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Students Deserve 1- Self-Rule It has been repeatedly brought to the attention of ad ministration, faculty and students that the student body merits a represent'tive on the disciplinary committee of the university. Recently student council presented a resolution to the university asking for such a delegate but as yet no answei has been forthcoming from any of the sources in a positior to provide the students with such a representative. There is nothing new in our request for a vote on tha group. We can only repeat our opinion that the student living in a community, which the university certainly is needs to be governed by the democratic principles which thiQ nation was founded on. Among the privileges which the founders of this country fought for was the right of trial by jury. A jury that iQ composed of the defendant's peers. The jury trial by a grout of professors is certainly not a trial by equals. We proposf that the student be allowed to maintain his own disciplinar3 regulations as well as the other phases of his university life Other universities leave the problem of disciplinary actior entirely in the hands of students with student courts set uI to administer punishment for the violations of school laws In this case it is certainly not too much to ask that o student be given the right to help set up the code of law, that he is expected to follow. In tiat way he feels mor< obligated to abide by them than if they were simply impose< on him by the higher echelon.-RNG A Policy Statement A recent series of articles begun by a member of th< Gamecock staff has aroused the ire of several students. The series, concerning segregation or the wrongs of it has been answered this week by two students, one of them 0 member of our own staff. This was the result we expecte< and hoped for when the series was begun. We are happy to present the other side of the segregatior picture this week and will welcome any other opinions or the question, whether they are pro-segregation or anti-segre gation. The main purpose of this page is to present the opinion, of the student body on the current topics, mainly local bu also national, whereas the news pages are designed primaril; to inform the reader by presenting the facts. Therefore, this page is open at all times to the student to praise, criticize or just discuss any issue that may come ur However, we must insist that the opinions voiced in th signed columns and presented in the letters to the edito column are strictly the opinion of the writer and are no necessarily the policy of the Gamecock.--RNG Kay Starr--A Product Don't ever ask Kay Starr' for ansucsf. honest opinion on the "experience In14shwasiedt versus the lucky break" question Cptlrcrigcnrc,a about singing success, for if sheafetrinousoelssc usedl her own career as a case inth jazfld orheCpt point, it wouldl be difficult to tellIpel,Ky tjedvrtoh where the experience left off and ) fedadirentyrsh the lucky break began, or vice hdhrsaeo is te e versa.tuefoKaStr(feKahy While st.ill in her teens, this Sais)hv nlddr(i)a half-('herokee and half-Irish miss jT okpu oubapee was singing with such bands asjtild"hnYurSmig. JIoe Venuti and Bob Crosby, pa- Hwvr a' raetsce iently climbing the ladder to suc- hsb'ni e eodn o cess in the usual step)-by-step)wihrne rmbust a method. It was (luring a two-yearlds He laet"WnM stay with Charlie [Barnet's band Iraba oishm. n in 1943 that her "'lucky'' break 'Sap Fr,'hv led came along,.lme otels ftpfvrt Kay's then sweet-styled band o h a."uk"beko o vocalist voice was changed to aKaStrsemtohvnatre harsh, athough nt unplesant esforula o ucs nt bitng on asa esut o asevreCompitive ied ingnt an throathinfection.ldfter con-Csong. valscig, ay efttheban sig-eooke for mored-t reers ot ing bsines for careras uronl for the clssiarl (nedu Kather singe wich rovd t be ighy itep "Wheld CYolu S ig. Mebe o sscitH olweve Ka'Preatssce FoudedJauar 30 108,wiha be Elinal ther reorin o edior,"Th Gmecck"isubich yanes fro s ues toba scet n hlkys ndDurigeambatome Hme".n of ThGaecck"Pbshamp dre," no havtiue alrad Ionsexprssedby c lum imbea d ltthe itestr ofto favorite endorsement.STaerriehemo editais reserred EDIhaTOug RALPHlasnt thNfrm . forcessOiR th igbNESs EDIOR Guaera nl nteca sia Mil,bans< SPORTSOEDITO FORnAyGREATE SOCETY ESITR BettyUTHCAROLnd JMckbaer Fa f GiAs,oCris Wolgate Pasy eny Fou ded Januays, Al908a, it R osber ry,oae Da He. Jear Ducept Fns olds, nd Allngen Tinton. BUSINESS BUSNER SDANSONOVA NWSanErs,O AlPerysibyMea,Jakoied SPORTS DIT ARTSONISGra Jack Bass FarGin, Stle Wt,Pa tsyPnney Marart oo, au Hnk, rue aris, enR.Mclven "Ila 80 "I wish this darn phone would stol !JOHN DUFFY The M Free En Many and respected are the orators who solemnly proclaim the virtues of "our American Free Enterprise System." Free enter prise, they say, exists in the United States and explains the political and economic prosperity of this country. With all due respect, it should be pointed out that none of these orators bother to show how the United States produces a free enterprise eco nomuy. If by free enterprise, one means a society in -which economic life is regulated by natural economic laws, then the present economy of the United States is not a free enterprise economy, nor has it ever been