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CalOing A Donald M. Hosteter, first member of the class of '58 to join the Alumni Association, has started a trend which we hope will "snowball." Graduating seniors, in their last minute rush, should not neglect to stop in the Alumni Association office (second floor of Russell House) and open their memberships. Graduates should be interested not only in their own futures but in that of the Uni versity as well; in many respects they are Interchangeable. Alumni Association mem bership is tangible evidence of continuing support of the University. As a benefactor to its students the Uni versity, though unintentionally, is oftentimes not appreciated nor recognized as such. Be sides its financial gifts (at least half of the cost of educating a student is supplied by the state through University channels) and the preparation for an occupation, there are Thanks To-DI In this our last editorial of the year we would like to commend Acting President of the University Dean Robert L. Sumwalt for the fine job he is doing. To have entered the portals of the president's office after the brilliant administration of Donald Russell would have been a herculean task for any man. Doctor Sumwalt has handled himself well. We would particularly like to mention the warm interest and concern he has shown towards students at all times. LETTERS TO EDITOR.. South Carolina Ne Dear Editor: versity registrar This university is so far be- Besides fulfilli hind most other state schools in registrar he use the nation that we wonder If it which his positi will ever catch up. Probably not, listen any time but one man gave it a good try; dent's complaints one man started us on our way. with assistance And if we ever make it, we shall loyally to stud have that one man to thank. any information Donald Russell pulled Carolina helpful to the Ur up by its bootstraps, gave It a take a personal fatherly smack on the bottom, students he kne and put it back in the race for was the same d school progress, a race in which the first class it had been scratched for a long taught at Camde time. He loved 10arolina and he Mr. Strohecke always will. cere thanks from I am not saying that we should dents for the ex support Donald Russell politi- has been willin cally merely because he made it which he has pi possible for us to be proud of next semester t our school and our way of life, consultant to the but that is an achievement, its ded catio surely. is-eiaint What Dr. Russell did for Car- of Carolina will olina would be enough to satisfy dear spot in our a normal person for life. Many friend, counselor men would be proud to rest their MR. STROHECs laurels after such a job. But Dr. Thank you, M Russell is not an ordinary man. Sin He is aware of his capabilities, Cau and he is now ready to put them to use, on a larger scale. USC Band Again, I am niot advocating a vote for Dr. Russell merely be- Play For M cause he helped this university Dear Editor: and is ready to help this state. What happene Although I believe those are sity Band on 3 reasons enough for most of us. very astonished But there is more. and her court n We have heard talk in the past music of a recor of the need for a strong leader thing else was who can make South Carolina a consideririg the state to be proud of. For a long The record pla time we have had a need for such ficient at all ai a man. Now he is in our midst, the record was So let the students of USC leave and had to be st this campus for their respective I think that a re homes and there tell the people be used during what he has done for us and provide the enteu what he will do for them. Not queen. I am sux often have we banded together can play a suita for such a singularly purposeful would be approp mission. We have fallen short trance and the e before, when we should have and her court, worked together for our own Next year, wh good. Let us not do so this time, Day the best ev for we face our most important University Band fight and to win would be a vie tory not only for us but for the L whole state. Surely the 800 students who spontaneously rallied behind Dr. Ihese Jottin Russell last week gave him more Just Happe of an indication of his strength at Carolina than the Clariosophic Dear Editor: Literary Society gave the other As for the jot two candidates! And surely if all being in rhym 5,000 students rally behind him say that it hapj in the weeks to come it will do There is reason i more than indicate, it will pro. t h e Wareht mote victory, plight, Sincerely, And the need fo Madeline King that's been voic __________A cultural progr for developmet Appreciation Expressed (Assuming, of FrMr. Strohecker mains the pur For Of education for Dear Editor: Not only the man with the ex- Foreign movies 1 perience of 47 active years work- As would lectu ing with students of South Car- Art and music s olina public schools and colleges, sized, but mostly the msn himself, as yet, there snti he has been to University sto- moe. .. dents, will be missed when Benry The