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A Pro; Foo Testii Athletics here, as at most of the leadi colleges and universities, have tended to di away from the campus and student boi The students still are the boisterous su porters of the football and b-sketball teai but much of the athletic policy is slanted appeal to the alumni. This year Carolina is experiencing the b( football campaign since the sport was inti duced here. If the Gamecocks get by the ne two games, and they are overwhelming favored to do that, they will have hung the most wins in the history of the school. Students have become increasingly feri in their support of the team, despite the la of attendance at pep rallies. Last week's u set win over West Virginia's highly regard, Mountaineers was the frosting on an alrea< delicious football cake. The students should now take it on they selves to show the football team, the alum and the rest of the sports world that ti Gamecock football team still belongs to ti campus and more specifically to the student The university is represented by the playe for the students and when the support due it should come from the students. The Gamecock advocates some display the stulent support, preferably in a tes1 monial dinner which would be open to t1 entire student body. It should be a stude Students D On IscAplIR Student Council this week took up a fig long waged by the Gamecock-student repr sentation on the university's discipline coy mittee. Uniider a system which is intended to all the student rehitive self-government it h. lways seemed paradoxical that he h been disallowed a voice in setting his ov standard of conduct. Very often studeii have been suspended without any thoug given to the idea that disciplinary cod should be modified in accordance with t chaiging moral codes. Regardless of how much the members the committee attempt to see the studen views on many matters they are unable foldlow hiis Iinte of reas1on1ing because of c1 Blood Drive StudI(ents overwhelmed the Bloodmobile its one day visit to the campus last wve More studlents were turned away than h originally been set for the campus quota. Letters to the Editor: Readers Write.4 I J-ar I'dditor: rather a be A\ wee'k or so algo I was pleased jdir needt''( of r to note( the return of one of the but not in o ohil trasMh cans outside the can- when(t there's een, respilendeItnt in its Clemson apropos0 victie color's and "Feed The Tiger" mot SIN( to. Within a few days it disap- A pearted. Now it's back, glossy in new colors, the Garnet andi Black. STAY SOU1 ["or those who are used to the old Dear ICditor: style, this is a definite sign of Some year. dropping school spirit, andl indeed Ition was youi $& GAP*CC CROWING FOR A GREATE] UNIVERSITY OF SOUTII CAl Member of Associated Collegiate Founded January 30, 1908, with Robert Elliott Col editor, "The Camecock" is pusblished by and for ii University of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays,< year except on holidays and during examination. The opinions expressed by columnists and letter writ sarily those of "The Camecock." Publishing does endorsement. The right to edit is reserved. EDITOR RALPI MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR NEWS EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR SOCIETY EDITOR FEATURE EDITOR CIRCULATION MANAGER STAFF REPORTERS Jack Bass, Faris Giles, Curtis Watson Margaret Roof, Paul Hanks, Bruce Parrish, Jr., Dew James, Al Stuart, J. R. Rosehei COLUMNISTS John Duffy, Faris Giles, J. Allen Tison. BUSINESS STAFF We. Sanders, Al Perry, Gibby Dean, Jack CA RTOONISTS -Bob Cameron, Stanley Papajoi 10sal for Ihall monal ng affair, promoted and arranged by student, ift and attended by students. ly. To insure the success of such an event il p_ would have to be sponsored by one or more ns student leadership groups. The dinner would to have to be paid for by the students who attended so tickets would have to be sold before the banquet could begin. - t We suggest to any group interested that xt they begin work on such a program now to I provide the players with visible proof that their work on the gridiron is appreciated. At the same time it would tend to bring football . into its logica perspelctive, a university func Id tion performed for university benefits. We suggest that such an event be so or p- ganized that only students, players, coaches and faculty be allowed to attend. All alumni l should be execluded, not because we feel any animosity toward alumni, but because- the 'I- presence of alumni would tend to kill the mli whole purpose of the dinner. ie Student council has already announced ie plans for a dance to honor the team. That, -. however, would not have the effect a testi rs monial dinner would have with much of the is student body brought into contact with the players and coaches in a convivial atmos Df phere that is not found on the campus. :i- The price of such an event would be rather le high for the individual but we feel that the nt entire school would benefit by it.