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ThA g te S aw"nade a pqrtant ad vanwu ib*ttifcaity and psychologically with the laLM.g , Pionew. A *yage of more than 75,000 miles Into space Is a dream which has been cherishedby man from the begin ning of time. Only minor defects kept the rocket from actually orbiting around the moon and obtaining information on the dark side of the earth's satellite. U*ited States prestige suffered a serious setback when Russia launched the first sputnik last year, but the launching of Pio neer has certainly overcome any loss of stature we sufferedt With important scienti fic advances like Pioneer being constantly brought to the attention of the entire world, the United States can hope to remain ahead of the Communista- and avert any threats of war due to confidence on their part. Parkng Worse T The parking situation is worse than ever before. Anyone can quickly see what is wrong-campus students have so many cars that off-campus students cannot locate a parking place within blocks of the school. A visit any night to the University campus shows that all spaces within blocks of every dorm are filled with cars belonging tq on campus students. This, of course, means that itudeats living in Columbia must park blocks away from any corner of the University, a great inconvenience to say the least, partici, LETTERS TO THE EDITOI Should Benel Dear Editor: students to buy c I don't get a chance to swing up don't have ca through New York so I am not every time we s up on the new styles. If styles want. are changing as Mr. George I believe in Leventis described in his article, which last and lo "Men's Fashions Off The Cuff." time. I try to mi I certainly hope that the latest with a few new styles don't hit "This City," like I wear clothe.w t some other people. I certainly which still look 1 don't want to wear pants that I pair of pants I can't even carry a handkerchief school with flaps in, or maybe you aren't supposed They are now bi -fo have colds. Mr. Leventis must think a sweater a have a secret cure-all formula! good as a suit ai Good Intentions are a lot more c Mr. Leventis has good inten- Gibbe tions and I am sure that his tips I know my lot on bargains, tastes, and appro- a lot of gibberish priate times to wear clothes, Mr. Leventis is should benefit all the wealthy points too much. Democrats at USC. But what ably sum up his about paeans like me? I can't words of Conan afford to wear a suit to class Case of Identity. every day unless I wear the same together an Hol one.... word, Watson, y I like to dress nicely myself, along wonderful but I don't think "Clothes Make really done very The Man." As long as a man is is true that yo clean and wears clean, neat everything of imp clothes, I don't condemn him for have hit upon thi not being in style. A man can- John not be what he Is not. He can ohly be what he is. Other Bargains Not Interest4 I would also like to see bar- In Dusty gains from other places of bus- Green Suits iness than Grayson's. By the way, did anyone see Lourie's dis- Dear Editor: play in the Russell House on .I read Mr. Lev Oct. 10? They had some beauti- the October 10 ful clothes which are on the con- Gamecock" with a servative side. They are also article on men's f moderately priced. Oh, Mr. formative, but ni Leventis might be interested in of bringing abou a shirt I saw. It was a f'rench men's clothes. cuff white shirt with lace. wrote a dissertat Lourle's has the Gamecock plan that he had been which make, it easier for USC here and in New CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROL1 Memaber of Ase--i-ted Collegiate Pres. Foended Iawuuvy 80, 190s, with Robert EUlott Gowi first editor, "The Camecock" Is publisbed by and for the the Univrerstr of south Caroune weekfr, on Fridays, durina year except on, bolidays and daring ewasninatlens. The opnin exprssed by columnists and letter wift aeeesarily these o "The camecock." "Tme Gamecock' Letters to the Editor, but afl letters must be signed. Pal met eanstitute an endorsemnent. The right to edit or wi paUstion ayr letter Is reserved. EDITOW ......................... ........2 MANAGING EDITOR ...... ............... BUSINESS MANAGER.............. ..... ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR...... ADVERTIBING MANAGER ...............I NEWS EDITOR ................... FEATURE EDITrOR.*.. SOCIETY l!!blTOR . .... .. .. ....... SPORTS EDITOR .................... PHOTOGRAPHER ......... ....... CIRCULATION MANAGER ........... REPORTERS: Glenna Bryant Bill Bates, Da aenMcK.ibben, Dot Johnson, arlotte Andersor Vasili M(oskos, Keon Wood, KillKough, Glenn Jordan Bill Jenee Doi Kains ,PyMilet Cli DBoA llubs, Paula Kfleka, Dora Sanabury, Furi Allae Hland, Charles Bradley, Donald Rutlede n uson, Jhn'Knny, Larry May, Abby M 3~7SVU ' ST?AFF1: Ted Owen, Toun Roe I Ikrlp* Pneas, Bobbie Wilians., W.UWISTS: Carl M. Reynolds, Robert M4. Bel flans nss, Anthong 3 E ro, Jina Pendarvis. EANT PUOTOG3APH3R8& Semn Fori BA?ONIUTS: . . Waldrep, issa Lowenstein, Advnce ror U. 5. With the budget of the Unted StAteiIn its prefmnt conditiontra s eM sd pub lie aliisreluctantly -n - uong aWPro priated for anything, but money i the fh'st essentil for the