The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, May 11, 1956, Page Page Two, Image 3
Despite
Culture i
Carolina needs a culture and art seriE
Despite the stuffy title, it is something th
will aid all students as well as provide e
cellent entertainment.
There is now no planned series of tall
or musical programs for the students oth
than occasional speakers brought in by i
dividual departments. The University itse
brings no "culture" to the campus.
At other colleges, students can sit dow
and discuss philosophy, religion, music, tl
latest in books. Here, students bring up
blank face at the mere mention of suc
things.
The culture series would be composed t
different elements. There can be lecturei
on various subjects, dance teams, concert
plays and any other programs desired by th
students.
The series would be composed of five t
six programs. The University, because C
the money angle, could not at first affor
top-notch artists for each performance. IHom
ever, one "great" artist Could be obtaine
each year. Carl Sandburg and Robert Fro.
have been here in years past and there wer
large turnouts of students to hear them.
Young artists can be obtained through th
Columbia Artists Management in New Yorl
These artists can be obtained at a lower fe
Th
The Gamecock has reached its next to th
last issue for the spring semester. With th
last issue, the new staff will take over.
This semester has been a full one. It ha
seen an All-American rating ot'r the fa
semester awarded. It has seen The Gamlecoc
receive two trophies, one for the best new.
paper in the state. And it has seen student
reading something besides the society page
the highest compliment that can be pai
any newspaper.
There have been moments of defeat alsc
There have been the exasperating critique
on Friday afternoon beginning with the em
less "when will you learn that. . . ." 'Ther
have been rude mornings on which th
printers called "before daybreak" to tell c
BILLY MELLETTE
I Watch
As He 1
Last rTuesdaly I watched a man has dliedl tfro
as he was (dying, and it was eidlent ?
str'ange to he so near to that: I m
not to touch it, not to hear it, not switchl the t r
to see it, hut yet to breathe, and and flas hin
findl that breath become the smell routte, and l I
oif death. I watited, watching the snan Andl
the traffic.
man and the little crowd. A tk o ot
policemian was there, efficient sell H ouse to
but unmoved. He called the amt- hmg would
bunlance, called his headquarters, stopped and
and then he stood with the rest ge there?
of uts, looking. I watched a man Iient
(And this is
ab)senitly chewing a sandtwich. HeI tendi ng for til
stopeda omet, qunte, bnt a d ramat it e'
close r to the soufferer, then half awar of c
striaightent ed up and continuted to t hent het weon
che'w. An 01(1 woman clutched andit break int,
Ilis eyebeall
her dress to her neck, gesture of gi t' Ii
self-protection. She satw misery dy'ing fromn t
and unconsciously fended it fronm nott a doctor.
hiersel f. But she could not help. TIllM~. LM'
We needed an ambulance. In deatth wa a
Colunmbia the ambulances are re- M v i(ht
quttiredi to obey the traffic laws as ute'd t'or mit0
atny ordinary ear. The reason for smlld't
t hat ordinance is that ambulances seldi?
have cr'ashed into automobiles en So oti tot,
route to an accident or to a' ('all. I'' " it" t
The Columbia doctors backed the judtg, aund so
legislation earliet' this year. takes becauts
tur'ed. But
WEI STL'l WA ITEI), shift- we areit stude
inig fromn one foot to the other somei(th ing se
and looking at one anotheir from take a stand
tinder hung brows. It was a help- position. I
less quiet: hands in pockets, thiert' is a ii
hands to breasts, eyes low antd ordli nanue. I
timid; furtive, afraid, beecause a .\leditcal Socit'
man about to (lie reminde'd its of I stuggest itnli
something in outr future. . pcrobllem of tr
There is a mechanical (devicte ' ietits toi sui
that may be attached to ambu- fire truc'ks,
lances. It automatically causes blow sirens,
traffic lights ahead of the am- lances? Fire
b)ulanlce to turut red. But it is lights redt.
costly, and still in the proving lances? I sug
stage, and did you know that t o mt mn i i it
htardly three people in ten ever lishted bettwee
pay their ambulance service fee ment and th<c
in Columbia? It runs from two t lie whene anu
and a half to five dollars. An itt thte futer
ambulance costs a b o U t ten pihofle anti ii
thousand. cleared path
Who last died that you know? antd from the
They had to lie the way the man
r saw was lying, waitIng for an IHAVE Y'OI
itmbulantce. Who in your family that t wo peop
'tuffy Title
Nould Aid
s. because of their lack of experience ; their
t quality, however, is not impaired. Perhaps,
K- artists who have appeared at Winthrop Col
lege in connection with its concert series
cs could be obtained after the Winthrop per
,r formance. The expenses would thus be less.
