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Tyroersd Ge Books Group In Artist SeriesBeuOnCm s (Se pag 4) (See page 8) UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A VREATER CAROLINA Vol. No. 8 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 31,' 1958 Founded 1908 Relgious Speakers I Religious Emphasis Week week of February 8-12, with the theme, according to Harrie man. Speakers have been secure tions. Convocatiop speakers s( Rev. George Bea:i, Chaplain a tants; and Rabbi Abraham Crc the Jewish tonvocations. The convocation speaker to be sec . The remaining Protestant team members with the exception of the Lutheran and Presbyterian speak ers are the Rev. William Ball of Rock Hill, Baptist; the Rev. J. Claude Evans, chaplain at South ,rn Methodist University; and the - Rev. Merrill A. Stevens of Auburn, Ala., Episcopal. Poster Contest A prize is being offered by the R.. E. Week Committee for the person submitting the poster that is -used to publicize R. E. Week. There is a $25 cash award for the poster that is selected first and a $15 award for second place. Any one wishing to submit a poster for consideration must Aubmit it by November 21, to Bill Bates, Leila Grace Rosborough, or Dr. Douglas Bub. The poster must be an original student design. The following in formation must also be- included: Raiigious Emphasis Week, the theme "In What Is Your Faith?" and the date February 8-12. R. E. Week Chairmen Chairmen for R. E. Week are Acting President Robert L. Sum walt, honorary chairman; Dean Elizabe th Clotworthy, f a c u 1 t y chairman; Harriet Clare Sinkler, student chairman; Mary Ellen ALong, secretary; and Barbara Thompson, coordinator. Student Council Takes Nominations For Legislature Nominations for University stu dent ,senators and representatives to attend the S. C. Student Legis lature will be entertained at Stu dent Council Monday, Student Body President Fred LeClercq has announced. Each school in the state can send two senators and one repre sentative for every 250 students. The S. C. Student Legislature will meet Thursday, Dec. 4, through Saturday, Dec. 6. Dean J. T. Penney Resumes Duties After Illness After what he termed as "the first rest I've had in twenty years," Dr. James T. Penney has returned to the campus to resume his duties as Dean of Men. SEarlier in the aemester Dean enney was hospitalized after sud denly taking ill on Sept. 14, and he remained in a local hospital for several weeks. American To Lecture Edison Marshall, a distinguished American author, will be the guest of the English department of the University next Monday, Dr. Havi lah Babcock, head of the depart ment, has announced. Marshall is the author of thirty novels and collections of short stories; many of which have been translated and published in numer ous foreign languages, and many of which have been made~into such famous moving pictures as the re gent "The Vikings." P Ho has won numerous awards for literary distinction, and he is recognized throughout the world as a foremost author. Meets Students Mr. Marshall and his wife will be in' the office of Prof. Babcock in Davis College from 10-11 a.m. to meet students, faculty members, and others who may wish to see them. At eleven o'clock' he will speak in the law school auditorium about thE craft of writing. The Emphasis Revealed has been scheduled for the 'In What Is Your Faith?" as t Clare Sinkler, student chair :] for all but three denomina cured up to this date are the t West Point, for the Protes nbach of Cincinnati, Ohio, for Catholic speaker is the only ired. Student Fees Appropriated For Activities The Student Activities Commit tee has made allotments of the Student Activities Fees for 1958 59, Dean J. T. Penney has said. The allotment is subject to the approval of the administration. According to Dean Penney the allotment has been made as fol lows: "Gamecock," $2.00; "Garnet and Black," $2.62; Y. M. C. A. Y. W. C. A., $1.10; Artist Series, $0.60; Russell House Committee, $0.40; Debate Council, $0.40; WUSC, $0.35; Student Council, $0.25; University Players, $0.15; and the Contingent Fund, $0.13. The following appropriations have also been made from the Con tingent Fund: - Artist Series, $5000; International Relations Club, $979; "Sandlapper," $1000; Euphradian and Clariosophic So cieties, $165 each (to be used for repairing furniture); Hypatian and Euphrosynean Societies, $25 each; two student representatives from the University to West Point, $80; and permanent lipprovements for University Plaiyets, $125. Four Teams Participating In Tourneys Four debate teams leave today to represent the University at two different tournaments, each con sisting of six rounds of debate. One tournament is to be held at Mercer University; the other, at Wake Forest College. Fred LeClercq and Pete Martin will contend the affirmative on the varsity team while Marty Price and Sam Freed argue the negative at Mercer. All Girl Team The novice team to Mercer is Kit Quattlebaum and Kay Glenn on the affirmative, and Ann Kiett and Marga Wilhoit on the nega tive. There will also be two teams participating in the novice tourna mient at Wake Forest College. One team will consist of Marion Jeter, George Gregory, Dabney Tucker, and Pettigrew Clare. The other will be composed of John Chappell, Henry Herring, Warren Adkins, and another which had not been decided. 