Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Exanmation Sched Final examInations are fast approaching, and I'm sure most of us have seen the exam schedule; probably, however, not too many are satisfied with it. How did those in charge ever conceive of the schedule which they have released? Many of us registered at the beginning of the semester with the intention of getting our classes spaced as consecutively as pos sible, and usually this has worked out so that our examination would be equally dis persed throughout the examination period. This semester, however, the schedule has been arranged, as all of us know, so that all .ight o'clock class examinations occur on the first day, followed by nine o'clock class examinations the next day, examinations for all 10 o'clock classes the following day, and so on. Unfortunately, with examinations sched uled In this manner, all of us who have classes consecutively must take examina tions consecutively, and in this way many students have all of their examinations within a period of about three days. The administration-or whoever organ ized the schedule-should have realized that this places the student at a psychological disadvantage. Having to face one examina tion after another in such rapid succession is bound to make many ill-at-ease and thus prevent them from doing their best in each individual course. Some may say that no one should wait until the last few days and hope to cram Russ Burns . . The Old Regin Housing Has. In the early days of February, ventiveness, an smug headlines within this paper The Housing Of announced another in the long sought revenge a line of Housing Office "atroci- statements like: ties" which have pushed this "We can not office to the very brink of falling tolerate this va into public disdain. telephones will no Telephones had been ripped any of these bu from the walls of certain dorms can find the indi by some of Carolina's children in responsible for order to satisfy idle curiosity, in- phones out. . . . LETTER TO THE EDITOR Last Week's Arrivi Killed This Weel Dear Sir: out the fact tha Last week, in the "Seen, Heard, need to supervise and Spoken On Campus" column, trifle more close you made reference to the new place, these child Spring arrivals over at Fresh- iness playing ai man Center (East UTniversity dormitory. Terrace): Five kittens. Maybe someon Four of those five kittens are kids that age ( now dead, thrown against a brick aren't responsibl wall by the children of some of tions, and I will the veterans living in University "BULL!t" Terrace Apartments. And it may b4 Nothing can be done to give say that I'm an life to these innocent animals, I love animals, but perhaps this letter will point WilHi CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROL Member of Associated Collegiate Pres Founded January 80, 1908, with Robeat E111ott Ce. first editor, "The Gaecock" Is published ad for the the University of South Carolina weekly, eun ya, darin year except on isolidays and during msndnations. The epinlons expressed by columnists ad letter wri acussarily those of ''The Gamecook." "The Gsageesh Letters to the Editor, but all letters at be igned. Pe not eestitute an endorsement. The right to edit er u i.bleaties ay letter is reserved. EDITOR ...................................I MANAGING EDITOR .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... BUSINESS MANAGER. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . ... ... ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR. .. .. .. .. .. .. COPY EDITOR. .. .. . .... .. . ... .. .. .. ... . .. .. ADVERTISING MANAGER ................... NEWS.EDITOR ............................. FEATURE EDITOR ......................... SOCIETY EDITOR ......................... SPORTS EDITOR ...........................C1 CAMPUS EDITOR ..........................0 CIECULATION MANAGER ..................i OHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER .................... REPORTERS: David Caldwell, Karen McKlbben Carlee McClendon, Martha Gaston, Carol Williams< kin, Emily McCutchen, Charlotte Gower, Kelli Gr drews, Penny Sinclair, Bill 'Stewart, Margaret Se BUSINESS STAFF: Tom Rose, Bobby William., P Guy Sorrell. COLUMNISTS: Carl M. Reynolds, Russ Burn. Brown, Ellis Boatmon, Bill Handel. PHOTOGRAPHERS: 6Bam F4orini, P.ter Allen, Martha Jo AMien. CARTOONISTh: Bob Waldrep, Lisa Lowenstein, 7YPISTS: Martha Shuler, Sally Lewis, Bunny C< fob. Wte Too Condensed for exams; I agree wholeheartedly. Bui even If a student does not have to cram, h< should be given enough time to calm dowr after one exam before facing another. Maybe some of you feel that it is silly tx complain about the exam schedule. Mayb( some of you will be glad to take them ani get everything finished. But I feel sure thai many of you-most of you-would rathei be given more time, and feel that with mor4 time, you would have a better opportunit3 to end up the semester with better gradei on your courses. Supposedly, this new system was devise because of discontent with the exam sched. ule which has