furtherance of scientific progress and only through its expenditure will the United States either get into the lead ur further its lead in the world scientific field, whichever the case may be. The race to the moon is the immediate objective and despite the -advantage the United Statea has gained by launching the first rocket into outer space; Russia would be in a much more enviable position were she to successfully get a rocket to the moon first. As American citizens we should back all programs of scientific development and en courage our Congressmen to place their wholehearted support in such programs. han Ever efore larly when you are getting to school at the. last minute. Inevitably the only solution to thin qa tion will be the acquisition and diam tIin of vast areas of real estate immedi ely a& jacent to the campus for pnking mean. Such a program will result in the expenditure of huge sums of money but it is! coe- to pass. The sooner the University can take astiea to relieve the parking problem, particulaxly for off-campus students, the better. -it All Wealthy Dem 0 lthes. LAts of I consider myself an average sh to dish out male reader of "The Gamecock," i something we and I am not interested in the fact that someone came across buying clothes a dusty two-year-old green (olive sk good all the if you prefer) gabardine suit x my wardrobe that some store had on its racks. styles and old. If the suit was of any value or hree years old quality, it would never have bee rood. I have a there that long. I may appear as bought in high a non-conformist, but I prefer on the pockets. to read about now ideas that are ick in style. I being introduced to the public. rid shirt look as Qualification d tie and they Another idea that comes to >mfortable. mind is this question, are the rish men's fashion articles in "The ter is probably Gamecock" comupunity property? but I still feel I have been in all the men's ap stressing some parel stores here and in other I could prob- cities, does this qualify me to article in the write fashion articles for your Doyle in "The paper? I realize that the article men s clapped softly tioned is an introduction of more ekles, "Pon my to come; and I, therefore, get the ou are coming opinion that it sounds more like ly. You have a monopoly than community well indeed. It property. Mr. Leventis used the ~a have missed first person pronouns "I,s" "me,"~ artance, but you and "my" approximately 27 times method." in his column. Eleven times he H. Gayle, Jr. used them in the last two para ___graphs. Byars Article. d I have enjoyed such articles as that appeared in the October 8 issue by Byars. His use of sketches was very effective. I noticed that Byars places credits entis' article in according to the articles or ap issue of "The parels mentioned. Does Mr. musement. His Leventis plan to do his research ashions was in- with the local merchants? Or >t in the sense does he plan to cooperate with t e da n the establishments that introduce He seemingly tearticles of clothing or acces ion on the fact sories? n several stores Business Increase York. It will be interesting to ob serve Mr. Leventis' progress with hij articles on men's fashions, It will also be interesting to observe the increase of business and profits by Columbia merchants through this source of free ad vertisement through as publica tion of more than several thou NA sand circulation. Rex King ste. as as students .f * *****Sorority .Rush ---g Schedule Needs --Rearranging COTT CAIN This week witnesses one of the Billy Mishoe most impractical and childish Jim Herring aspects of sorority rush on the Gerald Floyd - Carolina campus--the so-called tion Rutledge quiet period during which no Carol Watson rushee, is supposed to talk to any .Anne Valley male matriculate of this institu ..Ann Stokes tion except on necessary mea ~ Hlok~~sures. Jerry ickey Outside of being completely Jack French impractical and never really Roger Brown workable due to the nature of vid Caldwell, men and women this so-called Sara Krebe silent period is typical of the in Meadows.Jo fantilism of the Pan-Hellenic nan Wingate, Council and Is in effect a display Bill Dunne, of their insecurity. Kinney, Buss There may be a lot of things wrong with the I. P. C. here but dwin Spear's, it feels secure enough in its posi ,Bllane, ton to just stop the fraternity ~ Bil Hadel, men from verbal rushing and does K. Gr'a~e not silenee the' men to the entire female student body who noto Hal Johnson. riously tush for the various ANTHONY E. BIR The Art As Oui ft" "la is owma 69 ff ]p .. -e -mAwl MWn amath a ma WIL._n. fema eot a s.aDN"L js a1l th avdw tu- ripien ftaft th m-r raneoua Is that resultant hilaritY. TN atremes to whie many of the wmri&s most fameu crats fraternitie. Idem Bred The whole Idea of this rus silent period is bred not out ol fear of men rushing far ti various sororities but out ot foaa that they the men will expose th entire myth of society lift am thh campus. The answer is not in a silence period, but in inaking the soror. ity systems appear stronger Censorship of any kind, even ol this naive variety is foolish. The Pan Hellenic must get some sor1 of power fetis out of doing this but that It is