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Car Owne The University's total enroll increased six and one half pen year, is expected to reach out portions by 1975. The school has bought land of Blossom Street, has its eye eels of property, but what the only so far afield in this progra forced to stop. Being in the ( capital city, there is little roo slon. While plans are in the offi ence and engineering building, i partment, a new English builb certainly an auditorium, is a serious consideration to the i lem? There is the constant cry f( room to expand. After reachinj pus-like directions, the archite planning upward, turning it int er university. Eighty percent of the stude lumbia depend on cars for trar and from the school. A large 1 the campus residents bring thei to the University and need a park them. Students commuting to the expect to park at the door of ez in for fifty minutes and then m next, neither should they be f< on the 'outer rim'-Five Poin takes longer to walk to class ti drive from home to the parking What of the out-of-town s bring their cars to school, pai then drive around the block Anthony E. Brown Decentraliz( F OR the past several years the University of South Caro lina has slowly been moving into the outlying areas of the state. This expansion has been led by the extension division which eemsI to be trying to outfit every village in the state with "x tension D i visions" of the University. In some cases of extreme iso ition, such as Myrtle Beach and lieaifort, the end may be some what justified. In others, how ever, the situation seems to bor der on the ridiculous. At Florence, for instance, a town just seventy miles from Columbia, not only has an ex tension been established, but the knowledge-thirsty citizens of Ihat hatcultural desert have collected an enormous sum of money for the erection of a full-fledged university. This will doubtless be 1.ned The University of South Carolina, Junior! or The Flor enIIee Institute of Technology ( FlIT). A I' Lancaster, a burg not 60 miles from the univeristy, aniother such expedition has been venItuired. However, it has not yet reached the proportions of the Florentine proposition andl proh :ably never wvill. Trhe last strawv is the proposal to put1 still another of these off shoots in .Jonesville, a towvn 50 miles from Lancaster, 20 miles from Spartanburg, and less than t he sum of these (distances from Columbia. Tlhere are colleges or' universities in these latter as well as in ne'arby Rock Hlill, Green villeI, arid Clinton. The hquest,ion to be posed here inot one of geographical space. nor is it. a matter of denying thesie comn iities centers of D)ave Bledsoe . .. Scrambled Ec Eggshell Of A ldous Huaxley has written a horror story that every college stuident will sooner or later read. In his "Brave New World," hap piness becomes the greatest evil an rd the uxltrastabil ized society is the monster. Many lectuire hours are con sumnedl in sage comparisons of to day's society with that of Hux ley's, andl students mutter: after all, everyone b)elongs to everyone else" to their dates. Is our so ciety becoing a hellish nirvana? From a dlistace, an average commutnity has a more homogen eouis look than its predecessors. However, the same progress that c reatedl the hnnigenity also created a number of diversions. There are evyen intellectual pur suits for those so minded. Incompaiblihty T rue conformity is incompati ble with prosperity. The burden of conformity comes with the 1 sheer physical exhausiion of an impoverished people who have i neither the leisure nor the money t.o express their tastes. The prosperous middle-classes i may dislike those who "rock the I boan hat the members of thik < Irs Ned Parki ment, having to keep the 1 :ent over last visions be mi standing pro- students to at If this is not to the south establish altei on other par- Green Street. n? It can go and allow visi m before it is portunity of ] .enter of the going to Russ m for expan- or other deati With the n rig for a sci- ty, more and fine arts de- cars (big or ling or most hope before t nyone giving something is arking prob- situation. If somethii >r space'. . . may be forced K out in octo- ruling out car ats will start far enough a o a skyscrap- doesn't happe: It has beei nts from Co- would run in sportation to wouldn't this >ercentage of groud ones ? I r automobiles $3,000 per sp safe place to rented or desil expenses? school don't If this is toi Lch class, run ed institution ove