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FREE LUNCHES- CROWNING OF QUEEN TUESDAYAT MAXCY MONUMENT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volume XLVIX, No. 25 COLUMBIA, SOUTII CAROLINA, APRII. 27, 1956 Founded 1908 oCoroi Phi Kaps Win Boys' Song Fest ODK Taps 5 New Members Tuesday For the fourth consecutive time, Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity won the annual boys' songfest which preceded the Omicron Delta Kappa tapping last Tuesday night. Dick Baldwin, Lee Knight., Ed Mullins, Wilson Pitt and Bill Sar gent were tapped by the leader ship fraternity. The Phi Kaps' winning Imbers were '"od of Our- Fathers," and a medley of "1)e Animals A' Com ing" and 'Your I 111n(l and My Land." Sigma Nu's rendition of "I Re member April" and "Rock-O-My Soul" won second place. Kappa Alpha, third place winner, sang "Dixie" and a medley of "Bonnie Blue Flag" and "For' Bales." DICK BALDWIN, a senior from G;reenville, is in the school of h'isiness administration. lie has been a member of the honor hoard for four semesters, and has main tained a B plus average for eight semesters. His overall average is 1.9. Baldwin was president. of Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fra ternity for one semester, and treasurer for two semesters. le is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force ROTC, a Distinguished Mili tary Student and a member of Ar nold Air Society. LEE KNIGHT is a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon social frater nity, and the treasurer of Aimeri can Society of Mechanical Engi neers at the University. lie is also a member of Epsilon Lambda Sigma, honorary engineering so ciety, and was elected to the stu dent council front the School of E:ngineering. Knight., a senior front (Georgetown, has a 2.5 over all average. ED MULLINS has been alumni indcl recording secretary of Kappa Alpha social fraternity, and tr eas tirr of Kappa Sigma Kiapa lead orship fraternity. Ile is secretary of the Cotillion Club, and organi zations editor of Garnet and IBlack. Mullins has maintained a it plus average for two semesters, and is a junior in the School of Arts and Sciences from (olui bia. WILSON PITT, a junior chemi cal engineering matjor from Rocky Mount, N. C., has a 2.3 overall average, iIe is a memtber of Sigma P'hi Epsilon social fraternity, the Ulnive'rsity hantd andi the YMCA (Continued on page eight) @.'Remember Y Is Pie Con tes By JACK BASS Special Writer "teember your enemies'" is the theme of the fifth annual Phi Epsilon Pi pie-throwving con test, scheduhtled 2 p.m., Tuesday, behind McKissick Library. This e'vent offers an opportu uity for all grudlges to be set tIed. Anad the winnmer will be -.4 thet A KG scholarship fund. The Phi Eps have donated the proceeds'(1 of this event each ye'ar to chtarity. Tfhe service funds(l of the three men's honotary fra ternities5, Kappa Sigma Kappa, Omtitron D)elta Kappa, and Bluie Ke'y, have been past recipients. ILast year thte Phi Eps bought a new TV set for thte women 's winag of thle infirmary. The yea r before the fraternity men and Blue' K('y presen'Ited a TV set to' t he men's wi ng. Simple Rules TIhte irules are simple. Any stuidentt mtay challenge any other stutdent, the winner having the right to toss a pie at thte low hiddter. The top price ever' was paidl last year wvhen one coed went overi $30) to plaster an other. A n BOTPC int utmtot. on atioi 1Y :Of OI)K 'IAPPING CEREMONI tapped for membership in Onii Tuesday night. (Staff photo by B, Derby Day Eight Eveni The tenth annual Derby I)ay, sponsored by Sigma Chi frater nity, will be held next Thursday, at 4 p.m. on the horseshoe. Only representative members of the sororities are eligible to par ticipate in the eight races which will. constitute the Derby pro gram. The winning sorority will receive a rotating bronze derby and also a permanent trophy. Last year's winner was Chi Omega so rority. Contest Program A feature event of the after noon will be the "Miss Venus" contest. In this contest each en trant will compete with a paper bag over her head, and she is judged for "features" rather