Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Aluzuzal And St Tomorrow high school sen and guidance counselors will lina campus to take a bette Carolina's center of educatiox to become acquainted with long-range planning and p school. Blue Key High School day i affair and under the direc1 Hagins, student planning 4 Dean Elizabeth Clotworthy, man, the day promises to be visitors. After seeing the features c of the seniors will be impre: have an impressive campus a ty is fast advancing to heigI fore in its history. After brief addresses by I walt and Leventis, the grou 2,000 will see a display at I the Undergraduate Library lab, dormitory rooms and the store. Later in the afternoon be treated to the Homecon guests of the school. As there are many high sci do not know what their Univ( we give them the opportunit college students and state le. University at its functioning Russ Burns . .. Spirit, Te Al Pose Time heals all wounds and al ready the Thursday battering fades into the gray of memory. However, there is one point per taining to the game which re fuses to take its place in obscur ity. We speak of the spirit of the fans. . . . Carolina variety that is. Five thousand voices which suddenly hush as the home team begins to slip could hardly be called fans. We were under the impression that a fan was de finied as one who cheers his team on whether winning or losing.' This was said to he the year of spirit, of cheering, of respon sibility. Perhaps we have been duped. Mr. Aesop stated the feel ing quite well: Aeip Fahle An Ass- put on a Lion's skin and went About the forest with much merriment, Searing the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks, Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from be neath the mane That raucous voice so petulant and vain, Rtemarked, "0 Ass, I too would run away, But that I know your old fa miliar bray." That's just the way with asses, just the way. Which brings to mind a ques tion. Why is our Association for the Advancement of Spirit in the hands of three overlapping groups? The 59'ers, the Cheer leaders and the Pep Club all boost USC, but there is little that is more dlismal than the sight of three groups stumbling all over one another to gain the fore. Per haps some coordination from a higher level would be useful. Per CROWING FON UNIVERSITY OF Member of Associat Foundicedl January 30, i 00s,t wi I irst editor. "The Gam,ecoctk" is pul the~ University of South Carolina we< year except on hsoidanys a.nd during The opinions expre%ed by coiu necessarily those of "The Camec] -lIetters to thme E'ditor, but all lettei not constitute anI endtorsemen~,t. Thi puicaj~tio,n anmy letter is reservedg. EDITOR .......... MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER ADVERTISING MANAGER COPY EDITOR .. NEWS EDITOR FACULTY EDITOR FEATURE EDITOR SOCIETY EDITOR. SPORTS EDITOR CAMPUS EDITOR. . CIRCULIATION MANAG'ER CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER .. REPORTrERS: Judy Killough,. Ann Ellis Sheek, Loretta Plo' NoSmith, Barbara A ble, M a rga rt Owens, Ann Nei.l, Elise Mce, Penny Hlolland, Cookie Crumi, Li Krebs, Howard Hellams, Wayne May, L,ynn Smith, Carlee McL,ei BUSINESS STAFF: Peggy Wi ham, Ann Trotter, .Jim Tobias. COLUMNISTS: Russ Burns, ElI Dave -Bledsoe, Bill Handel. Colui olds. ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPH:f Schwartz, Blake Fishburne, Dou; CARTOONISTS: Jack Morris,, Childress. TYPISTS: Mona Petty, Harrieti adent Visitors J lore, principals, The correci visit the Caro- tant to each h look at South may well det i. They are here Carolina, hex the programs, facilities, will rojects of our student. Some of th s now an annual return next y4 ion of Johnny asm toward 1 :hairman, a n d higher learni faculty chair- when they ha fruitful for the ly be seen in f Calinamost This week( f Cad T a most campus man d the Universi- Each year th rth unow b- return of the ts unknown be- year is no exi "residents Sum- For the p] p of more than sight of the n he physics lab, showing man; the language imagination. ] pharmacy drug honoring the the seniors will be the traditi iing g a m e as ing queen; a] ball game a] iool seniors who alumni." .rsity looks like, To our vis r as prospective Carolina and I iders to see our MEN AND I best. come you. 3, Efficiency, Campus PE haps there is another solution. May we suggest that someone look? * * * You know human nature is an amusing thing. Formulation of regulation and interpretation of regulations can often be very humorous. Just the other day we heard someone remark that he was "studying like mad" in a certain course so he would be passing it at mid-semester in order to (Irop the course. This is the only game we know of where one can afford to drop passes-but then why if you are . . . there's no escape. Efficiency Expert We heard that a girls' dorm had inspection of the severest type from nine until ten one morning in preparation for the efficiency expert who was to in spect from ten until eleven. Everybody presented their best faces in order to make a glowing impression upon the critic. No one remembered that efficiency is based on how well you perform all the time, not on special oc casions only . . . scratch one morning's work. What, pray tell is the sense of carrying your old tea glass with you when you get a second glass in "Slater House?" What does it prove? That you are the original ownter of the first glass? We thought that type naivity was ushered