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Student Fee T4 The Student Allocations Committee, which parcels out the money from the student ac tivities fee to campus organizations, met this past Tuesday. The meeting resulted in one conclusion, which was a surprise to no one. There just isn't enough money to go around, The University activities fee, charged each regularly enrolled student, is, at $15 per stu dent, ridiculously low. It needs to be in creased at least five dollars. Of the $15 per student now received, the athletic department is given $8.50. This amount is set by law and can be changed only by law. It's a pretty safe bet that if it were changed at all, the amount would be raised. The remaining $6.50 of each fee is turned over to the Allocations Committee. They then determine how much each organization sha'il receive. After six years of the same fee, it's mighty slim pickings when an organization has to meet increased expenses with the same income. Somebody I Carolina's spirit looks like it has finally shown itself, judging from the Carolina Furman basketball game and the Eu phradian-Clariosophic sesquicentennial cele bration, both held on Valentine's Day. With suen events usually drawing only a meager crowd, it was surprising to find both events having a large attendance when logic would say both would suffer from being planned for the same night. An estimated 4,000 attended the basketball game and 500 were at the literary society celebration. The thought and planning be hind the two events proved worthwhile. With Carolina beating Furman with a score of Letters to the Editor Alabama Stands Reader Questions ways of acco Writers' Knowledge Ton ge th To give the Dear Editor: grounds for thi It is a happy feeling to know a contempt citi that the persons writing for the tion calling for Gamecock are keeping up with power had to current events. However, this silent treatmen feeling disappears when the ing, refusal to writers try to interpret the dignified prote events and pass their analyses sufficient to cr on to the students. News corn- tion. mentaries are fine when those When the fed who write them have a fundla- ordered the tru mental knowledge of what they woman, the orc are writing. Otherwise, it would an implied th seem better to present only facts trustees if the and allow the reader to draw his to admit the w< own conclusions, the students, ir Speaking in reference to the violence were article by Dew James, this reader response to thi wonders where Mr. James ob- and violence or tained the information which led federal judiciar him to render his judicial deci- see that these sion on- the doctrine of interposi- the courage tion. With reckless abandon, Mr. stand up for tl James argued legal principles In answer t< and moral considerations in the intelligent and same breath. And let It not be ticle, may 1 s; said that the difference between college studer the Federal and state govern- unusual in thi ments bothered Mr. James, for others. It is a he would have them both doing or Harvard tha the same thing at the same time. This reader would like to enter the suggestion that Mr. James confine his writing to happenings around the campus, because surely he knows something of interest and can give the stu dents an authoritative analysis UNI of something such as what kind of grass will be grown on- the Founded Ji horseshoe this spring.edo Pat Grayson e sarly thoe endorsemen Approves Violence F,DITOR Used In Alabama MANAGIN BUSINESS Dear Editor: ASSISTAN~ Last week, the students of the NEWS ED University of Alabama used the CAMPUS only effective methods they could SPORTS E in resisting the unwarranted as- SOCIETY sumption of undelegated author- FEATURE Ity by the federal judiciary. CIRCULA'l Their board of trustees and ASSISTAN school officials now say, with PHOTOGR. strong evidence to back them up, CA RTOON. that they have a right to exclude Autherine Lucy on grounds of Lewis Cror public safety under the police Fischer, Je powers of the sovereign state of Melba Corla Alabama. Before the riots took Ronnvie Beri place, they had no argument to keep them from being jailed for contempt of court, if they re- Billy Mellei fused to admit the woman. Now Scott, W. I they are in the best legal posi tion possible under the circum- Jimmy Turi stanes.. If there were other luck, Bill 11 Activities co Low This semester the situation is even worse. An increase in printing costs due to the news print shortage has made it necessary for The Gamecock to ask for more money. The newly formed Student Union Committee needs $200 in its work of coordinating student activities. The Sandlapper needs more money in order to stay in existence. The list of increased de mands could go on and on. This means some one is going to be left out in the cold. The University has tried to keep its fees at the lowest possible minimum. In the ma jority of cases, it has succeeded. But the pinch is beginning to show. If we're going to have a university, it should be the best uni versity -- in every way. A five dollar in crease in the activities fee can help to bring this about. Campus organizations, providing a definite service to each student, cannot be expected to meet increased demands on every side with the same income. Enrollment has increased, expenses have increased - it's high time revenue in creased.