Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4. eZ~ qe w ,4W%ded It is,the on] Ao p e Ath., And I s~*aid, protect fih n only thiw.with whlh a man De debut free from the nightiuare of the past three Van Doren emerged to face tM mare, the wrath of. the deld commdw. and efficial. Wha weeks wiU. add in the way -c open to speculation. Here at the University of we have voted to retain the Honor, honor everywhere till did shriek. What's wrong. W tem, or rather where's the ris The idol of television is e: portrait of dishonesty. The f pers are transformed into i savages screaming for the c4 honesty. And Mr. Diogenes' I bit dimmer. Everyone wants honesty. J Why then cannot the key to* or the honest society be fou bit of introspection would illu uation. Where.is honesty bori room? In the lab? Hidden b4 book? Hardly, for honesty is a thi quires in his so called "for When he arrives upon the coll Ken Holland Tempers When the Red Cross visited the campus this week, it hauled away quite a few pints of blood. The students at Carolina were proud to have been able to contribute to this commendable cause. But many students feel there is another type of bleeding that goes on at Carolina, sucking away like a leech at unwilling, protesting, but defenseless, veins. Ask any student. He will tell you he is unsatisfied and thinks it's time something was done. The bookstore every semester taxes all the wallets and purses Dave Bledsoe. . . Clod Bowl Next Conh Is there a red-blooded football fan who's pulse is not quickened by the mere mention of a bowl game? Bowl fever gripe even the most blase, and more time is eom sumed calculating the team's chances of post-season g a m e s than is spent computing the na tional debt. There seems to be no end to these bowls. There are bowls for small colleges, large colleges, west coast colleges, and any other type of institution of higher learning that can field a 200 pound line. The bowl we want to see, how -ever, is still non-existent. Let's start the "Annual Clod Bowl." This gridiron classie would be played on New Year's Day, and would feature the two worst teams in the nation. Prereguakes for "Clod Bowl" In order to appear in this "Clod Bowl," a team must not have won a game all season. Spe cial preference would be given to the longest losing streak, and the team must have completed not more than two per cent of all passes attempted. The 'players composing the squads must have been turned down by two or more schools, and may not be' on scholarship. This would eliminate those who really don't like to play football; the "Clod Bowl" players must simply play for the love of the game. The sole puripose of the "Clod Bowl" would be to give enter tainment to the spectator and satisfaction to the players. The benefits from this classic would be numerous. Foremost, of course, unsung and unnoticed players would be given national prominence. Since no ratings or any importance would be at tashed to the outeome, all con erned could simply sit back and enjoy themelves. Dress would be informal, and everyone coald hot 1er to thmeir hear's content. Te.me In the "Clod Bowl" would be far more evenly matAEid than most most-season a f as r vs. - the truth eft h ' kWhibotest. House caucus honest *01 bo is a &ways the It i9 good ly way, to Pro- whk9ped to' he truth it the Provided by. oan Um" good that the souil-earching -anguiah of pa years, Charles upon those wl e sedond night- tiAt "honesty ed public, both for the deciv L the ensuing Unfortsat f retaliation Is the dishonest future. Since, South Carolina been true. Anj honor system. such as "cri all the hoards is foreoer try here's the syp- To protect I 1hte0us system. the dishoneff ghibited as the someone mu Drmer worship- learn respect ;he sanguinary theirs, we sh psation of dis- we shall go oi antern glows a Honesty is amount of gr ast ask anyone. these qualitie L;he honest man quate answer, nd ? Perhaps a then. Hang t inate the sit- over the dish i? In the class- the honest. Y mneath a dusty "system" pot fingers. ng a person ac- This is the mative years. before. Perha ege scene he is pastry will co Flare On 'F oe thei campus almost to the point of confiscation. Having been under fire for many years, the bookstore has been labeled an outrage by some and only a mild outrage by the rest. Excuss, Excus,e Every time a responsible of ficial is approached with ques tions concerning the bookstore, there is usually the excuse that the athletic program needs the money. This. excuse has grown banal and has always been un satisfactory, but has pacified in quirers into chronic apathy. For Losers Flar OnnTap ther ostore has qesin oable wnoudae bso med.ny bel soutrage strtn this earl t E xcuason ehs Exculdeven any s-time-an resonsie fom apaiong cocring th gotreaevn, athe teausual woul bxue truly reretaetive pormne the sn money. half ime a