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Two rf Marred ] Two features marred student elections this week - all bi-annual problems. One had looked near a solution last fall. Posters again were torn down. It was thought that eventually' students would be allowed to place their posters on buildings since posting on trees with anything but tape or string is discouraged and bulletin boards practically non-existent. But such was not the case. Posters on most buildings remained intact even after elections but those placed around Russell House were down before elec tions even started. The reason - "It doesn't look nice." Granted, it may not look so nice to people off campus, but on campus the posters have a special significance. Leaving them up for three or four days could do no great harm and yet could help campaigners and give spirit to the campus. If posters cannot be placed on the build ings, sufficient bulletin boards should be provided. The board outside the cafeteria is too small. A portable bulletin board to be placed in the main lobby and a board outside Results Mc The outcome of the student body referen dum this week on the release of votes to The Gamecock for publication was overwhelm ingly in favor of the paper. The results may be seen on the front page today for the first time. The vote was 3-1 in favor. With this added provision, elections come closer to being what they should - a training ground for city, state and national elections. Students now have come into their right to know. In selecting student committees, de feated candidates who placed high in student esteem can be known and therefore chosen. A Free Next Tuesday a student body dance will be held in Russell House auditorium. The dance is free and is sponsored by the Student Union Committee. The free movies which have been offered two times a month this year have been spon sored by this committee also. Average at Letters To The Editor Offers New r Editor: knowledge of I I would like to propose a plan In its former which would equate those stu- cedar was just a dents wvho are taking only nine this lovely tre< hours a semester and those tak- contract of the ing as many as 24 hours. This modern ra~mp aj would be for purposes of Deans gular shape< List, Free Cuts, etc. Russell House. Suppose student "A" has taken I have beeni and passed nine hours with an scaping and grc average grade of three while I was "knee-h student "B" has taken and passed hopper, and in 24 hours with an average grade present positioi of four. Is student "A" more the only place capable than "B"? Certainly not. campus. My plan is to take the average Dr. Coker mi grade, multiply it by nine (the edly planted ti minimum number of hours for- forethought ol matriculation) and divide by the someday this number of hours passed. beauty to be a If this plan is adopted, I be- ands on our car lieve 1.5 should be made the in its present equivalent of what a three rep- certain that Ia resents now. (This could, of cent of our stut course, be accomplished by mul- the tree in its tiplying by 18 rather than nine.) (I will venture Now concerning the Free Cuts Miss Fox.) List-I think a student should I think the be allowed unlimited cuts if he who decided to makes a three in the particular Russell House course under consideration. At the back for present a student can have un- "beauty and ga limited cuts and still be flunking century's gros everything he is presently tak- where it will b ing. Hie should be allowed un- I have just limited cuts and if he makes a Coker has pass three in the course, he passes wvorld; therefo: no matter how many cuts are to suggest tha credited to him (provided it this tree be pla doesn't exceed the present limit.) memory. This would seem more practical than the present system since your status is geared to what Art and M you are doing presently rather .. than what you did last semester. Faedlities (J I believe this would eliminate Dear Editor: the unfairness to students wvho We, the -stud are taking "heavy loads" and shouIld encouras those who are improved corn- a new Fine A pared to last semester. wouldl he a gr C. Robert Karl welfare and culi and state. The Tree Planted in the average With Forethought "it m ay bera To the Editor: readly lacking irl "Though we profess no great of its culture. knowledge of landscaping." May stand by andi l I say this fact in the article art fall by the "Grace and Beauty Desecrated" the lack of lnte was misstated. The author should of its most 'i have said "Though I profess no people, the pres 'atures Elections Russell House would come close to solvin the problem. The boards could also come int use at other times during the year for ai nouncements to the student body. The second feature was the election of th Student Body Vice-President. For year there has been but one candidate. This pas fall there were six in the primary and tw in the run-off. The race was a keen one. When nominations were made befor Easter it appeared that again there would b a keen race. Then one candidate withdrev The election was back in its old ways. While the single candidates for all the elec tions have undoubtedly been