The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 21, 1958, Page Page Two, Image 2
Eight speakets have returned to their
homes'atter traveling nearly 4,000 miles and
spending a total of 41 days at Carolina.
These speakers, all of them outstanding
leaders in their field, left their homes and
pastorates to come to the University campus
and speak to the Carolina Community. Be
fore each of the eight speakers was secured
approximately ten others were approached
and declined due to crowded schedules and
previous commitments.
The planning for the conference was elab
orate. An executive committee of 20 mem
bers met weekly beginning in September and
a general committee of 90 members met at
least three times to discuss other arrange
ments.
A 3ott
After attending a banquet at the Russell
House Assembly Room a few weeks ago, two
campus visitors returned to the cloak room
area adjacent to the Campus Book Shop to
pick up .heir wraps. Their coats were no
longer there and had apparently been re
moved. Everytime it rains at Carolina a
half dozen raincoats and umbrellas are mis
placed. According to a Russell House em
ployee at the information desk, approxi
mately 25 coats have been taken from the
Student Union Building this year, either ac
cidentally or purposely. Notices asking "that
if anyone has taken a grey car coat by
mistake to please return it" have become
numerous in recent weeks.
Although we may have hesitated to have
made any reference to the above occurrences,
we firmly believe in the old adage, "who's
to say that the news is bad or good, news is
news."
To be fair it must be admitted that the
thefts may be done by either a member of
CARL M. REYNOLDS . . .
First In A So
A geology professor told us a and inconspici
couple of semesters ago that the doubted that ar
earth is constantly changing, and tice it.
that even the rocks are breaking WE HOPE N
into smaller and smaller pieces ernment's scieni
. . . and eventually there may be will be given f
no more rocks . . . and frankly, of inflated sphi
it shakes us. cleated phalang
It's not enough to worry about WE WERE
the satellites .. . but how can we other member
ever hope for peace of mind, pon- Iota about one o
dering the fate of future genera- current movies,
tions, wondering what they'll which pictured
have to put their Scotch on. Independents an
* * * our friend thoug
WE'RE GLAD TO see the Ad- line was "Bev
ministration propose the plan for Bearing Gifts."
limied unlimited cuts . . . and, this comment I;
we hope they'll go through with pledged ourseh
it . . . at least, it should elimi- rush Into it.
nate the situation we once heard *
of, where a student called a pro- BUT WE'RE
fessor, told him his roommate "Ides of March'
wvas very ill, and please not mark yet . .. we don't
him absent . . .the professor stand two or m
agreed, but asked who was call- one week.
ing, whereupon the voice re
turned: "This is my roommate IN A FEW1
speaking." versity Players
The professor strongly sus- sire Under the:
pected something fishy . . . but say is a trage
professors are uncanny detee
tivs.* * * Letters 'A
SOMEONE TOLD US the
other day we should conduct a
poll to determine the most popu
lar brand of cigarettes on cam- Bern Surr,
pus. This is rather unnecessary,
since, by far "Oh Pee's" are most To His Eri
in demand . .. they are, yrou Dear Editor:
knEw, "other people's" . . . and Mr. Bern hai
everyb)ody smokes them . . . eh, rendered to hi
JDW. power to reason
* * * organize facts or
SPEAKING OF SMOKING reasonable perso:
reminds us of the friend who read mate connection
so niuch about the harmful ef- tIe Rock incideni
fects of smoking . .. that he de- New York schoo
cided to give up reading. But a ever, as emotiori
tobacco company would do well quers reason, it
nowadays if they came out with point out that
a tobacco-tipped filter. (In reference to
.* * question specific
IF TIMES GET much harder, make an effort
they ought to lay-off the hand each relative (i
on the clock in the cafeteria . . . only relative bet
the fellow doesn't work half the Rock and New
time anyway. pertain to schoo
* * * litical administra
WITH ALL THIS cold weather situation. I sugj
...It would be an excellent time that he hencefo
for the State Legislature to let facts (or fictioi
of f some steam . . . or, campus doning himself t
politicians would do well to start versuial article.
their campaign speeches. Ea
* C C
ON TH E OTHER hand ..,. if A New Cc
we don't see s'ome birds an
nouncing spring . . . the campus Is Needed
Hi--Y'alls will be out beating the Dear Editor:
bushes. Why does a tea
* * * of the best pot4
KSK HAD A formal banquet the ACC have a
last night . .. and a friend men- This is one mi
tionied that he was wearing a watched four s4
rented Tux,'We looked carefully cock basketball.
and assured him It was okay . .. some tremendou
the rented place was so small Wallace was topm
Dvring the week ftself about 8,000 per
sons-atteaded 'ouvocations and irnumerable
students participated in sorority and frater
nity dimpussions, dormitory sessions, and
other meetings.