-RNG eserve Voice me Committee qt tural differences caused by age and profes e- sion. The American jury system is constructed with the idea that each man shall be tried by his peers. Certainly no member of the w administration or faculty would consider AS himself on the level of the student. EIS Council has submitted a resolution to the M administration asking that the students be ts allowed a voting member on the committee. ht With that representation a student would es feel that he was being given a fair trial re he gardless of the committee's decision. Chances are the student representative of would be even stricter on another student L's when the defendant had actually committed to a breach of the accepted standard of good il- cond(uct.-RNG Oversuccessful )n ('hiefly responsible for the fine record k. chalked up was the dlescent of several hun ad( dIred of the ROTC cadets to the bloodl dona tion center.-RNG n Trash Cans, Co .Tecampus is in then edlitor of the New York iore* such receptacles,Tiue (Vie on m Jr owna prIoud colors Iitrwohdls i oc o such a willing and"( Wt,yng a,go es. n as cow college. Areetviitoheaoln 'EICELY, .)pi imy ovne eta D)Y MacPHIElCSON w~ hscutyneI oti ofTribounadiedayon.mn ago,whenour in-ter the had lst his noioner ao "Gboal Weakiyongm, goraphit. ret vist the opnonoaroltia wahscountry ne maued" that is~ or isnc on oungtry. oygtr, nwtaentheourerna-m lOLINA t eogmsl oAeia Press Caai,hl leehn,at izales as the first Mtooia ie h etmn le students of the elw okfradt sa"ot luring the college jl~ o ie era are not neces not constitute an1owiitta.ehverie I N. GREGORY it,stsidwt epcal JOHN RAY mdort?Weei h l i )AN DONOVAN Bill Leggitt adfr fyuh .Gus M anos Prastease isi u Sonny Gray hoe-n col,frtel3 Betty Jo Land Mary Wideman dpeso olwdb ol a W. L. Buffington I a aeautAeiait Patsy Penney, r~r.~i.th e h ul Ben R. McElveen, Aeia e ieFr,Eio -ry, Donna Hale. adCangesemtbecnpc or the (lasbteinlor ac broady areakig, oges.ogrphca Field.rois h aver alf iniiual cased no reoft intitutons,tion get a,dti conr hase to seeatured" thatothe "I thought I heard a JOHN DUFFY Govern Every Cit Almost every year we hear o some bright and ambitious ma, who is swept into office by a gool government crusade. The youni man is usually hailed as the victo over a machine which has usurpei power for many years. There ap pears to be genuine enthusiasm fo this candidate and he appears to b, the great reformer, for a whilc Then things get down to normal Enthusiasm wains. Affairs ar going fine, and people assume tha they will continue to go that way The young politician has to fil an important office with an ap pointment. He tries to get one o his good government supporters t, take the job; but the good govern mient advocate isn't interested. I personally hasn't got the time ani taking the job may even cost hin money. Soon the politician realize: that good government advocate seldom fight for good governmen except on election (lay and evel then only when the previous gov ernment has been too flagrant i its usurpation. Then the young man begins t make enemies or his old enemie from the machine come out of hid ing. The opposition begins 1. judiciously spend money, to organ ize a press attack, and to marsha its forces against him. The younj man begins to look around fo support or an organization of hi own. Logically he turns to thos who put him in. lie finds that the are nto longer organized, or that,i organized, they are non-p)artisan. If the young man has an; p)oliticall sense, he begins to rea liz that without an organization hi cannot win. The anti-miachin slogans wvill serve an incumbent. It is his record, not the machiines eds, Advice the fog of big business and hij government. We cannot know what Horac Greeley would advise were he liv ing today, but I'd bet my bottor dollar he would not advise, "G to Wilmington, young man and ge a permanent job with DuPont." like to think that instead he migh say, "Stay in the South, or whet ever you might be from. Sin your roots and build a business ( your own as soon as you can go started on ite--good times or ba< Cut the strings that bind yout big business and big governmer and sec'urity forever. Stand on your own andl work and think. Fc the world can be your oyster, you do these things, and sta South, young man." Yours very truly, James C. Byrd,'.Jr., President S4partanbuarg Broadcasting Co., Inc. C'O-EI)S A(;AIN Dear Edlitor: TIo reply to .Joe Voop in Gam, co)ck of Friday the 13th, I sa that perhaps some of the co-e< do belong in a firehouse (as r< gards the "The Firehouse Fii P'lus Two" female group), for aft4 all, many firehouses have a ro light burning out front. I)ISSATISFIEl) FOOTBALl,. CA RA VAN Dear Editor: 'Alpha Phi Omea,n national s.e trange voice in here . . . ment Is izen's Job f which will have to be publicized; i and to do that he needs an organ i ization. He begins building his I organization. There are always r those who will espouse his cause i for a job. There are those who - can be bought with cash. The r