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I 48th YEAR 'ADAPR U OF PUBLICATION 'SANEXT EE (See page 8) UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volume XLVIX, No. 21 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLNA, MARCH 23, 1956 Cumpus L.3BrieJ Essay Deadline Announced Students interested in entering the competition for the Philo S. Bennett Medal must submit an essgy on "The Principles of Free Government" by April 18, Dr. George Sherrill has announced. The medal is given annually through a provision made in- the will of the late Philo S. Bennett. Further information may be ob tained from Dr. Sherrill. Rawlinson to Attend Meeting Alfred Rawlinson, chief librarian at McKissick Library, is leaving for Atlanta next week to attend a meeting of the executive board of the Southeastern Library Asso ciation March 30-31. The purpose of this meeting is to establish an agenda for the biennial conference of the Library Association to be held in Roanoke, Virginia, next fall. * * * Award for Constructive Ideas The Weldon- Award, worth $100, will be given on Awards Day, May 1, to the student submitting a constructive idea for the better ment of the University. Ideas must be submitted in script and must not be more than 2,000 words long. They must be submitted to Dean Arney Childs by April 15. The award is given by the Rev. Wilson Weldon, University alumnus. Judges for the award will be the student activities committee. * * * Library Association Will Meet The college section of the South Carolina Library Association is holding a conference at McKissick Library April 6-7 to discuss topics relating to library work. Some of the colleges attending are Clemson, Winthrop, Columbia College, Furman, Newberry, Wof ford and USC. * * * Applications for Engineering Society Requirements for membership in Epsilon Lambda Sigma, engineer ing honor society, have been an nounced by Len Baranski, presi dent. Applicants must be juniors in the engineering department, have a grade point ratio of at least 3.0, have high clas. standing and be active participants in other University activities. Applications are in the lobby of the engineering building, and must be submitted by March 30 to the society. . * * * Room for 50 In Pep Club There is still room for 50 more people in the Pep Club this year. Approximat,ely 150 applications were received in the membership drive. New members will be voted in at the next meeting of the ~)club. An initiation is p)lannedl for these new members. * * * P. E. Majors Elect Bill Stathius has been elected by the Physical Education Majors Club to head the group for next year. Other off icers are Bill Floyd, vice-p)resident; Neil Reid, secretary; and Sandra Hull, treas On Voting Is Proposed Students will soon have a chance to vote in a formal referendum on whether they wvant the actual num ber of votes which all candidates receive in future University elec tions to be giveni to the Gamecock for p)ublication. Student Body President Don Clark said that he was making the suggestion solely as an objective proposal of a "representative of the students." He also said that if the voice of the students was in favor of the referendum, it would be put into the bylaws of the Stu dent. Body Constitution. Citizens' C Meets To E By W. E. LEE Staff Writer The committee for organization of a Student Citizens' Council held its first public meeting Wednesday night at 7 p. m. in the University Field House. Forty-two members and guests attended. Tom C. Bradley, Columbia at torney and treasurer of "Spirit of '52" (a group that met to attempt to spur a complacent South into action), addressed the group. Mr. Bradley discredited the Supreme Court decision that ruled segre gated public schools unconstitu tional on the grounds that it was of psychological and sociological origin and that one of the two liti gants, the NAACP, was cited for testimony. Other individuals cited, accord ing to Mr. Bradley, were a com Group Sends Lt. Governor Resolution The committee attempting to or ganize a Student Citizens' Council on the University campus sent this resolution yesterday to Lt. Gov. Fritz Hollings: "Be it resolved that we, the undersigned, being the Student Citizens' Council Committee on Or ganization, do hereby commend and hold as highly justifiable the dis missal of R. L.. Morton from his position as page in the South Caro lina State Senate." There were 85 signatures on the resolution. New Method ( Cheerleaders I That "the election of cheerlead ers by the student body be