permitted this dic tatorial power by the adminis tration seems even more strange I admit it Is voluntary, but why should this childish rule be sano tioned or used escapes me. Obvious Faults Two things grow quite obviou from comparisons of silent peri ods - one is that the I. F. C wants a boy with the help of hig girl to choose a fraternity be cause he will be happier in doinj so, but that the sororities are afraid for a girl to choose bei sorority with her male friends help. Secondly, the men of "Fra THE FOLLOWING RE! BY THE TIGER SENIOR S' WHEREAS, it has becc bers of the staff of this illui certain ignoble upstarts of i that prep school for city slic noble capitol city of Columi WHEREAS, it has been certain classic athletic cont said contest in this altercati WHEREAS, it appears forthcoming from this inst because of the lack of athlet lower learnuing as noted by tJ aggregation and in their u against a gathering of pup' WHEREAS, the date iJ systemized fowlicide, and WHEREAS, this afores graced with the presence ol gentlemen from the foothill on only two more occasions drels from the sand hills w: Death Valley, THEREFORE, BE IT I the undersigned, extend to Gamecock" an Invitation to Coffee Shop immediately f< finite and distinct purpose o their pathetic pretext for a1 HOWBEIT, through sor the warriors of the glorious with less than victory or d gladly demonstrate our lo: irrevocably meritorio,us edi literary tidbit contained the BE IT FURTHER RES journalism shall present ti challenge prior to donning i of one year's moifrning. RONALD S. JERRY C. A1 W. EDWARE WILLIAM R. are you cheating in there? Answer i OWN... Of The Practi ned On Fifth individuals have gone to develop practical jokes are truly works of art, and in many instances, classics. Costume Jewelry A man in New York bought $20 worth of costume jewelry at P five-and-ten-cent store and spent a month removing the bits of colored glass that passed for diamonds, rubies, and emeralds. He placed them loose in A small briefease, and strolled up Fifth Avenue. As he passed in front of Tif fany's he released a catch on the briefcase, and a cascade of valu able jewels scattered across the pavement. It took police reserves a full hour to suppress the resul tant stampede. Another Hoax Another exploit by the same jester was to dress up a group of his acquaintances an workmen and dig a 40-foot ditch across Row" are not jealous of the fact that the freshmen have arrived to take away the glory from the upperclassmen in the eyes of the opposite sex. Seventh Rush This is the seventh sorority rush I have witnessed at this institution of higher learning and the seventh time I have seen this .high schoolish jealousy and fear displayed and each time I watch it I become disgusted with the lack of intelligence it displays. Mistakes will be made during rush, but the Pan Hellenic council wants them to be made rather than develop a real, dy namic sorority that can stand up to the bitter young men who have seen their blunders and make jokes of their weaknesses. William C. Goforth OLUTION WAR PASSED rAFF ON OCTOBER 7, 1958 me tradition for certain mem itrious journal to altercate with hat limp, ragged news sheet of kers just off Bull Street in our ia, South Carolina, and the custom for the losers of a est to challenge the victors of on, and that said challenge will not be itution adjacent to Bull Street ic prowess at this institution of teir loss to a nondescript martial rnwarianted, providential scores pies and a clan .of imps, and ; rapidly approaching for this iid decaying institution will be the moat aristocratic southern s of the Blue Ridge Mountains before these degenerate scoun 11 trespass on the sacred soil of [EREBY RESOLVED that we, :hose pseudo-journalists of "The assemble at the Wade Hampton Ilowing said contest for the de f deriving their sustenance from editorial page, and ie unlikely quirk of fate, should Squire Howard leave the arena raw, we, the undersigned, shall alty by partaking of our own torial page and relishing every rein, and OLVED that these outcasts of emselvea in fulfillment of said Lack cloth and ashes for a period ELLIS, Editor ISBAND, Managing Editor GE'lTYS, Associate Editor HILL, NTaw Eitor. 0 me, Furber!" cal Joke Avenue Twenty-Sixth street. The police helpfully aided him in directingo traffic and hanging red lanterns along the edge of the ditch. It was two days before they discovered that the whole thing was a hoax. Oxford students pulled this same stunt with tremendous success at the busiest intersection in Regent Street, London, the next year. These same students were doubtless responsible for another incident, of practical jestery. The late Lloyd George addressed a university assemblage from the rear platform of a special train in the Oxford station. ' a At agiven signal, he closed In a burst of eloquence and appre eixtive farewells, and the train pulled out. The jolly students, however, had uncoupled the last car, and as the train pulled away, Sir George was left bowing re peatedly at the station, wonder, ing what had happened. So It Goes And so it goes, with thousands of new stories of practical jokers and their coups and reversals being created every day. All are in some