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IVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA N4 PNn THREE PRINCIPAL SPEAKERS. Bun Feb. 9.15. They are the Re ally; the Rev. J. Fleming MeMan Ceraw I. WOlpe, rabbi t Synkg TWNTETH OWSER R0 m J gJO4 Relgiu Will Be . Carolina's 20th annual Religious Emphasis Week begins Sunday, Feb. 9/ and will continue through Thursday, Feb. 18. Robert Free man, student chairman, has said. Three religious leaders will be principal' speakers at RE Week, according to Dr. Eugene F. Mut phy, faculty chairman. TSW* Ate the Rev. Henry E. Horne, chaplain to Lutheran students a Ha :rd University; the Rev. J. Pleadng McManus, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Yonges Island; and Rabbi Gerald I. Wolpe, rabbi of Synagogue Emanuel, Charles ton. The theme of the 1958 RE Week is "Religion and the Edu cated Person." Mr. Horne, a graduate of Cor nell University and Philadelphia Lptheran Seminary, also earned the Master's degree in 41988. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi and P1. Kappa Alpha, and won a class letter In-. THE McKISSICK STC "Men An By PATSY PENNEY L'DE Editor, Spring 1956 "Men and Women of Caro lina. . .. The phrase has become Inti mately interwoven with one of the most notable of University of South Carolina presidents,.J. Rion McKissiek, the man who was pre Osented a bicycle by University stu dents, clamped his teeth tjght on a tremendous cigar, and served the University as president during - the difficilt World War II days. His men and women were the hundreds of students who eame within the walls of Carolina dur ing his eight years as president, the students whom he chamnpioned during his years as dean of the *schoql of journalisin and after wards as president, Hie was a part *of all that' was Caroling... The mwn stores that came regnmw his ofWes during the yeart from 1986 t* 1944 form, an evere tastieg messoriallin the histary ad Thp Gaa4eek. His emuet to stadeta, this <vAriouas addresses both within snd out of the campus, and his contributions to the Uni versity were all reeorded& Psamous Sveit .. Perhaps one of the ost famous *events of which he was a pat oc entred ev4a before The Gasseeock was present' to write i history, 'an event recorded almost every Oc tober since as the school prepares for the ' artolina-Clemuon gaase. This wds his part In the faUss vlot of 1909 when Catolima 'beat Clemson.. Ne was a sophomsore thm Occuping a spot in' the front *line waiting, for the cadets, Me Kissick, a sophomore, war ap pr*ee4,by a siura. . These three amen will be the leadh . Henry E. Be chaplain to Luth me, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Cb gue Emmanuel, Charlesm. VANCE Emphasi Webruary. four sports. He has served churches in Philadelphia, Augusta, and Cambridge. A former presi dent of Marion College, he was student pastor at Princeton, Har. vard, and MIT. Mr. Horne, -ho has nine children, is a member of the Boston Study Committee on Church and Campus. Father MMaami=. S "*ttb e VtManu is ie U aduate of St. Charles College, St. Mars Seminary, and the Catholic Uni versity "of America, where he earned the Mast4drs degree in 1947. He is chairman of the ele mentary department of the Na tional Catholic Educational Asso ciation and is at present superin tendent of schools of the Diocese of Charlbston, which encompasses the entire state. Father McManus' special interests are education, marriage counseling, and religion in business. Rabbi Wolpe is a graduate of RY d Women "McKissick, are you armed?" He showed his revolver. "How many bullets do you have?" "Five." "McKissiek, make every shot count." TREE "VOLONRL" ATk /WORK.. fesmuee pweuldest et the Una VewIM Wer II days ad the hase who balsead the phrase sm ad esusss of the ce e m.. C.bi. as speakers for lRE Week at Care eran students at Harvard Univer ureb, Yonges Island; and Rabbi rs Week 9-13 New York University and Jewish Theological Seminary, holding Master's degrees from both institu tions. He is director of United Synagogue Youth in the southeast and editor of the Southern Edition of Reconstructionists Magazine. A Marine Corps veteran, he has been rabbi of Temple Israel, Nantasket, Mass. These guest speakern- will Con duet daily conv9cations from 10:30 tor 11-:20 each morning, Monday (Continued on page 16) REFUSED ENROLLMEN Negroes TI If Denied i Eleven Allen University Negro students, refused enrollment ap plications at Carolina, obtained iOf Caro As dean of the -School of Jour nis,a position he assumed in 197after securing a law degree frmHarvard and doing various journalistic work, the "EColonel,"~ as the students called him, was