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Enphasl Why does one come to col hit the thing to do betwe 18-21? Is it because all of yoi doing it? Is it to get marrie Or is it to get an educatic A motion presented in St Monday asked the Student C the University to create the of tional Affairs Chairman wi purpose of "creating and mair mosphere which places emphi tion on the campus." The moti and will probably be broughi the next regular meeting of cil. Some of the specific provisi mandated that the EAC shall Orientation Chairman on the gram. It is argued that in tracurricular and social pha have been emphasized in Orii the role of education was noi Ken Holland . . Apparent Invades Hi! Currell College's second floor bulletin board which usually re mains silently white and empty, screamed Tuesday . . . loud. Gathered there was perhaps the most atrocious collection of grades ever displayed on this campus. It was astounding, pa thetic, and a little apalling. For your edification (and your edification only) we decided to make a little survey of fifteen history classes, nine history 12 and six history 11. Side by Side These classes were chosen, not because they were the best or worst, but because they just hap pened to be posted side by side in an embarrassing line. Out of the 402 students ini tially enrolled in these classes, 116 passed, mostly with D's. There Was one A, one B-plus, and .Letter to Edlitor Dear Editor: Because no ribbon-cutting naming ceremony on the 50-yard line has been observed this past quarter of a century, we are suddenly informed that our sta dium has stood nameless all that time. The absurdity of this is possibly best illustrated by the fact that the name "Carolina Stadium" is better knowvn na tionally than such names as Denny, Kenan, Hemingway, San ford, and Shields-Watkins Field. How many people know where these university stadiums of our sister states are? What do their names mean to those who know? The motive for giving the sta (ium a new name is a genuine desire to honor Rex Enright and to perpetuate his name. Isn't this p)remature? Mr. Enright is still with us, and his reputation is still forming. The past tells us that it has been admirable, but only the future can say what the final product will be. JTames C. S. Rivers Epdnleo apdyo1uw aln' h en ohihrFeri s Placed On E lege? proper perspe w the ages of It is well lu ir friends are ticularly fresh d? is the establisi n? chairman woi udent Council Student Govei rovernment of tain an emph fice of Educa- But more i: h the stated things is the taining a'n at- motion: Shall tsis on educa- itself with th on was tabled school? Shall E up again at in the past, b student Coun- extracurricula life, or shall ii ons of the bill responsibility work with the student? freshman pro- Student Cot the past, ex- tions when it 3es of college realizes the ri mtation while ernment to ed placed in its college life. Epidemic C ;tory In Cur seven B's. Seventeen of the 402 wised up before mid-semester and dropped. To go into the details of all 15 of these classes would require more space than we this week are allotted. Therefore, we chose three history 11 classes to break down further. 57 Failures There were 78 students en rolled in these classes when the semester started. Four dropped. Fifty-seven failed. There were 11 D's, five C's, and one B. After subtracting the four who dropped, we find that of the 74 remaining, slightly over 21 per cent passed, and well over half of these had D's. By now, you are probably won dering just what all these fig ures mean. So do we. Epidemic of Stupidity At first glance it would appear that there has been an epidemic of gross stupidity on the c-mpus. Just what could have caused such an outbreak, no one can be sure. However, we question this, since there has been no such in cidence reported in other depart ments on the campus. For a long time, we have hailed our history department as one of the best and toughest in this country. While students have en tered classes there, apprehen sive about the difficulty there in, they have, nevertheless, emerged at the end of each semester p)leased with the grade they have been able to eke out ...if it was above D. Mortality Pcecntage It has been for some time es tablished that there must be some course in the college curriculum to jolt students out of the laxity reputed to exist in high schogl. They may wvell be true, but why electrocute them? We are sure that no member of the history department faculty is proud of the mortality per centage inflicted upon the stu dents now enrolled in the lower history courses. Maybe they're not even serious. Could it be that ur.. hocadon etive. iown that new students, par men, fall into what they feel ked patterns on a campus. The ild be responsible, through rnment, for trying to main asis on education. rnportant than these specific underlying question of the Student- Government concern e educational process of the )tudent Government, as it has e merely concerned with the r and social side of student ; take a good, long look at its to the student in his role as a incil will answei these ques faces this motion. We hope it asponsibility of Student Gov ucation as the major part of if Stupidity rell College they have arranged this as a lit tle joke to scare students into studying more? If