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47TH YEAR VOTE TUESDAY OFIN SPECIAL ELECTION UNIVERSITY OF- SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volume XLVIII, No. 18 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MARCH 4, 1955 . Campus * .Briefs Deadline for Graduates Wednesday, March 16 is the last fay for graduation candidates to apply for degrees or certificates and pay diploma and certificate fee, Henry 0. Strohecker, regis trar, announced Monday. The deadline for graduate students is April 1. . Students who have rtot applied, paid fees, and had records checked are advised to do so immediately by calling at the registrar's of fice, Mr. Strohecker said. * * * Hinduism Has Week Almost everybody and every thing has a week on the American calendar, but the Carolina official bulletin board announced a new one last Wednesday. Two posters with gaudy red letters covering half of the bul letin board announced that Na tional Hinduism Week was being observed on campus February 29-34. The remainder of the larger poster read: "Nightly Meet 7:15 . . . Top of Maxey . . . Hear Dr. Spftlmh . . . Talks on Love, Mar riage, Sex, War, Peace, Cats and the Weather." * * * YWCA to Celebrate The YWCA will celebrate its centennial with a birthday tea on Thursday, March 10, from 4-6 p.m. at the home of President and Mrs. Donald Russell. All YWCA cabinet members since 1948 have been invited and all presidents of the Carolina YWCA since 1921 will be honored at this time. Present cabinet mem bers will serve at the tea. All women students are invited to at tend. * . * Book Found An accounting book was found two weeks ago at the gate to the Ilrill field opposite the gym. It may be claimed at the Gamecock office by making proper identifi cation. Planetarium r o Be Built At Carolina A planetarium, costing $35,000, will be built at the university, 4 W. L. Patterson, dean of admin istration, has announced. The supplement to the observatory would be completed within a year. The now structure will be located north of the observatory in the p)resent position of Building C, wvhich will be torn down upon completion of the Business Admin istration building. It will be air conditioned and seat approximately Pasfrthe building will be drawvn up by Lockwood Greene Engineers, Inc., of Spartanburg. This is the same firm that planned the new woman's dormitory. The structure, especially de signed to house the projectors, will have a dome with a diameter of 24 feet. It will have no win dows, Wyman L. Williams, head of the department of mathematics andl astronomy, explained, as it Is necessary for the building to be . totally black to get best results from the projectors. The lobby of the building will &contain astronomical exhibits. In architecture, the building will conform with other buildings on that area of the campus. The planetarium is being built as a teaching aid in astronomy and a public rela-tions project, Dr. Williams said. It will be open to the public at no charge. The effectiveness of the plane tarium is expected to be compar able, on a smaller scale, to that of Hayden .Planetarium In New York City. It will be able to de pict the heavens of the future as well as those of the past. The university's planetarium will he the only one in South Car olina connected with an observa tory. Wof'ford, College has a planetarium but no observatory. $8,00( ij PREPARE TO EVACUATE.. a speedy throwing together of clott began to get warm from the smoult College. (Gamecock Staff Photo by DeSaussure 4 Fire Once B By HERBERT BRYANT Campus Editor The fire that damaged two class rooms in DeSaussure Col lege last Wednesday morning doesn't have the notorious dis tinction of being the first fire in that building or on the univer sity campus. According to W. H. Patter son, Dean of Administration, the west wing of DeSaussure was destroyed by fire in 1851. De Saussure College, which is named after William Henry De saussure, a member of the first Board of Trustees, was only one of two buildings on the campus when it was erected in 1809. The Business Building I By PATSY PENNEY Assistant Managing Editor Details for the Business Ad ministration building, located on the corner of Devine and Bull Streets, have been completed, Samuel M. Derrick, dean of the School of Business Administration, has announced. The building Is scheduled for completion this summer. A total of 25 classrooms and 38 individual offices will be in the structure. In addition there will be an assembly hall, a faculty con ference room, elevator, and library. The building will probably be air conditioned. Both the assenthly hall and the school library will be entered from the outside without entering the main portion of the building. This will enable night meetings without BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIQB building is scheduled to took like uh Deyln. .trs. Dam . Students in Tenement 12 began keg, bedclothes, etc. when the walls iering fire in adjoining DeSaussure Jack Bass) Taught On ?fore, Too other building was Rutledge College. DeSaussure College was first called "North" building. Later after the erection of Elliott and Pinckney Colleges it was named "Old North" building. The Euphradian Literary So ciety met in DeSaussure until 1848. The central portion of the college was turned over to the Confederate Army in 1862 to be used as a hospital. Both the Confederate and Union sick and wounded soldiers were tended to during the time it was used as a hospital. During the year 1919-20 the (Continued on page 6) Administr, Plans Are opening other parts of the build ing, Dean Derrick said. The assembly hall, to be used by students and various business groups for conferences and semi nars, will seat 300. The reading room of the library, which will be 90 by 32 feet, will seat 100. A faculty conference room, hav ing a seating capacity of 35, will be arranged by an interior dec orator. It will be furnished with long sofas, coffee and end tables, lamps, and drapes. It, too, will be used by business groups for seminars. The lobby of the building will be considerably large, Dean Der rick said, and will be separated from the, main part of the building by steps. The individual offices- will ineas uare nine by 14 feet. ...When completed this summ e above picture. The building I. 14 iage .... . . FIREMEN USE LADDER to rv the Columbia City Fire Departm Photo by Ben Mcelveen) Student Bo To Be Hek At a special election Tuesday, the student body will choose a student body secretary to fill the attion Told The building will be furnished throughout with new furniture and tentative selection for most of the rooms has already taken place. The new building will house all departments of the School of Business Administration. At pres ent these are located in Harper, McCutcheon, and DeSaussure Col leges, and the top floor of Hamil ton College. Upon completion of the new building the foreign language de partment is scheduled to move into DeSaussu re College, vacating the first floor of Davis College for the English department. The political science department will be re located in Harper College, with building C being torn down to make way for the new plane tarium. er, the new Bnulncaa Adiministration mated on the eorner of n..ll .... 