than facial beauty. Patsy Talbert, last year's "Miss Venus" and an Alpha Delta Ii member, will crown the Winner. Entrants in the "Miss Venus" contest will be Farley Lawton, Alpha Delta li; Saundra Ilarvin, Chi Omega; Sally Read, Delta Delta Delta; Pat Palm, Delta Zeta; Betsy Brown, Kappa Delta; Nancy Clark, Pi Beta Phi; and Shelby Jean Godwin, Zeta Tao Alpha. Other events include a sack race, a hat box relay, a pie-eating con test, a ''surprise" race, andl a cos tumne contest. Race Officials Jfudges will be President and Mrs. D)onald S. Russell, D)ean (of 'ur Enemies' i Theme brought more than $20. One change has been nmade in the rules this year. No) stu (lent may he challenged more than twice although any stu (lent may offer as many chal lenges as he wishes. May Queen Hlarriett Dickert is expected to open the bidding wvith a challenge of Student Body President D)avid White. President Don Clark got a face full (of lemon meringue p)ie last year from May Queen Mary Alice Breland. Ab Will Be Auctioneer Ah Avinger, the "mian in the striped Hernuidas,"' will be thte auctioneer 'Tuesday. Phi Ep pie-throwing chairiman D)on Katz hats p)ro)nised a va riety of flavors. The thrower will get his choice. AKG members will help withI face-washing of low bidders. The AKG scholarship fund loans money without interest to studenCits in needl. The loans are duet two years after gradluation. The fund began in 1939 wvith a $200 contribution from the AKG Richland County Alumnae Association and has growvn each year from the proceeds of song fest. and Other neojects. Of I :' . . . Billy Watsonl is sihown cong ron Delta Kappa, national iender b Finley) Features ;s Thursday Women Arney R. Childs, and Dr Daniel W. Hollis. Dean of Mei Jesse B. Jackson will be the offi cial starter, and Gene Mixson Sigma Chi alumnus, will serve a master of ceremonies. Marion Ed wards will lead a small comb< which will play before and durini the Derby. The winner of the derby will h determined by the highest numbei of accumulated points. A first place winner receives five points a secc#id place, three, and a thir< place, one, according to Chairmar of Derby Day Mike Lovejoy. The Sigma Chi Derby had it! beginning at the University o1 California in the early 1930's, an< it came to Carolina in 1947. Th< program is fashioned after th< Kentucky Derby, and the event are' handled as such. Hugo Simms To Address KSK Banquet Former Congressman liugo S Simms Jr., of Orangebu rg wil speak at the Kappa Sigma Kappa spring banquet Monday night a 6 :30 in the Russell House Audi toriumi. Mr. Simmis will speak 01 "The Challenge Troday." Fourteen new members will bh initiatedl into the KSK honor serv ice fraternity at the banquet presideCnt Flynn 1Ilarrell ani nouncedl. Mark Buyck is KSK h,an quet chairman. A graduate of WVofford Colleg, and the University Law School Mr. Simms served in the U. S Army in World War II and in th< Korean War. Mr. Simms is a former edito'- o the Orangeburg "Times and Demi ocrat," and a former columnis for a national newspaper syni cate. He also served as a membei of the State House of Rlepresenta tives. Mr. Simms. a lawyer, wva elected to Congress in 1948 an< becanie the you ngest membnter 01 the 81st Congress. Fraternity Privileges Suspended A~ fraternity is reported to have appeared before the Stu dent Activities Commit tee Wed nesday for violation of the campus liquor regulation. The committee declined to comment. Reliable sourca said that the fraternity had been deprived of social room nri,iledge. May li - - *,~ - 4 ratuluting Dick Buidwin on being ship fraternity, at cerelonie last MoodyNamed Honor Board Chairman Phil Moody was elected chair maan of the honor board at its meeting last week, according to Bill Weston, outgoing chairman. Other officers elected were Fred Wigfield, vice-chairman and Mary Ani Snowden, secretary. Elected to the honor council were the following honor hoard members: Lawrence Curry, senior member; Fred Wigfield and Don Harrison, junior men and Jo Ann Franklin, juni<r woman. Bernard Ba Class Here By LINDA CAUTHEN Staff Writer Many students armed with cam eras crowded Dr. liavilah Bab cock's English 129 class last week to catch a glimpse of Bernard M. Baruch, who had chartered a com mercial plane from New York to come to the University. Accompanying Mr. Baruch as guest of I)r. Babcock and his Eng lish class were former Governor and Mrs. James F. Byrnes, Miss Elizabecth Navarro, Baruch's exec utuve secretary, andI Mrs. Donald Russell. 