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In Ass Our Res; Upon the completion of a semester, it is customary for the Gamecock staff to change hands, the new staff having the responsibility of. putting out the last issue of the semester. So it falls upon us, the staff for the coming semester, to make an endeavor in keeping with past traditions of the Gamecock. It is sometimes difficult to be a successor, one whose job it is to fill the position of another. But it has been and shall be the goal of this newspaper to represent the student in "Crowing for a greater Caro lina." Every newspaper has a purpose, whether it be to carry on a crusade for some partic ular ideal or objective or to serve as a means of income. Since few college weeklies are so successful as to provide for a means of income, we have only one reason for survival-to crusade continually for what we feel will benefit the university and those within the university and to inform stu dents and faculty members. We feel that in order to inform and cru sade we should leave our editorial page open to any student who desires to express his thoughts, whether or not they be in accordance with those of our staff mem bers. The policy of the Gamecock has and will be to print both sides to any argument. Without this policy we feel that we would be representing not the student body, but mere segments of the student body. Many times in the past there have been contro versies that extend beyond the scope of the USC Tz In the I Last week a student council committee recommended to council a new type of orien tation program to replace the one abolished at the beginning of this school year. The plan called for leadership groups to sponsor the period at the beginning of the fall semester rather than continuing classes throughout any one term. The period, according to one proposal, would be integrated into the testing sched tile, coming between two of the periods. The proposal is now being studied. Orientation classes, as most of us knew them, presented a problem that was kicked around like a Nineteenth Century orphan. It was mandatory which meant that two strikes were against it from the start. There is in every college a seemingly innate dislike for anything mandatory. Not only was it mandatory, butt it also was reqired to graduate. And, not least, student teachers were in charge. One of the biggest reasons for the dis b)anment of the Orientation clique, however, was the feeling of the administration that students weren't getting enough out of the orientation in historical knowledge what the school was putting into it via financial em bursement to student teachers. Most students never got out of the course what knowledge they should have, yet stu (dents now entering the university are learn ing none of the historical data concerning the founders and builders of this school. The problem before the students now is not whether a one-period course in orienta tion will adequately replace the old system, %v GA4Co4 CROWING FOR A GREAE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROl Member of Associated CoIegiae PrE on ded naar, 190, wfb ebe. EtE Om Unieufyof South Caroh eel, emFa 3 deefe salythose of 'Th Caaumesk"Pbhu de met endorsnnent. The right to edil is r.sessd. EDITOR JO MANAGING EDITOR BI BUSINESS MANAGER DA2 ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR. NEWS EDITOR . . .... BE SPORTS EDITOR SOCIETY EDITOR . . ....Car FEATURE EDITOR ....Ben CIRCULATION MANAGER ....W. ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER STAFF REPORTERS Faris Giles, Paul Hanks, Dew James, J. R. Ros4 Hale, Bruce Parrish. COLUMNISTS John Duffy, Faris Giles, J. Allen Tison, Ralpi BUSINESS STAFF Wes Sanders, Al Perry, Gibby Dean. CARTOONISTS Bob Cameron, Stanley Papajohn umuing onsibility student body. When we touch on such matters, we do so because students may be directly affected by the consequences. Realizing that responsibility for what is printed herein is levied upon us, we 1may sometimes avoid getting involved too deeply in personalities. But realizing also that a free press without any form of censorship is the nucleus for the democratic element in any form of government, national or student, we shall exercise the power of the printed word as it has been in the past. Unless an untrue statement is printed within the pages of this institution or, through some error of our own we are completely unfair to an individual, we shall offer no apologies. Opinions voiced via column or letters on the editorial page are not necessarily the opinion of this newspaper. These are per sonal opinions and should be interpreted as such. The opinion of the staff may be inte grated within these columns, however, since several of the staff members periodically submit columns. A good university is a foundation for a better state, a better state a stepping stone for a great nation, and a really great nation a beneficiary to mankind. Considering this, the part played by the college newspaper is worth every ounce of work one can offer it; for we feel that we are aiding in the advancement of the university. Our policy is not a new one. It is one of the oldest known to man. We think it is fair and we strive to make it as good as it has been in the past.