1 DeS4 ach DeSaum%ure's third floor when s -nt were dipspatched to quell the s dy Election I Tuesday vacancy left by the resignation of Gwen Tootle and vote approval or diTapproval for 12 amend ments and revisions to the student body constitution, Jack W. Feild, president of the student body said Wednesday. Voting will be at the ODK Circle between Currell College and McKissick Library. The polls will open at 9:00 a.m. and remain open until 5:00 p.m. The student body secretary post was left vacant when Gwen Tootle resigned and left school to be married. Three persons have been nominated to fill the vacancy. They are Caroline Robinson, Mar garet Hunter, and Timmy Tim m ons. Thursday, March 10, has been set for t.he run-off in the event one is necessary, Mr. Feild said. A c'ommittee headed by Phillip M. Moody of the school of engi neering has drawn up a list of 12 revisions and amendlments to the student body constitution which will be presented for student body (Conatinued on page 6) Magnolia Says It's Nice Out On the corner of Sumter and College streets there's a li'l 01' Japanese magnolia tree that says it's going to be nice weather from now until the end of next summer. According to D)r. J1. T. Pen ney, professor of biology, when the tree blossonms out that usu ally means we will have one more c'old spell, usually a freeze, then for the rest of the year until the end of summer there wuill lbe nice weather. D)uring the early part of last week the pink blossoms of the magnolia tree came into full b)loom. Last Saturday morning the blossoms were killed by cold weather. So, if everything goes "according to Hoyle" the cold spell that killed the flowers should be the last had weather Coluambia will havntilm fall Etussur moke fogs the stairs. Six unit# from -nouldering blaze. (Camecock Staff Debate Team Takes Part In Tournament The university debate team is currently participating in the South Atlantic Debate Tourna ment in Hickory, N. C., according to M. G. Christophersen, debate coach. The tournament, which is the oldest one in the southeast, began yesterday and will continue through tomorrow. Seven rounds of debate are on the schedule for the USC debaters. John Altman and Kermit King, on the negative team, and Bill Rhoad and Charles Goldberg, on the af firmative team, are representing Carolina. A girls' university team composedl of Barbara Wright, Margie Russ and Jane Ball, on the affirmative, and Allowee Bailey and I na Clairte Guerry, on the negative, are also in the touirn amen t. The first round of debate got under way yesterday at 4 p.m. The seventh and final round of the tournament will begin tomorrow morning at 8:45 a.m. with awvards being announced tomorrow at 11:30. Altman and King are debating on the negative side of the issue, "Should the United States Extend IDiplomatic Recognition to the Communist Government of China ?" for the second time this year. Formerly they have been debating the affirmative issue. Professor Christophersen says it is necessary for them to switch sides for practice, since they will have to dlebate both sides of the issue at the National Debate Tournament at the United States Military Ac'ademy at West Point. Professor Christophersen says the stiffest competition in the South A tlantic Tournament should come from Duke, George Washing ton University, University of Rich moond, United States Naval Acad emy, Georgetown University, Uni versity of North Carolina or the University of Virginia They are among the other teams repre sented at the tounamnt r ounuea yvus e Fire Pajama-Clad StudentsCheer Firefighters I JACK BASS Editor Repairs onl the $8,000 dam ages to DeSaussure College by a fire early Wednesday morning were begun later that day by the university maintenance depart ment, according to Dean of Ad ministration W. H. Patterson. The building had complete insurance coverage. Six truckloads of city firemen were cheered by an enthusiastic audience of some 300 students, many pajama clad, after the blaze was reported at 1:15 a.m. by two students residing in Ten. 11, on the east wing of DeSaussure. Students. Report Fire The students said they heard the sprinkler alarm go off and made their call after seeing smoke pour out of a second story window. City Fire Chief A. C. Marsh said the building would )robably have been burned to the ground had it not been for the sprinklers. The fire was caused by a faulty flue, used for an oil hot water heater in the basement that pro vided hot water for Ten. 11 and 12. the residence of SAE and ATO fraternities. Students living in Ten. 12 said the walls of their rooms began to get hot and a little smoke entered their rooms, but it soon became apparent that the firemen had the fire under complete control and no attempt was made to evacuate the dormitories although several students had begun packing their belongings. No Flame% Seen Outmide No flames could be seen from outside the building and Chief Marsh said most of the fire took place in the partition walls be tween the second and third floor classrooms on the east side of the building. Dr. Patterson and other univer sity officials had high praise for the fire department and its effi ciency in holding water and smoke damage to a minimum. Canvas covers were placed over the files and diesks of most of the offices in the building and protected them from water. Dean Samuel M. Derrick of the School of Business Administration was called by one of his students soon after the trucks arrived and staved around until the firemen left around 5 a.m. Pontiac 11locks Way A 1951 Pontiac, owned by John Blott, a student, was parked directly in front of the building and firemen were forced to break a window in order to move the car. Practically all the damage was done to the two classrooms on the second and third floor on the east end of the building and no more classes will be held in these rooms for the remainder of the semester, Dr. Patterson said. One student, who had left his room before it was certain the dormitories were out of danger, was seen running back to his room announcing that he had forgotten his whiskey. And another student reportedly called Sims dormitory for rein forcements but none of the girls came over. The economica department of the School of Business Administra-. tion is currently housed in De Saussure, hut the building is scheduled for extensive renovation over the summer. The entire School of Business Administration wili move into a new building next semester and DeSaussure wilt -house the department of foreign languages.