lack of itrn Oswell Strobweka retires as Uni. with respet its other gifts of helping students toward the gradual realization of what education is, the broadening of the outlooks and atti tudes brought to Carolina, etc. Membership, which is three. dollars per year, entitles its holder to a subscription to the Alumni News, University Newsletters and all other advantages of being an Asso ciation member. Even if graduating seniors are unable to join now, they are asked to come to the Alumni office to fill out a bio graphical sketch and receive a complimen tary copy of the News. The University has had too many grad. uates whose loyalty has been expressed mainly in pleasant reflections and senti ments about the time when. . . ..What the University needs is alumni who will con cretely support it with an enthusiasm simi lar to that of their undergraduate days. Man Sumwalt There are students who, whether or not the impression is correct, feel that in their dealings with certain members of the Administration that they will be slighted. Doctor Sumwalt could never be said to con tribute to such feelings. Students are im pressed with his concern about them. They know that it is not merely "official." We feel that we are speaking for the Carolina community when we say to Dean Sumwalt, "You're doing a great jobI" eds Donald .Russell To one aspect of the University ng the office of that's a primary defect d the authority The ease with which the Thea on gave him to tre's been to a single stu- dismissed, nearly proved to us ; to be generous traumatic ... to contribute Pray tell them, how we've over )nt publications looked so long which might be the fact that we lack ilversity; and to a Department of Dramatic! interest in the w. I suspect he It's truly beyond my understand ivoted person to ing of students he How the people of this state have a in 1911. been r deserves sin- So frighteningly undemanding, . University stu- For lo these many years, tra attention he Of this service that's so right r to give, and fully theirs, romised to give their children's and their peers! hen he will be registrar. If preoccupation be the cry, et and Black, in I think it sad indeed him, said, "We That these busy people have always hold a no time to try hearts for our To pay THEIR educational and advisor... system [r.p" its due heed. e. Strohecker. ~erely, I, for one, ol Watson am awfully glad ___A few of us are twenty-one; It appears that such things -as >hould better Art and Music depart ~DayAn ment facilities Adestablishment of a Drama Department d to the Univer- Await our generations' abili ay Day? I was ties... when the Queen If they're ever to get done! arched in to the Too sincerely, d player. Every- Jackie Fleishman carried out fine________ weather. yer was not suf- Clariosophic Vote id sevrral times Wat Not An Endorsal irted over again. To The Gamecock: ~ord player must I have beeri asked by the Clar the program to iosophie Literary Society to ad tainment for the vise you that your publication's ble march which statement of last week (Game riate for the en- cock, May 2) that our society tit of the Queen has endorsed candidate Hollings for governor is totally untrue. yr not make May We wish to make our position er by using the clear-the Clariosophic Literary incerely, Society has not and will not en arry May dorse any political candidate. 'Your reference undoubtedly gs was to the "straw-election" which the society sponsored, to which ied all University students were in vited and which was widely pub tings that ensue licized beforehand. The election s, let us jus was well attended and more than ened that way. two-thirds of the votes cast were a complaining of by students other than members use Theatre' of our society. As a further indication of the r an auditorium society's impartiality, I would ad, is also right; like to point out that the winner am is essential in the straw-ballot was candidate it of mind Hollings, an honorary member of sourse, this re. the Euphradian Society - our pose traditional rivals for more than humankind). 160 years, while candidate Ru. sell who polled the lowest number would be lovely, of votes is a distinguished mem res by the score; ber of our own society. Ijould be empha- I should like to reiterate: the Clariosophic Literary Soeiety 11 is something does not endorse any political candidate. Thank you for your tion is apasiling attention and notation. Clarene T. Nanterling,. r. ANTHONY E. BR4 Ai REx, b the grace of Politic. Lord bf Misrule; of the Sover eign State of S6th Carolina; of the several InhabItants therein, and of the Educational Institu tions located therein, bids all Hail. After having thoroughly pe. rused .al available evidence and records of the affair. existif for "Looks Like Du Second JO ALLEN I Editor's note: This is the winning pc Yeats, old man, fond scarecroi Yeats, passed by time, too sea Yeats, is there room in Byzan Haven of those born to think, Respite to those made to feel, Balm of those believing love, Yeats, old man, I shall come I For I too live in a land