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Engineeri Should Be A task force of the fiscal survey commis sion in its report to the South Carolina legis lature last week recommended that a study of the engineering schools of Clemson and Carolina be made. Its recommendation was based on the fact that there is duplication at the two schools in mechanical, electrical, chemical and civil engineering. The study would be conducted to see if these two should be centered at one school, presumably Clem son. As President Russell pointed out in his conference with the task force, a School of Engineering is necessary for a well-rounded university. Engineering lends support to the, mathematics, physics and chemistry depart ments, also important parts of the Univer sity. Removal would thus injure the Uni versity. At present, the enrollment of engineering students in the four branches totals 1097 at Clemson. The enrollment here is 859. The difference is slight. At present, Clemson and Carolina together are producing 20% more engineers for this state than North Carolina, which has centralized its engineering at NC Lucy E Autherine J. Lucy, 26-year-old negro who was expelled from the University of Alabama February 6 following riots at the campus be cause of her admittance, was readmitted and promptly expelled last week. University trustees are to be commended for their cool action. Miss Lucy was "permanently expelled" for making "false, defamatory, impertinent and scandalous charges" against university of ficials. The trustees said, "No educational institution can maintain necessary discipli nary action if any student, regardless of race, guilty of the conduct of Autherine J. Lucy be permitted to remain." Letters to the Editor Columnist Dear Editor: us the legal reas It was most heartening to me the basis for the to learn from columnist Dew segregation dec James' own statement in The I was to undf Gamecock of February 24 that same Congress the U. S. Constitution contains the 14th anendn "something generally referred to Constitution als as the 'Bill of Rights'." It would creating segregat not hurt anything if all editors in the District wvould read the "Bill of Rights" Kansas, which at least once each day, particu- one of the segrej larly what is generally referred segregated scho< to as the 10th amendment. proved the 14th I wvas taught that we had a had such schools representative republican form tion, ending wit1 of government, with a legislative sion, began. Obs bran~ch to enact laws, an execu- and Kansas (an( tive branch to put the laws into like circumstanc effect, and a judicial branch to tend that the: interpret the laws. I was also would e 1 i m i n taught that in interpreting the schools. Perhar laws it was the duty of the knowledge of la judIicial branch to determine us as to what what was enacted rather than U. S. Constitutic what the judges wished had been Supreme Court enactedl. to mean someth Mr. R. T. Maher, Jr. has noted by the lawmakii the outstanding legal ability of Richard columnist James. In- view of my lack of knowledge of the law, Dir~etory (and there are others in the same category wvho have dilscussed the Dear Editor: matter with me), it would prob- Last wveek ab)ly rendier a service to those of printedl a letter us who have not been exposed wvho apparently to Mr. James' sources of knowl- else lacked conyv edge, if Mr. James would furnish was saying, or W. E. LEE Hell-Fire An From B( For the last few week ends our sity over Greenm campus has been Invaded by a These worthi< singularly bothersome type of crolir a their-h idiot. He knocks on your door, mn- droves each wee tzoduices himself and announces miany Saturday that he is part of "a campus or- Open hooks,e ganization that is taking a stu- friendly gather (lent poll on rlgo.Hedoes terrent to their not say what campus or what or- engagemet or a ganization he represents- where on the p He then asks you if you would servos only to mind answering a few questions nods and a "nio for his poll. The uninitiated ing." Tell him usually are willing to cooperate, interested and Upon the completion of his inter- his. efforts with rogation, the victim is subjected in his eye. to an evangelistIc sermon of the I have hadi hell-fire a.ad brimstone variety, from the boy-i IF YOU WAVE EVER suf- continuity to I fered through this humiliating three spiels was experience, you know that I am peal, approximal referring to those crusading do- year-old. gooders from Bob Jones Univer- IT IS AST[ g Schools Separate State. South Carolina has one-half the popu lation of North Carolina, yet it is turning out 1956 engineering students while the sister state has only 1580 with its larger popula tion. Previously, there was a school of engineer ing at both UNC and State. The two were combined at State, yet the enrollment there has not increased greatly. The supply of en gineers for North Carolina has decreased. Such would undoubtedly be the effect if the South Carolina schools were centered at Clemson. The University engineering school was sur veyed this fall by staff members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The purpose was to improve the school of engi neering here and bring it up to date. The re suIts of the survey have been announced and the new program will go into effect next year. With a school that is already good and a plan for an even better one, it would seem unadvisable to combine with Clemson. Not only would a combination hurt the University, but it would also injure the state by decreasing the supply of engineers. penney cpelled Undoubtedly, Miss Lucy's return to the Alabama campus would have touched off more riots, possibly ending in her death, ac cording to one of the university's officials. Such action is deplorable but would probably have occurred. In -effect, the trustees in ex pelling Miss Lucy, were also protecting her life. She will not thank them for that. The move to expel was a clever one indeed. The university trustees showed great in genuity by expelling her. And now the next move is up to Miss Lucy. It appears at the moment that even she and her NAACP back ers are dumbfounded.