they did, boy, they scared hell out of a crowd. Good Department There has been. a mild uproar at this writing to the effect that it's all the professors' fault. This excuse, we cannot accept. There is a very likeable and efficient faculty in the history department. No one can question that, we feel. For many years, most of them h a v e guided their students through these two classes with out such fruitless results as have emerged this mid-semester. Now we do not take it upon ourselves to pass judgment on this question. However, it must be pointed out that someone is at fault. Can it be the faculty? Or can it be the students? Shall we lapse into the plati tudinous practice of blaming the high schools that sent these stu dents here? No, let us lay the indictment on Russia. Or, on second thought, would that be an act of War? New Textbook Well . . . there was a (don't cringe) new textbook introduced into these courses this semester. It seems rather far-fetched, though, to conclude that that could have anything to do with all those failures. Most text books are the same as far as wvhat is printed in them is con cerned.... Can there be a guilty one? We all know that the purpose of education is to prepare one to carry on a somewhat better life than is enjoyed by the unedu cated. There is a great satisfac tion in knowing things. It mat ters not what. Just things... some that count and some that are unimportant. Leaping from the premise that we are here preparing for life, let us assume that many of our fresh men have never experienced downfalls that life sometimes brings. All enrolled in history 11 or 12 this semester now have... at least, most of those who failed. g F F 4 Ellis Bbatmon . . . [See Carolina In Fifty Ways I see Carolina in fifty ways: the James F. Byrnes professor of International Relations, estab lished by the Russells . . . the Wig and Robe . . . the nurses' friend and Dean, Miss Amy Vig lione .. * ODK tapping . . . we hear that former vice president of the student body, Robert Wal lace, now a practicing attorney at Charleston, received his law degree and a baby daughter the same day. Excellent Response The excellent response from the student body to the call of the 1959 American Red Cross blood drive . . . Joe Grugan, Gamecock baseball mentor . . . S A E's enormous rain-soaked Gamerooster, this. year's Home coming winner . . . the white wigs of Euphradian members . . . our outstaDding chapter of the Arnold Air Society. Capable Treasurer Mike Quinn, capable treasurer of the student body ... tag: G-57 . . . the impressive uniforms of our NROTC unit . . . editor of "The Gamecock" returning with her staff from quite a nice week end at New York press conven tion ... the lovely Beverly Jones, Carolina's candidate for "Miss Campus Queen." Fast-4;rowing Centers Florence, Beaufort, and Lan caster-USC's fast-growing ex tension centers . . . debaters de scending on Russell House with briefcases, card files, and much lung power . . . Alpha Delta Pi's A-bagail Davis Student Loan Fund . . . frat serenaders in front of Maxcy crooning a new pinee . . . Bill Hay's legendary stereo hi-fi. Scrapping Scotty Scrapping Scotty Ward, spark plug for our spirited Dixie Le gion . . . Mrs. Irene Elliott's "Grelat Books". . . the ever-grow ing Valhalla of wounded football players . .. . the new TV set in Preston lounge . . . Slater's in creased bonus on the board meal plan. Stadium Drive The drive to honor Rex En right goes on at an encouraging pace . . . Alpha Delta Pi's Beth Hall, who is SPE sweetheart . . . book store controversy is assum ing rather warm proportions . . . bo-hunk Butch Jackson should see plenty of action in tonight's charity toss . . . Pi KA honors Sen. J. Strom Thurmond with fraternity membership. "Gamecock" Tie Dr Sumwalt's "Gamecock" tie ...Hank Bartos, USC's golf coach . . . Student Council's cur rent wrangle over National Stu dent Association membership for Carolina . . . Sports Editor Bobby Alford says he had a wvonderful time in Miami, orange juice and all . . . Mike Lacy, a new Blue Key initiate, also made the trip to the Land of Sunshine with his frat associates. Mid-Semester Shocks Mid-semester grades, with their normal output of shocks for -many, are now released . .. Uni versity of Idaho transfer Ellis Laitala 'will add quite a bit to next year's tankmen, swimming the 50-yard free stroke with ease ...Thespians have switched from "You Can't Take It With You" to "Hotel Universe"... SPE has revived their popular tea dances for Carolina sorority girls '. . . Bill Lumpkin, one of the hardest workers on "The Gamecock's" pages. Say Goodbye We hear that some fans who went to the station to say good bye to the Miami-bound crew stayed on for a permanent fare well . . . the Black and Gold For mal of Phi Kappa Sigma . Shot-put artist Dave Coates Is Block-'C Exec. . . . "Fighting" Mike Callahan will lead the varsity cagers to what all hope is a much improved basketball season . . . Phil Lavole Is knock ing at the door of highest single scorer in USC football. Session. Pay The long tedious practice ses sions for the "Marching Game cocks" have paid off in some really fine half-time shows... Dr. Tomlin, our new dean of men, is proving well qualified for the post . . . Tri--Delta's Mar garet Ashe Scholarship . . . the much-traveled, much-abused ele vators in Bldgs. H and J . . our president's friendly and lovely secretary, Beverly Coate. 