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RUSSELL HOUSE RULES GIVEN A 7LL ARADE (See page 6) (e ae5 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volurme L, No. 2 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, SEPTEMBER 21, 1956 FourIle<I 1908 Curtew eRegulates USC Coeds Women in all apartments and dormitories except Sims are being regulated by a curfew ruling that permits only three 12 o'clock nights a week according to Dean of Women Arney R. Childs. The three days on which the midnight curfew is given are Wednesday, Friday, and Satur day. With the increased enrollment of wofien who wished to live on campus, it has been necessary to house 65 women students in apart ment houses. This scattering of students necessitated a hostess for each new living center and this fact in turn brought about the new curfew ruling. Since the Kirkland Apartments at 1611 Pendleton Street, the apartments at 506 Devine Street and Wade Hampton dormitory each have only one hostess,. it would be difficult for them to re main up until 12 every night. Freshman dormitory likewise is open until midnight only three nights a week as freshman women are permitted one 12 o'clock night and two 11 o'clock nights a week. Women in Kirkland Apartments, Devine Street Apartments, and Wade Hampton dormitory are per mitted three 12 o'clock nights and four 11 o'clock nights a week. All housing centers remain open until 11 every night, and the 11 Sunday night curfew applies to all women, including the students in Sims. Students on green cards in any dormitory are restricted to the same regulations as first semester freshmen women. Green cards are given to women who have done poor scholastically. All freshmen begin dormitory life on green cards, but with good grades they will he placed on white cards at the beginning of second semester. Hostesses for Sims dormitory which houses 256 women are Mrs. Eloise Wilson and Mrs. Cornelia Ball. The 150 students in Fresh man are supervised by Mrs. Hat tie Witte and Mrs. Mildred Perry. Mrs. Rubye Chisholm is in charge of the 82 women in Wade Hampton. Hostess for the 50 stu dents in Kirkland Apartments is Mrs. Mable Grisby and at the De vine Street Apartments Mrs. Mary Baker is hostess for 15 women. Each hostess is given one night off a week. Mrs. -Dorothy Person is relief hostess. Campus Briefs MeetIng of Co-ed The Co-ed Association will meet at 5 p.m., Wednesday, in Russell House audlitoriumi. Sandlapper Openings There are a few op)enings avail able on the Sandlapper staff. In terested persons should contact the Sandlapper by addressing a c'ard, giving name, box number or campus add(ress, to Bob Martin, editor, the SandDapper, Box 2652. * * * G & B Pictures Beginning Monday, appoint meats for Garnet and Black pic tures may be obtained at Room y102, Russell House, 2 to 5 p.m.I each afternoon. There is a charge of $1.25 at the time appointments are madle. Radio Personnel Needed The University radio station, WUSC, has ope.nings in its an nouncing, engineeripg and script wvriting dlepar'tments. Any persons interested in doing radio work are requestedl to contact the sta tion office, Room 207, Russell House. IRC International Relations Club will meet at 5 p.m., Thursday, In Room 101, Harper College. A dis cussion on the Suez Canal crisis is scheduled for this meeting. In terestedl persons are invited to attend. Flollis' I Is Due I "College to University, 1E South Carolina," by Dr. Danic tion on September 26, accor director of the University of Publication date marks th the institution as the third t The second volume of. the after publication of Vol. I, and is concerned with the n helIum college into a modern Wea Before the change could forced to weather a successio existence. The Civil War clc the first University of Souti 1873 to 1877 in a radical exp which ultimately caused it to Only an herculean effort Charleston secured legislative inational opposition, to reop College of Agriculture and M Enlarged into the second then in 1888 into the second institution enjoyed a brief b prostrated by Benjamin R. 'I of 1890. Le Converted into the third school survived the lean year as the third University of Sc Volume II is profusely ill Carolina's trials, tribulationm 1926, President Melton's deatl the main events from 1926 to A native of York County, University in 1942 and serve Army Air Force. He enterec received both his M.A. and I .Joining the University faculty was appointed assistant profe acting secretary of the Unive 35 Qualify School, Pr Eighty-five students ha 'reshman law school class ias announced. The number of student nerease of forty over the %Irs. Babcoel [s Appointed To Board Mrs. Alice C. Babcock, Iuinna of the University and 1 vife of Havilah Babcock, head he English department, was ently appointed to members] n the State Board of Educati The appointment