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47TH YEAR ALL-AMERICAN OF PUBLICATION SPIN '55/ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA -CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volume XLVIX, No. 7 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, NOVEMBER 4, 1955 University With City For Home The University will join Carillon for its homecoming McCutcheon, alumni homecom The parade will be held Frida A float featuring the seve testants will be the main Uriiver sity entry. The queen, to be chosen from the three finalists, Carol Brandenburg, Harriett Dickert, and Jackie Furr, will not be an nounced until the game. Football players from teams of past years will ride in old model cars appropriate to the year in which they played. In addition the University band, the Air ROTC and Naval ROTC bands will march. A Block "C" Club float will also be included. Blue Key Dance Blue Key national honorary fra ternity will -hold a Homecoming Dance Friday night from 8-12 in Russell House auditorium, $1.00 stag or drag. Fraternities and sororities will prepare homecoming displays to be judged Friday afternoon, Mr. Mc Cutcheon said. The displays may not cost over $50 and must be set up in front of the dormitories. At the pre-game ceremonies Saturday, November 12, the awards for the best displays will be announced. Mary Elizabeth Ariail, president of Pan-Hellenic Council, will present the award to the first-place sorority. Law rence Curry, president of Inter Fraterity Council, will award the three trophies to the fraternities winning the first three places. All Sports Trophy The All-Sports Trophy, to be presented to Pi Kappa Alpha fra ternity, will be awarded before the game. The trophy is given to the fraternity accumulating the most points in intramural activities for the past year. In the half-time ceremonies, the seven homecoming queen candi dates will be escorted onto the field by members of the Air and Naval ROTC units. The queen will be crowned by Paul Sansbury, Jr., of Darlington, alumni president. Don Clark, president of the stu dent body, will be master of cere monies. The band will make a special formation tied in with the Univer sity sesqui-centennial celebration. Cm pus Lost Miss Susan Schapiro reports .that she has lost a lady's red leather wallet containing valuable letters and cards. If it is found Miss Schapiro asks that it be brought to Room 115 of the Business Administra tion Building. * * * Garnet and Black There will be a staff meeting of. the Garnet and Black Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Russell House. Mary Wise Rixey, editor of the -Garnet and Black, says that stu dents interested in helping put out the annual are invited to attend this meeting. There are openings for typists, adl salesmen, and re porters.' * * * Education Panel Dr. E. R. Crow, director of the State Education Finance Commit tee; Dr. Rudman, professor in the School of Education; and Mr. MoCracken, superintendent of Spart,anburg Schools and former president of the South Carolina School Administralors Assocla tion; compose a panel wvhich will discuss edlucation-al problems in Drayton Hall, Nov. 22 and Is sp)onsoredl by the Clarlosophic Literary Society. It will be an open panel dis cussion and will dleal with prob lems facing educators today and some problems that can be ex necte(a to be met in the future. To Join Carillon Scoming with the Columbia Carolina parade this year, Thomas E. ing chairman, has announced. y, November 11. 1 top homecoming queen con Evaluation Program Is Approved Student council voted approval Monday for a course evaluation program which will give the stu dent an opportunity to evaluate course, text, instructor and him self. The next step toward realizatior of the program is its presentation to the student-faculty committee for consideration. Jerry Bauknight, chairman of the student council committee t< investigate how the evaluation sys tem works in other schools, said he was convinced that the program had met with success in other schools and he felt it would worl here. Mr. Bauknight said it appeared that the evaluation program would have to originate in the individual schools. A questionnaire would be distiibuted in which the student would express their ideas by an swering specific questions relat ing to the value received from courses. The results of the questionnairef would be studied and changes mad( accordingly, according to Mr Bauknight. Mr. Bauknight said it would be imperative that such a plan be permanent with the support of fac ulty a n d administration. He pointed out that the program worked successfully at the Univer sity of Illinois, the University of New Mexico, and Notre Dame. Goldburg Is USC Religious Week Speaker Rabbi Norman M. Goldburg of Walton Way Temple, Augusta Georgia, will speak at convocation for members of the Jewish faitl during Religious Emphasis Weel Dec. 4 through 8 at the University A graduate of the University 01 Cincinnati in 1927, Rabbi Gold burg was ordained in 1929 al Hebrew Union College where hi received the degree of Master of Hebrew Letters. He was awarded the honorary Doctor of Divihiity Degree by Hebrew Union in. June of this year. Rtabb: Normn M. Coldburg Upon ordination Rabbi Goldburi wvas called to Temple B'nai Israe] in Sacramento, Calif. There, ir addition to'performing his congre gational duties, ho lectured or Biblical literature at the Univer sity of California and taught pub lie speaking at Heald's College. Rabbi Goldburg served as a chaplain in the Army from 1941 to 1945 and has held his preseni post since 1941). For some time hi has lectured