Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WAA Orp Girls Intr By LARRY MAY Feature Writer The Women's Athletic Associa tion, open to all Carolina girls interested in sport activities, is the intramural sports organization for women. W. A. A., as it is called on cam pus, consists of two representatives from each sorority and two repre -sentatives from each girls' dormi - tory; .Sims, Wade Hampton, Mc Clintock, and Maxey. The independent representatives are elected by residence iii the girls' dorm. These two representa tives find interested girls who wish to participate in such sports as basketball, swimming, tennis, and howling. Any girl who resides in .a dorm may participate and ahould con'tact the two representa-, tives of their dorm or the presi (lent of W. A. A. Schnauffer liends Group A meeting is held the first and third Tuesday of each month in the W. A. A. president's room. This year's president, Elaine 4 Schnauffer, lives in room 301, Sims College. The All Sportsmanship Trophy is awarded each year to the sorority or independent group which totals the highest number of points in the sports that were played during the year. -These points are based on the number of tournaments that a group has won for that year. A tournament will be -held each month. Constituiion Drafted in 1954 The W. A. A. Constitution was written in 1954. It states that the independents have the same rights as any sorority when they each participate against each other. There is no sponsor for W. A. A. and no help is given from the qports department. Members of the association coach, practice, and Canterbury Ha Trinity Episcopal Church's parking lot will be the scene of a cur wash sponsored by the USC Canterbury Association tomorrow from 11 a.m. to. 4 p.m. The pur pose of the car wash is to help meet the Canterbury budget for the current year. Cost is 75c per car. When . . It's time for real wat ch This is a Hamilton Electric has replaced the mali perfect watch, incisively acc you, too, may give or lt will be a day you /-/A M/ *creator of the worn ranizes amurals play in all the tournaments. The girls find difficulty practicing as the boys have prio ity to -the gym. The girls practi many hours at night. - The group is financed only I the dues paid by each sorority al independent. Water Ballet Planned This year .a water ballet is b ing* planned and will be perform )y the-W. A. A. sometime duriT the spring 'semester. Announc ment will be made later. The ballet will be somebhii iew and exciting for all Calrolh: itudents and each student shou ittend the performance. Any girl who is interested participating in this water ball ihould contact W. A. A. as soon possible. Practice will be held the swiimning pool. The Women's Athletic Associ tion hopes for better participati in all its tournaments and pe formances. They need girls, b they need you, the students of Cs r>lina to watch them at their be in sport activities. Art Center Has Monthly Exhibit Thirty-nine pictures by 25 sen professional and non-professior mrtists from all over South Cai lina are now on exhibit at t gallery of Webb's Art Ce'nter, C lumbia. This is the first of several me thly exhibits which will -be h( through June, W. C. Brought< gallery manager said. The pictures are in a variety media and the public is invit to view them between 9 a.m. a 5:30 p.m. weekdays. All paintin are for sale. i Car Wash Scott Wehrung, president, 11 urged all members who do r have class Saturday to work washing ears for as long as p< sible. A radio will be provided enable those present to follow t South Carolina-North Caroli football game. It's time for H amilton Watch. A tiny energy cell ispring. It is a more urate, patrician. Some day be given a Hamilton. will never forget. d's first electric watch S"en, Maurd. Spoken ON CAMPUS Sign seen on blackboard in in histiry class: "Anyone for r- hari-kari?" Voice heard in girls' dorm id during Hurricane Gracie: "Will you hold a match while I roll ujy hair?" e- Maintenance employees being A stopped by photographers to pose 1g for pictures. e - * During Hurricane Gracie, ,a girls in Wade Hampton doing Id the Runny Hop dowi the halls. in Newly 7married Rtfident re et marking that he and his wife is did not get along very well: in "She agrees with eiperything I say. a- * * * mn A photography student trying r- to get a shot of a cocker spaniel, At who refused to remain still. at Two male -seniors carefully planning the "big jump" from second floor DeSaussure the day after graduation. Male student upon being asked . why he caine to college, re al plied: "To get a wife." 0- * * * he Freshman repmiiniscing about high-school days, when they put n aighetti in a boy's tennis shoes Id and tacked his gyn xhorts on a n, bulletin board. * * .