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Women I The announcement this week of the scho lastic averages for the fall term brought with it the highest sorority average for the past five years. It is believed that this 2.902 average is the highest sorority average at Carolina for all times. The women's averages are higher this year than for the past five years. All sorority, all women and all non-sorority women averages have steadily improved over the past five years. In startling contrast are the men's averages. All fraternity, all men, all non fraternity men, all veteran and non-veteran averages have steadily declined during the same period. Consequently, the student body average has dropped, averaging 4.058 for this semester compared to 3.789 for 1950. Several explanations for this difference have been advanced. As far as sorority and fraternity averages are concerned, the girls Many Tlani The student activities fee has been raised. In the February 17 issue of The Gamecock, an editorial called for an increase in this fee, possibly as much as $5. The administration this week announced that the fee has been raised $1.50 per student each semester. If the increase had been in effect this se mester, $2,527.50 more would have been available for distribution between campus or ganizations, the majority of which need more money. They will need more money next year Letters To The Editor Should Love Dear Editor: of it. I was born a Yankee, by what When crimes might in R. L. Morton's words taken place in be termed a "biological accident," go unpunished a but which I prefer to think a that are happer piece of rare good fortune. I'm truly am ashai not ashamed of it. It happens worse now, the that in general terms I agree if you speak with the stand on segregation loose your job. taken by Mr. Morton and an grace and we increasing number of other country. Southerners. I am a hous Nonetheless, his column two no job to loose weeks ago left an unpleasant freely, when I taste in my mouth. As a Con- Morton has told necticut Yankee, I know what it concerning stat is to love my own state, my own southern governc part of the country. This, in a gation issue. Southerner or a Californian, or admire his spunl even a native of New Mexico, for young men I I could well understand. I can In closing, I'I readily understand enough love hope Lt. Gov. and pride to do everything to this; I wonder better one's home, or home-state. with me for thin Very readily, I can also under- that he is a firs stand deep resentment of outside F interference. Yankees were con- T cernedl with states' rights a hun dIred years and longer ago. The Fugitive Slave Laws brought ColUn Ter riots and Yankee legislation that 'Utter Tripe soundls surprisingly like today's Dear Editor: nullification and imterposition "No Uncertait resolution. In 1859 Wisconsin actually threatened to secede appeared on the from the Union if the Fugitive your Marchl 9 is Slave Law were enforced there. <lomeustmgoy of It (the War Betwveen the glom~ ero of States) was a wanr in which each Ihv vrra soldier could take pride in his neurotic depravit enemy, his brother. This much inliaprr is a proud tradlition wvorth koep- (ceedmngly poor t ing. To tell the other things of I condemn the which South Carolinians can be M~or ton, as a proud would be to write a history scalawvag andi a of the state. This pride and love South. of tradition a Yankee can under- If he's asha stand. Connecticut is an old Southerner, he si state,too. .stay out. Youc Because above all else wve are there he wil(fi A mericans from wvhatever part herethen thei of the country, we must think Soten rai first of the law of the land-- looking and o but that includes the laws of the amaze~d that yo state andl the right of the states such indiserimir to change them with the passage Th POPL If I must say anything at all w~anit segregatic here on the segregation issue, let inecans they wvil it be only to urge all Southerners Morton's is a to look into their hearts and see crymng in the if they are really (doing all they stupidity. can to reduce racial ten-sion, to Earl. improve the lot of the Negro. If Editoi the North is wvrong to push, I TIhe ( think the South is as mistaken to ~ waste its energy in nothing more Salesmen Mu constructive than resistance. Blarred Fror I remain a proud Yankee, for all the fools in my own state. The following I'd like to see Southern pride, forwarded to so well justified andl pride of all from the Dean o people in- their homes, reflected D)ear Dean .Jack in something more worthy than Of course, you hatred and bitterness, me personally, I Thomas A. Tenney just two years _______University. Unfi biefore I rce'iver( Spunk And Courage made a mistak Admired By Floridian costing a sizal money. I hope To the Editor: this letter may In behalf of Raymond Morton, ing others fromr I'd like to say. I admire his mistake. courage and spunk. I, too, am a Are you famill southerner and truely ashamed surance salesmen lent' Men have an entrance exam requirement of 50 for freshmen, 52 for transfers before they can go out for rush week. The boys have a 48 for freshmen, 50 for transfers requirement. Another explanation has been that "the professors are cracking down on the stu dents." Possibly, this is true. If so, why have the girls not had a lower scholastic rate? The entrance exam requirements instituted in 1954 by the University cut out approxi mately ten per cent of those taking them. The ten per cent would probably fail at the end of their first semester. Therefore, the stu dent body average would, it seems, be higher since that time. Although it shows no ex ceedingly great drop, the student body aver age is lower. No definite reason can be given for the higher women's averages. But, the averages do indicate that the men have plenty of room for improvement in scholarship.