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The aniipuncement by Natli Champion Carolyn Willis tha ested in enrolling at Carolin present ban on majorettes hei renewed interest in the be scarcely noticed when it wi last fall. Miss Willis' statement has < the introduction in the state a bill which would require the to use majorettes at all footb One Columbia newspaper week that University band dir net's decree against majorett( Mr. Garnet, it seems, feels tha needs no majorettes and no r jorettes can make a bad band Certain I Two certain signs that sp cially taken up residence or campus are the blossoming c and azaleas. Rivaling the flower bloon attention are campaign plac ters of every conceivable c shape attached to Universit and bulletin boards. The early appearance of p reflects a healthy atmosphere petition, industry, resourceful all else, interest in student a: LETTERS TO TI White Stal Dear Editor: For several reasons I should like to make a brief statement as to my position in the present con test for the office of Student Body President. It has been variously rumored that I am supporting one candi date or another. As a matter of fact, none of these rumors is true. My position is one of com plete neutrality. Let me add that I believe this is as it should be for any person in my office. A final point I should like to urge is that proper administra tion of the affairs of the Caro lina Student Body would be a very demanding task. Whereas thpre is little possibility that any Student Government, however misdirected, might wreck the University, it is quite conceivable that an energetic and stable Stu dent Government might be of real value. Therefore, it should be the con cern of every Carolina student to insure the election of candi dates most likely to build an im proved student representative or ganization. Sincerely yours, David A. White Admit Only Couples Dear Editor: I read the article in The Game cock March 8, written by an anonymous person, concerning the new proposed dance room. I CARL M. REYNO Establishing Wisdom On As a last-minute stand, Stu dent Council has pushed a busy schedule, and finally is to be commended for a piece of legis lation lpng called for, and of par ticular merit. Reference is made to their de cision to sanction precinct vot ing. The laurels of this accom plishment are not altogether to the credit of Council, but to the insistence of the election chair man who introduced and sup ported the resolution, upon recommendations by numerous persons, realizing all the while that its successful adoption would mean headaches for his committee. NOT A NOVEL IDEA An interesting objection raised in Student Council was that pre cinct voting was "not a novel idea." Unofficial comments from Council leaders indicated that there would be opposition to the resolution, merely on the grounds of credit--that is, who would be given credit for bringing this item to the attention of the Council. Obviously, it was a good idea -one which any perennial poli tician would proudly like to claim-hut this could not be the case. But in their last ditch of bringing committee reports and synthetic action to the public, it must have been considered stra tegic to adopt this solution to the voting problems. CRIEIIT DUE WHERE? This, then, is largely to the credit of a consceantious few an Should B nal Majorette the Columbia t she is inter- ment that a be a, despite the but make a go -e, has kindled We can't q n which was somewhat old 0s pronounced indicated in t talent vs. bea wen prompted analagous wit] legislature of While the p Carolina Band lina-Clemson I all games. to the perforr suggested this teams; on the ector Pat Gar- from the popul ,s be reversed. for the event, t "a good band A combinat iumber of ma- the USC band good." To that, able compromi larbingers 4 ring has offi- While other i the Carolina ize on studei f both politics The Gamecoci in reporting is for student ards -and pos- election front lor, size and The only y walls, trees present politic of a spring fe )litical posters But at Car of keen com- election days ness and above even drowsy fairs. inducements B rE EDITOR Les Position I must say that I disagree with him on his idea that students should be permitted to attend it stag. That would make it too hard on the persons who did take the time to make a date, which I don't think is a matter one would have to worry about. I think the proposed rule that only couples be admitted is def initely a "must," if the dance room is to be a success. And too, I think that it is only fair that I sign my name. Sincerely, Don Williford Freshman Meeting Dear Editor: While the air is filled with "button-holing" and everyone speaking to each other I think it is also a time for some serious thinking. Everyone here at the University will, or rather should cast his vote on April 1 for the candidate he deems most capable of doing the best in that office. I feel that everyone who casts his ballot should know what his choice stands for. The Freshman Class is having a meeting Monday, March 25, at 4 p.m. in the Russell House As sembly Room. This call meeting will feature addresses made by the Sophomore Class Office Nominees and the Student Body Presidential Candidates. Every freshman should make an attempt to attend this meet 'LDS Precincts -- Whose Part not the general attitude of Coun cil--the same Council which re cently voted down a proposition whereby the students