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lM nALLAMERICAN OF PBUCAIONFALL '53, SPRING '54 UNIVEhSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLANA VWVMe XLVI, No. 13 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, JANUARY 7. 1955 Dr. Leonar( P.;resident E Of Universi Dr. Leonard T. Baker Campus Briefs Travelstead Announces Honors Four members of the faculty of the university school of education are listed in the new edition of "Who's Who in American Educa tion," Dean Chester Travelstead has announced. They are. Professors J. McT. Daniel, A. E. Fourier, W. D. Nixon, and H. C. Rudman. -Also listed were Professors F. S. Chase and Maurice Scay of the University of Chicago, who were visiting consultants at the Uni ver.fity of South Carolinn. Suitcase Lost Missing-one all Navy blue suitcase, slightly battered, from Kirkland Apartments. Believed taken home by mistake over the Christmas holidays. If found, notify Lee DeLoache at Box 1023, university extension 302 or city phone 4-9290. * * * Dormitory Changes All freshman girls who plan to move from the Kirkland Apart ments or the Freshman Center into the new girls' dormitory at the first of the spring samester should go to Mrs. Childs' office before the end of this week. Girls who are not planning to come back next semester may get a refund of their room deposit by going to Mrs. Childs' office. No refunds will -be made after this week until February. Mrs. Childs' office must also be notified of any room changes in Wade Hamp ton or Sims Dormitories. Announcement to Graduate Students By the end of the first semester , of graduate work at the univer Sit,students seeking Master's degrees are required to fill our Graduate Student Program cards, Dean W. H. Callcott has an nounced. These outline programs of study are accepted for the in dividual student at that time. Failure to plan the student's work in this manner 'may cause serious loss of credit through unwise selection of courses for the second semester. McConaughy to Lead Tour Pofessor John B. McConaughy of the Political Science Depart ment has announced he will con duet a 63-day tour to Europe next summer. The tour will include visits to England, Holland, Bel gium, Germa-ny, Austria, Italy, the French Riviera, Switzerland, and Paris. Students who are in terested in joining the group are asked to see Professor Mc Conaughy as soon as possible in order to be sure of obtaining a reservation., .Glasses Found A pair of glass,es have been found in The Gameceek office. The glasses are in a brown snap open case and can be picked up Monday afternoon at The Game I T. Baker, meritus ty, Dies Dr. Leonard Theodore Baker, president emeritus of the univer sity, died at his home in Columbia Wednesday night after an illness of 10 days. He was 87 years old. The flag on the horseshoe will remain at half-mast until after the funeral, President Donald Russell said. Dr. Baker served four times as president of Carolina. Many of his years of service at the univer sity when not serving as president were spent as dean of the faculty and vice-president. His first posi tion at the university was as an associate in the school of education but he was quickly moved up to a full professorship. In 1914 he was made dean of the university but continued his teaching. President's Statement President Russell issued the following statement yesterday: "Dr. Baker was dean of the university when I was a student. He was a cultured and considerate gentleman., a sound scholar and an inspiring teacher. No one was more uniformly respected by stu dents. While I have been presi dent, I have often had occasion to draw upon his accumulated wis dom and wise judgment-always with profit. I personally shall miss Dr. Baker greatly. ' "In no small degree the uni versity as it Is today is a monu ment to the far-sighted and devoted leadership of Dr. Baker over the years. Four times presi dent and serving in an administra tive capacity for almost three decades, he has long been an active part of the university. The uni versity will always remember him and his services to it with grate fulness and appreciation." Four Times President Dr. Baker served four times as president of Carolina. He was selected as acting president in 1926 after the death of President W. D. Melton and the university experienced a big physical expan sion as well as academic growth the next year. Dr. Baker returned to his deanship but became acting president again in 1931 when President Davidson McDowell Douglas died. Ten months later the trustees were so impressed with Dr. Baker's ability that they named him pres ident in his own right though he specified he wanted the post for only a short time. He was suc ceeded by J. Rion McKissick. But Dr. McKissick died in 1944 and Dr. Baker was again chosen as president. He left the office for good in 1945, handing the presi dency over to Rear Admiral Norman M. Smith. The following year~ Dr. Baker was named presi dent emeritus. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Dens Lang Baker; two daughters, Mrs. Frank Royse of Mill Valley, Calif., and Mrs. R. J. Stoddard, St. Paul, Minn., and two sisters, Mrs. M. H. Mahlstadt, Charleston, and Mrs. Ellen O'Marrow, Charleston. Irrigation Meet Slated Monday By University The university department of geology and geography will con duct a..conference on Irrigation Monday, January 10, Dr. L. L. Smith, head of the department, has announced. The principal speaker will be Ollie Fink, executive secretary of Friends of the Land, a na tional non-profit organization to promote conservation. Guilbert R. Graham, profes sor of geography, will preside and C. P. Guesa, Jr., executive, secretary of the South Carolina Soil Conservation Commission, will discuss "The Water Prob lem." The conference will be held at 2 p.m. in Room 210, LeConte College. Interested persons are HONOR BOARD chairman Johi for Honor Emphasis Week which has been observed. (Gamecock Sts Construction Proceeds On Schedule All construction being done on the Carolina campus is progressing according to schedule, according to Dr. W. H. Patterson, dean of ad ministration. The girls' dormitory will be the first of the four buildings now under construction to be finished. It is scheduled to be ready for oc cupancy by February 1. According to Mrs. A. R. Childs, dean of women, the work is on schedule. Before the furniture for the bed rooms and living rooms can be moved in, tiling must be laid on the floors, and wall paper must be hung in the halls. All aspects of the girls' dorm are modern, including built-in furniture and a modernistic de sign on the wall paper. The color scheme for the living rooms is cinnamon, apricot, brown and green, while the bedroom walls will be painted yellow, green, cin namon and Williamsburg blue. This week the Carolina Student House is being covered with black waterproofing, over which will be put buff-colored blocks of Indiana limestone. The steel work on the Business Administration Building will be started this week, Dr. Patterson said. Bids will be let for the addition to the new boys' dormitory on January 20. The Carolina Student House will be finished in the spring; the Business Administration Building and the first section ' of boys' dormitories will be completed by September; and the second section sometime in the fall of 1955. KSK Initiates 16 New Members Kappa Sigma Kappa, campus honor-service fraternity, initiated 16 new members recently at a formal banquet at a Columbia restaurant. The new members wvere chosen on the basis of leadership, service and character. Menvbers'hip in the organization is restricted to two per cent of the male student body. The new members are J. Wat son Williams, Sullivan's Island; Frank,* Ellerbe, Latta; Marshall Cain and Phil -Moody, Aiken; Mackie Prickett, St. Matthews; Charles Goldberg, Charleston; Virgil Duffie, Greenwood; and Ernest (Buddy) Bull, Greenville. Also Harry Bozardt, Bob Ga briel, Frank Callcott, Bill Weston anai Don Clark, Columbia; D. J. Salley, Orangeburg; Bob Ellison, Montoursville, Pa., and Tom Flynn, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. K0SK's activities include plan ning Homecoming and May Day, Rat Week and the solling of rat caps, ushering at football games,1 and the KSK acholarshipn fund. 1 E. Johnston and secretary Joseph begins next Monday. This is the a Iff Photo by Landis Perry) Pharmacy Meet Here A pharmacy seminar sponsored by the South Carolina Pharma ceutical Association and the schools of pharmacy of the uni versity and the Medical College of South Carolina will ,be held at the university Wednesday, Jan. 12th, E. J. Collier of Laurens, association president, has an nounced. The program will consist of s-ientific lectures. panel discus sions, and demonstrations in the field of pharmacy. All sessions will be held in Room 210, LeConte College. The program for the morning session will include papers on "Prescriptioh Trends, Inventories and Price" by David Stiles, direc tor of market development, the Abbott Laboratories, North Chi oago, Ill.; "Antibiotics: Past, Present, Future" by Dr. J. M. Plaxco, Jr., university pharmacy school; and "Formulation of the Newer Suppository Bases" by Arthur J. Guida of the State Medical College pha'rmacy school. Dean W. A. Prout of the Med ical College pharmacy school will read a