at college campuses under the auspices of the Jewisl Chauauqman Socetyi. CHANGE IN CHAPEL ... Reno $35,000. An English antique chande by Kern Powell) Blood Drive Planned For Nov. 14-15 A goal of 200 pints of blood has been set for the annual Red Cross campus drive slated November 14 and 15, according to Joe Barnes, chairman of the campus drive. The mobile Red Cross unit will be set up at the Naval Armory from 10 a. n. to 4 p. m. Donors can arrange an appointment by signing up at a registration desk to be set up in the lobby of Rus sell House on the ground floor November 10, 11 and 12. The registration desk will be attended from 10 a. m. to 4 p. n. during these days. Post office personnel have co operated with the blood campaign by placing leaflets in all post of fice boxes. At the bottom of each leaflet is a registration and re lease slip which can be filled in to supply the Red Cross with re quired information. Donors under 21 must display a release signed by their parents. Persons giving blood will be issued a Red Cross credit card good for one year. Debate Team Defeats 13 Opponents A University four-man debate team walked off with top honors last week end at the Wake Forest Invitational Tournament. Partic ipating in the tournament were 14 teams from colleges and univer sities, according to Dr. Merrill G. Ch ristophersen-. The team was composed of Charles Porter, Chester and Wil liam Doar, Georgetown, represent ing USC on the negative. They went undefeated. The affirmative team of Fred LeClercq, Denmark, and Lewis Cromer, Greenville, lost one debate. The over-all total was nine wins and one defeat. Teams Entered Teams were entered from as far north as Georgetown University andl the University of Pittsburgh and from as far south as Mercer University, Georgia. The 13 schools debated on the subject: That the Non-Agricultural In dustries of the United States Should Guarantee to their Em ployees an Annual Wage. This is the national college debate subject for this year. USC and Cam bridge University, England, will debate on the same subject De cember 5 on. the CarolIna campus. Duke University was second in the tournament with a 7 win, 3 lost total. Appalachian State had the same win-lost record but lost to Duke on points. vation of the University Chapel was lier was donated to the Chapel by I Renovation Completed By Herbe News Renovation of the Univers week according to Dr. Williar Cost for renovation was $: President Donald S. Russ< an English antique chandelier, Don't Practice Music In Dormitories No more musical instrument playing in dormitory space will be allowed, E. M. Henderson, director of housing, has announced. He said practicing and other uses of musical instruments in the dormitories is prohibited. The De partment of Music provides music practice rooms for its students. Musical instruments can be taken away from students if the instruments are disturbing. Mr. Henderson said the police will be notified if any disturbance is re ported to the housing office. In addition, he said, playing with firefighting equipment is abso lutely prohibited. Residents who mniiuse this equipment are subject to removal from the residence halls. He saidl students are responsible for damages done in their rooms and suites. "This includes the hall door to rooms - such as breaking in the door and breaking locks," he said. IPaper Told No On Vote Student Council voted Mon day not to release the number of votes each candidate receives in an election for publication. The issue was brought to the council floor at the insistence of the Gamecock whieh was refused the vote count of the fall election. Only five Council members went on record as favoring the release of votes out of the 23 members present. An actual count of these voting in the negative was not available to the G,amecock at press time since several council members were reported to have abstained from voting on the issue. Councilman Virgil Duffy of fered an alternate motIon which provided that the public be given the election result. by request ing them at the Gamecock of fice, but the motion was not seoned. completed last week at a cost of 'resident Donald S. Russell. (Photo Of Chapel Last Week rt Bryant Editor ity Chapel was completed last i H. Patterson. 15,000. Al presented the Chapel with modernized with wiring. The large chandelier, hanging from the center of the ceiling between the balconies, is made of crystal cut from rock quartz. Eighteen lamps simulating candles are equipped with hurricane shades. It is estimated that the chandelier is ahouL 150 years old. Original Design The chapel, located in Rutledge College, one of the two oldest buildings on campus, was restored to its original design. Dr. Patter son said the restoration isn't exact to the finest point but has been restored in spirit and design as close as possible without the original plans. A new red carpet covers the floor of the main part of the chapel and the chancel. The pews and balcony were scraped of old paint and repainted white and brown. The ceiling is green and the walls are white. Lighting and water sprinkler system are on the c:ling. Architects for the work were Lafaye, Fair and Lafaye. Wil liam Pulhman, New York interior decorator who dlecorated the in terior of Russell House, was in charge of interior decorating. J. C. Campbell was in. charge of University maintenance workers doing the repair work. $1500 Coal Set For Student 'Y' Finance Quota The student quota for the an nual "Y" Finance campaign is $1500 this year, according to Ted Ledeen, director of the University The campaign started November 2 and is continuing through