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47TH YEAR ALAEIA OF PUBLICATION ALL 954 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA XLVII, No. 26 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MAY 6, 1955 F ii~ *Gamecock I AlI-America The Gamecock has been 4 1954-55 Fall semester by thE scoring system. It was one of 2001-4000 student class to ree This is the third consecutive semester that the Gamecock hat received the top rating. Prior to that semester, the Gamecock had not received this rating since the fall semester of 1947-48. Fall Staff Editor of the paper for the fal' semester was Bill Leggitt from Memphis, Tennessee. Jack Bass was managing editor; Betsy Campus Briefs Euphrosynean Elects Beth Folline of Columbia has been elected president of Euphro synean Literary Society for next year, G. B. Kennedy, retiring president, has announced. Other newly elected officers are: Patsy Crosland, vice-president; Margaret Elliott, secretary; Pat Barfield, treasurer; and Dot Saunders, program chairman. APO Meets Alpha Phi Omega service fra ternity will hold a meeting at 3 p.m. today in 21 McCutchen. Of ficers for next year will be elected at this time, Engineers' Ball Set The annual Engineers' Ball will be held May 11 from 8-12 p.m. The dance will be semi-formal, with music provided by Roy Haymond's band. The Incoming officers of ASCE and AIEE will be named at this time. Juniors Must Obtain Major, Minor Cards All students who will begin their junior year next fall must fill out major-minor cards by May 15, H. 0. Strohecker, registrar, has announced. The cards may be picked up at the General In formation window of the regis trar's office. A schedule of courses for the major concentration and related courses must be approved by the head of the student's major de *artments and filed with the registrar, before the beginning of the student's Junior year. Since the pre-registration and counseling period on the campus has been discontinued, students should consult their deans and de partment heads for additional in formation related to the school in which they are enrolled, Mr. Strohecker said. ,Dates Told For Room Reservations Students now living on the horseshoe have priority on their rooms until May 11 for summer school, Hugh G. Bell, manager of student housing, said. All other reservations must be in by May 31. Fall room reservations will be made starting May 16, and stu dents will have through May 21 for priority on their present rooms. All other reservations must be made by May 31. Due to the large amount of re novating on the campus this summer all dormitories will be officially closed on June 2, except to June graduates and law stu [leceives. n Rating rated All-American for the Associated Collegiate Press the six college weeklies in the eive this honor. .hrhardt, assistant managing edi .or; D. J. Salley, business man iger; Dew James, feature editor; .'atsy Penney, news editor; Joanne Carns, society editor; Bobby Al ford and Mike Lovejoy, co-sports -ditors; and Carolyn McClung, :ampus editor. The Gamecock was rated super .or on news sources, creativeness, .tnd editorial page features. A .ating of excellent was received on features, sports coverage and .vriting, inside news pages, and .ieadline writing. Features Praised Special praise was given to the features and speech and interview stories. "Good," the judge wrote ,n the scorebook, "your personality iketches are unusually well-done, ,vith background and good use of -xamples." He also cited the pic .ure story on the West Point foot .all trip as outstanding. "'Dew James' and 'T. E. Brown' i get my vote," the judge wrote about the editorial page features. He also liked the radio, TV and record column. Sports coverage and writing re ceived special mention and a rat ing of excellent from the judge. ie wrote, "Your 'Master Speaks' is an unusually good column with an u n u a u ai approach, well handled." Good Coverage "You have well-balanced cover age, especially of student life," -he judge said about news cover .ige. le said he liked the atten- c ion to school history, traditions c and building progress, and the ( .)verall effect was one of covering t the news. Photography was judged very good, but it was suggested that