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Ticket D*1 Causes Maybe freshmen didn't realize that foot ball tickets are a very serious matter at Carolina. Maybe they didn't know that seniors wait a long four years to get good' tickets and achieve a status worthy of date tickets. Maybe a lot of things. But the furor caused by distribution of tickets last week mounted into one of the biggest uproars we've heard and taken part in since we've been at Carolina. Every now and then a situation arises for which everyone is responsible and no one is to blame. So it was with the current mix-up which resulted in seniors sitting behind the goal posts for the Wofford game Saturday night while freshmen and sophomores en joyed some,of the best seats in the stadium. It's hard to pin down exactly what hap pened, but the blame, what there is of it to place on anyone, seems to be threefold. Every student who followed the registration pro= cedure received, after paying fees, a paper designating specific times for seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen to get tickets. But they didn't, and by the time upperclassmen got there, there wasn't a - good ticket left, much less a date ticket of any description. Second, for the first time in several years, due to a turnover in the IBM office, there was no identification as to class on the stu dent I-D cards and once the wheels started turning, there was no way to check on a student's academic status. Finally, the workers at the ticket office should have either asked students what class Russell H Name Stude The completion of a student union build ing for Carolina brings to reality a dream that has been fostered for many years. Last spring everyone watched the progress of construction and wondered what it would be named. A group of interested students sponsored a petition that it be named Rus sell House. During the summer, the Board of Trustees of the university made their decision, naming it Russell House for both President and Mrs. Russell, two of the finest and most warm-hearted people we know. While construction was in progress last Best Regist We'd like to present Registrar H. 0. Strohecker and all the people who helped make registration the success it was, a large bouquet of whatever they'd most like to have. When we first came to Carolina, IBM wasn't used and registration was something that made us want to carry a picnic lunch, in order to save time and maybe fill out a Letters to the Editor: Vice-Presidi The Student Council versity of Lond< Dear Don and Council members, possible. This is to make official some- I also want to thing that you have known for tunity to call yo a good while. I find it necessary matter concern to tender my resignation as Vice- Presidency. Foi President of the Student Body years that offic4 of the University of South Caro- without any c lina. I regret very much that I candidate qualif: will not be able to continue to this is a temi hold this position, but my accept- which will soon ance of a Fulbright Scholarship year-round achei for study this year at the Uni- School, three< %GA4c04 CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROL Member of Associated Collegiate Pre. Fuded Jnury 30, 190,wt Ror Ellnt ole University of Southaroliad weekly, onFridye, durini saiy thos o "The Gamecc. Publishing dositnot egdo,sement. The right to edit is reerved. EDITOR CA ROLY] MANAGING EDITOR ..PA TE - BUSINESS MANAGER KA'I ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR NEWS E DITOR ...H CAMPUS EDITOR SPORT~ EDITOR.W SFY EDITOR .L URE EDITOR CIRCULATION MANAGER S ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER . ONI~l PHOTOGRAPHER ASBI TANT SPORTS EDITOR. STAFF REPORTERS Wt.vDil, Timmie Timmons, Roy Williams, LawOroRle, Alex Lancaster, Jo Allen Bradha ij~zi1eG.~*e,Barbara Hawthorne, Farley I Deie im rtandon COLUMNISTS Binly Meanette, Pat Trecy, Dew James, He sitribuion Uproar they were in, or stopped issuing tickets when rat-capped freshmien appeared during the designated' time for seniors. And so, in the face of all that happe:oi, we're not blaming anybody for the regret table incident. What we're proud of is the way Student Council handled the matter once the damage was done. Since the football game seating arrangement originated with Student Coun cil several years ago, it was naturally up to them to correct the mistake as quickly as possible, although it was too late to reseat everyone for the Wofford game. All tickets have been called in,to be re issued and validated. Today, incidentally, is the last day. Seniors who are satisfied with their tickets can keep them, but only when they have been marked valid. Now it seems that everyone who jumped into the fray so wholeheartedly in the begin ning is trying to undo the damage. Ever sine. the call for tickets was issued, there has been a steady stream of people returning tickets to the ticket office. People in the office are working overtime, and we doubt that classification will ever be omitted from I-D cards again. Next week, tickets will be reissued accord ing to a new schedule. Having just started a new year at Carolina, and having regained some of our faith in humanity during the