rw Attisfafttime thisaseptcafaednzn wulreint comnto iptsy. Thee ould ebte faoquestionchf ingl bndso thacdn'. epi stop alle thedfate caiameshl albe oats statintwinl in the Rseso. Adsolad Seveno woudpeaig thi guet ofenor. adThe eads would lie uly thepreasentatie of the closing secons of the fition . Th muicl reeatio ofim wety One, hand Te $04,000tavaganz tin. acdgsee the field, marhe ibands thtwouldn'ythkee ma jote wl ho, dfatcrdingtoaes curtoer taulon,ha Homeon,ad her batonlmore thain' wan othe majettoe Inowhe AdaioSvn.o oer the leastgustd o ston IThe aea would be y a sf hased wrno their af pre ditheme, narly,er Isuea musCloBol penTration"eny One nd a"Clod $B4,000 Ques turethi who taodiionao ac-ai withalthe tuainha codred esnta bto mortie footalyte withrette of the Invpaton n overn the feastallecruiosttin sing ph racticde, aby Naa ahadgsdlng on ther "Clod ldBowl" nTradorthese truled this .rdtonlafi wint,h rallytheetappis sdroed essetial to aigoodm stal, etl owfer ton cof the ictn team eherentrein. fota rctatg, scping pte, arre pre CAAow wat egi, the rel"fe"Clod Bowl"ClsBowlnauld for thee tferomos' thet fWrat leam honAt I urd that the Ame*ian publk *ac intellect thrd* he 4e$ption Kr. Van Doreh. Perhaps- it it cheating student is spOted the rental rebuke or other' d favor to fail. But all will aftowldge is the best policy" in the end, er always loses. Mly In a moment of temptation seldom foresee the inevitable the beginning of mn thiw.has I the wise go on coining phrases ne doesn't pay," and someone ing to disprove it. ;he honest from themselves and t from their disillusionment, t stand guard. Until all can for that which is not rightfully kll go on devising systems and i trying to beat the systems. learned in the home and no andiose schemes to draw forth a in later years will be an ade , Draw the line of compromise e dark cloud of watchfulness onest; appeal to the virtue of 'ut these ingredients into the and stir often with crossed same recipe which we've used ps if more heat is applied our me out sweeter. Perhaps. iot' Books The universal dissatisfaction brought by the bookstore -and its operations may be unfounded. We have no way of knowing. The stories of outrageous prices are still being circulated, and the comparisons, which usually favor uptown merchants, are made al most daily. Many of the - stories may be genuine myth. They are that unbelievable. Some are ridiculous, or give that alpearance. If they are all false and unsubstantiated, then the bookstore is being done a great injustice and should en deavor to vindicate its claim upon a large part of every stu dent's finances. Access to Records It would appear that the solu tion is simple. Why does the book store not grant access to its records? Or, better still, why not publish an itemized statement of its financial status? It seems 'as though nothing could be harmed by simply letting the public see what it is paying for. If the textbook division per sists in its refusal to do this, there is only one opinion left ior those concerned. That is that they may be paying for more than they are getting. We do not state this as fact, but simply point out that almost every record concerning the public's finances is open to public inspection. Only organizations rife with graft and corruption avoid the public's prying eye. The Tweed Ring had something to hide. Long DIssatisfaction T-here is no individual or group in South 'Carolina who can lay claim to the textbook division of the campus shop and refuse to allow his co-owners, the citizens, to know just what transpires there. It is public business and it is the right of the public, and es pecially the students of the Uni versity, to know. The dissatisfaction with the bookstore has been with us long enough. Presently, there is form ing a united appeal to the admin istration to either justify the prices In the bookstore and set the Carolina mind at e.ase, or re duce the prices and sell books at fair and reasonable prices. Biennial Anemaa It Is a tin\e to dissent, a time when the Carolina spirit, bled to anemia biennially, can rise up In protest and regain some of Its confidence. We do not advocate a loud or riotous reaction, but believe that every student who 'ha, felt the bookstore's too-deep bite Into his finances shouald get behind this action. Then, maybe there'll be fifteen cents left around to buy a coke at a football game .. . and that's thisfAeah, noi its or," -as Mad himlself. 