was made iov. George Bell Timmerman Mrs. Babcock is assistant pr ipal and head of the mathemat lepartmenit at Columbia H] school. She has been affilli1 vith the p)ublic school system outh Carolina for a number ears. She will be the only won *oardl member the Board has 11 or nearly thirty years. Goaches A By Jerry McG;uire Campus FEditor TIhe coaching staff and athl< >e'rsonnel of the University low in their new home on Ro vood Dive, about a mile from larolina campus. Ac cordling lob Isbell, athletic pub)licity ector, all is c'omplete about G;AMEC:O(KS' NEW HO a Apecially di4Agnedt tructuire dlurin=g the nneat *nmmer'. (P'I Vew Book 5ept. 26 165-1956," Vol. II of "University of -1 W. Hollis, is scheduled for publica ling to Mrs. Louise Jones DuBose, South Carolina Press. 50th anniversary of the opening of Jniversity of South Carolina. University history comes five years 'South Carolina College, 1801-1865," etamorphasis of the cla'sical ante university. hers Crises be implemented, the institution was n of crises that threatened its very sed its doors. Reopened in 1866 as Carolina, it became involved from eriment of integration of the races, be closed in 1877. by Trustee Charles H. Simonton of permission, over vehement denom en in 1880 as the South Carolina echanics. South Carolina College in 1882 and University of South Carolina, the Lit notable renaissance before being 'illman and the agrarian revolution an Years South Carolina Cullege in 1891, the s of the 1890's and was established uth Carolina in 1906. ustrated and tells the full story of and triumphs through the year i. The final chapter sketches briefly 1956. Dr. Hollis was graduated from the d three years in the United States I Columbia University in 1946 and 3h.D. degrees from that institution. as instructor of history in 1947, he 3sor in 1953 and was recently named rsity Alumni Association. For Law ince Says ve qualified for entrance into the this semester, Dean S. L. Prince s in this class brought about an number enrolled last year. ~ The total enrollment for the I law school this year is 146. To qualify for admission to the freshman law class, a student must successfully stand the Law Schl Admission Test. A person may stand the test an upon completion of the junior year he of college. The student will in of this case receive his undergraduate re degree while in law school. uip ln. Law school freshmen entered by this session 10 days ahead of l Jr. registrationi on September 4 to In- spend three or four hours each lcs day in orientation and introdluction gh dto the law school. They wvere also in introducedl to the fundamentals of of the legal p)rofession, and the work which they wvill be expected to do an in the law school.. ad Classes officially began Sep tember 14. mnd Athletes b)uilding except for landlscaping. o,f the grounds. tic D)esigned especially for the Uni ire versity by Lockwood-Greene, engi se- neers of Spartanburg, the new ~he athletic center is a circular struc to tore completed in June at a cost di- of $250,000. he The handsome new building con W1E . . . The recently completed athleti accommnodating coa ches and playeri. It 010 by Itoh Coop.?) Gala Chi Psi Ne Grants Lo, Chi Psi social fraternity ts Alpha Beta chapter at the :nd alumni members of tihe Comdr. Nelson T. Leving mnittee, entertained the gro Hotel. The fraternity is being i6 years of dormancy. It wa. War and Reconstruction et ictivities, but the chapter w% AROTC Pilot 'raining Is Given Nod The United States Air For( recently approved for the Unive ity a civilian pilot training pr4 ,ram which will become effecti iuring the 1956-57 school year. This program has also receiv( Pull approval of the Civil Aer, iautics Administration which wi ctually operate, administer ar upervise it. Under this new program the ai anced senior AFROTC cadet wi receive 35 hours of flight instru ion in light aircraft of from 6 o 200 horsepower. Flight ii tructors will be certified by tt 'AA. A like number of hours will t iven in ground school training i he fields of navigation an veather. Air Force ROTC ii tructors will teach the groun chool courses as a part of tl -egular AFROTC curriculum. Successful completion of tf -light course will qualify U \FROTC cadets to apply for :A A private pilot's license. Wiami-USC Tickets Now Being Sold Tickets for the Carolina-Un ersity of Miami football gaif nay be purchased for $1 at tr Juiversity ticket office, The game is the center of tl tudent trip to Miami which ponsored by the Student Counci t will be played Sept. 28 in tf )range Bowl Stadium. Tickets are now on sale and ma >e purchased at the field hou mntil 5 p. in. Tuesday. For ei ranc~e to the game, the tickei nust he accompanied by studer dentification cards. Studlents may obtain trip tickel luring meal hours on ground flot >f Russell House for $36. Thi >ric~e includes the