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ach Do. A Water During the remodeling and renovating of the dormitories during the summer, the uni versity seems to have overloolked one of the simplest of human needs, water. Some of the buildings (not just the remodeled ones), are without water fountains, and students, wanting a drink of water, must either drink tap water or wander from building to build ing looking for a water fountain. A bed, a desk, lights and drinking water are basic needs for students. In the newly renovated buildings they have good beds, Cleaning 3 Needs Much Since time immemorial there have been complaints about the janitorial system at the university. Students write letters and editors write editorials about the need for cleaner dormitories. During the summer a coat of paint and a little window-washing helped the appearance of dormitory rooms. Installation of asphalt tile floors helps keep down the dust. But the sad fact is, that the system of cleaning the dormitories hai improved little, if at all. Rooms are still carelessly swept and seldom dusted. The asphalt tile floors are fine, and so far they look nice, but if they don't get a good waxing occasionally, they won't hold up. Putting wax on top of dirt and chewing gum stuck to the floor doesn't help much. A new system was recently started pro Letters -ACK BA to the What Editor - Tison's Column After reading Al Tison's col- This writer ha umn in the September 24, 1954 it's usually the issue of The Gamecock, I find it most spirits, and imperative that I come to the spirit, that yells defense of State Senator Edgar football games. A. Brown and the action taken And if judged by the committee of the South in several letter Carolina Democratic Party. in last week's In reference to the blood in writer pleads gui the eye of Senator Brown and ing school spirit. the vengeance in his heart at football games should he be defeated in the I'm pulling f< forthcoming election, I would right, but I just like to point out that this would wthn ota not be the first defeat Senator wthn ota Brown has suffered. In the past, and jump)ing ai this has been endured in a good shouting and se: sportsmanlike manner with no conducive to follo undue malice reflected on any- abouts of a one. Senator Brown's long re- Mackie Prickett c, rd of political and public serv- hadngi f. ice to South Carolina will bear hnm tof this out along with many other Of course, wh~ commendable accomplishments, cocks make a tol Senator Brown's record will cover a fumble at further show no uncertainty as just about every to his being a Democrat and and cheerlead'ers supporting the Democratic plat- much more effec form and policies of this state. judgment. But It is my opinion that the cheerleader asks, present election law enacted to happy ?" right eliminate the confusion created has been penalize by the death of Congressman was (lone in the Fulmer in 1944 and is further game, it may be proof that "time marches on." than lack of sch Sin 'erely, causes the answe Samuel T. Crisp no!" CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLII Member of Associated Coliegiate Press UnIverity of South Carolina weekly, em F4iday., during I ' ezee eheo dysand durig exa.dnations. sarier these er 'rhe amesuk. "uihigdos *e *c, EDITOR ............. .. .BILL MANAGING EDITOR ............J BUSINESS MANAGER ........ .D. J1 ASSISTANT MANAGING E DITOR .. .. .. Bets NEWS EDITOR ...............Pa CAMPUS EDITOR .................Caroly SPORTS EDITORS ...........Bobby Alford, M1 SOCIETY EDITOR ... ......Joa FEATURE EDITOR .............. CIRCULATION MANAGER ............. ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER ..... BUSINESS STAFF Kat Anthony, Carol Shockey, Jack Bourn STAFF REPORTERS Bertha Gardner, Donna Hale, Margaret BauknIg Babb, Dianne Woodside, Sonia Riffle, Myrna Rit< Derham, Louise Matthews, Barbara Driver, Kier Herbert Bryant, Wray Davis, Sue Furbeck, Mary hart, Carol Shockey, P at Longmlre, Kat Anthony. COLUMNISTS Al Tison, T. E. Brown, Ben McElveen. Bob ( mu Needs Fountain spacious desks, adequate lighting, and no drinking water. The glaring need for a water fountain probably takes some of the bright ness off of the new living facilities. Having to go out in the rain looking for a drink of water probably doesn't make one feel lucky. At night, when students are studying, or are perhaps not dressed, it must be irritating to have to get dressed and leave the building to look for a water fountain. Its .probably less trouble for them to go get a beer. At least they know where it is.--BL ystem Stil Improvement viding for the cleaning of dormitory rooms every other day. The idea was that more time would be taken on each room and a better cleaning job would be done. Well, the dormitories are only cleaned every other day, but the cleaning jobs haven't improved much. Probably, students could help to keep their rooms cleaner by hanging up clothes, making beds and throwing trash in the wastebasket instead of on the floor, but the fact remains, that the students can't be expected to make much of an effort to keep a room clean if nobody else does. The problem of dusting isn't too impor tant, but the matter of the tile floors is. Those floors cost a lot of money; they im prove the, appearance of the dormitories, but if they aren't taken care of they will soor look as bad as the old ones. The university should protect its investment.