In addition about $1,200 was spent' on
meals, room fees and travel expenses of the
speakers.
In attempting to evaluate R eligious Em
phasis at Carolina we ask if the tremendous
amount of work and energy expended to pro
duce the week will merit the results.
The answer can be found in the group
known as the student. We ask you-was it
worth it? More adequately than any com
pilations of statistics, you, through your ac
tions and your being, will give the answer.
in Spot
the student body or a professional outside
the school. With the large number of outside
persons using the Russell House facilities,
it would be easy for an outsider to visit the
clothes racks.
Several years ago the Horseshoe area,
when it used to be the heart of the campus,
was the center of a number of thefts. An
outside person entered rooms on the Horse
shoe and walked out loaded with numerous
articles of clothing. During his first few
raids,.he was mistaken for a student going
home for a weekend.
Regardless of whom thcculprit or culprits
may be, the time has come for action. Stu
dents should be on the alert and reduce
temptation as much as possible. Honest stu
dents should not forget that although 999
students in Russell House would not pick up
his book or coat, it only takes one person to
do it. The Honor System theoretically works
two ways at Carolina. You are obligated to
be on the lookout for offenders.
aries Of One
Ious that we hardly wait to see if they're talk.
ybody would no- ing about the play . . . or the
players.
* * * * .
ONE of the gov- NOT TOO MANY studenti
.ifie scholarships signed up for the new course i
or applied study phys. ed. It's a great course h
res propelled -by dancing . . . the Tennis Sho4
es. Waltz ... known as P. T. '58. Wi
* * understand that classes are heli
rALKING to an- in the Field House since so man3
Af Gamma Delta students are auditing the cours4
' Student Union's . . . maybe next Spring it wil
"Helen of Troy," be better.
a war between *
d Fraternities ... WE WERE AMUSED to se4
ht the significant the final exam schedule include<
rare the Greeks with the holidays in last week'j
We didn't include paper . . . but, then again, foi
ast week, having some they may well be.
res we wouldn't * * *
IF WE WERE in high schoo
* * . . . we could carve our initial:
GLAD that the on a classulnate . . . instead of
aren't in season desk . . . just to keep pace witi
know if we could the progressive school systems o.
are "Bewares" in the north.
* * *
* WE WERE TOLD that nex
VEEKS the Uni- week we have to be serious..
will present "De- so, until then . . . keep smilini
EIms" which they . . . as if you were hit in the
dy . . . we can face with a broad axe.
o The Editor
From
endered next, and third was a terrific
..ton guard on the "Wallace" team,
l0snamely, Bobby McCoy.
So we lost two men off last
obviously sur- year's club which went to the
a emotions, his ACC finals against UNC. Well,
or his ability to UNC lost three of its men, Rosen
both. I defy any bluth by graduation, Quigg by
ri to find a legiti- injury, and Cunningham by re
between the Lit- placement. Why aren't they in
and the present last place with a 4-15 record?
I situation. How- 7 think the answer is very ob
al abandon con- viousi They have a Frank and
is only fair to we have a Frank; BUT theirs is
minority groups McGuire and ours is Johnson.
the segregation I'm a little tired of sentimen
ally), should not tality, or whatever it is, that
to individualize keeps a losing coach here year
i this case it is after year. I don't know Johnson
:ause both Little personally and he may be a fine
York incidents man, but he is NOT a fine bas
is and their po- ketball coach!
tion) incident or How about a change?
eat to Mr. Bern O'Neal Pittman
rth organize his_______
ri) before aban
o such a contro- Student Takeg
rI W. Griffith Issue With Editor
Dear Editor:
hDue to the fact that The Stat.
ach and the later edition of The State
are the only dailies in town, Co
lumbia is very noticeably lacking
am that ha. sorne in intellectual freedom and cu
intial players in riouity.
4-16 record? I am a senior and I have been
an's opinion. I've reading, with chagrin, Editor
asons of Game. Latimer's misinterpretations for
and I have seen a number of years. For the past
players. Grady few weeks his articles have been
, Lee ollins was 50 fictitious and eloneon. I fee
Bill Handel .
