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47TH YEAR. 47THYEARUSC VS. CLEMSON OF PUBLICATION FIELD HOUSE TONIGHT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volume XLVIII, No. 16 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA., FEBRUARY 18. 1955 _ Campus Briefs Co-ed Helps Out Volunteer workers from the Co-ed Association greatly facili tated registration by helping Zut at registration stations, Registrar Henry 0. Strohecker said this week. Mary Wise Rixey, president of Co-ed Association, said the "lend a hand" project was Co-ed's proj ect for the semester. Each year the association sponsors such a project. I. R. C. Elects Ted Drucker has been elected president of the International Relations Club for the spring semester succeeding Ben J. Bass. Other officers elected are: Jerry Brown, vice - president; Heigh Remesch, secretary and Ben J. Bass, treasurer. Lyon Speaks S. Mack Lyon, Jr., division of fice manager of the Central Divi sion of Colonial Stores, spoke to Delta Sigma Pi, professional business administration fraternity, Monday night. Mr. Lyon spoke on "Office Management." Mr. Lyon is president of the Columbia chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants. Pancake Supper The traditional Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper will be served Tuesday by the Canterbury Club. The supper will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at Trinity Parish House, Sumter and Senate Streets, on February 22nd. Canterbury Club bers will cook and serve. ASCE Membership Applications for membership in the American Society of Civil En gineers must be in by Thursday, February 24. All seniors and juniors and sophomores (31 credits or more) in the upper half of their class scholastically, who are majoring in civil engineering, are eligible for membership. Applica tions are available at Dean Sum walt's office. * * * Booster Appeal for the New Universlty Program The USC Alumni Association has recently sent out picture folders and cleverly sketched bul letins to 15,277 alumni. The bul letin is a Booster appeal for the new university program. Council Airs Revision Of Constitution A revised student government constitution may be presented to the student body for approval or disapproval when student body elections are held in April. Student council president, Jack W. Feild, said the proposed revi sion would eliminate several non Sfenctioning committees embodied in the present constitution and define eligibility of candidates for student offices. Mr. Feild has appointed a three member committee to study the old constitution and make recom mendations for revision. On the committee are Phillip M. Moody, (chairman) Donald 0. Clark and Sumner Waite. The present constitution states that amendments must be pre sented in writing to the student council and pass two out of three readings. In order to be Valid an amendment is subject to ratifica tion by either of the following methods which is decided by the student council: a two-thirds vote of an assembly of students provid ing at least 400 are present, or a two-thirds majority in a special election in which at least 400 ballots are cast. New Plan For Blood Drive Set IFC Offers Support To Blue Key Move Blue Key service fraternity is getting under way a unique plan for a spring Red Cross blood drive. The Richland County chapter of the American Red Cross has informed drive chairman Don Miller that they no longer have any defense commitments. Whole blood, even though refrigerated, is good for only two or three weeks and for some special oper ations the blood must not be over a few days old. The big demand, the Red Cross says, is filling the weekly quota of volunteers at the Blood Center on Devine St. Tuesday nights and Friday after noons are held open at the Blood center and the traveling blood mobile unit visits special com munities the rest of the week. Instead of attempting to get as many people as possible to give during a two-day visit to the university, Miller wants groups of students to go down on Tuesdays and Fridays. Transportation will be furnished. The Interfraternity Council voted Monday to award a trophy to the fraternity with the highest percentage of donors. Blue Key will supervise the competition and will keep a running boxscore of standings. Miller said he would approach Pan-Hellenic next week regarding sorority competition. He is also interested in building up support of the drive among the Independents. Each donor will be admitted free to a special charity (lance for donors only to be given by Bill Moore and his 14-piece band in May. Special gifts, such as movie passes will be given to each donor, also, if plans can be worked out. The drive will begin the first week of March and registration stations will be set up for all students, Miller said. Twenty-one Tour Baltin Twenty-one university students, Prof. J. H. Noland and Robert L. Sumwalt, Dean or the School of Engineering, flew to the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Plant in Balti more, Maryland, Thursday morn ing, February 10. The group flew up in ohe hour and 45 min utes in a private plane furnished by the company. The students were E. J. Ayers, WV. W. Baker, M. D. Cauthen, L. B. Garner and D. E. Monts major ing in civil engineering; R. H. Dicks and D. R. Lewis majoring in electrical engineering; and J. E. Barden, R. G. Bell, J. L. Bolton, Jinks Clary, D. B. Estep, H. L. Gray, M. 0. McNinch, F. M. Gates, J. B. Reeves, J. M. Roof, Jr., R. E. Strickland, C. A. Taylor, F. T. CAROLINA STUDENTS, profes in Baltimore during their recent toi M. D. Cauthen, J. M. Roof, J. B. I Second row, left to right, are jaw of the School of Engineering, John D. E. Mont., R. E. Strickland, E. J