done away with" was proposed by Al Perry at the meeting of the Stu dent Council last Monday. lie suggested that hereafter the cheerleaders he selected by a com mittee of about seven, including at least one faculty member. He said that it was a much better method of selecting cheerleaders. It was tried at the University of Okla honma and worked fone, he said. lie said that the system created competitive spirit and involved no "mass movement." There have been about 40 people each year in the past primary elections of cheer leader's at the University. The proposal has been approved at three meetings of the Student Memorial Fund Planned To Honor Late Professor As an expression of respect and affection for the memory of Dr. F. T. Rogers, a memorial fund is b)eing set up to link his name per manently wyith the Physics Depart ment. Because Dr. Rogers desired that the p)hysica conference room, which he helped establish, be a focus for study and discussion by students and faculty alike, it has been pro posed to re-name the conference room the "Rogers Room." Plans to mount a small memorial plaque on its wvalls and to add further ameni ties to the room along the lines that IDr. Rogers himself had in minid have been made. Contrilutions to a fund to make all this possible will be received at the Physics Department, Sloan Col lege. To place the fund on a defi nite basis, Professor A. P. French of the Physics Department asks that contributions be made not later than Friday, April 6. >mmittee )rganize munist and a Swedish sociologist who were totally unfamiliar with the situation. Mr. Bradley urged the group to r t avoid violence. He said, "The keys to successfully maintaining segre- c gation are organization and non violence. One misguided act of p violence by one of you will hurt all of you." "Paper Curtain" Denounced Mr. Bradley denounced t h e "paper curtain" which prevents the I Southern viewpoints from being published in the Northern papers. Mr. Bradley warned, "If children t play together they will intermarry i later. Therefore, mongrelization is e the ultimate aim of the integra tionists." Dr. W. E. Hoy of the University biology department was originally I scheduled to speak, but was unable to because of a business engage ment. Purpose Is Told Bob Newsome, chairman of the ( committee stated that the purpose of the committee is to "let people know of out existence and get , members. The citizens' council hopes to prevent intergration through dissemination of informa tion to counteract the hostile press that is printing half-truths. We intend to cooperate completely with the state citizens' council." Mr. Newsome said that "all patriotic white students are eligible for membership. Faculty are ex cluded, but," Newsome added, "faculty advisors will be selected later." Officers of the committee are Bob Newsome, chairman, and Carl Brazell, vice-chairman. )f Choosing s Proposed Council in accordance with the con situation, and in the vote of the last meeting there were 11 favoring with six opposing the proposal. Student Body President Don Clark I said that it would have to be passed by the student body to be an amendment to the University Con stitution. President Don Clark appointed a r committee of three students to pro pose a completed arrangement of selecting cheerleaders to the next r meeting of the Student Council. ' A ppointed to this committee were "Flash" McBride, Phil Moody and Al Perry.c 'Glass Menage By Players M Tennessee Williams' play, "The Glass Menagerie," will be presented by the University Players in Dray ton Hall March 25-28. The cast for the play are Charles Blackwell as the gentleman caller, Daphne Wilson as the mother, Jen rose Weldon as the daughter and Jack Scott as the son. The play appeared on Broadway in 1946 and was later made into a movie. The scene of the play is just off an alley in a tenement section of St. Louis. The mother, an erst while "Southern Belle," lives in her glamorous past. The daughter, an unhappy cripple, is a shy, retiring girl who spends her time collecting glass animals, from which the title of the play comes. The mother, eager for her daughter to be the "social butterfly" that she was, p)ersuades her son to bring home a gentleman caller. What follows has caused the New York Journal A merican y call the play "a mas terpiece of make-believe." L4aurette Taylor, Eddie Dowling, Julie Haydon and Anthony Ross had the leads In the Broadway pro duction. Chi Omeg Has Best Grades Chi Omega sorority led all ci us organizations this past