that h And may Byzantium be beyoni Symbol of thought, may It he Blessed are they which think i be hal Blessed are they which feel nc have I Blessed are they which love n< have a Thus spoke Today, standing or Forbidding the children.. Yeats, swan lover, I shall come A white swan molded of milk And we shall live in the towei (Editor'. Note: This letter, which is considered extremely pertinent, Is. published as a special column.) Dear Editor: The editorial policy of The Gamecock has been clear, relative to its choice of gubernatorial can didates. I'm grateful, therefore, to The Gamecock and to its editor, Mr. Williams, for the space supplied to me to introduce into the politi cal discussion the Lieutenant Governor of this state who is now a candidate for Governor, Mr. Ernest F. Rollings. This lib erty I would not take had I not been convinced during the past few weeks that the legion of Hollings' supporters on this cam pus was growing rapidly, and even now constitutes a sizable portion of the student body; thus their position should be heard. This '"Hollings for Governor" sentiment was made manifest about two weeks ago when the Clariosophic Literary Society conducted a mock political rally, concluded by a straw ballot of those students attending. As everyone now knows, that vote was overwhelmingly in support of Fritz Hollings. While I agree with the eminently fair and reasonable Mr. Lewis Cromer that ". . . no given segment of the student body can accurately reflect the entire student body's opinion," I am forced to contend that the Incredulous have over looked the significant Issues: Since .the meeting was open to all who would come, notice thereof having been given pub. lcally seven days in advance, it is reasonable to then assume that the most Interested and en thusiastic students would trouble themselves to attend. It follows easily then that PrItz Holling. can Instill In his supporters an enthusiasnM lacking In other. This contention is even stronger when one considers that the at tendance at this meeting was treble thsat of an ordina.. .meet. )WNOoo V Edict By Rex, within our most august council, we do hereby, through~te powers invested in us by the officers and leaders of that sovereign state, Issue this *Edict as our lawful will and pleasure. WHEREAS, there exists with in the limits of the Capital City of the said sovereign state of South Carolina a large and teem diley Didn't Get That Draft Defern Voyage IRADHAM >em of the Euphrosynean Contest. v, smiling, ehing, defeated. ium for another? condemned to pain. damned to pain. 6ated to pain. o you in Byzantium, as no room for me. I pain. beyond thought. 1ot, for they shall 1py. t, for they shall "eace. >t, for they shall to unanswered questions. k a glass hill. > moon elad riding a swan. white silk, beyond thought. Two Tales Of ing, and that the idea for this meeting was given birth in the mind of the Clariosophic prokram chairigian, and not salaried, adult, county organizers. (However, I'm sure that there are not many who would subscribe to the theory that since only 200 students out of 5,000 turned out for a "spon taneous demonstration," the re maining had tacitly aligned themselves in opposition.) Let me now review briefly why Ernest Hollings has beeni able to engender this zeal and loyalty among his friends. Oine of the reasons might be that ever since graduation from the University of South Carolina Law School, he has devoted his career and energies to South Carolina's gov ernment. In three successive elections for the General As sembly, he received more votes than any other candidate from his' county. Twice during that period, he was elected unani mously as Speaker Pro Tempore of the House, and after being elected Lieutenant-Governor in 1954 by a better than two to one majority has served as President of the Senate. Now after all, facts like these are only significant when they are superimposed over, and com pared against the circumstances --so let's glanc'e at the circum stances. No other candidate can present a record of service even approaching the above. With the exception of Mr. Johnston's po sition as Mayor of Anderson, neither of the candidates has served as an elected official of the people in any capacity and hence has never had his admin istrative abilities tested by the demanding mistress of public and political office. The people of this state have been so satisfied with Fritz Hollings that they have time and again retuirned him to places where the others have never been originally. Being forced to substitute theories for facts like these, Mr. Russell's supporters have .a Lord Of Misrul ing Center of Higher Education, which is governed by us and our appointed officials as we may please, there be no others worthy in our eyes for the task; and whereas there exists on the grounds of this most mercenary Center of Education a large and cumbersome Building of Admin istration, wherein several large tent After All" Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. * * * However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. Love