cost of a rouni rip ticket to Miami, rates for tw iights at a hotel and bus fee froi he hotel to the stadium and bac Move Into ists of two floors. On the fir: s a large lecture room, which n the center. This arrangemer uffers a convenience to conferem~ oomis, coaches' offices and othe oomns on the same floor. Also on the first floor are tt ffices of the athletic director, sei etary, athletic publicity direct< c center on RoMewood Drive Is wan. ocecine-o e fi.... iea Rat s itional Frat cal Charter has granted a charter to revive Un 1ix ersity. Prospective pledge. Fraternity met Tuesday evening, s, chairman of the revival com up for dinner at the Columbia revived at the University after founded here in 1858. The Civil tused halts in the fraternity'a as revived in 1880. Anti-fraternity laws closed the Schapter again in 1900, and it ha! lain dormant since that time When the fraternity closed then one-sixth of its membership wa! in South Carolina. Scholarship is stressed by Ch Psi. It is the only fraternity t< e employ a full-time edceational di rector. During the past year, Ch . Psi awarded 10 fellowships of e 81,000 each to wut<tanding senior in the fraternity for graduatc d stuylv. - The national fraternity give! $:200 scholarships annually t< d each chapter maintaining r schoilastic record equal to the all 1 men or all-fraternity aver age al 11 the individual selcOOl. An educational endowment fund 6 subscribed to by alumni of th< e fraternity, amounts to $2.000,00( at present. Chi Psi is the oldest social fra ternity in the state, and was the d fifth fraternity founded in th< United States. It originated a d Union College in 1841. e At the University of Michigat in 18.14;, when the faculty wa! e hostile to fraternities, the Chi Ps e chapter there built a log cahin it a the woods. This was the firsi fraternity house in the world. Each chapter in the fraternitl is termed an "alpha" and chapter houses are called "lodges." Ch Psi has 27 active alphas, including those at Yale, Cornell, Amherst ;eorgia Tech, University of Geor gia, University of North Carolina Standford and the University 01 Virginia. ('harles E. merrill, senior part ner of Nierrill. Lynch, Pierce e 1enner and Beane stock brokers is national pre-ticdnt of Chi Psi. Photographs Now Being Displayed A travelinlg exhibit of outstand eng i hotoegriaps,lc. the Nationa .. Pitr-es 11cis Phtgaphclers A*ss ociat ior Sis on display at the University tSchool of Juciirncal1ismu. Legari College. 8Amcoing thce winining pictures are rphotographs by Thomas Nebbia s of the pihotographcic staff of The d State and Th'le Columbia Record. 0 The. exhibit will be open to the n ublic today and from 9 a. m. tc . I p. im. tomorrow. New Home it and assistanut coaches. s Thce seconid floocr of the 29,000 t suare -foot plant is thIe lo(catior e of training and equip)ment roomc r aind ample show~er andi dressing roomsnc. A one-story dormitory e that will accommodate 44 athletec is adjacent to the new athletic r eniter*. The building is comipletely equlipp)ed withi a sprinkler systenr anti the first floor, wvhich consistc of offices and1 other rooms, is aic conditioned. The second floor ii not air condlitioned because ol healIthI reasons, Ishell said. The athletic center's seconc floor is level with the training grounds to the rear of the build ing. When the grounds art finished, four practice fields will be available for the football team The track and baseball teanms will hcoldI drills and regular contests ori the 21-acre tract. Lights will permit late practice on the fields The new athletic center anid ad. joining practice fields el iminatc dIrills focrmerly' held on Davis field on (;reen Street,Ibl saa11. Veek ] By Carolyn Special Fhre.shmen will receiv' their life during the traIitional Itat A full pIroyrr.rm has been l expected to> put on t heir r.at e: to Carroll Tvague. chairman of Week is sponsorf-<l b*v the so with Inter-frat'ernit.V Council. "We're planning t ht hirest Rat Week ever. said Teagiw, "and if those rats don't do what we want them to, there will be t r,uble at Car,,lina'" A scavenger hunt heads the list of activities which begin Sunday afternoon. Freshmen will assemble at :t p.m. at the end of the Horse shoe near the library and4 will be divided into team-z fi,r the two hour hunt. Point System The point system will he used. as in the past. for determining the Rat King and Queen. Signatures of upperclassmen will lie worth point.s and may be acquired in ex change for small services. Upper elasmen will also be able to give demerits to frie,hrmen found not wearing rat hats. Scavenger hunt winners and participants will re ceive varying numbers of points. Speakers from various campus organizations will he present for a mass meeting of all freshmen at 4 p.m., Monday. in Russell House anditorium. General rules for Rat Week will be