in foripal, but demanding of high . The late J. USes k,6 lar, seidu.log th if an. partet ,hDitlm Nas he wessa of . ." (Phoe 'evseasse eepssa Dbrates F GREETINGS TO 'THE GAMECOCK' It gives the University pleasure to salute .The Gamecock on this the fiftieth anniversary of its founding. During the past half centy The Gamecock has won numerous awards for excel lence. Many students who have been identified with it have later achieved eminence in the journal istic field reflecting the value of the experience they had as staff members. Fifty years ago this institution had an enrol ment of 278 with a faculty fewer than 80. The University's faculty today is larger than its stu dent body was fifty years ago. And the expan sion of its physical plant has been commensurate with its academic growth. During the past fifty years the University has had many outstanding -students who subsequently attained prominence in almost every field of en deavor. It has had illustrious faculty members who have been respected and beloved wherever they were known. And it has contributed immeasurably to the progress of the State which sustains it and to the nation as a whole. Let us hope that the past is prelude to the fu ture, that the University will continue to extend its fame and usefulness, and that The Gamecock will continue to dedicate itself to the job it has so ably performed in the past. To The Gamecock, and to all those who have contributed toward its success, my gratitude and congratulations! Robert L. Sumwalt Acting President r BLANKS ireaten Legal Means tdmission To USC forms "elsewhere" and said they "Upon rejection of our applica will seek admission to the all-white tions for admission for the Spring institution. semester," one of the group said, "we will take legal steps." A majority of the 11 are educa tion majors. Four are ministers in the African Methodist Episco (in a pal -Church ,who are taking addi. in a . 0 tional college training. Two of the students said the standards. In fact, Journalism Pro- group in seeking admission to the fessor Frank H. Wardlaw recordsUneriybcueothSae the time of 'his fearful exams. BorofEuainswtdwl "He typed them out himself,bftahrctictonrmAln making as many carbon copies as gauts"n eas efe his typewriter would take andthtsgeainpreIsno Twoolnl' a of the Ptudents said thedeiontsekppca amiionsby sretchng i out oup iosws spokngtaeous.sione oh ThUaencifievlo.Itwstersity permttuse of theirat Boardlof3Education'ngw"thdrawa CouarlbulthatW engtidon terse notnaon aTinhemcc adehis nm uit,utsid,l"bu sidvdas andtremer on measrcred te o tAimem bein e u of thegru teColonel's Lwofnthetiss i the ecisin o cuek areliest schtonsbtrthng. u ot to run "ontaeu."oeo OneeoGahisosignfican fonb. Iasth group perited tusei or h nearly to theehitor long. thnamees. trug ealman Coys bidngtrogramion s r- We wienthisw there nhotuas.a Thre Gnsmethinge hsnmeut"h speca, "btostndviuas sth prmeeid'eno t wnvrith We f thet ens ee and, from bltherne reodedthe oased thy eig ket outr ofh Colonel' ontrbtot the Unmus.Itwrscity and Sou Cuare jSt nesf ity recivedicat onwtribu the eietr t gan orer the brarystow hedfor othie Unimsr- jadtisn o Negea cun othet Prsto, bualdyn Hrgamo, wasr- stwe' wite coles oung eu" an eBrded oethn tpca ,fr i.t The Coloelk did moethA wth 84Wera kofbti theynsawir, ro e Universityhthough, withr.butkId willheynwt holdtuswbeck. f bs buovt andfinisfo the "W uele Set Bth Cthe tate r truehe His hefot adsoffice wehe'al n (Negro) oigate Oprr Unlvasit opeeive the andewhey: ede ennt a am-tl fu it wraly, his cief ocrn.m is diso f ere ooeo h leto, saxe hmo, ter, s tate's wht o ege or un hos reTh9 e oe ddmree thenm tar"e no bout mat," uthe a for thee Unvesit ough,8 "ithe "bur seilno hsldn t SC bee" Mcan eloeeandyo wrediths ao he "e "elhtthe stateI .slg mo saatud~es i coeanda offc lere any.o admleal oatd a p lyo pens. to"thed aidt w iddctiaoemtnM t He oul$suppria talk to , e huch - 5ti tdta... iasth tim' ontles add05Ussed4 tha u-aest eraeeis mes sadtey nenreedse akers98."Sne r seeki g m j gg g he somtumsda awhlkof ad fwr han ewa'.al is s taesa etdo Ift Years Robert Gonzales Was First Editor By Nancy Fox Wingard Editor, Spring 1957 Fifty years ago, when chicken stealing from University faculty members was a persistent, if not approved pastime for young Carolina gentlemen, the initiation on campus of a student newspaper prompted one professor to remark: "May The Gamecock survive longer than any chicken that I have been able to keep on the campus." The paper not only survived, it flourished and through the years attained a position of significant importance in Carolina student life. The first