1Dr. Babcock introdluced his guest as "philo.sopher, financier, statesman, andI birdhuntter. Ba ruch was also in his college (lays -an All-American baseball player and a heavyweight boxer. Headlines Inspire Lighter Side The 85 year old1 statesman said that he had not planned a talk, h ut wvas insp)iredl on the lighter ,sidle by the headlines of the morn -ing paper, on the way up from his a plantation near Kingstree. lie re ferred to "love in the sprinlgtimne" X ENGLISH CLASS VISITORS Eingllih 129 class as two promine ing at the table while former Cov Icamera. (Photo by Kern Poweln) Quee AKG Picks Seven New Members Seven girls were tapped last night for membership in Alpha Kappa Gamma, national honorary leader ship fraternity for women. The tapping followed Girls' Songfest. The girls are Harriet Dickert, Estelle Flickinger, Sylvia Jacobs, Patsy Mellette, Neil Reid, leth Tyler, and Sally Youngblood. IIAltRIE'' ICKERT, a senior from Newherry, transferred to Carolina in Spring 1955 from Mary Washington, where she was a member of Phi Mu Epsilon, na tional music sorority, and Alpha Phi Sigma. national honorary. At Carolina, she has served on the YWCA cabinet, is feature edi tor of the Garnet and Black, State Secretary of Methodist Youth, a member of Music Educator's Club, Wesley Foundation and of the University Chorus, treasurer of Kappa Delta Epsilon. She was in the 1955 May Court and was Homecoming Queen last fall. She will reign as May Queen Tues day. Harriet, a music education major, has been on the Dean's List every semester and has a grade point ratio of 1.81. A senior biology major from (;eorgetown, ESTELLE FLICKIN. GER is vice-president of the Bi ology Club, past chaplain and secretary of Euphrosynean Liter ary Society, co-chairman of World University Service and a member of Meditrian Society. She has served on the YWCA cabinet and council and was vice-presi dent of the Y during the sumnmer session 1954. She has been vice (Continued on page eight) ruch Visits -Guest of 1] totehing on the nuptial news of (;race Kelly and Margaret ''ru man. Mr. Baruch said that on a bird hunt last winter Dr. Babcock had l invited him to an informal dis cussion with the class, and he had agreed to come only if it were at private party. Gesturing to the other distinguished guests he said he was glad to see so many new pupils. Most of his talk, however, was on Rlussia's acceptance' of an "atoms for peace p)lan," which he considers to be the most imp)ortatt issue of the day. Only lay joint control of all atomic weatpons from the mine on up can the use of atonmic weapons be regulated, he said. Toa saty that some nation will conceal the production of suach weapons is attributing incomipe tence to the other nations of the woeld, or ats Al Smith would say, "haloney.'' Strem Awareness His intent was clearly' to stress awareness of wvhat a failure to ar rive at some, or any working plan .--Pictured above ls a scene Ian nt stateamen appeared infotrmally. renor Janns. F. BRe,m i. ..aedat. R TU Les Elgarl's I Festivities Moi By Jerry Staff V Coronation of 1956 May ( the presentation of awards w"i Day celebrations Tuesday, acc< eral chairman for the occasion. McNair Named NSA Regional Vice-Chairman Student Hod.s TIrea:ue 11-41 b41 .leNaiir wa elected trr< ti cairniani of the regional .Nat:ulr:r Students Assilation in Italeigh. N. C.. last weeh. McNair was elected at the NS A contventilon of Southern schols which met to discuss prrblemts uf Student gover1nmnt. In answer to question.s by stu dents on the function f NS.