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Carolina Welcomes
The University campus seems always to
be bustling with various types of activity,
but one occurrence in particular merits much
praise and approval. This is the "SEATO
Tomorrow" Conference which is takinig place
on our campus at the present time.
"The Gamecock" would like to extend a
very cordial welcome to the visitors who
are here to attend the conference as well as
to wish for this worthy organization a suc
cessful future. Tt is with great pride that
the University acts as host to this, the first
such conference ever to be held.
Key figures in the Southeast Asia Treaty
Organization are attending the conference,
along with student delegates from various
colleges and important persons from the de
partments of defense and state.
The "SEATO Tomorrow" Conference has
been hailed throughout the nation as an ex
cellent idea and those who are making it pos
sible have been congratulated by such digni
A Different Par
A college campus is the scene of both
minor and major problems which increase
with time if they are continually ignored, and
one such problem seems already to have
begun settling on our campus. This prob
lem, that of parking, is a never-ceasing gripe
from students living both on campus and off
campus.
The parking situation here at the Univer
sity is indeed a problem which causes a great
deal of trouble for those students who drive,
especially for those who live in Columbia or
who commute and must find parking places
before classes in the mornings. Too often
students park several blocks from the
campus and sometimes are even late for class
as a result of being unable to find a parking
space.
Parking meters in the close vicinity of the
University also pose problems, because even
if some of the places on Main Street are
vacant it is usually impossible to keep a car
there without getting a ticket from the Police
Department.
Yet at the same time that students drive
endlessly in search of parking places, the
parking lot behind the new men's dormitories
seem never to be filled. Why should a stu
dent be required to pay for a parking place
in that lot if the places lining the streets
around the campus are free to anyone?
The University is almost sure to grow dur
Russ Burns . .
What Is
(Editor's noote: This is the sequent editions
first in a serica of columns be- prietty for some.
ing written by this columnist in We shall b)egi
pursuit of the answer to the of basic probleit
ques'tioni: What is wrong with you are familiar
Carolina's spirit?) ualIly work our
We are confronted with a blotches upo~n
growing problem in the Carolina ".niversity that
community. A problem which left sick . . . prtovide
unattended WILL propagate de- speak.ose anyu
struction of little portions of your speak. potanywe
mind, your relations wvith others, tri ea upntife
and the very life of this univer- aren't be innei
sityt
No, we are not trying to sound world Ar
like a learnedl "head-shrinker" There is a wor
nor are we trying to create a whether you rea
fanciful tale for your entertain- world around y<
ment. If you are looking for en- up your time at
tertainnment in this column then are a part of th
stop readling NOW, for what we you like it or r
shall have to say here and in sub- better make up;
f/ GAA4 CoE
CROWING FOR A GREATER
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CARO1
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REPORTERS: David Caldwell, Karen McKibbe
Joe Jordan, Abby McKinney,~harlee McClendon,
Oarol WillIamson, Bill Lumpkin, Jimmy Bellos, Eri
Charlotte Gower, Kolli Greer, Pete Andrews, Per
BUSINESS STAFF: Tom Rose, Bobby Williams,
Guy Sorrell.
'COLUMNISTS: Carl M. Reynolds, Russ Burr
Brown, Ellis Boatmon.
PHOOGRAPHKERS: Sam Fiorini, Peter Allen,
CARTOONISTS: Bob Waldrep, Lisa Lo'wenstein,
TYPISTS: Martha Shuler, Sally Lewis, Bunny I
Bohn.
"SEATO Tomorrow"
taries as the New Zealand and French am
bassadors.
Even before plans for the conference were
completed it had gained wide recognition, but
now there will be even more when parts of
the meetings are broadcast over the "Voice
of. America." It is certainly an occasion of
which the University can indeed be proud.
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is ful
filling a very worthy purpose, and now with
this conference the allies of the United States
can see that college students in our nation
are concerned with the future and with an
alliance of peace among the nations.
Welcome to the delegates and to visiting
dignitaries! And congratulations to Carl
Reynolds for conceiving of the idea and car
rying it through with great success and to
the International Relations Club for sponsor
ing the conference. We aspire with you that
"SEATO Tomorrow" will continue as a long
lived and successful conception.
king Situation?
ing the coming years, and, with an increas
ing number of students, we should realize
that there will naturally be an increasing
number of cars and thus an even greater need
for more parking places on the campus. I
do not know how this can be accomplished,
but something certainly must be done in the
near future, so why not now when the condi
tion is first posing a problem?
It seems as if an excuse for charging for
parking places in the lot behind the new
dormitories was to prevent those persons who
are not University students from parking
there. But people who would park in the lot
will surely use places elsewhere on the
campus. Would it not then be better to ar
rive at a different system?
