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Stud. Fe. R Most of the activities of 1 dependent on the student ac their financial support. Othez none of them are ever adequ to operate at maximum effic Each semester every ful pays $15 for the support of 1 tivities. Of that sum, $8.50 i set aside for athletics. The r is divided among the other and activities. Included in that number j cock, Garnet and Black, WU tingent fund which is set a emergency aid to other activi for such events as May Day nation Dance. In the recent history of committee, which decides hov to be distributed to the groupi recollection of there being to provide the basic needs The publications alone need operate with any degree of ej with some groups dropped ft tions, there is not enough around. In order for these activil there must be an increase i of money allocated to them have bounded upward there increase in the student activit than five years. Dealing only tions, prices will show that i gone up several hundred per c4 period. To offset the increase in groups concerned there are oin The first is to eliminate or c teams' share of the activitie second is to increase the fee. Colf Urbana, IlI.-Since success in teaching is closely related-in the public mind, at least-with how the teacher "understands" children, educators at the Uni versity of * Illinois are trying to find out if this understanding can be measured. This is a prob lem in "social perception" which is being studied in the univer sityls Bureau of Educational Research. The National Insti tute of Mental Health of the U. S. Public Health Service has granted $12,900 for the project. Prof. N. L. Gage of the Col lege of Education is undertaking to devise tests which will show how teachers "see" their pupils. One means of doing this is to prepare a series of questions and ask the teacher to predict how each pupil will answer them. Then the pupils are given the questions and actual results are compared with the predictions. The test can be varied by using different kinds of questions, dif ferent groups of pupils, and by asking the teacher to predict results from pupils with whom she is unacquainted, such as those she knows only through the medium of a sound picture. It is not intended to evaluate the teaching. From the results obtained, Prol. Gage hopes to arrive at the "generality" of social per ception which is how much of this kind of understanding Is transferable from one situation to another. It means, Prof. Gage CROWING voi UNIVERSITY OF ! EDITOR ................. MANAGING EDITOR.. BUSINESS MANAGER .... ASSISTANT MANAGING El NEWS EDITOR .......... CAMPUS EDITOR ....... . SPORTS EDITOR8S....... SOCIETY EDITOR ....... FEATURE EDITOR ....... CIRCULATION MANAGER ASSISTANT BUSINESS MA BUSINE8S Kat Anthony, Carol E STAFF RE Bertha Gardner, Donna Hale, Babb, Dianne Woodside, Sonla Derham, Louise Matthews, Be Berbert Bryant, Wray Davis, hart Carol Shockey, Pat Longi COLUM At Tmn T. E. Brown. Ba nt 'Ati muse N his school are Since there tivities fee for former even b - than athletics boils down to ately budgeted only practical ency. Administrat 1-time student tant to raise f ;he campus ac- luctance will I i automatically too. However, emaining $6.50 the activities organizations than the corre At Clemson, i ire the Game- is added on to SC and a con- the dance fund ide to provide bands each ye ties, especially all students, w and the Coro- dances. A similar fi the allocations jections of pra r the money is a compulsory I i, there is little a student whi enough money many don't. f the groups. However, ur the $6.50 to student benefil !ficiency. Even Whether or n< om the alloca- or reads the G money to go and Black and is not a fund I ;es to endure out receiving i n the amount crease would n While prices pocket for ano has been no An increase 4 ies fee in more go a long way with publica- problems of tl iews print has same time it mt in the same hardship on t) would pay on) costs for all eight paymeni ly two choices. negligible amo ut the athletic Even with t s fee and the considerably le tions of corresl ?giate Clipp explains, %he degree to which a teacher has the same relative success in judging people on different things-or in judging different people on the same things. If social perception scores can be connected with -the ways in which teachers get along with their pupils, the research will lead to better understanding of the teaching process. It may also make possible improved prediction of teaching behavior and provide suggestions for teacher training programs. Philadelphia, Pa. -- Activities varying from athletics to debat ing will be represented during this year's . . . Organizations Publicity Drive at Temple Uni versity. The new system, which was in an experimental stage last year, has proved a success and will set the pattern for fu ture activities rush weeks, ac cording to Miss ..lvira K. Woerle, activities counselor. This newly-inaugurated semi annusal event consists of two periods of activity. Orientation Day for entering freshmen is followed by the publicity drive, which Is the promotional period for extra-curricular groups. The drive's primary purpose is to ac quaint new students with the activities here. However, Miss Woerle encourages upperclass men as well to seek candidacy into- organizations. Participat ing in the publicity drive will be I A GREATER IOUTH CAROLINA ad Conleglat. Pre lied 331g andmse mh etO.. erth '-Fdeuh -e sa . . . . .......BILL LEGGITT ..... .........JACK BASS ........ .. ....D. J. SALLEY SITOR .. .. .. Betsy Ehrhardt ...............Patsy Penney . .. .. .. .. . ..Carolyn McClung . Bobby Alford, Mike Lovejoy .... ... ........Joanne Carne. ................Dew Jame. ...................Al Tison NAGER ........Blly Bruce B STAFF hoekey, Jack Bourn. PORTERS M7aetBanknlght, Carole RMyrna Ritcey Clare rbara Drver, Kieran brohy, Sue Furbeek, Mary Alice Car sire, Eat Anthony. NISTS a M.Elveen. Bob Cameron. ivities soded is very little chance of the eing considered, the situation an increase in the fee as the solution. ion officials have been reluc ees in the past. The same re irobably be met in this case, it may. be pointed out that fee here is infinitely smaller sponding fee at most schools. or instance, a $10 dance fee the activities fee, solely for which brings in several name ar. The fee is compulsory to hether or not they attend the ee here would meet the ob ctically everyone. The idea of ee for dances is repungant to D doesn't attend dances, as ider the activities fee, every s in some way from the fee. t he attends athletic events amecock, he gets the Garnet other services. Therefore, it ;o which he contributes with Lt least some benefit. An in ot be taking money from his ther student's benefit. )f five dollars in the fee would toward solving the financial ie various activities. At the would be working no undue ie student. In four years he y $40. Spread out over the ;s that would seem like a unt to the student. he increase the fee would be ss than it is-at other institu >onding size and service.-BL more than 25 groups, including religious clubs, speech societies, political organizations, language groups, fraternities and sorori ties, and military clubs, all of which will display posters and literature on their respective tables. The main problem encountered by previous unorganized rush weeks was that freshmen were frequently lost to extracurricular groups because they had no chance to become acquainted with these groups. Last year the problem, recognized by the Of fiee of Student Personnel, was solved by compressing all rush activities into one week of re cruiting. Miss Woerle, in citing other advantages of this system, said, "The organized rush week gives the leaders within t,hese organ izations personal contact with the students who are joining the organizations." Lubbock, Texas-Texas Tech nological College and Baylor University sha've jointly an nounced a cooperative five-year program in engineering. The student would study three years at Baylor, and then would attend Texas Tech for two years and a summer session, majoring in some branch of engineering. At the end of the five years, the successful student will receive both the Bachelor of Arts degree from Baylor and the Bachelor of Science degree in the appropriate branch of engineering from Texas Tech. "This program will afford a broader opportunity for a more general education than is offered in the regular four-year curri culum in engineering," President W. R. White of Baylor and President E. N. Jones of Texas Tech said in their joint state ment. "The plan gives the engi neering student ample opportun ity to take a substantial amount of work in the humanities and other non-teehnical studies, meet ing a demand of industry for engineers with a broader back ground," the two educators con tinued. Dr. White pointed out that if -at the end of three years the student decides he does not wish to continue in engineering, he may attend Baylor for an addi tional year and receive a Bache lor of Arts degree. Dr. Jones said that the cooperative plan is similar to a program which will go into effect at Texas Tech this month whereby the student earns both the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in five yerand a ....... "Tell me About the bonus again, huh Gmpr BEAUFORT LAW HonorSystem Depends On Each Student Grover Cleveland said, "Honor lies in hoftest toil," and others have said, "Judge every man by his honor," but no one has said much about the Honor System. If every student at this university were judged by his honor, what would be the result? At many of the surrounding colleges and universities such as Clemson, the University of