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Russians Fear Poverty Says I' SuOd Visiting USC Student On Honor System (See Page 3) (See Page 5) UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA VOL 4 No. 3 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 2, 1959 Founded 1908 Student ( ( Adopts Ni An innovation to speed thq progress of business has beei adopted by the Student Coun cil. A legislative steering com mittee has been organized which will meet on the secon< and fourth Mondays of eacl month when the Council or dinarily is not in session. According to student bodi president Jim Leventis, th< new committee will be com posed of a voting chairmai appointed by the chair, an< six members elected fron council. The special committee wil meet to accept main motions resolutions, and mandates These items, plus any report; Students T4 Candidates Freshman class officers, hom< representatives to the Student C students Monday, October 19, accol president. All nominations must be mad, by petition or by convention. Al persons wishing to nominate peo pie for these offices or titles mus meet in Russell House Auditoriun on Monday, October 12, at 4 p.m Nominations will be made - fron the floor. A person may be nominated b, petition also. He or she must hav at least 25 signatures from class mates. The petition must be turne< in at the Information Desk o Russell House by 11 p.m. 01 Wednesday, October 14. Students are urged to partici pate in these campus elections "i Hunt says. The entire student body is elig ible to vote for homecoming queen Members of the freshman clas vote for freshman officers an< the Student Council representa tives. Run-offs, in case of ties o! lack of majorities, are schedule< for Wednesday, October 21. University Buys Land, Will Expand The University has recentl. purchased the remaining portioi of the block bordered by Greer Main, Devine, and Sumter streets Dean Patterson, Dean of Admin is,tration said Wednesday. The remaining third of the bloc1 on which the School of Engineer ~. ing, the Field House, and th Band Office are located was pur ohased by USC during the sum~ mer. Costing $150,000 the land wil be made available to the Univer Ssity by November 1. Building wi begin sometime next year for exi pansioni of the engineering an science departments. Deani Patterson also said tha the buildings nowv on the land wil be wrecked by the individua owners. Manigault Funeral Home the Shadows, and Hobart Sales are located on the purehased land Some wrecking has already begun Instructor's Son Dies On Campus; Neck Brokeni Michael L. Register, son of Ma. rine Corps NROTC instructor ai Carolina, Sgt.'Robert Warren Reg ister, died early yesterday morn - ing on the Carolina campus. The 14-year-old youth was dis covered about 7 a.m. lying be. tween the South Caroliniana Li. brary and the brick wall bordering Sumter Street. He was found by ~ma id, Ora Lee Golden. A tenth grade pupil at A. C Flora High School, the Columbir youth was taken to Dunbar Fu. neral Home for examination to de termine the cause of death. Coroner Cecil Wiles, who Ia awaiting an autopsy report, hat Schedule For Rush Continues Chi Psi, Sigma Nu, and Kapp 3igma oftf-campus rush partie will be held Saturday night b sause of cancellation last Tuesda lue to the weather. The rest of the rush schedu will continue as planned. Sta invitational smokers in the fri ternity houses will be held Moi lay, October 5, from 6 p.m. D p.m. Silent period goes into effe immediately following the sta imoker and continues until pledi ing. During this period any rush( seen in the company of a fr ternity man will be disqualifie rrom fall rush. Bids will be given out in tl Russell House Auditorium at p.m. Tuesday, October 6. Pledgir will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday, 0 tober 7. All I.F.C. members are r minded to be at Russell House 6 p,m., Tuesday, October 6, wi1 bids filled out. Cheerleaders To Hold Rally And Tryouts A pep rally has been schedulb !or 7 o'clock tonight behind tI Undergraduate Library, Bill Jone iead cheerleader has announced. This week's rally will include 3arade through the campus ar will continue toward downtown C umbia. Jones also announced that fres rnen cheerleader tryouts will 1 ield Monday, October 5, at 4 -p.r n the Field' House. All interest< rreshmen, male and female, are I rited to participate at tY's time. "Due to unforseen difficultie ast week's rally had to be ca: !elled," Jones. added. Comnu Books By BILL EDWARDS Staff Writer Familiar to television, movi ;heater and night club audience lose Greco has been accorded ,umult of welcome such as nake ballet and theatrical histor Greco, who appears here Warch, holds the distinction of b ng the first artist to have ev een booked into the Empire Roo f the Waldorf Astoria for twvo e ragements within a six-month p riod. In addition, Greco and his trouj hiave appeared at the Sahara Hot in Las Vegas, the Hollywood Bo, and the Statler Hotel in L, Angeles. He has been seen on I Bullivan's "Toast of the Town 'Omnibus, "Dinah Shore Shov nd recently was seen by mov oers in Mike Todd's "Around tI World" and "Holiday for Lovers ARTIST SERIES performters f baritone 'Thomas L. Thomas, , PhIlharmonla Hungarica, cond 15, (top icenteu)h Jo.. Grec Secon 0 Beg in y .Education J g Offers Ess A competition is being sponsored :t by the Albert Schweitzer Educa g tion Foundation for the best es says on the general topic, "The !e Challenge of Albert Schweitzer." I- The competition is open to col 4 lege faculty, graduate students, and college students, among ke others. 