Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Aport of; Caroloa' Rs igious Em p~asis #k beginning unday can possibly be aer&d t question "HOW Religious Wil 1I Week B?" Fo# iW theme "Religion a.d the Educated Person" challenges with revolutionary implications the mnost impor. tnt Job that members of this community have... that of being a student. As Ted Ledeen, "Y" Director, has said, "One bf the inferences of any RE Week, and particularly this one, should be that good religion and good grades go hand in hand." The scholastic achievements of the Caro lina Community during spring semester will bear testimonial either for or against RE Week. Carolina's student body will decide if Religion makes any difference scholastically. In the international realm Carolina is The Seci Lieut. Governor Ernest F. Hollings, in announcing his candidacy for governor, be comes the second to enter the gubernatorial race. Hollings, chosen a national "young man of the year" by 'the National Junior Cham ber of Comnerce in 1954, has an impressive political background. Elected to the legisla ture from Charleston County in 1948, he led a field of more than 20 candidates. Again in 1950 and 1952 Hollings led the ticket and was selected as chairman of Charleston County's ten-man delegation. Then not only in 1951 but also again in 1953 he was elected speaker pro tem unanimously. In his campaign for Lieutenant Governor Hollings won a two-to-one victory over his opponent. The extent of his triumph can be shown by his carrying every county in the state including the home county of his op ponent, except Florence. His victory was even more complete for Ernest F. Hollings became in 1954 the youngest lieutenant governor in the history A Team I An editorial in a recent issue of The Technique, Georgia Tech's college news paper, made us feel a little smug about the Carolina Debate team. Georgia Tech's newspaper expressed "special congratula tions to their master .debaters" for placing second in the Agnes Scott All-Southern Tournament. The Gamecock during the same week had run a story in its news columns in which it was noted that two teams representing the University captured all trophies at the same 12-school All-Southern Debate Tour BOB TALBERT . .. A Sto Sent Tc This week I don't think I'll try majoring in Spa to tell you how degenerate and that'p why I flu how slovenly we are in the South. I think he's sul I won't try to make you fight But as you Cai wars and curse those that start fora thih sees the ol' bed ol' wars. I'll leave turned over this that to. my fellow columnists, going to really They can do the preaching and grades this time the teaching this week. I think You don't g I'll just try to entertain you. around here beci , , , study all of the Let me give you a situation: gao or wrtn We have this freshman who ter I've sent yot just barely passed enough hours here but time su to stay in school. He stayed on you study all of this party of sorts during most it sure is a ch of the exam period and forgot school. I'd better get 1 to cram at the last minute. Any- so I'll close for way, he just made it and we in- By the way, I tercepted three letters he sent you. could sendi home. The first is'to his parents. money every ni Librarythey serve at Lb.r7,19y horrible and I'd Feb.7, 958 occasionally so. Dear Folka: thing decent for K guess by now you have re- I need a little e ceived the grades and have found can get a newi -out how I did this first gmester tigup noor a m here at Carolina. I know they will ruin your ti weren't what you thought I could do but college Is a lot different* than high gehool Here is a lette First of all, I had this profes- seir rInd hiha ser In nglish that didn't like Dorm me from .the first day. He's a Feb. 1~ -great big hiry type professor, Dear Mary Lou: always smoking a pipe. I've got HI sweetie! II these pmpps and all on my face beginning to a would write. I 'w and he dI4sn think I was a man for not coming enougha os heeething. I think he weekend or writ hatesmeyou know how bl I had in college. dSpan- About your con lah 4Vf~4 d- any wakhend. I don't end will be a got la pua wel tough'hlstd natasday that I'm ge spelUi*v Wou a smwa H ." A;e011ge profoOhi o valuating Ieligious -Wee* o W-1"' .caifpuaw once said that "ifair detlion of religion must neces sarAy take account of the many noble re ligions In addition to Christianity and Ju daism." Carolina's religious panel team and its agenda has ample representation from the major American denominations 'but a no ticeable lack of even discussion