young man goes to work and in effect he builds a machine. Another course which the poli tician may take is to join the old machine, quietly, by appointing its members to key offices. In any case a machine exists and thrives once more, only to win elections I until the good government charac - ters become upset again ten or f twenty years later. There is a third course which the young man may take. He can avoid building up a machine of his own and he may refuse to join the old one. He can appoint the best avail able men on a strictly non partisan basis. This would truly be the admirable course to follow. Un fortunately, the young man at the next election would have no organ I ization and no money. He would, of course, have the support of the honest and independent voter. That is, he would have the support of those who came to the polls-. In other words, if you were a bookie, s you could bet two to one that our . honest young man would lose; be cause in the past, with rare excep tions, where there were no current scandals organizations have con sistently beaten independent candi dates. r The moral of this essay simply , is that sporadic anti-machine move ments will not bring honest gov ernment. The answer to our pres eat political dilemma of recurring fcorruption and inefficiency is not to be found in the pious mouthings ~of independents. It is to be found only in accepting p)olitical organ izations as necessary and working to reform them by active participa a' tion in them. Government is a year round job. Voting once a year will ,not secure good government. to Seniors Sice fraternity, wishes to express its sincere ap)preciation for the e sp)lendidl turn out of studIents to - welcome the football players at th~e n airport last Sunday. The school a spirit displayed by these students t reveals that with the right ap) I proach school spirit at Carolina can t become a reality. - The idea to form a car caravan to greet the football p)layers was conceived by one of your sp)orts writers who is also a member of Alpha Phi Omega. All radio sta 0tions in the city wvent along with tthe plan, and they infornmed the n students that wvere listening to the Sradlio Saturdlay night. The mem fbers, on Sunday, calledl every ydormitory and fraternity house on the campus. The turn out was excellent. More than 150 students took p)art in the caravan. This proves that there is sehool spirit at Carolina. Again let me thank all those wvho took part in the caravan. .JOlN COLEMAN, AP PRO.JECT CHAIRMAN y EDITOR R EBUK {ED D[ear* Editor: ~The Gamecock of November 6, e1953, carriedl an article penned rby the editor entitled "Religious Week Revises Program Schedule." In this article, the program set up for the Religious Emphasis Week was given quite an excellent build up, until the last paragraph was readl, in which the entire build-up GUS MANOS Segrege Basically (Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of columns on segrega tion. Subsequent columns will dis cuss the principle of separate facil ities, practical solution, and other related subjects.) Almost a hundred years have passed since the Civil War. Today the South is still recovering from its effects. In the opinion of most materialistic judges of progress the South is now truly going for ward. Our school systems -re slowly improving, better agricultural methods are being developed, and industry is moving in and expand ing. A healthy and wealthy new economy has grown up since the days of "King Cotton." The major ity of our people are educated (if reading, writing, and knowing a profession can be called an educa tion.) Cities are growing, new buildings are springing up, late model automobiies are seen on our streets and highways. And so it goes. The industrial prophets, the grinning politiei#ns, the eager students will exhort as to how the South is improving, going forward, looking to the fu ture. Yet, amidst all this glitter and material accomplishment there lurks an ugly scar out of the past -a scar which neither time nor progress have been able to heal. This blig4it upon the South's growth is segregation, which in most cases is kept in the back ground while the improvements and accomplishments are brought forward and praised. Segregation is wrong. Its prac tice is sinful, hypocritical, and backward. It represents the anti thesis of the great concept of the JOHN RAY Needed: Tickets for F Carolina has probably the best football team that it ever produced. And the student body knows it. That's why such a small item that probably never would create much wrath or irritation is under fire this very minute-I'm speak ing of the negligence on refusal of the BAM Club and Athletic De partment to set a student rate on tickets to the Wake Forest and other games played on a so-called neutral field. Students want to attendi Carolina football games--and they do attend them. But who can hellp from feeling a little pang of resentful ness when it c-osts $3.60 to see the home team play. The situation has been so before. I think it hasn't