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USC COED NAMED WORLD'S FAIR GUIDE BASENS SEASON ((See Page 7) - UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Vol. XLVHI, No. 22 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MARCH 14, 1958 :Z11 16:1 111- ------------- PREPARING'FOR SPRING DA Committee's Spring Day Dance i Farrell Barrett, Mary Ellen Lom decorate the Russell House Cafete Spring Do Crowning By SCOTT CAIN Feature Editor Carolina's first annual Spring Day will be held next Friday fea turing a street dance in the after noon, games on Davis Field, and a dance that night in the Russell House Cafeteria with music fur nished by Woody Woodward and his band. For the first time In Carolina history a "Miss Spring" will be elected to reign at the dance. Jim Pendarvis, Student Union Committee Chairman for Spring Day, said that, "It is Student Jnion's intention to present to the student body a Sp)ing Day com parable to other campus-wide festivities. We are hopeful that it will be successful enough to warrant its becoming an annual event. The program in its entirety has been designed for campus wide participation. "All plans for the program have been completed, approved by the Administration, and are being executed. The cooperation and in terest shown by the students asked to help has been outstanding." Miss Spring Contest A preliminary to Spring Day will be the voting for a Spring Queen. Any organization or dor nitory may nominate a candidate for Miss Spring. Nominations should be left at the Russell House Information Desk and shduld in clude the name of the candidate, the sponsoring organization, and a picture of the candidate which cannot be larger than 8 x 10 inches. Deadline for nominations is noon Tuesday. Voting will begin Tuesday at Sp.m. Ballot boxes will be at the Russell House Information Desk. Students may vote at a penny per Vote.. Proceeds from the contest will be given to the Donald Rus sell Scholarship Loan Fund. Voting on Spring Queen will end at noon Friday and the win ner will be announced.at the inter mission of the evening dance. She will be crowvned Miss Spring of 1958 and will be presented an in scribed trophy. The schedule for Spring Day will be as follows: 1:00 P.M. Bull Street in front of the Bus The University of South Caro lna Bulletin for the 1958 Summer Sesslon is now off the press and is available to teachers and others wishing to attend the summer school, according to Dr. W. H. CAlicott, (lean of the faculty. The new bulletin lists courses available in the summer session and the names of faculty mem 'es as well as general Informa tn about University require . ~ ~ ~ .A .. . ... Y DANCE ... Four Carolinh coeds which will highlight the Festivities of g, Kathy O'Hagen, and Carol Piec ria for the dance. 7y Will In ; Of Danc iness Administration Building will be cleared of car's and blocked by the Columbia Police Department. 2:00 P.M. Campus-wide Street Dance will begin. Music for the dance will be furnished by The Hi-Lites. Per mission has been granted by the Dean of Women for co-eds to wear bermudas during all the afternoon activities. The Pepsi-Cola Com pany will furnish free Pepsis. 4:15 P.M. Street dance will be concluded and all activities will move to Davis Field. Contests and games will commence. Partner softball, sack races, tug-of-war, horseshoe throwing, half-rubber games, and other games will be available, led by students. The games will end at 5:30. 9:00 P.M. First Annual Spring Day Dance Play Is 'Desire' Is Successful Production Professor Gene Crotty, faculty advisor of the University Players and Director of their present prod uction, announces that "Desire Under The Elms" will be held over for one performance tonight. Overflow audiences have neces sitated the desire for such. Studerrts will be admitted with out charge on presentation of their ID cards. The curtain goes up promptly at 8:15; Warehouse Theatre Is located directly behind the western end of Preston Dormi tory. In contrast to the lagt several plays, which were presented to tally or largely in the round, "Desire Under The Elms" has relatively few scenes done in this manner. Newton Neely plays the leading male role, Eben Cabot, a young man of 27. Eben's two half brothers are played by Charles Blackwell and Clarence Felder. lur. and Mrs. Ephraim Cabot are played by D. F. Gilliam and Evelyn LaBruce, respectively. Others in the cast are Bill Lumpkin, Mary Louise Dick?rt, Juno McCauley, Henrietta Gour din, and Janet Case. Also, Ow'en Clark, Harriet Sinkler, Denn3 Eastman, Bucky Stackhouse and Dan Stanland. The play has svon critical ac claim during both i appearances in New York, which were 27 years apart, and is a recent motion pic Carol ix decorations for Student Union Spring Day, 1958, next Friday. oli are among those who will clude e Queen will begin in the Russell House Cafeteria. Music will be furnished by Woody Woodward and his 13 piece orchestra. Refreshments will be served throughout the dance by the Slater Food Service. Late