paper on "Time Disinte grating Capsules" and Dr. James A. Campbell of the university pharmacy school will present a IFC Names Greek Week Committees The Interfraternity council has appointed committee members to work on the dance which will climax "Greek Week," sponsored by the council February 22-24. Committees and members are: tickets and collections, Bob Wim berly; refreshments, Al Tison and Marshall Cain; auditorium and decorations, Flash McBride, John Sloan, and John Altman, and door, Elden Dye and Bobby Sanders. Tommy Dorsey and his orches tra will play at the dance which will be held at the Township Audi torium from 8-12, February 24. A concert will precede the dance from 8-9. Approximately 1,400 people are expected to attend the formal dance. Greek Week will begin with the annual fraternity and sorority stunt nights on Monday and l'uesday n i g h t s respectively. Yudges for the stunt nights will e Prof. Kit FitaSimons, Maj. R~obert Dales, Prof. Adger Brown, Dr. Morris, Dr. Nolan, and Mr. Sene Crotty. Other plans for utunt nights have not been an mounced. This is the first time in the his tory of the council that such a wueek has been planned. Tonmny R~owland of' Laurens, president of the council, said the group hopes En mnake it an annal affair. ine Boyle sit 4own to discuss plans econd year Honor Emphasis Week >emmar To Next Week demonstration of ampul filling and sealing. The afternoon session will fea ture a paper on "Recent Advances in Drugs Used in Psychiatry" by Dr. W. G. Morehouse of Columbia and a panel discussion on "Prob lems in Pharmaceutical' Practice" with Dr. T. D. Wyatt of Spartan burg, state chief drug inspector, as moderator. Panel members will be N. M. Kaiser, Columbia, phar macist; C. F. Hammond, John ston. pharmacist; Dr. H. E. Jer vey, Columbia, physician; and Prof. Guida. H. M. Preeher of Kingstree will present the summation of the panel discussion. The meeting will conclude with a conducted tour of the university pharmacy school. Dean Prout will preside at the morning session and Prof. Robert W. Morrison, acting dean of the university pharmacy school, will preside at the afternoon session. President Donald Russell of the university will make remarks of welcome. Members of the association seminar committee are John F. Riley of Columbia, John Davis of Columbia, Horace Kaiser of Co lumbia, J. M. Plaxco, Sr., of Due West, and T. D. Wyatt of Spartan burg. New Award For Band Is Set Up A newv hand award, the Alvin A. Wilkinson A ward, has been estahlished to be given for the first time this spring. The honor will he in the form of a cash award which will be the interest derived from a $2,500 investment made by the trustees of the university. This award will be presented to the University Band member who has done the most to promote the interest of the band and who has demonstrated spirit and good will toward the university and general public in behalf of the band. There are no special qualifications for the award other than the before mentioned. He or she does not have to be a music major but may be enrolled in any of the schools of the university. He or she may be in any class. The recipient of the award will be chosen by the mem berR of the band. John Wilkinson, senior pharm acy student who has been a Uni versity Band member since his en rollment at Carolina, founded the award as a memorial to his late father In accordance with the lat tar's wishes. Honor En Week Sct To Begin The second annual Honor next week, Jan. 10-14, John I honor board announced Wedn( Harvey Horne, general cha Week committee, said membe talk briefly to all freshman E Monday, on the honor system this procedure would acquaint Joint Tapping~ Ceremonies Set Tuesday Alpha Kappa Gamma and Omi cron Delta Kappa, women's and men's national honorary leader ship fraternities, will hold joint tapping ceremonies for new mem bers Tuesday night at Rutledge Chapel. The ceremonies will follow a debate by the Clariosophic Lit erary Society on the Carolina Honor System. The debate will begin at 8 o'clock and the student body is in vited. A question and answer forum will be held after the tap ping with honor board members answering the questions posed by the students. ODK is the oldest men's leader ship fraternity on campus, begin ning in 1927. Membership is based on high character and proven abilities. Students must be of junior or higher standing and must have accumulated 75 or more points under the ODK point sys tem if a junior and 100 or more if a senior. One of ODK's leading projects is sponsorship of Awards Day. Glenn Bell of Columbia is presi dent. AKG is restricted to women students of junior or higher stand ing