Perhaps all University student cars should
be registered and a small fee paid and then
cars not bearing a student sticker should
not be allowed to park on the campus. Pos
sibly this or some other system would prove
more workable than that being used at
present.
With the number of cars seeming to in
crease continually, there must be either an
expansion or some other change so as to
remedy the parking situation, so why should
we not begin something now and work to
ward solving this problem while it is still
in relatively early stages?
Wrong With Ca
may not be too it . . . unless you want out.
There is a small segment of
ni with a review this world which is almost con
a which most of stantly in touch with you. You
with and event- and your brethren are a conspie
way up to somec uous part of this cross section
he face of this which we call Carolina. Every
may make you action you take can and -often
d you aren't one does have a profound effect on
wvhom wve will the function of it. It then be
inocent toes are hooves you to make your every
rust forgiveness move count in making U.S.C. a
1. If your toes dlecent school.
t . . .Certainly everyone has faults
...our society Is one which is
ound You set up) to tolerate faults. But
1(1 around you.-.-, faults that are careless, premedi
lize it, there is a tated, amlicious, or selfish ...
>u that is taking well, with our state of affairs
d your life. You now, we cannot afford to lend
is world wvhether very much toleration.
ot, and you had Where Faults Lie
'our mindl to like Certainly the faults do not lie
entirely with the student body;
nor do they inhabit just the ad
ministration, y a r i o u s campus
agencies or those OUTSIDE "In
terests." It is a culmination of
these factors acting in conjunc
tion and opposition with one an
INA other that is slowly unbinding the
Carolina community.
Now is indeed the time for
* *., some good men to come to the
as the eee aid of their future.
ritesre no Let us then examine the pa
**" mUl"S tient. What do you do with your
time, Mr. 'Student ? Besides attend
ciass'and study . .. which for the
[LILY MISHOE average student takes up only a
Gerald Floyd minor percentage of his 'weekly
Rtion Rutledge time??? Are you a good time Joe?
Anne Valley . . . a sidewalk squatter? . . . a
Carol Watson regular suds guzzler? . . . a con
EdSpears noisseur of roving females?...
Ed an under-the-table spirits dealer
..Bill Bates or even formulator? . . . or per
.Larry May haps a fixer of things other than
Glenna Bryant flat tires? . . . or even a child
sharles Bradley playing overlord????
Iharles Behling Hand. Slapped
Bill unne We shall have comment on
Bill unne these subjects and a few more In
mmy Truesdale this series. Perhaps we shall have
n, rta ato, our hands slapped for our obser
iily McCutchen, vations.
nly Sinclair. First things first. You charac
Peggy Withers, ters who oonstantly Inhabit the
benches (and not the court kind)
s, Anthony E. take a Jook at yourselves. What
have you contributed to the social
Ray Woolfe. and cultural advancement of this
school? Well, hooray for you, so
Jooper, Harriet you have calluses on your poe
Now that you put it that
Anthony E. Brown
O.S. Pre
And Daily
In 1866, 0. S. Prey had been
appointed dean of men of his col
lege in Charleston, but he re
signed shortly after, explaining
that he felt he was too old to
cope efficiently with the prob
lems of administration of a mod
ern school.
He then returned to teaching
his language course, one of the
most interesting subjects offered
at the college. The title of the
course was "I Want A Bird,"
with a text artfully written by
Prey himself.
Prey In Class
Prey would enter his classroom
each day with a formal greeting
and he would pass around clip
pings of his latest works that
had appeared in newspapers and
magazines. Then he taught his
students to recognize and know
the names of many of the world's
birds.
He would give them a brief de
scription of a particular species
and his students would write
down the name of the bird he had
described.
For example, Prey would say:
"I want a bird that is a resonant,
evanescent rush of cochineal," to
rolina's Spii
There is nothing a society
needs less than a herd of callused
rumps. How about you getting up
off of them and putting some
honest effort into making thi's
school a little better. Join service
organizations, take part in your
government, put forth a few orig
inal ideas to your friends, express
yourself in constructive criticism.
Any bull can stand idly by
staring and bellowing at the pass
ing cows. Wake up and put that
"bull" to work plowing up some
constructive thought.
Campus Organizations
While we are on the subject of
taking part in campus organiza
tions, let us look a little closer
at these organizations themselves.
What has happened to the vigor
ous organizations? To an outside
observer Carolina organizations
range from zombies to frightened
rabbits.
Everyone seems to be afraid of
one of two big, bad wolves: prog
ress and censureship. Is no one
willing to prove that neither
represents an insurmountable
Ellis Boatmon . ..