on to the concern be giv >rced to park ture? Or coul< ts-where it ized, such as ian it does to Chapel? place. If a comm tudents who planners coult k them, and situation, thei rnce a week could be accoi dSchool C higher learning. It is the matter of economic astuteness and phy sical need that would appear to require more thorough explana tion. U NDENIABLY, education of a higher nature should he spread to all possible areas when, and only when, the actual neces sity exists. The Myrtle Beach and Beau fort extensions are well justified in that there are no other such institutions in the general vicin ity, disregarding Charleston, of course. But the up-country seems from this viewpoint to be well supplied with educational facili ties. It is the cost of creating and maintaining such a place that i-auses us to wonder whether it is necessary or not. The article on Jonesville which recently ap peared in the local press informed the readers of that tabloid that local citizens could receive an Aducation more economically and with greater ease. E ITHER this is just poor jour nalistic reporting or we ;hould move en masse to Jones ;ille to receive the benefits of owver-cost education. Still, there s the point of being able to live it home and receive the same in struction that we would here at the university. We would be spared the cost of room-rent and boardj, as wvell as transportation to andl from home on the week We have a suspicion that these s~avings would not be so great as they seem. At Lancaster there are roughly 50 students in the extensioni at present. It is not -nown by this writer if the in ome dlerived from such a small student biody will b,e enough to pgs Beneath Conformity much-maligned society are still free to indulge their individuality as never before. The curse of 'onformity is only in the vivid imagination of those sensitive 'nough to wvorry about it. What, then, lies behind these yries of "Brave New World Con rormity?" Simple. The millenium has arrived and is a disappoint ment. The culture of this ad vanced age is uninteresting to uhe extreme. The average person remains mediocre, and satisfied with himself all the while. Right. Gall This amugness-whidh is his nalienable right-galls the in elligentsia. The average person ikes garbage, and defends to hbe death his right to indulge in t. He begs to be despised by iensitive souls. He is. Sensitive souls, however, are n no position to criticize. They ire biting the hand that freed hem. And, althoug<h one doesn't lave to be a chicken to tell a -otten egg, one doesn't criticize he chicken for laying it, simply >ecause the average person is iot equipped to lay eggs and Is otally unfamiliar with the ac panyin problems theresu. ng Space oattery charged! Couldn't pro ide for a swe place for these ore their cars when not in use? feasible, then the answer is to nating parking m e t e r a on This would keep traffic moving tors to the University the op )arking near the campus while ell House, the fine new library, nations. ition in the throes of prosperi more students will be bringing little) to this campus. Let us bis problem gets out of hand, done to remedy or alleviate the ig isn't done shortly, officials to resort to, like many schools, s for underclassmen. Let's look head to be assured that this n here. n said garage parking spaces to astronomical figures. B u t be less expensive than under f garage spaces cost $2,000 to ace per car, couldn't these be nated by permit to help defray big a load for a state support to carry, couldn't a private en a lease to build such a struc In't the space we have be util the a r e a behind Rutledge ittee of students and faculty I be established to study the !e is the possibility somethirM nplished. )ut Of Place offset the costs of maintaining the center, but politics being as they are, we feel certain that the Lancaster extension, and the others, will be adequately en dowed from state funds. After all, with a multimillion-dollar surplus in the offing this year a result of raised taxes-any thing expensive is possible. There should he no assump tion made that we are against the spreading of culture and erudition throughout our state. On the contrary, we enthusiasti cally support the idea of getting more knowledge to more people through our extension divisions, and in some of the instances mentioned, the idea has been justified. B UT this sudden wave of de centralization of the Uni versity of South Carolina to the outlying provinces of the state