8 For college faculty the essays 1g must be from 8,000 to 10,000 e- words, the award for the best will be $500; for graduate students e- the essays must be from 6,000 to tt 8,000 words,-the award being $400; h for college students the essays Department Holds Exams October 12 d Foreign language examinations for graduate students will be given on Monday, October 12, ac cording to W. H. Callcott, Dean a of the Graduate School. d Graduate students applying for M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, as well as for certain professional de grees, are required to take these y examinations (luring the first se a. mester of their residence work or d to make special arrangements with . the Graduate Office. Students wishing to take the ex s, aminations should apply promptly i- to Professor R. M. Stephan of the foreign language department. tittee Sti Tale te After the Spanish dancer's first professionaul a)pearance, he was e, told by the great dancer, Escu s, dero, "If I had been able to dance a like that when I was your age, I o should now be the marvel of the y. world." Escudero wias proved right. in The second attraction of the cur e- rent artist series, the Westminster er Choir, has recently completed a mn tour in wvhich t concertized in 22 ri- countries, covered 410,000 miles and e- appeared before 227,000 p)eop)le in 146 concerts. eNative Southerner el Harold Hedgpeth, director of vI the choir, native southerner, wvas >s born in Fayetteville, North Caro d lina. He was a member of the ," famed 28th Infantry D)ivision in r"' the Battle of the Bulge. ie Founded more than 37 years ago te by Dr. John Finley Williamson, "the choir is composed of studenQfts r 1959-60 Include (left), popular hso is to appear Novenuber 18; the meted by Zokaun Rosianyal, October i. (riakht hI=hly rated Sp.an.s. 4ounci ev Plan ) will be presented to the Stu i dent Council by the commit - tee. They will also submit to Council their agenda. This I agenda includes any proposed 1 action, the originator of any - action, and the discussion re garding the action. I If a proposal gets a 30-per a cent vote of the committee, it - will be presented as a minor 1 ity report. Action not on the I agenda may be presented by a i majority vote of the commit tee to suspend the rules tem I porarily. Records of the com , mittee will be submitted by a . chair-appointed secretary on 3 the committee. ) Nominate For Offices Dcoming queen, and three freshman cuncil will be elected by University ding to Bobby Hunt, sophomore class Departments i Add Three To Faculty The Psychology and Philosophy a Departments have gained three - new faculty members this fall. Dr. I Guido (Gus) Borasio is the new f psychology professor. Dr. Allen i Field and Mr. Paul Collins are new in the Philosophy Depart ment. S t u d e n t graduate assistants who will aid these departments are Glenn Ayres, Manning Hiers, Terry Miller, Robert Ryan, and a Ben Miller Meares, undergrad j uate lab assistant. Mrs. Betty - Crapse, formerly a secretary in the Housing Department, is the r new full-time secretary for the philosophy and psychology de partments. Dr. Erland Nelson, Dr. K. M. Walsh, and part-time faculty mem bers Dr. Boris Gertz and Dr. Mal coln Gynther, of the South Caro lina State Hospital, attended the annual American Psychology Asso ciation Convention which was held in Cincinnati, Ohio, in September. Women Deans Meet Here A On Saturday e The fall meeting of the South -Carolina Association of Women -Deans and Counselors will be held Saturday, October 3, at USC. S Registration and a coffee hour -will be held beginning at 9:30 -a.m. in Wade Hampton College, the university's newest women's residence hall. President Robert L. Sunmwalt wi'll greet the mem t hers of the association, and Mrs. 1Sumwalt will, pour during the I coffee hour. The program includes a panel a discussion, "What Is a Good High -School; What Is a Good College -or University?" Mrs. Ben Wood I:u ff wvill be the panel modenator, and members will be Mrs. J. K. Blunm, Mrs. William A. Foran, Miss Anne Foster, Miss Carol Joy, Dr. J. M. Lesesne, Irving G. Mc Nayr, and Miss Donna Sue Pe ters. Section meetings will be held, .andl after luncheon a business - meeting will take place. The association is made up of persons with counseling responsi bilities for young women In South Carolina high schools and colleges. Officers of the association are Miss C,race Sease, assistant prin cipatl of A. C. Flora High School here, president; Dean Elizabeth Clotwvorthy of the University of South Carolina, vice president; and Miss Anne Olements, connse lor at A. C. Flora High School, Id r1 s wit] Foundation ry Prizes must he from 4,000 to 6,000 words, with an award of $300 for the best. Registrations stating name, ad dress, and classification must reach the Foundation by midnight Nov. 10, 1959. The final deadline for completed essays is midnight Dec. 10, 1959. An international committee of Schweitzer scholars will judge the essays. They will give clarity and accuracy in presenting ideas morE consideration than literary style. A list of Dr. Schweitzer's major works translated into English may be obtained by request from tht Foundation at 55 E. Washingtor St., Chicago 2, Ill. Contestants need not agree witi Dr. Schweitzer's ideas, however all interpretations should reflect a clear understanding of his writ 11gs. Union folds Yearly Bridge Tournament The annual Student Union Bridge Tournament will be helt again this year. The members 0: the Union would like to know il there is a large interest in dupli cate bridge. Any student wishing to play in a (luplicate tournameni is requested to go by Russell Hous( Information desk and sign up. esses X .d Perf( of Westminster Choir College Prineeton, New Jersey. Harine Appears Thomas .. Thomas (the middl initial stands for l,lyfnwy, and the popular baritone explains by say ing "It's an old and typical Welsi name and 1 challenge you to pro. nounce it!), has been known t4 audliences primiarily through "The Voice of Firestone." Tlhomas is known for his widt knowledge and flexible choice of songs andl in reviewing one of his concerts, a P~hi ladelphia critic re marked, ".