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Caeteri Are To After eating in the Russell House cafe teria for about two weeks, we want to know this: Who's pocketing the profits? Although we've been informed that the cafeteria operates on a non-profit seeking basis, and that the Slater System is paid a set fee for the service it provides, rather than a per cent as it received in the past, we gather from our daily food bill that someone is making a profit. Occasionally we don't mind paying top prices when the food is top rate, but so far we haven't felt that we've been receiving the quality food we've paid for. A system as large as Slater with the buying power they undoubtably must have, ought to be able to provide attractive and palatable food at a more reasonable price. The prices as listed on the master menu each day look deceivingly inexpensive. But they forgot to mention that three slices of green tomato on lettuce garnished with parsley which nobody eats anyw~ay, will set one back a tidy sum of 15 cents. And so it is with most of the salads, making them cost two or three cents more than are found down town. Desserts follow the same trend, with about the same difference in cost. With three cafeterias in town, as well as numerous restaurants, it's obvious that the school cafeteria has to meet sharp competi tion. Too, if one wants to take the trouble to travel the distance to one of the town eating places, and most of them aren't too far to reach by walking he may. find quicker service, someone to carry his tray, and all Lost-On 50 Yard1ii Where did the good football tickets go? After over a week of hearing people talk about getting "good" football tickets, fresh men sitting on the 50-yard line and so on, we got a look at the tickets belonging to a per son who got "first" tickets. They weren't on the 50-yard line, which is sections eight and nine, but in section 10, which is 40 and worse. Who's got the 50-yard line tickets? MAC HILL Education Mel More Than A , Throughout the country parents are two primar; are lamenting the fact that their too great a spec children do not know what they other is selecti: want to do in life. The young from economic people are confused also, because sideration insi they do not know for wvhat voca- proper attentioi tion to prepare. As a result the son called "the parents are not interested in character." sending their children to college, At this point and the young people are not in- fusion. We terested in attending an institu- training with ec tion of higher learning until this train a monke: all-important question is settled. edIucate him. F In certain respects this is a do and howv, but legitimate worry. However, the derstand what1 significance is niot as great as lation to the su: the worry would indicate. As a We confuse matter of fact there may be moi e(education. Prol danger in knowing too early what ing people to you want to do than not. There want them tot BILLY MELLETTE Rhi nocerous This is a term paper designed a funnie-paper to throw light on a subject close chest with Ben to everyone, and particularly, for that matter lately, me: the common cold. The The similarit; cold, while an ordinary ailment, types, which a comes in various forms and is ones, is that ti likely to strike at any time. The tial to the same most well-known cold is the will strike unle North American Rhinocerous- either warm a: Barfus, or the runnie-nose type, mild, warm or as it is known in the vernacular, rainy, cold an< As you might guess, it is charac- cloudy, nimbo, terized by a continuous running with scattered of the nose and frequent cough- today and tomr ing. Sufferers are recognizable change in teml by red, irritated noses and by Each of the: their weak, sickly, but courageous subdivisiojis, Ii1 visage that seems to say, "I have themselves. Ti: a cold - damnitall." of these fragm' Another type of this ailment Giro, which a familiar in the temperate zones and/or the si is the Ropus-Chestus. It Is the recognizable b one they write about in the funnie Other colds a papers where people get ready Fabius, which to go somewhere and find out at in sneaky place the last minute that Peter Pain mal-Questionitu has struck. Ben.Oue (Ben-Gay) you think you1 is brought to the rescue and the joint disease; ti victim inevitably recover., which Fruitsaladus, is only natural since there are no that will pick living Americans who have not at you up side th< some time or another recovered Remedies for from a Ropus-CheStus. Also, in the manies who wouldn't got well If they had ticians are in a Rates 1o NIgh the iced tea or coffee he can drink. One of the virtues of Carolina is that no student is required to eat at school if he doesn't want to. He doesn't even have to eat, but it ha? become a habit with most students. Therefore, the student with the "habit" is going to look for the most con venient place with the most reasonably priced menu, for most of us aren't millionnaires, and pennies make dollars, etc. Housed in a rent-free, tax-free plant, the Russell House cafeteria is operated by the Slater System, an organization which oper ates similar establishments in a large num ber of schools, colleges and Industries. This fact, coupled with the fact that food bought in large quantities is cheaper than that bought in small guantities, should mean that overhead expenses in the school cafeteria should be considerably less than those of a privately owned establishment. With more people eating In the cafeteria during winter school than were served dur ing summer school, we can't understand why prices were upped shortly after the start of the fall term. Certainly the cafeteria has an advantage. It's right in the center of things at school and therefore easily accessible for those who are lazy or in a hurry. But even if 1,500 were served during a single meal, we wonder how many people will continue to pay high prices for uninteresting food after the novelty of the new cafeteria has worn off. After all, that big cafeteria would look right silly sitting down there if nobody was eating in it.