seems to be a good deal less than necessary in the cases where other excellent institutions exist nearby. Perhaps in the future the signs along the highways leading into South Carolina will read "Welcome to South Carolina No University More Than 10 Miles From Another." Will this be good? Bill Handel . .. Strange In Individual Rush season is over but through all the hustle and bustle of the mad drive to collect "good boys" one thing seemed to stand out this year . .. the people that cross the Carolina Campus are some what different . . . imbued with some strange intangible that is beginning to worry, even harry the most casual observers. What is the difference? It can not be seen, nor heard but it can be felt. The only way one could pos sibly describe it is "strong indi viduality." The individuality that sets a person apart from the common herd of penguins that we so often see waddling along behind each other. Unique Quality This unique quality is not prevelant on the Carolina Horse shoe alone, but is becoming more rampant throughout the U. S. It seems to breed with people that are influenced by a good formal education and quite a bit o f intell.igent,- w e I la'planned thought. It is not the Beatnik individ uality of the pseudo-intellectuals who set themselves apart because they are atf-raid to mix with others or who, in their tremen dous inferiority complex shun the world saying, "You are no good, so I'll get lost and show how bad you are, because I can't fight you. You make me feel inferior because you are nice peo ple so you are wrong." Spirkual Renaisane How does it look? It looks like the Ivy League . . . worn only because you want to wear it, not because everyone else does. It is reading an occasional Ellis Boatmon . Does Spa "Christianity is petering out. Its final passing is inevitable." These startling words have been uttered in the wake of man's launching a rocket to the craters of the moon. and having sent space ships into orbit time after time. Frontiers undreamed of by our grandfathers, and only hinted at . by our fathers, have been blasted into our laps by Sputnik and U. S. rockets. Avenues of exploring the heav ens, and finding perhaps a world beyond the stars, have caused Americans to look anew at "the old time religion" and wonder that if in the framework of a 2000-year-old religion we have the spiritual substances to guide us into the new space age. Many say Christianity can not do this. It is dying. What we need, say the critics, is a new God. Bell Tolls The death-knell of the Chris tian era, if it does take place, will do so amid the highest church attendance in our nation's history, and amidst the deepest preoccupation w i t h religious literature and meetings that we have ever experienced. But many of our "better" minds proclaim that congrega tions and parsons will soon be come museum pieces, and that future generations will seek a new God: one for the space age, a God trimmed to meet the needs of interplantary thinlking and mores, a God not l.imited by Codes and Creeds. On one point we do agree with tangibles, sism Rises good book because you want to, not because it seems smart to do so or because you may impress someone by carrying a heavy book under your arm. No, this is something more sincere. It is, as Eric Nord titular head of the Holy Barbarians says, a spiritual renaissance, spiritual in the fact that it brings man back to his soul and through the strength of his own soul, delves into his own God-given brain to develop his own char acter and individuality that will set him apart from the herd. He can belong to many or all the organizations on campus, be a Fraternity man or not, believe in God or not, drive a sports car or not, but whatever he does he is sincere in his efforts to be himself, and never will fool him self by following the lead of others just because it appears to be the thing to do . . . he will follow because he knows or at least thinks, that what he is do ing is correct in his own mode of thought. Unwashedl Renegade. This is not the thought of the Beatnik or the Wierdos we see so often that are nothing more than unwashed renegades who try to be diftferent, and In their attempt to be non-'conformlsta, conform to current standards of non -conformity. This is the ideal of an in dividual who -stresses the fact that he thinks his own thoughts, acts his own actions and will, like a man, take whatever con sequences or tribute. he may re ceive for them knowing all the time that lie