Wa dial
On the ground floor of Russell
House, obscured -by bulletin
boards, coat racks, and book
shelves, rests a glaes-case in
which lie a football jersey, a pair
of shoes, and a picture. What is
the story behind it? Who was
Steve Wadlak?
Few heroes of the University
of South Carolina have conme
from the student body--few were
at one time one of us. However,
Steve Wadiak was such a per
son. He Is considered by many to
be one of the finest athletes ever
to play the game of football, and
was a familiar sight to Gamecock
fan. who came to look at his
number thirty-seven as the very
emblem of the team. -
Steve Wadiak played left-half
back and completed the 1951 sea
son for Carolina. He was to grad.
uate come June, 1952. Steve had
distinguished himself by constant
mention on numerous All-Ameri
can 1ots, he played on seveal
way, Simms, I guess you should have
y - English Pr
Newspaper
which his students would reply: hi
"Hummingbird." 1f
Poe's Friend pf
If the reader will recall, 0. S. tt
Prey was a close friend of Edgar
Allan Poe. Nothing delighted 0
Prey more in his classroom dis- m
cussions than to spend the whole G
period talking of the genius of
Poe. ot
Prey even taught a course on
Poe's "Poetic Principles," but he a
gave it up because it consumed w
too much time. a
Prey was a familiar figure on h
the college campus, 'and when he b
retired from the teaching profes
sion in 1872, his colleagues
placed a hand-carved bust of
Prey in the student union build
ing with the .inscription: "Forget
him not: his fate and fame shall
be an echo and a light unto
eternity."
Prey's Retirement
In the years between 0. S.
Prey's retirement and his death
in 1898, he wrote some of his
most memorable works. He re
turned to his home on the Glynn
marshes in 1872 and began to
record his memoirs in a manu
script book in longhand.
Unfortunately, this invaluable
I .i
ofit?a
threat? Of course, as in all stag
nant pools there are whirling
eddies of life . . . some still
strong. The question is how long?
Yes, the lives of campus or
ganizations are well regulated ...
with choking precision!!! Indi
vidualism is being choked off
from higher headquarters and
f r o m "lowver" headquarters.
"Treat them as naughty children
and they wvill stay in line," is the
cry. Yes, in many instances they
are children - blind, stumbling
children.
A Learning Institution
But Carolina is.a learning in- r
stitution and children must have
their blocks in order to build for
a higher education. The dividing
line for taking away the block t
is one of endless controversy. Let
us .hope . . .yea, demand that it<
be done with a true, human'istic
interest-that of the product of t
this school, the student.
So much for the beginning.
Those are the headlines. We'll be
back witih the details in the fol
lowing issues.
r's Strange I
All-South teams, and was cap
tain of the AP All-South Team ,
his senior year.
All-Time Record
Wadiak holds the all-time Uni
versity rushing record of 2,878
yards, also having gained more
yards in any one season-988.
He holds the Carolina record for
scoring, having accounted for 150
points during his gridiron career.
Two other distinctions that are
Steve's alone are: largest num
her of yards gained by rushing
in any one game-256 against
Clemson in 1950; and he made
the longest run from scrimmage
ever seen at Carolina-96 yards
against George Washington Uni
versity in 1950.
On March 9, 1952, Just north
east of Aiken, Steve Wadiak was
killed in a tragic automobile ac
cident. The Carolina Community
had lost one of its finest citiz.ens
and athletes. Steve, a native of
C'hincao Illinois, wna beloved by
M
passed History 11.
)fessor
oIumnist.
story was ruined in a flood in
100 and we have only a few
tges left extant. It is from
,ose few hundred lines, in Prey's
vn handwriting, that we find
uch of the true greatness of the
enius of Glynn.
He wrote satire, humor, patri
ic tracts, and recorded history,
id we found several short poems
hich had been printed in a liter
ry magazine. One of his more
amorous paragraphs is related
low.
"I bought several chickens
ast year, some of which were
white and some black. I unwit
bingly put them all into the
same pen and discovered to my
fismay that some of their
progeny were half black anil
half white. If I ever raise
,hickens again, I will certainly
have .the sense to build two
separate pens, an expensive but
seemingly necesasry proposi
tion."
Prey's W;
A glowing example of 0. S.
'rey's scintillating wit is seen
i the following. It was said
bout a college group to which
e had belonged while teaching
t the college.
"Everyone talks of things
they want; many want the
things that everyone else talks
about; a few plan the things
that everyone says they want,
but which no one is willing to
do anything about. All anyone
does is balk, which is good, I
suppose, when one wants to
exercise his lungs. Inflating
balloons would seem more re
wvarding to me."
Other Writings
Prey wrote other things, among
vhich Included a regular column
n the daily newspaper. Once,
vhen he criticized a theater re
'iewer harshly, the reviewer gave
p writing and became a religious
tolitician.