-BL SS Makes 'em Yell, it Or 'Spirits'? s observed that Incidentally, a picture story on ellow with the our pretty girl cheerleaders is not necessarily scheduled to run soon in The the loudest at State magazine. Wonder why they left out the pretty boy .y criteria cited ehlerleaders? to the editor Gamecock, this The Gamecock ain't supposed Ity to not hav- to be in existence merely to give I seldom yell free advertising, but it is in teresting to note that another r Carolina all Culmbia drive-in has offered appe toenjy 'free refreshments" to Carolina iapen o ejoy students upon presentation of being played, their ID card. d yelling and In case anyone is interested -earning is not the offer was made in an adver ,ving the where- tisemnent on page six of last football when week's Gamecock. r somebody is Anyway, free food being free andl so forth, I very naturally went to investigate. Two Game en~ the Game- cock cohorts wvent with me. ichdown or re- This offer was not limited a crucial point, strictly to liquids of 3.7 per cent body will yell ethyl alcohol. Not at all, they can make it offered one drink of anything tive with good (that's what the waitress said) vhen the head andl this included soft drinks, "Is everybody milk shakes, etc. as well as sfter Carolina brew. So I finally got my free d 15 yards, as milkshake. West Virginia honesty more ool spirit that History was made Tuesday r to be "Hell, night at the halls of the Euphrad ian Society on the third floor of Preston. For perhaps the first time since the society was founded in 1805, a woman took part in the society's debate. Miss Ceicle (pronounced Cecil) Vaughn, a junior who transferred this semester from Mars Hill .Junior College, received an in vitation to a Euphradian smoker. e of th The invitations were placed in he ~h5Othe boxes of all male students utss and Miss Vaughn's name appar ently baffled the invitation com LEGGITT mittee. LCK BASS The history major from Green SALLEY ville took the stand of the Con sy Enneyr servative party in upholding the ns McClng action of the state Democratic ke Lovejoy Executive Committee in nomi kne Cares nating Edgar A. Brown for )ew James sntr Al Tison Miss Vaughn, who was once lilly Bruce by accident assigned to a men's dormitory at Mars Hill, appeared to enjoy the meeting. ht, Caroe Today is the final day for the an fIrihey, contest to write football cheers, Alice Car. sponsored by the Pep Club. Cash .prizes will be awarded the win.. ners. Entries are to be sub !ameron; mitted to Box 1102, campus mall. "I'll hold him, you g Collegiate Austin, Tex.-(I.P.)-A survey aimed at making administration of the University of Texas as efficient as possible has been started by a team'of researchers. Currently conferring with top administrative officers are iep resentatives of the Texas Re search League which, with Cresap, McCormick and Paget as consultants, is conducting the study authorized by the Board of Regents. Representatives of the league and consultant firm will spend many weeks at the Main Uni versity and other component units of the institution in a study of the university system's organ ization with relation to financial operation, non-teaching person nel and plant expenditure. The survey's $100,000 estimated cost is borne equally by the Texas Research League and the Ford Foundation, with the Ford Foundation share given to the university. The university study will not duplicate or conflict with the state survey of higher education by a special commission created by the legislature and appointed by the governor. The university proposed and authorized the survey because the institution has become one of the nation's major state-supported universi ties and its scope and complex ity of operation require that it be operated in the most effective manner possible. Dr. Logan Wilson, president and acting chancellor, said that, to the best of his knowledge, this is the first such comprehensive survey of a state-supported Southwest institution. He added that the university is fortunate to have the survey made, at no cost to the institution, under auspices of the Research League aided by widely experienced re searchers in educational organ ization and administration. Highly-successful similar studies have been conducted at such institutions as Yale, Vanderbilt, Vassar, Syracuse, Boston, Mass. -.. (I.P.) - The College of Practical Arts and Letters at Boston University will make curriculum changes this year in trend with the times. Present changes involve only the enrolling in the College of Bus iness Administration of new stu dents in retailing studies. The program in retailing will join the marketing department of this college, and at a future date the university will move the secre tarial studies program there; will incorporate its applied art program into a university-wide fine arts development; and will discontinue two majors, one in food and