who have shown outstanding leadership ability and above aver age scholastic standings. AKG sponsors Sorority and Fraternity Song Fest with pro ceeds going to the AKG scholar ship loan fund from which men or women students may borrow. AKG members also help serve at May Day and usher at homecom ing and convocations. Beaufort Law of Fayetteville, N. C. is president. Fireworks Violation Of USC Rules The use of fireworks by stu dents on the Carolina campus is a violation of both university rules and a city ordinance, ac Icording to Chief Colle B. Bun Idrick, of the campus police. As a result of recent firework annoyances, Columbia's Mayor Clarence Dreher has called for a statewide law against the sale 9f fireworks. According to dormitory regu lations found in the catalog,i "The presence or use of any fireworks on any property. owned by or under the control of the university, Including sorority and fraternity rooms, or at any gathering of untver sity students, Is strictly for bidden." The above is backed by a state law passed by the General As sembly of South Carolina which states that the board of trustees and faculty of the various 0.1 leges In South Carolina are authorized to see that It Is car ried out. Chief Bundrick said there were no Incidents of firework damage on the campus during the Christmas holldays, but, he added, that was probably due to the absence of students dur ing the holidays. Re said there were quits a few fireworks being discharged by stadants during the week before holideys iphasis teduled Monday Emphasis Week will be held P. Johnston, chairman of the sday. irman of the Honor Emphasis rm of the honor board would :nglish and Pharmacy classes and its purposes. Horne said virtually every freshman with the honor system. Clariosophic to Debate On Tuesday night the Clario sophic Literary Society will debate" before a campus-wide audience at 8:00 in Rutledge Chapel. "Resolved That the Honor System at Carolina be Abolished." Following the debate, Omicron Delta Kappa (honor fraternity) and Alpha Kappa Gamma (honor sorority) will hold tapping ceremonies. Also scheduled for the Tuesday night program will be a question and answer period after the tap ping ceremonies. Members of the honor board will be on hand to answer questions. , Convocation Is Scheduled Forty-minute classes are sched uled for Friday to allow time for an Honor Week convocation at the Field House. The convocation will begin at 10:30 and wi!l feature a main speaker which had not been named at press time. Members of the honor board will talk briefly on the honor system at the con vocation. Throughout the week, honor board members will talk to campus organizations who request them. The Honor System at the uni versity is nearly as old as the school itself. Carolina claims the oldest honor system in any col lege in the United States. The honor board is composed of 24 members elected from the various schools, and from the honor board is elected the six members who make up the honor council. The honor council tries individual charged with infractions of the honor system and decides how the violator shall be punished. Honor Infractions Listed in the honor board con stitution as infractions of the honor system are: 1. "Giving or receiving any aid during any quiz or examination or aiding oneself or others by the use of notes, texts, or any type of oral or tacit communication." 2. "Copying or paraphrasing any parallel report, theme, laboratory experiment paper, or term ,paper written by another person without properly disclosing on the paper or report this fact and giving full credit to the true author." A third infraction concerning the student's obtaining football tickets in sections reserved for upper-classmen, this was out moded by the IBM machine systern of registration, in which the stu dent's class is printed on the registration cards. Present members of the honor council are: John E. Johnson (chairman), Josephine Boyle (sec retary), Bill Weston, Tommy Row land, Robert G. Bell, and Jerelyn Cunningham. Alistun Elected Spring Prexy Of Clariosophic Leo Allstun of Columbia is the newly elected president of the Clariosophie Literary Society. Mr. Allstun succeeds Ernest Lathean of Greenvifle, Other new officers elected at th% Tuesday night meeting were: vice-president, Matthew Stephen son, Raleigh, N. C.; critic, Teammy Thomas, Beaufort; secetmx, Rob ert Ackerman, Barnwell; treas urer, Harry Chapenan, Greenville; sergeant at arms, Harold G3uerry, Hardeevule; and publicity chair man, Pat Grayson, Greenville. The new officers will .ttdlIy take over the responsibIljI.s at office after the inauguratiegi ems. nony slated for Jannary taa.