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Bring A step forward for the Ur made two years ago when the d dramatics was established. This step was retracted. It should n True, the department was department must of necessity b start. It then is free to grow better. When it has had tim firmly established, it can ther students to increase its size. The University did not give t partment a chance. It combine English department. Now onl; course is offered each semest< never attract students considerii this field. When plans for the Fine t JACK BASS Fin( Librai Maybe it's the effect of one's last semester in school. Perhaps it's merely a different approach. But after seven semesters of French (including two in which the course was dropped) I have finally found something useful, the answer to a question. French 32, which I had al ways considered a dull, useless course designed only to harass potential graduates in an AB curriculum, supplied the answer. This occurred last week end, too much of which was spent pecking away at a French 32 correspondence course, the final of six stages in a tedious and at times depressing struggle. The quest ion was simple. Should Mr. William .J. Nicholson be answered ? I,ast week Mr. Nicholson stated in a letter to the Gamecock that the rioting at the University of Alabania had put officials of that institution in their best possible legal posi tion (and here I might point out that Mr. Nicholson has the ex perience of more than a whole semester of law school) to ex clude from classes Autherine Lucy, their lone Negro student. His letter was in part an answer to my own views, "unintelligent and ill-conceived" in Mr. Nichol son's words, that the riots were puerile, uncivilized, and unrea sonable. Using his own brand of logic, Mr. Nicholson also reasoned that it does take guts to thow rocks at a girl "when the girl is sup ported by the whole authority of the federal government with its Letters to the Editt Fine Ai WVhat Hlappenxed To Finie Arts Builing? D)ear IEditor: What has ha ppenedl to the $300t.,000 musi c, driamai: anid art bibilling '? On May 20, 1955. Kthe Game coick stat ed t ha:It lie Uniive rsityv wvas. to have a new building by he fall of '56; for miiusic, drama arid airt. If t his prtoject is to be com le(t ed by t he' desijgna ted date, somebodyv hiad bttKer start oKn its foundation. A builing of this size is not t hiiown Kip ini a few mionths. I thbink t hat. the students in the air't (deparitment IwoKuld like to know if they are going toi get t his newv building, and if not, wvhy ? I am in te school1) of educa'i1tion, majoring in art, and am planning to teac h it a fter* graduia t ion. I find that the State D)epar'tment of IEducat ion requires all airt teacheris to have cerita in courmses in armts anil crma fts, courises you can't finrd at t hi'eJ Uiversi ty. Why dues the University not have these cour'ses? It is my opinion that this is due to not enough space' in old1 LeConte, rnot ienough art t eachers and not enough suppor't from the Uni versity. We are still looking forwaid to this building and hope the University can do something about it. Gene Berry Columnnist's Legal Ability Questionedl Dear Editor: It was 4nteresting to read the *articles and columns in your last issue. The challenging article by Mr. James particularly intrigues me, especially paragraph seven. At first, I was inclined to dis miss this paragraph as printer's error, but a good friend of mine, intimate with the inner workings of the fourth estate at the Uni Drama iversity was were made lat epartment of department w; past fall that small auditori ot have been. sented. The di small. Every Arts. building, e small at its between last stronger and cause the dow e to become One profess i attract the sary at first This is proven he drama de- ments on can d it with the and are opera y one drama still contains !r. This will partment. It lg a career in administratior its steps and I rts building back on its fei Is An Ansv ry Schedu FBI, atom bombs and three million-man army." You'll have to figure that one out for your self. The answer found in French :32: "One should never pretend to reveal to a lover his mis tress' faults, to a lawyer the weakness of one's cause, nor force the truth upon a fanatic." -Voltaire * * * And now to a matter of strictly local irritation. This one concerns the policy of keeping McKissick Library closed all day Sunday. Before last semester, the li brary was open on Sunday at night from 7-10. The biggest objection to this was that three hoors weren't enough although we admittedly heard only scat tered complaints. Alfred Rawlinson, University librarian, says this Sunday open ing was a "convenience opening," and that