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RBse Nous. I The Russell House g.iQ is a welcome addition t. the 'arolina -seene. It is hard to understand perns who complain that the University did not need this when there are numerous other projects which could have been undertaken with the money used for the Russell House addition. This project is one of the few additions to the University in recent years which was planned with an eye to the future. Other buildings which have been constructed in re cent years have only been able to keep pace with the immediate needs. Freshman Girls' Dorm, for instance, only answered the imme diate need for more housing for co-eds on this campus. No sooner was it built than more space was needed. The co-ed dorm which is soon to take the place of Wade Hampton Dorm will not serve any better than Fresh man Girls' Dorm did to relieve the co-ed housing situation. This is just an example of the frequent inability of the University to 11terary Societles *The University literary societies have started the year with promise of even greater performances than in the past. As noted in the 50th anniversary edition of "The Game cock," the societies felt a new surge of life just a couple of years ago and now have reached heights unknown for 30, 40 years or even longer. All persons whose scope is beyond the University world, in which we are likely to submerge ourselves, should take an interest in the literary societies. No organizations on campus can do more to increase the student's RUSS BURNS... And Other Lower The animal called man pegged strength exhibite to a laboratory slide and studied hearty male me with "other world" remoteness group. Perhaps becomes just a standard among, males demonstra standards in the unknown. Take ing dance3 in frc for eiample: gation of the mc It is fall. representatives Competent field observers re- recent triumphs cord flocks of water fowl ionk- group over the ing their way southward in the which no longei unmarked fly-ways. Other deni- principle. zens of the lower order who can- One unusual ob not compliment these acts set industrious mann about in their own way to pre- sand-hill species pare for the season of change. building, tearing Just recently a vast mass- novating areas N migration of numbers of the gion. Particular upper order was also seen as they and totally unes assembled in'their sand hills win- ritual of constant tering grounds. A similar pheno- the vegetation menon was witnessed in the up- which is carried lands near the mountains. An- clad religious lea nual migrations to these regions * * have been occurring for many, To think we many years according to some unesadgo experts who have studied the what would the situation, men from Mars 1 More Virile ATI1b~ These experts also. point out AN HO that the sand-hill species is de finitely more virile as demon strated by the larger number of T females in the winter quarters. This story may Until lately, the upland species fatofiin.I seemed to be able to attract no fatofitn.I females at all; however, through the product of thi a yearly contact with their it is the recolle< southern neighbors they have heard many yeai been able to learn a few tricks of source is unknowi attraction. A multi-millic The yearly contact mentioned Southeast overwli is oi great importance and seems of a local colleg to be a display of prowess and generous donatic CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROL1 Member of Associated Collegiate Press Founded January 30. 1008, with Robert Elliott Comi first editor, "The Camecock" is published by and for the the University of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, during year except on holidays and during examinations. The opinions expressed by columnists and letter writ necessarily those of "The Gamecock." "The Gamecock" Letters to the Editou', but all letters must he signed. Pul not constitute an endorsement. The right to edit or wi ptsblication any letter Is reserved. EDITOR.............................. E MANAGING EDITOR....................... BUSINESS MANAGER............................ ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR ....... ADVERTISING MANAGER .............1 NEWS EDITOR ............................ FEATURE EDITOR........................ CAMPUS EDITOR.........................? SOCIETY EDITOR ......................... SPORTS EDITOR .....,.................... PHOTO.GRAPHER ................ CIRCULATION MANAGER........... EDITORIAL ASSISTANT ................... REPORTERS: Glenna Bryant, Bill Bates, Da Karen McKibben, Dot Johnson, Charlotte Anderson Vasiliki Moskos, Ken Wood, Judy Killough, Glenn Jordan. BIll Jones. Doris Kaminski, Faye Mrlller, Ch Bob Allison, Paula Klicka, Dora Sansbury, Fur:1 Ale Holland, Charles Bradley, Donald Rutledge Lamar Casosi, John Kenny, Larry May, Abby McK BUSINESS STAFF: Ted Owen, Tom Rose, E Marilyn Francis, Bobbie Williams. COLUMNISTS: Carl M. Reyno!ds, Robert MI. I Eas ,rling, Bill Handel, Russ Burns, Anthony E. ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHERd: Sam Fiorini, nnex Welcome keep pace with ita growth. But the new Russel House annex will be able to handle the needs of the University for sone years to eome. The problem of hav ing luncheon meetings for clubs is no longer existent. The faculty now have a suitable place to dine plus an excellent lounge which has always been needed. Students vfo formerly sought less crowded places in town than Russell House for dining can now take.advantage of the relatively un hurried pace available in t* several Russell House dining rooms. The University administrators and plan ners are to be congratulated on the foresight shown when the addition was planned. Wouldn't it be nice if all buildings con structed on the University in the coming years can be planned to accommodate the University's growth? That is much better than constructing from year to year with the immediate demand as the goal undertaken. Continue Growth intellectual curiosity than these fine, vener able groups. Euphradian, Clariosophic, Hypatian, Eu phrosynean-all are interested in persons who are genuinely interested in them. No freshman could go wrong by paying a visit to the group which seems to appeal to him most. "The Gamecock" extends its best wishes for a fine year to the. campus literary socie ties and pledges its wholehearted cooperation throughout the entire year. Order Denizens d by the more Who was it that wrote the bit mbers of each about seeing ourselves as others the use of fe- see us? ting mock mat- While we're rissecting prob nt of an aggre- lems, we may as well throw in re noisy upland our "two-cents worth" aoout the ias caused the parking problem. Since city of the northern meters are rapidly enereaching sand-hill group onto heretofore hallowed ground employs this and "S" zone parking permits have followed the cost ol living 'servation Is the and jumped sky-high (from 25c er in which the to $10 per year), now is definitely is continually the time for all good men to come down, and re- to the aid of -their towed-away vithin their re- autos. Several very good sugges y Interesting- tions have been presented; one of :plained-is the which we'll pass on for comment ly transplanting ,-by those of you who haven't of the region heard it before. out by green- Green Street lers. Why not turn the part of Green * Street that runs through the have trouble campus into a one-way street ur civilization; with free angle parking. Perhaps proverbial little the same could be done to that hink? section of Bull Street next to the Y E. BROWN .. . >Catch A Tartar, Per be accepted as decided that the first thing to do is not entirely with the unexpected funds was to c s columnist, for hire a competent new head for tion of a tale the English department. sa ago, and its The salary offered was gener- c ous, and so many applicants turned up for the job that they t naire in the had to double up in the rooms of i elmed the dean the only hotel in town. ' e with a very The field narrowed down to n. The dean two: one, Mr. White, a graying and obviously erudite man of 60;t the other, Mr. Black, a loqua cious, bouncy chap at least 20 years younger, who looked more like a football coach and unques tionably had a way with him as far as students were concerned. NA As luck would have it, the two men shared the same room. tudto Public Address the **o*s* The dean and his advisers egare , no decided to leave the choice to be ' Itcfn**'dogs determined by a public address bhoed fwr in the college chapel on the sub COTT CAIN ject of Elizabethan literature. .lyMshe White spent three agonizing days ill HMringo writing and memorizing his JiGerinoy speech. Black seemingly did no GeraldFloyd preparatory work at all, and con ion Rutledge tinued making time with the local Darol Watson belles. Anne Valley Just before the contestants a5lt Copeland walked over to the chapel, how . Ann Stokes ever, Mr. White made a disquiet Jerry Hickey ing discovery. The written copy .JcPrench of his speech had disappeared. Rogrc Bow The gathering was called to Rer Bron order, and Black, the younger * .Re Kng contestant, spoke first. While ] Sar Caidwel' his rival watched with a feeling 1 Weadows, Joe of defeat and despair, he calmly ( irles Behling, read the purloined speech so well tan Winga te that the audience responded with Bllun unn. a burst of applause. winey per, Now it was White's turn. With, Wflper, bis face burning with embarrass- t eil, Clarence ment, and to a surprised audience,e Brown, Jim he repeated from memory the M. Greber speech that Black had read so M raser lquntlyr before him. As h ae 0 0 CLARENCE EAST Store i, (Ed. Note: The campus book store is now under new man agement. Many of the events related in this column took place before the new manager, Marion Dantzler, was named to that position.) There is a most controversial 5pecies of the commercial estab lishment in our land kniv-r! as Lhe company store. This enter ?rise appears to be a phenome ion of comparable inescapability -that is, it is a creature, of iecess:ty. Pote::ially such an institution !an je (t great benefit to those whom serves. Conversely, few )usinesses are more subject to .he pitfalls of greed and corrup -ion. Accordingly such establish nents have been alternately the mbject of huzzahs and the target !. catcalls born of righteous in fignation. The company store is one type : business to which an essential, )ivotad principle of traditional ree enterprise cannot be applied -the principle of competition. It s like a man without a soul, be ause competition is the very women's dorms. Surely it will >e tough to get final city ap )roval and the projects will be expensive. Nevertheless, it's a problem ;hat must be faced up to right tway. Carolina's parking facil ties simply haven't kept pace Vith Carolina's