out with Queen Victoria. Facc Facts Face facts, if someone wants tea bad enough, he will have little trouble procuring a used glass from a friend or the conveyor helt. Why make it hard on those who have the right to the second glass? Surely Slater' is not worriedl abotut going broke 0on the proposi A GREATER OUTHI CAROLINA ed Collegiate Press th Hohert F.lliott C;onzales as the ,Ii%hed by andl for the students of kEy, on Fridays, during the college examuinhtions. mnnists and letter writers are not ek." "The Camuecock" encourages .a must be signedl. Publishing does right to edi or wi tilol 1fromu GLIENNA BRYANT Karen McKibben Ed Spears Tommy Rose Penny Sinclair Charles Behling Dee Chandler Bill Lumpkin Margaret Scott Bobby Alford Alice Holland .Jim Hatchell .Pete Allan taacqutie Splawn, Nancy Carroll, t, hlenry Cauthen, Vance H. t THaird, Selby Taporek, Novelle in, I'at. Robertson, .Jay Elgy, nida .Jones, .Jimmy Foster, Sara Corhett, Adolph Inman, Larry don. thers, Serena .Jones, Betsy Gil is Boatmon, Anthony E. Brown, nnist Emeritus: Carl M. Reyn IR'S: Sam Fiorini, Jerry g Shuford. rudy Craig, Punkle Bell, Celia ae Pennnon, Dinne Cohn. Iways Welcome choice of schooling is impor igh school senior for that choir e rmine a career. We hope t'- at faculty, administration, rnd be considered by each qualified Dse visiting here tomorrow will bar, showing even more enthusi ;he University. The quality of rig here will be evident only ve attended. This cannot readi one day. nd also sees returning to. our r of our alumni and friends. e students look forward to the e distinguished guests and this .eption. easure of the visitors is the iany fine homecoming displays, v hours of hard work and good ?resident and Mrs. Sumwalt are alumni with a tea; there is to anal crowning of the homecom id the Carolina-Maryland foot 1 add up to "Welcome back, Itors, those who have been to ;hose who have yet to come, the VOMEN OF CAROLINA wel Checks rplexities tion; maybe they just like com plications . . . as do so many other bureaus. At least the second cup of coffee is reasonable. * * * If we might we Would like to pass along a friendly tip to the grounds crew here at USC. We think our campus is beautifully adorned with vibrant vegetation and ranks high among schools everywhere for its natural show ness. However, one criticism please find the pruning shears and clip the foliage back from the doorways of our hallowed buildings and walkvways. Someone is going to be blinded by a limb in the eye. Quite a few students have of fered the opinion that the deposi tory should extend its hours to (oincide with those of the treas urer's office. We would like to inquire into t h e possibility thereof. It would certainly add sOne smiles of happiness to the callpus. Cheekq Cashed While on the subject of money (is there any other?) there is one improvement to campus life which those in command should strive for. Place a check cashing station in the Russell House. It is certainly a sorry lot to have to impose upon the Towers or the drug store for a service which the University itself is 'nwilling to render. * * * The Halloween season is upon us--we're wvearing our mask, are you? Dave Bledsoe... Student SuF Junior Higi One of the greatest things to observe is a losing spirit. Sir Winston Churchill gave inspira tion to the world when England wvas on her knees . . . and, in truth, from defeat and near dis aster came their finest hour. What, then, determines the true worth of a nation or com munity? It is their unconquer able sp)irit in the face of ad versity. The dying Lawrence's words: "D)on't give up the ship" ... the reply of the doomed garrison at Wake Island: "Send us more .Japs" . . . these typify the noblest of human spirits. Price of Lo.ing We realize that it takes noth ing to be loyal when loyalty is easy . . . it does take something distinguishing to be able to main tain that loyalty under pressure, especially the pressure of losing. We carry this with us in our everyday lives. Too well we know the truth in the old saw about "fair weather friends." There is nothing worse than the smiling tag-alonger who will be right behind us when the go ing gets rough . . . right behind with a knife to stab should we stumble. No Post Mortems We wvere beaten Big Thursday ...that much Is fact. It could have happened to anyone... that's the way the ball bounces. We are not here, however, to dliscuss the game . . . post-mor tfnms ar tnateles. as well a..nll C.C hilI. Anthony E. Brown Education F OR MANY years the educa tors of America have been placed well below the members of other professions on the socio economic ladder. Of this we are reminded almost daily through the various channels of communi cation which seeni to sway meas urably public opinon. We have been told that there "must be some changes made" somewhere in order to keep America on a par with the other striving nations of the world. Indeed, we must, and some ob vious changes are occurring everyday that indicate an up swing in the importance and even social acceptance of teachers and professors. Years ago, the most honorable occupations which a person could enter were law, medicine, and teaching. They were thus consid ered because there was little remuneration attached and much work was required. A LAWYER was often paid for his labors with produce from his client's farm; the doc tor was- more often than not only gratefully thanked, and the teacher "lived-in" with the fami