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UNIVERSITY STUDENT REC Freeman, senior In the Politica awarded a 1,950 fellowship by Program. Left to right are Prof of the public administration curr Abernathy of the political science the program during 1946-47. Williams.) Freeman ] Graduate] Robert E. Freeman III, senior Political - Science and Economics major, has been awarded a South ern Regional Training Program fellowship in public administra tion, Dr. Coleman B. Ransome, Jr., SRTP Educational Director, an nounced last Thursday. The Fel lowship carries a stipend of $1,500 plus tuition and fees for a total value of $1,950. Freeman is among six who were chosen for a year's training in public administration at the Uni versities of Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The purpose of the SRTP is to train selected recent, graduates in governmental administration. Wilson WiN As Physics Dr. Robert R. Wilson, Professor of Physics and Director of the Lab oratory of Nuclear Studies at Cor nell University, will serve as a vis iting lecturer at the University from Monday to Wednesday of next week. He will give a lecture, open to the public, on "The Structure of the Proton" at 8:00 p.m., Tues day, April 29, in room 106, Ham ilton College. Dr. Wilson will visit under the auspices of the American Associa tion of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics as part of a broad, nationwide pro gram to stimulate intetest in physics. The American Association of Physics Teachers is an association devoted to advancing the teaching of physics and the furtherance of appreciation of the role of physics in our culture. Dr. Wilson -The American Institute of Physics is a federation of the five principal societies in the field of 'physics research and teaching, in cluding the American Physical So ciety, Optical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America, So ciety of Rheology, and the Ameri can Association of Physics Teach ers. Student Lectures While at the University Dr. Wil son will be a guest of Professor A. P. French, Head of the Depart ment of Physics. Dr. Wilson is ex pected to give lectures, talk with' students and assist faculty mem bers with curriculum and research problems In physics. Los Alamo. Work After teaching at Princeton, and directing the experimental work of the Prineetoii branch of the atomic energy proJeet In 1941 to 1948, he becam. bead of tha-nuelear physicS EIVES FELLOWSHIP . . . Bob I Science Department has been the Southern Regional Training essor R. H. Stoudemire, director iculum, Freeman, and Dr. Glenn department, a former fellow on (News Service photo by Jimmy Receives ?ellowship Upon completion of the program, a certificate in public administra tion is issued by the participating universities to the fellows. He will spend the summer in an internship in an agency of either the federal or state governments in one of the cooperating states. Following the internship, he will attend each of the three universi ties for one quarter. He is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, KSK service frater nity, Euphradian Literary So ciety, "Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities," and Phi Kappa Sigma social frater nity. He has made the Dean's list every semester. .l Lecture 1 Departmen research division at the Los Ala mos Scientific Laboratory from 1944 through 1946, a period which saw the final development of the first atomic bombs and their test ing. Dr. Wilson joined the Cornell faculty in 1947, after working at Harvard on its atom-smashing cy clotron. He supervised construction of a 300 million electron volt syn chroton at Cornell, which was com pleted in 1949, and subsequently designed a synchrotron with an Dr. Robert Pa Attend Confer Dr. Robert W. Paterson, asse ciate professor of economics, has been invited to attend a Confer ence on Savings and Residential Financing sponsored by the United States Savings and Loan League and organized by an executive com mittee made up of members of Northwestern University, Univer sity of Chicago, University of Illi nois, and Indiana University. The Conference will be held in Chicago on May 7, 8, and 9 and will be attended by 35 leading edu cators in the field of business ad ministration from 34 states repre senting all sections of the nation. The program for the conference consists of discussions concerning significant problems in the area of residential capital formation, trends in the source and use of