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Action On Camji Taken By State St It is encouraging to note the recent action taken by the South Carolina Student Govern ment Association concerning destruction to school property by raiding parties from other schools. The group recommended that a "uniform policy be developed between these various in stitutions concerning the attitudes toward and policies concerning damages inflicted by the students of one institution upon the property of another." The body recommended that damage to one school be payed for by the school from which the raiding person or party comes, and that some action, such as "two weeks academic suspension, one month campus restriction, one semester disciplinary proba tion, or the equivalent of one of these ap plicable on that particular campus," be taken by the institution in which the delin quent person or group is enrolled. The only way the South Carolina Student Government Association will get this thing to work will be through the cooperation of state institutions. Panty Raid A new rule pertaining to student life has been added to the list at Carolina. This new rule which becomes effective im mediately will enable the University to do something about prowlers around the girl dormitory area. Because of several incidents when prowlers have been caught around that area this new rule was drawn up, according to Dr. W. H. Patterson, dean of adminis tration. But we think it will serve a better purpose. Although Dr. Patterson did not mention it this new rule will give the University and city police some legal backing when and if A Distinguished J The University was honored this week when a distinguished alumnus returned to campus to visit after an absence of 25 years. Ashley Halsey, Jr., associate editor of The Saturday Evening Post, spoke to students and members of the faculty three times dur ing his Monday and Tuesday visit. He spoke mostly about his relations with the Post, and writing, but, with his frequent injections, he had a message for all to hear. It was pleasing to those who went to his lectures to hear Mr. Halsey recall little incidents about things that happened while he attended school at Carolina in the late 1920's. Good Teamn There was no doubt about the results of last week's Carolina Forensics. The Univer sity debate team came out of the tournament with first place honors. They defeated some of the finest debate teams in the country. The four-man University debate team went through twelve rounds of debate last Friday and Saturday without loosing a single round. Notre Dame, a school that is recognized for .:s fine dlebate teams, was defeated by Caro lina. Some of the others were Miami, Wake Forest and Florida. We (10 not think you can attribute the wins Letters To The Editor Student Belie Is Already Sh Dear Editor: easily influence The light has been shining in a small percen our state since 1920 when uni- to the polls? Is versal suffrage came into being tage in lowerin in the United States. Carol Because the 18-year-olds are ( called on to fight does not relate ___ to their having the privilege of voting. Have the boys any choice The Lo but to go into the armed forces? They are bossed. They use little Cheeri, of their own judgment in that respect. Only engineers can Dear Editor: drive trains. Others can wash or I am writing lubricate them. test to the lou Our parents are voting for us leading we are and our interests as we are mem- I have never bers of their family. By the age cheerleaders so of 21 we may have developed our have this year. own individual interests which more interested then need to be represented. self than lead The present trend toward mass body yells. And education may give us the facts tempt a yell,: but factc are useless without thing. The tain judgment. We need experience, that the stud personal independence and ma- many, many ye turity. I must say i Lowering the voting age in have here now Georgia made little change in excuse for good it's democratic ticket. Is this be- heard. There aune the 18-21-vaar-olds are schools who pu pus Vandalism adent Government It is believed by SCSGA that if the uni versities and colleges in the state will co operate in this matter that the frequency and violence of the student raids will be reduced. Since the association can only recommend, this cooperation is necessary. In a letter to Newton Stall, Jr., SCSGA president, President Donald Russell said, "I am delighted at the responsible attitude taken by our student leaders.... I feel that each institution must deal with this problem in the light of its own disciplinary policy - in short, I am assured, our institution would regard misbehavior involving damage to the property of another institution in the same way as damage to its own property and im pose punishment on the same basis." If all of the colleges and universities in the state will take a definite stand on this issue, there is the chance that something can be done about this deplorable situation that gen erally occurs every year at Carolina and other institutions. And something should be done to discourage the vandalism.