-JWR 'ud tion Balance but whether a one-period course at the begin ning of the semester is better than no class at all. The leadership groups on the campus are kicking the proposal around and someone should come up with a solution as to how orientation will be taught-if it is taught at all. It seems to us, however, that some mode of teaching orientation should be worked out, whether it be by the leadership groups or not. Perhaps it was the best financial move to abolish the last form of orientation teaching, but from the academic standpoint, or historical view, no way was feasible. The entire South is rich in tradition. And* one of the must tradition-filled states within the South is South Carolina. The university, the only one in this state, obviously has much glorious tradition. This fact is well known today, but unless university tradi tion is known by its own students, no one will recognize its historical significance twenty or thirty years from now. Not only is history of the school taught in orientation; there are many ru les~ and regulations of the university with which freshmen should become well acquainted before beginning their university life. Many students are even now unaware of some of the policies and rules by which their college activities are governed. Abolishing orientation indefinitely is abolishing part of tradition which has been pr'eserved for every future student at this university. It shouldn't happen.-JWR ~-not her t.n core Joni Jame Some people probably wondered - __ -~what Joni James was going to (1o d for an encore after "Why Don't You Believe Me." Well, here's --mm-dl what happened. Within eleven RN W. RAY months, Joni sold nearly 6,000,000) LL LEGGITT records; her club appearances and I DONOVAN orre-niters last year broke attend ....Al Lane ance records, and brought her a ta hhrt five-figured weekly salary; MGM slyn McClung recordis awardied her four gold R. McElveen records (which represent a record L. Buffington selling over a million copies.) Not .Jack Field bad for someone who many people labeled at first just a "flash in ~berry, Donna the pan." Before "the record," .Joni .James Gregory. (nee Joan Babbo) worked in small midwest clubs. It was while she was appearing at the Vine Gar dens in Chicago, that radio and TV merchandiser Roy Rodde heard G"CAMEV"q her one of those biscuits." the Editor Fourth is the custom of segrega tion. I was recently intrigued by a neo-humanist's reference to " . . a practice which has settled itself comfortably upon us through the years . . ." This, of course, is true. The rest of his articles were made up of specious asser tions as to why we should make ourselves uncomfortable, appar ently for the sake of charity. He did not mention what our reward would be for this charity: ingrati tude, friction and violence. Why do these humbug-humanists and politicians think that segregation has existed so long? Do they think that they have a monopoly on in telligence? Such a belief is often a symptom of insanity. Negroes are not accepted because they are non-comformists. This statement is not limited to the southern states. In the north ordinary public facilities are equally used, but Negro and associations are so seldom seen that they may be called unusual. There are also non-conformists made up of for eign nationalities who, although minority groups, think that the mass should conform to them. These minority groups complain that they are discriminated against. Of course! Why? Be cause they refuse to conform to the ways of the mass. Why should they? They have entirely different senses of values, therefore they can never agree, so let them con tinue to live apart. If they would stop trying to fit themselves into cultures for which they have neither aptitude nor temperament, we would all be much happier. Fifth is the question of What to Do About The Situation. A local person advises us to restrain Durselves and to refrain from emotional outbursts on the mat ter. This advice is stale to the point of decay. While Harry the T. was in office he gave similar advice to those who were begin ning to see red in Washington, meanwhile the Russians were rob bing us blind of every secret dlevice we ever had. He gave the same advice to MacArthur while the Rcds were playing POT THE AMERICAN DUCK, then HOME FREE OVER THE YALU. Mac Arthur didn't like it and said so, so he was fired. The Russian people kept calm, cool, and col lected while the party took over and gradually put the clamps on, and look where they are now! Southern people are not talking about what they will do, if and when, but I have all the faith in the world the South will take care of itself when the need arises. The same person also quotes Lincoln to us, leaving out a significant fact, which is that the quotation fits the Southern viewpoint most admirably, if one concedes that charity can not be unlimited. Sixth is the falsity of enforced equality. It should be obvious to anyone that equality which has to be enforced by law is not equality at all, but a form of Marxism pot and K when her "You Belong To Me" madie the "most-played" lists in Chicago. But as often happens in the record business, a more estab)lishedi star jumped on the same tune, and Jo Stafford's ver sion all but pushedl Joni's record1 into obscurity. But then came "Why Don't You Believe Me," an overnight hit for Joni, and since then her records have appeared consistently on all the best-seller lists. As for personal ap)pearances, Joni has just completed a long tour of club dlates and one-niters, and lans to (do a string of concert dlates early this year. There's also a TV show