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Two At present, there are two phones available to students o One of these phones is in Siz the other is in Wade Hampton, student wanting to make an o must find a dime, then find a I and then pray that the pay ph of order. There were two free outsic men. One was in Maxey and, in Preston. Both have been phone in Maxcy waq torn out students. It was replaced once pulled loose a second time, tl tion decided, understandably, it. However, the situation in P different. Students wrote < JACK BASS No More Dr. Pattei We aren't going to get any phones. At least no more free phones. That's what we inter preted from a discussion of the phone system with Dr. W. H. Pat terson, dean of administration. Dr. Patterson indicated that the administration felt it was not responsible for providing the students with free outside phones. He said he was willing to have more pay phones installed if the demand was great enough. The only catch here is that the pay phones must show considerable use or else they would be re moved. The main sufferers at the pres ent, we feel, are the male stu dents wvho live in the small tene ments and that includes every thing but Preston and Maxcy. The large majority of these stu dents can't receive incoming off campus calls, local or long dis tance, and it is inconvenient as hell to both parties. The big problem is not so much providing more facilities for making calls but to provide a sys tem of receiving them. Dr. Pat terson offered no solution to this problem. Dr. Patterson stated he knew of no other college or university that provided a system of free and unlimited outside calls as the university had two years ago. At that time each floor of the large dormitories such as Preston, Maxcy and Sims and all of the small tenements had a telephone that could make and receive of f campus calls without charge and also make campus calls. Because no other institution has such a system and the system cost the university a little more than the present inferior system, PATSY PENNEY Phones In< For Columb The Gamecock has lashed out before and does so again to try to arouse someone around this school to alleviate an inexcusable and,. unnecessary situation-the telephone system. In a Colum bian's point of view, it is prac t.ically an impossibility to contact any person within these "dear old walls." There are many arguments to he presentedi on both sides, but one of the most powerful should be the impression that an out sidler receives when he tries to contact someone on campus. Typical of the many incidlents caused by the system was the long di.stance call for a girl liv ing in Sims which kicked around over the space of an hour or so trying to reach the dlormitory over the customarily busy out side lines. 'The call eventually came through, but think of what an exasperating memory the caller must have of this institu tion. As a Columbian, I find it far simpler to wrangle the car from my parents, drive to the univer sity, hunt for a parking space, and then track down the person wanted than to call the campus. It is not only simpler but saves a great dleal more time. And time is one thing that a telephone > Free. Ph en't Enou free outside around the t n the campus. students not ns dormitory, down, and th So, any male "disciplinary' ff,campus call Amtel ay telephone, Admittedly one is not out students scri They write or le phones for phones, too. I the other was also be taken removed. The around the f f the wall by good indicatii , When it was who waited ai e administra- Since the u not to replace money on vai seems that m reston is a bit small expenso in the walls good investm Phones, 'son Says the new system was installed. To us this is reactionary thinking to give up a good system for an inferior one "because nobody else has a good one." Dr. Patterson said the univer sity gets 15 per cent of the col lections of the pay phones and this money goes back to the stu dents through the student activi ties fund. This is altogether proper and we were glad to hear it. Student activities has received a total of $503.31 since the pres ent system was installed last fall. This also means the students have paid $3,355.40 for telephone calls. This figure includes long distance as well as local calls but is still a considerable sum of money. The university has saved the cost of one and a half opera tors according to Dr. Patterson. The students have paid $3,355.40. It is a question therefore (con sidering the students a most vital part of the university) whether the university has really saved or whether they have shifted the cost. The university has made and is continuing to make tremen dous progress under the present administration in all directions, with important additions to the faculty a higher academic goal, and a multi-million dollar build ing and expansion program. Dr. Patterson should be given credit for playing an important role in the growth of the university. But we feel that the welfare of the students should not be overlooked to save the university a few dollars that is going to be counterbalanced by money from the pockets of the students. The administration has a right to be proudl of many accomplish mnents. The present phone system is not one of them. :onvemient ia Students is supposed to save-after all, that is the purpose of communi cation. Last year, the system, although fa from being perfect, at least allowed you to contact Sims secondi from an outside phone. Now