one. In fact, the closest approxima tion to a free enterprise economy in modern history is the British free trade program of 1846-1932. This policy had to be given up dur ing the great depression. As for the United States, bus iess has demanded government protection since the very beginning I of its history and there are many who doubt that the U. S. will adopt a free trade policy, even today. It is true that in the period r following the Civil War down to t 1879, there was little if any regu lation of business by the govern of Breaks, a new album, "Full l)imensional s Sound-A Study in High Fidelity." I Biesides the classical excerp)ts there a are items by Ray Anthony, D)ick I Stabile, Les Paul, and Stan Ken I ' KAY STARR ton. In addition there are two percussion selections. Also along the hi-fi road is the promise in the near future of an electronic beam playback head for tape machines, which should eliminate the prob lem of electronic equalization in the playback circuits, not possible before in the more conventional and cheaper tapes. It'll also help in the spread of pre-recorded tape and advance the cause of tho.se who think that recordings should all be on reels. The Collegiate Orchestra of America, Inc., undler the aegis of Leopold Stokowski, has been formed andI has a goal of raising $500,000 between now and next summer at which time it plans to start a comprehensive program of studly, rehearsals and concerts in IAmerican colleges and universities. Also in the classical vein is the development of more local sym phonies with The Savannah Sym phony starting Nov. 17 for five concerts . . . There is also a plan for a P hysicia ns Philharmonic Symphony in Chicago, similar to the one in New York, which has been flourishing for the last 15 years . . . Tihere's also good news in that the Ihartford Symphony has increased both its budget andl the n um ber of c'once'rts it will give th is sen ...A n,i ,.os n~ the N, % CAAACRON rnging so I cotild make t call!' lyth of terprise ment. However, by 1879, busines was showing so little respect fo the "natural law" of competitio that the Congress was obliged t artificially enforce that naturt law with the Sherman Anti-trus Act. Even with government ait competition waned. The deman for better prices, efficiency, an better goods could be met i most industries only through com bination. The great trusts grei up. Temporarily they were halted However, World War I productiot trade and finance were allowed t go their way unhampered. The abandonment of the futil crusade against competition was necessary program of the Repul lican administration in the Twei ties; but the adoption of complet lai.sez-faire was a mistake. Grou ing combination in business mear increased power for busines. There was not, however, a co responding growth of labor powe In fact, the government actuall hampered labor. The result wa big business, weak labor and government which didn't seem t care. By 1929 competition in big bu iness was not a reality. Price production techniques, and sale (Continued on page 6) Experenc fiel from jazz, is the com missio of Hilly Taylor to (c opse t h score for the ballet, '"Tiger Rag, for the Agnes I )e.l ilIle D a ne Theatre. When he's not compo~s inig, het's notedl as a pro~gr5s:-iV pian ist Jazz war between Hi rdla~nd anm Bandbox in New York ended las month with Blandbox sw itclhing t a revue p)olicy, leaving the liird a: the inmber one( jazz spot in f in city. And talking abott numtbei one' jazz spots,5 the one in (Chicago the Blue Note td Iiscont iues opera tion D ec'. I for a whilec. I,~an d lor< trouble, butt host F'ran k II olzfient will d1o concert promuot ions amt plans to open a new spot) a roumn Ala .. Iouis .lordan har sw itche'd atffiliat ions from l)eeca where he started, to At lant ic (Colutmbia is releasing an I,P' o Helen Ward, Henny Goodman'i soloist 17 years ago, who (cami back iato the business this summe; ...Artie Shaw's Gramercy 5 i hitting the road. The ('ombo wil play its first dates D)ec. 7-19 a the Rendezvous, Philadelphia, an< the Colonial in Toronto, D)ec. 28 Jan. 2, followed by a group of one nighters before going into th Alpine Village, Cleveland, Jan. 11 17. D)OWN HEATl F"ive Star D)iscs Popular. - C'armen Meliae - "Wanting You" (Stardust 1002) Eddie Oliver-"P'etrillo" ( Allie 5015). Jazz-D)ave lBrubeck-"Ob)erli ('ollege Concert" (F"antasy l,P.1 11); Stan Getz-"Clef LP~" (Cle MGC 137); Oscar Ptettiford "P'ettiford All Stars" -(Imperia ElP 122); llud Powell -"Hlu Powell Tlrio" (Rtoost fi 4,~ 12) Django lteinhardt - "Memorit LP"9 (Clif MG' 516). Country and Western-Darrel Glenn-"! 