been in use during pasi semesters. I for one feel that the schedulk has been very well-organized every semestei since I have been at Carolina. Never 1iv the students been so rushed through finah as they are bound to be this semester. Unfortunately, it is too late now to devis( a more suitable schedule for this semester but maybe next semester someone wil] devise some system which will be suitablk to more of the student body. In conclusion, we would like to say thai the attempt to set up a better schedule thih semester is appreciated because we knom that someone had the student in mind, bul we realize that unless we as students ex. press our feelings, there is no way in whicl anyone can tell whether or not the schedulk is satisfactory. ie Overthrown: sIe Has Hope d pocketbooks. And thus the situation was rice immediately settled . . . in the mind of the s exemplified by Housing Office. and will not Isolated Dictatorship ndalism. These The phones stayed out, the >t be replaced in children played on, and the Of idings until we fice continued its policy of iso viduals who are lated dictatorship. Not one effort ripping these was made to reconcile the trou ble with the students. In short, the Housing Office hated the * * *student; the student hated the Is Housing Office. 3 SA wise man once said, "Treat a person like a child and he will behave like a child. Treat him ,t these parents like an adult and he will begin their children a to take on responsibility." ly. In the first The old regime Housing Of ren have no bus- f ice tried the former treatment ~oun thegina and got childish responses. The e will say that old regime has been overthrown. m.round 4 or 5) What can the future hold in e for their ac- store? say in return, Hopefully, we foresee a change that some will of heart. oddball. Housing Efforts L M. Kitching Word was passed down that the disconnected telephones would be replaced through the efforts of Housing. Already this decree has been formulated into action. New telephones now adorn the walls of previously "quiet" [NA dorms. But this replacement is only aes sa physical offering; is there any thing being done to better 1a Housing-student relations? Housing Director Joe Barnes asemaexpressed the wish for coordina tion with the Student Council LILY MISHOE the pulse of Carolina. He haa Gerald Floyd offered to listen to the student's Rion Rutledge housing problem rather than con . Anne Valley tinually gripe of Housing's own Carol Watson problems as was done in the past. Hlousing-Student Understanding . Ed Spar With this better Housing . . Bill Bates student understanding being .. .Larry May promoted by Mr. Barnes, a great lenna Bryant opportunity for building a better taries Bradley Carolina is seen. Now the thing tarles Behling left is for the students to res amy Truesdale pond with their approval and ap preoiation in hopes that this line .. .Bill Dunne of thinking may be continued. Sara Krebs, Give your support of Housing's rn Bil LumJ favorable programs. Voice your tt. opln.ions at "harmful" decrees. eggy Withers, Keep your eyes open for the mali cious children who tamper widhi ,Anthony E. telephones. Do your share of carrying the Ray Woofe responsibility of keeping Caro lina decent and maybe this school Jack Morris. can regain some of the harmony loper, Harriet stupidly squandered by the old I know he's lazy, but you've Ellis Boatmon . "The Trag Poplarville is a small, sleepy Mississippi town of some 2,500 souls. It was once a backward th rural section, but returns from ag timber, cattle, and tung oil have in brought prosperity to Poplar- In ville, which lies about 100 miles J. south of Jackson, the state capi- 16 tal. th Nothing of any excitement ever 01 happened in Poplarville. Its most colorful citizen is now de- by ceased. Theodore G. Bilbo, Mis- hi sissippi's strongest voice for te white supremacy for many years be in the U. 'S. Senate, called Pop- Pi larville his 'home and ds buried ol just south of the town at Juniper in Grove. Ri The town is composed of sev eral "main" streets, is the site wV of the fast-growing Pearl River M Junior College, has numerous cr places of business, countless m churches, a small hospital, the dc county courthouse, and a jail. It P( was at this jail that something in at long last did happen in Poplar ville. On the evening of Saturday, m April 25, gun-wielding terrorists 3' -faces masked and hands gloved, ad stormed the unguarded jail at ni the county-seat of Pearl River, th forcibly abducted a Negro pri- ou soner from the jail, threw him ti< -in a waiting automobile and dis- ju appeared into the dark and wooded hills of southern Missis- vi sippi. gi The prisoner was Mack Charles re Parker, age 23, a truck driver cu in Poplarville. He 'had been hE charged with criminally assault- di ing a white woman at nearby hi Petal, Miss. th His trial was to begin on Mon day, and with the weight of to evidence heavy against thim, he p1 would doubtless have been found ca guilty, and possibly sentenced to of death at the state's gas chamber w in Jackson. mn .Article's