-CM. D Section me Tickets Although football has become Big Bus iness in a big way, it is still students who play the game and students who go to see the game played. Except for some fanatic fans, students are the ones that will be on hand to see all the home games played. In our estimation, students should be given first consideration concerning tickets, alumni second, and people third. Hmmmm.-CM a person signifies that you train him how to think to the end that he may be able to do his task n not only skillfully, but justly and bj without prejudice or malice, ir J brespective of personal conse dangers: One is The bait most often held out ialization and the to waiting youth by advertisers rig your vocation of some schools is: "If you will md practical con- enroll for certain courses in ;ead of giving residence or by mail, you may i to what Emer- one day sit in your employer's calling in your chair." Subsequently we have been led into a craze for special is our great con- ization. These words from Emer confuse animal son are very applicable here - ucation. You can "The state of our society is one r, but you can't in which the members have suf :e learns what to fered amputation from the trunk, he can never un- and strut about, so many walk te does or its re- ing monsters-a good finger, a rn total of things. neck, a stomach, an elbow, but >ropaganda with never a man." You can add this >aganda is teach- anonymous admonit?on: "It is think what you not a mind, it is not a body we hink. To educate erect, but it is a man, and we B~arfus: The Comn girl to rub their anything. When in the presence Gue, or even lard, of a group of people expressing 7 a complete thought, pull out a of the two above handkerchief and you will im re the two main mediately have a battery of icy are both par- pseudo-doctors at hand. The per climate: Neither son nearest you will get that ss the weather is "Aha!" look (Anglo-Saxon for nd mild, hot and the Greek Eureka) and will turn hot and cloudy, to you with a strange glint in I clear, cold and his eyes. He will grasp you by or partly cloudy the shoulders and ask you softly, thundershowers "Hey, whatsamatter, buddy, huh, orrow with little say - Say, you got a cold, huh? erature. You got a cold?" At this point se principals has he will tell you the remedy his 4t1e fragments of family has been keeping in sec e most notorious ret for lo these many years. His ents is the Viro- countenance will be one of true ttacks the chest compassion, expressing wisdom, nus. Victims are understanding, and the light of y their absence. the Good Samaritan. From his re the Quintus- heart will flow .the warmth of mneaks up on you his love, the eagerness of his s; the Rheumatis- benevolence. In fact, he may s, which makes even get excited. save some sort of Remedy-tellers number ap ie Combinationus- proximately 160 million in the simple malady United States alone. Their s rou up and throw crets fall into definite cateyories. a wall. The first of these is the "Feed a these colds are cold" group. They are in error while diagnos- because who can eat with a the majority of damned cold making you sniff all be to hand in your tickets to the Parking Of Hand ing solve this problem. And if the Sumter to Bull block of Green was closed off there would be even more of a parking problem. Therefore there are two prob lems in one that will have to be worked out together. In view of this, one thing that could be done would be to widen Green Street between Sumter and Pickens Streets and allow angular parking such as that seen on College Street. In this way there would be more parking space and less traffic. There would be less, traffic because students wouldn't be circling the block trying to find a parking space as often as is the case now. There is plenty of room on Green Street to widen the street by about five feet on both sides. Another thing that could pos sibly help this combination prob lem would be to put a light up in front of the Russell House that would work only at certain times when the foot traffic would be heaviest coming across from between Preston and Burney Colleges, for example, for two hours between twelve noon and two o'clock. The light could be wo-ked for two hours electrically or by police. . In that way there would be a partial solution to both problems. There would be more parking space, less traffic and, therefore, less chance of a friend getting injured by a pass ing car during the time of day when most students are crossing the street. tor Team ~amecock in spite of insufficient