permission has been ob tained for the co-eds by the Dean of Women. At the 10:45 inter mission the announcement and crowning of Miss Spring will take place. Also during an intermis sion,_ Latin.. American dances will be demonstrated by several of the international students on the campus. The cafeteria is being decorated in a Spring motif by a committee headed by Kathy O'Hagen. The Maxey Brotherhood Pledge Class is helping with decorations. If the Spring Day festivities are a success, it will be continued In future years. Held 0 "DESIRE" 'TO BE HELD OVI earrent production of Eugene 0 formance tonight. Left to right pant. in the drama. (Photo by I ture. Although the play was origin ally presented in 1924, its 1962 revival drew particularly favorable reviews. Some critics hailed it as O'Neill's beat play and all of them recognized its author as an out standing American playwright. "When the final accoun)ts .are tallied," wrote the New York ill's N< Campi Student Count Proposals For Student Council passed - addi tional articles to the proposed constitution at its weekly meeting Monday. The Articles read as fol lowvs: The Preamble We, the students of the Univer sL.N of South Carolina, in order to conduct student affairs in an efficient, orderly, and systematic n:nner; to define clearly the privileges and responsibilities of the students, individually and col lectively; to secure for ourselves training and experience in self government; and to provide an organizational framework through which our efforts for a better university may be directed do hereby ordain and establish this constitution of the Student Body of the University of South Caro lina. Article 1 All persons registered and en rolled in the University of South Wednesday Set For Tryouts As Cheerleader Tryouts for cheerleaders will be held next Wednesday at three o'clock in the Field House, according to Red Miller, head cheerleader. All candidates for cheer leader should go to Davis Field betvIeeri 4-6 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday to work and prac tice with the present cheer leaders. This, however, is not compulsory. On Wednesday tryouts will narrow the field of candidates to 12 boys and 12 girls. These students will be voted on by the student body in the general elections on April 16. ver Toi R TONIGHT.. . Professor Eugen Neill's "Deshre UJnder the Elms" is Ii are Charles Blackwell, Clarence FE fews Service.) Times' Brooks Atkinson, "It may turn out to be the greatest play written by an American." He went on to lavish further praises on the production later in his re view of it; ". .. an ode togreed and lust and murder without remorse . . . this story of a rapa cious people whose love and hate are practically identical could have sed: An LiS Can dil Completes Constitution Carolina are member's of the stu dent body and entitled to vote in all of its proceedings. - Article 5 All elective offices provided for in this constitution shall be filled at an election to.be held annually on the first Monday in April un less changed by a two-thirds vote of the Legislature in the event that day proves impracticable. All elections shall be conducted by secret ballot. The Legislature shall determine the time and places of voting. Election officials shall be ap pointed by the student body pres ident and confirmed by a majority vote of the legislature. To be elected a candidate must receive a majority of the votes cast. In case no candidate shall receive a majority, there shall be a run-off election on a day desig nated by the legislature at least 14 days before the student body election. The legislature shall by a ma jority vote provide for the election of cheerleaders, a May Queen, and Homecoming Queen. Article 6 Amendments to this constitu tion may be proposed by a major ity vote of the legislature or by a petition signed by not less than 10 per cent of the student body. A proposed amendment shall be come effective when ratified by a two-thirds majority of those voting in a campus-wide election. All amendments shall be voted on within 60 days after being pro posed. Any proposed amendment must be made public not less than 14 days before the election in which it is to be considered. Article 7 This constitution shall take ef fect April 16, 1958, if ratified by a two-thirds majority of those voting in a campus-wide election. fight Crotty has announced that the eing held oere. for one final pea. ider., and D. F. Gillan, partucd been told in no other way . . . the whole play has the grand design of a masterpiece . .. a magnificent evening in the theatre." The officers of the University Players are as follows: Julie Petoskey, president; Timothy Mayo, vice-president; Virginia Porcher, secretary; and Henrietta Gourdin, historian. Auditoi vass M Russell Lot To Get Coj Student Council will condui day night at 7:30 to raise fur Sinclair Lewis, chairman of t nounced. Council members will canvass the dorms beginning at that time and will collect money at fratern ity and sorority meetings. Off campis