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Give Studei iscipline One of the basic principles underlying the Constitution of the United States is that a man accused of any crime be permitted a trial by his peers-or equals. This principle is followed by all states of the union and has given us at least as good a trial system as any nation. It insures, to a great degree, justice. A resolution adopted by Student Council last year asked that this same principle, to a practical extent, be adopted in the system of disciplinary action at Carolina by giving the student representative on the Discipline Committee a vote. Under the present system the president of the student body attends meetings of the committee, but does not have voting power, leaving the students without official representation. For several years the Gamecock and Stu dent Council have fought side by side for such a measure. A measure such as this would further the democratic principle of representation and would be a definite step toward student-faculty cooperation. Students realize that it is impossible to give them a voice in every administrative and executive action of the university. To do this would be to introduce chaos-there can be no complete democracy as far as such matters are concerned; but there can be a more democratic outlook on the part of the faculty in such a matter as discip linary action. A better understanding be tween students and faculty can be fostered if the present plan is given proper and unbiased consideration. Surely the faculty members have enough confidence in students of Carolina to realize Expansion Merits Safel With the expansion of the campus engulf ing more auto-jammed roads, the traffic and safety problem at the university is increas ing. More and more there is arising a need for some device to insure safety for stu dents, faculty members, university person nel, and others who daily traverse the crowded streets and roads within the univer sity area. The situation has not reached an acute stage, but with the completion of the Student Union Building the activity center of the campus will begin an exodus across Green Street. The corner of Bull and Green Streets already presents a problem for women stu dents going to and from classes. It has been estimated that in a period of 24 hours 16,000 autos roll over the surface of Green Street. Sumter and College Streets, at the horseshoe entrance, also presents a no less formidable threat to safety. Many times autos zoom too close to students crossing. Recently the university made a recom mendation to the City of Columbia that some type of traffic lights be installed at the corners of Green and Bull and College and & GAJ co4 CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAAROI Member of Associated Collegiate Pri Founded January (30, 1908. with Robert Elliott Conzale editor, "The Gamnecock" is published by and for the at University of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, durn year eacpt on hoidays and din alnaint oes sarly those of "The Gamecock." Publishing does not meosmeat. The right to edit is reserved. EDITOR . . .JO MANAGING EDITOR BI BUSINESS MANAGER DAI ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR NEWS EDITOR .. Be SPORTS EDITOR .....-.. SOCIETY EDITOR Car CAMPUS EDITOR FEATURE EDITOR . Ben CIRCULATION MANAGER . W. ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER STAFF REPORTERS Faris Giles, Dew James, J. R. Roseberry, Donni Parrish, Curtis Watson, Bob Young, Bertha G Sligh.COLUMNISTS John Duffy, Faris Giles, J. Allen Tison, Ralpi BUSINESS STAFF We. Sanders, Al Perry, Gibby Dean, D. J. Sal CARTOONISTS Bob Cameron, Stanley Papajohn its Voice on Committee that any student representative on the com mittee would have enough responsibility to merit his vote. We see no evidence of radicals within the student body. Surely no irre sponsible person would ever be elected to serve as a representative of the student body. If the student is ever to have any voice in government this is the time. It's a matter of principle that students be represented in dis ciplinary matters. It's no longer a matter of how the students feel about it. They are solidly behind the resolution for representa tion, as has been shown by organizations' re plies. It is now up to the faculty committee to decide just which way the dye is cast in favor of the student, or in line with un written ancient restrictions which would for ever exclude student representation. With the university in the midst of an era of progress there would be a note of irony reflecting distrust and disinterest if student government failed to progress and be recognized. It is time to break the shackles. For years the student government has been only a courtesy granted the students by existing administrations. Now is the time for just action. A few schools have been granted such voting power, others are fighting for it. We have no wish to compare colleges. If the lead ing university in South Carolina cannot ob tain the student rights, it would seem that smaller colleges are lost in the fight. The Gamecock feels that a matter of courtesy is not forthcoming from the Faculty Committee -rather, a matter of student rights as stated.-JWR of Campus ty Measures Sumter. A caution light was recommended for Green Street at the entrance of the university road between Burney and Preston. In this way the problem of ROTC men cross ing in traffic would be alleviated as well as the prospective problem of Student Union traffic. The recommendations were put aside lightly by the city because, despite the heavy traffic, the city contended that there is no existing need for such precautions. Then the question arises--must a yawn ing co-edl bound for the canteen be knocked into oblivion before a traffic light, or at least a caution light, be installed at Green and Bull? Perhaps an accident at the horseshoe entrance or in front of Preston when ROTC cadets stream across from drill will warrant safety measures. That seems to be the opin ion of the city. Student Council recently discussed a pro p)osal for requesting a zoned area of Sumter Street adjacent to the university. No defi nite action has been taken, but in view of Columbia's attitude toward university safety, it is dloubtful that such action will be forth coming. It seems that the university will have to wait for an accident.