-penney Worked Hard 109-97, the sponsors of the "Spirit of '56" Night should have reason to believe that the student body spirit may have had a great deal to do with the win. Special thanks go to Ab Avinger and Hunk Miller for a successful "Spirit of '56" and to Matt Stephenson, Flynn Harrell, David White and Calhoun Thomas for the literary societies. Next week will find a full swing of events with the second Greek Week celebration here. It is hoped the success of this event, which includes activities for each day, will be as great as that of the two February 14 events. If the "spirit" continues, it may well be. penney Aittacked; Athletes nplishing this, I least one good riot. Are these at they could be. also "puerile, uncivilized"? trustees good As for the woman's statement s defense against that she felt the majority was ition, some situa- for her, I think she is wrong the use of police and knows it. I dare Miss Lucy, the NAACP or anyone else to be created. Mere poll the students on that count. t, peaceful picket- I do not think the group action attend classes, or at all "unreasonable" under the st would not be circumstances. eaesc iu- As to t.he statement that "It eral district court really must take guts to throw stees to admit the rocks at a girl," it does when er carried with it the girl is supported by the whole reat to jail the authority of the federal govern ~y flatly refused ment with its FBI, atom bombs man. As I see it, and three-million-man-.army. using force and I agree with most of Mr. Lee's only using it in article, except that I think he s threat of force was a little hard on Alabama's the part of the board of trustees In expecting y. I am glad to them to flatly defy the court ~tudents still have order. It would have been better ~nd backbone to if they had, but after all not eir rights, many people are anxious to be Mr. Bass's un- locked up in a federal prison. ill--conceived ar- I wonder where Mr. James got lay that riots by all his authoritative informa ts are nothing tion ? Who is he to say dog s country, or in matically that segregation can dull year at Yale not be morally justified, that our t does not see at actions can at most be a stalling V6A COGC( CROWING FOR A GREATER VERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA [ember of Associated Collegiate Press mistay 30, 1908, wIth Robert Elliott Gomsle. as the fis e Gamecock" Is published by and for the student. of the of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, during the college on holidays and during examilnatioas. of Th Gamecok. "Punblishin dosno cttta e a t. The right to edit is reserv'ed. PATSY PENNEY G EDITOR HERBERT BRYANT MANAGER KAT ANTHONY T MANAGING ED)ITOR Roy Williams ITOR Nancy Fox EDITOR Sylvia Hanna DITOR .Sid Badger IEDITOR Barbara Hawthorne EDITOR Mary Alice Carhart 'ION MANAGER ... Billy Bruce T BUSINESS MANAGER Carol Shockey APHIERS Bob Finley, Wayne Patrick [ST .......Richard Alpert STAFF REPORTERS ner, Marsha Wiseheart, Carol Watson, Marcia rry Sanders, Harry TIaylor, Barbara Wright, ay, Bill Atkinson, Ned Borden, Linda Cauthen. r, Mac Hill, Norman Spell. COLUMNISTS ~te, Pat Treacy, Dew James, Herb Bryant, Jack i. Lee. BUSINESS STAFF ser, Windy Mullinax, Marion Singley, Edith Bul "COULD YOU SPARE A DIMI HERB BRYANT 'Renaissan At Uni A spectator Tuesday night summed it up pretty well when he said-in a real enthusiastic tone of voice-"Man, this is the Renaissance out of the dark ages." He was speaking about the school spirit shown at the Uni versity-Furman. game when the USC spectators got behind their team and cheered them to a 109 to 97 drubbing of the Furman hot-shots. Truely the s c h o o l spirit abounded everywhere. You could just feel it. It was there. Man, was it there. From 10 minutes 'til 8 o'clock, when Ab Avinger, Ed Houston and company marched rhythmi cally onto the hardwood until the final two points were scored by Supported tactic, that it violates "certain privileges guaranteed by consti tutional government"? I chal lenge Mr. James to back up his statements. Yours truly, William J. Nicholson Varsity Athletes In Intramutrals 0. K. Dear Editor: The mention of the USC-Wake Forest basketball game in dis cussing school spirit might be misleading. I was among the 60 or so studIents there despite the holidays. The crowvd, predomi nately townspeople, wvas defin itely partizan, cheering and even booing vigorously. In the secondi half a fight almost started among the players over a body block, and later paper was thrown from the stands onto the floor when a Carolina player fouled out. Otherwise, it wvas a goodi, clean game, unmarred by incidents of "mob violence." Now, regarding the unsigned letter on athletes and intramural sports, there are certain ques tions I would like answered: (May I say that I have partici pated in intramural sports both with and against "varsity" ath letes.) I. Why shouldn't "varsity" ath letes participate in intramural sports? The arguments advanced of more experience, better con dlitioning, and extra use of University facilities could be ap plied to some degree to the ininority of studlents who take P.T. just as wvell. The only com plaint seems to be that they're good athletes. 