summer, we sort of feel that this time the ticket deal will work according to Hoyle. -C. M. ouse Gets nts Request spring, and before the building was named, everyone acquired the habit of referring to it as the student union. That's what it is, but we don't call Currell the history building or Davis the language building, so why not cultivate the habit of calling the new build ing the name it bears and deserves Russell House. We'd like to clear up one point that could cause some confusion. The student union building is the Russell House, while Presi dent and Mrs. Russell's home on the horse shoe is known as the president's house. -CM ration Ever few cards while eating. It left us declaring we wouldn't* come back for the next semester. The recent process without any standing in line, moved so quickly and smoothly that it only took about an hour and a half, and we were able to decide on the same day that we might not mind going through It again next semester, after all.-CM ent Resigns mn makes it im- each year, causing the number of rising seniors in Law eligible for take this oppor- this office to be cut to one-third ir attention to a its potential size. That policy is Lng the Vice. to be discontinued, I am in -the last two formed, and then only one class has been filled will start each year. This will ntest, only one treble the number of eligible ring. I feel that candidates. Furthermore, enroll orary situation ment for this year is higher than end. Due to the ever before, and I believ, this jul. in the Law trend will continue. All of this lasses grdut will result in a far larger group from which candidates will come, making it~ less likely that any one of them may be chosen by common consent of the group without an election. In short, I am sure that in the future the Vice-Presidential election will be INA as heatedly contested as It was a prior to (wo years ago, which, of da tefii course, Is what we want. the collese There Is one possible measure oe .... that you might constder. If the constItute a Constitution were amended to al SMcCLUNG low both rising seniors and rising LY PENNEY Juniors in Law School to compete, ANTHONY the situation may be improved Dew James further. However, for a great rber Br3vnt variety of reasons, which I out titer Johnson lined to a Student Concil Comn Inda Cauthen mittee last year, I would not .* Kay Oxner recommend taking this position arol Shoeny away from the Law SehooL. Bob Kelsey I wish you all possible snecs Sid Badger during the year. I will alwaya be proud to have been a memnbar af Tom Walker, such a noble group. Plea let in, Pat Palm, me hear from all of you as often awton, Paula as you can. -ierl yur, ph rywant Dob Eelines - r BILLY MELLETTE An Art: In People T In school newspapers all over the Uhiaed States today, column ists are writing such things as "Bnskle down, it's another year"; "You, too, can be Phi Beta Kappa"; "Well, here we are back again with a fresh start"; and so on. I have not personally read all these things, but from my scouts' reports I feel' sure they are in print. I feel equally sure that such talk is a waste of time, a useless effort. Not only have I found through experience that I and billions of others cannot buckle down for more than three weeks running, but I no longer moon around about not being able to. There are other things vastly more important, such as the art of introducing people to people. For this reason I am devoting my time here in presenting an es say, for freshmen and needy others, which instructs people in how to make smooth introduc tions. At football games and on the campus, countless situations will arise necessitating introduc tions. Rush season, moreover, is a laboratory exercise in hand shaking, so we quickly see the need. for mastering the skill of telling one or more persons who some is and then telling that somebMy who the others are. Actually, it is quite simple. All you need to know are two things: The names of the per sons involved in the exchange and the deffen, deferens, deference (can't spell it). It is a word meaning roughly who rates being head man. The person with def erence (looked it up, might as well learn a word) is the first person addressed. For instane, if Bobo rates deference over Drake, you say "Bobo, this Is Drake. - Drake, Bobo." Certain people or groups of people rate deference over other people or groups of other peoples, which is important to avoid em barrassment. Cases in point: ministers to laymen, professors to students, women to men, suc cessful people to mediocre people, high rank to low rank, friends to enemies, older people to younger people, younger people to even younger people, guests to friends, and snakes to lizards. For example, if you have a new girl friend to introduce to your parents, you instantly think of paragraph VII a., subtitle two, and say "Mother, this is Erline Licorice Father." PAT TREACY City D~ The fast urbanizing conmmun ity of Columbia Is reflecting it's coming of age as a city by the usual signs. Prices,. prodded by Ike'% prosperity have risen to the situation and are even evident In the Russell House. In true city slicker fashion, however, the consumer fails to equal the ever wise