funds, the demand for residential housing, the effects of population changes on demand for residential housing, the characteristics of home owners, the supply of sav ings, the Impact of monetary and fiscal policy on capital formation, and trends In the institutionallia tion of savings. Scholars of na tional reputation will present pa pers on each of the problem areas to the Conference members. The United States Savings and Loan League was established in 1893 to promote t}he dissemination of information about savings and loan company activities and to con duct educational programs of ben Athletic Director Rex Enright of the University of South Caro lina will be one of the guests of honor at the Rockford, Ill., "Melody Fair," May 22-25. The big musical festival will be heid to raise funds for sending a band representing R o c k f o r d high schools to the Rose Bowl festival. Enright was a star at Rockford high school In football and basket ball before his outstanding career in both sports at Notre Dams in the 1920'. iI Riflemen Leading In Meets The University Naval ROTC rifle team, last year's National Champions, won their second vic tory for this season. Last week they fired against Georgia Tech and Auburn in Atlanta. The victory followed a win over the University of North Carolina and Duke the previous week. These two victories established the Gamecock Middies as 'one of the top teams in the Southeast, as Georgia Tech had just defeated Tulane University, the third team in the nation. University student Bill Stillwell took individual honors for the match, firing 189 out of a possible 200 beating Georgia Tech's Bonno Dickinson who fired 188. Trailing Stillwell for Carolina were Jim Foster with 182, Jerry Elliott with 182, Bob Retzlaff with 1180, and Tommy Legare with 176. Team Captain Roger Knapper fol lowed with a 174, after taking honors in North Carolina with 191. The team, flown to Atlanta by Naval Air transportation, spent Friday night seeing the sights. These victories have, for the second straight year, made the rifle team one of the most success ful teams in the nation. The team will close out this year's competition in the state meet to be held at the Carolina range Friday and Saturday with USC, The Citadel, Clemson, Wof ford, Presbyterian, and Furman competing. Coach Sgt. H. J. Mey ers, USMC, is the officer in charge of the team. fext Week t Guest energy capacity of 1.5 billion elec tron volts. In 1956 Dr. Wilson was one of a group of American physicists who visited Russia for a meeting on high-energy physics. He later toured many research institutes in Russia. He helped to found the Federa tion of Atomic Scientists of which he was president in 1946. In 1957 Dr. Wilson was elected to the Na tional Academy of Scientists. terson Will nene May 7-9 efit to the public. At present the League has a membership of ap proximately 4,400 and maintains a staff with headquarters in Chi cago. Doctor Paterson is also director of the University's Bureau of Bus iness and Economic Research. He joined the faculty of the Univer sity of South Carolina in 1963. He received the Ph.D. at the 'Univer sity of Virginia and was a mem ber of the faculty at that institu tion for five years. Clariosoph ic Hears Paper By Douglas Danbury Tucker delivered his initiatory address at the regular meeting of the Clariosophic Liter ary Society last Tuesday evening, April 22, reports William C. Go forth. His address was followed by the re-delivery of the paper by Ernest Douglas entitled: "A Retreat from Conservation." This paper deals with the changing editorial policy of the News and Courier of Charleston toward legislation in the latter part of the 19th and early part of the 20th century. This was the same paper that was delivered before the South Caro lina Historical Society and was applauded as communistic by the Charleston paper. Hfowever, the Society unani mously agreed that the comments by the editorial staff of the News and Courier was the result of a complete misunderstanding of what constitutes communistic writ ing. Clariosophic meets every Tues day evening at 7 p.m. in the Clariosophic Hall, third floor, Legare College. All campus male students are invited to matted Campui Summer School ris to state elections on June 10, Summer School will begin on Wednesday, June 11. Late fees are effective June 12. Registration is on Monday,'June 9. * * * Wesley Program Wesley Foundation will Ivave for its weekly- meeting Wednesday rxight, April 30, a film