to contact someone, you may call Sims third and forcea reluctant inmate to run down th4 stairs in quest of the student, oi call first floor and have the matron buzz her. Of course, ij she is visiting in another room the girl does not hear the buzzer If the phone were on the hall the lungs of the girls would d< the job and the call would g< through. The rules say you should nevel present an argument withoul offering a solution. That is the ticklish part of the whole affair but one outlet would be to place outsidle phones on all dormitor: floors. Surely if the universit; can afford to redecorate an< establish nice dormitories it ca afford to do a little more an< make them really nice by install ing more telephones. That, in deed, would lessen the troubl< -of contacting someone on the part of parents, students, visitor: and teacher-s who call froma Co1nmbia telephone. gh elephone. A sign asking that write on the walls was torn e telephone was removed as a measure. it is unfortunate that a few bble on freshly painted walls. the walls around the restrictefl Ooes that mean that they'should out? The amount of marl ings ree phone seems like a pretty Dn of the number of students round to use it. iniversity is spending so much rious campus improvements, it ore free telephones would be a B. They would certainly be a ent in public relations.-BL Letters to the Editor Dear Mr. Editor, I WANT A WORD, which means, "the hit dog that always barks," equivalent to "if the shoe fits you, wear it." Mr. Disgust P. S.: There are just a few questions I would like to ask my "oponent" in defense of the statements made in my preceding letter. If something didn't sting (that is, if nothing other than my yell ing at football games, liking Rankin Suber, and praising Mackie Prickett made any sense), why did he bark so loud and for a whole column? How did I so vehemently at tack the student body in "a man ner not becoming . . ." (I won't bother to quote the rest. Why did the reply have to come from a cheerleader and maybe a guilty member of both parties? And lastly, why should I sign my name. Our worthy editor ob viously saw an important point being stressed. Mr. D. Collegiate Clippinfgs Elections were coming up soon at Colorado A & M College, just as they were on many other campuses across the country. And, as on many other campuses, the student body didn't seem to care-much who got elected what. The student apathy bothered Mike Gueovsky, editor of the Rocky Mountain Collegian, cam pus newspaper, who felt it his duty to stir up election spirit. So it was that Gucovsky wrote an editorial which endorsed a full slate of candidates. The reaction was immediate, "You have seriously violated the principles of free p)ublication by your biased opinion, unwarrantec authority and misrepresentatior of the facts," wrote an angry readierI. "As we see it," wvrote thre< others, "the Collegian is thi Colorado A & M student paper Therefore it should represent the entire school and as such shoul< he impartial." BILLY MELLETTE Dissertatic Ball-point penls are not foun tain pens. They are ft. pens They are smart. They think. They are smarter than I an That's why I use a pencil nov Aside from not being ablet pronounce "Ticonderoga," I'v gotten along fine with penci thank you. Graphite does nc play tricks. Ball-points do. had one that laughed at me, swear. I tried to driown it fc its insolence, but the dlang thin held its breath. I had to give awvay to a survey-taker. ,Try one. .Just try one. You .see what I mean. Oh, they wrii ,bridge -scores in fine order, hi try a call-in telegram. But doun blow at them. They spit lii grasshoppers. But I dlon't mess with gras: t hoppers and things. I'm ini cc lege. You think college is bar ,what about with a ball-poi 3 ft. pen ? I've got blank space in all my history notes where /' says something like "The fc ilowing are the four reasons f< the downfall of the Roman Eri pire:" The pen invariably qui -when it writes a colon. You ju -write a colon and they quiit, don't care what. You can som o times fake them by writing "i scidlentally," but they usual start grooving when you do the If they start grroovingr. thr. "Number, hell, where Buddy, Spare A It is fall semester, 1956, at the University of South Carolina. Dr. H. W. Hatterson has previ ously announced that the tele phone system is adequate for the student body. Besides it saves $17.41 a month for the univer sity. Not to mention an average of $7,475.40 per month, the uni versity's cut of pay phone proceeds. In order to quiet student pro test the administration has sought to prove the adequacy of the present system by installing in the administration building the campus system. Only one free outside phone remains in the building. It is on the wall downstairs near the water cooler. The wall has num bers written on it. One pay booth is on each floor. All offices are equipped with campus phones but no directories have yet been distributed so the walls all have a clipping of dormitory numbers that was published in an early edition of the Gamecock, crusad ing campus weekly. The registrar's secretary bounds up the steps and dashes into President Russell's office. "The governor is on the down stairs pay phone, sir. He says he's been' trying to call you for 20 minutes." President Russell leaves to answer phone. Hennig Cohn, director of the news service, paces up. and down in front of the free phone. "I've got to call Kern to take that picture of the Abyssinian ambas sadlor," he