North Carolina, the University of Georgia, Virginia Military Institute, and the University of Virginia there exist honor systems which are successful. Why is ours a subject of ridicule and shame? The primary requisite of a stable honor system is that the students believe in it. Carolina has had some type of honor system since the day its doors were opened. At first students probably decided the outcome in a duel. Through the years the honor system was improved, and in 1941 the present one was drawn up by students because of the growing need for a system meeting the students' needs. We, the students, have all the responsibility on our shoulders in our system. Are we to shirk and take ad vantage of or misuse this responsibility? Had we rather have professors and proctors marching around the class rooms peering over our shoulders during every recitation? Every student should familiarize himself with the structure and the functions of the Honor System and realize that it can never work unless he does his utmost to make it Work. The members of the Honor Board are not and do not ever want to be proctors. They are no different than any other student. Nevertheless they, like you, want every degree from the university to stand for a great deal. It cannot unless you stand behind your Honor System. Letters to the Editor Coeds Hate To Walk 7 Blocks To Class Dear Editor:isolgdtwatathale 'Since the Gamecock editorialunisoeeelefihehr page seems to carry complaints gaeThspsntaprbm of all types from Carolina stu- t h il h a nteUi dents and in this way offers the vest catri whhsop students a chance to express opi- sriga iteatroe nions on the various changes thatThgilwowrkadav would make the university more torptatnereivrby pleasant we would like to con-laeobwlndy.Thpr structively criticize a certain etbwigalyi eleupe phase of the university curri-anqutmoenxcpfroe culum. Iprattigteeaeol Female students of the uni-or4toakcrefthdwn versity are compelled to have stisaly.Te lesup four semesters of physical train- sar r sdfrtepbi Ing in order to graduate. This a l ie owycntte policy is both .healthful and a bequpdwihinoyad source of genuine fun if pre- ue o h nvriyc-d sented in the right way. How-whpafotegms utlk ever, one course In physical tepbi os training is, in our opinion, neither W rnttyn ocuecn healthful nor fun. That course fitwt h aaeeto h is bowling. Previous to this alebcusthy retal semester bowling class was held tmsnc otec-d~btw in the Capital Bowling Centerfeltasulyabt1sep on Gervais St. but as of this cudb aewt eadt fall was changed to the Colum-thspyiatrnngcue.A bia Bowling Center on the 1500 ItI,altogistkene block of Sumter St.oucusadthr,lkyus In the first place it is a seven- tuis ot hscaswt block walk from the University felnofrstmtagitth post ofifice to the present site of uiest hc ersets bowling clase. If one is so un- mc nohrwy.I hs*s fortunate as not to have a car tmcno eatrdt h or if a classmate's car has al-covneeoftesuns,w ready been filled to overflowing, ug h oesntpeiul one Is obliged to walk. Walking erle ntecus o otk seven blocks In Itself Isn't so bad bolnIftedn'wato if when one arrives at the bowl- sedaota oradahl ing alley one can bowl a game tredy eki natg and get out in time for lunch.oninorel But, n th preentasstemonehisxreeary pro-lem DEW JAMES Holidays Won' Not quite recovered from the effects of Christmas and New Year holidays, we enter what is being popularly dubbed the three week rat race, or "Oh, Daddy, will I ever catch up?" Like all good college students (if that's not a corruption of the term), we made a pre vacation pilgrimage to Mc Kissick and departed armed to the hilt with various volumes recommended by various profes sors who recognize the impor tance of book-reading to improve the student's bull - shooting talents. We lugged these along with some of their brothers who fall under the classification of text, down to the Independent Re public with the most honorable intentions. However, we became quickly inebriated with the holi day spirit (non-alcoholic) and the books slept with their lids closed until the latter days of 1954. It was at this stage in the game that myself and I had a lengthy 10-second discussion about the facts of life and my self convinced I that it was high time to make a start. I did, and in the smallest book, the pages slippe4 by until the figure 99 appeared at the top of the page, and then we stopped to eat again. Thus terminated our sea son of good intention in action. We read this presumptious declaration the other day on the foreign language department bulletin board in Davis College, "Your dog can learn to under BEN McELVEEN Some Stra) True?? What I am about to say per haps is not the truth. I am about +o jot down a couple of stray thuughts, and, as merely stray thoughts, I hope they will not be held against me on judg ment