4Pmer thednt trong of humanity come the very feO wh rise above heir lio contemporaries and become Im mortal. It i' this minority, thit had dtvilisa t1w word. When an indiidiel eolects his ideas and then strains them through the imagirlitive media of pen,and paper, and. does it well, he ls dalld a wAiter. His4ucess will depend upon his orit" and readers as well as on the merit of his contributions. But when the man As 'a writer is great and has even one con temporary in the position to do hin ill,..memory of him may be entirely annihilated. S UCH was the case with Edgar Allan Poe. This year celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ed gar Poe, possibly America's greatest contribution to 19th cen tury literature in the sense that he wrote for the sake .of art, not for that of fame and glory. He was artist, genius, and sensitive personality, all of which led to his gifts to literature and to his doom. S CARCELY was Poe's body in its grave before his literary executor, Rufus Griswold, printed an article in several newspapers which amounted to the utter def amation of Poe's character and a subtle sneering at his works. Griswold was a great anthol ogist at the time, but he despised genius because he lacked it him self. When this self;righteous hypocrite had Poe's works pub lished, he omitted many of the changes, and many of the very works, which Poe had asked in his will to gave included. Thus, for nearly three quarters of a century after his death, readers of Poe's works were con sidered "second-rate" minds. FORTUNATELY, the pens of his biographers have helped to save forever the true facts con cerning Poe and his works. Even with their untiring efforts, re searchers have failed to learn all of the details of his strange life. It was long believed, and still is believed by many, that Poe was an alcoholic, an inmpoverished drunkard whose debaucheries were made manifest in his gro tesque tales. The truth is that the most minute quantities of liquor or opium had such a debilitating ef fect on Poe's -sensitively balanced constitution that he would have to spend weeks in bed recovering. I NDEED, this is a form of al coholism, but it is not correct to assume that he was a drunk ard in the sense ascribed to that condition today. If alcohol was enervating to Poe, his poetry provided an in fluence to a great deal of modern writers. His faultless form and intricate Images are yet to be surpassed, and his vocabulary evokes and suggests his ideas rather than paints or photo graphs them. There is no poem in America more widely known than "The Raven" nor is there a tale to equal "The Fall of the House of Usher" In the delicate delinea tion of a mind toppling and dis integrating under the force of fear. M OST of the stories whidh are generally read are tales. of horror and death and degenera tion. But Poe's pen often poured out humor, farce, religion, and happiness. It Is true, however, that most of his tales deal with the un known element In man's mental makeup, but all of these do not contain only the gothic and the 1)1zarre. Thus he lives today an in valuable contributor to literature. He has survived in spite of the hates and jealousies of those who could never hope to rise to his genius. He dwells now in his own heaven of literary greatness, and if many of his ideas of after-lif'e are indeed true, Poe Is aware of his succes. "%e1, Com, yu Z Ellis Boatmon . . Renaming Fitting In 193' -the football kbtkuus of our university were at ebb tide. The Gamevockp had won only five victories in their 12 game schedule. In 1986 they had likowise taken only five games, while the year before that (1986) Carolina had managed to squeeze out only three wins -from a 10-Came slate. It was in 1987, after these three dismal years of tragic football, that the University se cured the services of a young coach by the name of Rex En right, in hope that he could bring a brighter day to USC's gloomy gridiron. "Mr. Carolina" For fourteen years. USC stu dents, knew no other coach than Rex 'Enright. Though a native of Rockford, Ill., he became to every loyal Gamecock fan, "Mr. Carolina," and for those -14 years fans followed him with a respeet, a deoeVio,and a love few American athletic personali ties have ever known. From an outstanding high school athletic record at Rock ford, Mr. Enright went to Notre Dame, where he was a star full back during the regime of the immortal Knute Rockne. Enright was All-iMidwestern fullback on the 1925 Fighting Irish team. In 1926 Carolina's future head coach received a lalw degree from Notre Dame and proceeded then to play for two years with the professional Green Bay Paekers. SEC Winner From a two-year stay as as sistant coach at North Carolina, Enright joined the University of Georgia coaching stafft in 1031. He was assistant football coach and head baskebll coach, win ning the Southeastern Conference championship at . Georgia one year. In 1938, Mr. Enright became head coach of the Gamecooks. A new stadim had been constructed four years earlier (1934) with a seating capacity of 17,600, but football was in a "bad way" at USC and the new head coach settled down to -the task of build ing a squad that could win. Navy Comumander. In 1948, Mr. Enright's tenure was interrupted because