-penney cs For Raise and it is apparent that many of them will receive it. The new increase will go into effect with the coming fall semester. The total fee will be $16.50. Of this $8.50 will go to athletics and the remainder will be distributed among student organizations. Many thanks to the administration and to the student activities committee, which re quested the increase, for raising the fee by $1.50 per semester.-penney One's State dormitories each spring looking such as have for graduating seniors? Well, in Mississippi can case you're not, these salesmen ,nd other things come in just a few days before ing all over, I graduation and force their insur ned. And still ance policies on the students of same as Russia the graduating class for that rour mind, you year. When I say "force" their it's really a dis- policies, I mean exactly that. all this a free And this is a practice that should lie stopped immediately! ewife and have I tried to get rid of the in so I can speak surance salesman that called on say Raymond me by telling him I didn't have the exact truth the money, but he said he'd e senates and accept my note. He came up rs on the segre- with a special "college graduate" lgain I say I plan Whereby the first years in and thank God surance is fre' provided ycu ike him. keep the policy a minimum of I say I surely four years. Then I told him I Hollings reads would run a great risk of being Nhat he can do drafted into the army during king and saying the next few years. lie came back t class heel, by saying that in the event I sy Walters was drafted the company wvould impa, Florida not hold me to( the note therebiy -- keeping up their ''good will." I g ave upi the fight. I (lid very well financially (luring the next year wvhile I was working andl had I c'ontinuedl my Song," which job I wVouldl have had no trouble editorial page of keeping up the p)ayments on the ue, wvas the most policy. But as fate wvouldl have rustrating con- ,it, I was (drafted into the army. Ltter tripe that Shortly afterwvard I got a bill I. Exemplifying from the insurance company for y, it was shock- about $300. I dug out the p)olicy ate andl in ex- and was going to write them the aste. sadl news about my being drafted writer, Mr. R. L. when I began reading the fine misguided sub- Print. I'll have to have the diisgrace to the amount financed and begin an additional series of installment med to be a payments. ould get out and I blame nobody but myself for an rest assured the predli(ament I'm in, but the d no sympathy thing that.. hurts me most is the calls precious fact that I dlidn't need or want ion "backwvard- thle policy; it wvas forced on me. dious." I am Ireally think that something ai would permit should be (lone about this prac ate writing to tiu'e. I wvould suggest that sales ewspaper.me ofeeytp be and of the South fo h nvriycmu n n, and by all frmtedrioesAsudn I have it. Mr. shudnvrhv toptpa sniveling voice fih aais ahg-peur wilderness of salesman, in his own dormitory rooms. D. Short, Jr. George S. Brown ,The Birigadie' (E tr's~' Note: Rule 12 on itadel piage 17 of the Carolina hand -~ book states that soliciting with ouI le ouit ai permit should lbe reported ri Dorms to the campus police.> letter has b)een The Gamecock Campus Enthusiasm f Men. Certainly Unusual won't remember Editor: 'mt I gradluatedl The enthusiasm this week ago from the over the lectures of Dr. Frederick >rtunately, even Pottle is somewhat unusual for I my diploma, I this campus. Students have that is now showvn so much interest that the dle amount of lecture's this week wvere held in hat my writing Drayton llall in order that all ucceed in keep- might have seats. In fact stun nking the same dents hav(' shown so mutch in terest that something appears a ar with the in- little odd. that Invade the The truth .s that the English HERB BRYANT Carolin Exception Students are going to have a e chance to say whether they think p the total number of votes an t individual receives in an election t should be published in The d Gamecock. It is probably a pretty well L known fact that The Gamecock i staff thinks they should be pub- a lished. b The Gamecock was the only v college newspaper represented at s last semester's Associated Col ligiate Press Association Conven- t tion that isn't given this in- - formation. Colleges from all over v the United States and parts of v Canada were represented at the convention. And (excuse me for repeating myself) everyone of them are given the voting h results to individual votes ex cept The Gamecock. ' Z DOESN'T IT SEEM like a l pretty sad state of affairs when y the University of South Carolina v has to be the one exception to u the rule? This writer thinks so. s If there is some sound reason why individual voting results c should not be printed, they are $ not known at this writing. t Voting results should be a printed. Any person running in an election shouldn't mind if the t number of votes he received are printed, or he shotldn t be run- t ning in the election in the first s place. t One of the purposes (and it 1 seems t he best one) of a univer- ii sity is to train students for a public life. e And can you imagine the total v number of votes a mayor, for s DEW JAMES St. Bridg