country horse trader. He exchanges his greenbacks for the commodity of old, while sur rounded by luxurious appoint ments, and is victimized by a cash register which has a passion for the square root. One of the nations' senators commented on this state of af fairs, and in doing so brought a new word to our dictionary. He proposed a Department of Urbiculture for care of the un fortunate city dweller. Agencies in the governrnent today care for the farmer and his crop with the diligence of a wet nurse with a bo-In-arms. The urbanite on the other hand must seek his existenc, unaided with nothingr troducing o People There will be times when you may have difficulty in determin ing just who rates the danged deference anyhow, such as in the cases of professors to colonels, unhappy tycoons to satisfied blacksmiths, high muckety-muck men to ordinary women, hoot owls to field mice, girls to men, priests to rabbis, popes to bishops, and genii to those people who hang around universities getting more degrees because they don't know what else to do. In these cases, you smile like you know a secret nobody else knows and you say "I believe you both know each other." All this id just as simple as anything. The real sweat. Is re membering the name of the guy who sat next to you in the course where you used the green book. This does not mention students who went to high school with you but moved away in the tenth grade. A rather simple and prob ably hypothetical case is illus trated by my experience at Washington State University for Girls in 1923: I was waiting in the parlor for my date to come down when I spotted an old friend who was sitting with his date, the both alongside a girl whose name was lost to me. Why she was sitting there is a mystery, but anyhow my date's roommate came rushing down suddenly with my date's forgotten pocketbook. I knew her as "Icky" only, and was doubtful about introducing her as such when in came the BurSar, whatever they are, and there I was, clutched. About this time Tennessee Ernie came wan derin' by with an army officer. Now there you have It. When my date came In and tripped the trigger, I was faced with an old friend (boy), an old friend (girl), an old friend's date (girl), my date (girl), my date's room mate (girl), the BurSar (Man), Tennessee Ernie (baritone), and an army officer (reserve).. I am offering a prize for the solution to this problem similar to the bonazagram prize In that it is a money prize. Simply cut out the title of this paper, the date, the leading headline, the column, and mall It to my branch office in Russell House after you pasted the whole mess to a piece of cardboard like In shirts from the laundry. Included, of course, must be the solution, with footnotes and the names of all the involved people. A clue is that' my date's name was Bobo. AeIer Need for help but the mythical lore of worldliness attributed to some time Bagc(ad's-on-the-Hudson. To me, urbiculture seems like a good idea. After all a tree grew in Brooklyn once, but who ever hears about such things anymore. Today, as the Black Board Jungle verifies, all that grows are tough bananas and wise apples. But then there is always the Hoover Commission to consider. What with the rising cost of government and such, a new de partment may be unwise. His economists could probably pull a rogue from the chicken shed on this count, too. If we stopped deporting vice lords and confidence men, the entire balance of world trade would be upset and leave the Aus tralians on top. Then we would be in a fine fix because we'd end up with the sheep. After Hollywood has championed the cattlemen for nearly half a DEW JAMES From Anti To New ~ Things have changed, but nothing has changed more than the appearance of student activ ities offices. Last year, student organizations were housed in various cubby-holes about the campus which have not yet fallen victim to the termite in vasion nor felt the influence of the renovators. It took a little gawking up and around and down before we could actually convince ourselves that it was the real thing. After being accustomed to splintering wood floors and antique desks, tile floors and smooth blonde desks require getting familiar with. , The new Gamecock offices are located next door to the studios of campus radio station WUSC and perhaps the natural drift of music will lessen the tension which reaches near explosive level sometimes. The Gamecock and WUSC have, at last, a common prob lem. From somewhere in the administration has come an edict that Russell House must close up shop at 11:00 every night. Ap parently the manufacturers of this law never tried to publish a school paper or run a campus radio station. Students don't have all morning nor do they have all afternoon to spend per forming all the necessities for the success of these two enter prises. It is impossible to gather news, shoot and process photo graphs and still have time to make up two pages without being able to "just stay until the job is done." Gamecockers like to sleep too, but many times if HERBERT BRYAN'I New Gai To Be About a week ago it looked like we had a new game here at Carolina. It looked like just about everyone was playing