New Yori
In last week's issue of The :
Gamecock we read of garbage
cans, black kettles, educational
back yards, Vassar-Carolina cor
respondence and Mayor Wagner's
children. I read and compre- i
hended what the crusading col
umnist had to say. I looked to the
northern schools and their
troubles and came up with a pos
itive answer. Not a negative or
pretty one, but at least it was
based on facts and not editorial
eloquence or immature suppo
sitons. The answers I arrived at
are not the nicest but they are
sound and based, also, on the
various conditions I know to be
true, having been educated in the
schools of New York City.
The first anecdote I checked on
was the death of a high school
principal. This may be a blow to
the pride of our juggernaut col
umnist, but this poor principal
did not kill himself because he
could not cope with a school sit
uation but it was a personal mat
ter involving the improprieties of
one of his immediate family. He
had been depressed for some three
months and could not face the
scandal that was about to result.
This could happen to anyone,
yankee or southernerl
Muggings and knifings are
commonplace and not restricted
to the schools alone. "Sociologi3al
law of the educational land" has
not always been the starting
point of knife fights, as witnessed
by several of our own students
some time ago. Please allow me
to point out that there are 47 pri
vate high schools and 127 public
high schools in the metropolitan
t area of New York. All of these
.have been integrated for at least'
25 years, If not more. Only in the
past several years, perhaps since
World War II, has this volence.
The Student
I must take up the gauntlet. I
am, of course, referring to his
criticism of the New York City
school system. I am a native New
Yorker, having spent 13 years in
its public schools. My grammar
school was P. S. 7 (southerners
for some reason find this quite
amusing), and high school, De
Wltt Clinton. In this article I
wish to answer Latimer on only
two particular points.
On Feb. 13 Latimer told the
tale of the "19-year-old hoodlum"
who with a junior high school
diploma, which Is equivalent to
the tenth grade, could barely spell
"girl." Since the age for junior
high graduates,is about 15, a per
son with some reasoning ability
should immediately see that this
case is a mental one. Latimer
also generalized broadly about
the laxity and Inadequacy of the
New York school system. I reply
that-.while South Carolina is pro
posing abolishing the 12th grade
and .putting off for another year
teachers' pay raises, two New
York high schools are integrating
atomic research programs in their
curriculum. I need only mention
the recent breakdown of the edu
cational systems in the 48 st'ates
by a national magazine. I believe
the report was answered In this
state by "Thank God for Missis
sippi."
In addition to Latimer's edi
torial comments of a few weeks
ago, I heard those of a friend of
mine (southern, and I have.
L S PositionD
Iared up. It is the opinion of
eading American educators that
t is caused, not by integration
>r segregation, forced or other
vise, but by the individuals tho-m
ielves, showing their grievances
;oward an indifferent society. A
iociety that has left no room in
;he general plan for underprivi
eged children that have grown
ip with little or no parental guid
mnee. These people are juvenile
lelinquents that 'play for keeps.
PRIVATE FACILITIES
Mayor Wagner's children at
:end the private school of their
(or their father's) choice. This
they do as many other thousands
lo in any city throughout the
Pation, not because they are hyp
gcritical or ignoring the prob
tem, but because of the better
ducation afforded them in a
imaller, private school. If I were
i parent faced with the same sit
jation, I would certainly try to
btain the best schooling for my
:hildren.
Our northern press has been
gotoriously fair in their cover
age of the Brooklyn situation.
eair because they have not over
looked basic economic causes of
the troubles. Let me point out to
my loyal Rebel friend, that the
people up north do not have any
more money than their brothers
in the South. This has been the
big thorn in the side of the poorer
elasses for many years. The basic
po in ny of ogouticae
loation nt beause thmoey. r hyp
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street from Dreher High were
informed that they were trans
ferred to Brookland-Cayce. This
means extra carfare and lunch
money. They would be leaving
their friends and attending
classes with strangers. It would
mean covering perhaps two miles,
maybe three. In New York, It
means covering some 15 or 16
miles by subway. This adds $.60
carfare a day and the added ex
pense of lunch money from a per
son that can just about afford to
feed and clothe a family, with no
extras. This is basically the com
plete story.
PHONE CALLS
In reference to the phone calls
of "intimidations," I recall sev
eral weeks ago that the President
of Allen University received sev
eral "calls" of this type. I don't
think this type. of childishness is
a predominant feature of the
north alone.