about some. of the other great world yeligions. Would not interest in Ieligion be height ened by constructive and well-conducted de bate on the principles of the major world religions? Would not this stimulating ex change of ideas be natural to the setting in which the perceptive University student daily finds himself ? ind Entry of the state-the record heretofore held by his predecessor, George Bell Timmerman, Jr. Hollings, who received his LL.B. degree in 1947 from the University and is married to a former University student, is opposed by former USC President Donald Russell, who himself received his LL.B. degree and his undergraduate degree from the Univer sity and is, incidentally, married to a former University student. Another possible guber natorial candidate is Mayor William John ston of Anderson (brother of U. S. Senator Olin D. Johnston) who attended the Uni versity. Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy from Massachusetts at commencement exer cises last May urged that University grad uates enter the realm of politics. The guber natorial race, at the present time, is enhanced by two aspirants both intimately connected with the University which proudly claims them as sons. Although The Gamecock has previously committed itself we shall watch the developing race closely. Maht Wins nament in which Georgia Tech had placed second. Carolina's debate. team honors the article further stated included trophies for top negativve team, top affirmative team, top school, and best individual speaker. USC debate teams, we might also add, coached by Dr. M. G. Christophersen have won the national championship in past years. Not willing to be outdone by our fellow All-American newspaper at Georgia Tech we too congratulate our master debaters with a capital C. ry Of Three Letters > The Folks At Hom( nish and I guess study for and all. That professor nked the course. is a real monster givhig us a test >versive anyway. on Monday but that's the way see I am in the things are when you get to col w studying hard lege. You got to take it. Ha!! I er's work. I've hope you understand and aren't new leaf and am too disappointed. get some good I'm looking at your picture .I promise you. right this minute and I can surely et much sleep tell you that there isn't a girl as muse you have to pretty as you are on this campus. time. The same Not that I would look, you under letters. I know stand. But everyone who comes the second let- in the room tells me you are real since I've been pretty. re does fly when You -know what I was talking the time. Golly, to you about the last time I was ange from high home over the Christmas holi days - about you should date >ack to the books some. Well, I think you really iow. should. You're probably missing tad, I wonder if out on a lot of things in your ne a little more senior year. onth. The food Why don't you start going out the cafeteria is with some of the fellows and to better eat out the parties. It doesn't look like can get some- I'ow going to get home much this a change. Also, semester because of all the stud. itra money so I les and lessons, so you ought to ire for the car. start dating some. Now, I'm just leave a car sit- looking out for your interests. nth at a time, it Please don't get upset and all. res. One other thing before I get Your son . . . hack to studying. You remember * how we were talking about the r he sends to his spring dance? Well, I've got some home. She's a bad news. My geography profes tool. sor has planned a field trip that 16-Room 8 weekend and there's no way in ,1958 the world I can get out of it. I'm awfully sorry, but there's nothing guess you were I can do but go if I want to pass onder when I the course. I hope you understand ant to apologize and aren't too mad. home over the Well, I'd be$ter hit the books. lng but I guess My love... asy you can get *** Now here's the letter he sends lIng up here this to his best friend back home. think this week- At a Bar 4 time. I've got Feb. 7, 1958 ry tsti Mon. You 01' So-and-Bo: lng to have to Man, you don't know what a CARL M. REYN( Cros 'Brilli We're convinced that the hard est thing about some of thf courses offered here at CarolinE is paying for the textbooks. * * * WHEN A STUDENT refers t< another USC student as being "brilliant" he usually means thai the fellow reads his daily assign, ments before going to class or that he has passed History 11 and 12 on the first try. * * * THE THOUGHT COMES tA us that somewhere along the line we were told that we should striv to be consistent . . . apparently the members of our basketbal team have heard the same story STUDENTS ARE KICKINC because the Robot Rooms . . .o Nickle Snatchers . . . are close< shortly after 11 p.m. each night When they were open all night students were also kicking . . obviously, that's why they havw to be closed now. IN A PAPER we were readinj the other day, we saw that a sci entist now claims man is a plant rather than an animal. He sai( h ball it is up here. I'm telling you I've never seen the like of it These guys and gals really knov how to party it up. And in exan period at that. We went on three-day tear that was jus about the living end. What a hea< I had when it was over. Why right now, we're sittinj down here, I forget the name o: the place because there are sa many, living it up. I've just fin ished writing the folks and Mar: Lou telling them a bunch of jaz: about the hard work and -all That's a real laugh. I hardl3 cracked my books last semestea and managed to stay in school If it hadn't been for a poor Eng lish prof, I'd be long gone by now He fell for my sob story an< passed me, barely. Man, let me tell you about thi. chick I've met. She's the most Spends her money like her fathei has all of it in the world. She thinks I'm about the best thing going so I've got it made. We'v< got this big houseparty set foi the weekend and it should be to< much. Now don't go telling Mara Lou about all of this or you wil get me goofed up there on the home front. I may just stay here forever Take it from me--you've got t< enroll here next semester. Yoi probably won't get anymore fron the books than I have but you'l have the craziest social life going Wow! - Here comes the waitress agali so I've got to close for now. .It's my time to buy the rounds. I'stil hope you are plathning on coming up for the spring dance. I've gol you fixod up with this wild chiel and all. See -ya'- around. Your pal... * * * The things the mails are used for theme days. Oh, wel. .. that's when you are a freaman. I gues. "I understand they're pinned now." )LDS... s Campus-Carc ance' And Sat that his studies indicated that man came from a particular sea weed. We suppose that accounts for the "dead-fish" handshakes we get -from some of our fellow students . . . and, there may be something to that poem: "I must go down to the sea again. . . ." Oh, well, it's back to the Darwin board. SPEAKING OF OTHERS, we thought one idea expressed by Columnist Handel, "Sensitivity is out of vogue," stood out in his de jection of hell, describing the gory of war. In that one sentence, I he wrote a book. THE OTHER DAY a friend who lives in Burney said he wished we would write more I about the international affairs in our editorial pages. Unwit tingly, he gives us more credit than does the State Department Foreign Service exam. But, he being an engineering student, we understand, and will try to appease him, through our limited capacity. WITH THE LAUNCHING of the U. S. satellite, we suppose John Foster Dulles will come up with a foreign policy that's really out of this world. DULLES IS KNOWN to spend very little time in Washington ... ,the other day he dashed into the *President's office to make a brief Letters To The Ei Anniv4 Cong rat -Dear Editor: r My heartiest congratulations ,to The Gamecock on its 50th An .niversary. As an official organ of the Student Body, you func tion as one of the correlating .agencies for all University activi ties. You have a history of which . -you should be very proud and a reputation, both locally and na tionally, worthy of support. May you continue to do the fine work in the futg~re that you have done in the past. Sincerely, J. T. Penney Dean of Men Dear Editor: I wish to congratulate you and your staff on the excellent 50th anniversary edition of The Game cock. I make it a practice never to go to sleep on Friday nights >until I've read every word of your fine paper. This week the reading of it was a much longer but most in teresting way to spend a pleasant evening. Keep up the good work! Sincerely, Elizabeth M. Clotworthy Dean of Women Dear Editor: Congratulations to you and your - staff for the fine job you did in compiling, the 50th anni versary edition of The Gamecock. It is apparent that many hours of-work went into that issue. Pb ta; E)Iites report on world tensions and to check on the "brink" situation, when Ike said, "John, don't Just say something, stand there." * * * WITH SO MANY countries studying the South Pole in con nection with the International Geophysical Year, we suppose things will soon get so complex down