conceivably the library Could he kept open 24 hours a (lay and be used by someone al most all the time. Discussing the matter in his office, he said there were several factors that played a part in- the decision to stay closed on Sun day, but the basic reason was lack of an adequate staff. In working out the schedules with the Sunday opening, it meant using a skeleton staff on week day afternoons. The result was a falling off of efficiency in the afternoons. The choice had to be made, he said, and it was ts Building versity, said to me, "Dick, he really means that stuff!" The true brilliance of the legal dicta in Mr. .James' 'article is far, far above my meager undetr standing of the law. The world will truly be a better place when his legal ability is harnessed for lie 'ommion goodl. His lucid and (erud(ite construction of the con st itution "bestrides the world like a Colossus."' '[le law school, sir, wvould clasp you to its bosom. It awaits you with openl arms. Rt. T. Mahier, Jr. egr'egati oll Catl Be Tlo t be .(dit or: In the lan. 10 of the Gamne cock, certain coluni iaist s made >4omie statemen111ts c (once(iirng seg regart ion which ought not to pass withut comment. It is indeed un forturnate' that mob act ion bail to bi' re'sorted to at the Un-iversity o f Alabamia. A nd-provided it is correct to assome' that t he Alabama legisla tur'e interndedl thaNnt its i nterp'Josi ion re'solut ion be appliedl to c'o1 lege as well as lower-school situat ions-t he Point made by W. 1E. Lee is an e'xcellentt one. As be says, surch action could Iha ve beein averted had the Goveir nor of Alabamia done hris duty and imp11(lemented the l egis latur's resolution b)y using his police power to pirevent the Negro's at endlance and to protect the Uni ve'rs ity auithoit ies from moldesta ion by IFeder a ol iouts and mari shals. Let us hope that the gover nors of the' other Southern startes will not, by failing to take firm steps of implementation, allowv their states' formal dleclarations to be reduced to mere empty ges tures. Since, howvever, Gov. Fol som failed to provide any leader ship in resisting the usurpation of the rights of his state, it is not ~surprising that the studnti Back t spring, room for the drama ts included. There was even a um where plays could be pre 'ama department, like the Fine was dropped. What happened spring and this past fall to nifall of both? or is all that would be neces to run a drama department. by the fact that other depart ipus have only one professor ting successfully. The budget an outline for the drama de !an easily be re-instated. The could well consider retracing utting the drama department t.-penney uer; Hit decided that the majority of stu dents would be better served by utilizing a full staff on weekday afternoons. Picking up at random the li brary schedule of a midwestern university, he read their library schedule which ran from 8 a.m. to 12 midnight during the week and 2-10 p.m. on Sunday. He volunteered that this was not an unusual schedule. A library is the focal point of a university's academic life. Its primary purpose should be to serve the student in the best possible way. l"or periods of concentrated study, I know of no better place than the library. For many stu dents who work or are busy in extra-curricular affairs, every day assignments and weekday diversions, the best and some times only chance for concen trated study comes on week ends. The library closes Saturday at 5 p.m. and is not open again until Monday morning. And when research is neces sary, the situation is worse than inconvenient. The main library is not provid ing optimum service on its present schedule. Personally, I would like to see McKissick library remain open at least an hour later at night during the week, until 11 p.m. as the law library does now, and he opened on Sunday at least six hours, perhaps from 5 to 11. I doubt that the cost would be prohibitive-and incidentally, the students would appreciate it. , Segregati atlbama took it uon)T them selves to fight back. WVith evident pleasure, one of yurt columnists (.Jack Hass) (uot es A utherine Lu~cy as saving that many or must of the stu dlen ts were for her. This may or may not be true, but in any event it woul certainly not be surp)rising to learn that a cer tain studlent element favore(d her ad(m ission. In the 1 930s, more than a fewv idealistic undergrad utates embraced Communism, for which they are now doing piena nce. Ini the I1950s, Conmmun ism being sotmewhat passe, the fad seems to be to flirt with integration. The printc ipalI matter I wish to brinhg u p is thIiis. In an all-out at t tiack on segtrega t ion, initerjposi ion and Sout hern' "radlical" cIn sertvatives, l)ew Jatmes makes the