-penney A Lawyer? oning which was This student, who hid behind Supreme Court's t h e name-withheld-by-request ision label, some four months after rstand that the publication has alleged that the which submitted Blue Key Directory violated the ent of the U. S. personal privacy of Carolina o enacted laws students. He then had the gall ed public schools to charge Blue Key National of Columbia. Honor Fraternity as being a was involved in "nosey society of curiosity-crazed ration cases, had snoopers," all this while refusing >Is when it ap- to disclose his own identity. No amendment and basis for his charges are men when the litiga- tioned. ri the 1954 deci- Just exactly what is "revealing 'iously, Congress and confidential" in the Directory other States in wvas not pointed out. es) did not in- While the editor has the 14th amendment privilege of honoring a request a t e segregated to wvithhold a letter-writer's s Mr. James' name, andl I agree in principle wv can enlighten wvith this practice, I do believe provision of the this privilege is abused when n authorizes the the letter makes unsubstan-tiated to interpret law and unwarrented charges. ing not intended Any information included in the ig bodies. Directory is available to the M. Sasnett III public at the University informa - ~ ti()n office or the registrar's of Fills Need fice, and no individual has been dJeprived of any person-al rights. As stated in the preface of the The Gamecock Directory, the most important by an individual consideration is meeting the acked courage or needs of the University students, iction in what he faculty and administration. both. Jack Bass d Brimstone. >b Jones 'ille way. anyone would attempt to ap ?s have declared proach a college student witi number one mis- such emotional, immature littk 'y come over in talks. They should realize that k end to see how whether wve are or not, we are they can spoil. used to being treated as adults losedl eyes and They should also realize that or ings are no de- thmoinofterlcuew insistent fervor,. aehadlctrs-b oe mnt of a p)reviouis rtoa rfsoswohv r desire to go else- ntdfcstuswhcoenc irt of the victim ndlgc h oprsni the ypahei ukornnufsh. ecuew w as I was say- If these Bob Jones students that you are not purpose for being here is to im. he will redouble prove the people to whom thel an inspired gleam sp.eak, or if Carolina were devolk bhree such visits tin,Ifeththysoudb nisters. Th(e only ~ecne.Hwvr hi r e found in the aist aoin r eindt the level of ap- jiete uptadepr Lely that of a ten- ce oantcsm usaloseorgansza OUNDItinN,IGee that t hpleos( e y fromacudse "You ever hear of the H HERB BRYANT Those W But Do 1\ The question concerning what i. wrong with the University Honor Principle has frequently come up. There have been a few comments in The Gamecock about this matter. Well, what is wrong with the Honor Principle? Why won't it work? What can be done about making it a better system at Carolina? The Honor Principle in itself probably isn't a very bad one. Where it seems to fail is in up holding the Honor Principle. In other words, it doesn't seem to work as it is set up now. PROBABLY THE ONE most concerned with the seemingly un workable system is the Honor Board itself. The Honor Board, which is made up of 24 elected student representatives, establishes policy foi the student body in all mat ters related to the Honor Prin ciple. But they are restricted. The pledge that students sign - but usually fail to read - at the beginning of each semester reads: "I will be bound on my honor not to engage in any dis honest or questionable practices of any nature and I will not be the means of another's doing so while at the University of South Carolina." R. L. MORTON No Unceri Man's first passion wvas a grunt. With evolution he has molded and shaped his emotions wvith color and song and speech. Sing we must, else go mad. Speak we must, else the throat choke and burst with silent truths. Speak we must, before it is too late. Listen. I am ashamed to be called a "Southerner." By biological ac cident, I, like most of you, am a native South Carolinian. With you, I am a student at the Uni vecrsity of South Carolina, a rather large school, admirably p)rogressive in everything except the desire to forget the past. Throttled by this slavish and soli tary stigma, we are not attempt ing to free ourselves. Uncon sciously we have been smothered and strangled with tradition, the so-called "Southern" tradition, a backward-looking and odious at titude appropriately attributed only to the United D)aughters of the Confederacy. FOR SEVERAL YEARS I have been a page in the State Legislature. They too form a iather large school. And this is a monumental session in 1956. Arrested by the decision of "nine evil old men" on the United States Supreme