it too. For the sake of giving it a name, we'll just call it "Try and Get Your Ticket." And a lot of students were trying to get them in what, to an- untamed eye, would seem mass confusion. One male junior student, when asked if he could buy a date ticket, said he did well to get himself one, and he was an aca demic junior,, too. That should mean something. It should mean he is an upperclassman. But he said he had moved back down to where he was sitting two years ago when he first came to live pt USC. He said he just couldn't understand It, and talked oi for about five minutes like he would like to just pack his bags and go home, shaking his head all the time. He looked right mad. Be fore he left, though, he said one good thing about where he was sitting was that he might be able to tell If they kick the extra point better than he could last year when he was an academic sopho more and had better seats than the freshmen. * * * It seems that a certain presi dent of the Art Commission In San Francisco thought he should remove a caricature of Vice President Richard N. Nixon as "Dick McSmear," painted by s Price Pro could wreck the national per sonality. On second consideration per haps things are best as they are for the time being. Too many hands on the sociological pulse of county could cut off circula tion completely. Then we would experience the fate of a very virtuous young lady caught in the well of- circumstance. She dated the feature attraction in the local tag team match and had a very trying evening. When she finally kissed him goodnight on one of his cauliflowered ears, her only comment was, "See you around-like an orange." * S * Carolina dealt Wofford a crushing blow last Saturday. It was a very exciting game, foi those who had seats to see whal was going on. Once or twice the action aroused the fans to mued a pitch that the upper classmer nearly broke out of the end zone The rats say that it was ar que Desks liIe Floors there's going to be a Gamecock on Friday, people have to stay late. Members of the news and photographic staffs' in the past know what it is to stay up all night in order that a particular story might get into print. Neither the Gamecock nor WUSC is operated by profes sionals. The persons behind thes enterprises are students. - Therefore, these students who are amateurs can't be expected. to operate witlr near the effi ciency of professionals. It is common knowledge that the 4 actual work in most extra-curri cular activities is done by rela tively few people. Everybody who calls himself a staff member ' is not such in the true sense of the word. The exactness of this 11:00 edict makes us wonder just how many of our administrative superiors are aware of the time involved for the successful ope ation of the Gamecock and wUSC. There's a story going around about a transfer who thought "C" on her class schedule must stand for Coker College since it was the most likely candidate for the abbreviated. So she headed for Coker for the first class and wandered up to Coker's third floor looking for the num bered specified on her schedule. The pitter-patter of bedroom slippers and alarming alarm clocks awakened the little coed to the realization that maybe she was in the wrong building. She was. Coker is a Men's dorm. ae Found No Fun muralist Victor Arnautoff. He ordered the picture removed from the San Francisco Art Festival's exhibition about two weeks ago on the grounds that "elected pub lic officials of whatever party should not be the subject of a caricature displayed at an art exhibit financed by all the people." Some great works of art, prob ably some of the greatest known to mankind, have, at the time a they were drawn, been provoked by very bitter political struggles. The great French caricaturist and painter, Honore Daumier, one of the greatest lithographers of all times, was thrown in jail several times for criticizing political fig ures through his drawings. In one instance, his caricature of Louis Philippe as "Gargantua" led to his Imprisonment for six months in 1882. His was good art. Evidently artist Arnautoff's was also, and in this country there is no reason that the people should not be allowed to see a painting of Mr. Nixon as long as the .picture is not obscene. After all, the painting was in a. public exhibition and the exhibi tion was open to the people and the pqople should not be denied the right to see the painting any more than we should be denIed the right to read one of Al CappW satires. tection the State paper the upperclass men agreed, and another chapter was written in the sports annals of USC. * * * For a laugh. .. . A rather plain young lady is riding the train late at night and is being disturbed by a young man who got on at the last station. The gentleman has been drinking and tries to make conversation with -- the young lady. Gentleman: Say, honey, how about telling me your name. What's your (hick) phone num ber? Lady: I wish that you wouldn't bother me, please go away. Gentleman: Come on, honey, what's your (hick) name? Lady: Please, sir, you are dis gustingly drunk. Go away. Gentleman: 0. K., lady. I may be disgustingly drunk, but you're not Marilyn Monroe, and I'll be