C che paper use more "action" f photos, and to avoid pictures where people are spread out and looking at the camera. c The judge also suggested that t the editorial policy be expanded v to include current social, economic, o ,olitical and military problems of itudent interest, rather than stay ing so close to the school. r t Chi Omega Tops Others Scholastically] Chi Omega was In first place] scholastically last semester with an average of 3.161. The top six positions, according to scholastic averages, went to sororities. Delta Delta Delta was second I with an average of 3.214, andr Kappa Delta was third with a 3.300 average. Alpha Delta P1 was fourth, Zeta Tau Alpha was fifth, P1 Beta Phi was sixth, andt Delta Zeta was 11th. First place among fraternities and seventh place among both siororities and fraternities went to Kappa Alpha with a 3.682 average. Sigma Alpha Epsilon was eighth; Sigma Nu was ninth; IRhi Epsilon a Pi was 10th; Phi Kappa Sigma, 12th; Lambda Chi Alpha, 13th;, Xlpha -Tan Omega, 14th; SIgma Chi, 15th; Sigma Phi Epsilon, C 16th; Pi Kappa Phi, 17th; Phi I Sigma Kappa, 18th; Kappa Sigma,r 19th; andl P1 Kappa Alpha, 20th. The all sorority average was 3.377, the all non-sorority aver'age was 3.513, and the all women E average was 3.457. The all fraternity average was 4.103, the e all non-fraternity average was 4.133, and the all men average was 4.126. The all sorority and ' fraternity average was 3.878. The veteran average for men and women was 8.945 and the non- t veteran, men and women, average wvas 3.998. The all non-fraternity and non-sorority average was 4.026, and the student body aver age was 8.984. Bell, Li ;ULLIVAN AWARD WINNER! lidney Sullivan Award from Prof. 'such characteristics of heart, mind men and women." (Gamecock stafl Freshman Found [uilty Of Driving tcross Horseshoe A male freshman was found ,uilty by the Discipline Committee f driving across the horseshoe on ne of the brick walks the night f April 22, Committee Chairman 'oleman Karesh announced after he trial Wednesday. For the remainder of his stay at arolina, the student has been orbidden to drive an automobile n the campus, except for the ity streets. He cannot drive on he horseshoe or any of the drive rays leading up to dormitories or ther university buildings. Violation by the student would esult in automatic expulsion from he university, Prof. Karesh said. Sumter Street Lots Receive Vace Lifting Wardlaw College is going to get a face-liftmng says Dr. Wil iam H. Patterson, (denn of ad ninistration. The area on the 00 block of Sumter Street, wvhich uns in front of the education uilding, will be beautified in the ear future. Approximate cost of the pro posed project will be between 6,000 and $7,000. William Pitkin f Asheville, N. C. is landscape rchitect. Plans for the area include an ron picket fence on top of a low oncrete wall which will extend rom the corner of Peabody gym asium, around Sumter Street, to he corner of Drayton Hall. The rall will resemble that at the ntrance to the horseshoe. Entrances will be placed on the orners of Green and Sumter and ollege and Sumter. Twvo others rill be located near the gynmna ium and Drayton Hall. Concrete walks converging in he center of the lot will run from he entrances. The remaining land will be landscaped with oak, rape myrtle, dogwood, crab apple nA hll traen heing set out. impki Smiling, Frances Lumpkin L L. Gelsenheimer on Awards D and conduct as evince a spirit c photo) Debate Team Place In AC( By HERBERT BRYANT Campus Editor The university debate tear ended their debate season las Saturday at the Atl.ntic Coas Conference debate tourmament a the University of North Carolin in Chapel Hill. The four-mai university team walked off wit first place honors. John Altman from Charlestoi and Kermit King from Cameror representing the university as i negative team, were judged th best team in the tournament. The affirmative pair of th< four-man team, Charles Goldberl of Charleston and Robert Semlov of Columbia, won second plac among the affirmative teams. The debate topic which ha been the national debate issue fo this year was "Resolved: Tha the United States Should Exten< Diplomatic RLecognition to th Communist Government of Re< China." In addition