2. Why should these students be forced to remain idle? The intramural program is for all students. These "varsity" ath letes are healthy young men who need physical exercise in the off season. Surely, they deserve a chance to do this on an equal basis with their fellow students. 3. Whose bull has gored whose ox this time? Sincerely, John T. Harlee (Editor's note: Last week's let ter on varsity athletes was signed. The name was withheld by request. Gamecock policy is to print only those letters which are signed. For goodl cause, the name may be withheld from pub lication although the originail letter must bear the writer's signature. I ALLOCATONS COMM TEE C FOR A CUP OF COFFEE?" ce' Dawns versity Jack Neeley the heart of the old Field House literally burst with enthusiasm. Ab Avinger deserves special recognition for getting behind this "Spirit of '56 Night." This isn't the first time he has en couraged school spirit at the games. But it is the first time he and his helpers have been able to get such good response. He served as a neculeus and showed what can be done. if he has his way it won-'t be the last time. "Hunk" Miller showed his desire for a more spirited Caro lina with his help to Ab. Ed Houston also deserves a well-worked for pat on the back. Without his help, the night wouldn't have been complete. He and his Tuba and get up were alright. Other members of his five-piece band-Larry Burton, beating that bass drum; Veron Melonas, playing that trumpet; Bob Crosse, pushing the slide on his trombone (incidentally he got so carried away with it one time that he hit Mike Caskey in the back of the head with the end of the slide); and Charlie Sanders . really accounting for himself on his snare drum. Along with the boost of spirit a good thing that was done was the collection taken up for the Olympic Fund. The blanket car riers were Allen Inabinet, "Lefty" Norton, "Tubby" Jones, Jack Martin, Aubrey Reed, "Pete" Sawyer, Conway Snipes, and Gene Kopec and the cheerleaders. They did a good job. What all this amounts to was those named above and a student body doing a good job-a real good job. And let's not forget the basket ball team. They are the ones wvho won the game for us. Lee Collins came through with a superior performance. Bob Mc Coy showed that he is an ex cellent basketball "quarterback." And Grady Wallace, Art Smejkal and Dean Crain really played a great game. Probably the best show of school spirit came after the final buzzer had sounded. Lee Collins and Art Smejkal were lifted to the shoulders of Carolina students in appreciation of a game well played. But that wasn't all. Darrell Floyd was also lifted to the shoulders of USC student's, showing they appreciated his goodi sportsmanship and stellar, 40-point performance. The Renaissance does seem to have truly come to the Carolina campus. May it not be just a visitor. This writer thinks it won't be. There are a number of others who think it won't be. We, who have had faith in the student body backing their team with school spirit, have been justified. 4 * 4 *A harbinger of better days ahead was the letting of the architectural contract for the addition to the University li brary. By the summer of 1957 Caro lina will have a modern library if plans progress in- order. The best quality of the plan is that the designs feature open stacks for the undergraduates. Open stacks will mean that students will be able to browse around and look at different books before making a selection. This will save many from mak ing a bad selection in the first place, thus saving time for stu dent and library ernnloyee. DEW JAMES Bringing Days Of Anti-Lucy demonstration at the University of Alabama seems to have gotten a much needed rest this week, but Lucy isn't going to school. Lucy again waits for the courts to act on her plea for admission to the University of Alabama classes. Meanwhile at the University of North Carolina, a school gen erally dubbed as progressive, three Negro students go to classes without egg-throwing, stone and mudball flinging, pro fanity or jeerm. One of these Negro students at UNC lives in a campus dormitory and the other two are moving in . . . still, no violence. Are we to admit that UNC is so far ahead of the rest of the South? If a gradual integration process works in North Carolina, why can-'t it work just as well elsewhere in the South? Congressman James P. Richards told the sesquicenten nial celebration audience of the Clariosophic a n d Euphradian Literary Societies Tuesday night that the South has little chance of getting any measure through the federal government to pro hibit integration in the public schools. Congressman Richards said "The Supreme Court is against us, the leaders of both political parties are against us, and we don't have enough votes to get such a measure through LEWIS CROMER State Mi Integratic I was one of those who were privileged to hear Congressman Richards on- Tuesday night. The words of Congressman Richards were quite significant, I felt,.and merited the consideration of every South Carolinian. He showed how once before, South Carolinians had seen their better interests discriminated against minority and had adopted the policy of Nullification that preceded the bloody days of the 1860's. He pointed out