been any different here, in fact. But it should be different. From the facts that I have been able to gather, student rates for games away aren't given at most schools. ' Perhaps there should be no special catering to studlents for games away from home, for the respec-tive teams have their finan cial obligations, but there are ex ceptions. The Clemson-C arollina game is Guest Columnist: MOI Features N( Carolina students are in an in teresting situation. We wer-e born in the Bible Belt, nurtured on fundiamentalism, and find ourselves in a world of relativism, skepticism, scientism, objectivity, and prog r-ess. We are not surle which is worse-the birthright or- the mess of pottage. We are busy; we aire not very interested in being goodl. Religious Emphasis Week must be pertinent to the affairM andl in terests of students, and the execu tive committee has endeavored to make it so. It is their conviction that students and professor-s want to hear- not only clergymen who have diedicatedi their lives to the pulpit, but also men who have reached the top in science, p)olitics, world affairs, military rank, and ediucation andl can speak with authority on the place of religion in todIay's world. Several other steps ar-e be'ing taken toward a more for-ceful and challenging Religious Emphasis Week. You will have opportunity to study and dliscuss some of the most pertinent issues andi problems facingr us in the five seminars.o ition Is Wrong brotherhood of man. It opposesal that is democratic, decent, and religious. It confines a specifiR group of people to an intellectu and spiritual prison. It condemns them to a low standard of living which they can rise over only after overcoming tremendous ob stacles. It restricts their full enjoyment of all the beautifult" gifts which God put on the earth for all to partake of. The practice of segregation con tradicts our Declaration of Inde pendence which states that all men, being created equal, are endowed with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It provides a beauti ful propaganda weapon for world Communism, for which segregation in our own country we deal our selves the first blow even before striking out at that evil Soviet Communism, for with segregat* For these reasons. it can never be condoned, no matter what means are used to get around its abolition. There is only one way to end the problem. Segregation must be ended. Some will say that what is pro posed here is idealistic, but not practical. But let us contemplate a moment. Practical situations are dictated by man-made conventions. Are not ideals more important and worthy of sacrifice than petty restrictions of a society which is too set in its ways ? One thing is certain. Our com mon God and our posterity will judge us not by the conventions of our materialistic society, but by our ideals and their practice. These are the outpourings of the soul and its conscience, which each man must face within himself. Student toad Games an exception, though a rather far fetched one. Both student bodies have student tickets to this one. This is done because the game is never played at Clemson, but the large crowd and increased rates on the regular tickets compensate for this. It would take some time to ar range a process by which students could have some privilege in the ticket matter. It takes agreement by both schools involved to stan dardize or set any rate for tickets, but it seems logical that when a game is played on a neutral field some arrangement could be made for the students' convenience. For, after all, the students are the most loyal supporters of the team. And without students, what would the name college football indicate? I'm not tending to be radical on the subject, but although cries may go unheeded, the grievances, though infinitesimal in nature, shouldi be heard. No one is going broke, I hope, by purchasing a ticket to the Deacon massacre. Probably, stu dlents won't be able to get those checks cashed in the depository, anyway--for lack of identificatiof! what else ? 4LY McGREGOR0 is Week ~w Program race relations, ,alcohol, courtship and marriage, mental health, and basic Christian beliefs. The lead ers of these seminars wvill be com petent by their knowledge and ex perience to help us find angra to our questions. Another major development is the establishment of three simul taneous convocations dlaily with Protestant, Jewvish, and Roman Catholic speakers. A student may attend any of the three convoca tions he chooses, and can expect to hear an addjress based on the whole and undIiluted faith of the speaker--not on "religion in gen eral." This plan will also accom modalte more students at convoca tions, and give more of our leaders a chance to speak to a student convocation. These and the other p)lans for Religious Emphasis Week, Decem ber 6-10, were made with you in mind. It is hoped that the student body and faculty will participate wholeheartedly, enthusiastically, and open mindedly, in sincere ef fort to "Build on the Greatness of God."