to team debatinj King won a first p)lace in ex tempore speaking. Other schools represented be sides Carolina in the ACC tournh ment were the University of Vir ginia, Duke University, Wak Forest College, University o North Carolina and the Universit; of Maryland. The University of Virginia woi second place team honors in th tournament. Duke came in third HONORS GALORE . .. Top proudly display trophies won dur powers. They are, left to right, Ki onr M. C. Chrl4oeaks.... (Game Win Si and Glenn Bell receive the Algernon yv. The Sullivan award is given for f love for the helpfulne%s to other Wins First Tourney The Duke affirmative team won first place among the affirmative teams. In winning the negative division t Altman and King defeated the t t Wake Forest team which recently won third place in the national debate tournament held at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Wake Forest also won the highest award granted at the National Pi Kappa Delta convention debate tournament held in Redlands, Calif., last month. USC had to decline invitations to both tourna mtI, because they didn't have enough money in their debate bud get to send a team to the tourna ments. The two-man team (if Altnan and King won the Dixie Champion ship at Mary Washington College fat Fredericksburg, Virginia, dur r ing the Easter holidays, when t they went through the G;rand Na tionals undefeated. Out of a total of 62 dlebates that Altman and King entered during this school year they won 54 of them. *,The university team won six -tournaments during the season, and came in no lower than second place in any tournament. They -won the Carolina Forensic, Flor - ida Invitational at Gainesville - Miami Invitational, South Atlantic s at Hickory, N. C., Dixie Champion f ship at the Grand Nationals, and r the ACC. Dr. Merrill G;. Christophersen saidl this years' team won more a tournaments than any other Caro .lina team in one season. university debaters anid their coach ing the year for their argumentative emit King, John Aitmian, and Profes oek photob avlter. John...) ,I ivan Other Awa In May D Ya Recipients of the covete< award, one of the highest ho awards day which was held < Glenn Bell and Frances Lumy W. Robinson of Columbia re iward. The Sullivan award is give leart, mind and conduct as e .ielpfulness to other men and The Norman Murray Smith cholarships were presented to ,largaret A. Barber of Columbia, ollege of arts and science; 0. ,arlisle Roberts, Jr. of Bishopville, chool of engineering; and Patricia X. Penney of Columbia, school of ournalism. University professor of engi ieering Frank B. Herty received he annual award of Kappa Sigma (appa, honor service fraternity, and the Caroline McKissick, Bel ;er award in journalism was iresented to William Light Kin wy, Jr. of Bennettsville. Departmental Scholarships 11onorary departmental scholar 3hips, given for outstanding ;cholastic accomplishment include Alston in ancient languages, Rob 2rt K. Ackerman of Williston; Mc D)uffie in English, Joseph Wil liams of Columbia; Preston in education, Peggy Jo Harper of Lancaster; Rion in mathematics, Florrie Henderson Stevens of Co lumbia; Manning in geology, Wil lian K. Easterling of Columbia; Harper in chemistry, James Paul Burnett of Columbia; Second Hampton in historY, Gertrude Gladys Coker of Turbeville; Marion Sims in biology, Raymond Earl Dubert of Columbia; Morse in philosophy, William B. Parrish )f Cayce; Legare in psychology ind philosophy, Dorothy McNeil >f Columbia; and Hutchinson in ?conomics, Robert E. Ferrell of "olumbia. The T. C. Bates Medal in Eng ish literature went to Marilyn sheeley of Ballentine; Alpha Phi linega award in psychology to lerry C. Livingston of West Co umbia; and the Mu Psi award in )sychology to Charles D. Barnett )f Cayce. Language Medal The Language Medal, granted innually for meritorious achieve nent by the French government, vent to Carolyn Gattis of Colum >ia, and Peter D. Ouzts, also of olumbia. Art awards presented were Belk's award in interior decora ion to Nellie B. Courtenay of Co umbia, and the Lizbeth Wolfe iress designing award to Lillian Bi. Vaughn of Columbia. Those r eeeI v in g pharmacy iwards were Wilfred B. Buckner of Grevle and James Dean Smith of