respect humorous, while others lose their perpetrators in wild fits of hysterical hilarity. Many are dangerous, sadistic, or inhumane, but any and all are fair game to the ubiquitous prac tical joker. We have been carrying on some diligent research in the past few weeks, and have made a dis covery that will definitely alter the present course of American literature. An unsung, unknown writer has been dredged from the mire of forgotten history. Read in the following weeks of life and works of this remarkable, heretofore undiscovered writer of the South. RESOLUTION PASSED BY 1 ON OCTOBE WHEREAS, certain repre sip sheet published at an obscu somewhere on the darkest o have deemed themselves woi tinguished intelligentsia wh< "New York Times-of-the-Coll titled "The Gamecock" to a< the losers of a certain yearly and WHEREAS, said intellige: the Noble Warriors who rep culture and learning located Columbia, are certain to eme from a battle with represen1 cowherdesses whom it is ri obscure college, and WHEREAS, the leaders of Chief of Staff Enright and I ranged with the barbarian lei Howard, that the skirmish shi season at the arena belonging ing familiarity with the terrai WHEREAS, the horde o: to sweep the entire civilized all persons to cowherding, the that they must stand like Hoi these creatures of the jungle be endangered. THEREFORE, IT IS HE the undersigned, shall be hap resentatives of the aforesai< Hampton Coffee Shop immet the creatures by the Noble W to allow these representatives term an editorial page, and BE IT FURTHER RESO) Warriors be driven from the f through some exercise of v< witchcraft, we, the undersigns of our own brilliant editorial which is consumed at regula1 foremost gourmets. But we, likely not enjoy this famous likely be weeping and wailin civilization shall verily be at be our only future. Alas, a I SCOTT CAIN, Editt BILLY MI8HOE, Ma JIM HERRING, Bu GERALD FLOYD, Carl A . Reynolds... Tangling Students In Fire Hose For a while, it appeared that the a n n u a I "Tiger-burning" would be called off but the Uni versity students had pent-up their pyromaniacal tendenciek so long that, from all indications, the burning will take its usual and necessary place In the pre Big Thursday activities. We're actually glad to see this come about . . . and would have urged the persistence of the epi sode, even should it call for beheading or even stoning the tiger. Seriously, this element of the campus activities has always been conducted in an orderly manner and is seemingly essen tial to the pre-game spirit. Cer tainly it cannot be contended that it provokes hazard, save when the firemen tangle students in their hoses. It's gratifying to learn that McBryde is up and able to be about ... afid that student spirit is channeled in this, rather than other adventures . . . for the time being. IT'S NO MERE coincidence that we'll be thinking about the United Nations next week . . . what with the impending threat from Clemson . . . the two-day commemoration that's b e i n g plnned may well call for UN intervention. And, under the present governmental systems . . . no doubt, intervention can be arranged. IN CASE YOU missed the last concert . . . it's time to get hot and get a gal for the next one. It comes up on October 29 . . . practically only two weeks away. It's free so there's no sWeat about getting a date. AH . . . It's election time again. IT HAS BEEN noted that mem bers of Student Council who fail to attend the sessions have their names published . . . this is good . . . but let's hope that 61. it never gets to the point where the absentee list could just as well carry the names of some of those who attend . . . as the case has frequently been. 0 0 0 WE WERE AMUSED the oth er day when a freshman picked up a copy of "School for Scan dal" and unwittingly inquired if that was the Uuiiversity bulletin. * e * STUDENTS WHO LIVE ... shouldn't in glass houses... especially on the ground floor levels. [HE GAMECOCK OFFICERS R 11, 1958 sentatives of a tattered gos re, little-known college located uter rim of Pickens County ethy of challenging the dis > edit that world-renowned lege-World" which has been ontest designed to humiliate invasion of forest creatures, ntsia, knowing full well that resent the world's center of in the Gem of the Carolinas, rge victorious and unscathed tatives of the cowherds and imored attend the aforesaid the aforesaid Noble Warriors, 'leld Marshal Giese, have ar ider of the denizens, "'Attila" all take place during carnival to the Noble Warriors, assur n, and denizens seems determined world before it and convert Noble Warriors have realized 'atius at the bridge and crush lest all sweetness and light REBY RESOLVED that we, py to meet the aforesaid rep I gossip sheet at the Wade liately following the rout of arriors and we shall be happy to consume what they vainly LJVED that should the Noble leld of, battle by the creatures modoo, black magic, and /or Id, shall consume the contents & page, ordinarily a tasty dish r' intervals by all the world's the undersigned, should very delicacy. There would very g and gnashing of teeth for an end. Cowherding would errible fate!t mnaging Editor siness Manager kuuistant Managing Edtor.