there that the diplomats of the world will have to sign an Ice Pact. * * * ON THE OTHER end, we have the North Pole . . . and of par ticular significance, was the trip our Atomic Sub made under the ice shelf in that region. Fr(sn a world p6litical standpoint, that was a cool move, especially in the cold war. * * * BUT THE SATELLITE fin ally got up, they say. We suspect this is just propaganda. We be lieve all our scientiqts did was to lower the earth about 250 miles . . . they're pretty shifty when it comes to some things. * * * TAKE THE UNION of the two Arab States . . . John Fos ter really didn't like this ... and might have been able to stop It . . . only he got too interested in watching the repeat perfor mances and encores of the Gaza Strip. * * * LAST SEMESTER a profes sor we had for a course in Latin American Governments said thats alligators down there won't at tack a man unless they've been molested . . . someone should tell Tarzan about this . . . and, with this, we quit. titor ersary u lations Your editorial suggestion that three of the "nameless" buildings on the campus be named In honor of former University presidents is a splendid one. Let's hope that these "unpaid debts" will be paid in this manner. Here's wishing The Gamecock many more years of success In the future and many more anni versaries! - Sincerely, Jerry McGuire C3OWING V( UNIVERSITY OF Mombae of Assee EDITOR......... MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER NEWS EDITOR .. SPORTS EDITOR FEATURE EDITOR CAMPUS EDITOR. SOCIETY EDITOR STAFF WRITERS: Ann Stol Bill Lumpkin, Buss Hoagland, Sinkler, ~BUSINESS STAFF: Jim HE O'Hagin, Betty McInnis. COLUMNISTS: Bob Talbert, Ninette Patasky, R-ol L. o Ronald L.Bern... The Annals Of History Will 'Record. The annals of history will re-q cord the Cape Canaveral launch. ing of the first United States earth satollite. On Friday night, January 81, at 10:48, tenoe sdien tists, military and governmental officials, and newspapermen hud died together in tight - little groups to await the success o failure of th launching. Th rocket climbed, the sound indi cated the success of the second stage, and the cheering bf the spectators echoed the success of the launching . . . and one of my fellow students said . . "So what?" GREAT ADVANCE The satellite, which is now circling the 'globe once every 114.5 minutes, is the greatest technological ' advance accom plished by the United States since - the splitting of the atom ... and the same student said . . . "Big De*l." 4q - Elated by the success of the satellite experiment, ' scientists and even one member of congress spoke of sending a rocket to the moon in a matter of months. This could mean that inter-space travel is within easy reach of the people of our era . . . it def initely means that we are able to match Russian technology af ter a fashion, and it means that a wealth of Space Data is being received from our satellite, The Explorer. EFFECTS The Explorer has brought a "pat on the back" to the United States even from Russia, Sour Grapes from Red China, and too much indifference Jrom the peo ple whom it most directly con cerns, for it concerns you and me and the U. S. and her poster ity. It concerns the people who inhabit the free world . . . all of them ... and we who talk about.1 it. The Navy is readying the Van guard for launching. The 72-foot missile has been described as far superior to the Explorer. The Vanguard and then the Air Force Atlas missiles will be further milestones in 'the technological success and safety of the free world. Perhaps a little careful thought (and a bit of imagina tion, if possible) will demonstrate to my indifferent friend the place of the Explorer in his life and his future. Quote3 It is never too late to give up your prejudices. --Thoreau, Walden When Liberty is gone, Life grows insipid and has lost its relish. -Addison, Cato, II, 3 'Twas the night before Christ mas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. --C. C. Moore, A Visit from S. NicholasW 0, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the witting guest Need never to hunger more. --L. J. Bates, Good Luck ER A RATER SOUTH CAROIJNA ited cgegisate Press Ellieesns .s the s -....... Roy Williams -.-.-.-...Jerry Sanders .......Lela Barr Stuckey -...- .. ..Billy Mishoe ............Tom McLean -..- ..- ..- ... Scott Cain -.-.-... .. ...Gene Jones -.-.-.-...Anne Valley kes, Brucie Lennon Pris Smith, Gerald Floyd, and IIarriet Clare rring, advertising editor; Cathy Carl M. Reynolds, Bill HIandel, n, Dick, Smit -an Bo -o.