good men, a rac is better. The office of vice-president is a important one. It should be treated as such. With many good men in the Law Schoo from which the vice-president must come more than one should be willing to run. Ma spring elections next year find at least tw campaigning. Correct these two features and election may well prove to be more of a success. penney ay Be Seen The benefits are many. The Gamecock has campaigned before fo: release, most especially in the last four years But this year, the most important step wa taken - the decision by Student Council t< hold a referendum. Council is to be com mended for its action. Had the step bee taken by past student councils which hay considered the problem much trouble wouli have been avoided. "Action speaks loude than words." The student body is to be thanked for vot ing to take the step forward.-penney Dance tendance is 200 students. The Tuesday dance, another part of service for the students, will feature a combo Dance time is 8-11 p. m. The committee is working to provide en tertainment for the students. The student can show their appreciation by attending th dance Tuesday night.-penney 'Ian For Cuts ndscaping." the future businessmen, home location this red makers, lawvyers, and doctors< Lnother tree. Now South Carolina. emp)hasizes the On May 20, 1955, The Gam< symetry of our cock stated that a newv $300,00 ~ainst the rectan- IFine Arts building was to I f our beautiful comp)leted by the fall term< niterested in land- alofudootrliehepe wing plants since tsiuto. arln ise igh to a grass- pndn inamsevrfe my opinion the exptFnArsAculy of this tree is cmaio oteohrsa for it on this unvriisnab,orrta st have undoubt- baacascmretoheft knowingtha othertdepapened? ofvourentho ps s i wll e ave afu god 100 pelie tahisre po~~ ~etsititu ee adaion.it Cait. But wea ss han10 er ooand noalmosteers ieo entseve notcc exciepAts progAmt. 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Acts wiyou:id to ay ot ven 1.The Arut Dryment s .ntotohaverolina, rotmonisto: *e the uidin to Aorse your teaches so bigot rtiCning This you he ars al thasi fD ateo ae quarther alpartmetioncernd thelcatao ur" o ou sclehanot live as ne paeop reatied. wekn rati tctc? o osi aet ler thatvDr- insrument you pushld a ud n t abete Tery whoe trhe Negou tpa -eOIuld liktatte is thu,andat wil baen' g, t the eopmt ontbetin (Ae leas yous will wedait plaue wto momt nwbidng.ehriosa richar on thMims erbyndtegiteig ff-alacncee tda;atmttralz ent stofCadent, t fl-lw fetadipr 11 O f7 e It 0 e e e "I'd like to speak to y< W. E. LEE 3 Assumptio Candidate Last week the South was given a new "solution" to her integra tion problem by a North Caro lina gubernatorial candidate. This panacea, renown as the Stokely plan, would divide a state's public schools into three types of systems-one for Ne 1 groes, one for whites, and one for mixed races. Parents would decide in a written registration into which of the three systems their children would enroll. The author of this plan said when it was presented, "The rul ing of the Supreme Court hangs over the South like a sword. But, like a sword, it has two edges. "When the Supreme Court rules that no child may be barred from a school because of race, it likewise is bound to rule that no child may be forced to attend a school because of "race." THEREFORE, THE author - believes that his plan satisfies the various rulings of the Su preme Court. This assumption is fallacious. In the Stokely plan there are two violations of the "no child may be barred from a public school because of race ruling. Every Negro would still be barred from the all-White school and every White student would be excluded from the all-Negro fschool. The plan is also cut by the .other side of the "Supreme Court o sword," for in those states that e have compulsory school attend ance every Negro under 16 would be forced, because of their race, to attend either the mixed or the .all-Negro school and eyery White dj student under 16 would be forced n to attend either the white or the e mixed schools because of their d race. fNOT ONLY DOES the Stokely -plan fall to meet the Supreme Court ruig ntheory but, in I. practice, all White parents would . place their children in the all d White schools and some Negroes gwould request the mixed schools k with some Negroes preferring rthe all -Negro schools. eYou would still get a segre gated public school system, s However, the factor that d should show thinking Southern ers the impracticableness of this h plan~ is the high cost that its fulfillment would entail. The Southern school allocations d are already economically strained e any regional or national indica tion of approval of segregation. Thus would a precedent be estab tlished, upon which all the peo ~*plea of the world and all posterity would heap their castigations and disrespect. Recal), if you will, the creed upon which our country was founded; you will not find it based on segregation. In fact, in every sense, It entails equality and unity. But you would have us divided. j,Yet another facet of such a n precedent is evolved when one a considers what would happen to le the Jews of the