sen er in regard to scholastic ai ges, according to Registrar H, trohecker. Chi Omega took the lead rade average of 2. Kappa Delta, also with a 2 a ge that was lower than )mega's, came close behind. Al] )elta Pi had the highest 3 aver vith Delta Delta, Zeta Tau Air 'i Beta Phi and Delta Zeta owing. Kappa Alpha with the lead 'hi Kappa Sigma led the fratei ies with 3 averages. The remi ng fraternities kept up a 4 ai .ge with, from higher to ' v igma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma psilon, Sigma Nu, Alpha ' )mega, Phi Epsilon Pi, Sigma ( 'i Kappa Phi, Phi Sigma Kar 'i Kappa Alpha, Lambda Upha and Kappa Sigma. The all-sorority average, vomen average and all-non-soroi verage were 3's, while the r nd women veteran average, ent body average, all-non-I ernity and sorority average, raternity average, all-men ai ge, all-non-fraternity men a ge, and non-veteran men aver vere 4's. Spring Term Registration Figures Tol The summary of this yei pring semester registration ording to the school and sex een released by Registrar H. trohecker. The enrollment was 873 lents in the College of Arts ciences with 652 men and vomen; 1,130 in- the School lusiness Administration with nen and 187 women; 494 in chool of Education with 251 r nd 243 women; 778 in the Scl f Engineering with 777 men ne woman; 102 in the School ournalism with 68 men and vomen; 105 in the School of I vith 102 men and three wom 77 in the School of Pharm vith 165 men and 12 women; 84 in the Graduate School v 36 men and 148 women. The whole of these studc nake a total of 3,432 men and vomen which total up to 4, There were 94 new freshr egistered and 169 transfers. luded in the veteran enrollm re 1,065 men and three wor vhich make a veteran enrollm f 1,068. rie' To Be zrch 25 In PLAYERS PRACTICE .. east practice for their pinodi Marchm 25-28. jack Scott coni Wilson and Charte. lackwel De as =y) May Q Named: m es- Twenty-six girls, dressed i er- judges to compete for finalisi 0. House auditorium Thursday e ing Harriett Dickert of the in of Chi Omega were chosen to )ha age ha, fol- f and ni- ' in er rer, Phi 'au shi, pa, Chi all 'ity nen tu ra- WHO WILL REIGN? ... O all- Dickert, Pat Arant or Carol Bra. 'er- over the University May Day fes 'er- the finalists chosen last week ini age beauties. (Staff photo by Bob Fil Dates And For Studen Student body nominations Student Council, according to committee. The primary elec ac- April 9, and the finals on We has ?- Students To Debate u- In National Meet nd4 221 Three debate members will re of present Carolina at New York 943 University 'i the Tau Kappa the Alpha National Debating Tourna nen nient March 26-28. ool nd Ted Drucker, Lewis Cromer and of Fred Le Clercq will attend the 34 tournament. Le Clercq and Cromer ,aw will enter as a debating team and en; in individual competitions. Cromer acy and will 1Sarticipate in after-dinner ,ith speaking and Le Clereq will com pete in the public speaking con nts test. 991 The University debaters was 423 granted a charter to Tau Kappa ten Alpha last December. Members In- will be initiated May 3. ent Some 64 schools will attend the men tournament to be held at WVash ent ington Square College of New York University. Presented Drayton Hall Members of "The Glass Menagerie" etlon to be given in Drayton Hall forts Jenrose Weldon while Daphne I register cneran. (Staff =photo by ieen F Vie A1 1 their sparkling evening attir s for May Queen. It was the h vening, March 15. dependents; Pat Arant, Pi Bet; be the finalists. te of these three lovelies, Harriet denburg, left to right, will reign ivities this year. These three are the contest from a hevy of 26 iley) Places Set t Elections will be held Tuesday by the Butler Derrick of the elections :ions will be held on Monday, dnesday, April 11. Nominations for the student body officers will be at 3 p. m. with the president of the student body pre siding, and nominations for class officers will he held at 3 p. m. with the respective class presidents pre siding. Nominations for senior class of ficers will be in room 115, for junior class officers, room 114, and for sophomore class officers, room 117, all in Davis College. The tryouts for cheerleaders will he held in front of McKissick from 3 to 4 p. in., with Jerry Beasley in charge. Nominations for representatives to the Student Council from the various schools will be at 2 p. m. in Davis College. Nominations for the School of Business Administra tion will be received in room 218; for the School of Education, room 216; for the