Money for the project can be obtained in
f three ways-from the student activities fee,
sale of tickets to faculty members and sale
of tickets to the public. Money could be ap
1e propriated from the student activities fee as
a is done for other campus activities now.
h Faculty and students not paying the ac
tivities fee could be admitted at a minimum
fee, possibly $ .50 or $1. Tickets for the
general public would be higher.
s The series in the beginning could be given
in Russell House auditorium or in Drayton
lHall. It' crowds proved too large, the pro
grams would have to be moved to audi
t. toriumns in Columbia.
The series could be handled by the Stu
ti lent Union Committee, appointed this year
1by Student Council. It would be necessary
t t(o increase t he number of faculty members
t on the colnlittee to three rather than the
c present one. There are nine students on the
committee no w".
e The students want a culture series, the
.phins atre easy to formtitte, the series should
e he ulndertaken.--penney
irty
e somnething gone wrong. There have been the
e elless juml)led lines, clashes with the law
school anld worries over finances.
s lut. all in all, it has been a wonderful
I1 expelience. It has been good training, too,
k for all of us. To managing editor, Herb
- r.vant, to whom the burden of the work
s has fallen, goes a great big thanks for a job
, ell <1111ne. To Nancy, Roy, Sylvia, Barbara,
S\lary Alice, anud Sid go equal thanks-as well
as to the r-eporting staff. The business staff,
>. liealed by Kat Anthony, has done a grand
s j1) :all year. The Gamecock would never
- have been possible without the combined
e efforts of1 all of these students.
e "Goooll)yc to the old staff. Long live the
f 1leW."-penney
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NANCY FOX
Counci
To Stop
The Student Council is just
about ready to throw away its
teething t ing.
Last Monday at its second
regular meeting it passed on a
number of vital committees. The
committees included an orienta
tion committee to work up a pro
gram of orientation for next fall,
a band committee "to find out
what's wrong" with that group,
and an intra-council committee
on absences of Student Council
imembers.
Other committees were ap
pointed, but the aforementioned
ones are those that particularly
struck us as showing an aggres
sive and forward-thinking stu
dent body government.
WE APPLAT ) the firm stand
President David White took on
establishing the absences com
mittee. Under this plan, absences
will be submitted to a committee
who will recommend to Council
their rejection or acceptance.
The committee will be a valu
able time saver and will greatly
expedite business matters which
tend to grow lengthy even under
ordinary procedure. As White
aptly remarked, "It's not worth
the time of Council to hear these
excuses."
It is gratifying to see steps be
ing taken to discipline disinter
ested Council members who flag
rantly disregard their obligations
and duties by failing to comply
with the simple requisite of at
tending meetings.
AS IMPRESSED as we were
with the majority of the Coun
HERB BRYANT
U n.vrs
Orientati
This University needs an orien
tation period for each incoming
freshman. Orientation has been
sadly lacking since it wvas done
away with at the beginning of the
1953-54 school year.
A t the time it was abolished
it was thought by the administra
tioni that students werd not get
tinig enough out of the historical
education, etc., that was heing
taught to justify the expense
being p)ut out in the form of
payment to student teachers.
Orientation was running for one
semester with one class meeting
per week. Tests were given, a
A GREATER
[)UTH CAROLINA
~I Collegiate Press
obert Elliott Gongales as the first
d by and for the studenits of the
y, on Fridays, during the college
examinations.
is and letter writers are not neces
Publishing does not constitute sa
eserved.
PATSY PENNEY
HIERBERT BRYANT
KAT ANTHONY
)ITOR Roy Williams
Nancy Fox
Sylvia Hanna
Sid Badger
Barbara Hawthorne
Mary Alice Carhart
D)avid Monteith
\'AGcER Carol Shockey
Bob Finley, Wayne Patrick
Richard Alpert
P'ORTEliS
'.r, .1 crry Sandetrs, Barbara
irdlen, I indla Cauthen, Ronnie
all, .Jerry McGu:ire, Blanche
STAFF
<, Marion Singlecy, Edith Buil
Leila Barr Sullivan, Jerrie
NISTS
rh) Birvant Jack Scontt W. E
ore, but last night's was the
le class passed."