issue in January of 1908 was an unpretentious publication bearing the same name that had recently sup. planted "Garnets and Blacks" for the football team. Under the editorship of Robert Elliott Gonzales, the first editor, The Gamecock entered a growing list of student activities only two years after Carolina had been re chartered as the state University from the old South Caro lina College. Since the first issue, The Gamecock has enjoyed con tinuous longevity. It has served the University conscienti ously in recording 50 years of changing Carolina scene. And throughout its existence, it has tenaciously func tioned under its original endowment--a student newspaper, by and for Carolina students. Publication has followed an unbroken tradition of trust. Accordingly, the -paper has remained free from faculty regulations or censorship. ORIGINAL SIZE Along with the University, the paper has grown and advanced in strides. Started without advertising as a four page, five-column tabloid on slick paper, it has developed today into a full sized newsprint paper. The first editorial reported that "No other university in the United States with an enrollment of 300 then published and maintained a university newspaper." The Gamecock no* serves over 5,000 students and faculty members. Content of the paper has undergone changes too. To day's Gamecock has something to offer all the students. The first paper carried sports news, notes on YMCA activ ities, jokes and news- briefs from the Clariosophic and Euphradian literary societies, the latter- being the founding and supporting organizations of the paper. Although financed by subscriptions made by society mem bers, of $1.50 per year "payable in advance," The Gamecock met with monetary problems during its first year. An edi torial stating, "Boys, it is a pure case of sink or swim, live or die,. survive or perish with The Gamecock," was to be paraphrased often in subsequent editions. - TEMPER OF TIMES The annals of 50 years, now carefully preserved in the South Caroliniana Library, reveal the temper and times of a changing Carolina-its goals, advances, set-backs. The paper also reflects the feelings and opinions of students through two world wars, the roaring twenties, the bleak thirties and the swift-moving forties and fifties. Excerpts from Gamecock editions encompass trivial pet peeves of students, crucial problems facing the University and humorous incidents and antics by Carolina collegians. Through the years, editorial stands broched all of these. Editors, filled with responsibility and duty, boldly championed causes, which most often treated such subjects as school epirit, needed classroom and living accommodations and deficit legislative appropriations. Crusades were sometimes vehement. And sometimes, overzealous editors followed vigorous chastisement of ad ministrators, legislators and their policies one week with retractions and apologies the next. Some of the issues reported and fought for in The Game cock are mentioned here, though no attempt is made at giv ing a year-by-year chronological summary of events covered by the paper. DISCUSSION ON EXAMS From the first, examinations provided subject for die cussion. For instance, during the first year of publication, The Gamececk urged postponement of examinations while the legislature was in session, to enable the young men of the University, especially law students to benefit from the educational aspects of law-making sessions. Not much later, 10-hour long exams were bemoaned, and a request was made for the campus post office to include the sale of stamps and postal cards so that students might be,,ardthe task of traipsing to downtown Columbia to toeitems. A follow-up to the first Carolina-Clemson footbal edition headlined the game as a "Grand Gridiron Bout" despite Carolina's 6-0 defeat and in 1909- and a movement for a itbird literary society on campus failed. In the same yea*, a letter to the editor critiied a pa. tice of some students who crossed the campus in their, bth robes as "disgraceful conduct" on "cone of the main thorough. fares of Columsbia." Another editorial criticised compulsory attendance of students at chapel four times weekly as "somewhat haush, for religion is not drilled into a cege student." The Gamecock announced in 1910 tht it would no fight the prsneof co-eds on oam . The papee ras~ for prhbtion at Carolina and a $0prise was offered a scolAlma Mater. But 1911 was a good year at Carolina with 'leesspltt anyI gambling and drinking." Only two phoes~ nao asaps in 1914 was repuetsd asa gpet convenilena, -A U U J O N The 1916 Ee ditsrta1hma ts 5M braved aderenion" by as00