Williams. R. H. Dicks. .. E. Bardei PLAYING FOR HIGH STAKE in Carolina's new woman's dormit DeLoache. (Gamecock staff photc Contract Let I To Engineerin The contract for the addition to the School of Engineering lab oratory to connect the present Green Street laboratory with a renovated Steward's Hall has been given to C. G. Shockley Company of Columbia, the same company which built the new woman's dormitory, announces Dr. W. H. Patterson, dean of administra tion. Construction will begin before March 1 and will be completed by September 1, 1955. Plans for tne annex have been designed by Lyles, Bissett, Carlisle and Wolff of Columbia. Cost of construction, excluding costs for the renovation of Steward's Hall will be approx imately $91,000. Cost for the renovation on Steward's Hall alone will be approximately $20,000. Engmneerin, iore Aircra Williams and R. E. Woodward mijoring in mechanical engineer ing. All of the students have been offered jobs by Glenn L. Martin upon their graduation from the university. When the university body ar rived they were given talks by top executives at the plant. The group participated in dliscussions with John E. Dahlman, personnel division, Herman Purin, manager of structures division, Edward G. Uhf, vice-president in charge of engineering, George S. Trimble Jr., in charge of advanced design, and Oswald J. Schalfer, manager of production of the design de partment. mora and Glenn L. Martin repres4 r through the Glenn L. Main ph eeves, C. A. Taylor, H. L. Gray,J es Decker, design engineer for Ch4 E. Dahiman, personnel division of .Ayers, L.. B. Garner, R. G. Bell, . W. W. Baker.. D. B. Rsaepn Prof * Three freshmen coeds spend :ry. Seated, left to right, are: Jan1c by Dew James) or Addition g Laboratory Progress on the Student Union building is proceeding about as scheduled. It should be completed by June 1, said Dr. Patterson. Construction on the new bus iness administration building fac ing Bull Street will be completed this summer. The building, built by M. B. Kahn Construction Com pany of Columbia, was designed by Hopkins, Baker and Gill of Florence. Watson and Hart of Greensboro are the engineers. Property on Rosewood Drive has beei purchased for the ath letic department. Twenty-one acres will be used for practice fields and housing for the athletic department. The football practice field, baseball diamond and track will be moved to the new site. Building construction will cost approximately $300,000. No esti mate has been made on the cost of the land. g Students ft Plant After the discussions the group was escorted through the plant. In each department of the plant the department heads lec.tured on the functions of the department. At noon they were given lunch in the company cafeteria. On the flight up and back there was doffee and doughnuts for the group. They flew back in the same plane that afternoon, leaving at 4 p.m. and arriving at 6:32 p.m. D)ean Sumwalt said they would have made it sooner if they hadn't had to buck a head wind all the way back to Columbia. Besides being an educational trip, Dean Sunmwalt said the group enjoyed it. ntatives stand before jet aireraft nt. Front row, left to right, are inks Clary, and R. E. Woodward. nn L. Martin, R. L. Sumwalt, dean Glenn L. MartIn, M. 0. Mecie, Ja. . L. Boln, D .F . . Te. a quiet afternoon with the cards a Palmer, Gloria Thomas, and Lee Four More Units For Fraternity Housing Planned The contract for four buildings housing eight fraternities will be let this week. At the present time the Congaree Construction Com pany of Columbia is low bidder, according to Dr. W. H. Patter son, dean of administration. Two of the four new units will be on Sumter Street. The other two units will be on Marion. With the exception of Devine Street the square block of Sumter, Blossom, Marion and Devine will be en closed by seven buildings housing space for 14 fraternities early next year. There are 13 fratern ities at Carolina. Definite plans have not been made yet for the occupancy of the 14th unit. The three units on Blossom Street are already in the process of being completed. They are being built by George A. Creed Construction Company of Colum bia at a cost of $425,000. The building plans for the three were designed by the architectural firm Df Lafaye, Fair and Lafaye. Herndon Fair, a graduate of the university, was the principal arch itect, said Dr. Patterson. The cost of the four new struc tures will be in excess of one million dollars. The cost of con struction will be approximately $558,000 and fees and other inci dentals around $600,000. The three units on Blossom Street will be completed about September 1. Construction on the routr units on Sumter and Marion will begin within the next 10 :lays and they should be completed ibout February 1, 1956. Cuspidor Returns The cuspidor is beck. The far-traveling rain gauge was returned to the Carolina campus Monday morning. The weather instrument was sitting in the hallway of Le Conte College when he arrived for work, Professor Donald 0. Bushman of the Geology and Geography department said. A Carolina student, following up a story in the Gamecock was instrumental in the return. The rain gauge, now in its original position in front of Le Conte, was taken,by students of another South Carolina college shortly before the Carolina Clemson football game In Oc tober. It was used by the atu dents as an ash tray, Mr. Gil bert Graham of the Geography department said. After the disappearance of the rain Instrument, the Geog raphy department obtained an other from the Weather Bureau at Columbia Airport. This has now been returned. D09 Discipline To Set P Individual Discipline Committee Chi closed yesterday morning afte Faculty Council, President D4 mittee Chairman