-Herbryant ers Beware they are called upon to break up a panty-raid down by the girl dormitory area after 11 p.m. It reads as follows: "Beginning imme diately the quadrangle bounded by Green, Pickens, Bull, and Devine streets is off limits for men after 11:00 o'clock at night. Stu dents returning from dates after that hour must identify themselves on request by show ing an 11) cardl. Both campus and city police have been authorized to carry out this regu lation." This will not prevent students from mak ing the raids but. will probably make them think twice before attempting another one of those childish emotional acts.-Herbryant Plumnus Returns His messages were very inspiring and en couraging to students who are in their last years of school. On Monday night he spoke to a group of students, faculty, and off campus visitors mostly the last-that numbered between 40 and 50. The group was assembled in Russell House Auditorium. It will hold almost 400 persons. It is a sad situation to see such a poor turnout to hear such an illustrious alumnus of the University. Many have been the cries about the lack of visiting speakers, etc. And when one shows up look what happens. Herbryant And Couch to the four men alone, though. Dr. M. G. Chr'istophersen, USC debate coach, deserves a lot of credit. Of course we realize that without the good talent that he has had to work with Dr. Christophersen's coaching would be no goodl. He is dloing a very fine job), and as long as he has average or better men going out for debate we feel that USC will have a line dlebate team. The records will prove it. Since Dr. Christophersen has been coaching at Caro lina the teams have been in eight out of 11 national dlebat ing tournaments, andl you have to be among the top teams in the country to b)e invited to one of those.-Herbryant yes The Light ining On S. C. I? Is this because than we have here. A first tage of them go grader could do better. I believe there any advan- that if' we took some lessons y the voting age? from some of the high schools E. Watson, we would get along a lot better. 19-years-old). This is supposed to be a new _______era in school spirit but all of a sudden, there is nothing there. IISeVOur football team is having one of its best years. Sure, we lost & (Jo to Clemson, but is that a reason to quit. Winning that game isn't everything. And I can't help but this letter in pro- blame a lot of it on the persons 4ey job of cheer- who are supposed to be the lead getting this year. e'rs of school spirit, the cheer seen a group of leaders. One of the few times indifferent as we the'y got up to lead a cheer dur They seem to be ing Clemson game was when the in the game it- band was p)erforming at half ing the student time. This in itself was in very when they do at- bad taste on someone's part. t's the same old1 1 say that if the job can't be ed worn-out yells done, get off the pot. And I ents usedl here might add in closing that some ars ago. thing should dlefinitely be done hat the yells we ini order to do a better and more are the poorest thorough job of electing cheer yells I have ever leaders in the future and also in are many high getting better yells. "... And then I said, ' NANCY FOX Band, Des Cymbals, gavels, and copg pen cils. . . Deserving consideration this week are the Carolina band, Student Council, and The Game cock. The University band, appear ing with lively step and resound ing music, has focused a great deal of attention on itself this season. The band has improved vastly since the beginning of the year. Precision and harmony are manifest when the group takes the field, giving Carolina at least one display of enthusiasm and vigor at football competi tions. The band's improvement is no phenomenon. Arduous drill ing and practice under director Pat Garnett have resulted in an increasingly impressive instru ROBERT TALBERT, Homec Poor Tm From the tables at the Russell House, to the place where Donnie dwells, begin the homecoming ceremonies, that we love so well. Come the Gamecocks assembled, with their glasses raised on high . .. and homecoming is here again. Carolina grads from near and far are making a Pilgrimage back to the embolished shrine where they made like students. It is at this time of the year when old friends are