\Mr. Thomas sings with disarming simplicity. He is not only a singer, he is an artist. V'oca studIents could learn volumes fron: (one of his recitals."' Thomas declares the matin test of a repertoire is not wvhether a song is "classical or popular, but ih it good( ? " One featutre often in. flamenco dancer, On March 2 Choir which is schedurled for a act lit to he auinn..4~ at a la ists LiOrcl Dean Tomlin Gives Rules - On Absences George W. Tomlin, dean of men, has requested that all campus organizations turn in a list of officers to his office by Monday or Tuesday. Male students are reminded that all excuses from classes for anything other than author ized representation of the Uni versity cannot be issued with out a written statement from a doctor, parents, or student's wife, if married. Also, excuses can be issued not more than three days after the student's last absence. Cockpit Room Allows Games And Dancing The Co(ckpit Room now has chess, checkers and cards for any one who wishes to use them. Stu dents may check out these games either at the Russell House infor mation desk or in the Cockpit Room by presenting their ID cards. If anyone has suggestions for any other games, please notify the information desk. Dancing will be permitted next week when the juke box is moved 1n. ariety, )rmers cluded and always welcomed in a 'homas concert is folk music from his native Wales, for which he is internationally famous through his Irorings. Orchestra'% Founder The conductor of the famed Phil harmonia Hungarica, Z o 1 t a n Rozsnyai, was barely ten years old when he mlade his first public ap pearance in Budapest as the soloist in a Mozart piano concert. The tragic events in November, 1 956i forced the conductor to leave his nat ive country. Shortly after his escape) from Ilu nga ry. Mr. Rozsnyai startedl planning the es ablishmnent of the Philharmonia l1 ungarica."' With such a broad variety of programming, the 1 959-60 Artists' Series offers something for each studlent and S.R.O. is exp)ected at each performance. N, and (below) the Westminter. February 18 perfor-mance. A fifth series lestra Various Programs Featured A five program Artists Series will be presented at the Univer sity during 1959-60, with the Phil *harmonia Hungarica, 80-piece symphony orchestra, opening the series Ocotber 15. The Artists Series is in its second year, the first season hav ing met with enthusiastic response from students, faculty, and the public. Buzz Hoagland, chairman of the committee conducting the series, said the programs have ,been planned to please a variety ,of entertainment tastes. Orchestra The Philharmonia Hungarica, the Hungarian orchestra from Vienna and composed of widely known refugee musicians, will be conducted by its founder and first conductor, Zoltan Rozsnyai. On November 18, baritone Thomas L. Thomas, one of the nation's most gifted and popular singing stars, will be heard in a concert. Although he is perhaps best known for broadcasts on such programs as the Voice of Fire stone, Thomas is also a recording favorite and a distinguished guest soloist with the New York Phil harmonic, and the NBC, Indian apolis, and Detroit symphonies. Westminster Choir The Westminster Choir of 40 voices will be heard in concert on February 18. The choir has pre sented concerts throughout the United States and in many other nations, and is probably the best known musical organization of its kind in the world. It is the touring concert unit of the Westminster Choir College, Princton, N. J. The concert, di rected by Harold Hedgpeth, will comprise works by Palestrina, Bach, Handel, Grieg, Byrd, Vi valdi, Randall Thompson, and others. Jose Greco Jose Greco-who has been called "the foremost living exponent of Spanish dance forms"--and his troupe will appear March 29 in a program of exciting and colorful p)resentations. Greco is a master of the techniques of the tradition-al Flamenoo dances. Greco and company invariably bring cheers of delight from their audliences. This is grace, vigor, and rhythm at its foot-stomping and eastonet-clicking best. A fifth program will be defi nitely announced at a later date. Hoagland said, "We have been negotiating with the Kingston Trio, a popular ballad singing group, for an appearance in mid A pril. Although we do not have a contract with them yet, their booking agent assured me this week that we are v'ery likely to be able to obtain them." The proposed date for this ap) pearance will be April 19. Free Admittance A rtists Series presentations are held in the Field House on campus. University students are admitted free upon presentation of identi.fi cation cards, and a reserved sec tion is set aside for the public. Season tickets may be obtained from the Director of Student Ac tivities at the University at $8.80 including tax. Other members of the Artists Series Coimnittee are Skippy Can ady, Barbara Kohn, Sandy Uasery, Penny Hetherington, Bryan Murw phy, Eddie Roberts, Bland Roper, Dave Bledeoe, Don Cappell, Ken Woods, and Harvey Yaanhik.