students and students not contacted Monday night may con tributc through containers which will be installed in several loca McKendree Barr, USC Trustee, Dies Suddenly McKendree Barr, 61, a member of the University's Board of Trustees from Leesville, died sud denly last Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Barr, prominent Leesville lawyer and farmer, was elected to the Board in 1950. He had served as chairman of the University's Buildings and Grounds Committee for the past five years, during which time USC went through its most notable building phase. In a statement from Rutledge L. Osborne, Chairman, Board of Trustees, USC on behalf of the Board of Trustees and the Ad ministration of the University, a tribute was paid to Mr. Barr as follows: always deeply concerned with the education and public service, he contributed his abil ities to the school system of his local community and, as a loyal alumnus, to the betterment of the University. "His wide popularity secured his election to the Board of Trustees of the University in 1950. Serving for five years as Chairman of our Buildings and Grounds Commit tee, he has put forth unstinting efforts to further its development program. "He will be greatly missed." Expert On So To Lecture h One of the State Department's top specialists on Soviet Russia 4nd Communism will discuss the world-wide Communist movement in the Assembly Room of the Rus sell House (Student Union Build -ing) Tuesday night at 7:15, ac cording to an announcement this week by Dr. Richard L. Walker, head of the Department of Inter national Studies. The speaker will be Boris H. Klosson, wvhose address wvill be entitled "How Communists Take Over." Highly Recommended Dr. Walker, himself a prominent figure in world power politics and recently a key speaker before the SEATO conference in the Philip pines, said this week that he considers Mr. Klosson one of the most interesting and engaging speakers he has ever heard. While the lecture will be open to the public, students are espe cially urged to attend, and to arrive early since only 450 per sons will be afforded seats. Coffee Hour Planned The Student Union Committee, cooperating with the International Studies Department in the lecture, will furnish a coffee break at the conclusion of the program for those in attendance. Mr. Klosson, a native of Buf falo, N. Y., is at present a member of the faculty of the National War CQllege, the highest government service school in the United States. Communist Research Before being detailed to the Na tional War College by the D)e partment of State last year, Mr. Kiosson had served for several years as Chief of the Department9s lum onday. in Fund Ptributions :t a campus-wide canvass Mon ids for the Russell Loan Fund, he council committee, has an tions in Russell House. Lewis said that the Administra tion has given council permission to solicit funds in a room-to-room canvass and are backing the proj ect fully. The Loan Fund is being estab lished by council as a perpetual memorial to the Donald S. Russell family. It will enable students to obtaia emergency loans from the Administration for the first time, Lewis noted. Need Cited Administration officials feel that frequently students who only need a nominal sum of money to remain in school, have to drop out because there is no place to obtain it. It will be the function of the Russell Loan Fund to eliminate such cases. The council committee has ap pointed members of council to be in chi.rge of the canvass. Fra ternities and sororities will be contacted by the members of council from that group. Council leaders for other dorms are: Joanne Franklin, Freshman Dormitory; Ann Luce, Freshman Center (girls); Liz Hazelhurst, Kirkland Apartments; Darrell Meeks, Sims Dormitory; Libby Bagnal, Wade Hampton Dorm; Dorcas Giles, the Graduate House; Robert Bell, the tenements; Don Harrison, Prestoij; Fred LeClereq, Maxey; Mike Quinn, Freshman Center (boys); Bill Berne, Burney; Fred Wigfield, Woodrow; Jerry McGuire, Snowden; Ranny Ran dall, Coker; Robert Wall, Mc Bryde; and Nick Abrams, Thorn wall. Lewis said that some organiza tions have already pledged toward the fund. The amount received Monday night will be added to this and will be deposited i'n the Treasurer's office immediately. viet Russia ere Tuesday Division of Research on the USSR and Eastern Europe. He attended the Institut Uni versitaire de Hautes Etudes Inter nationales in Geneva, Switzerland, and holds degrees from Hamilton College and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Question Period WVell known in Washington as one of the State Department's most outstanding briefing offi Mr. Klosson cers, Mr. Klosson will hold the floor open for a question and answer period following his talk on Tuesday. The lecture is being sponsored by the University's Department of International Studies as a special feature of its academic program, and promotion is being channeed through the Student Union's sub.. committee working on a hecture series cena for th Uu.uI.