that in spite of the fact that Calhoun and others pressed the issue of nullification there was a strong minority who, though equally vehement in their denouncement of the Tariff of Abdominations, held strongly that they seek other channels to achieve their ends. It is my opinmon as it is Rep resentative Richards that today South Carolina stands at the PAT TREACY Of Interi Cabbages The time has come to talk of interposition-, cabbages and kings, and a lot of other things. Merlin has cast his spells and sits watching the bubbling caul dron waiting for an answer. Nothing comes but steam and perspiration under his arm pits. So, as he (dashes out for a dleo dorant and a (1-it-yourself kit, we leave him and consult the Oracles for a better solution. Apollo throws his quivers aside, and matter-of-factly lights a Tampa Nuget as he reflects on the question. Delphi, home of the Oracle, is surrounded by huge puffs of smoke. While Apollo meditates, his thoughts grow deeper and deeper. This goes on for sometime, until Zeus, greatest of all the gods, cruises by and lets go with a thunderbolt which strikes the Oracle in the buttock. Rumbling a little thunder Zeus says, "Dunce! Haven't you ever heard of -smog control? Douse that infernal stogie, or I'll curl your toes with the next one." Contritely Apollo changes from interposition and cigars to play ing his lyre. The quality of his music soon has him in an ethereal ectasy, and1 he Is again with the gods. So, we have only the mortals to help us se'ek the truth in this matter of interposition. What does it really amount to, then, without flourishes of partisan sentiment? Representative Carter, Green ville, said at a meeting of the Clariosophic Society some weeks ago, "It is a utility instrument to prolong litigation." Congessaman Richards aid Back The Calhoun the national legislature." There fore, interposition is no more than protest and at most a delay ing tactic. Interposition, to have any real authority must mean nullifica tion, and nullification means scraping the federal system of government as we know it. It means the state governments must back up their condemnation of federal acts with force which places the South in- the same situation it was in 1860. The American constitution owes a great deal of its long life to its flexibility and the authority vested in the members of that body to be the final jurist on the constitutionality and legality of ' questionable measures is the key to its lasting endurance. Integration does mean a change in the social structure of the South and social changes require time and climatizing of minds. It means cries from the extreme on both sides. This columnist does not see any advantage to be derived by manufaeturing evasions of real ity. We see interposition- as a waste of time by legislative and executive minds that could be used to better advantage in seeking concrete and genuine solutions to a problem from which there is no enduring eva sion. ist Fight >n Legally crossroads. Our "Ilour of Deci sion" draweth nigh. My prayer is, as his, that this hour will never produce the dire results that the last one produced. The thinking people of South Carolina will never give in meekly to the Supreme Court's decision, so adverse to our basic beliefs, but for the good of both races in our state we will con tinue to fight ever harder in the direction of our ideals. We will not fight with threats of violence and secession, but rather with the weapons of intellect and rea son, searching for the legal loop hole or some legitimate tool to keep the school facilities of our state separate but equal. The p)resent andl coming administra tions pr.omise little help, but through constant seeking will come the victory. "While I breathe, I hope" strangely fami liar words. position, And Kings Tuesday night that it was un supportable in the Congress of the United States, andl that it could not be backedl by force. In essence it was a legal device. South Carolina has endorsed interpiosition and now the trump teers of states rights and the mythical southern cause have something more to shout about. In- the p)ress, radio and local magazines their impassionedW chorus drowns out the subtle tones of the steam organ, which is their accompaniment. As the basic issue is left further and further behind, the profes'sional southerner sings a happier, loud song. Yet I know of men, southerner. and citizens, wvho are individual. and do not have to shout in ordler to think. While the (lupes of mob p)sychology roar on, they make value judgments. Surprisingly enough, there are quite a fewv who question basic presumptions. Hut they are not loud men who e'asily indulge in a political binge of wvhite supremacy, and they are not heard often. Well every story has a moral and this one is no different. Politicians who (desire' success and1( votes need an issue to write sp)eeches about. Interposition is free publicity to any civic-minded soul wvho is seeking an office. So any fledging politic'an who seeks to exp)edite his road to fame and p)ublic service I strongly advise to become, if he has not (lone ao already, a champion of interposi tioni and allied doctrines. With these he can help) build a crude shrine to wvhat was once a noble cause c'hamnpionedl by gallant lenaers.