your life, poor as it is. * * * The cast of a thing is the amount of life required to be ex changed for it. * * * I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effec tive criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. -Thoreau The Same City vanced the equation "that a good college president equals a good Governor." This rule, unfortu nately, has seldom been tested and never been proved. It is possible that In their haste to formulate this equation, the supporters of Mr. Russell have been forced to adopt conflicting views in respect to this Univer sity's administration. For politi cal purposes, the administration has been magnificent-..but for other purposes, the administra tion's actions have been, in the words of last week's The Game cock, "lethargic," "lamnentable," "deplorable,' and "approaches dereliction to duty." They have objected to the outrageous and demeaning fine system and to the student union building which was large enough for only two years. While they have boasted that this University has recently been able to again outbid a major university for the services of one new professor, they fail to men tion that it is actions of this type that have made salaries paid our regular professors the lowest, on the average, of the salaries paid by any other state university in the nation. When pressed, the supporters CROWINGc VOl UFIVEuRSn OF S Ikmber .1 AseIi EDITOR ........... MANAGING EDITOR .. .. BUSINESS MANAGER. NEWS EDITOR . .... SPORTS EDITOR .. .... FEATURE EDITOR CAMPUS EDITOR .. . SOCIETY EDITOR.... le and noble officials keep their of fices and operate their several facilatative machines: 'Be it known to all and sundry that we do hereby decree that, from now and forever after, this said build ing shall be vacated by its pres ent inhabitants with their sundry writing desks, secretaries,. pencil sharpeners, and other embellish ments of their offices, by the first day of June, A.D. 1958, and the said present inhabitants shall remove themselves, bag and bag gage, to other, more pleasant habitations. It is our Royal wih that the removed individuals shall find comfortable and ade quate space for all their peculiar needs in the new and beautiful Warehouse Theater, it being one of the largest and most ade quately equipped buildings on the Campus, ,and is dispensable to any purpose which may hap pen to incite our Royal pleasure. Furthermore, be it known that after the date of vacation or forced removal, as the case may be, the said Building shall be used in any manner which pleases us, protestations to the contrary from our inferiors notwithstand ing. It has been also wisely de cided by our most august council that all surplus and outdated 4 state statutes, Blue Laws, and Jini Crow Acts shall be stored in the rooms of the second floor of the Building which are now inhabited by the various Ruling Bodies of the said Center of Learning; and that the members of our Royal Militia shall be at leisure to store any and all fire arms, .uniforms and accoutre ments as pleases them in the sev eral partitioned areas of the ground floor level of. the Build ing. And any and all persons who are at present inhabitants of the Building or who are merely Slaves of State studying at the Institution are hereby cautioned that any declamations made contradictory to this our Imperial Decree shall be labelled as Acts of the Highest Treason; that there shall be no printing, speak ing, or libelous action made in constraint with our Royal Wishes, under penalties as set down in the Sedition and Espio nage Acts. THIS IS OUR PLEASURE. Decreed at Atlantis, this Si teenth~ Day of the month of May, 1958, in the One Hundred and Second day of our reign. By the King in his Castle, REX, Lord of Misrule of Mr. Russell invariably retreat to the fortress based on the premise that Mr. Russell has been responsible for the progress and actions of this University. Yet we hear them constantly condemning these very actions. Surely, this not only reveals a dual approach, but places them in the untenable position of storming their own fortress. An article of this sort, crowd ing in many issues, posing many questions, is unsatisfactory at best, azid would never have been written had not The Gamecock purported week after week to present to the public a picture of campus political unanimity. I have no quarrel with their right to -present their position couched0 in any language they see fit to7 use--but as said by Mr. Cromerm last week, there must be "no mis conception of student opinion," and I add, "on either sidie." It is my opinion, at the time of this writing, that a majority of South Carolinians and a substantial and ever-growing number of Carolina students believe in and support for Governor -- Mr. Ernest F. Hollings. Sincerely, John Graham Altman I A GREATER OUTR CAROLINA ed Collegiate Press - -- -- -- .Roy Williams -..-.-..- . .Jerry Banders -.-.-.-.-.-Leila Barr Stuckey. - -- -- - ... Billy Mlshoe ........ ... Tom McLean ............ .. . ott Cain -.-.-..-.-.--.-.-.Anne VaBey