subject: "The United States Should Adopt a Policy of Free Trade." Besides the forensic events, contestan-s will compete I in extempore and impromptu speaking. Carolina debaters participating are: John Altman, Charleston; ,IBob Holmes, Columbia; Ernest I Lathem, Greenville; Bill Jones, 'Philadelphia; Claire White, Coluni i bia; Austin Latimer, Simpsonville; r Lawrence Stranch, Greenwood, and s Bill Rhoad, Bamberg. r South Carolina high school de I bate teams and their coaches have e been invited to observe the tourna i ment. Carolina Film Of Pharmacy Is Produced "A Day in th. Life of a Drug gist," a film about the everyday life of a druggist, has been pro duced by the School of Pharmacy I of the university, Dean Morrison of the school has announced. Pro duction of the film was handled entirely by students. The film originated from a series of skits given at the last annual Christmas party of the American Pharmaceutical Association stu (lent branch. The South Carolina Pharmaceutical Association and the School of Pharmacy joined to gether to hell) finance the film. It is a sound film with color by Kodachrome and was produced in the model drug store of the phariacy school. Local Talent The photograph work was done by Tommy Tucker of Columbia, and Jack Watts of Tabor City, N. C. was the production manager. The idea for the film came from Instructor Arthur C. Lytle of the phariacy school who wrote and directed the film. Commenting uon)f the film, he stated that: "The making of a film is not as sim31ple as it mnigh t seem. We encountered many techniiical dliffi culties, and frankly speaking, I doubt if I wvould tackle the job of making another film any time soon. It was a most unusual experience." 13 Have Parts Th irteen students had pa rts in the film. The students who partic ipatedl are Hector Caceres of New York, N. Y., Bettie Fuller of Laurens, ,Jack Anderson of Darien, Conn., Don Blankenship of Pine ville, N. C., P. L. Elvington of Nichols, Wilcox Hiowle of Harts ville, Charles Johnson of Clinton, Robert Keith of Columbia, Ish Osteen of Ehrhardt, Bennie Pel lerin of C'olumbia, Edward Redman of Cottageville, James Seegars of Bishopville, andl Jack Watts of Tabor City, N. C. The film has already been shown to the University of Wis consin and Medical College of Charleston pharmacy schools and the Clinton Pharmaceutical Asso ciation. The University of Ken tucky and the University of Flor idla have booked the film for show ing in the near future. The film was shown at Carolina last Wed nesday at the meeting of the A merican Pharmaceutical Associa tion student branch. A sequel to the above film en titled "A Day In the Life of a Soda Jerk" is now in production and will be presented at the Caro lina Playhouse, December 16 at 8:00 p.m. as a play. No plans have been made for a film production of the sequel yet. on Says, ep Vote mmittee' A resolution requesting voting power for the student representa tive on the disciplinary committoe has been passed by Student Council and presented to the administtra tion, Izzy Lourie, presidlent, anl nounced yesterday. "For several yea S. tudeint council and the (necock have sought voting power for the stu dent representative on the disci plinary committee," Lourie said. "We believe that such representa tion would be more in accord with Carolina's democratic principal. If this retolutiun is approved by the administration, we feel it will be a great step forward in creating better student-faculty relations." Present System Under the present systei, the president of the studtnt body at tends meetings of the committee, bit does not have voting power, leavitig the students without of ficial representation. The following resolution was presented to the administration: "WHEREAS, the Student Coun cil of the University of South Carolina believing that better in teiration of the disciplinary com mittee of the University of South Carolina and the student body is necessary for the welfare of the university as a whole, and "WHEREAS, the Student Coun cil believes the student representa tive to the disciplinary committee is of sufficient maturity to ade quately consider the problems that come before the committee, and "WHEREAS, the Student Coun cil believes there is a definite need for student voice in deciding the standard of conduct required of students of the University of South Carolina, and "WHEREAS, the Student Coun cil believes that students called before the disciplinary committee for breach of this standard will recognize more readily his own duty if there is evidence of student representation, "THEREFORE. 1: 1 T 1. im. r SOLVED: "That the Student CouIci of he University of South Carolina by unanimous vote requests the Uni versity of South Carolina to give voting power to the student rep resentative to the disciiary committee." No More Suniday Nighta Parking On UJS( H orseshoe No patrking w ill be allowed on the horseshoe on Suniday nights beginning this weekend, D)r. W. HI. Patterson, dean of administ rat iont, has announced. No car's will be allowed 'on the horseshoe from midnight Sunday until 7:30 a.m. The university has made arrangements with the City :>f Columbia to have the city's street sweeper clean the driveway arotind the horseshoe dturing this periodl. The ruling goes into effect Suin lay and will be enforced every Sunday from then on. Inter-Faith Program Is Set For Tuesday An Inter-Faith Thanksgiving program, featuring "Taking Stock," a one-act play by Holly Summers, will be presented by the Carolina religious council and the university players Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Carolina Playhouse, in a program designed for all denomi nations. Carolina students participating in the production are Farrell Lindley, Sloan Dozier, Paul Bryum, Delight Tiemann, and Johnny Mitchum. Serving on the Thanksgiving committee for the religious council are Mary Calhoun, chairman; Libby Mahaffey. and Joe Brown.