on the life of John Wesley. Because of the cost of the film a fee of $.25 will be charged to all those that atend the showing of the film. * * * Law Day Thursday has been set as "Law Day-U.S.A." by the American Bar Association and the Univer sity School of Law will join in the nationwide observance with a special program at 11 a.m. at which Robert McC. Figg of Charleston will speak on "liberty under law," according to Dean S. L. Prince of the Law School. Dean Prince and Frank B. Gary of Columbia have been appointed on a special S. C. Bar Association Committee to arrange the Law Day program. "Law Day-U.S.A." has been planned as a national effort to arouse awareness of the value of living under law rather than under capricious orders or directions of men, an official said. * * * Freshman "Y" It has been announced by Ted GUESTS AT LAW F Distinguished guests at a banq Delta Phi legal fraternity in kom4 Clint T. Graydon, Columbia ator dress; and (standing) G. Dewe3 justice, S. C. Supreme Court; CI ville, nagister of the fraternity; province president of Province I ternity; and Samuel L. Prince, dt (USC News Service photo by Jin Euphradian (Continued from page 1) contest besides Mendenhall were Bill Able and Scott Cain. The declamation requires the entrant, who must be either a freshman or a sophomore, to read any famous speech of his choice. Dther entrants in the contest be tides Marshall were A. J. Roberts and Scott Wherung. Judges for the contest were Clarence Easterling, Pete Martin, and Hugh McTeer. Plaques for the winners will be awarded at ODK's Awards Day, May 6. Robert Bell, contest marshall for the society, also announced :hat the campus--wide dee'lamation :ontest would be held next week n the Euphradian halls. Students who wish to enter should contact Bell before Monday. Euphradian meetings are open ;o all male students of the Univer ity. Meetings are held on the third loor of Harper College at 7 p.m. m Tuesday eveningq. UNIVERSITY PLAY] Julie Petoekey (tight), preside ceives a "Certificate of Title" froa a representative of Chi Psi sock Players some Roman pillars used is Tim Mayo, vice-president,f tl by Man-.Tal.) Itriefs Ledeen, director of' tie YMCA, that the freshman "Y!l luncheon will feature Bill Bonyne at the piano. He will play selections by Gershwin ahd Lecouna. The lunch eon will be held. at 1 p.m. Monday in the Assembly Room of the Rus sell House. All freshman students are cordially invited to attend. * * * Plays Scheduled The University Players have an nounced that two one-act. plays, "A Phoenix Too Frequent," and "27 Wagons Full of Cotton," will be presented in the Warehouse Theatre May 8 and 9. * * * Attend Meet Registrar H. 0. Strohecker and Bernard Daetwyler, chief account ant in the University Treasurer's Office, are attending the 44th an nual meeting of the American As sociation of Collegiate' Registrars and Admissions Officers which began Monday end ends today. About 1,100 registrars from Canada, the United States and Central America are attending the convention. It is being held at the Netherland Hilton Hotel in Cin cinnati, Ohio. General discussions will be on admissions, records, registration procedures, machine records' serv ice, and various duties of the reg istrar and admissions officer. Registrar Strohecker is a mem ber of the National Resolutions Committee of the Association. RATERNITY BANQI uet held by Calhoun Inn of Phi >r of new initiates were (seated) ncy who made the principal ad Oxner of Greenville, associate arles W. Marchbanks of Green Francis I. Fairley of Charlotte, V of the international legal fra an of the University Law School. amy Williams.) Cadet Burns Attends Air Convention Captain James J. McKinstry has announced that Raymond R. Burns, a student at the University, was one of the students who at tended the ninth annual convention of the Arnold Air Society. The Society met April 2 to 6 at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Calif. Highlights of the convention included addresses by missile expert Thomas Lanphier, vice-president of Convair Aircraft, Major James Briggs, superinten dent of the U. S. Air Force Acad emy at Denver, and Lt. General Dean Strother, commander of the Air University. Their talks dealt with the future of the young ca dets as "Men in Space." The Arnold Air Society is com p)osed of upper division Air Force ROTC cadets of top ranking lead ership and scholarship qualities. BERS RECEIVE GIFT nt of the University Players, re ni John Austell (center), who as I fraternity turned over to the for a fraternity banquet. At left le Plaer (Nm.s Se..