seen~ and p)ossibly, new friends are made. And for this "gigantic birth day" festive parties and plans have been made. Fraternities have prepared glorious decora tions in which a Gamecock seems to have clawed a Turtle of sorts. Dances and pep rallies and class reunions and Alumni Associa tion meetings and crowning of the Homecoming Queen are high lights of the weekend. CROWING FO UNIVERSITY OF Member of Associt Founded January 30, 1908, with editor, "The Camecock" is pubis University of South Carolina wee year except on holidays and duar The opinions expreused by coih necessarily those of "The Camec< an endorsemenat. The right to ed EDITOR................. MANAGING EDITOR .. BUSINESS MANAGER... ASSISTANT MANAGING E NEWS EDITOR .......... SPORTS E DITOR... CAMPUS EDITOR.... FEATURE EDITOR.. SOCIETY EDITOR ....... ASSISTANT SP'ORTS EDIT ASSISTANT BUSINESS M CIRCULATION MANAGEI~ CARTOONIST.. . PHOTOGRAPHERS STAFF R Linda Cauthen, Ina Claire I Wright, Bill Black, Dan Bal Scott Cain, Lynwood Able,] Carol Babb, D)ick Smith. BUSINE ,Jim Herring, Mike Gilbert, Jerrie Aylward, Lella Bai Johnny Welborn, Beverly Jo COLU Carl M. Reynolds, Mont Moi lyn McC'1nne Niancy FoL If you don't want to study, you don' Council, And erve Recogni mental group. * * * While we're passing out bou quets, we'll toss a garland to Student Council for enforcing its ruling on excessive absences at Council meetings. Long a malady of Carolina's student govern ment, cutting council as a rou tine practice is now being curbed. Last week Council notified a re miss member that unless exten uatini reasons could be pre sented, that member would be replaced in Council. This correc tive action to a harassing prob lem shows a sincere interest in capable student government. * * * Back from the cold, windy city of Cleveland, Ohio, and the an JR. :oming Looks irnout For CE But for most, homecoming is an excuse for another party. An occasion to dress-up, to live it up, to sing and shout, to cheer at the ball game, to rush from here to there, to see everybody, to get on your ear. Homecoming '58 looks like it will be a ball. * e e Embarrassed at Lecture Attendance Last Monday night a distin guished personality spoke at the Russell House. I attended this meeting and I was embarrassed almost to tears at the amount of attendance. Ashley Halsey, Jr., associate editor of The Saturday Evening Post, looked down from the speaker's table and saw a hand ful of people in the audience. There were 44 Interested people there. Of this number less than a third were students. Most of R A GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA ted Collegiate Press Robert F.lliott Congales, as the first hed by and for the student, of the kly, on Fridays, during the college Ing examination, mnists and letter writers are not ek." Publishing does not constitute It Is reserved. .........HERBERT BRYANT .....NANCY FOX .....CAROL SHOCKEY DITOR . ...Roy Williams . . . .. .ylvia Hanna .Jerry Sanders .Jerry McGuire . .. .. .... ....Melba Corley ..........Barbara Hawthorne DRS Mac Hill ANAGER ...Edith Bullock ..........David Monteith Richard Alpert Walt Horton, Bob Cooper, Ken Sturgeon EPORTERS lelson, Carol Watson, Barbara ~ot, Bart Rast, Nancy Carroll, 3ea Smith, Vella Vogelgesang, 3S STAFF Warren Hair Phillip Beard, r Sullivan, Mfarion Singley, nem, Libby Timmons. afNISTS tn Robert 'Talbht, J. Cr 1III belong in this class.' Paper tion nual meeting of the Associated Collegiate Press, I smugly re lated to Editor Herb Bryant the news that The Gamecock was up there with the best of them. Unlike so many other college papers The Gamecock is under no official censorship and is left to function as a student publica tion for the student body. Also, The Gamecock's news coverage, display, make-up, and writing quality (upon comparison) equals any other paper with sim ilar student enrolment and meas ures favorably with papets from much larger schools. A pat on the back, even over your own shoulder, is pretty mo rale boosting right after mid semesters. . . . Good; Iebrity the audience was made up of personal friends of Mr. Halsey. Also the attendance of the fac ulty was marked by their ab sence. If I had been Mr. Halsey I would have been disgusted and disgruntled with the turn-out. But Mr. Halsey spoke entertain ingly and informatively to the assemblage about The Saturday Evening Post. I thought to myself that maybe if Mr. Halsey had been associate editor of some magazine like Confidential, maybe the crowd would have beeni larger. You can't expect our pseudo-intellects to lower themselves to listen to an editor of only the largest non-picture magazine in the world. You hear people say everyday that they think it is a shame that the