*e of Male student walking through ed newly poli*hed plate glass door g. of Runsell House. People seen. huddling over candle at information desk in Riunnell House. as * * * ot Student remarking that his at Garnet and Black pictures were OR- no horrible that he had just as to soon use the picture on his I) he card. na* * * E'ditorial writer seen bring .ig his own ty pewriter to "Gamecock" office. French professor stating that he was tired of speaking Eng lish to a class he should be teaching French. SHavea - ~ILWUE By. USC Pr9fessors Wild l By BILL LUMPKIN Feature Editor Rhesus Macaca, the furry, somewhat un-ant,hropoid follow whose portrait adorns this page, is "a short-tailed monkey native to India" according to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, but it "ain't necessarily so" as in habitants of Hilton Hlead Island can testify. Dr. Penney, present Head of the biology department at the University, Dr. .Hoy, retired former Head of the biology de partment, Dr. Turney-High of the Department of Ant,hropology and Sociology and Dr. Batson, biology professor, can,* also testi fy that 16lh1-sus Macaca gets around. The reason? There is now and has been a tribe of wild rhesus m11onlkeys on Ifilton Head Island, in B.eufort County, for an un determined number of years, even though there are not sup posed to be any anywhere in North America, outside of zoos, laboratories, and pet shops. April Safari Last April a team of Univer sity biologists brought back proof positive of the existence of this wild monkey tribe in the form of the body of a large male rhesus and a monkey tooth found imbedded in a shell on the edge of the island. The Univer sity professors had made two previous trips to the island without seeing a monkey. The specimen was obtained by the University indirectly. A Iilton Head farmer killed the animal about the first week in April when he discovered it eat ing vorn mash out of his hdrse trough. Atn amateur naturalist on the island claimed the body and put it in his deep freeze. About two weeks later lie called the University biology depart ment and asked them if they wanted it. They did, and came for it. As to the reasons for the farmer shooting the monkey, the island residents consider the tribe a nuisance and had luck as well, because some of them live in the old cemetery and all are adept at stealing food in tenled for domestic animals. Mysterious Origins No one knows how long the monkeys have been at H.ilton Head, how they got there, or exactly how t,hey have managed to survive in an unfavorable olimate where there are no co relc'garet m The best t4 - R. J tnotds Toaaro Co . W blonkel a conuts or bananas. The biolog department is very mudh intei e9ted in finding out the an swers to these questions. The simplest and dulles theory concerning their origii is that they are simply th decendents of .a pair of escapee from a zoo, laboratory, or Indi LAST APRIL this Momikey (a me lliltmo 114end 11-Janl willo olist proof that all Rheauimsn onkeys lie he was caughit stealig crr by lul irale farner, then prem, ftiffreI 1and4 plut -1n1 exii)itionl ill vidual owner. The most widel circulated legend or rumor abot them, however, is that their ai cestors were the cargo of a shi which put into nearby Savanna an unknown number of yeai ago with a cargo of monkey from India destined for zoo Iet shops and laboratories. According to this legend, ti monkeys were suspected of ha ing some sort of tropical di ease and the port authoriti4 refused to allow them to be ui loaded in the United States. Ti angry captain then turned h ship hack out to sea and dumpt his living cargo over the sic . . . If this story is to be b re-have a ibacco makes the 01an0aa5 311. i C Tribe V lieved, then at least a few of the monkeys succeeded in mak ing the long swim to Hilton Head, although monkeys nor t mally dislke water, and their I descendents have remained there ever since. 