has been honest with himself and is above all, the malder of his arthly lit, I e_ 3Age Need I the critics (notably Ben Hecht in his "A New God For The Space Age") that some aspects of Christianity are dying out, and we are frankly relieved at the demise. For example, big-tent revivals and the quackery bred by "healing sessions" no longer at tract the multitudes they use to draw. Billy Graham Modern Americans, with a greater degree of education, dis cretion, and keener perception of spiritual values, are rejecting artifical emotionalism as not be fitting God's creatures on the threshold of greater tasks and higher responibility. "The level of noise at a tent meeting doesn't necessarily measure the depth of a nation's religion . . ." Many Americans have cast aside the religious peddlers with their snakes, prayer cloths, street ex hibitions, brain-washing techni ques, and poorly written propa ganda. The United States of 1959 is sobering to new concepts about the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They are looking anew at the Cross of Ohrist, rereading the Sermon on the Mount, and they are reconsidering, in more hopeful terms, the Ten Com mandments. Out of this will come something good. But out of it does not come the need for a new God. Religion is not dying out. It is growing up! The hymn-sing ing emotlonalists are being re placed by those who live their religion. They drive their car, shop for their morning groceries, spea-k at the PTA, attend the theatre--in other words, people are seeing religion as not some thing that long4faced, long bearded men of the past dealt with in gusty shouts af "Amen," and "Hallelujah," then sinned worse the next day; but rather modern Christians are making "the old-time religion" a v I t a I part of their lives by adapting it and themselves to today's standards and filexibilities. Billy Graham Despite of all Billy Graham's good points and his gains, he will not last many more years. America is not the cesspool of medocrity and hell he paints It is. Rather it is God's world peopled by men and women accepting their chores in a new light and with new perspective. I believe this country is maturing in Its re ligious concept. We are marching forward with dignity to our rendezvous;'not to damnation and to decay as the realists tell us in their endless flow of diatribe. No, we do not need a new God. We only need a new look at the God that has been with us from the beginning. Lenin said in 1905: "Religion teaohes those who toill in poverty all their lives to be resigned and patient in this world, and consoles them with the hope of reward in heaven." A religion that confirms the statue quo, that tells us to wait until Christ comes floating down on a silvery cloud, and one that en-. cou rages no reform and wants no alterations Is NOT a religion for this apace age. I have no uee for such a religion, and If the Old and New Testaments are read correctly, neither did the Proph ets and Apostles. Emotional Froth We need a religion that gets us out of the "emotional troth" of revival meetings and maaehos In to the wae ofn Aour da.ly ff... II NO R4RK I NG 9:3e- 1:3o -::j* - *-:.jo New God? t religion no longer i1mited to he altar rail and "mourner's )enc'h," but one that reaches own into hearts that live amid social and political problems that >ften overpower us. The man of the space age will require brains and brawn. Perhaps the critics say it is mad iess to think religion is some -hing he will need. A French ioldier when told Joan of Arc mas "mad," replied quietly, "We !ould stand a few madmen. Look vhere the same ones have landed is." Call him mad, call him pro oplasm, a cosmic accident, a rraduate ape, or a sucker, man nust nevertheless look into an ver-expanding fature that holds nore of the uncertain than it loes of the sure. In his inter >lanatary suitcase he will need religion. But it is the religion >f moderns, looking at the Car )enter by the Sea of Galilee in ;he shadows of Cape Canaveral. No New God We, as college students, need o frankly get rid of some of he ideas we have of God. But hat does not mean we need a iew God. It makes a great deal >f difference what we believe, ind these old ideas we have are lust no good any more. Man's dea of God has become more )erfect and more reassuring. 