University doesn't offer any more speakers for the interested students. I'll tell you why. Our scrambled "eggheads" won't support any thing where attendance is not forced upon them. It had been rumored that other notab)le speakers and authors might also lecture here. To save embarrassment, I hope they don't. Maybe Too Busy Maybe the people who should have been there wvere too busy studying or were too engrossed in research and writing. I doubt it. None of what I say here will (10 a damn bit of good, other than to release the head of steam I've built up. I wonder if the Carolina stu dlents wvould be there if Heming wvay, Faulkner, and Steinbeck were on a panel led by Shake speare. They would probably be too b)usy. . . . Reflections from NC State: A tiredl football team played a tired ball game . . . the Carolina Combo became the Carolina Band as they p)layed their best and marched their best, but where were the saxophones? . . . *tu dlents from the Sandlapper School with the dejectitis ... the road from Raleigh yas short going but aso - .. lon reunn. Carl M. Reynolds A Price On His Head Every male student at the Uni versity has -a price on his head. A This is no great revelation... the price of hair cuts have gone up tremendously over the past couple of years, and more re cently, poorly-groomed men on campus reflect the latest hike in the price of barber services: one might say for barbarism services. Most college males have heavy financial obligations - which, if to be considered acceptable, must include a haircut two or three times each month at the tune of more than a buck a sitting. Barber shops may sometimes be facetiously referred to as "clip joints," in that in a particular *J way, this is part of their profes sion. Of course, that is not to say that they have not been in clined to broaden the scope and connotations of the word. For it seems that in addition to flat-tops, crew cuts and duck tails ,they have also become past masters trimming greenbacks and fins. What Can Be Done? Then, what can be done about this problem? Or should we assert that there is any problem? Really, there shouldn't be. For everyone knows that the University of South Carolina has a barber shop. In fact, it's common knowl edge. The barber shop is used for all sorts of things-parties, meetings, bridge, music, dinners, etc. But peculiar enough, of all the activities scheduled in the barber shop, hair cuts are not listed. While the University has done considerable service to the stu dents, many which, frankly, have not been sufficiently lauded, there seems to be a laxity in ful filling desirable plans which could be so beneficial to so many students. Perhaps the school is not pre pared to support an Artist Se ries; maybe the interest is poor, then why be hypocritical: with all these long-haired students walking about? Would it not be sensible to make the barber shop available for its intended use? Three Chairs It would seem reasonable to suggest that three chairs be in stalled in the barber shop, and that barbers be installed at each chair. This could be either school sponsored (which would be very commendable) or rent the space to Interested barbers. While the school sponsorship would seem most beneficial to the students, it is recommended that this idea be explored. The University would not have to rent the space that already belongs to it, thus cutting down on the overhead. The barbers could be engaged by the University, and paid a salary, suitable to both parties. Or, more inhumanely, they could be paid according to the nunmber of heads they cut . . . let us sug gest, of course, that these heads not roll, but remain relatively in tact, free of life-long scars, though perhaps slightly shrunk en. However humorous this may be taken, it is believed that there are enough professional barbers who need our heads in their bus-r, iness . . . and would be wllin to do that business with us, here, at a price reasonable and reach able by the University male pop ulation. Perhaps students who feel that this is a worthy project would do well to solicit of the Adminis tration a working solution. 00 C Orner I like to open env'elo pea That come addressed to me. I'or they may hold some friendf words To keep me company. And they may carry messages Of happiness and cheer. As sweet as any whis per soft That ever touched the ear. Hut when I get those envelopes With windows on the front, I knit my brow and heave a sigh Or else I groan and grunt. flecause I know that they contain The bills I have to pay And nothing more effectively Can darken any day. The sight of window envelopes Is painful to my neck Except on rare occasions When they bring a welcome cheek. Gladys 8. Snipes "undn Husn."