Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Studi Dire A noticeable annoyance ar lately has been the distribut regarding various student act events have been registered meetings in another, and oth registered absolutely nowhere sequence that no one knows w ing , or when. There is no c< thority. When the office of Direct< Activities was abolished in 195 duties.were distributed among 1 trat ive staff members - and t gan. Social events are now rt the dean of women. Activiti Ilouse are supposed to be rE the manager of the building. fairs have to be arranged witf conntant. Why not reinstate Director of Student Activities confusion? The office could unite all th -amtlpus, avoid conflicts in eve ing registration in one centr records pertaining to activiti conlst antly changing officers, nances and in general help i sc'rious problems. To secure such a man the Ur have three choices -" a facult3 ri1(luce(l teaching load, a dire the purpose, or a member of t ninist rative staff. The last se BILLY MELLETTE Fred I Motou "Fred Thomas and the Fort W t he tamoiis hook, "'The Cats from . Tominy, changing his name to -''" for the third person name "I he explained in subsequent chapt< Now it came to pass that in the ':arly morning of a summer ,ay not m1any years ago in the c ty of Florence one Fred 1hona-; Doe, .Junior, an enemy i t he ('ats and a hostile character of all Cat history, did inherit a fiery beast of rla:e and grit, a creature with an appetite for gasoline, bolts. gaskets, and fingernails, and horne of oily rags and grimee of the lowest order. Fred hai reei\v"l, from shady S UuiS, a lotoreyele, a Har b-v-lI avidson relic of great p wI'r,' t.wo carb'on-enerusted iylndsers, and no muffler to speiak( of. Otn that memorable morning, while 1he e'it izens~ of Florence wer e h:Isal y turn ring in their yle p. Vrled emerg'd from his 151 in nun 5 r~ss. andl munch ing a ~in ei of rich, carbon h!aek: tI.,t 'h:s h le himself hal cooked , openedi'i the garage door h.ing it oIn the groIund whereVI it stayedI dluring the da, andi loo.kedl at the fiery mst.-r's. A h! Never was there a creas t' mor le be ati ful in all lie world, he thought. for VFre. and hsis famtnous brother's, .\Iottk aital .\l ee, liked nothing be(tter than a goodl miotor'iycle. fr''I d appr-ahed t he beast and s,tke it f'ondly with his Loot. It sputt eired. lie stroked the beas:t :aain. It roughedl andi wheie"' 'Ia mal harstked aind k ickedl at bi'n anid fell silent. With ne's mighty effort hi' passion ate 'ly s-imedil un the animal frthe thirid time and heard th' onl i bustIinig of' its gr-eat pistuins, mutsic to his ''as. Theii walt of 'thebi garage hl,td t1 hlave's of the tre' s tar'tedi a bottomside to the tgre' at stiorm of the gas olinie exploding within the ash ineo. The windows of the lh>se hous s-at tIed and the D)oes Sturneid siver happily in their Sli'(p; I he st'i('t vibrated, and doi gs mai cats awakened and howled at the startling new nios i ot' the neighbtorhood, and peoleil. frowuned in their sl'efp and sast upf in amaz'emenst. Aer oss the stree'it and dlown a few houses TIhomu Ander'son (sol naOmed on the theory that if Th'lom McAn', of shoe fame, s'sobIt do it, so could he'), hear' in g t he noise, pulle'd a pillow over his fuzzy head. Then he sstt up, looking ouit (If the win dowi'. 'The tnoise was becoming less mons5trous5 itt volume, andi town the unpavedl street was Fred, up)on his ir'on horse, fad inig in a billowy eloud of sum ner (dust. Shortly afterwards. the vio mnt ActiI clor NOe ound campus The logical c ion of affairs Russell House. ivities. Social working closely in one office, vision of the 1 rs have been with the con- and registers e hat's happen- The manager ,ntralized au- away from clas an additional te r of Student that money foi 4, the various quested in the ther adminis- case' if a new he trouble be- holding the off gistered with be closely asso es in Russell with student.ot gistered with house and he Financial af- any student des the chief ac- If there wer the office of Russell House, and avoid this -powers and d lap. In such a s e activities on function at its nts by requir- If it should '1 al place, keep be too heavy a s which have could be hired I supervise fi- be in the forn n solving any those who aire additional heli iversity would penditure of member with wvould be the' e ctor hired for Director of St he present ad- would he mor< ems best. dents.