North, the Orien tals of the West, and the Indians y of the Mid-West. By any mass .t condonation of segregation, any e one of the above-mentioned dis .tricts could Immediately sanction it a local segregation. Far more et flagranit than this obvious im d plication appears the only too ~f real possibility of a majority e being able to legally and publicly nfuotracize a minority race. W FORMAT'ION ur I.B.M. Machine." n Of N.C. Fallacious in their attempt to maintain two school systems and their in ability to maintain three systems should be obvious. And what about the colleges? Could South Carolina support three Clemsons, three Carolinas, three Winthrops, etc.? THE STOKELY PLAN would have the schools operate just as they do now except, in each county one or more public schools, as needed, would be designated as mixed schools to be attended only by students who choose to attend mixed schools. Meaning that if only a handful of parents sent their children to the "mixed" schools each county would be forced to provide a full faculty for each curriculum in which a student, as enrolled, else not even "separate but equal" could be used as a defense. How many counties could afford to offer three teachers- where they now have two? This re-designation of "school colors" for the one or more schools in each county would create an unnecessary transpor tation problem. In a large county the mixed school might be 20 miles from some student who would attend it. Would he get there in an integrated school bus? He couldn't travel on the all-Negro bus and, of course, he couldn't go on the white bus. Up to 50 per cent more school buses would have to be pur chased. (Buses would presum ably travel in three unit cara vans. Confusion could be eli minated by having students wear different e o 1 o r e d armbands, namely-black, wvhite and polka (lots.) SUPPOSE ONLY one Negro In a county attended a "mixed" school. He would be chauffered to class each morning in a private school bus.. His teachers would amount to private tutors. Lunch in his own little cafeteria would be a treat, wouldn't it? After class, his chauffer would whisk him back to the waiting arms of his justly-proud parent. Exaggerated? Sure, but pos sible under the Stokely plan. Now is the time for the nation, not just the South, to stop and examine its entire standard of values, its educational system and its people. We should think for a long time else we build a dream house on a rotted founda tion. In what manner would segre gation affect our foreign af fairs? Since the White races (and even here there are reli gious and racial differences) are a small minority of the world, a profound effect would necessar ily result. By segregating others from us, we virtually isolate our selves to our own kind. Is one to suppose that segrega tion is fair? And just? If you think thus, tny countrymen, you are a poor comparison to the men who built this country from the ground up from an assem blage of foreigners, different religions, and varying creeds. Whether or not the White races are supreme over all others is not the question here( though it seems to be an idea that is inseparable from that segrega tion). How do you purpose to enforce legal and public ostrac Ism with fairness and equality ? In what manner la the segre gatedI to he denfiedl? Kfrla Miller HERB BRYANT A Litti Of Ele Congratulations to the student body for giving The Gamecock the privilege of printing the amount of votes an individual receives in a campus election. This shows that the students would like to see how many votes a person receives in an election, and is indeed a commendable move on the part of a student body that shows it is indeed in terested in improving the Uni versity. This column came out in favor of moving the - place for voting. from the Naval Armory to Rus sell House after fall elections. And it still sticks by this. Voting in Russell House makes it much easier since the center of campus activities has moved. It is too bad, though, that a number of students were dis couraged by the long delay in waiting in line to vote. But it is readily understood why they would get discouraged. Student Body President Don Clark said one student was timed at eight minutes in one of the Student Body machines. There were so many names on the bal lot in some cases that it took some students who were not prepared a good deal of time to look over the "long Ballots." It is a very good idea to have the voting place in- Russell House, but it is hoped that the voting procedure will be speeded up in the future. * * * Without school spirit the Uni versity would be a pretty dull place. And it was a time not too long ago when Carolina didn't have it. And, as has been said before, school spirit doesn't mean just cheering at a football game. For example, school spirit can be seen in. a campus election, and it was. Yes, it was. The proper spirit was shown, R. C. SMITH To Stimulal On Differ The overall purpose of this article is to stimulate thinking along what I believe to be more constructive lines of inquiry as regards the issue of integration vs. segregation- -in quiry into the nature of the method of intelligen-tly