have an honest picture of which elected representatives actually show up at Council meetings. Certain actions taken by Stu dent Council, though ill publi cized, indicate that the Council can take numerous steps which will affect and benefit the stu dents. But even so, many are victims of the lethargy they have acquired in office, only to be kissed by the breath of spring, and ride proudly on a gallant stallion, giving all indications of vitality-or perhaps showing the symptoms of alertness as may well be attributed to dexidrene. L.ATE ACTION Too, it is amusing that this bustling activity by Council comes at this time in the year not over a long term. Reflections should not be adversely asso ciated with the chief administra tor, for great strides were at tempted. It rests on the shoul ders of lesser station, officials who least cooperated on vital issues. In any case, it will be interest ing to compare the issues used in the forthcoming election. Some will no doubt be proud of the fine work they have been In strumental in pushing through the Council. Through this, they will have gained experience, know-how and perspective, we suppose e Abollised paper parried with the argu tutiful, majorette couldn't help Ad band better. uite agree, either with the fashioned attitude Mr. Garnet Lis edict, which propounds a tity conflict. The situation is i that of Big Thursday. ageantry attending the Caro game doesn't necessarily add iances on the gridiron of the other hand, it doesn't detract larity or lessen the enthusiasm either. ion of beauty and talent in would be a happy and equit Ise. )f Spring college newspapers editorial 1t apathy towards elections, c can take proud satisfaction that all seems lively on the here. foreseeable deterrent to the al fervor would be the advent ver epidemic. Dlina, when in the final pre campaigning really gets hot, maid Springtime's lethargic o unheeded. Elections ing since it has been set up for the purpose of familiarizing the freshmen with the students who will represent them in their Stu dent Government. This may seem like a small matter to some students, but I believe in all sincerity that this is definitely a step towards a better and more unified Student Body. Again I urge all Freshmen to plan to attend this very import ant called meeting. Thanking you for the space you have allowed me in The Gamecock, I am Very sincerely, Bunky Joye Support WUS Drive Dear Editor: I have noticed that in the course of this year there has been a growing interest in matters of international import. This, I think, has been mani fest by the increased enthusiasm for International Relations Club, the rather good attendance at programs featuring students from other lands as brought to us by the "Y," the IRC, and the Student Council, and by increas ing interest in the Debate Team and its national query this year. Every wveek I notice this more and more through the news stor ies andi editorials in The Game cock. I feel that the students of Car olina are to be congratulated as they make themselves more and more aware of events in other countries. Too often our inter ests are confined to those events which occur between the Savan nah River and the North Caro lina state line. There are other phases of in ternational problems, however, wvhich are not directly related to the intrigues of diplomacy. Pov crty, disease and ignorance run rampant to such an extent that most of us in America are un able to comprehend it. Next week the annual World University Service Drive is be ing conducted on our campus. This organization, a mutual as sist,ance pact between students in 40 nations, is doing its best to eliminate the problems men tioned above. It has the endorsement and backing of UNESCO, the Chris tian Council of America, the YM and YWCA, and such men as Dr. Ralph Bunche and Henry C. Lodge, Jr. Because-*I feel that the stu dtents of our University will feel a sense of moral responsibility if they are acquainted with the needs of fellow students, and will be warmed with a spark of altruism and philanthropy if they are really acquainted in a meaningful way with the fact that regardless of how poor they think themselves they are inf itely better off than most of their foreign colleagues, I am optimisa tic about the forthcoming W. U. S. Drive. I wish to take this op portunity to encourage and urge my fellow students to support the drive, and rise to meet this almost universal need. Sincerely, .ames L. Whte, r. 4I V 9.1 DICK SMITH Our A After the war, when Hitler's snarling wolves and their orien tal counterparts were finally contained in the Allied gallows, the world was not only shocked at the completeness of modern brutality, but also spiritually ex hausted. It seemed that, despite the growing influence of religious and cultural values, a soldier gangster had only to muster a few warriors to seize a sup posedly civilized nation and wreck havoc upon the world. The HERBR YANT What's W The Housi A student asked this writer the other day what was wrong with the Housing Office. I told him I didn't know. "Well," he said, "something should be done about it. Don't you think they should have the students in mind when they do something?" I told him that I thought they should. "You know," he continued, "some students say those housing people sneak around and check the rooms to see if you have booze in the room." "Oh?" "One told me that they make you clean up your room when