announced along with rule, for the Rat King and Queen contest. Cheerleaders will he on hand to teach cheers to the fresh men and special entertainment will be offered. Maxcy Treat Maxiy Monument on the lorse Shm, will be the scene of a special iassignment for rats Tuesday. Freshmen will meet there at 3 p.m. Rat King and Queen will be cIrowned at the traditional climax of the week--the Rat Dance Wed nesday night. An orchestra will play for the dance which will he helb in the Naval Armory from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.. and refreshments will be ,erved. Admission is 50 cents per person plu s a rat hat. and upperclassmen wti!l be admitted oinly if accompanied by ia fresh man. Membler 4f the Rat Week com mittee are Bob Rodgers. Joanne Farmer. Darrell IMreks. Frved Wig field and Roger Knapper. All Students To~ Get ickets At Gate Three Inoit iat ionl of the assigned seat ing program at football games for this year will be tomorrow night. Students will get their seat as signmenlts for the Duke-Carolina' football game tomorrow at two1 ticket booths immediately inside' gate three at Carolina Stadium. The booths will open at 6 p. mn. All students will enter the stadium through gate three. Non-st udent tickets ma be PUrI c-hasedl at the stadium from 9 a. m. until game time at 8 p. m. Renaew NowE One-semester subscriptions to the Gamecock begin with this issue of the paper. Keep alumni, parents and friends informed of happenings at Carolina by re -newing their subscriptions or subscribing for them for a semester. Fill in the following form and send it with a dollar to Circula tion Manager, Guamecock, Box 49, Campus. Name ____ Address City Stat. . s Set McClung Writer Official inlitiationt intc> campus Week September 23-26. Ilane<d andI all freshmn are ,l)s and pIarticipatE, according the Rat Week committee. Rat phomore class, in cooperation University Has 25 New Professors At leaet , new pr((fe-sors and ilstrutrFl4 have been added to the University teaching staff for fall s'erester, according to Dr. W. 1H. Ualott, dean of the faculty. Tvaching in 11:e history depart nent is Pr ofessor Davi i Ogic from Nex ( oliege. Oxford. Professor (4-g is a -lpecialis in th history of the 1711h rcntury anzd an author ity he E(n lht .nglish i{,"oration periril Biology w\t new assistant professor, ar ( teachirg in the liology depart merit. They are Dr. Jamnes N. Liles and Arnold Ben(ro. Doctor i-iles holds Ph.D. arni \l.S. degrees fromt ()hi State 'nwversity. Ben :on has a M.S. degree from the 'i'iversity of Colorado. Husiness Administration live new" in'4traet"'s have been :tided in thr School of Bisiness Administrati(>n. Georgc D. Halsey. a grarduatt :f the 'niversity of Cincinnati and autiho' of seven books on personnel management, it part-lntme -et r'er in manage W("I'rr :,.ituated from and to(i his M.A. 'u".Ire- from the 'niversity of N,,,h ( ,,inl:a. i-. :a t pro W i ' rant k l'r,l utnam, a Ca'o lina gradu: , is instructor of Frt i.r ml ics. 1):r. Gll<tavu-z G. WVOilisonl, Jr., a lnivetr-ity gr:i,ikmuat who earned hi Ph.D. a' .b.hnl- H1(piins Uni \ ' iriy, :,a .tin ! l(r(>fessor of et'(ortFiles. IIcnr\ I. W i;'Otn i- a>sistint prof(es or of mtnargernent. He re ,e- hi , 1r M.S. degree from the l'o vet -ity f A!ab:ama. FAlucation Two atm 'inclmbewrs h bv been :l,led io Ohe Schot(l of Edut'ation. Tht-y atre Dr-. \'lma 1). Hayden anld W. .I. C astine. Dr. Hayden w,aI awartded her \l.A. degree ft in the t'niversi:y 1' Southern l!itfornia arnd thie Phl.D. degree Fran the Unrivrs'Iit'o (rmnnecti ut l>r. Hary.ienF i- piriossor of ilduration. Durrin'g hr 'oirnirg year Castine wvill bet a-Fting ar'i-tarnt pirotfessor. lHe i'rreived i his 1.. \. deg.ree in teruacatin from (roliinai. IHller' iof ant .\l.. rdegiree fromr 'lT:r'hr', (r'll'ege, ('olumbnia Uni \ersity r' i 11>. .\l ini iLIee Row h and,I V whot has bien ap Pointed art inFg assistantF priofevssor. E'nginreering 1Four mnen have' bieen added to te facu'rlty .' theit School of Engi son l'SNR < et., who was for mie rly' a profehs sor at C. ar'olina, will serve as as'sistanrt professor. Hie re'eiv'ed tire M1.S. degree from the U.niversity of California. Dr. Warren R. Ferris will be pro'tfessr of electrical engineering. Hie is dioctor of electrical engineer inig from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, N. Y. Wyatt 1. Pr'opst, a JIune grad unte of the Univrsity, will serve as instructor in electrical engi nee'rig. Dr. William M. Wells, .Jr. has breen auppointed associate professor anti head of the div'ision of civil enginleerinig. Dr. Wells earned the master of scienice and the doc tor rof science degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology. English Three new instructors wvill mug mnent the English Department. Dr. George C. Brauer, Jr., who will he assistant professor, holds the (Continued on page 6)