School of Engineering, room 214; for the School of Jour nalism, room 217; for the School of Law, room 215; for the School of Pharmacy, ro.om 116; and for the School of Arts and Science, room 213. Knight, Martin Elected 'Y' Heads Carol Knight of Sumter and| Jimmy Martin of Greenville hav' heen elected "Y" presidents for next year at elections held last Fri day. Carol Knight succeeds .Judy Clarke of Columbia as YWCA president, and Jimmy Martin suc ceeds Flynn Harrell of Columhia as YMCA president. Other YWCA officers elected were Carol lobst of Danville, Va., vice-president; Mary Duke of Kingstree, secretary; and Sally McCants of Columbia, treasurer. The other YMCA officers elected were Frank Callcott, vice-presi dent; Marty Stork, secretary; andl Robert Freeman, treasur-er. All three are from Columbia. Snowden Elected President Of AKG Mary Ann Snowden of Winns boro has been elected president of Alpha Kappa Gamma, national honorary leadership fraternity for women. Miss Snowden succeedls Louise Poston of Kingstree. The fraternity was presented at its last meeting a 1928 Garnet and Rlack and a Gamecock issue with coverage on the founding of AKG by Honorary Member Leslie W. Edward, pastor of Kilborn Park Bantist Church in Col...ia inalists )ri 9th 3, paraded before a pianel of eauty pageant held in ItusselI I Phi and Carol Brandenburg In a process of gradual elimina tion, the judges had the task of selecting three finalists from nomi nations to he candidates for the 1956 Queen of May. The girls were nominated by the sororities and the Independent girls of the campus. Election Is April The student body will elect the May Queen at an election A pril 9. The run-offs will be held April 11. The girl chosen as queen will be crowned at the coronation to be held on May Day. Mrs. Florence Kohn of Kohn's Clothing Store acted as coordinator for the contest. As each girl ap peared on the stage, Mrs. Kohn de scribed her apparel in detail. Background music was furnished by Kenny Morris at the piano. Vir gil I)uffie, who is general chairman for May Day, was master of cere monies. Judges were as follows: G ren Seibels of station WIS-TV; Ruth Gottlieb, radio station VMSC; Bill Mimms of radio station WCOS; Kim DeFilipo, station WNOK-TV, and Nickey I,ourie of I.ourie's Clothing Store. May lDay I. May 1 May Day, which is sponsored an nually by Kappa Sigma Kappa honorary fraternity, will be held on the University campus May 1. Beside the coronation of the (ueen the following events are in eluded on the May I)ay program: a pie-throwing contest. sponsored by Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity; a lunch on the grounds; presentation of awards, sponsored by Omicron Delta Kappa honorary fraternity and the distribution of the Garnet and Black. Is Elgart and his band will play for the May Day Dance, which is to be held the night preceding May Day. Details concernling each of these events will be revealed latel. Other girls who participated in the contest were as follows: .1oy Ann Hull, Hosie Westbury and Ho Nelson of Kappa Delta; Betty WVall, B. J. McQueen and Carol Knight of the independents. Also, Mary Sloan, Barbara Dent and Mickey Caughman of Zeta Tau Alpha Marjorie Russ, A 1 p h a Kappa; Carolyn w oodar-d, Patsy Talbert and Jane Reid of Alpha D)elta Pi; Pat Quinin and Joyce Young of Pi Beta Phi. Also, Kay Baker, Grace Zimi miermanu and Louise P~oston of Delta D)elta D)elta; Agnes Moorer , J1oyce Moore and Amy Quarle-s of D)elta Zeta ; Saundra Hlarvjin and M itzi L.ewis of Chi Omega. Edutcational Radio Stationi Resumes P. M. Broadcasts Wi SC-FM , educational radio stat ion at the Uniiiversi ty, resumed its even ig broadcasts Tuesday. Lawton H. Wiles, stat ion manager. has announced. The station discontinued evening broadcasting last Sept ember. WUTSC-FM will broadcast fromi 7 to 10 p. n., Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings, and futuore plans call for extending the sched ule to five eveings per week. "'Music for Dining," featu ring semi-classical selections, and "Sym.in p)honiy Tinie," a program of classi c-al imusic, will be among the piro grams appearing on the schedule each ev'enintg. lIn addition, there will be various tape recordings of p)lays, stories, and folk songs aiid locally-produced programs by Uni versity faculty members, depart mnenits, and organizations. WUSC-FM also presenits a series of miornintg biroadcasta from 9 a. m. to 1 p. im., Tueaday through Fri day, featuring educational pro grams for classroom listeninig in Columbia schools.