of World War II. USC's head coach served in the United States Navy, hold ing the rank of commander. He returned to Carolina In 1946. In the winter of 1954, the University's Board of Trustees showed their confidence in Mr. Enright by tearing up his con tract and placing him on aca demic status. This was but one example of the high regard with whMeh those of the purely sholastie world hold for Coach Enright, who has always been the friend and col league of his fellow-faculty mem boe. Resignation, In 1968 Mr. Enright an nounced his resignation as head coach at the end of that season. He did so to accept the position of full-time athletic director. Many had feared his service* would be lost to the University upon his resignation, but these fears were dispelled as Mr. En right became the director of Carolina% athletic program. A position requiring maturity of judgment, wide euperienee with USC's athletle schedule, and an understanding of the na tures of pl aayr fail alou..wd N." @ad* yeaw name on the inside; now I Of Carolin Honor For booster-this position Mr. En right's long years of service qualifies him to fill. Comeback In 1958 Mr. Enright became seriously ill with double pneu monia. His "comeback" was typi cal of the truly, valiant spirit that is the heart of Rex Enright. The years weigh heavily on an active .head coach, but Mr. Enright's contributions to our community continue. He still may be found at his desk at, the Round House working to ever improve the athletic program and~the University he has served so .long% and faithfully. He is a men*er of several important committees for the Atlantic Coast Conference and NiC.A.A., and is chairman of the AjCjC. booking offiice and committee on television. "An Enright Team" And now, 21 years since the young Notre Dame law graduate came to our Carolina Community, we pause to give serious con sideration to the role of Rex En right in our history. We feel a warm sense of pride that he came our way, and we would honor a man while we may still shake his hand and face to face tell him of our thanks. Mr. Enright has our friend ship, our respect, and our loyalty. These are his priceless gifts from all who ever cheered an "Enright team." But we here in 1959 would give him more. We would name our football stadium in tribute to our greatest coach. We would call it "The Rex Enright Stadium." Come Join With Us So may we urge trustees, ad CROWING F0 UNIVERSITY OF Mm=i-- of Aasocia usFounded nuaj 808 5 the University of Sooth Carolina we year secpt on holidays and dn,n Pnot osttutea eemn.TI EDITOR .. ... MANAGING EDITOR. BUSINESS MANAGER. ADVERTISING MANAGER COPY EDITOR .. NEWS EDITOR... FACULTY EDITOR FEATURE EDITOR SOCIETY EDITOR. SPORTS EDITOR. CAMPUS EDITOR . CIRCULATION MANAGE~R. CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER . REPORTlERS8: Judy Kllough, Ann Ellis Sheek, Loretta Pk NeSmith, Barbara Able, Margai Owens, Anh Neil, Elise McL Penny Holland, Cookie Crum, I Krebs, Howard Hellains, Wayn< May, Lynn Smith, Carlee McL4 BUSINESS STIAFF: Ps~g W ham, Ann Trotter, Jim Toias. COLUMNISTS: Rues Burn. El Dav. Bledsoe, BIH Handel. l011 old. ASSISTANT PHOTOGRA PI .Sahwarts, Blake Fishburne, Do OARTOONIsTrs: Jack Morris, Childres. TYPISTSMoaa.na. ety,_.ri . . .. .... .. I's on the outolde." a Sta-dium Enright ministration, staff, students, alumni, and Gamecock fans everywhere to Join with us In the drive to honor a man whose name will 50 years from now, as it does at present, Invoke the same degree of love and loyalty it did .when the famfflar figure of Rex Enright paced before the team bench. during a game. Rex Enright means much to us. He is as vital a part of Car 'oliniana as the Horseshoe, Maxey, Russell House, and Davis Field. When you mention U8C you tfiink of Mr. Enright. How fitting that .we should endow our athletic stadium with his name-not only as an honor for this present mo ment, but as an honor for all the years to come. .For those of you who feel that "Carolina Stadium" is more ap propriate, let me hasten to re mind you that "Enright" and "Carolina" are synonyms. He Is "our"' coach. He has mingled with us on campus, joked with us be tween -classes, been ever our source of advice and encourage ment, and has always maintained the highest code of ethics to In spire alk Carolina youth. FwAtball Menior And he is a great football mentor. He has, time after time, rie int u opston ul i' nThs oisdneoortatiln ovru.Thsa S tiutede bynherigh t .e f prs ministrion,hi staff, stents,a oayn, "ankou GmCoch, fans evrwet jobnweithdone." astdoesiat Presen,Ivksh sam doeree iof ovae and lathe of ex bnrifor pthdeoe thetso teaybn, during ah gamee ust s a vetritls aprt oftar olen."na a teorseasoe,axcy R ustel Hse, an Davisdoeld of ig Enit Howt firom ta as n onr orthsarenscKen o the .y.a.sEdoSpoar. 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