9 Little Food -Dr. Batson of the biology de genuinte Rhesi-u Macaca) was residin r misilwrs of hi tribe and was livin are not in their niative Ilia. At ths i nash from a horse trough aid ah nted to the itiverAh.w where he wa IA COnIIte. (Photo h Jerr% Schwartz. y partinent estimliates the size of t the tribe as between 12 and 20, 1 feeling that there is not enough 1) food on the island to support h1 large nuimbers. ie is particu s larly interested in what the a1mon1keys eat when they are un able to steal food froim the farm anifimals, since they are unable e to tobtain the foods they would r- eat. in 1,1( in at. The iotinkeys have a reputa .9 tioll on the island for peskiness I- and intelligence, managing to e help themiselves to potatoes ,s without disturbing traps set for d themi and sometines pickiog the .e I(Wks on corn cribs. Rhesus ion keys are close relatives of the CAMEL best smoke! Found famous Barbary Apes and are among the most intelligent and vi(-ious of the monkey family. Description The specimen obtained by the University was that of a large, elderly, male somewhat over thirty years old, which is the usual life span of the species. It had reddish-brown fur and weighed about 27 pounds when removed from the deep-freeze. It stood about 31 inches high when alive with a ten-inch tail and had arms 14%; inches long from shoulder to wrist. Its legs ieasured 151 inches. The monkey was later stuffed and mounted by Henry H. Me Kiethan of Charleston, then a senior, and Edmund Cuthbert, a graduate student, eventually being put on display on the second floor of Le Conte, where it has remained since. Professor Batson hopes to make another trip to Hilton Head Island this summeir and try to capture one (r more live specimens, some thing no one- has yet managed to do. Last year McKiethan built an ingenious monkey trap which might do the trick this time. Loot Photos There is one post script to the whole matter. While at the island last AIpril Professor 'Bat son took several pictures of the place where the monkey was shot, )r. Hoy holding the mon key inl his arms, and others re lated to the expedition. These were later used to illustrate a feature story by Betty McNabb, Columbia Record feature writer. Later someone on the staff of the National Geographic saw a story 'about the Hilton Head tribe and got in touch with Miss McNabb and Professor Batson about the possibility of writing a story about it for his magazine. Dr. latson's pictures were to illustrate the article. Much to the disappointment of all cuncerned the pictures had been misplaced and Prof. Bat son was unable to find them, so the article was never printed. Therefore the mysterious mon - key tribe of 1iltAin Head Island remains virtually unknown out ide the borders of the state, aid its few nim ers continue to eke out their existence ten porarily unmolested. U. S. Marine Recruiter Visits USC Cap.tain John HiI. WN'alker, .Ji., ITSMC, w'ill visit the University Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, )-tolber 12. 1a anid 14 for the pui pose.of initerviewing st udents in terestedl in ob.tainringt a Mtarine (Corps commilission. Captain Waklker is Mar-ine Corps Officer Select ion Officer fo'r South Ca rolina. Areording to Captain WValker, there are vacancies for officers for bot,h gronrd and avia tion traininrg u nder several excoellent programs offered by the Muar ine Corps. The PIatoon L-eaders ('lass Program i available for freshnmeni, soph.' mores anid jniors, while senijors may particip)ate in the Aviation Officer Candidate Course or -t,he Officer CandIdate Course. Marine officer training is so arranged that it does not conflict with student's college work, and all students arec required to re ccivye the'ir degree before being assigned to active duty. While at. lie University Captain Walker andl he imembers of his teanm will be in Russell House. All interested students may contact him there. Any student having any ques tions regarding t,he program should contact Major W. W. Taylor at the University NROTC unit. Novel D)epicts Mid-East Trmoij "The Day of Sacrifice," by Forei doun Esfandiarcr affords, as only a novel can, a compelling insight into the violenc'e and unrest in the Middle East. The. setting is Tehe ran, but it (couhd happen anywhere in this troubled area of the world. It is the story of a young man who has come' to realize *one of the real causes of the constant upheaval and yet gets caught up in it him self. The s t o r y involves a young man's efforts to stop a group of fanatics from assassinating a top government minister. There la no telling until the climax whether the hero's efforts, nlow lethargic, no~w frenzied, will save a man from enemies whose hatred and determi nation are suicidal.