assert ion that "segregation can not be mioralIly jutst i fied.'' That is a cliche foisted itpon uts by cer tain o f our chiurtch leaders who iappa rent ly are too shallow intel Iec t utalIly t o discern the vast dif fee bet weeni ratce ha tredl and an intelligent awareness of the dirihiity and tiecessity of sep artte tac ial dlevelopmen t. There is nothintg immt)or'al abou11t. segre gation, for it is maintainied not its a tesul t. of a mere petty p re.itudice (as some wvould have us believe) butt fot the most vital and compinpIIirg reasons. It is integration which is immoral, for its inevitable long-term result is had bot h soc iilly and biologically. Mr. James spiettlates that the Un i iversity of Sou th Carolina may sotme dlay face a situation similar' o' that at A laba ma and then signs off wvith this loaded ques tiiin: "flow wvill we 'react primitively or with reason?" If "with reason" must be taken to mean submission and "primi tively" to mean resistance, then I say let us react primitively. M. 11. Sass (Law Sehnol) "THERE'S REALLY NO NEE MURD4 HERB BRYANT Spring For RE The year 1956 will be conspic uous in that there wil be no Religious Emphasis Week during it. The next RE Week will be held in February 1957 on February 10 through 14. This is a good idea. It is a good idea not because there will not he a RE Week during 1956, but because the spring semester is better suited for RE Week. The fall semester is always noted for its number of holidays which have a way of attracting more attention than anything else that goes on during the semester. RE Week has been coming late in the semester and there has been little opportunity to have a good follow-up after the big week is over. For example, this school year's 1Religious Emphasis Week was held on December 4 through 8. Two weeks later school was halted for the Christmas holi days. Now, this writer is fully in favor of the Christmas holi days, as is just about everyone else he knows except one sec retary in the Administration Building. But the Christmas holidays do tend to deflate the enthusiasm that the students have gained during RE Week. During the short interval be twoen the religious week and the holidays there is little time if any for having discussion groups. mf, Cars, Ca] Hot Rods Interrupt Class Meetings' IDear Editor: I am a great lover of automo biles and other similar motor vehicles. I think they are an effective means of transporta tion and a wvonderful mechanical achievement. I also like reasonably quiet classrooms. I am in the School of Business Administration and therefore have most of my classes in. the Business Administration building. I don't mind classroom interruptions wvhen they are reasonable such as when the building equipment, uIsedl to finish the construction around the building, interfers. But wvhen someone across the street living apparently in Freshman Center hops1) in his hot rod(, races t he motor and blasts off like a jet, I feel that this is not a reason able interruption. Tfhey should pass the hat andl get a good muffler or they shouldl refrain from using their autos (luring clas5srOoom p)eriodls. If they can't 'omp) ly with these regulations, their vehicles should be re st rie(ted. Sammie Owvens 'Hustle Houlse' Juke BOX *Disgustinig ICditor: Although long opposed to many of the policies as set forth by the adlministrators of our benighted little institution, I have umnt il now b)orne my disgust wvith gen tiemanly dlemeanor andl remained discreetly silent; howe /er, the manager of "Hustle House," wvhose taste obviously goes no further than his mouth, has forced me to seize my quill in this fit of unbounded dletestation and give vent to my loathing of the condlitions existing at. "ifustle House" cafeteria. The manager of "Hustle Hoiue" hanertakn.nenn to ake D TO GET STAGE-FRIGHT, )CK." Better Week And by the time the holidays are over most of the students have completely forgotten that there was a Religious Emphasis Week. If the week is programmed for the Spring Semester-and it has been-then there will be more time with little interruption to have a good follow-up. The faculty advocated that the busy fall semester activities load be lessened and a committee com posed of those who have worked with RE Week in the past thought it would be a good idea to change the time. It is helieved th-it they have made a good change. * * * Veterans might. be interested in knowing that the Carolina Veterans Association recently wrote a letter to the Ifon. W. I. Rhodes, .1r., chairman of the South Carolina Ways and Means Committee in the House of Rep resentatives, urging the commit tee to consider the "bonus" bill that they have. The bill, House Bill No. 1952, was introduced on January 