--JWR Letters To The Editor 4NA D)ear Editor: us Ther'e is enough excellent talent d e theo fIrs floating around Carolina to make g the milese such "humor" and no-talent as ment oe- dlisplayed by the emcee at soror ity stunt-night entirely unneces FIN W. RAY sary. The university community LL. I EGGITT is not undlerstood by people who Al Lane ar not a p)art of it. This was tsy Ehrhardt blantantly demonstrated by said . Jack Bass emcee in his attitudle towar.d the lyn McClung stunt-night, which he took to be Ba.. Mclen anf opportunity for "college L. Buffington humor," which is not the quality Jack Field huml'or usually found among the studlents themselves. Many of our Hale, Bruce ardner, Joyce own students could have done much better. I go on record to i rgr.keep our humor clean by keeping Gregory.within our own ranks. sy, Bill Doar. Very sincerely yours, 51~ GREAT PART FARIS GILES Why I Intr r ConstitutioY This columnist awhile back proposed an amendment to the Student Body Constitution in Student Council. In its original form, it stated that the Gamecock Pep Club would sponsor tryouts for the offices of cheerleader. It also said that any student at USC would be eligible to partic ipate in these tryouts. A commit tee of five persons would select 20 boys and 20 girls to run for the offices of cheerleader. These five would be president of the student body, president of the Pep Club, head cheerleader, faculty advisor of the Pep Club, head coach, and a student council representative. They were to select the nomi nees on five qualities which would be: coordination, person ality, voice quAlity, and a couple of others. The student body would then go to the polls and select four boys and four girls from this group of nominees as their cheerleaders. For some reason, this original amendment met with a great deal of disfavor in council. It was sent to committee to be revised and amended. (This begins to sound very much as if it were to follow the fatal road of the Bricker Amendment.) When the amend ment returned from Its face-lift ing job in committee it added up to something like this: Only eight boys and eight girls would be selected to run; tryouts would still be held and student council would select nominees. At the second reading of this amendment only one person in council voted nay. At the third reading, how e*ver, the vote was 13 to nine against its enactment. Seems strange, doesn't it? It was com pletely dead. Perhaps many of you might say that this amendment would have taken the right to nominate from the student body. Others would say that it is undemocratic. But before other accusations are Hitches Public June Vali From Wedi Weddings, and ,things asso eiated with them, seem to play an important role in the profes sional and1 private life of RCA Victor recording star, June Valli. A few months ago, while riding high with her "Crying in the Chapel" record hit, she entered JUNE VALUI a reasonable facsimile of a chapel-dry-eyed an(i happily, however--to wedl popular Chicago disc jockey, Howard Miller. Then for an appropriate followup, June next cut "A Pair of Old Shoes and a Bag of Rice" for the Victor people, and it looks like the next big thing in records for June, along with the backing side, "The G;ypsy Was Wrong." Matter of fact, it was a wed ding' in late 190a that first gave , ISN'T IT!! oduced A ial Change hurled at it, let's look at the facts and reasons behind its pro posal. For the few years since I have been at Carolina I have been noticeably impressed by the lack of spirit of our student body. There must be a reason for it. I believe now that a partial answer to the problem is that we need better cheerleaders. We have fairly good cheerleaders as individuals, but as a group they don't function nearly so well as they should. Certainly some of the blame should be laid squarely on the shoulders of those mem bers of the student body who don't care to cheer the team on or who are too inebriated to do so. Then the idea presented itself that perhaps there was a more efficient and effective way to choose nominees for the offices of cheerleaders. Quite too often we are prone to nominate people for offices as a joke. We are in clined not to consider elective offices as seriously as we should. The tremendous number of per sons nominated for cheerleader last year (it was 33) certainly shows that there were evidences of popularity contests or as jokes. By having an impartial group to nominate a reasonable number of students for the office there would be very little room for jokesters to squeeze into the running. This impartial group would have judged on the five qualities mentioned, which would mean that the quality of cheer leaders would rise. The students would have to give more serious thought to elective offices. However, the amendment has been killed in council and the students will not have even the right to say for themselves whether or not they like the idea. Perhaps someday somebody will wake up to reality. I cer tainly hope so. MAakes Hits ling Songs impetus to June's career. One of the wedding guests was so impressed with June's impromptu vocalizing at the affair that he arranged for her appearance on a leading TV show. It was through this that she met Harry Salter, noted musical dlirector, and from then on Salter became the guiding hand behind June's career. During 1951, June appeared on numerous TV shows, and played New York's fabulous La Vie En Rose night club. Also in 1951, she signed wvith Victor records, and turned out some outstanding discs for the label that year. It was during 1952, however, that June really became a nationwide favor ite, via her extensive work as featured vocalist on TV's "Hit Parade." After leaving the "Hit Parade," June toured the leading clubs and theaters. At present, JTune is making her home in Chicago. Aside from being a busy homemaker, she is appearing on a daily TV show with her husbandl, and occasion ally making club dates in the Windy City. But most of all, she is devoting her time to being a happy bride-and maybe too, looking for more "wedding-type" AL TISON Student Require Co Students, look up from y the new Carolina! Many ne aggressive administration, a i willing to do battle in order t that it implies-this dyna1 is your responsibility, for to while the iron is hot. A conservative student school administration, could university as great as that at Chapel Hill during the next two semesters. In order to avoid the social as well as the political stigma now associated with the