day! As for telling the truth, I would rather write a bok of lies than write one truth that would arouse no action in my reader! At least a book of lies would be consciously and think ingly disapproved, condemned, banished, -burned, or diaprnvAd. Whereas, a mere truth might be casually accepted and too easily forgotten. Truth has an evasive acceptance, anyway. Yes, if lies must be told to bring out the truth, then let me be the con temptible prevaricator, rather than the ignorant saint! I be lieve in truth! Even to the ex onft of lying! As for those stray thoughts: How, may I ask, can the uni verse be understood if it Is evo lutionary ? * * C We seek security--yes! And the earth is a tossed ball! I have more faith in my ig norance than 1 have in any reli gion! Yes, how often ignorance is an idol! - Life is a tossed coin: heads you lose, tails you lose! Care to gamble ? "I have found it pays--and pays well--to become just a plain, unvarnished 'copy cat' " so says Loyal Phillips of the New Orleans Item. Ditto. Therefore: Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher, has said, among in numerable other unaccepted truths: "Conv.ictions are more danger ous enemies to truth than lies." "What does not kill me, strengthens me." "How is it? Is man only a mistake of God ? Or God only a mistake of man?" * * * I believe in no creation, in no beginning. Mankind, even, has always sub consciously known this! Which came first, you hear, the hen or the egg? And, of course, neither did! You hear, God created it! But didn't God always exist? I cannot conceive of there having been a nothingness and then suddenly there was exist once. tAd Study t Mix stand a foreign language." We'r right proud to hear this 'ca we're not doing too hot at. t? Spanish stuff. Next semester we'll enroll one' of Pa's hounds and maybe between the two of us, we'll get through the remain ing two semesters-maybe three, depending on how this one turns out. - Seriously, it seems to us that the university is a bit arch in requiring so much foreign language for a B.A. degree in some scho6ls. Perhaps additional courses in English would be a more intelligent requirement since the majority of us have tol live with the stuff the rest of our life. The fact that English is the fastest growing language in use in the world cannot be over looked. Some imbeeile has advanced the purely irrational theory that studying a foreign language im proves one's thinking ability. If it does, it does not outrank a score of other courses in that respect. The arrival of the new year reminds us of the fugaciousness of time. We like the way it's said in the 108rd Psalm: "As for man his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth . . . The wind pas seth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more." We can think of few quotations more beautiful and fitting to herald the beginning of a new year, nor can we think of a better source for that quota tion. Thoughts Maybe Of course, if this is true, it proves: Life may have an end, but it had no beginning! (Not exist ence, now.) Or, living plants and animals may die, but they all stem from an endless, branch ing lineage. In all this culture, civilization, religion, etc., has not the subtle and cunning instinct of man merely shrewdly and artfully given man more purpose (when it wuas lacin") and more reason (when life seemed unreasonable) for man to live? That is, man has been able to survive, because the cunning and subtle instinct of man has sup plied the purpose and reason (in culture, civilization, religion, etc.) for man to continue to live. Then, too, the instinct of man has carefully allowed those who had realized this to commit sui cide, thus not permitting them to spread the newly discovered truth. Or they were allowed to continue -living disbelieving their own conclusions as to the mean inglessness of life. Or they wrote the truth, such as here, and it was accepted by man as insane or irrational conclusions or subtly written words and never as fact! .Though life as completely and sincerely pursposeless, meanin~~ less, etc., the instinct ofna 4 has shrewdly enabled him to put purpose and meaning and reason into life. Is that what college is?t W. Somerset Maugham has said: "The egoism of man re fuses to accept the meaningless. ness of life." Or, Is all this language nothing but a means and not an end? Is. the language merely something, like music, that Is to be used as a means of communication, s a means of expression, of enter tainment, etc., but, when we ex pet to find the end in language, then that Is like asking or ex pecting a musical composition to supply the history of its com poser? I wonder, too. They say, but don't qajote me, that sophomores eventually do give up all these theories for life. Lastly, Nietische again: "He who can not lie doesn't know what truth There?