Coleman Kar Bass, that the Discipline Cor individual case whether or r Gamecock voluntarily or upon StuntNights Take Place Next Week Plans for the annual fraternity and sorority stunt nights, to be held this year as part of Greek Week, were announced this week by Bill Todd and Mary Kirk patrick, chairmen of the two events. Fraternity stunt night will take place Monday night at 7 p.m. in Drayton Hall. Sorority stunt night will be presented Wed nesday night at 8 p.m. in Drayton Hall. Fraternity Night Thirteen fraternities will partic ipate in the first event. Each fraternity will present an act not over 10 minutes in length. Among those entering are Kappa Alpha, winner of last year's stunt night with a Moulin Rouge thema, and Phi Kappa Sigma and Kappa Sigma, who placed second and third respectively. Prof. Kit FitSimmons will act as master of ceremonies. Three judges will be on hand for the event. They are Lt. (jg) Cole Rowland, Maj. J. H. Barrett, and Dr. J. Adger Brown. Fraternities will compete for first, second and third places and awards will be made on the basis of originality, participation, con tinuity, and audience response. Awards Presented Winners will be announced Mon day night, and the awards will be made at intermission at the Greek Week dance Thursday night. The order of presentations: Phi Sigma Kappa-"Phi Sig Frolics." Sigma Nu--"Nu Faces." Kappa Alpha-"Carmen Jones." Sigma Alpha Epsilon-"Damned Souls." Alpha Tau Omega-"One Night in a Bar Room." Sigma Chi - "Miscellaneous Ramblings." Lambda Chi Alpha-"Carmen." Phi Kappa Sigma-"This Way Basin Street." Sigma Phi Epsilon-"The Big Deal." Phi Epsilon Pi-"The Green Slipper." Pi Kappa Phi-"Playboy." Kappa Sigma-"Crust of .the Town." Pi Kappa Alpha-"Pi Kap Prol ics." Sorority Night Seven sororities will take part ~n the Wednesday night program. Each group will present a skit aeting no longer than 15 minutes. Lou Essex of radio station WVMSC will act as master of cere monies. Members of IFC will isher. At this time judges for he event have not been an iounced. The stunt night winner receives cup which rotates among the ~ororities until It has been won hree consecutive years by one orority. The cup Is then retired. 'i Beta Phi won the cup last year vith their skit, "The Ozard of Sororities and their acts are: Zeta Tau Alpha-"Saga of the south." Delta Delta Delta - "Snow White." Delta Zeta-"A Night in Rom mfy.". P1 Beta Phi-"Madame Butter Chi Omega-"Fantasy in Toy and. Kappa Delta-"Mardi Grsa.". Alpha Delta PI-"LT' Jteen." Group olicy On [ Cases tirman Coleman Karesh dis r a meeting Wednesday of the )nald Russell, Discipline Com esh, and Gamecock Editor Jack rimittee will decide with each ot to give its results to the request. Mr. Karesh said the Committee is under no duty to make reports to anyone except President Rus sell and the Board of Trustees, but it has the right to disclose facts if it will serve the university a purpose in the judgment of the committee. Mr. Karesh stated that there will be some cases brought before the Discipline Committee which should be brought to the attention of the campus, while there will be others which would serve to do the university harm if published. "It is up to the Gamecock," Mr. Karesh said, "to formulate a policy concerning cases about which the Discipline Committee refuses to divulge any information." Any information except that which the Discipline Committee gives the Gamecock would be unofficial and would have to be treated as such. The problem first went to the faculty council last week after Mr. Karesh declined to divulge any information to the Gamecock on a recent case which the Discipline Committee handled. No decision was reached at this time and an other meeting was called for this week. After a restatement of the Gamecock position by Jack Bass, editor, and a discussion, the faculty council went into execu tive session and said they would give the results to the Gamecock. President Russell could not be reached by the Gamecock until 11:15 p.m. Wednesday. He said the faculty council had "sort of left the final decision in the hands of Mr. Karesh." Mr. Karesh had al ready retired when the Gamecock called him. After Mr. Bass said the paper did not want to print names-only the number of students involved, the charges and the penalties at Wednesday's meeting, Mr. Karesh asked Mr. Bass a few questions about the nature of different cases that appear before the Discipline Committee and whether or not the Gamecock would want to print all of them. It was pointed out by Dr. Havilah Babcock that all facts are not newsworthy. He also sug gested that instead of printing all the facts about a case, the Game cock issue a statement saying "The university regrets the neces sity of announcing that it has requested' the withdrawal of a student (or students) for conduct unbecoming to the university." In reply, Mr. Bass said that he was not In favor of the idea, but it was better than nothing, and he would accept it if he had to. The question was raised as to whether the request to release Discipline Committee results to the Gamecock came from the edi tor, the paper as a whole, or the student body. Mr. Bass said as far as he knew it came from the paper as a whole. The Council then went into executive session. Holidays Few and Holidays will be few and far between during the spring semester. In fact, the holidays are but one . . . spring recess, April 8-10. Following is the spring sem ester calendar: Monday, February 28-Final date for seniors to apply for degrees to be awarded at June graduation exercises. Wednesday, March 81-Last date on which graduate students may file for graduate degres. April 8-12-Spring recess. May 26-June 1-Final exam inations. Friday, June 8-Commence ment Day.