31. The bill proposes a ''bonus" pay ment to South Carolina veterans who have served in the Armed Forces during the past 30 years. The Carolina Veterans Asso ination is the representative of approximately 1,000 iiSC vet erans now attending the Univer sity. In hopes that the ''bonus'' would ease some of the financial difficulty of some of the veterans they are backing this House Bill No. .1952. Pete ria a morning visit to the cafeteria so whuolly distasteful and offen sive to the finer sensib)ilit ies of a dliscerniing piersoni as to pirecluode even the fleeting thbought of hirea4kfast. I refer, of coiurse, to the inst alIlat ion of a juke box. WVith this move, my dear sir, you have comnplet ely oliteratedI any a lpearianice of cnivilIizat ion --spe 'iouIls though it was - that "I1fust le I lou se"' may have had. Any mnus in at early morn is to be abhorre d, but to) sit th rough such inlsipId, nevoltLinrg drivel as Tleen Age l'rayer, lie, Cast Y'our liread 1'po the1 4WateI r, (etc., re quiries ra w coourage' indeed. If his is niot souffilnt toi 4 reduice one( to a gibbering heap, some' stumible bumn with a flair for the uninhibited will most assuredly sacri fice a sweaty lit tl Ico((in on thle altar of rock an' roll, brinig ing forth i such harblaiouis, uni civilizedl, ne4veri-janlglinig t hings ais TuittIi F"ruitt or wvorse', ye*t --See Shoui mly unrei(asonabile liust for aplel juice (ever' again drive meii to, act w.ithi s uch reck less abiandlon as would result in my en)teirig "'I!listl Hnouse'" before hiigh noon , anil soime cr ass redl neck d1ecide to) golad that joke box into aii'on, I fear dire con sequncents. Not only will I make no4 attemi1pt 44) suripress my nausea, hot I will Iry to thriow uip, p)referab)ly on the mainager. In (-onc'lu1sion, I wold ( enijo in the policy-inak ing boidy of the Un11iverisi ty 4to re'ad antd ponder the~ l.at in inscriiptioni oin our seal, althbough I mnust4 penrmiit mysel f someil d)is creeSt dloubt concerning their ability to translate. If you d(cide(, genitlenin, to take its im1port 4to hearit aiita nt regard it ais merei4 t riviai as you,l have in the paist, t.h4'n my priayer that you leavea the'*ii jk e boxes t.o the bistros anid teradle schools will not go) inbeededl. Name withhel,d by Ruest DEW JAMES 'Arrow L Anothe A man named Christian Dior, who hangs out in Paris and dictates fashion to much of the world, seems to have hit another snag with his latest "Arrow Look." for the ladies. Mr. Dior seems bent at aboli tion of the female anatomy, or at least a whole' series of his latest creations point'toward the destruction of all the features that distinguish man from woman. Mr. Dior came out with his "Flat Look," which to say the least seemedi a wee bit cramped. Then he added "H" and "A" and various other alphabetical charac ters. But, now his "Arrow Look" makes all creation heretofore nsignificant. The "Arrow Look" is thin, simple, and hides every trace of a curve. For some girls this will be nothing new, but for others, it will be impossible. Mr. Dior's styles would doubt lessly gain- in popularity if he made provisions for women to be women anid didn't try to convert them into something akin to the Washington Monument. * * * A small minority of the readers of this column appear to have a fanatic fascination for knowledge relative to the kinds of grass which carpet the Horseshoe. For the benefit of this minority which must have equal opportim ity in the pursuit of education, we will Iass along the following inform ation: The current greeness of the Hlorseshoe is due to an excellent BILLY MELLETTE Chess Boi A Check T1'hrough the years the noble gaime of chess has been a sot,rce of great interest and entertain in it. to people of every rank and :tation, and yet it is so very simple. A chess hoard is but a checker board, and upon it you place your kingdom: a king a tueeni, six officers, and eight paw~ns. To place thertt, beginl with a iook. phiciing him on the lower iight corner of tie board, on a whiitec stquare. F*romn thatt posit ion to the left are the knight, bishop, adg, queen, bishop, knight, and irook. The pawns sit in frtont, oni the secondtt row. Heing of the low etranik, thet tawns5 imiove oinly 'ine sqtiare forwarid lie'r miove. The. bishops niay go ats mantiy sq uarets as t hey pleatse, forwarmd UiIot bakward , fprovidled t hey movcie sidets of thei bioaird. The rtook, or ea;tle b, movi'es like the biishop~(' e rep t that lhe miust go ho'rizoutally ye vet icatlly. The quLee'inimoves wheremt slit wishtes t.o moave, wvhileI li( kinig goe(s but tonie squartte, aniy dlirection. Thbis explaiins houw all t 'ieces move( e'xcepjt thle ktnight , which we will comte to First we lhotuld learni abult liiwits, whti