lo St. I "Leap) year" says Admiral e Charles F. Martin or the Astron- t omy Departmtent, is a year con- h~ taining 3(60 days occurring every s four years, except in years having I two zeroes as finoal digits., Every d year exactly divisible by four is a ui leap year, for example 1940, 1944, v and 1956. Sometime int the long dark 1b past, leap years attained an y add(ed significance . . . that of ex- p tending thle prilvilege of "p)opping the question" to the fairer sex. t ONE STOlhY lhAS IT that d the idlea originated in Ire-t land with no less a personage I han St. Patrick. According to the story of St. Patrick, after having r dtiven the frogs out of the hogs andl the snakes out of the grass, ~ was walking the shores of LoughI Neagh when be wvas accosted by ~ St. Bridget. She tearfully in fotmed him of' dissention among ~ he ladies over the fact that they r wvere denied the privilege of pro posing matrimony. Despite his personal devotion to a celibacy, St. Pat rick wvas so moved that he offered to gtant the privi- v lege of' proposing to the ladies one l year outt of every seven. St. I Biridget, according to the story, t threw bet arms n'round his neck e at this uand exclaimed, ''Patrick, jewel, I dauttn't go back to thet gutIs wid sutch a p)roposal. Make t' it wan year in four."t "Biddy, squteeze me that way s again and Il give yout leap-year, p the longest one of the lot," St. y Patrick replied. s St. Bridget, having been gteatly t department has apparently bribed a stuidents into at tendlance. In t fact, I am getting, mutch t.o my t pleasutre, a "free" parallel re port.I rindoubted ly, I willI receive o tmtch inf'ormation from these o lectutres, as wvill tany others who e atte'nd, butt let us try to fool no ui (nse- the, majorityoaf the Calnan a -An To Rule xample, receives not being ublished in the newspaper. If hey were left out of the papers, he people would rise up and emand that the total number of otes be printed. People in public fe are not content with the mere act that a person won or lost n election; they want to know y how much that individual ron or lost, depending on the ide they are on. Let's hope that this will be he case with Carolina students -that they will not be content rith knowing that their candidate ron or lost, but by how much. At last. The University's activities fee as been raised. IT HAS BEEN raised $1.50. 'his is a reasonable amount. The ist time it was raised was six ears ago. Therefore, in keeping rith the passage of time and pping of prices, $1.50 is rea onable indeed. This will mean that the various ampus activities will share in a 5,527.50 increase. And the ac ivities are in dire need of this dditional aid. This individual increase upped he tuition and university fee the activities fee is included in he latter) to $99. Although ome students had a pretty rough me paying the old amount, it )oks like that while they were creasing they could have added nother dollar and made it an ven $100, but it is a step for rard for the University as it tands. et Said patrick ncou raged allowed her mind to rail away to thoughts of her own usbandless condition and on the pot "popped the question" to St. 'atrick. But he, maintaining his evotion to bachelorhood, patched p the difficulty as best he could ,ith a kiss and a silk gown. EVER SINCE, concludes the agend, if a man refuses a leap. ear proposal he must pay the enalty of a silk gown and a kiss. Actually, there also is a his :>rical basis for extending the proposing privilege" to the ladies uring leap-years. It goes back to he following law enacted In Scot md in 1288: "It is ordained that during the eign of her,most blessed Majesty, or the year~ known as leap-year, maiden lady of both high and >wV state shall have the liberty to ropose to the man she likes and Ithough he refuses to take her to e his lawful wvife, he shall be ex ected to pay a sum of one pound; xcept and if he can prove he is etrothed to another woman, he hall then be freed." This legal ordinance may pro ide some insight into the present aguage used by those In the 'gal profession and particularly hose who engage in the practice C law-making. Thlese must have b)een times of )lpsy-turvynless anid some of the ixed-upness must have migrated New England. Even now It is aid that the superstition Is revalent there that during leap. ear "heans grow on the wrong ide of the pod," whichever side hat is." tudlents are not as genuinely In erestedI in literature as the at L'ndanc~e recordi shows. The lectures were certainly f interest; andi the presence f D)r. P'ottle on campus Is a redIit to the University, but let a not learn to be hypocrites. COLUMNISTS ANSW From Bel Gray Typ Even though we do not know the group John Graham Altman challenged to a public debate in a letter appearing in last week's Gamecock -- nauseating liberals hiding behind rose-hued type writers, he called them-the undersigned group who sit openly behind gray typewriters have prepared this published answer. We did not want Mr. Altman to be disappointed. You complained, Mr. Altman, that your friend Kermit King's letter to The Gamecock was never published and then you decry that even "more unfortu nately" the letter was never answered. Who are you trying to fool, Mr. Altman? Being so familiar with Mr. King's letter, you must surely know that it was not printed simply because it was over 1,000 words in length and quite clearly stipulated that it be printed in its entirety or not at all. A letter, as you should also know, Mr. Altman, was returned to Mr. King with the explanation