actually it only looks like It has been lived in." "Another student told me that they charged him 'for making a needed repair to his room when it needed it and when the Uni versity hadn't repaired the fix ture," he continued. "Understand, I'm not accusing them of any thing, but that is what I heard. What do you think about those things?" I told him that I had not thought anything about those things because I had not thought about the Housing Office lately. But I asked him if he had been to see the chaplain. He got .a lit tle mad. I told him that I was only kidding. Then he started talking about something that really hit home. Money. It seems that the Housing Of fice needs a little aid to help them keep track of students liv ing on campus. Housing is going to make on-campus students put $55 on the line by May 11 if that student wants to reserve a cer tain room that he might be fond of. The office will let the student fork over the amount after May 11, and all the way up till next semester. But after May 11 students will get a place to sleep on a first-come-first-serve basis. So suppose you have a room with good southern exposure now, but are pressed, as usual, for money, and have hit your old man or Uncle Sam for all that you can squeeze out of him, and can not pay before May 11. With the increasing housing problem due to the increased en rollment, you stand to lose your present home. HONEST 6 VOTE *L Closing World Helping Han voices of our times echoed a world warped by blind ambition and brute force; a world struck dead when it should have been fully alive. Seeking to Dissolve The United Nations reachied into all areas of human action, seeking to dissolve the finality of this human self-revulsion. Ideals of education and culture now given financial impetus were developed. Scholarships, colleges, materials were spun out by UNESCO as rapidly as pos rong With ng Office? found out that Housing is doing this for the students. You see, Housing has had a lot of trouble telling who is coming back the following semester, who was on campus until about mid-semes ter, and which students living off campus coldb allowed to moeoncmps byiro uiing W or$55 depst voices thre or twtimes eoe checkin woute bylnd ambintiong te offien ithe should hav boe $70lly solive. Snly ki5b o telligtofic e thahey Unid ntato recurn inoplul areaswfchuan upcto Moe-i the disslervhe fialroom buof thi humandelreulin.s notaldifficulto and witHus ingihen fin an impets wents delowant chlarships, collegs, mstuentitalstv wspu outin by UeaSCOd aso rapidy astuo thi5 dpsbfor suens Myo see, Housighsmae of lone o tob" taelln wolem coming bac tast followigesemeer,i wh solton t themprobem unt aou proposemels ter,te and whihe studentsk livng off stllsms colde alod to Thenhe Hadin tir roingeths.t hey ahe tryns toe sol tey Tohelp fello the students will think thpre orfto th esm. fr chcing wouad not tifingl theoffsincte ifguhey rgstadtions $7pbroed oring fe a h fIsno the ps,eestet old benvy 15y nto tellngie that ofic tdt hydi not wanto romturn Mey-ifth reserve he ri.ot durin the not ectrurn. of ias otfficul tomester.An wit onus inthenfiey indso-dng thsu dens will wan schooithe $70. Tind studt that stinga toing arpsked "Hwreby tU dentst will betable to mae some mowney urae, but leastd200 roughesmtsee outn or dtdwo" Irentn to telol hiaotemes withou polcoming up l 1.At aemountu. Thre's raslutony. I dthe blen I was psedlas t aout ofh em. Itwouldnt eatodi"cl ROBERT TALBE It's An Old What's the matter . . . ? I guess it's just human nature to gripe. Whenever you have a group of people in some sort of restricted state, you are bound to have gripes. Sometimes they are just con versational grievances but some times they need watching. They breed deep in dissatisfied minds and they emerge as real, big per sonal things. When they get bitter and big, it can mean only one thing . . . there's a problem somewhere that needs a little more inspection HEALTHY TO GRIPib The doctors tell us that it's healthy to gripe and get things off our chests. They say it helps in breaking up those ugly, little mental blocks and makes our metabolism function better. All right, so we can be healthy if we gripe, but will we be happy? It's very apparent that we don't think we'll get anything done with our gripes. We must like to hear ourselves talk. Well now, buddy, we are wrong on that count. With enough anti this or damn-that, we can open some of the new closed eyes and ears to our legitimate pleas. And id sible under the existing appro priations. But despite this invaluable aid, the aspect of personal contact seemed lost in the mechanical exchange of CARE packages and scholarship checks. Something else was needed.. At this point, the World Uni versity Service came into be ing. . . . Founded on the prin ciple of students helping stu dents, WUS attacked the major problem of our time in attempt ing to conquer poverty, disease. ignorance, and despair-which haunt the vast populations of South Asia, Africa, and the Far East-through educated leader ship. ENTHUSIASM SLOW Enthusiasm was a slow-firing process. Many persons in the Western countries were skepti cal about a cultural-educational alignment with the East; and the idea of *a "world" coalition seemed somehow to appear a trifle pink in the stormy politi cal winter of 1947-48. The aid of sponsoring organi zations (i.e., National Newman Club, B'nai B'rith Hillel Foun dation, Student Council of the