in the works, and Hfollywood has been waving a film contract at her. And for another encore? Who can tell? COMO TO LONDON ..... Pop Inter-national: .London tr "I tol( him not to eat ano Letters to To the Editor: In regard to the segregation question I should like to call at tention to a few aspects hitherto apparently unconsidered. First is the world's condition. Although many of us give it little or no thought, the free world is engaged in a desperate techno logical race with Russia, with no goal in sight as long as Commun ism exists. Although we know that they are our enemies and would-be conquerors, we are world renowned for our stupid tendency to accept the vilest of insults meekly, and to refuse to fight until we are actually attacked. Therefore, the only way to prevent an attack is to maintain ourselves ready to crush such an attack with superior force. To maintain superiority we must advance con tinually in technology, otherwise we shall fall behind. While on this subject, let me ask some of our neo-humanists; what contribu tions to technology have been made by Negroes, not just re cently, but anytime back through the ages ? Let me not limit the question to technology, tell me of any contribution whatever. It should not be necessary to remind you of the implications of Men del's law. Second is the skin-color ques tion. It is an absolute absurdity to believe that anyone is socially unaccepted because of the color of his skin alone. his is the prime contention of the Negro pressure group which is so busily agitating for enforced aggregation, but they are, of course, evading the real issue which is a simple case of incompatihility. The differences are many and obvious. If it is necessary to elucidate; some of them are: musie, art, dress, man nerisms, anid manners, or to be more specific, etiquette. The most inportant difference, however, is in imaginative ability. Sublimation is a conceplt which is totally lack ing in the Negro. ligh ideals and refinement arec incomp)rehensible to him. Third is the myth of equality. Accordling to the new Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, "equal" means "Exactly the same in measure, quantity, number, or degree; like in value, quality status, or' position." This dlefini tion prieclud1es the~ possibility of any two p)eople on earth being equals. To go further, I qluote from "General Psychology," third edition, by Douglas H. Fryer Ph.D. and Edwin R. Henry Ph.D., printed in Newv York by Barnes and Noble, Inc. in 1951. Chapter XIV entitled "Group Differences in In telligence," section 11. Race Dif ference in Intelligence, paragraph 1. Between whites and Negroes. Quote "Comparisons between group)s of wvhites and Negroes, horn in the UJnited States and of eqLual chronological age, show that' only 25 per cent of Negroes equali or excell the median score of the white groups." Unquote. s Hits Jack her and signed her to a personal ma nagement contract. Hie landed JONI JAMES a record (late for Joni, and she FARIS GILES Another Literary To the habitual and thorough reader of the Gamecock, this column may strike a note of rec ollection. It probably will recall to the minds of many that a similar article was written in this publication earlier in the semester. To those with especially good memories, the fact that this columnist was the author of said column, must be taken merely as matter of fact. This all leads up to what yours truly is attempting to say and why. This article is intended to be a rehashing of ideas as stated in another column writ ten earlier in the semester on Literary Societies. Fearing that in the eyes of -some the next statement may seem to be slightly exaggerated, I shall risk putting my foot in my mouth, and then, attempt to pull it out. The most individually construc tive and educational organizations on the campus are the Literary Societies. I am saying that out of the 85 extra curricular organiza tions here that the Literary So cieties offer most to the individual itudent who takes advantage of their services. Such a service as the opportun ity to develop and improve foren sic ability, which I believe is innate in every human being, is one that is offered. Timely debate topics are thrashed out in the meetings of the various societies. Ideas are born. Ofttimes old ideas are cast off, and new ones formed. The Literary Societies are valu able for the intellectual growth that they foster. There are some students on the campus who actually believe that these groups have as their primary object to wrangle and argue over minute points of parliamentary procedure. There is certainly nothing further from the truth. It is agreed that you can possibly find isolated incidences of so ciety members who had as their main purpose to display their profound knowledge of the tech nicalities of parliamentary law. As a general rule, however, this is not the case. What the societies do try to present to their mem bers is a working knowledge of which is advocated in the Com munist Manifesto. If Brownell tries to enforce this idiocy by using the F.B.I. as a Gestapo, he will find it woefully inadequate. Seventh and last is the Negroes' novel methods of progress. When white people need schools, they build them themselves. The Ne groes have been able to do noth ing for themselves. Only by taking lessons from the labor unions and forming themselves into voting blocs were they able to get their desired schools. Even now schools