growth. Each emester the situation grows verse; before we start turning ,ray from nightmares of a thou and Powell wreckers towing our ars off the campus, let's hear ome constructive suggestions rom the students and adminis ration, and get the ball rolling or more FREE parking area. ception poke, however, the old dean's yes never left his face. The trustees retired to reach vhat appeared to be a foregone onclusion. Black, so certain of ictory, gave his rival a pat on he back and told him not to be pset, there were other jobs. Then the dean came back and nnounced the decision. Mr. White had been chosen for he job! Wonder Why? "You are probably wondering tow we made our choice," the cean told the surprised audience nd the amazed Mr. Black. "All fus were impressed with the visdom and erudition of Mr. lack, who, if you will remember, end his speech to us. But Mr. White repeated every word of the same speech from nemory, although it Is impossible hat he had never heard a line of t before. What a fantastic nemory the man has. Since a ine memory is an invaluable as LETTERS TO TH Southern (Ed. Note: This letter was sent to the office of the Dean of Men from the Student Sen ate, Queens College, Flushing, New York.) )ean of Students Jniversity of South Carolina iolumbia, S. C. )ear Sir: We are two students presently attending Queens College, New rork. We were fortunate enough o represent our school at the re ent Eleventh Annual United ftates National Student Associa ion Congress, where we had the irivilege to meet Mr. Fred L arching management's apparent desire to extract the highest possible pro Keyne's Book Last spring a certain professor teaching a graduate course In Business Administration required his class to purchase a text by the English economist, John Maynard Keynes. He informed them that the cdst would be five dollars. As it happens, the Trade Edition of this book does sell for $5.00, while a Student Edition is published for retailing'at $3.75. Upon ordering the texts, the book store received the Student Edition. They had sold four or five at $3.75 when the aforesaid professor mentioned casually to an official of the book store that his students would be pleasantly surprised as they were expecting to pay $5.00. The price was im ;nediately changed and the re mainder of the Student Editions were sold at-that's right-the Trade Edition price of $5.00. -I could relate other reports that have come to me: for example, the story of why the book store is no longer purchasing our class rings from the highly reliable Herf-Jones Company of Indiana or how the speculative used-book list of Wilcox and Follette Com pany is being used to keep stu dents from getting equitable prices for their used texts. How ever, I prefer to leave investiga tion and report of these and re lated matters to the elected stu dent representatives - should they feel the need to Inquire further. Before washing my hands en tirely of the matter, however, I should like to make a revelation which may be of interest to my readers. Wedgewood Plates This revelation is a tale of unbelievable extravagance. It seems that the wife of a former University president, while tra veling Europe, spotted and fell in love with some Wedgewood plates. At her suggestion, the book store ordered a quantity of these plates. A qutantity indeed--for today there are more than 12,000 of these Wedgewood plates stored iri the basement of Coker Col lege. At the rate they are now being sold It will take a quarter of a ce.tury to dispose of them. The alleged investment in this expen sive china is so enormous that I frankly hesitate to publish It. This column is not, and Ir not intended to be, a definitive report on the book shop. It Is written In the hope that it will stimulate Student Council into a thorough investigation from which may come a thorough report. If my conclusions are proven wrong, none will be happier than I; if on the other hand they are substantiated, perhaps this col umn will have in some small way helped the University to better serve Its students. preciated We hope that the situation can be settled by the Southern people themselves and ' that force and violence will nevere have to be used by either the state or fed eral government. Again, we would like to say that you have every reason to be proud of your delegates--their dedication to their cause was res pected by all. Sincerely yours, Frank Calamita,. VIce-Pres. Student Senate Mickey Rooney, Chairman of Student Atiitis. ERLING... 4eeds Soul-Se soul of our economic system. Entrepreneurs seek to maxim ize their profits and, in a system of pure free enterprise, only competition can tempdr, can deter their greed. The company store controls the supply, while nature creates the need. College Book Store Closely akin to the c mpany store is the college owned book store. It is subject to all the temptations of a company store plus one-as well as controlling the supply, the college creates the demand. By its very nature, however, the college book store should offer textbooks ani other essen tial student supplies at very minimum profits. Only in the performance of such a role can the college book store justify its existence. Unfortunately, i n f o r m a - tion, which has come to me from confidential sources which I con sider highly reliable, would indi cate that the book store at our university offers, to this ideal, a contradiction of epic dimensions. For