4uthor Visa On Craft Edison Marshall public is invited, Prof. Babcock said. Among Mr. Marshall's books are: "Princesn BonhIa,." "The In Campaign For Blood Held' Soon The Bloodmobile will visit the University campus on Monday, and t h e Inter-fraternity sponsored blood drive will be held in the as sembly room from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. Bloodmobile visits are made each Fall and each Spring to the University, and the drive is termed successful if a minimum of 125-150 pints of blood are received from the students and faculty members. Each donor this semester will receive a blood credit card cover ing the donor and his entire fam ily. This insures that any family member who has a need for blood while the card is effective can re ceive the blood. Inter-fraternity Council, which sponsors this drive, has made ar rangements for each fraternity wishing to donate blood to go as a group. However, anyone wish ing to donate may go at his con venience and still get credit for his fraternity. Todd and Moore Sporting Goods Store will donate a plaque to the organization giving the greatest amount of blood to the drive. It was also stated that any group on campus may donate blood as a group to the Red Cross as a part of this drive; it is not simply a project for the fraternities. Food Service Improvements Are Proposed George Leventis, chairman of Student Council committee to in vestigate service in the Gamecock Room, proposed five changes in the room's operation at the coun cil meeting Monday. The student employees of the canteen are not allowed to operate the cash register, he said, and he suggested that they be allowed to in order to speed service. He also discussed the need for more than one cash register. To relieve the crowded situation in the room he suggested the re moval of the wall between the room and the adjoining dining room. A number system of placing orders, which would assure that the customers are served in the order in which they entered the room, was also proposed. A rail ing in front of the counter to ar range the customers in an orderly line was suggested. Leventis said that a meeting with Dean Patterson to discuss the matter is impending. Jim Pen darvis and Rick Harrison are serv ing on the committee with Le ventis. ts Camp us Of Writing evitable Hour," "The Viking," "Great S m i t h," "Caravan to Xanadu," "Castle in the Swamp," "Yankee Pasha," "The Gentle man," "Benjamin Blake," "The Infinite Women," "American Cap tain." Also he has written "The Up start," "Gypsy Sixpence," "The Heart of Little Shikara," "The Elephant Remembers," "The Heart of the Hunter," and "Bengal Tiger." Informal Tea English students will give Mr. and Mrs. Marshall an informal tea in Davis College at 10:30. Marshall has travelled through out the world, and his books re flect his observations and experi ences in fascinating/ and distant lands. Among his experiences have been safaris in Africa and shikars in India. In addition to being a distin guished, writer, Marshall is world famous as a big game hunter and adventurer Miss ( Contes FRESHMAN CLASS OFFICERS. students to fill the four class offi vice-president. Sylvia Moseley (lei respectively. (Photo by Jack Fren Freshmen Elect Hunt President Bobby Hunt was elected presi dent of the freshman class on October 22. Other officers elected were Bland Roper, vice-president; Sylvia Moseley, secretary-treas urer; and Bettie Moseley, his torian. Also elected at this time were John Chappell, Vasiliki Moskos, and Kent Anderson as freshmen members to student council. Jo Kirvin was elected to fill the vacancy on student council from the school of education. Augusta Mason, Julie Petosky and Patsy Irick were named as the three finalists in the Home coming Queen contest. The win ner will be announced during half time ceremonies at the Home coming Game. Printing Date For Blue Key Directory Set The 1958-59 Blue Key Directory which is sponsored by Blue Key National Honor Fraternity will come out at the end of November, Maxcy' Rivkin, president, has an nounced. Jim Foster Is editor of the Blue Key Directory and Lawton Rogers is business manager. The direc tory Is a listing of students with home and campus addresses, of presidents of campus organiza tions, of faculty members, of ad ministrative staff, of fraternity and sorority members, of student council and honor board represen tatives and of athletic events. Rivkin said, "We do want to get it out as quickly as possible." The directories will be distributed to students free through the campus post office. Other Projects Blue Key will also sponsor High School Day which is Saturday, November 15. Blue Key members serve in making arrangements and serve as guides. High School Day is being held in fall instead of spring since high school seniors 'isually have decided where they are going by spring, Rivkin said. The Blue Key dance, held on "Little Wednesday," Is a third oroject of the Blue Key fraternity, the purpose of which is to promote 'riendship between Carolina and Clemson, Rivkln said. Nick Abrams is vice-president; Dick Stanland, recording secretary and treasurer; Carroll Teague, -orresponding secretary; and Dr. John R. Welsh of the English de partment, facutadvisor.. arnet and I 4 Next Tue 4.0 In the final elections on Oct. 22, the freshman class elected these es. They are (sitting) Bobby Hunt, president; and Bland Roper, t) and Bettie Moseley were elected secretary-treasurer and historian ch) First Play Production Is Presented Nov. 11 The University Playera presen- past and thus preventing a mar tation of the Tennessee Williams' riage through which she hopes to drama, "A Streetcar Named De- escape her past. sire," which opens Tuesday, Nov. Retreating from reality she 11, will mark the first players' seeks relief in her own dream production at Drayton Hall in world in which she is a southern three years and the third time one belle of unimpeachable morals and Df Williams' plays has been pre- great wealth. By the end of the sented at the University. play she has lost nearly the last By coincidence, in the Fall of remnant of her sanity. 