mutters. The free phone is being used by the university treasurer who is talking to one of Columbia's bank presidlents. Two others are in line ahead of Dr. Cohn who still paces and still mutters, "Doesn't someone here have a (lime I can borrow to use the other pay phone. I've got to call Kern." "I just used my last bit of change on the coke machine," -says Dean Wienefeld who is first in line. The (lay is momentarily saved! A student cashes a check at the n On ABal -them away. You''ve got one and .it makes grooves. Don't fight it. Throw it far .away. Don't .lose your head andl stomp on it. '. D)on't ask why. Just don't. The o best plan is to drive out in the e country andl bury it. Rivers are ,not satisfactory. You never t know wvhere a river might take a inotion to go. When you detect Ia groove, dlon't jam the point into r it. Quit. All you can get is a g few completely unrelated (lots it and a dleeper groove. You can try laying it aside for a few (lays 11and then sneaking up on it, but .e it's no use. Once a groover, al it ways a groover. 't Namby-pambys are not as :e mean as the old1 groovers. Namby-pambys are timid1 about aquitting altogether. They never l-can make up their minds. When ,one quits, you can 'oaIx it hack it to writing. You do this by mak as ing a little mark on the hack it of your left indlex finger. Then l-quickly flick the point back to r the paper. The object is to get ri- to the paper before the thing ts quits writing. It thinks it'si still st on yo'ur finger and keeps on Iwriting. WVhen the index finger e- is all used up' go on to the n- others. Should they, too, get ly all used up, you can use a cuff It. if it's wh!te and freshly cleaned. w Dark or dirty cuffs won't do. 're my peanuts???" an You Dime? depository and pays 10 cents exchange. Dr. Cohn is allowed use of the dime, after filling out an IOU statement in quadru plicate. Unfortunately Dr. Cohn dials the wrong number and misses his photographer. By the time he secures another dime, Prof. K. L. M. X. Y. Z. Jazzolines, former director of student activities, has called Ralph Lewis of the alumni asso ciation concerning whether the garnet or the black ribbon should be placed on top of the card of colors for alumni who'll be on campus for Homecoming this weekend. The two men discuss the problem for 55 minutes be fore deciding it's time for dinner. A crisis arises! The Abys sinian ambassador arrives. His picture is not taken. The univer sity has committed a faux pas. That's French for "they goofed." The Abyssinians threaten to break off diplomatic relations with the United States. Meanwhile, Hatterson is in his office, his desk piled high with blueprints and comic books. He takes pen and paper in hand and writes furiously. He delivers the note to President Russell's secretary who leaves it on President Russell's desk. It is a detailed economy measure. All intracampus mail shall henceforth cost two cents for letters and one cent for cards. Faculty and administrative mem bers will get franking privileges. The added revenue will be enough to pay the salaries of post office personnel and also the cost of additional stamping machines. A Gamecock reporter inter viewing D)r. Hlatterson, "But, sir, (10 you feel this newv system will be adequate for the needs of the studlent body?" Hatterson giggles, then blurts out, "My goodness! It's after five. I must call home." He starts for the door, then stops and addresses the reporter, "Say, Buddy, can you spare a (lime ?" I-Point Pen However, be careful after two fingers. You may have not an n-p but a Mark C. The only other character in history com parable to a Mark C. for treach ery is Foxy-Loxy. Everybody knows what a dlirty (teal Foxy L.oxy gave everybody. The one I had was an earlier modlel Mark C., but nonetheless treacherous andi scheming. I was taking an important quiz. WVhen my Mark began hesitating, I commenced finger-marking. The thing playedl it so shrewilly that I marked all my fingers and the hack of most of my hand. I was completely sucked in. Teacher saw the hieroglyphics and that was it. Out. No back talk. She knew che'ating notes wvhen she saw themi furthermore she was wise to a lot of my tricks. (Reference to the time the same sneaky Mark C. faked grooving. That was the time she thought I was tracing the an swers.) Should you get one that wvorks all the time, throw it away. There is too much suspicion In a case like that. Get a bird dog. If you can't afford a~ bird (log, send 10 cents in coin and I will sendl you a genuine graphite pncnil, woodenclosed. DEW JA Noise Of R Finally Dyi Rush Week's over and we no-4 ticed the chosen ones came out wearing battle ribbons Monday. With all the fuss some .of the actives were making last week, we recommend that they award themselves some kind of ribbon for having survived the trial and tribulations of the Great Round up. The headaches of rushing aren't confined to sororities, or so we hear ... A last-minute run for 40 pounds of cracked ice yielded 40 pounds, of. cracked coal for a fraternity smoker the other night, and a poll of the guests revealed unanimous agreement that coal dust isn't too cool for punch. C C e CANTEENOLOGY has hereto fore been defined as coffee, doughnuts, and gab in a per fumed atmosphere contributed by the American Tobacco Co. Lately we have noticed a new diversion emerging from beneath the columns of smoke-crossword puzzles, partly filled in. On the subject of smoke, we ran into something new in the way of