chii A are simle. TI'hey ievt e forwarid iotn' squairei at a t o, as sa id be foiri'. IExcept ini speia:l cases they do: if' it is (I) Itir first inove, t2 ) time ltaft tine', or () when a itwin hits ipr.ihed t het ithir endiu of te bhit,::it thlen it hetromes' at spiecial Gtt ig back tot the' knight, tor butt simplty; thfat is, fit moves two situares5 in one diiectioti andt one squnar' n fte ofther diiect ion, or ft' K t, it is nicessaryv to menmor-. ina few me'an t.hinigs abiouit fte h-aid andt hiow~ it is iinmberedt. Tti begitn, t fit queten is placedi on~ thit coltor square i thfat ite -en.blies her. i A bilatk qutieen gtes ie at blick sifuarie, coit nrar to A t hieirit' 1.ity. Shei plays t lie ed game.) This meiants thait thIe whtite' imen will have theit kinig, or * i, li hir right, whfile thet btlatk ititt wdil ha~ve th ' ftof their left. Tfakhinug thei white' meni to ntamet, thfi right flooik , tor It, is ecalledi Kiing's Ittiok, or K It. The Kt ad Iici'iit is 'Il' K.n ing's. t, or Dok' Hits r Snag growth of Winter Rye grass, or as it is called scientifically "Lolium multiflora" or perhaps "Lolium perenne," my source wasn't sure. Later on this spring, we can look forward to a flourishing crop of Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon) and Kentucky Blue grass (Poa pratenses), providing climatical conditions prove favor able. We would also like to her and now make a plea to these lovers of grass to initiate a cam paign to have fences installed around the various grass plots on the University campus. The trampling of some of these plots ' is no less than primitive, partic ular the plot in front of Russell louse. Another reader of this column, who supports rock-throwing at girls wonders where we obtain our "authoratative information." It may be some comfort to this reader to know that we do not contend that all this information is authoratative. Strangely enough the United States Constitution c o n t a i n s something generally referred to as the "Hill of Rights." People who seek a legal basis for the right to express their individual opinion have been known- to use these ten amendments (the Bill of Itights) plus other sections of the constitution as a basis. anothe'r appraiser declares that segregation tan he morally justi fied. Perhaps it en, but the Sooth hasn't done much to justify it of its own initiative. IIas it? ird Is But er Board Klt, and so oi thus: li 1 King's Icisho ), , , (2 3h, QKt, and QR. The stllares in frInt of these men a re inan-id after them), starting with 1 on the slquatre they are on. Thus the imwn (I) in front of K Kt is on K Kt', the opponent's 1Kt7. See? It is etnite simple. TIn fturther exlplain the Kt, we can easily see that a Kt on KB4 threate-w, K2, NKt2, KIM:, KR5, N K1t;, Ni;, l51r, and Q3. Since he does not th reattei the positions lIe twcen ina nid tihose listed, l is ac jumperic. A Kt is the only3 .nun11PerI, excep1t ini the spiecial ease ofi castlIinig, which is donec by the' riick , orc castlIe, talIled it. The it ennc juin thet K if tihe Nt and1 H haciVt aclre'ady ccccved anid l has n,aybect thit um~ps K. Anyhow, bis re'tt ty simiple'. TFc winc, a pclayer' muist pclace' thet '4 (opc i>sincg N uncdter attack, called cheet'k, an htllave' him t t so sur icimdld thait it is imptlossilet to meret out M~ ceck withoulit gett intg in tchteck againt, which is called chickmtate,. or miatte. A game may )13 alist end inc stailemate', which is a draw, ori inc a draw, which is not ac staltemiatte. It cmay also endtt ini I'erptual ch ickc and het called a draw. It is simlle. TIo beiginc placyinig, you shtouild krwci ccpeninlgs. The bi' est players inc thet wicrbi have wrlit ten thteir fir1st moi ve's dow c andc it have thtem in bookiIs writtenc as "()pt'nings.' I'inig's ixciniht's )t'efencet iln thet Kicnx g's (ishop'it )eg, Th ?leis lIishopc;'s cihirk ityi I )tttenc't jll thei Iinitg's Iiniighct's l)pcenin g, anid citherts. I Gacmbci in 5'thi, San. A citai.) Tc acidi inc h.acining thtese c.jicncg, crtin abbreccilliviat ions arle handcyl. A\ cdash meani s "motlves ti'o" ii ndc an\ Itmeans "'cauldcres." I''xchlnlnat ion cinct meanc Is "'goodti mcc a plts. "prectty gooid * X hc culdnc't hav donIliit thaut. -\ cccid bas'i' ininiccg is the in g's Kn ighct's (l)Plcing wiith the Ni11 ;'s icnit's Gambiiit 5thi lihnot Gambciit, wichl is I. K.lt, t. N.tIx.:t . N.lpK c .c-i . 8 . Ix il. t.113 N ii.P . 4 . cnadi thenc it shiud lolst' hiis head yori hacve' ai decidedl advancitacge anid cnl *4 K R&c'hick' 1 41. ,Jt. --- kNt.2 50QUix., i(K.5 , a the l chiiic'ainc g scili wiih fKgl ithiuk ! anduc scc i'crthi: 7 K.Q.QB I N QiII"ch N.it *IK.it.p. -1I(tXXX; A lQlttxx, siadie voidl, yoiu ave toio man1 Iy cardls. Hetter thick.