-P.A.P. -lad A rcycle urth Motorcyele," chapter eight of Five Points,' continuing the story Thom, and shedding the pronoun )irty," the origin of the n;ame to lent machine returied and sped in full parade before Thom's window, an earth shaking bl)ast of dust and sound bat ei ring the windows an<l doors of the house and of all the houses along the street. Thom lay down as it passed. Soon it came hack, louder if anything. He sat up and waited. The noise faded around the corner. lumbling, Thom rose out of bed and telephoned the home of his good friend 1)irty. As he spoke into the nouthpiece there came through the receiver to his ears a sput tering sound, rhythmic and penet rating, fading andl return m g. "iIe is alreadly here,'" Dirty adlvisedl. The great heroie pCeriod( of Fled's Ii fe ca me on the day that he enlisted in the UniitIedI States Air F'lorc.e a nd received a tuniform, not11wit hstanding the namIfes we gave his garb, such as unigram and hus drivel suit, lHe was hbrilliant ly at ired in that samue blue (on the dlay (one year' latel when he camel roaring into t he city with all thne ho rsepow~er his eni cyc(led1 heast Could produwe. (In r'eturininig, lhe was solmething of1 a hero to thle younlrger' of the (Cat neighborh(ood in t hat he wais a jet airlanl)fe m)echanie. The word "mec(han ie" wa's lost in1 aL smother'ed sh:ulow of thIe phrase "det Illalle,'" and the uni form dI ( Im a n) dl 1 Cl C'rta in things from the young ('ats ill I he waly of near'-respoet. At Ihe drIive'-in thati night, withI ani auience o'1(f Thomn, llo, I )irty, Scrogo. .\lrI. liill, Sam, luatchell, and l.eaper, the full >1 ryI was extracoted: lred, :aking an a(irlIClle' hop1 fromll ( 'a I l(i ia to( SoulthI Carlin a, obItain licenise toC transpojC rt his cambi ler'some)( veIhiCle iln the hack (Cf a I l19~, t he unl-trlustyV flying boxcar I of t he A ir Force, and(, stoppCtinCg in Fort Wort h, Texas, alt an) irfiiehl, had [rolIed it ((ut of the back endl oft t lie lig bCuggy airpIlne and( Care'enedi'C ofIf Ih Iase atC breaCLk neckl~5j('C spe towardl the c'ity' of F"lorence'. .\ILany huris later, having arrlivedi at his de(stina tiont, hie wasi ignoranllt niot only, of the' distac he1C'l( hadl traele(d, but (If thle facit that hadIC he' stayed C'n thle airp'jlanue he would have been flown ill to G;rieeivi lIe, S. I ., since the stopIf was toC Ie hut a short onte. Fred spent his leave astride his handsome heetle, batck rigid, ('yesu aheadl, uniformeod, and0 even let his brlother ride on the hack once. Thomn, shaking his head at the entire spc(ta1cle, cnmoe int volunteer f'or the "ies ded onclusion is the Manager of This manager is already with the students, has super udent offices in the building vents happening there. would not take a professor ses, thus requiring hiring of acher. This would not require the additional office be re budget which would be the man were hired. The man ice of manager would already -iated with the students and fices. His office is in Russell would be readily available to ,iring help. e two offices - Manager of Director of Student Activities uties would of necessity over tate, no student activity would >est. wove that the dual job would load, additional part-time hell) or Russell House. This would of student helpers, such as ady hold such positions. The would not require the ex arge amounts of money as atse in an additional, full-time udent Activities. And there j .iobs available for the stu I)EW JAMES From One Life To Another aMan has long been t oneernei about what he lec'endedrll from. Probably the most pla111r theory is that he descended from the animal kingdom most. immedli ately via the ape, monkey and their ken. liowever, at the siamei' time som111e people are working on the theory of reincarnation. One of he ctUrrent magazines tells the story of a businessman who took 1i1 hypnosis as a hobby and stuI mli id on some amazing