I.Ready
Teething
eil's actions Monday, we confess
that on certain p)oints wve weren't
much moved. It is interesting to
note that President White un
flinchingly asserts that Student
Council is "the supreme student
'being' on campus."
Like The Gamecock and every
other student organization on
campus which strives for a
greater Carolina, the Council ad
mittedly has a deep-seated and
lronounced responsibility.
AND AS THE representattive
governing biody of~ thinking Uni
versity men and women, the
Council has a greater degree of
responsibility than many other
campus organizations. So has
The Gamecock.
Politics and newspapers make
strlange bedfellows at times.
There naturally arise differences
in attitudes and opinions between
the two, but constructive conflict
happ)ily results in a desirable col
lege level check and balance sys
tem.
I think that the new Student
Council is an efficient and able
h o d y cap)able of rendering
superior leadership and excellent
service to the students its repre
sents.
Neverthless this column will
take every opportunity to justifi
ably criticize the Council on any
and every issue that affects the
welfare of the University and its
students. That is OUR obliga
tion and duty.
FEn garde, Mr. White and co
horts, we intend to see that your
Student Council makes good its
boast of supremacy.
ty Needs
an Period
numerical grade( was assigned
the studlent at the endl of the se
miester, ntnd one( hour c' redlit was
given.
ONE OF" THlE HIG gripes at
that time from students was that
the course was compulsory and
that it ran the whole semester.
An orientation periodl should
he compulsory but it should niot
last for the whole semester. A
two-day period, for exampile,
might be sufficient to orientate
the incoming studlent. There
wouldn't be the p)ast expense with
the short period and as much
could he gained fronm a short
period as the old semester sy,s
tem.
D)uring this period new stu
denlts wvill b)e abtle to become
familiar wvith much of the im
portant history of the University.
And equally important they
will be told the rules and regula
tions that are supposedl to govern
st tmdent life.
Trhis University has much tra
dlition that a student could be
proud of if he were aware of it.
A nd being p)roud of your school
helps build upJ school spirit. And
school spirit is an asset: it is a
necessity.
SL1CH TH'IING,S AS the honor
principle can be exp)laine.d to the
student. And interest can be cul
tivatedl no that a working honor
system can be achieved. But, of
course, school spirit is ne'cessary
before interest can be cultivated
Ion a campus-wide biasis.
G;etting an orientation11 period
st arted hack u p agini is a goodi
idlea.
This Unaiversity should not con
tiue without a good orientation
period.
It is highly possible that ini
c*oming freshmen will be orien
tated this coming fall semester.
Theyshoud he
DEW JAMES
At The Ei
Years ..
With this issue and this column
ve bring to an end two years of
olumn writing and write our
journalistic "30" for The Game
:ock.
In two years we have com
nented on a number of things.
MIany people have disagreed with
Is; some to the extent of
:hreatening to somewhat jeopard
ze our physical well-being.
We have had brushes with Stu
lent Council and the Honor Board
which apparently disturbed some
Lf the sleepers in the govern
mental division. Some of our at
lacks must have hit their mark
since we have detected a change
f policy in certain areas.
NOT lEAST AMONG our
tands is our contention that
there is no moral justification
for segregation as it has been
practiced in the South. On a few
things we have slightly altered
uur opinion but not on that one.
We have occasionally thought
Lhe administration acted more in
terms of appeasing politicians
than in terms of right, as in the
Travelstead case, but there were
those who felt differently. Many
Ather things came in for com
nent, ranging f r o in Bridey
1urphy to a family reunion and
!t bee.
For some it may he hard to
,elieve that restraint was ever
'mployed by the writer of this
,olumn, lut it has. Oftenl the
restraint took a form of what
wte call "abstractionism" which
rolaby few people really under
<tood. lut that was one way to
rive vent to the "silent truths."
TIIOUGI M A N V HAVE
Voiced different points of view
from our own, we have always
W. E. LEE
Colum
U noffici
The columnist for this papter
is a student who, for some reason
of believed ability, is asked by
the editor to write his opinions
f'or weekly pulication11. Mere' pub
Iliention does not const itute' en
dlorsement by either the tedito r
or this university. The' column
ist is merelyv a stuodentt who is
g ive*n a totally unioffitial voice'.