Spartanburg, Mercle 'wards; George S. Inman of Greenville, the Bristol award and Wade A. Lehn the Fink award. The Rho Chi pharmacy award went to Mary Ann Snowden of Winnsboro. Engineering Awards Engineering awards presenter-' were American Institute of Elec trical Engineers, Roy D. Bates of D~enmark; American Society of Mvechanical Engineers, Whitfield Woodhead of Aiken; American [nstitute of Chemical Engineers rosoph Harrison Gibk.ons of Turbe 'ille; and the American Society of 'ivil Engineers, Melton DeForrest 7authen of West Columbia; Ep ;ilon L,ambda Sigma scholarship twardi, William Lee Edena of Co umbia, and Epsilon L,ambds sigma leadership achievement nehol arshi p award, James Davis P~arrish of Cayce; and the General FElectric Achievement Scholarship Award, Joseph Harrison Gibbons >nf Turheville. The Delta Sigma P1 Scholar thip Key for commerce went to Plharles Herbert Tucker of Cleve land Hts., Ohio; and the Columibin Professional and Dusiness Wo men's Club Citation to Mahli Winnifred Kirven of Columbia. The Smead award in business edu cation was presented to Barbara Jean Richardsonn of Benneavi.lm. Awards rds Made y Event i Algernon Sidney Sullivan nors presented at the annual in car.pus last Monday, were kin, both of Columbia. David reived the honorary Sullivan n for "such characteristics of vince a spirit of love for the women." Band Medal Awards presented for outstand ing achievement in music were the Band Medal to John D. Niel sen of Charleston, and the Delta Omicron Music Award to Joanne Berry of Elloree. Margaret A. Elliott of Rimini received the Kappa Delta Epsilon Award in Education for outstand ing service to the chaptei. The Blue Key Athletic Award went to William A. Wohrman of Bloomington, N. J.; and the Women's Athletic Association Award to Katherine Ann Dozier of Columbia. Recognition of oratory included the James H. Patterson Award, Isaac M. Goldberg of Charleston; John J. Hemphill Award, Kermit S. King of Cameron; Lawrence M. Keitt Award, Isaac M. Goldberg of Charleston; and the George Seabrook Legare Medal for De clamation. Charles Seymour Gold berg of Charleston. Literary Recognition Literary Society Awards in cluded the Hypatian Outstanding Senior Award to Hazel Duke of Kingstree; Euphrosynean Literary Society Poetry Award, John Charles Copper of Columbia; the Clariosophi.- L i t e r a r y Society Award, Harry A. Chapman of Greenville. Social fraternity and sorority -ecognitions were Delta Delta Delta Margaret Ashe Scholarship Award to Eleanor Claire Court ney of Aiken; Delta Zeta Nell Berry Miller Scholarship to Bes sie Frances Burns of Richburg; Interfraternity Council Award to Kappa Alpha. Alonzo Carter of Lowell, N. C. and Sue Graves of Columbia re -eived the American Legion kwards for outstanding young man and woman. Outstanding Seniors Outstanding seniors were Rob .rt Glenn Bell of Columbia, Neu !and Craig Collier of Norfolk, Va., Jack Walcott Feild of Columbia, Sue Graves of Columbia, William C. Hawley III of Pittsburgh, Pa., John Ephriami Johnston, Jr. of greenville, Georgia Baxter Ken nedy of Williston, Beaufort Sims Law of Fayetteville, N. C., Frances Withers Lumpkin of Columbia, Daniel Baker McIntyre of Marion, Donald Murray Miller of Colum Sia, Louise Beacham Owens of ?olumbia, John Foster Speer of Anderson, and Carl Bennett Wat son of Cheraw. Gamecock Staffers Form Magazine A humor and literary magazine 'or the university is being formed mnder the direction of a group of students on the Gamecock staff. The organizers of the magazine, along with university officials, feel that such a~ publication would bean asset to the school and would fill a lonv' needed position as outlet for campus literary and artistic talent. The students -esponsible for the movement have stated that they feel such a magazine is an integral part of -ollege life, and that the students o)f Carolina need such a publica tion as a showplace for original 'iterary compositions, of both a 'serious and humorous vein. A meeting will be held this afternoon at the Gamecock office rMcCutchen House for any stu dent interested in becoming a member of the staff for next -ear. The meeting will be held at 5 o'clock, and all students are re quested to bring a sample of their writinge r drain.