lies of some of his pupils. Any available money was given to these men, but this was seldom possible. With the coming of the twen tieth century and the resulting ec~onmic rise, nmone'y became to bie much more in demand, for Americans no longer fed and clothed themselves, bu t depended port Rates 1 Footbal Far more dmportant is the dlisgusting exhibition of our "fair weather" school Spirit that it was our dubio'us honor to witness. Oh, wve had a great cheering sec Lion at Big Thursday's game. A fitting finale it. was. Although there are certain policies of the A thletic Depart menit that we don't like . . . there arc certain aspects of our foot ball mania that frankly repel ...this columnist is placed In the singular position of wishing to apologize for the poor support given the team by our enthusias ic student body. Every player that had a part in the game (de serves an unqualified apology. Junior Opponents This school wants a football team . . . that much is evident hy the amount of money spent on the team. But to say the things about any group of people that have been said about our foot ball team . . . that passes the bo(undls of common decency. This student body doesn't de serve the services of a first-class coaeb. By rights we should be playing junior colleges . .. and if t.he attitude and spirit of this "noble University" determined the score, we might beat a junior high team . . . maybas Oh, yes, Homecoming is tomor row. We welcome all the grads back to the land of the living dead . . . the stands should be packed if It isn't raining or no hbudy hna nuthin, bet... to (10 : . . . . .* . . .2 . .2 . . 2 al Trend In on a minority to provide neces sities while the majority turned to the building of industry. One can easily see that the sit uation- had become much more complex than the previous one had been. Lawyers began to un (lertake the gigantic problems that arose in corporations and they were paid handsomely to save huge sums or even whole enter 1)rises for their clients. D OC''ORS began to specialize, and the extra training re quired as modern medicine swiftly advanced made medical care much more expensive than it had been. Add to this the advent of the income tax and the constant spiral of inflation up to the pres ent day and one can observe the situation as it stands today. Nat urally, with economic conditions much improved, the position of doctors and lawyers in the so cial stratum also rose. But where has the educator been during all of this? W H IE the members of the other fields have gained economically and socially and have thus been able to marry and have families, the educator remained at his same socio-eco nomic level. However, such is no longer the case. With steadily diminishing force of well-prepared intelligent teach ers and an ever-increasing supply of school-age children, the proh lems of finding people willing to teach has steadily worsened, es pecially in higher education. Now, more than ever, with greater emphasis being placed upon a college degree, higher reducation is almost a must for me to procnre an attractive, well 'aid position. A s society has felt the pinch of teacher shortage, it has begun to do something about it. 1'he people are realizing that if treater value, in terms of money is wvell as position in the social rder, is not placed on higher r'ducation, then America as a worIld power will either remain at a standlstill or she will decline aind drop from the world scene. It has happened before among p)owerful empires of the world. With the vast increase in in terest in higher education, which has largely been occasioned by the recent strides our contem poraries have succeeded in at taining, educators as a commodity arie being placed at a premium. It is an old law -that states that when the demand exceeds the supply, prices increase, or more -favorably, the intrinsic value of the item increases. T H E trend is now to the teach ing of sciences, mathematics, rnd foreign languages. The rea son for this is, of course, to pro vide scientists .and linguists to keop America strong and a con tender for world honors. This is a valid and reasonable p)hilosophy with but one major flawv: the arts are being forgot teni because no premium has been placed upon them. Thus we see that higher edum nation in A merica is definitely becoming more important and that teachers of all fields are being sought by high schools, "oHieges gnd universities. T H EY are being paid more be cause the public has realized the valhmo ntheir knoweg.1 America This is not the case everywhere, obviously, but it will spread eventually to nationwide change. The high school teacher and the college professor will some day take their long-denied posi tion among the ranks of the other valuable American citizens. Letters To The Editor . Grad Disices Honor Dear Editor: I have read with interest, and a degree of concern, the articles in recent editions of the "Game cock" regarding the quandary ii which the honor system finds it self at the University. As an alumnus, it is disheart ening to realize that the men and women of Carolina still show a reluctance to assume the respon sibility of supporting an honor system. I have had the opportunity to discuss honor systems, regula tions, etc. with many people from colleges all over the country. I have found without exceptioi, that the only way in which an honor system can function prop erly is by a long and thorough education process to both students