YMCA and YWCA) relieved this fear. The mid-century sawv a bris tling organization covering 88 countries (including 600 univer' sities in the United States) and representing an annual inter change of $1,150,000. SOUlRCE OF MONEY Most of the money is donated by studients and professors in the United States and is used in the orient and the middle east for such things as student hous ing, scholarships, educational equipment, and text-books. The funds are handled by groups ap pointed in the WUS General As sembly (which, in 1955, was held in Helsinki) andi the organization works hand-in-hand wvith such agencies as C A R E and UNESCO. The social interchange -- de spite the dliverse backgrounds of the mniy participants-is unus uiaIly harmonious. Tlhis is (Iue in part to the efforts of mn like D)r. Ralph Bunche, who spends a great deal of time and effort supporting WUS. A PiRACTrICAL APPROACH I've rarely endorsed humani (:ROWING FO UNIVERSITY OF Member of Associa Founded January 3o, 1908, with editor, "The Gamecock" is publisi University of South Carolina weel yar exce pt on holidays and duri Teopinions expreased by colui necessarily those of "The Camece an endorsement. The risht to edi MiANAGINO EDITOR - alIJiINEHS &iANA(iER ASXiNTiANT MANAOiN(1 ICTORt NEWS EiDITioR 5ii'iT ElJlTOR ('AM%i'U8 EDiTOR. I'IEATlti EDiTOR. so11IK'TY ElDITOR - F-A''-TV' EDITOR Ass5 iTA NT SP'ouTS EDITOR AsSISTANT RUIJSNEHs MANAGER tiRCUiL-ATrioN MANAGER - I'IioTIo(iRAPHIERB Millr A nnea Wai, B art IHast. liU SI NESS S'i Alle jIm 1"J''ierrinag, jerr',e COI,NiSTS: Carl Mi. Reynolds. Robi IT Saw, But ... Singularly we are helpless, X but plural ... now that's a horse of a tougher hide. LARGE AND SMALL So far this year we've had gripes both large and small, but they have been disorganized. We've griped about the closed ear the administration gives to some of the students' problems . . . then there's the one about the poor quality and selection of food by our Slater System . . . some of us didn't like the' dis trust the housing authorities placed in us ... scattered voices have been raised against the bullying tactics of the police force . . . some have complained about the tied hands of our Stu dent Council '.- . . the frat men have disapproved of the de-fra ternising policies that appear on the horizon . . . a croak was heard when the student magazine was turned into a Child's Garden of Verses- . . . almost evetyone griped about the denial of early Christmas vacations (this: was our own fault, we didn't apply soon enough) . . . another bone of contention was picked over concerning the sloppy way the football tickets were distributed. ENDLESS LIST The list is endless, and it grows every day as someone has his toes stepped on or his feel ings hurt. Now who is at fault? The of ficials in charge . . . the student body . . . the gripers . . . I think maybe we can all take the blame. 01' Mark Twain was right when he said, "Everyone talks about the weather, but no one seem to do anything about it"! That's just about the story of our dissatisfaction. We never really do anything about it. If a student body really wants something bad enough and their objectives are sound enough, then there should be ears to hear the trouble . . . there should be open minds to weigh the problem . . . there should be leaders who can voice our gripe with presuasion rather than timid suggestions . . . there should be a sympa thetic faculty who will stand hard for the students . . . there should be more understanding all the way around . . . there should be so many things that we just y don't seem to possess. We better realize that things aren't as smooth and nice as we hope them to be. I don't guess that time ever will be, until enough people get tired of a lot of situations and decide to change things. tarian services, having burnt my ideals once with a communist supported "save - the - children" league in vogue around 1948 1951 . in this case, howvever, we seem to have found a practical approach to the world problem of education ; and one, I might add, handled as efficiently' as a Swviss post office. The campus program is or ganized under Chairman Jim White, and includes Coles Cath eart,. Nancy Shirley, John Mann, Bob Andersen, "Peanut" Trues dtale, Vicki Rumnph, and Walt Whitner. An informal canmpus wide dance has been planned for next Thursday night, proceeds of which go to t'he WUS fund. Arranogemients have been made for collections in all dormitories at various times during the en suing two or three weeks, when volunteers will approach all stu dents and professors who wish to contribute,.a It seems to me that such a in valutable service should be given the wvidest possible sup port. We need assurance that the Hlitlers and Stalins and other such ilk have found their last breeding grounds of ignor ance andl desp)air. This is a sure and p)ositive step in the right dIi rec tion. CocI6 Rt A GREATER SOUJTH CAROLINA led Collegiate Press Robert Elliott Conzales as the first ed by and for the students of the dy, on Fridays, during the cenlegs \ Its exasinations. nni1sts and letter writer, are met k.' Publishing does not cometitite S is reserved. NANCY lox -ROY WLI.ASg EDITH BULLUCE Melba Corley - Jerry Mceuire ..Mae Bil - - Scott Cain Biarbara Bawthore -Slrta Eramma Carol Watsom Jerry Banders Lells Barr Suiluvan D)ave Momiti Walt Ilorton.R Ked Slrpert I - nwood Ab,le. 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