funds, many students knew very little or nothing about the team until ie Gamecock started its series of articles about the team. This year, thanks to the Gamecock's help, our funds have been in creased and this should enable us to further improve the record of the USC Debate Team. At the present time the team is inde pendent and belongs only to the USC Debate Council. We have, however, sent in an application to Tau Kappa Alpha Debate fraternity. Thank you again for the help you gave the Debate Team. Sincerely yours, Allowee Bailey Sect., Debate Council CROWING FC UJNIVERSITY OF Member of Associ Founded Jaury 50 00, with Univiy of South Carolina we exept on holdays and duri, sardly those'of o Caeoc endorsesment. The tisht to edit EDITOR .. MANAGING EDITOR. BUSINESS MANAGER ASSISTANT MANAGING I NEWS EDITOR..... CAMPUS EDITOR ... SPORTS EDITOR .... SOCIE TY EDITOR...... FEATURE EDITOR .. CIRCULATION MANAGER ASSISTANT BUSINESS M. CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER ASSISTANT SPORTS EDI'I STAFF I Wray Davis, Timmie Timmo Lewis Cromer, Alex Lancastt Jimmie Gasque, Barbara Ha Dewine, Jim Brandon COLU Billy Mellette, Pat Treac BUSINE Jimmy Turner, Windy: Marion Singley, Jennie P Cauthers. Nancy Wallace "And your next assignment will Carolina-Clemson game." HERBERT BRYANT Traffic, Get Out A current problem around the Carolina Community isn't a new one. It is getting old. The traf fic and parking situation is in dire need of attention. As more of the campus moves across Green Street naturally there are more students cross ing the street to get to the Rus sell House and the Jraternity houses. In addition, with the n e w Business Administration building opening, there is a large number of students crossing Green going to class in that new building. As the number of stu dent crossings increase there is greater chance of some of them getting injured. If that were to happen something would prob ably be done about the street crossing situation. B u t that might be too late for a friend. About the only thing that could be done to completely eliminate this particular problem would be to close off Green Street from Bull to Sumter Street. But that would cause another problem - where to park the cars that Green Street, on that block, accommodates. One park ing sQlution project that is being worked on now is the clearing of the vacant square block next to the fraternity houses. That lot should accommodate approxi mately 150 cars if they are parked properly. But if the stu dent enrollment continues to in crease as it did this year by 18 per cent-which is desirable this square block will only be a drop in the bucket toward help Letters to the Edi Debath Thanks ( Dear Editor: We should like to extend our deepest appreciation for the fine publicity you gave the USC De bate Team last year. Although the team had an excellent record, must make two parts of him." In other words, in the choice of our vocations we may be so busy becoming doctors, lawyers, Indian chiefs or what have you, that we overlook the Man who practices medicine, 1 a w, o r preaches, or farms. ion Cold the time. Others will be of the nature group, telling you to drink fruit juice, particularly orange and grape. They are wrong. You would die of malnutrition if you did this, because it costs too much In certain places to buy orange juice as well as certain other things -- watch It, boy! Another group we have Is the "Take two aspirins and sweat it out under a blanket" people. I have personally never had any success with this remedy because I do not sweat anything, and have never knownt anyone who does who has cured a cold by sleeping in a wet bed. Most people stopped that long ago any how. I could go on with a list of so-called remedies but It would be a waste of time, besides I might s a y something about something and get In trouble. Truly, the only real cold remedy is my personal one: You get into a croaker sack and have a con federate tie up the open end. The confederate then beats the hell out of the sack, like you crack Ice In a towel. This treatment will rid you of a coldA DEW JAMES Tip To Fre Smile anc 11ILLER from the "Foghorn," student newspaper at the Uni vgrsity of San Francisco: "Fort Sumter has been attacked by Confederate forces, President Abraham Lincoln announced last night." This brief came from the sports page of the "Foghorn." They do keep fillers around a long time. ,. " " TIPS TO FRESHMEN: Since this is official Rat Week and since we have spent quite a bit of time roving around the Caro lina campus and since we have further added to our store of knowledge of Carolina lore simply by knowing a seven-year career man, we feel qualified to offer the following gems of wisdom to rat-cappers: 1. Attend at least one meeting of student council. Admission is free and the floor show is terrific. 2. If you have any intentions of being a politician, you must learn to smile and at the same time melt out that famous greet ing of the governing set, "Hi, how y'all?" Learning first names and the proper hand-shaking technique are also of prime im portance. 