the consideration of those interested and most especially the members of Student Council, I shall present a few of the reports which have led me to this con clusion. "I Want a Word" It will be news to no one who has listened in the last few weeks to coffee-shop chatter that the price of Havilah Babcock's famous pamphlet, "I Want a Word," has risen in price from an outrageous $2.25 to an almost inconceivable $2.50; that "Maple Leaf" brand spiral notebooks have risen from an over-priced 69c to a larcenous 75c (the book store pays 43c for them). The blame for this might be laid at the door of creeping inflation; other things cannot be so easily explained away. The Lab Manual for Biology 11 was printed in 1956 especially for the book store in a quantity intended to last several years, at the cost of 20c apiece. Originally the manual sold for 60c-a profit of 200 per cent. In 1957 it was marked up to 80c-giving a profit margin of 300 per cent. This year these very same Lab Ma nuals are being sold by the book store for $1.50-A MARK-UP OF SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY PER CENT. In the light of this instance a cataloguing of mark-ups on other textbooks would be anti-climactic. One' instance involving the pricing of texts might be related, how ever, to illustrate the book store set for a teacher of Elizabethan literature, we have decided that Mr. White is the man for the job." As a very happy Mr. White was leaving the campus, the dean came up to him and said, "When .you join our faculty, if I were you, I would be mighty careful about where I left my valuable papers lying." E EDITOR . .. Viewpoint Ap Clercq and Mr. Michael Osborn from the University of South Carolina. Mr. LeClercq's presentation of your university'. resolution on desegregation was the memorable highlight of our two weeks at Ohio Wesleyan University. Al though in el sincerity, we could not support the principles of the declaration, we were made to see and really understand for the first tin)e, the Southern point of view on integration. The spirit underlying the resolution we can support Robert M. Bell... As Mozart Pours Forth, Credit Due The abund of WUSC is one which many of us hear but which most of us do not really appre ciate. This student operated station provides a singular service for individuals, groups, and the Uni versity at large. Yet, its acclaim has been smalL Few realize the problems in volved in the operation of a radio stE-tion. It is easy e6ough to turn the knob on the set and enjoy the strains of Mozart as they pour , forth. It is most pleasant at 2:00 in the morning to hear the relaxing music of the "Night Owl Show." I doubt, however, that most of us realize the effort which goes into making such programs possible. The "Night Owl Show" runs three hours. It is done entirely by remote control. The disc jockey for each evening must spend several hours in planning th' program and recording it. A splendid variety of programs is offered. Sports, classical music, jazz, news, and many others are all combined to provide a well balanced daily schedule. During the past summer the station was completely renovated (via YVUSC staff labor). This project was financed by proceeds from last year's operation. The quality of the program ming is indicative of the work which the staff puts forth. Cer tainly the staff of WUSC is de serving of studer t appreciation and student support. The vice-president of Inter fraternity Council in his Letter to-the-Editor last, week informs us that "any system is better that no system. . . ." This is an astute observation. This "bitter" columnist has never tried to propagandize the idea that we don't have a system at Carolina. As a matter, it was the system which we criticized. To all parties concerned, ac cept our congratulations for the very fine beginning of the Artist Series. No small credit is due Mike Osborne, chairman of the Artist Series Committee, and Fred Le Clercq. Ho>vever, let us not forget Dean J. T. Penney whose role in bring ing the series to our campus was a primary and a significant one. For the actual success of the program, though, we must point to the very fine audience partic ipation, which was most gratify ing. Student participation .in this program is the determining factor in the continuation or failure of the program. Withw support such as the first artist received, it will undoubtedly be here to stay. For we skeptics who were doubtful until the night of the performance let there be a new appraisal. We're so tired of it by now that we shan't sound the cry, bt wouldn't it be nice to have a . auditoriumm? A very pleasant addition has been made to the Russell House dining facilities. The opening of the Palmetto Room, I am sure, will be well re ceived by those of us who prefer to have our meals served rather than go through the cafeteria line. In fact, if the dining accom modations continue to improve at the University, we will have little to complain about soon (a dreadful fate). The quality of the food has improved since last year. We now have a very economical meal plan, there are sufficient private dining rooms, and we have the Palmetto Room. I think that certain other areak' of the University community might follow this lead and pro vide better services in many cases and acceptable services in others.. But rather than spoil the pleasantness of this week, we'll save our criticisms until another