are being built for the Negroes all over the state, and all of us are paying for them. Still they are not satisfied, since all the educa tion in the -world will avail them nothing if they have not the abil ity to use it, so now they want the government to enforce social equality so that they may he car ried even further with no effort on their part. I, for one, see no merit whatsoever in the idea. William Carlisle Bolt Dear Sir: With reference to the article on segregation, page two, Gamecock, issue of January 15th, I would like to go on recordi in replying to the comments of "inferiority" and the Negro. To the gentleman who considlers the Negro as possibly being equal eeps Going Palladium has signed Perry Como to an August date. It will be his first personal appearance in years, outside of his regular radio and TV commitments. Singers John nie Ray, Frankie L,aine, Nat Cole, andi Guy Mitchell also plan to play the London hall - - . Speaking of London, the new (lance calledl the Creep, which originated in the Engli.sh capital, is catching on here in the states. Proponents of the new (lance style call it sonme what of a reverse tango step, (lone in a relaxed, graceful fashion. "The Creep" melodly, originally (lone by the English b)and of Ted Heath, has been cut by several Americain bandis, including those of Stan Kenton and Ralph Mar terie . . . Patti Page is planning to tour the Orient this spring, with Honolulu, Trokyo, Korea, and Hong Look at Societies parliamentary procedure, which can not only be utilized in other campus organizations to facilitate matters of business and discussiorr, but can also be used in civic or ganizations and legislative bodie& after graduation. In the past few years, the Liter ary Societies seem to have lost some of their prestige. To a great degree this is due to the fact that, as many authorities say, the age of oratory and debate has declined considerably. The polished orator and declaimer on the soap box seems to be a relic of the Daniel Webster or John C. Calhoun era. This might be true, but the Literary Societies stand ready to perpetuate this classic art, and, certainly, powerful human expres sion though words should not be allowed to go the way of all flesh. It is indeed a pity that the societies, which were the first organizations of this campus, - having to resort to begging for needed and necessary funds for their welfare, while other organ izations, such as the "Y" which offers Christian fellowship, have little or no trouble at all in secur ing money. We have but to look around the state and the nation today to see outstanding people in public life who were at one time Euphradians, Clariosophics, Euphrosyneans, or Ilypatians. It is my firm belief that the Literary Societies to which they belonged contributed much to making them what they are today. To mention a few: Mr. S. L. Latimer, Jr. who is editor of the "State," Honorable Sol Blatt, speaker of the State House of Representatives, and Mr. Strom Thurmond, former governor of South Carolina, and former candidate for the presidency of the United States. I think that if the students would take more interest in these groups that they, the Literar Societies, would be an even greatg instrument of influence than in the past. They perform a vital service to the university, the state, and the nation. Let these words not fall on deaf ears! to "white trash" but nonetheless "inferior" . . . I would like to bring this point . . . Back in 1939 or so, Neville Chamberlain used a phrase that has been in the back of my mind ever since. He referred to . . . "Peace in our time . . ." When my father returned from his wvar . . . his was "the war to end all wars." The brotherhood of man was to reign supreme. Then ...the comments of ONE MAN ...the comments on the "inferior ity" of all but the true Aryan race sent me to war. One man, spread ing his poison, sent millions of us to fight . . . and many to die. And even after this . . . in another place . . . the teachings of ONE man were being spread to another people. His teachings were that the cap)italist was "inferior." 'Dhe result? Another wvar for me and again ... . millions of freedom loving men going off to fight... andl to (lie. There are many like myself here at the university who have faced the "mistakes of man" twice.We are becoming mature enough 'to realize why these things did hap l)en. Howv ore we to feel when we hear these same "mistakes" on our own campus . . . from our ownW brother students!! We have ceasedl to fear for ourselves. Now we fear for our children. We pray that studlents like you (do not come to teach our children your hate. Worse still . . . we pray that you will not teach our children your ignorance andl lack of understand ing. As fathers we shall strive to te'ach them how to achieve peace ...not just in our time . . u for all time. As for "Segregation" . . . I shall continue to believe in it in my own way. Segregation to me is the right to privacy for myself and for those I may choose for my company. Race or religion has never been andl never shall be a basis for my choice of company ...inl Imsines9s or in pleasure. Very truly yours, Robert Edward Lee II Electricl Engineer Lynn, the English thrush, may hit the states in March. Jazz International: Norman Granz' .Jatz. At The Philharmonic concert group, which have played such place's as Japan, Hawaii, and Euirope, are putting North Africa on the sceu hnbis yea ....