thiIgs. A t firs\ Mlorey Iernsteinl began his hypnotic 'xip'riments just for kicks." lie found that a young woman who lived Iearby Was an excellent subject. After he found that she couldbe stue' iee ssfulliy hypnotized he bxeg~an to work on regression of memory hopxing that through hypnosis lhe could prxy ixnto pre-natal impres 5 bns. ne niigh t she told him n of say - ing "wa"' for water' at abot onxe year xxii. Ilie asked hexr if she couldh remembhexr thIiings he tore that. Suxddenly', accordinig to the xmagaxzine article, she tol of ge'tt ing spanked anud earixig tihe painut oft ai new bedl with hiter nails. She said it was anx ironi bid. Thliis miadex \lrx. Hoernstein wondxiier hierauise it idu not cxor xespondi( withi any\t hing shex hadl thl himxi eaxrlier. lie' askedi "What is youxr nameii' " She tohl himi it was Btridley .i xxxph''. In anxiwer tox fuxrther quioniixxs, she tohi him she lived ixn (oxk, Ireland,. thaxt she wax. born ixn I 8% andx died ixn 1I, thaltx hexr fatxher was ax Narristerx, t hat slie livedi in a xnic housex , slhe hinid a lrotherx namxiedh Dunca asiix wt as her tther's niamei, t hat hex moxther's namx xi.was Ka:t hleen, t hat. slhe lhad xmarried andxi hi;xi xno chxiiirexn amxi ihat she wa;s axn inivalidi be' .\icordxing tox the article she even! ~poke wVithI somewvhiat ofi axx Irishl brxigue andxx usedh xobsoleti Irxishx \ pressionxs andix wordxs. Slhe told ofi thei towxn whexre slie l ivedl, ft xxoivixng to anoxtherx cityV andiiiof -everalx IrI ish cuxst oms. udependiient auxthxiixs for ve(rifi ia x ixn ax d inxvest igit ioni. Th'le r ecord uxf hxer par'entaxge, hirth, marr xiage andIx deaith coxrrespondxiued .with Ir ish recorxds. IHut the sub-i. ix ext xienxtionixed a fewv xhings t hat lidi noxt seem tox fit. U pon dieepere dligging, talk ing tox elder Irish mienx, xmany ofC the apparent uxn xtruths wvere prIoven true. dr a ft bei'foret they might biegi n Iihe conxscriptioni of mein into tlihe A ir' Force, for' lie d id not wish to beicomiie a pilot, untilI F" exd Thoxmas Doe, Junior's term oif office terminated, if evexr_ nisa net lhanenxmochnnic. Letters to the Edit Travels Travelstead Answers Student. Letters Dear Editor: After reading the letters to the editor of the Gamecock by Richard \1. Sassnett III in the December 16 issue and by Win dell \IeCrackin in the ,January 13 issue, I amd compelled to challenge the premise that it is the purpse and place of a uni versity to accept unquestionably and to sustain without debate the status. quo in any field of study---whether it he in the na tural sciences, the social sciences, or in the humanitit's. 1y "uni versity"" I mean in this case the admin istration, the faculty. and the student body of a on iversity. Fu lrthermore Ie, it is my1\ constidered opilnion that few, if any, educa tors of note will adhere to 'Mr. Sasnett's theme, "Whose breid I eat, his song I sing," when ap plied to a college or tnive-sit y. If at tiniversity adminlristra(tolr (and lei i a teacher in every :ense of the' word),"a university professor, or a utniversity sttu dent is fated with the ncessity of "sitiging the song" of the preside'nt. of that university, or of the trnst ee of that univer sity, or of' tie governor of the state in which that univet'sity. is located, or even of the major ity of people in that state, then that university will have lost, its hiart and soul. It should 0 @A.T.CT 01' tead Challe then close its gates and go out of business. For its very pur pose is to seek diligently the truth--the better life for all men- and to disseminate this truth as it is found. If in this search-this never-ending search for truth and the more abundant life-opinions differ, if data seem to he contradictory, then all the miore Ieas5on to pursue every pos sibility the more diligently. For it is only reasonab le to assume that there will be conflicting Vie'vs and sharp debate support ing diifferent sides of important isnes. It' all discussion is to eease at a university, if and when the opinion or temporary conclusion is not in agreement wit h the person or agency i rough whom the "bread" is li't ributed, then all hope for that u1niversity