-.c- ..ot. DEBATERS TAKE Mike Osborn, Fred LeClereq, phersen recently took second piae National Forensics tournament he USC debaters captured more hon two-man debate division. The 19 won more trophies than any other place 14 times. Some of their tro tor Christophersen's desk. (News S Williamson At Amherst Dr. Gustavus G. Williamson, Jr., Assistant Professor of Economics, will teach at Amherst College dur ing the academic year 1958-59. He will be on leave from the University to serve as Visiting As sistant Professor in the Depart ment of American Studies under a grant to the college from ,the Carnegie Corporation. He expects to leave for Amherst in Septem ber. At Amherst he will be teaching in the course on representative problems in the development of American civilization. This is a widely known undergraduate American Studies program, which is concerned with American his tory in the broadest sense from ultural to economic and political events. Some 30 of the problem studies at Amherst with readings and ommentaries have been published already and are being used in col Evelyn LaBru Scheduled Foi The Department of Music, Dr. Hugh Williamson, director, will 1 present Evelyn LaBruce in her junior voice recital at Lieber Col lege on Wednesday afternoon at 5 p.m. She will be assisted by Katherine Ducker, pianist, and Laurens McMaster, accompanist. LaBruce entered the University in the fall of 1957 to become the voice pupil of Evelyn Potter Wil liamson, professor of voice. She has recently won a voice scholar ship offered by the Afternoon Music Club of Columbia. The public is invited to attend bhe recital. The program will be rin with Handel's "Art Thou l'roubled?" from "Rodelinda," 'Deh Rendetemi".from "La Stelli laura Vendicata" by Provenzale, md "Hark! How All Things In )ne Sound Rejoice" by Purcell. The program will be continued vith "Fetes Galantes" and "D'Une Prison" by Hahn, "Hymn Au So eil" by Georges, "The Empty landed Traveler" from "The Con ul" by Menotti. Katherine Ducker will play 'Notturno" by Respighi and 'Charmes" by Mompou as an in Letters (Continued from page 2) cratic ways with no hindrance from the likes of me. The city of Columbia is telling us to Fight Blight; in the same anti-Blight campaign, why not clear away some of the third rate material that has been float ing in from the Continent in the form of motion pictures? There is no Anti-Sex League included in my extra-curricular activities, nor do I think that sex is not here to stay. It is only tha come-what-may productions done by the U.S.A., France, or any other upset me deeply, especially when millions of dollars are tossed about flippantly. Very truly yours, M. Byars Flustered Greek Agrees With Troubled Coed Dear Editor: I agree with Miss Troubled Coed of last week. The Gamecock definitely needs a lovelorn col umn. We need soeoe e.a SECOND PLACE Ind debate coach M. G. Christo honors in the Tau Kappa Alpha 1i in Lexington, Kentucky. The )rs than any other school In the 58 Debate Team as a whole has USC team-they have taken first - phics are displayed here on 'Doc -rvice photo by Jimmy Williams.) To Teach College C. G. Williamson leges throughout the country. Dr. Williamson will also participate in developing new studies while at Amherst. ce Recital -Wednesday Evelyn LaBruce berlude. The program will be concluded with the following selections by Miss LaB ruce: "Stopping By The Woods On A Snowy Evening" by \ Sargent, "The Ragpicker" by Sacco, "The Statue At Cz.arskoe Belo" by Cuii, and "Floods of Spring" by Rachmaninoff. 'Y' Officers (Continued from page 1) McKay, skeptics hour chairman; Allen Jenkins, special projects chairman; Bill Jones, Rion Rut ledge, Lenwood Able, community 'Y"-student "Y" coordinators; Archie Hardy, social chairman; Scott Cain, publicity chairman; and Walt Copeland an(i Frank Easterling, program chairmen. Members of the YWCA cabineb sre Juanita Edwards, freshman tdvisor; Barbara Livingston, and mma Duke, worship chairmen;' Virginia Porcher, membership ~hairman; Anne Valley, R. G. Bell 'Y" camp; Leila Grace Ros yorough, campus .affairs. turn to, like "Dear Gabby" of The Slate paper. Since I am one of the Greeks she mentioned and have caught on to her little game, I want to know how I can drop her like a hot potato and make the others jealous at the same time. Please remedy our problem and establish a column of this type. Sincerely,