nutrition, the other in home economics, which have been maintained in cooperation with the Garland School of Bos ton. According to President Harold C. Case, "The educational pro gram for a major in secretarial studies, In the College of Bus iness Administration will have a similarity to the curriculum now offered at the College of Practical Arts and Letters, but4 will include a wider choice of content courses as electives. This reorganization of program offer ings will also make secretarial studies available to a larger number of students in other uni versity schools and colleges." Undergraduates In retailing may elect to complete their work in the College of Practical Arts1 and Letters or go tes th Co it the net." clippsngs lege of Business Administration; and the home economics and food nutrition majors will continue their studies at other educational institutions where arrangements have been made for their accept ance. As soon as space permits on the new Charles River cam pus, studies in secretarial and art programs will be transferred there, President Case revealed. The immediate change, he continued, involves -the transfer of students who are majors in retailing, to the College of Bus iness Administration. During the new academic year the re organization of the College of Practical Arts and Letters will be completed and the transaction made with educational benefits to all students involved. Marietta, O.-(I.P.)-Propos als by a Faculty-Student Com mittee at Marietta College have resulted in a definite action being taken by the faculty to eliminate cheating during examinations. Specific rules have been for mulated by the faculty committee which handled this problem. The committee proposed the follow ing measures to become effec tive immediately: Adoption of an alternate seat ing plan, or equivalent spacing, and the refusal of professors to permit students to leave the classroom at any time or foi any reason during an examina tion, unless he is prepared to turn in his examination paper. Students will not be permitted to carry any books or examina tion notes into the classroom unless they have been instructed to do so by the instructor. A statement explaining these and all other rules that have been adopted concerning examination etiquette will be printed on the back of examination schedules to avoid unnecessary controversy hetween professors -and students. Westminster, Md.-(I.P.)-A report on the Advanced Tests of the Graduate Record Examina tions, administered to senior students at Western Maryland College last spring, reveals that the average percentile for the entire class was "approximately 57, well above the middle of na tional distributions, and a defi nite indication of the quality of work done in major depart ments," according to Dr. John D. Makosky, dean of the faculty. His report also disclosed the following facts: In 12 of the 15 areas tested, the average score was above the national median, or 50th percentile; the 12 areas included all departments in which enough students were majoring to make the scores a reliable indication Sf departmental achievement. Scores in physics, biology, sociology, mathematics, music and government were outstand ng. Departments with the largest reitain-eoois literature, and history--though returning a considerable spread >f scores, averaged well above lational medians. Seven departments had stu lents scoring in the 90 percentiles md four other departments eached the 80 percentIles. No lepartment, however few major 'tudents registered In it, failed ~o show at least one student in he upper halt of the national listribution. 'Iew of the tacher shortage, the REW JAMES Witty Sit Some Amuo SIGNS OF OUR TIMES-The art of sign painting combined with wit can produce some amusing results. Taped across the door of a refrigerator in one of * the female dorms, which seems to be plagued with food moochers, appears this kind re quest: "Official Notice by Um pire Food and Drug Act . . . Gnaw Your'Own Grub . . . Then there's the little warn ing plaque,in a window of one of the male dorms, which reads, "Men Drinking . . . Procee4 with Caution . . . Don't stare at the bartender, you may be crazy yourself someday." No, dear reader, we didn't take up window watching, since "Rear Window" came to townl!! Find The Sign Contest-To the first ten full-time Carolina stu dents to call the Gamecock office and tell us where the aforemen tioned signs are located, we will send absolutely free the next 12 issues of the Gamecock. No duplicate prizes will be awarded in case our six switchboards are tied up, all at once, and it be comes impossible to determine first-callers. We'll draw for it. WHYIZIT that the longer they grow, the lower thir boxes are HERBERT BRYANT Everyone SI Chance To What's all L,he talk about giv ing members of the rifle team letters? Seems that some are "fer" it and some are "agin" it. Who's right? Both could be, in certain respects. True, shooting a rifle at a target no bigger than a 50-cent piece form 50 feet requires great skill. And I think I'm in a posi tion to know, as I've shot 50 times that 50 rounds that was suggested in last week's paper. It is especially