Court, they are inatent on circumventing move ments which would abolish segre gation of races in our state. Southern governors and legisla tors have been the embarrassing sound trucks for the South. Tem pered hy custom, they speak with weighty, obatreperous and ir ra tional voices. Never have they spoken for me and some of you. Never could they speak for those who feel as we do. Being a Southerner, my decry ing segregation Is worse than damning a venerable old god. But most gods are merciful and understanding; many Southern ers are not. Most gods are for giving and broadminded; most state legislators are not. Twelve miles below Columbia, on a b)luff overlooking the Coni garee Swamp, I was born. Clearly I remember racing through the haystack, noe the holy pasturea nor Pledge, Hobson?" ho Sign lot Read The Honor Council, six students elected by the Honor Board, handles infractions against this pledge concerning two things. One is concerned with cheating in class, copying a book report or some such related paper or copy ing out of a lab manual from another student. The infraction that the council normally hapdles is that concerning a student en tcring an open office and stealing ar examination or material re lating to an exam. BUT THE COUNCIL doesn't seem to handle many cases. Because there aren't many cases turned in. To date there have been two cases brought before the Council involving four students. In an attempt to see if there is anything wrong with the Honor Principle the Honor Board is go ing to conduct a survey on March 22 and 23. This is to he an opinion .oll. There will also he a number of discussions conducted with the various campus organizations by Honor Board members to get their opinions. The Honor Board is going about this thing in the right way. They are trying to find a solu tion to a perennial problem. They are taking a step in the right di t ection by going to the students to obtain their answers. Lain Song green and blithe with the con fusion of youth. The fields sang te us, and our b~odies ripened in the sun. My only p)laymlate was Freddy, a Negro, and nothing I cared about the color of his skin. He was as young and free as I and every moment as merry. Then, one day, my visiting Auntie, an enormous wvoman who smeared1 lipstick on her forehead whben she smiled, saw us dIrink ing from the spring. ith all the affected dignity of a Southern lady, she informed me that Freddy was a "nigger," and should never b)e caught dIrinking from that spring again. Freddy cowvered awvay dlumfoundledly. I wvas abashed. AUNTIE l)IEI) twvo years later, and both Freddy and I wvatched the funeral less than a hund(1redl yards from the spring. There I discovyered sudldenl y not sorrow, hut hatred. I wanted to kick dlirt in her embalmed face, a inee representative of all the ig norance and superstition of geni (rations past. But Fredldy cried, and all the fears of his young dark world cried( pity, not hatred. Now Fr,eddy is part of a Korean bllside, and he died for the grace of pe'ople like Auntie. But Auntitie's temper('amnt dlid not die with her. Her stu pidity is re flected and1( echoed in every Citi zns' Council ini the South todlay. This America is: Sing to me of the sunilight of the hunman spirit p)ouing through openi wi ndows. This the South is: SInur to me youtr syllables of interposition. Tlhis A merica is : Show, dlon't. dIream to me of human dignity. This the South is: Move to the rear of the bus. CROWINC FOE UNIVERSITY OF 5 Membier of Assocli F?ounded January 30, 1908, with editor, "The Gamecock" is pubilil University of South Caroiina wee year except on holidays and durn The opini ons expressed by columni earily those of "The Gamecock." -ndo....... -rh. .ua .o e.. -s DEW JAMES Upin M( Down Ii The mountains are beautiful this time of year. There's just a touch of green, but not enough foliage to hide the tinkling streams and the "baby" falls. The trout streams have that glistening fascination as they churn their paths around the boulders and drop from one level to another down the mountains. We drove from Tryon to Ashe ville, mostly via 176. We altered our course a little by cutting off on a rustic dirt road that wound its way around the mountains by mountain cabins and shacks and through a tunnel that produced an intriguing echo when we blew the horn. It is said that one man died and a well-known newspaperman faded into oblivion because poli ties built 176 where it is and not further down in the valley. WE SAW PINICKERS hav ing Sunday lunch at their cabins. We saw road-side dispensaries dispensing apples in baskets and apple cider in jugs. We even saw n genuine whisky still on display by the side of the road (not operating, of course). We saw dilapidated water mills scattered through the hills rot ting. We saw the water wheels from them ornamenting lawns in mountain towns and adding a touch of the old to mountain cabins of modern construction, reminiscent of an almost dead era. The sun floated above the mountains in the west as we drove through Flat Rock on our w:ay to Greenville from Asheville. JACK SCOTT The AvE Somewher No category designated by men can contain a whole man. Blackness is a category of men so far as skin color goes. But because a man is black, he is not only black. He is more, much more than that. He is, first of all, a man. Ignorance of the similarities and emphasis on the differences leads to dogmatic rigid sub-classification. I have never met a white man who was completely