that his letter was too lengthy but would be published if shortened W. E. LEE What Mai Go To L( There are many internal fac tors that influence the amount that each student learns during his years of formal education ability, interest, willingness to learn, tenacity and guts, to men tion a few. There are also many external factors, such as quality of instruction, pleasantness of surroundings, accessibility of facts and integrity of instruction that are indispenable to educa tion. Although the external contribu tors are indispensable, I am sure that we would all agree that an education is impossible without the internal assistance from the student himself. My point is ob vious - you can drive a student to the fountain of knowledge but you can not force him to drink thereof. THIS IS TRUE even when the fountain is of such abudance as Dr. Frederick Pottle, the emi nent lecturer and scholar who de livered four lectures here during the past two weeks. Many students who were in terested in hearing his lectures were turned away because there was not sufficient room in the auditorium. If this overflow crowd had been the result of a spontaneous stu dent interest in Boswell, Warren, Brooks, et al, the exception would have been indicative of a highly laudable cultural and intellectual pati,ern on our campus. However, this was not the case. The tre mendous crowds for the series was due to an assortment of bribes offered students by the English department. The rewards for attending one or more lec tures variedi from free cuts and elimination of book reports to the dropping of low grades. This was neither spontaneous nor laudable. The end result of CROWING FOR UNIVERSITY OF SO Member of Associagtd Founded January 30, 1908, with Ro editor, "The Camnecock" is published University of South Carolina weekly, year except on holidays and during e: The opinions expressed by columnists sarily those of "The Gamecock." P endoremwent. The right tu edit is re; EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGERt ASSISTANT MANAGING; El) NEWS EDITOR CAMP'US EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR SOCIETY EDITOR FEATURE ED)ITOR CIRCULATION MANAGER ASSiSTANT BUSINESS MAN PHIOTOGRA PH ERS CARTOONIST STAFF REP Lewis Cromser, M arsha Wisec Fischer, Jerry Sanders, Hiarry Melba Corley, Bill Askinson, N Ronnie Bern, Mac Hill, Norman COLUMN~ Billy Mellette, Pat Treacy, D)ew Scott, W. E. Lee. BUSINESS Jimmy Turner, Windv Mullinax luck,r Bill 1Kay, J..-e He_ .r ER iind The ewriters to 300 words. We fully recognize and are familiar with the debating abil ity displayed by you and Kermit King before leaving our benighted undergraduate world. Therefore, our untrained group would con cede any public debate to you two-on your ability, however, and not necessarily your case. (Even so, you might have men tioned the topic in your chal lenge.) And that is all we feel would be proved by public debate, Mr. Altman, that when teamed with Mr. King, you would prove to have the superior team in formal debate. By the same token, we feel that 0 if you engaged Sugar Ray Robin son in a boxing match attempt ing to prove white superiority, you would fail. Right? One last remark regarding your letter, Mr. Altman, the word is "scalawag" and not "scallowag." Carolyn McClung W. E. Lee Jack Bass Dew James le Them ;ctures? these bribes was that students who were not interested in the topics of the lectures crowded out Dthers who would have liked very much to hear America's foremost Boswell scholar speak on Boswell ur to hear a colleague of Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks discuss the New School of Liter ary Criticism. Some interested parties came from as far as Georgia and North Carolina to hear the lectures. THERE IS CERTAINLY much to he gained in having students who were unfamiliar with the topics hear Dr. Pottle, for they had most to learn. In fact it would have been advantageous had the entire student body been snabled to attend; but the Russell House auditorium has limited facilities and the entire student body simply could not squeeze in. Somewhere, there had to be a limit. If open house were held in some ,f our more popular courses, such as D)r. Havilah Babcock's "I Want a Word," visitors would overflow the classroom and some regularly enlrolled students could not get in. They would be justly irate at their disenfranchisement exactly as the English majors, instrue tors and graduate students were ut not igeing able to attend what amounted to "their course." This group was not disenfran ehised by interested parties, eager to hear the lectures, but by dis interested underclassmen, many of whom were quite bored. Dr. Pottle was undoubtedly pleased with the large turn out he received; however, I feel that he would have been even more pleased had his audience been made up of students whose desire to learn brought them out rather than the artificially created au dlionce that the English depart melnt bribed into attendance. Ae GREATER UTHI CAROLINA Collegiate Pres. bert Elliott Couzales as the firs by and for the student. of the oFridays, during the college and letter writers are not aecee bllahing does act constitute es PATSY PENNEY E HERBERT BRYANT KAT ANTHONY TOR Roy Williams Nancy Fox Sylvia Hanna Sid Badger Bairbara Hawthorne Mary Alice Carhart Billy Bruce AUGE R Carol Shockey Bob F"inley, Wayne Patrick Richard Alpert ORTrERS art, Carol WVatson, Marcia Taylor, Barbara Wright, ed Borden, Linda Cauthen, Spell, Jerry McGuire. I STS James, Herb Bryant, Jack STAFF Marion Sipgley, Edith B..