is lost. F'wr university presidents canl he mistaken; they can be ter ribly in the wrong at times. So tan a board of trustees or a governor he in grave error on ceitain matters. Such has been the case freiluently in the history of colleges and universities in thi: country. All such men are o ly uman. Therefore, it i' im l erative t hat th1e student, the professor, the administrator (in clutfinig the president ) continue 1'reely and with fervor this in tiividuial and cooperative search for trth, irrespective of pre v;iiling notions of others. H ETASi >4s FI E R /C', $f, -,ww nae- imnn HERBERT BRYANT Last Ter Buildinc An era has ended. Building "F" is dead. The dear monument of an over crowded University has 1een vir tually ripped apart from its very foundation. All that remains as a reminder of the confused years after World War 11, when there were over 5,000 students en rolled at a smaller Carolina than we now have, is the cement foundation. And it will soon dis appear and leave the space sur rounded by Rutledge, Currell, and the row of tenements on Green nges, Paper Man is inherently optimistic. Forever he looks upward and on ward beyond the present. To do otherwise to accept complacently present concepts and popular Opinions without a vision of a better tolorrow-would be to preclude change and improvement altogether. The astute student of history knows full well-as do many people at this university and in the state of South Carolina that changes for the better have always been born in the ques tioning mind-in the probing con science. From the atrophied mind and smug conscien,e will never conme anything of valle to mail. May neither this university nor any university in this land of ours dedicated to freedom ever he a victim to any policy or edict that prohibits continuous and un fettered inquiry, open debate, and free exchange of ideas on all matters of importance to men. If on the other hand, it should be decided by the authori ties of a university that such oIpen dohate and free exchange of ideas will not he tolerated at that university, then this fact should be widely publicized. In this way prospective students and potent ial faculty members will be able to decide in advance whether they wish to be asso c iated with a university com mitted to the prnlmise, "Whose T-HE AC.TIVATED: CHARCOAL P1 ialter Tip 'l'aret'ion, ct mtildetr, smo14ke smoo 000 t one tha t gives. you At All the. pleasture. comes4. rTARE nporary Down Street empty. The brother of "Termite Hall," which recently went to its great reward, served its purpose as it did. But so much for building "F" and its brother. May they live long in the memory of some. May the University never have the need to erect another tem porary building. May the Caro lina Community grow in popula tion and permanent, modern educational structures. Long live the memory of build ing "F" which left unnoticed by most. Praised bread I eat, his song I sing." I, for one, would never choose to be a student or professor in such a place of mockery and sham. Sincerely, Chester C. ''ravelstead P.S.: Iiitler burned many books containing great ideas, but history already has recorded that these ideas outlasted Hitler. Alum 11IUphol<s FIl'a1("' S talln I3elated but heartiest congra tulations and thanks to you and your very fine cohorts-Messrs. IBryant. .ames, Bass-for your splendid efetse r )ean Travel stead (G:amecock, Dec. 2). Our University is indeed for tunate to have such a strong and true newspaper--"a voice crying" and "a light shining" where sorely needed. Ilow lucky alc, that we had in our midst, fot even a short time, a man of I)can I'ravelstead's caliber, abil ity. and integrity. lie must en joy an en% iable freedom of (on >cience atong Southerners to. day, thinking and speaking the tr"uth fr,m conviction. Could it Ie that he believes too strongly in htman rights? Perhaps ours is the gre:t loss in cutting off one o f' ottr bSt "Knows --es" thruttgh ttnrecognized and near sighted color-blindness. Martha Aiken Jones (A.B., 19:3:) tEAT! I 1ti.itrd mkn. hierciartt tatsm ke r . r a s a s i r . . t e n l itd Cacal\rain thr ..thet teis g eat ON-1 TURR O CIARETE