8. Before arranging y o u r classes (this is too late now but you can take note of it for next semester, in the event you're still PAT TREACY Abstract Are Coin Whenever the daily scene hits a slump, there is nothing more comfortable to fall back on than a few abstractions. The word ab stract may seem like a funny word to put into words, but if you think about the drunk who puts his imaginary dog on the bar and buys him a drink, you begin to get the idea. Jimmy Stewart did this sort of thing in "Harvey." Now there is an odd class of people called philosophers who use Harvey as a stock in trade. They take fantasies of imagina tion and instead of buying them drinks, they write books about them. One of the bright young boys of this clique is John Dewey. Mr. Dewey is a word merchant from the word go, but lacks the humor and sophistica tion of Thornton Wilder's "Top per." Dewey takes his little bundle of unpaintable charms and goes off on a big kick which uses the academic world as an echo cham ber. We all feel the effects of the bull-moose of modern edu cation. The Vermont school teacher has started a chain of events which can be seen in our own school of education. I'd say that the idea of drawing on a blackboard to the rhythm of mu sic is an offspring of the mental bacteria of Dewey. The world of modern education is broken up into two groups. One is the pre-scientific age, or the classical pieriod; and the other is the modern age of scientific experiment. These conclusions are supposed to be highly signifi cant because first of all, the price of beer has gone up, and sec ondly we are living in an uin limited universe. R A CREATER SOUTH CAROLINA ted Collegiate Press Robert Ellott Contaies as the first shed by and for the student, of the kty on Fridays, during the college Lsand letter writers are not neces Publsig does not constitute an CAROLYN McCLUNG PATSY PENNEY KAT ANTHONY DITOR ..Dew James . - Herbert Bryant * Pat Treacy - - - -Walter Johnson .... Linda Cauthen - - .Kay Oxner ANAEReve Baumrind ----Bob Kelsey 'OR ...Sid Badger EPORTERS ns, Roy Williams, Tom Walker, r, Jo Allen Bradham, Pat Palm, wthorne, Farley Lawton, Paula MNISTS v, Dew James, Herb Bryant 8S STAFF uln'ax Mar Vernon Clary, shmen... Pay Bill here) check with the files af the "Greeks" so you can be sure to got the "right prof." 4. Don't miss any drop-ins. If they are crowded enough, so no body notices, you can reduce your food bill considerably. 5. Learn to drink the coffee in the canteen and to pay the bi( in the cafeteria with a ati ight face. If by then you haven't quit, you're stupid. * * * Ain't ain't correct English... . It seems to me that from the earliest hours of my brain-wash ing that those In the tutoring profession have been trying to destroy a perfectly good English verb. Poor defenseless "ain't," which has long enjoyed popularity with the vulgar and commonly sensible class, still survives de spite many bloody encounters. It has been uttered by some members of the grammar monop oly who controls the manufac ture of grammar books that ain't ain't proper because it ain't a contraction of anything. Well, if it ain't right it's because this bunch has been spelling it wrong for all these years. The proper spelling should be AINT. A verb doesn't have to be a contraction of anything. So ends our lecture in grammar for today... . Thoughts nforting Most of this business isn't very important as you can see. No worth while student bothers to let the gremlins of the academic world ruin his mental outlook. Usually it is the professors who wrestle with these phantoms in their nightmares. And this is as it should be because after all if they don't who will, and they are paid to do such things. My personal opinion is that they are all fine fellows, and the next time that I meet one at a bar I'm going to buy him a drink whether he's there or not. * * * The football ticket situation is still about to get under way. It is reminiscent of the Biblical character who tied his ass to a tree and tried to walk away. Neither one has gotten very far. .Date tickets are now priority items. It seems that a fellow has to do the right thing any more in order .to get a girl to come to a football game. For those who are already married it is no trouble at all, but the young man on the fence is hit pretty hard by the extremes to which he must go for a ticket. The fellow who is taking : someone else's wvife is a problem wvhich the ticket office hasn't ruled on yet. But the inference of the married rule most likely applies to the person whom you intendl to take to the game. Well, anyway, the big thing Is being married and not football tickets. * 9 . Definitions . . . of a cynic one who knows the price o everything and the value of nothing . . . of a celebrity-one with stars in his crown and in his eyes . . . of a saint-he never lived. Quotes 0, beware, my lord, of jealosy; It is the green-eyed monster wvhich dioth mock The meat it feeds on. *-SHAKESPEARE, Othello, III, 8 * * * A*'l that is in tune with thee, o Universe, is in tune with msel -MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations e * * The true University of these (lays is a Collection of Book. -CARLYLE, Heroes and Hero-Worship * 9 * Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavou~r. -CO WPER, The Task, II * * 9 Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea, the other was elected vice-president, ad nothing was ever heard of either of them again. -THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Recoleatlons