Rape. A horrible word wherever
It may be used. This again, is not
a horror kept In the north alone.
It happens everywhere, I am
sorry to say.
I read further that the students
in Little Rock refused to attend
the classes that were integrated.
Check the actual figures of at
tendance. There were only 234
that were not in attendance the
first day. As the time progressed,
the figures became less and less.
At the end of a week's time, the
entire student body went back to
class. The students of Brooklyn
do not need ". . . shiny boots of
the 101st- airborne, tanks, ar
mored vehicles, or gun butts . . .
to make them obey the law.
I wave no banner of integration
or segregation for that matter;
but I have looked In my educa
tional backyard and now I be
lieve I will tell the same colum
nist to glance in his backyard and
look at what he sees there. Look
honestly and do not "color" the
facts.
ments.
We only hope that you will
continue the policy that both our
papers have shown In the past in
striving to show that college stu
dents are not members of a sep
arate race, but rather an impor
tant segment of today's society.
Again, let me congratulate you,
and wish you continued success
in your next 50 years of publica
tion of a newspaper that is read.
not only for its collegiate news,
but also for its forward thinking.
Sincerely,
G. A. "Gus" Moore,
Editor,
The Clemson Tiger
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BOB TALBERT
A Coed
Talks Back
A couple of weeks ago I wrote
some Jans aboqt the coeds on the
Carolina campus. There was no
offense intended but one sweet
young thing has chosen to retail.
ate after a fashion.
Her voice probably croaks for
a segment of the more timid souls
on the campus.
She starts:
"You must be about the most
stupid and foolish person around.
How do you get away with writ.'
ing some of that stuff you pawn
off on the readers of the Gar..
cock?"
Honey, it isn't easy. But the
editor is near-sighted or far.
sighted, I can't quite put my fin.
ger on it. Stupid is all right, but
please, not foolish. How about it?
- "It's guys liko you that paint
such awful and terrible pictures
of the girls at Carolina. We are
really .sensitive people. You would
have us all being ignorant, party.
ing playthings for all the swollen
male egos."
ALL WRONG
Dearle, you've got me all
wrong. I think that all of you
are as cute as a baby's aspirin.
colored cheek. No kidding. You
are all sensitive, like Hitler was
sensitive, like Cleopatra was sen
sitive. And you.certainly couldn't
be called ignorant if you are a
partying plaything. It's hard to
be a plaything, especially at.par.
ties and all.
"Why you must hate all
women."
No, not really. Just those that
wear skirts and dresses and paint
with lipstick (around their ears)
and comb their hair with beer
mugs. Those I don't particularly
care for, although I have known
some in this group who are the
swingingest of all.
"All of you guys are just alike.
You hang around in packs like
a bunch of mongrel, dogs waiting
at the back door steps."
Well-then-there-now. Just why
do those dogs hang around?
"The men on this campus dren
sloppy. They eat like pigs and
they talk of things in the gutter.
You are all a bunch of slobs. And
ivy league slobs at that."
NO-SIREE
Wait a minute, honey-bun. Slow
down, way down. The jazz about
dressing and eating and talking
is all right. But when you call us
all slobs. No-siree. There are
some of us who have devoted four
good, strong years into becoming
slobs. It is a scientific art and
you group us all into one clamsi
fication. We resent that, we being
the real true slobs. Whadda ya
mean?.
"Why some of those parties you
seem to think we go to are fig
ments of your. imagination. Any
self-respecting girl wouldn't be
seen dead there. Why if my date
ever took me to one of those, you
can just call me a taxi."
"You seem to think that all
women are chasing after every
man they see."~
Not everyone, just the slower
runners.
"You guys think you can take
liberties with every girl you
meet. I bet you wouldn't think
of anyone doing the same sort
of stuff with your sisters."
ALL FALSE
"None of you guys are ever
real. You are all false."
Yeah, we're made out of peanut
butter and cabbage leaves. False
Conscience hurt, little one?
"The Carolina males better not
ever call me for a date. I'd just
hang right up on them."~
Sweet lady, that's a problem
you'll never have.
Honest. That's what the lady
told me. And she didn't smile one
little bit. For some reason I don't
think she likes me. It must be
the way I comb my hair.
I A GREATER
SOUTH CAROLINA
led Collegiate Press
miet ... .nse th" u
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...... .. ..Jerry Sander
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