'Think I'm F"allingi L,ove" (Valley 109). ('lassical - Puctcini - "l,a iltn hene" (('em ra 014'). Guest Columnist: BEN Th You can smooth out the wrin kles, inflict persuasive adjectives, and tell me I'm not broad-minded, and still I will not submit to non segregation! And believe. me, if it could be printed in newspapers, I could spit out about two million reasons why! Even so, with the limited use of a restricted language, there are in numerable reasons-quite plausi ble, indeed moderate, and infallibly persuasive. May they suffice in a bland and restricted way. As an initial statement, the def inition of segregation, from Web ster's New Colleg4ate Dictionary, is "the act of segregating, or state of being segregatell; separation from a general mass or main body; specif., isolation or seclusion of a particular group of persons." Even the definition reveals somewhat of a tendency toward my proposed proof; that the "whites" and the Negroes are not segre gated now, in the sense of being isolatud or secluded from each other. In fact,' the mingling of the two is rather frequent. Perhaps it is even closer mixing that is sought! The fact of the matter is, the segregation presently in existence in the South would be more cor s retly defined as unequalized ma r terialistic conditions, with social Guest Columnist: FLY Segregatior A fter reading with interest I recent editorials in this paper re garding segregation, we believe I that there is yet another side to be toll. The attitu(de of Southerners i toward the Negro is a natural psychological aftermath of the e War Between the States, those a decades of "King Cotton" and slavery prior to the war and then - the terrible plague of Reconstrue e tion in post-war years. The South has indeed come a long way since t Appomatox; yes, we have made mistakes, but we have also made progress. It is undeniable that the average , Negro fares much better in the s South thanii he does in the North. a In 1949 Negroes owned 12,336,794 0 acres Of farmland, or twice the size of Maryland, and harvested crops valued at more than one billion dollars in the South. In s Spartanburg a Negro, Eirnest Col lins, operates a funeral hoin a - taxicab business, a filling station, grocery store, has several buses, rusanight club, andl a large farm. "i TIhe only bus lines owned by Negroes in the U1nited States are fudini the South, an example beinrg t he Safe Bius Company in t W inston-Salem which owns andit operat Ies overQi one hiundriedl buses. Fa gleate dc liscrinmination exists , ini the North than in the South. ' I Carecfully a nalyze' the coinditions int ITa rleim, in New York and South side in Chicago. The state of New v Je rse emiiploys~ only one Negiro in Collegiate ... Williamistowin, Mass. --(I.P.) - (ioirteen(1 ot the fifteen fraternities at Williamis College are partici ,pating in the Campus Businesst . ana gemient phm this year, in anf effort to cut costs through a sys tem of central izedi purchasing. U Jnder the new program, pur ('hasing is handled by the college's I dlirector of dining halls. Each Ifraternity buys its foodstuffs from a central storage ceinter incor- I porated in the new $1,400,0'00 St ude(nt U nion, uinder construction. -The~ frate'rnities will continue to op)erate' their indlividuial (lining halls and kitchens. The college will ope(rate' a central dining hall in ;the Studlent Union for the use of the non-affiliates and freshmen. 'The special dining hall is part of a plan iito de(-emphasize fraternities une5 ystemii of dlefe'rredl rush intg. 1 in the fut ure no freshmen will rI be p)ledgedl. Only the three upper c lasses may be rushed. The Stu (lent Uioan will provide (lining Ifacilities for freshmen, many of Swhom wouldl have been pledged by fraternities before the school - year be'gan iu nder the previous McELVEEN e Other Sic equality included, yet mumbled in an inaudible under-tone. It seems more likely that a solution of materialistic equality is the goal. And is a man supposed to share his wealth equally with his fellow men? Would that. not be con munism ? And as far as social equality is concerned, let me say this. When the Declaration of Independence was worded somewhat to this ef feet, that all men, being created equal, are endowed with life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap piness, did it not mean this ? People are born equal, but are en lowed with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, consequently individuals result. Any other con eption would tend to suggest that t All Homo sapiens should look, feel, act, and be alike. Not so, how ever! t I say that individuals are not ( to be restricted to equality. And t as I believe it to be the current t American concept, individuals are free, and are not to be ruled by anyone, insofar as the next man's eelings and rights are concerned. E When individuals are considered, < -o must their abilities, their in- i abilities, and their ideals. Cer- I ainly it was not meant that all I men are destined at birth to be . !qual until death. .9 N N HARRELL i--A Natural ts Motor Vehicle Department ,vhile every Southern state em )loys numerous Negroes. rhere is an old axiom, "You can udge a cause by the men back of c t." Today there is a relatively t Miall group of white northern )oliticians and Negro leaders who ;eek to abolish segregation for .heap political purposes. We who live in the South and are a amiliar with our way of life are c 7ar hetter able to cope with our I )articular problems than are the r .1AACP agitators who occupy of- I ice suites in downtown New York d ind who base their opinions on the t listorted stories appearing in the legro Press and the Daily Worker. r Many persons defend segrega- I .ion on the grounds that it is not C -ontrary to the constitution, nor s it going against the wishes of a >ur creator who separated the 3eoples of the earth into the I rarious tribes and further divided I ,hem into the various tongues. Today there are still many evils vhich we should correct. We must 'ontinue