\. MeNair told Student ('ounc"il Mon day that discussitin with represen tatives of other schools was its main value. lie said that while NSA offers "ni conccrete plins" for :ulving student government problems it does provide intspira-' tion by association with others with sittailar" prhlems. Other delegates to t he i nven tion were Student Body President David White, f, frmcr President l)un Clark and --eplresentative Preston Whaley. English r. Babcock could mrean to this and futu I'en eratioiuns. liee mplhasized that the physical threat of unh idled atomic warfare to man and nuature cotlId not he exaggerated. Baruch endedl his talk in the humorous side by telling jOkes. )r. Babcock and the class te sponded with "lle's a Jolly Gw.d Fellow". Then Dr. Babcock led a trio of himself, Gov. Bvrnes, and Haruch in a chorus of "I Want a Girl, Just L,ike the Gil", saying that it representedl a chioral grioup u npr'ecedented in the history of the world. "Yes, the wourst in the hi sto~try otf the world,"' Governor lHvrnes re'plied. Bartuch answvered several and v'ariedt questions from the st u dlents and shook hands with them after class. On talking with D)r. Habettrk later it was found that Harunch paid the class quite a compliment, saying "They are the most atten tive and courteous students I've seen. week In Dr. Havilah Babeock's ernard M. Baruch is seen stand leftewt shk tundt h sday ?and Starts iday Night McGuire Vriter !teen, Harriett Dickert, and 11 highlight the annual May )rding to Virgil luffie, gen Celebrations for the annual -vent will get under way Monday night when Ies Elgart's band lays for the May dance at Town hip Auditorium. The dance. which will start at ) p.m.. will be ti honor of the queen and her ou rt. Ihe crowning of Miss Dickert it 8 p.m.. Tuesday will clim1ax the 1nrinal .\May Day festivitie. Fifty Will Entertain Queen I mmiediately following her coe o atio1n by President Donald S. RIussell, the queen and her court siii be entertained by approxi nately 50 students in a saga of he Old South entitled. "South and.", All classes will be suspended l'uesday morning at 9:511 Omicron Delta Kappa honorary 'raternity will present its awards lay program at 1(1:30. During this Irogram, awards will he made by >,eth campus organizations and niversity departments. One of the highest honors to >e presented at the annual awards lay program will he the Algernon idney Sullivan award. This tward is presented annually to the :an and woman of the graduating lass who have displayed the most oyalty and devotion to the U ni dersit uring their four . ars it re. The awards day program will >e presided overt by .1irmiy Mar in. Lunch-on-the-Ground A lunch-on-the-grounds will be riven at 12:3(t behind McKissick Lihrar . by Kappa Sigma Kappa lonoraery fraternity. Th" lunch sili bI' 'ervei by Alpha Kappa armlria tomeltn" and wte ient If Kappa Sigria Kappa. I:o\ hunche- will be -ervtedI, ac irdiing to l)uff'e. Iialf of the iixes will include barbequed spare ihs and the others will c"ontain frie"d c"hickenl. 'Ihe annual pie-throwing cotte-t vill be held by Phi l'.psih,n Pi traterrnity at 2 p.m. hehind l1c K issiik L.ibrary. (('ontinued on page eight) Reserve Rooms For The Summer Between May 7-12 St udenits desi ring rooms for the im met are reqluest ed to sign up nir thIem bet weeni M ay 7 andI May 12, according to Housing Director K. M. Henderson. Rooms for men will he available im tlt'heIor'seshoe only. Students iow living oin the Horseshoe will im \e priority burt must sign up wet weeri May' 7 and 8. Other stu itents should make reservations wetweeni May 9 and 12. Sims ('ollege will he open for vomen. They should make reseirv it ins between May 7 and 12. l-ali retser'vat ions for rooms must t made 1( between Mayv 21 and 26. (nly Two Days Left To Buy Danmce Tickets Only two danys remain for pur - 'hasting tickets to the May Dlay D ance Monday' night. Tickets will be sold by Student Coincil membhers on the gr'ound fl(oor lobby of Russell House today and tomorrow. Today tickets will he on sale from 1 0 a.m. to 2 p.m. andi( 6 to 7 p.m. TIckets will be on stile tomorTtow fr'om 101 a.m. to 2 p).m. The dance will be held Monday~ night in the Township Auditorium. Tickets will cost three dollars which includes a date ticket. In ilocks of 50, they will sell for two dollars ach.