Purpose st It is not the purpose of this th article to discuss the nature of 0) 'his crime. Nor is it our desire le; to speculate whether Parker was guilty or innocent. That would have been decided if he had ever p1 been permitted to stand trial, However, despite the 'fact that ta he was a citizen of the United si States, the was not given the op- is portunity to lay claim ito this ci privilege, for he has doubtless sa been the victim of a 'lynching a mob; the fourth such incident in Mississippi since 1955. The attackers numbered pos- fr sibly 15 or 20 men. Whether they 4g were from Poplarville, Missis- w sippi, or nearby 'Louisiana is un- ot known. They had no trouble en- lc tering the county jail, as it was w not being guarded by 'Sheriff W- vi 0. Moody or any of his deputies. e "I D)idn't Do It" They crowded into Parker's M cell hitting him with a gun,B sticks, and finally with a garbage can. Shouts of "Why did you do it?" filled the air, as Parker feebly replied, "I didn't do it." But the reply was lost amid the rc shouts of the mob, and they tr proceeded to drag the prisonerm from his cell. p1 Fellowr prisoners related theb attackers dragged Parker down. the jaili steps by the heels, his head bumping from steel tread tl to steel tread of the stairs. The ~ last seen of him was the bloody W 'handprint he left in a vain at- a tempt to grasp at the doorstep. h4 It was in the predawn hours of " the 'Sabbath day when the Negro t was thrown into an automobile g" and then swallowed up In the 0 thickness of a swampy Missis sippi scene. His fate is already known to most people. His tI ohances of sarvival are non- Dl melatan+ ANOW 0 got to admit he's the best engi 3dy Of Pc Immediate Response The response was so immediate at most Southerners were left 'hast at the efficient manner which the Federal Bureau of vestigation works. For Chief Edgar Hoover dispatched over agents into the area, many of em coming from nearby New -leane. These F.B.I. men were joined a score of local deputies, state ?hway patrolmen, and volun 3rs, as the race against time gan in an effort to locate Lrker and his attackers-known ly to be somewhere "out there" the red clay hills of Pearl ver County. Governor J. P. Coleman, who 11 soon be leav;ing the Executive ansion, expressed horror at the ime, and assured the nation the )b would be prosecuted as mur rers. He added, "I never ex cted the day this would happen Mississippi again." Kidnapping Criticism Representative William Col )r and Circuit Judge Tom ady, both strong segregation vocates, criticized the kid pping in public statements, and e "Jackson Daily News," an tapoken supporter of segrega in, said such an act cannot be stified. Sheriff Moody, whose beha )ur in leaving the jail un arded 4s open to speculation, marked, "When the crime oc rred, feeling was high, but it ,d been very quiet lately, and I in't dream such a thing would ppen. You don't expect these ings any more." But "these things" do continue happen, and it causes all peo e who call themselves Ameri na, and followers of some code religious conduct, to stop and mnder if we are letting someone ske .hypocrites of us and brand as liars before a world that ill feels the United States is e oasis of freedom-, hope, and iristianity in a desert of god is, purpose-less communism. Apathetic Citizens As F.B.I. agents and State rtrolmen searched tihe streams, arshes and the muddy and ngled lowlands of south Mis ssippi and neighboring Louis na, they found many of the ;izens of Poplarville apathetic, ylng, "Parker got what was ming to him." T.he county-seat of Pearl River ade every effort to shy away om the International publicity had received, but Poplarville is finding out what so many her parts of our Republic are arning to 'be true: that the >rld has grown small, and that tal issues such as lynching fect all men everywhere. The news from Poplarville, iss. will be received in Bang k, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Moscow, irlin, Cairo, and Tehran in a atter of hours. "Iron Curtain" Doubtless the mob did not alize their crime would be anamitted by wire and word-of routh throughout the nation, and Lrticularly to the countries hind the "Iron curtain." Soviet Russia takes great de rht In using such Instances as e Poplarville tragedy as proof >stive that democracy will not ark and that many Americans 'e liars when they talk about v the Christian religion has ade them better men, and ught Vhem how to live with any an, regardless of race, creed, color. A Shrinking World One thing we must 'learn Is at no 'longer what we do In r 'gwn little hometown" con rna us and no ne els. Th VAJD<Fl neering student we've got. )plarville world-community is shrinking daily and the backyard of one nation touches that of another. Parker himself has been lost in the publicity of what has hap pened. He is an unfortunate victim, as have been many before 'him. The assault victim picked Parker out of a lineup and "said he looked like the man who as saulted 'her." Whether he was the perpetrator of one of man kind's most hidious