to educate the peop)le of 1: >oth races, p)articularly must wea ~how the Negroes that theyv houldn't vote as a block (watch I Vard 9) in Columbia). We must see v hat every individual has a chance o develop his talents and resources. Ve must be tolerant and teach olerance to others. The New York i 'imes has said, "You can't enforce a olerance with a policeman's billy."'u Segregation is essential to our s eculiar way of life. We must i rovide equal, but sep)arate facil- v [OSEPH TAYLOR A Critic Grading The existing system of grading racticed at Carolina is not fair ; o all. It is not fair because a uni- t1 ornm policy of grading is not ob- n ervedI by all professors within a p epartment. i I readily admit there is a need o or variance of grading in different V lepartments. But, I insist that A here is no reasonable argument r or differences within a depart- s nen t. For01 instance, if a professor v~ eaching istory 11 persists upon p tradling "on the curve," then all t, >rofessors in the department a ,eaching History 11 persists upona vise. Under present practice the b rarying method of grading dliscrinm- t nates against student who are t tradled on the merit system. t Also, if a studenet in the En- t flish department has an 85 dailyt iverage, is it correct and reason ible to fail him at midl-semester' o >ecause he has a mid-semester s -xamin ttion grade' of 65? There ~ s a lot of pressure (luring ann 'xamination andI some1 students v 'annot withstand pressure as well c is others. Is all the study' and( t vork accomplished dluring the d 'ourse' of the half-semester to be a ossed( out of the window as just s o much trash and the student it fiven a failing grade becauise he c. 'altes just once? . le Any other translation of the )eclaration of Independence would Joint towards equal distribution )f material wealth, intellect, social itanding, and what have you. Of -ourse, again that would be a com nunistic, as opposed to democratic, 9 ,oncept. Why is the present segregation o terrible, viewing it from the tbove angle ? As long as the 'oundation rests on abilities, in tbilities, and ideals,- the result will nevit'ably equal the same. Indi ridualism will outlaw equality, and ion-segregation is hopeless. Segre ration, in my sense, will persist mntil time immemorial! If religion must be brought into he argument, why may I ask did od create the distinct Negroid Lnd Caucasian races? If he sought o combine the two, he has wasted luite a bit of time in going about he process. If he had no inten ions whatever of just that, then ie solicits segregation! And of course when non-segre ration is forced upon the school ystem, I will be the first to with Iraw and the first to enter a pri rate school. Nevertheless, I sup >ose that the next movement will oe one in which the Negro will eek admission to the private chools. And then what? Letters To The Editor )ear Editor: In the Nov. 20th issue of the 'amecock an article appeared, tating that all veterans would be e(lired to pay at least 50 per ent of their fees at entrance ime. The reason given for this hange was that the school was osing too much money because he veterans were dropping out. 'he administration then did an ,bout face and stated that now, to [ualify for the 50 per cent deferred. iayment plan, the veteran woul1 Lot have to keep a "3" average. s this not an effort to go in two - ifferent directions at the same inie? It is quite evident that the ad ninistration does not realize the andicaps that confront the vet ran who is trying to pay his own xPenses through Carolina. With 11 due respect to the Veterans dhministration (we love our $110 er month that sometimes gets ere), it isn't enough to build up reserve to pay a lump sum every ix months. If the school was losing money efore it is certain that the small mount of money savedl (if any) v'ill not comp)ensate for the new urden that is cast upon the 'etera n. Gary D). Brown, Student School of Law ~ies for both races. We must lay side all political and racial prej dlices and work together to in ure our continued peace, prosper y, and happiness-the Southern ray of life. ism of System Many will contend that the resent system of grading p)rovides hie greatest good for the greatest umber. However, th~e primary urpose of the university is the litellectual and social dlevelopment f the individual. It is he with rhomn the university is concerned. 1nd any act or* practice which estricts this primary function hould be abolished. There will be many of you who ,ill maintain that the prirMry urpose of this article is my dlesire a "blow off some excess steam" rising from any or all of the bove maintained faults having een imposedl on me. This is not rue. It is for you the individual a "pore over" andl be it your will a organize and present a petition a the proper authorities so that his malpractice may be abolished. Rather, it is the primary purpose f this article to bring about the tandardization of a method of rading within departments, it is iy hope that what I have stated 'il.1 he construedI as constructive riticismo. I personally do not in endI any malice to anyone or any epartme'nt. It is not my wish to rouse the ill feelings of my uiperiors here at Carolina. Rather, is my purpose to express the anvictions of many of my fellow liudents who feel as I.