the 9th. Personal contacts will be made with campus students by members of the "Y" Cabinet, according to Frank Callcott and Peggy Skelton, co-chairmen of the "Y" Finance Committee. They are being as sisted by the campus co-chairmen, Carol Knight and Robert Free man, and by the town co-chairmen, Mittie' McNinch and D)on Harri son. Over a hundred other students are working on the campaign, which, according to Mr. Ledeen, should he one of the biggest and best yet. The faculty quota, under the co chairmanship of Dr. Erland Nel son and Mrs. J. E. Whitesell, is $1200. GamecocI All-Ameni For Sprin The Gamecock has receivE the 1955 spring semester by t scoring system. This is the fourth consecuti has been All-American. It w 'Undesirable' Magazines Removed At least 15 periodic publications which have been classed as "un desirable" have been taken off the magazine stands in the Campus Shop, according to Ben Fowler, Campus Shop manager. The publications have been re moved because the administration relt that the University-operated store should not engage in the sale of literature of questionable re pute, Dr. William H. Patterson, :ean of administration, said. Dr. Patterson said the choosing of publications for sale would be left to the discretion of Mr. Fowler. Among the magazines removed from the racks this month are "Playboy," "Sexology" and "Nug Zet." Wednesday Is Deadline For Sandlapper Wednesday had been set as the final date to submit material to the proposed "Sandlapper" before the material is presented to the publi cations committee, according to Dew James, editor. Mr. James said material re eeived until that date would be submitted to the committee who will determine by its quantity and literary merit whether or not to zpprove the new publication. The publications committee is headed )V Dr. Havilah Babcock of the English department. The "Sandlapper" editor said manuscripts submitted to date look L'ncouraging, but there is always room for more material. He said there is a particular need for art work and creative writing in the "lighter vein." The proposed student magazine is slated for publication four times per school year and will provide rn outlet for all types of creative writing and art. Dean Of J< Resigns Fr Ross P. Schlabach has resigned as professor and dean of the school of journalism at the Uni versity effective at the end of the present semester, President Donald Russell announced today. During Professor Schiabach's administration t h e University school of journalism was accredited by the American Council for Edu cation in Journalism. Enrollment increased 58 per cent, short courses for working journalists were in stituted, a close relationship with p)rofessional journalistic associa tions were established, and new scholarships for journalism stu dents were created. These scholarships Include the South Carolina Press Association scholarship, the McKissick Jour nalism scholarship, a n d t h e Women's Division of the South Carolina Press Association scholar ship. In addition an internship program was set up through the cooperation of several South Caro lina newspapers. The physical facilities of the school were greatly improved in the renovation program being car ried out by the University ad ministration. When Professor Schiabach joined the University facnlty in 1951, H. r aJui"iErqN . FuO Receives can Rank ig 1955 d an All-American rating for he Associated Collegiate Press ve semester that the Gamecock as one of four papers in the 2001-4000 student class to receive the honor. The Gamecock was rated su perior on news sources, creative ness, leads and editorial page fea tures. A rating of excellent was given on treatment of copy, style, editorials, sports coverage, front page makeup, sports display, in side news page makeup and typography. Editorial Page Praised "Your unusually varied and good editorial page features rate extra credit in my file," wrote ACP Judge G. D. Heibert who judged the Gamecock. He also praised the paper's fea tures, saying, "Your enterprise in portraying student life and get ting features is unusually effec tive and shows an alert and ag gressive staff!" News Effort Admired "I will say that you make a valiant effort to cover the news! And I admire your attempt," he said about news coverage. Lead writing which also received a superior rating was quoted as having a professional style. Editorials were given special mention and termed "pertinent, timely and vigorous." Copy reading was rated good, but it was suggested that the paper eliminate unnecessary de tails, trite expressions and word iness. Some paragraphs were pointed out as being too long. Photography Good Photography was rated very good, but the judge pointed out that action shots or those that tell a story are preferable to static group poses. Jack Bass was editor of the Gamecock for the spring semester. Other staff members were Carolyn McClung, managing editor; Patsy Penney, assistant managing edi tor; D. J. Salley, business man ager; Dew James, news editor; Herbert Bryant, campus editor; Walter Johnson, sports editorj. and Bertha Gardner, society editor. In- the past the G'amecock was rated All American in 1941, 1948, 1949, 1950, fall 1953, fall and spring 1954. mrnalism m Faculty Harrison Jenkins was appointed assistant professor and John H. McGrail instructor in photography. Ross P. Schlabach Professor Schiabach received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington and Lee University and the Master of Science from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He was for merly assistant city editor of the Richmond. Va.. Nmew.ander.