The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 15, 1954, Page Page Two, Image 3
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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!"
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STAFF REPORTERS
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COLUMNISTS
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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