We are neve'r assigned a topitc
or given ani axe to gind. WVe
write about what we feel like'
writing anud ntever know the topits
for the otherc columns.
TIlEiCE IS N EVEli a meet
ing at wvhich we dlecide to "'gang
up")' on some1 issue andI give it a
teeneertedl broadside. When there
are several columns on the same
sub'ject in the same issue, there
has only beeni a natural wave of
reeling aboot the sam" subjtect.
This often happens j ust as a comn
panriso n of ten dlifferent daily
p)ape(rs will often reveal ten head..
lines about the same story al
though the papers1' were p)roduced
indlependently. This duoplicity of
subject matter indicates only the
magnitude of the issue, not edi
torial conspiracy.
TIhe diverse opinions that you
stee on the page are nmanifesta
Letters to the Edi
Editorial
As Stati
To the Editor:
I read your last issue with
much(1 disgust. The reason? Your
editorial page. It is getting as
had as some of the papers aroundl
thu state. Tlhe editor wvill take a
stand only ont such earth-shanking
events as curtailed telephone
rrvice int Sims dlormiitory.
Maylute the editor has notHI ng
miore important to exploundl on
ocr maybe' it. is for lack oft a topic.
I will endeavor to suggest some14
topes~ 5o that maybe the edli
torials will be imp)rovedl in the
future. Some of the topics you
'00uld take up aire: The lack of
many important books in the
school library. The poor salaries
paid to thet faculty. Why are
id Of Two
. Adios.
found comfort in the fact that
there were those who held similar
convictions to our own. Often
those with opposing points of
view have not hesitated to voice
them and we were happy that
they did not hesitate. It brought
into focus the other side and gave
the reader an opportunity to
choose a side or manufacture his
own conpromise.
Still it is disturbing to know
that there are those among us
who on the surface rave loudly
about. the great principles of de
mocracy and yet many of these
same persons with little hesita
tion would cramp or even choke
the freedom of individual ex
pression.
Some of these do not hesitate
to suggest methods of censorship
for The Gamecock, but fortu
nately they are not, of sufficient
number to have their methods
adopted.
TH'lIERE ARE THOSE who
have said we are too young to
think .. . we haven't seen enough
of the world to formulate
opinions. Thank goodness these
persons and their little minds are
also little numerically.
Then there's the "dead-wood"
that constitates too large a bloc
of our contemporaries. They are
the tape-recorder models who
take in certain facts and hand
then back verbatim without any
attempt to use their own minds.
Their "democratic preference" is
swayed by whatever happens to
be popular at the time.
The (a.mecock editorial page
should coitinue to be free of any
kind of forced censorship. Cen
sorship is not the mark of a
great university and any leaning
it that direction would be dis
astrous. The young of society
must and will he heard. What is
rash today, may tomorrow he
comiie an acccpted truth and truth
is the basis of all learning.
Adios...
nist-An
al Voice
tionss of htsuman differences, not
a planned effort to reveal both
.ides of t he issue, although that
i usually the result.
i flict inig columns on the samie
topie. ne(ithier is necessarily right.
Nor is it netcessary thiat onie be
wronig. If their v iews are at 01)
l)osite extremies. miore than likely
the truth is sonmewhere ill be
tweeni thieir stands, for the view
is .just as dependent upon the
viewer as it is upon what is
viewed. Thle same statemienits at
a bianquet madle someW peopile ap
plaud Victor Reisel and incited
somie<mie else to throw acid in his
face.
Allowinrg violently contriadic
torIy oplinions to app~ear side by
side( miay somietimes produce coni
fusion, but I believe that this
practice usually aids the reader
in formiulatiug his own opinions.
It forces hiimi to step) back and
view the prlocess from afar,
which gives exactly the same ef
feet as physically viewing this
page fromi a distance. The black
and white will blend to form
g rey, which is the real color of
all controversy wvhether philo
sophlical or physical.
tor
Page Bad
a Papers
Whiat can be done to improve the
academic standards of t h e
school? Are thiere any advan
tages to a free system of class
at t end(ance? There are many
miore topices that could be taken
upi if a person sat down and gave
it someC serious thought.
John T. Tr*eacy
A Straini On
Miental F'aeities
Edlitor:
Congratulations on1 your fear
less crusade to get the phone in
Sims back. You must have really
strained your mental facultIes to
find a 50 stimulating topic.
Matthnw Stennhensoni