difficult when you are not only trying to hit the target, but also trying to hit the bull's eye which is smaller than the eraser on your pencil. Brother, that takes practice. But wait-what about the other side of the argument? I don't know how many men en gage in Naval or Air Force ROTC (the only ones eligible for membership on their respective rifle teams), but I do know that BOBBY ALFORD Where Is Carolina 5 Where is the spirit of the stu (lent body of Carolina ? I, per sonally, would like to find out. I'm sure the students of today have just as much spirit as the students of 1902, but they just don't show it like the old Game cock rooters. You will remember back in 1902 there was the "Big Explo sion." That was the year the Gainiecocks upset Clemson 12-6, and war was nearly fought be fore Christie Benet, assistant football coach at Carolina, pro posed to settle things by arbitra tion. In case some of you studients didn't know there was a pep rally held in the Field House on Friday night before the West Virginia football game on Satur (lay. A sock (dance was held afterwards and admission was' free to all who attended the pep rally. Counting the band there might have been 200 students present. The figure is mighty small for our 3,000 enrollment. I saw sitting in the stands President Russell. He had taken time off from his numerous and never-ending duties to attend the pep rally. Sure you have to School of Education Is adjusting its basic curricula for the prep aration. of secondary school teachers from five years to four, according to an announcement by Dr. Gaylord P. Hlarnwell, presi dent of the university. D)r. Hlarnwell said the new program would hasten the plac ing of a number of teachers in junior and senior high schools where they are urgently needed. Over a long period, he added, it in Brin ns.B*n ding Results in the post office and the little short people need a ladder to climb to the uppermost square to fish out their mail? We noticed a petite blo e flattened against tle wallWf tiny numbered windows the other day reathing for the littlei knob that secured a much sought epistle. Our gentlemenly Instinct told us to go over and "give her a shoulder to stand on," but, alas, the little door came open and the trim blonde snatched the letter with sort of a hungry greediness. Her expression was something like you would expect Nick Hammer to have after he had slain some notorious ad versary. * . *. "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does any thing about it," a feller named Charles Warner once wrote. One (lay, it's hot; the next, it's*old, but no sweat. (Or rather, some sweat.) At least that's the way J. W. Riley figures it in a little composition he calls "Wet Weather Talk." Old J. W. says, "It han't no-ase to grumble and complain . . . It's jest as easy to rejoice . .. When God sorts out the weather and sends rain . Why, rain's my choice." iould Have Get Letter there are some who do not par ticipate in either, and they have pretty good reasons not to. Why can't these men who are not members of an ROTC unit rep resent their school in rifle com petition ? I know: they are not in the ROTC. Now, that might be a good rule to go by a strictly military college,. bI it just doesn't hold water at this school. A solution to the whole prob lem? The school could sponsor a rifle and pistol team. Possibly most of the team members would still be from the ROTC, but at least everyone in school would have an equal chance to win a school letter. And that is the thing that should be considered as long as letters are being given, everyone at the university should have an equal chance to win one of them. Spirit of tudents? study, all of us get around to it sooner or later, but for 30 minutes you couldIn't leave your studies andl( let off a little steam. We had just beaten Army and the spirit should have been high. Recall the score of the West Vir ginia game. It might have been a little different if we had yelled a little harder or hollered a lli le louder. We whooped It up tAil WVest Virginia scored their first touchdown, then it was like pour ing water on a burning match. Maybe the students of today are above all the cheering and rooting of the studlents of the early 1900's. I think we could at least clap our hands or stomp our feet or hit our buddy over the head with a football program or something. There will be another pep rally before the Clemson game. It will be more important to most of us ,than the West Vlrj ia rally,'because if we beat im son we can hold our heads up and Jib our Clemson buddlies. If you dlon't know when the pep rally will be held ask your neighbor. Find out some way, but be there and make some noise, any kind of noise, just make a lot of noise for the Gamecocks. dents to the teaching profession. Hie said a transition to the shorter curricula would begin with the present academic year. Dr. E. Duncan Grizzell, dean of the School of Education, saId the four-year program would qualify a student for the degree of Biachelor of Science in Education and for the state certification needed to teach the seventh to 12th grades In the schools of Pennsylvania and most other