He even ran for president, but
ince he was in jail at election
ime, he polled very few votes.
The life of 0. S. Prey is rapidly
oming to a close, and next week
vre will relate the singular and
ragic manner in which he died.
1e will, however, continue our
:earch to dredge up from the
nire of untold history the lives
mnd works of other great non
mntities.
.egacy
ill who ever saw him play, and
warmly remembered as a great
guy by all his friends and claes
natee.
Ihurled Memorial'
The class of 1952 has placed
t memorial In his behalf in Run
tell House. And although it has
een buried from easy-sight, and
albhough a certain element of dis
grace has been brought upon the
rnemo'ial by so carelessly push
ing it aside to make way for
things of less importance, this
tribute to Steve Wadiak reminds
us5 again of the legacy he left us.
it Is, in a way, a strange legacy.
Not only does the memorial
preserve the jersey, the shoes,
and the likeness of one Steve
Wadilak; it at the same time
warns us that death plays no
favorites, and that Steve's quali
ties of fine sportsmanship and
clean play are goals to be sought
Wes Scott . .
ISee
Carolina
In Fifty Ways
I see Carolina in fifty ways:
political futures being widely dis
cussed in local beer halls . . .
Pudge in the "Sprite" ... Kappa
Sigma escor"ing orphans to ball
game - a commendable gesture
from Frat Row ... Four magna
cum laudees . . . Ollie Porter, Pi
KA's new exec.
Sin Vs Fun
After coed's report on Eugene
O'Neil, a student in elads states,
"She thinks sin is all right ;f it's
fun" . . . garnet and black as uni
versity colors;. band uniforms as
Wofford's colors . . . Hey*ard
Hornsby, new head man of IFC
. . . the rather embarrassing de
lay In selecting a new university
chief executive . . . EHnor Page,
one of KD's loveliest new mem
bers.
SPE Leeds
The lead held by SPE in cage
intramurals . . . Mrs. Irene Elli
ott and her "bird's eye view" and
delighted quotes . . . Dr. Fellers
and Dr. Flinseh making their
drama debuts in Town 'Pheatre
... heavy number of absences
among student council members
... best single scoring output by
USC cagir this se4son: frosh
Art Whisnant and 38 points
against P.J.C.
Valuable Member
Dr. Ochs, a valuable member
of both the academic and extra
curricular program . . . Larry
and Sandra . . . history prof
reads Ten Commandments to
class; as data is not in textbook,
student asks, "Will we be held
responsible for those?" . . . long,
black umbrella-a necessity for
the collegiate look . . . Sigma
Nu's admirable collection of
political hopefuls.
Difficulty In RH
The difficulty of a certain
member of the RH staff had
when he tried-to "throw out" a
husky football player for having
his feet on the furniture . . . the
large number of pseudo-intellect
uals in the Carolina Community
... fifty freedom refugees from
Hungary as guests of the univer
sity . . . Anna Reeder, charming
heroine of "The Velvet Glove".. .
comment from delegate to the re
cent pill convention: "You people
got a nice lay-out here."
IBrighat Hopeful
Paul Masem, one of Carolina's
b)rightest track hopefuls . .. "The
Men Who Came To Dinner" com
ing to Drayton HIall ... MEE ...
the sensation at Tenement 21
caused by their next-door neigh
bors-visiting female basketball
teams . . . the hope that Spring
elections will bring more than a
change of faces.
Fred Day
Fred Day, admired and missed
by all . . . Billy Mishoe's sensible
editorial on Slater's folly...
"Night Owl"-WUSC's late-time
listening . . . Delta Sigma Pi,
business-men busy with business
--.the amazing way some stu
dents act when given a little
authority.
Un-Southern
The un-Southernlike-way some
of the sons and daughters of "old
Southern families" act . .. 4 wins
and 19 losses . .. Greek Week-4n
honor of less than thirty per cent
of the student body .. . Mike Cal
lahan, one of the few bright hopes
in next year's cage season .
the fine collection of frosh foot
ball talent for 1959.
Be Prepared
Alpha Phi Omega--"Be Pre
pared" extended . . . Lambda Chi
Alpha's Crescent Girl, Sandra
Callahan, lovely as "our best
dressed" coed . . . the need to have
Russell House rules posted so all
can see them . . '. the commend.
able job done by the USC swim
ming team.
ZTA President
June MoCauley, new president
of Zeta Tau Alpha . . . Frat9
Row's trouble with broken win
dows . . . a certain student, in
need of excused absences, having
a grandmother who has died four
times in eight months . . . Snow
in March, so sttudent cheeks Bible
to see if that is not sign for end
of the wvorld . . . the big question:
will J. L. be our next student
body pnesdent