cigarette ignitors in canteenology the other day. The new item is a green (probably soaked in chlorophyll) personal ized mutch book. The only adorn ment on the cover is a fancy gold member of the alphabet BEN McELVEEN Gamecoc More Ra Printing headlines up-side down is not a good policy. Neitherisrunni ngwordstogeth erlikethis! Yes, conservatism, perhaps, should be the policy of every newspaper's editorial page. But, still, radicalism can be used at times, and a good effect can be accomplished - especially in newspaper editorial writing. The Gamecock editorial policy has obviously been too conserva tive in'the past. Such simple ones as "Big Thursday Means Fun, But Res ponsibility Too," "Each Dorm Needs A Water Fountain," and "Cleaning System Still Needs Much Improvement" are positive examples! These articles ap peared in recent issues of the Gamecock. Of course, journalists, as well as a good many newspaper readers, tend to scorn extra ordinary newspap)er wvriting. Turning edlitorials up-side-down, or printing articles in red, or running sentences together to gain attention often, if used, will lose more readIers than anything else. But certainly a little more risque articles, leaning just a mitesy-hit, toward aIt ention getters, could be used. They might get read. I sometimes wonder if such conservative articles hold the reader to the "--BL" at the end. If one desires to pgblicize the fact that one is a member of the Block "C" Club, one dloesn't tote a "gamecock" around in a bird cage in one hand and a brick mason' coenstructedl block "C" in the other hand! But one at least wears the garnet and black lettered sweater. Or if one wants to reveal one's newly acquiredl CROWING FO! UNIVERSITY OF Member of Assoel. Founded January 0o, 1908, wIth editr, "he Cmecock" I. publias University of South Carolina wee endorsement. The right to edit i. EDITOR ... . MANAGING EDITOR. BUSINESS MANAGER ASSISTANT MANAGING E NEWS EDITOR. CAMPUS EDITOR . SPORTS EDITORS . SOCIETY EDITOR... FEATURE EDITOR. CIRCULATION MANAGER ASSISTANT BUSINESS M.l BUSINE! Kat Anthony, Carol STAFF RI Bertha Gardner, Donna Hali Babb, Dianne Woodside, Soni Derham, Louise Matthews, la Herbert Bryant, Wray Davis, hart, Carol Shockey, Pat Long COLUI Al Tisn, T. E rn..... U ush Week ng Down no girl in abbreviated attire, no risque literature inside the cover, and yet they peddle them at four ceits a piece. That only go-es to prove that old a#*m," "The best things in life are e." Last Sunday the James Con clave held what has come to be its annual reunion down in the old country. You know . . . on* of the sessions when all th aunts and uncles go "goo goo" at the little additions to the family since the last get-together, and all the cousins show off their boyfriends and girlfriends to all the other cousins, and all the local dignitaries (mostly de throned politicians) gather for the free food. One of the more observing members of the family, with a drumstick in one hand and a paper plate in the other, surveyed the crowd casually and remarked slowly, "And this is o0 one itsey-bitsey part of the descen dents of that boat-load of Welch men who sailed up the Great Pee Dee more than 800 years ago." Quotation of the Week, dedi cated to all those getting "'s" at mid-semester--"If at first you don't pass, take the course again, under another prof." :k Needs dicalism engagement ring, one doesn't display it on a red ribbon around one's neck. But one does display the ring on one's fourth finger, left hand. Editorials, however, can afford to be unconventional for affect. I admit that I am often too radical. I have an explanton each individual has to p y his role in life; every person is to be either conservative, radical, or equivocal. I definitely don't warble around, like long-handles on a fence. I admit I favor radicalism. In radical editorials, at least they get read--even if no actfon is taken. But I also know that there are some who are irritated by it. I am sorry. Yet, I am definitely not in favor of striking matches to dynamite under some of the edi torial columns and having them blown to lettery-bits throughout the eight-page Gamecock, punc tuating the other articles. I understand that some people don't like Bang! Bang! Bangs! and exclamation points all around. Nor do I solicit hanging the ediitorial columns by a string from the "Page two," printed up there in the left-hand corner of this page. No, I simply like editorials that say something a&bove the noise in the canteen on Friday morning. One other comment-I am aware that editorials often are last-minute brain-children (or typewriter's excretion) before final Gamecock deadlines, and often exist because so~ one neglected his duty, but, pThase, will someone pout ink into one of these editorial columns thaj' wvill at least hold my attention through these boring jokes being told around me in this canteen. i A CREATER SOUTH CAROLINA ted Collegiate Press Robert ElUiott Comsales as the fihat ned by and for the studeuts dty, em Fridays, durling the ig examhnatlons. sta and hetter writers are met seese Publl,blns does mot eemstitute as reserved. BILL LEGGITT ... JACK BASS D. J. BALLEY DITOR .Betsy Ehrhardt ..Patsy Penney ........Carolyn McClung Bobby Alford, Mike Lovejoy Joanne Carnes . Dew James ... Al Tison LNAGER . .Billy Bruce ~S STAFF Thockey, Jack Dourne. CPORTERS , Margaret Bauknight, Carols a Riffle, Myrna Ritchey, Clare arbara Driver, Kieran T[rihey, Sue Furbeck, Mary Alice Car mire, Kat Anthony. INISTS ' A