and faculty alike. Also, this must he a continuing process. It is much too idealistic to think that there should be one hundred p)er cent cooperation in support of~ an honor system. But it is cer' tainly not too realistic to expect hat an honor system can work at one of the finest uiniversities in the country. Unless there have been many changes for the worse since the class of '57, I am sure the' pres ent student body would prefer to pr~ove that a high degree of in tegrity still exists among the mien' and women of Carolina. Phil Moody Class of '5'7 D)ear Editor: Grantedl that our edlucational system is nothing to rave about, but there is such a thing as carry ing a h)ad thing too far. It all started last Monday, Octoher 19. As I walked through the lobby, I wvas harassedl by young girls le(ading for votes. Throughout the day it was one re-runi after ainother. After a fairly uneventful ,eve nling meal I accompainied1 an Eng lish friend on a tour of the new library, lie wvas greatly impressed with the building and the quiet. atmosphere. Suddenly, off beat martial mu sIe racked the air, and the stu dents wyho wvere utilizing their time p)rofi tably were I interrup)tedl by a grotesque, pran('ing horde of bucolies. Askedl the reason foir this hurlesque, I repliedl that it was, in fortuntely, an integral part of our educational system, lie was dumb)lfouindled and, perhaps, a little awed that this system could create such giants as~ Oppeni hieimer', Gailbraith, and Bunche. Admittedly, this burlesque is a byv-prodluct of the football teamn, anid the lobbying to wvhich one was suibjec'ted earlier ini the (lay wvas an equally ridiculous situa tioi. -situations that could be eliminated simply by giving scholastic instead of athletic schiola rship)s. Will:am Rner Dan Foster . . . Value Of Vote Doubtful The freshman class of the University "came through with flying colors" in last -week's elec tion. Turning out in large num hers, despite the bad weather, the first-year men entered into the spirit of things as though they were seasoned pros in the busi ness of campaigning for office and voting for'their candidates. Jack Wilson was chosen over Mose Faircloth to head what many consider the finest fresh man class in USC history. This is certainly high praise for we up perclassmen to give our younger cohorts, and with it comes the responsibility to make school spirit a vital and a lasting force here at Carolina. Three years from now these frosh will be the campus leaders. flow they mold the community during the interim will spell fu ttire success or failure. 11urrium, Hardwick, Logan Wilson will be aided by Billy lurriss, who was chosen vice president by a rather large mar gin; Buddy Hardwick, secretary treasurer; and Don Logan, his toriall. We challenge these four young men to lead their elass, spulr them in spirit when they become weak and indifferent, and work for the betterment of their class and their Alma Mater. Stident Coucil's ranks will be swelled with the addition of freshman Doe Howard, Ray Lathani, and C. 0. Warren. T'he Council always stands in need of new blood 'nd fresh ideas, aid we hope these three men named will provide such contri butions. Good Job Congratulations are in order to Bobby Htint and the elections connittee. Everything was con ducted in fine fashion, with spe cial thanks going to all who worked at the polls and assisted in the counting of votes. In the first primary of last week's election the student body upheld, by a vote of 1,628 to 344, the Hlonor Code. The principal has been a part of the Carolina scene since 1801. Although most of its contem porary allies-such as dueling, the horse-and-huggy, some of the "blue laws," and the use of leeches in bleeding-have long since been cast aside, USC wvill hold onto its code of honor. I-f we arec to accept many of the opinions stated at the time of voting, most students voted with one of two views in mind. Those who voted "yes" did so as a vote for honor as opposed to dlishonesty. Those who voted "no" voted for honor as opposed to 'hypo crisy. Who is to say wvhich side won? Actually the election re suilts say absolutely nothing. The Honor Board can hold up 1 ,(28 votes as proof positive that over 1 ,000 souls will stand by them. Will they? Isn't 344 a rather nice opp)osition? Coniaencee EASer. D)o you really think the Honor Code wvill wvork any better now ' that you can ease your conscience wit>h a 1,284-vote majority? What abiouit t.he 3,500-4,000 students who did not vote? Can you truthfully say the Carolina Community voted "for" the Honor Principle? Well, even though we look at the voting re suIts as guarantee of nothing, the p)rincip)le was upheld. Nowv, the committee will have to strengthen the system, and to do so they will no doubt have to gather about them stronger reins of power. Studhent Sanhiedrin How the student body will view a student-Sanhedrin remains to he seen. Whether, after years of relative silence, they will sud denly blossom1) forth and indict their fellow students as felons of the first order, is likewise an uinaniswered question. * The prob)lem is as toucfly now as it, has ever heen. That vast maljority of USC students who ,se never resort to dishonesty on exams will remain just as honest de(spite the vote. "'he few who were dishonest will scarcely consider a 1,244 vote stopgap as much of a bar rier. Mr. Pritchard and his group wanted a mandate on bhe Honor Code. I seriously doubt they re ceivel it.