choosing between them. All peCople strive for happi ness. In the last analysis, happi ness consists of the concrete experience called pleasure of whbich there are varieties-bliss, joy, contentment, comfort, etc. Many different kinds of things give an individual this experience --eating food, loving one's wife, helping other people, hurting other people, being in heaven, etc. Of course, not all p)eople get pleasure out of the same things. Let us call things wvhich are sought primnrily because of what their immediate consequences are believed to be, genuine likes, and thin-gs sought primarily be cause of what their remote con sequences are believed to be; superficial likes. TO TilOSE IND)IVIDUALS who favor integration because they believe segregation is un constitutional, 1 say this: let us grant as an hypothosis that segregation is unconstitutional. Still, a rule of action (for example the U. S. Constitution-), if it is liked at all, is liked superficially. That is, the worth of a rule of action as a rule of action lies in the pleasure one gets out of the remoter conse qjuences compliance naturally leads to. If thoso consequences are genuinely liked, it is worthy of being complied with. If not, it is not worthy of being comn plied with. Trher'efore, exp)licity pointing out that segregation is unconi stitutional has nothing to do with explicitly pointing out the nature of the consequences that CROWING FOR UNIVERSITY OF S( Member of Associatet Founded January 80, 190b, with 11c editor, "The~ Gamecock" is pubtishee University of South Carolina weekly year except on holidays and duringe The opinions expressed by columanist sarily thos, of "The Gamecock." I le Bit tions and it was too bad that some were so forcefully criticized for it. (The latter is in regard to the six-horn-blowers who had to appear in City Recorder's Court because they violated the city's noise ordinance.) It is a good sign when so much interest is taken in such an im portant campus affair. * * * What happened to the po$ters? A good many were put on walls and, likewise, a good many were torn down. They were taken down by orders of the Univer sity. And, although it does seem like the posters should have been allowed to adorn the drab dormi tory walls-and liven them up, if nothing else-the University was absolutely correct in taking them down. On page 17 of "The Carolina Community" under the "Resid ence Halls-General," Rule 6, it says that " . . - Nails, hooks, scotch tape, etc., may not be at tached to walls or furniture." * * * There are six less parking spaces on Green Street now. Three less, precious parking spaces! How about that The six parking spaces, in front of Russell House, were re moved by the city after the Uni versity asked them to. There is a safety measure. It was felt that due to the tremen dous amount of student traffic crossing Green Street in front of Russell House it was better to remove the parking spaces so that students crossing from Rus sell House side would have more of a chance to see a car moving down the street than if they had to look around a parked car. If this is a step forward in improving safety measures on Green Street then it is a good idea, but there still is the parking problem. :e Thought ent Lines one believes would occur if inte gration were actualized, and since the worth of integration wholly determines the worth of the U. S. Constitution as a rule of action in regard to this issue, the white South is ne,ither un intelligent nor immoral for ignor ing the ruling of the Supreme Court until the worth of integra tion- has been determined. And if that inlquiry indicates that segregation is a more worthy plan that integration as re*gardls the genuine likes of the white South, it is neither un intelligent nor immoral for the wvhite South to prefer that which is worthier for them. TO THEN llRING about in tegration, granted these condi tions, would require the Construc tion of consequences not natur ally following the actualization of segregation. Consequences such as bribes, threats, or out right force wvould adld to the wvorth of integration as a course of action. To those who wvould judge the worth of. the U. S. Constitution as a rule of action on the basis of it's status, I hasten to say that at one time, IHitler and his Gestapo were the established sut p)reme law for Germany. In short, to supp)Iose that a rule of action will lead to genu ine likes under all conditions is a gross assumption, for it is a prediction about events that ex tendI into the far-flung future when it is a fact that we are ever within the knife-edge p)res ent with only the history of the past as a reliable index into the course of future events. And __ all that past history shows us are rules of action coming andi going wvith the ever-changing tide( of conditionis. Although It is not inconceivab)le that the U. S. Constitution is an excep tion to say that it is, a ground less supposition. A GREJATER UTHI CAROLINA ICollegiate Presa bort Elliott Congales as the first by and for the students of the on Fridays, during the college *aantinations. and letter writers are not necee 'ublishln3 does not constitute. am