3ver the past 2,000 years we save come to see G'od as He ;ruly is. This was not meant to be a ermon. But we who occupy the lassrooms of this country will ~teer the course that will mark he future a big success or a lismal failure. To cast aside re igious principles in the name >f science, or progress, or what bver you wish to call it, would e foolish. Don't be deceived. We 10 not need a new God. We've carcely begun to know the God eho is. CROWING FO UNIVERSITY OF Member' of Ass.oeIa the Univesy .r of th careina w rear emeest- elide ad duag met eesint am endesene. rI MM-"-ah aar hete, hs uremd. EDITOR. MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER ADVERTISING MANAGER COPY EDITOR. . NEWS EDITOR FACULTY EDITOR FEATURE EDITOR SOCIETY EDITOR.. SPORTS EDITOR CAMPUS EDITOR. CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER .. REPORTERS: Judy KinLough, Ann Ellis Sheek, Loretta Ph NeSmith, Barbara Able, Margi Pat Robertson, Jay Elgy, An, Hough, Judy Craig, Setby Tai Crwm, Martha Espedahl, Lin< Derrick, Sara Kreibs Caresy L. Childress, Howard H'ellame, Wa Inan, John O'Neill. BUSINESS STAFF: Pegy COLUMNI S Iud ouas Dave Bledso., Lou Youmans, E Carl M. Reynolds. ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPI Sohwarts, Blake F.ishburne, Do CARTOONISTS: Jack Morris TYPISTS: Mona nett_ ..rt iaK Fe .isn.urne . October Brings Eternity October is a month with a monument-a sacred month to those who remember, and an un godly eternity to those who try to forget. Carolina students and faculty members wi surely become aware of the deepest meaning of October on the 16th of this month, for the university is hon ored to host the Philharmonda Hungaria norehestra's beautiful As Carolinians listen to this I1ungaria-n orchestra's beautiful repertoire, conducted by its founder Zoltan Rossnyal, they are cold indeed if they fail to remember the significance of October. 1956 Revolution Three years ago this month, a few brave young men started what was to become one of the most daring revolutions in the history of mankind. The revolutionists were al most entirely composed of Buda pest University students. They were young men with ambitions, dreams, and hopes very similar to those of our students. These b ra v e Hungarian stu dents abandoned their ambitions and future. They gave up every thing in a gamble for the biggest dream of all-freedom. They gambled and lost. Did They Lose? But did the Hungarian freedom fighters really lose? Hungary was able to sample the sweet taste of freedom for one week before the Russians rallied. By inhuman brutality the USSR was able to stop the Hungarian fire. But Russia will never control the hidden embers which burn with the memory of freedom. No, Hungary was not defeated, nor will Ahe ever be. Her refugees now encompass the world, bring ing back the memory of an ideal we all ohare-Freedom. T h e Hungarian monument shall rise so high that all the iron curtains in the communist world will never be able to hide it. Henry Timrod This onument to liberty shall ever carry the ideal of which South Carolina poet Henry Tim rod spoke when he said, "Stoop angels hither from the skies. There is no holier spot of ground Than where defeated valor lies By mourning beauty crowned." A fitting epitaph to the men who died for a cause that lives. Freedom . . . a word we take for granted. Their arms were few, their men ill-fed They suflfered grim defeat Blut on they fought till all were dead For they wou-ld not retreat. A nd wvel they knew, a battile lost Was small a price indeed. For men had paid a higher cost To plant that tiny seed. A dormant seed perhaps at first, But as the seasons go TIhe ground will break and seenm to b)urst From pressures down below. A nd soon a stately plant will rise To starve out all the weeds All this becanse of men so wise They knew to plant the seeds. It A GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA red Collegiate Press Ilk Robet lme C-- - ash hiishd an s- he se. ammg, lst.g thlem eBge ../. "e-C..,..V. ..ew... ek. "rbe a-----."VhI iemeee be ight to edt ., wbehd GLENNA BRYANT Karen McKlbben Ed Spears Tommy Rose Penny Sinclair Charles Behling Dee Chandler Bill L.umpkin Margaret Scott Bobby Alford Alice Holland Pete Allan Jacquie Splawn, Nancy garroll, >tt, Henry Cauthien Vance H. iret Baird, Penny lietherington, Booth, Penny Holland, Gwen orek, Susanne Watkins, Cookie la Jones, Jimmy Foster, Polly Miller, Sharon Applebaunm, Celia vne Corbett, Sa-lbe Davis, Adolph ithers, Serena Jones, Betsy Gil th, Deloree Hendrix, Jkn Tobias. lie Boatmon, Anthony E. Brown, ill Handel. Columnist Emeritus: IERS: Sam Fiorini, Jerry at Shuford. Judy Craig, Punlaile Bell. ite Panninton, Diane Cn.