University of North Carolina, and to build a truly Southern school, this formative period must see the student and faculty urging the sound constitutional principals respecting morals, pol itics and loyalty in our academic life. Persons having and advocating more liberal or more conservative ideas than those advocated by the school would be free to write and talk, and persuade the acceptance of their ideas-but everyone would have the standards estab lished by the school as their guide and/or basis for compari sion. Justification for adopting such a program may be found by realization that the Constitution and Statutory Laws of the Na tion represent the desire of the majority, which are consecutive per se, and provide justice, domestic tranquility, and the gen eral welfare as best as possible for the majority of a nation com posed of humans are able to provide. Mr. Buckley, in speaking in the Chapel Tuesday night, said that academic instruction is the basic influence in forming the ideol ogies of this nation-to bear this out, recall the number of young college men in the Roosevelt ad ministration, as well as in the Truman reign. Of course the same is true today in the Repub lican administration, except the college men are a little older and of a more conservative type. The average active politician of today has had at least two years in collegoe, and this includes officials from the county level to the na tional level. The election of the officers of the student body and the Student Council must be done with care and consideration-they must be constantly aware of the school's growth and progress, but must in sure that it represents the best interest of South Carolina and her citizens, and the students of the university. To become liberal is easy; just disagree with any established rule of law or requirement of socieby, the main idea being to immedi ately rectify some "injustice" to be a conservative requires p)ainstaking study and devotion to the philosophy that democratic principles require the greatest good for the most people, in the best interest of the majority. Collegiate Cippings TIlS YEAR, A NEW FEATURE News item-from The Stute, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hioboken, New Jersey: "Tau Beta Pi has again pre pared exam problems from pre vious years to help the student body get ready for the term's shakers. An important new addi tion will be the insertion of answers, a feature which will make the old exam copies even more popular. These review exams will go on sale for ten cents per copy."~ ONE MORE WAY TO SKIN THAT FOUNTAIN You think you've got problems. Consider the case of the decora tive water fountain at Southern Methodist University. It Isn't run in the winter because it might freeze. And it isn't run in the summer-because there's a water shortage in town that time of year. Last week the SMU student council voted unanimously to try to get the fountain flowing. How are they going to do it? Easy. Use anti-freeze, and let it bubble all winter. Elections nsideration our funny papers and observe w buildings, a competent and student body aware of war, bu4 o resist totalitarianism and air rnic and growing institution coin a phrase, we must strike government, allied with the I lay the groundwork for a The Book To Read (Ed. note: Although this book was published in 1947, the recent political campaigning and elec tions have revitalized its content and emphasis on political partio. This review was submitted by Ares Artemes through the Eu phradian Literary Society.) You're the Boss is the auto biography of Edward Flynn, bet ter known to the reading public as "Big Boss" Flynn of the Bronx, where he has been for the past thirty years leader of the Demo crats and the power behind the throne, extending his influence at one time to state and even na tional politics. This book is not only the author's autobiography but it is also the story of how political machines are operated, because the story of "Big Boss" Flynn is the story of a political machine itself. Flynn first shows himself as a typical American and then as a reluctant politician who is pushed into the limelight to run for sheriff to Bronx County a*i from there in the interest of his party, but not for himself, be comes the "boss of the Bronx." From there his friendship extends to the state of New York and the nation. Among his friends, and political bedfellows, he men tions Al Smith, Jimmy Walker, Franklin 1). and Eleanor Roose velt, Jim Farley, John N. Gardner, Herbert Lehman, and Harry Truman. The book contains much prop aganda about machines, about the advantag'es of the spoils sys tem, and about the evils of reform movements. For, of course, since Flynn is so active and is boss of a machine, he is partisan. The author also states that there are good machines and that there are bad machines and that: "My hope in writing this book has been to show that, while bosses are inevitable under our system of government, bad bosses are not. For in the last analysis, as I said in the beginning, you're the boss." After the reader has read a third of the book, he soon gets the idea that political machines are needed andi benefit not or4 the ones concernedl but to everyr one. For examp)le take this state ment which was made about the spoils system: "If it is immortal, then man is immoral." The author also compares the political p)arty wvithi a company operated by a group of stock holders that when there is a fight for control, gain the control and then kick their dlefeated enemies out. This is practical sense in a regular business, but the author wonders why in government "the biggest business in the land" it is considered sinister whenghe political party that wins uses the spoils system. The answer is simple . . . The stockholders of our government is not the Democratic or the Republican party, but the people themselves. As things stand now under our present system of government, machines are needled. A state mont made by Flynn which, I believe is true, is: "The machine is not in its essence bad. It is in the administration that its po?ential evils lie." Therein lies the goodness of "Big Boss" Flynn, for in actuality he did what he thought was best for the people first and the prestige of the organization second. The Democratic party has always been in power in the Bronx due to that reason, and for that same reason the Democratic party has been In power in the South since the Civi Wr.