1955, another of Williams' plays, Curtain time has not yet been "The Glass Menagerie," was the announced. Admission will be last play enacted in Drayton Hall charged members of the faculty by the University Players before and the general public, but all stu moving to the Warehouse Theatre dents will be admitted free. for the intervening series of dramas. Council Passes Second Play This was the first play by this tudent Office author; the second and most re-i Limitatior Rule eent was his one-act "Twenty Seven Wagons Full of Cotton," A motion that persons who are which took place last May in the rerlar c o th Warehouse Theatre. This play was tohdofieiaysuenor the basis for the movie "Baby gnzto tteUiest a Doll." tSsdh h tdn oni "A Streetcar Named Desire" Mody traces the rapid mental, spiritual, StdtBoy redntFe and m o r a I disintegration of LCec adta tdn on Blanche DuBois, the central char- rlnssneisjrsito x acter, as she desperately tries to tnst l rnhso tdn escape a tragic and unsavory past lie life during a visit to the sordid __________ New Orleans slum apartment of her younger sister and her hostileD n e AW a brother-in-law.Cl ax s H r Blanche's Conflict The chief conflict is between hgDnewl lmxhmcmn Blanche and her brother-in-law, dysatvte ihJmyFr' Stanley, who brings about her bn lyn nteWd ap final collapse by exposing her darkto Htebalomfm8to1 p.m Sauda,Nv.1.on Dormnitories lt,hmcmn himn a announced. Phone Lists th' usl os ob bu e A list of telephone numbers of Tednewl esm-oml h telephones on campus will he hmcmn ue ilb h placed beside all telephones In tene-gusofhnr rnents and .dormitories, Bunky Aciteswl bgn Frdy Joye, chairman of the telephoneNo.1,fnt2o5pm.we ~ommittee, has announced,.oeoigdspasetrdb Student Council is having thefrtriesadooitswllb numbers printed on 5 in. by I3 in.jugd Comba usnsme ,ards. Working with Joye on theanwoewilbjugs ommittee are Bill Bates, Carmen Thfisanseodwnrso Cherry, Fred Day, Bill Latham, George Leventis, Vasiliki Moskos, srrt n ffaent nre Shirley Snyder and Jean Spear-wilb anone ad gvn ma.toees atie interisown dring Ilack sday ODK Tapping Ceremonies Scheduled Six finalists will be announced in the "Miss Garnet and Black" contest which will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, in the Russell House Assembly Room, Jo Kirven, feature editor of the annual, has announced. The contest is spon sored by "The Garnet and Black," University annual. "Miss Garnet and Black" will be announced when the annual comes out next spring. Each fraternity and sorority sponsors a woman student who will enter the compe tition Tuesday in formal gowns. The event is open to students free, Kirven said. Rehearsals A rehearsal for the copitestants will be held at 4 p.m., Monday, Nov. 3, in the Russell House As sembly Room. A luncheon will be held for the contestants and judges at 1 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 4, in the old faculty dining room in Russell House. The judges will be editors of five college annuals in South Carolina colleges and universities. They are Stan Foscue, editor of "The Sphinx," The Citadel; Ray Grif fin, editor of "The Taps," Clem son College; and Judy Jekins, edi tor of "The Columbian," Columbia College. Also, Jean Poole, editor of "Y's and Other Y's," Converse College, and Ernest Prewett, edi tor of "The Bohemian," Wofford College. ODK Tapt% The Chi circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, national leadership fra ternity, will tap new members during the intermission of the con test Tuesday night. To be eligible a student must have reached junior status, have a grade aver age of 82.5, and have accumulated 75 points under the ODK point system. S o e i a I sororities sponsoring women are Alpha Delta Pi, Mary Beth Evans; Chi Omega, Lynn Eddy; Delta Delta Delta, Priscilla Barrett; Delta Zeta, Joan Bennett; Kappa Delta, Elizabeth Dennis; Pi Beta Phi, Claire Hutto; Zeta Tau Alpha, Linda McDonald. Alpha Tau Omega fraternity is sponsoring Julie Petosky; Chi Psi, Thorne Satterlee; Kappa Alpha, Vivian Smith; Lambda Chi Alpha, Sandra Callahan; Phi Ep silon Pi, Lubah Freedman; Phi Kappa Sigma, Linda Hall; Pi Kappa Alpha, Libby Bagnal; Pi Kappa Phi, Sylvia Nolin; Sigma Chi, Mary Ellen Long; Sigma Nu, Pat Moss; and Sigma Phi Epsilon, Becky Finlay. Names not listed were not avail able at the time "The Gamecock" went to press. le Hampton ecoming Day the homecoming dance. A pep rally will be held at 6 p.m. Friday after the display judging. Homecoming Day A coffee hour will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. of H(omecoming Day in Dean Sumwalt's home. Later a luncheon open to students will be held in honor of the three home coming queen finalists in the new faculty dining room on second floor of the Russell House. The meal will be served a la carte and no reservations are necessary for students to attend, lJite said. Acting President Su'mwalt will crown the queen at half-time core monies of the Carolina-University of Virginia game Saturday after noon, Hite said. The results of the election of queen will not be known until the ceremonies. The game begins at 2 p.m. in the Carolina Stadium. -