ignorant. I have never met a black man who was completely ignorant. FROM THAT IT WOULD SEEM that repressentatives of the black man and the white man would b)e able to meet with some degree of muntualI intelligence. Being human, they can both work andlC play and bleed when they're cut. They can both learn a good p)art of wvhat they're taught, orr at least those I've seen can. But I may have no ticed only the excep)tions of both races. I adlmit I have no right, or reason, to say anything about all Negroes andl all whites. It's possible that all the Negroes that I haven't seen are nothing but ignorant blackguards, and that all the whites I've missed are white angels who live perfect lives so they can die andl go to a segregatedl heaven-. I don't know andl I'm not going to take atnybody's wvord for it. Butt, of the many millions of people there are, let me talk about the few thousand I have seen. There were Poles, Italians, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, In dians of bo0th kinds, Chinese, Japanese, Irishmen, Scotsmen, Jews, Englishmen, Catholics, French men, Raptists, and Hawai inns. And more. All of these pteop)le have been persecuted, ridliculedl andl danmned to some de(gree iln their time, too. And, oh, I forgot! There were some p)ureblooded Americans, I think. They didn't have their pedigrees, hut I took their wvord for it be causeI5 they insisted that they were nothing but 100 per cent. Generally speaking, most of these various people I have met were American citizens-maybe not Americans since the Garden o,f Eden, but citizens of this pla1ce nevertheless, despite the IA GREATER OUTH CAROLINA ed C.ohegiate Press Robert Elliott Conmakes as the first med by and for the students of the dy, on Fridays, during the college Sexaminations. ats and letter writer, are not aeces. Pubising doe, not constitute ma )untaims, ri Town There wasn't time to look up Carl Sandburg. I wish there had been. So we drove and the sun dropped behind the hills .. . Every town I suppose has in its citizenry a few of those who deviate from the norm enough to bo considered "odd," and I sup pose that they themselves and this outfit called society assisted in creating the oddity. MAYBE IT'S "UMBRELLA SMITH" who carries his umbrella on sunny days and forgets he has one when it really rains. ... Maybe it's the Negro mar who is a grown-up kid and roams around the neighborhood surviv ing by doing odd jobs. Some of his employers pay him in fake badges, pins and other junk be cause his "little" mind somehow learned to .place high value on these ornamental objects and be cause they came cheap to his em ployer. Both conclude the trans action quite satisfied.... MAYBE IT'S THE woman soon to start her 60's who clutters the walls of her house with all makes of degrees supposed to testify education. Yet, she's a quack. The mental strain was too great for her. She never found a man.... Or maybe it's the intellectual historian who went blind before he was 30 and writes bits of his tory for the weekly newspaper. Sometimes he tells you how he was engaged once and broke it eft because he knew he was going blind.... Maybe ... ;rage Is e Between fact that they can't brag on an cestors who kicked the Redman around and down. What's more, they've sort of gotten used to the idea of being American, and now even band together on cer tain occasions. Later, after the color scheme of things had run the gamut of Blue and Gray and after the tractor had run- the mule that had replaced the slave out of business, the black man became a citizen, a theoretical peer of any other citizen. And what's more, he, too, decided he liked the idea fine. Article XIV says "no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop crty, without due process of law; nor dleny to any person within its jurisdiction the eqjual protection of the lawvs." I don't know how that got Article XIV wvritten into the Constitution, or why, unless the writers figured that it would cost the government too much to4 return the slaves. By that time, the ex-slaves didn't want to go back anyway. i'm like every body else; I dion't know what that law means if it doesn't mean what it says. ONE THlING'S FOR SURE: that law is eventually going to say do or it's going to say don't. Lawvs are like that even if people aren't black and white and nW maybe. If the verdict is"D in regard to nationwvide integra tioni, the.n one minority is going to suffer in consequence; if it's "'DON'T," then the other is goin to have to lose.W Southerners tendi to judge Ne groes as a whole by the worst and1 most consp)icuous represen tatives of the rac*e. But-and I'll be told I'm wrong-these same Southerners judge themselves as a wvhole by the best, not the worst of their classes. Is that fair? It doe's explain. their strong stand for segregation, though. Northerners or supporters of the racial opposition prevalent in many northern states, on the other hand, tendi to judgeth . Negro race by its best educated and most "civilized" representa tives. That's no fairer, It's their cause for integration. The average is somewhere 1between. The average caun be raised by ediucation: separate, but equal, if you like for the p)resent, but the "sep)arate" condition may have to be removed by majority rule. This majority will be com I)osed of people like you and me -peole of minority groups whose (dominant characteristic Is not necessarily black skin. This majority may dlecide that color, like beauty, s only sin deep