crimes will forever be unknown. Whether an innocent man was torn to pieces because he was a Negro will likewise never be solved. Greater Part of Damage U. S. Attorney General Wil liani P. Rogers has conferred daily with President Eisenhower, and the chief executive has promised the full cooperation of the F.B.I. in an effort to track down the guilty. But the greater part of the damage has already been done. The world has heard of Pop larville despite efforts of the tung-oil community to remain in isolation. The free world has been forced to blush again and to apologize for the rashness of some 15 or 20 men; the Soviet bloc can swell their chests, for tyranny has scored a triumph. How serious are we going to take this business of being an American? How serious are we going to live in a nation "under God dedicated to a new precept of freedom?" Are we going to give every man his dleserved trial, and wvith some semblance of jus tice attached to it? Teachings of Christ Are we going to absorb some of those 2,000 years of the teach ings of Christ, and apply themi to our lives, or only on Sunday morning when wve grace the door of a church? Our answers to these questions are vital. It's a frantic battle of mind and words wve are waging with Soviet Russia. It's a battle for the loyalty and the soul of every man and woman in the world. Whether we win or not - and thus survive -- so often depends on "little things." The tragedy of Poplarville is actually more than the inhuman actions of a mob; it is more than the miscarriage of justice, and It is more than a bad blot on good race relations. The tragedy of Poplarville is a weakening in the chain that binds the nations of the free world together in a common cause dedicated to the principles of human dignity, individualism, democracy, and the teachings of' a simple Nazarene carpenter who came "that they might .have life and have it more abundantly." 1L S( Th.2 1 Anthony E. Brown Progress At Carolina Now Evident For the past several months there have been numerous ar ticles and columns written on the lack of spirit and industry among students at Carolina. Now, at the end of the regular academic year, we think it only fair to review the progress that has occurred and is occurring at the present time. Perhaps the most outstanding event of the past year was the universally publicized SEATO Conference, planned and present ed by the. University's Interna tional Relations Department. This successful meeting not only gave the IRC a high com mendation of merit, but it raised the University to international prominence In the field of world diplomacy and politics. Artists' Series Another event of importance has been the Artists Series in stituted last fall by our Student 1 Body President Fred LeClercq and others. The performances have been met with wide approval and would have been better onl'y if there were a more suitable at mosphere than the gymnasium for their presentation. At any rate attendance at these functions well justified the introduction of the series, and we look forward to another year of cultural influence with the performances planned for the fu tffre. Dramatic Arts It is with some pride that we view the rise in interest of the dramatic arts on the Carolina Campus. Attendance at the three plays presented by the Univer sity Players has been gratifying, and growth in the active member ship of the Players is at an all time high. It is hoped that in time this organization will reach a position of prominence on canipus, and that students who are interested in dramatic production, whether it be acting or stage crew work, will lend their talents to what is obviously the most well handled dramatic group in the local area. Space Age Last week the campus wit nessed a very well planned space age symposium led by military, industrial, and governmental ex perts in specific fields. The dis plays of rockets and machinery necessary for our defense was indeeCd inspiring. It is a definite part of our edu cation to become aware of the p)roblemls we face militarily and to see what we are doing to preserve wvorld peace. There have been many other deeds4 and events in the past year that have raised the p)ositioni f the University both academically and culturally, and of course there have been occurrences that were not so constructive. A Better Community It is our contention, however, that the good has vastly exceeded the not-so-good and that Carolina is a better community as a re suIt of the 1958-59 academic year. In the near future we will see the completion of our new library and women's dormitory. We hope to have more student freedoms which wvill be handled with ma turity by the citizens of the Caro lina Commnunity. With intelligence and fore sight, we, the students of the University of South Carolina, can raise the standards of social tol erance andl educational excellence which the South as a whole so badly needs. With a great deal of perserver anece and hard work, we can erase the ignominious platitudes of critics such as H. L. Mencken. skinny du.:... .he fial.