10fW 4 HeHo, Army Recruiting? ... 1 Anthony E. Brown One Hundrec War, Poetry, So IN the year 1859, there were many events taking place which were to affect the direction of American history so drastically that the nation appeared to alter its entire system of values, laws, and social traditions. In the South in particular there was dissension ana discord formented by economic, social, and political pressures from the North, largely through ignorance of the slavery question and of the truth about the Southern way of life. Thus we have the pic ture at the beginning of 1859. In the late summer of 1859, an abolitionist by the name of John Brown leased a Maryland farm house five miles from Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and secreted his "army" there. W ITH sixteen white men, in cluding Brown's three sons, and five- Negroes, he at tacked the U. S. Armory at Har pers Ferry, killing five civilians and taking several 'hostages. Brown and his remaining men were captured only after much bloodshed. After being tried for treasoi., Brown and five others were hanged for their trouble. When Union soldiers marched into Vir ginia a few years later they sang: "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, but his soul goes marching on." The North was inflamed by Brown's intense fanaticism which dramatized the intense hatred of the abolitionists for slavery and which added another coal to the fire that erupted into civil war in 1861. A MAN named Dan Emmett was 44 years old in 1859. He was' traveling with the Bryant minstrels that year when Bryant asked him to compose a song to "wvalk around by." Emmett, re calling how showmen used to say "I wish I was in Dixieland" com posed '"Dixie." In 1861 the song captivated a Confederate rally in New Or leans and eventually spread to all Confederate armies. There were, of course, many historical events of 1859 which had profound affects in areas other than war. On November 24th, Charles R. Darwin, a Brit ish naturalist, published his "Origin of the Species." DAR WIN argued that hered -ity and the struggle for existence made modifications in all living species, thus apply'ing the theory of evolution. This outraged churchmen who taught 4hat all species were static and unchanging. But Darwin's theory, with reservations, be came basic in science. *In August of 1859 the first oil was obtained in a well by drilling along a creek bank near Titusville, Pennsylvania. 'lhe fabulous Comstock Lode was dis covered in the Nevada Territory, creating the second dash to the West in a decade. I N the world of literature, Charies Dickens published "The Tale of Two Cities;" Ed ward Fitzgerald, "The Rubai yat;" George Eliot, "Adam Bode;" Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Professor at the Breakfast Table;" John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty;" Tennyson, "ldylls of the King;" Lady Shelly, "Mem orials of Shelly," and Anthony Trollope, "The Bertram.." 1869 marked the end of the 7e've got another one for you. 1 Years Ago: ngs And Death Among them were Leigh Hunt, the poet, Henry Hallam, for whom Tennyson was to write his elegy, "In Memoriam," Washing ton Irving, Horace Mann, Prince Metternich, and' Robert Louis Stevenson. One hundred years ag- Pierre Curie, who with his wife Marie diseovered radium, was born. Also born in 1859 were Sir Ar thur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes series, Alfred Dreyfus, Havlock Ellis, Kenneth Grahame, A. E. Housman, and Francis Thompson. T HESE were the most signifi cant events of the year. There were, of course, many more which were not as promi nent nationally or internation ally, but which had importance to those immediately concerned. To gether, these things constituted a year of change and of progress of which we feel the effects even today. What if there had been no raid on Harpers Ferry? Would the Civil War have been delayed or even averted, or would it have come sooner? -Suppose Henry Hallam had not died in 1859. If he had lived, perhaps Tenneyson would have be,n even more productive than he was, for in his grieving for Hallam, he wrote little except the elegy for his departed friend. W OU LID some other scientist have come up with a theory on evolution if Darwin had not wvritten his wvork when he did? The answer to these~ questions is that no one knowvs for certain. We can only conjecture when ifs and what ifs are entered into a matter of history. The fact is that these things did happen and that the civiliza tion of today has been altered because of their occurrence. Some of the happenings of a century ago are still presenting prIoblems- today. F OR example, the South is yet suffering from the effects of the Civil War. Because there happened to be a Republican ad ministration in the White House in 1860, the South will not vote but for a Democratic or States Rights candidate for the presi dency. Again, because the gen eral feeling was, and is, that the South was wrong and was the reason for the Civil War, no President will be elected if he is a Southerner and has a Southern point of view. Perhapa this will change when the American people realize that this is one united country, not an amalgamation of intolerant political factions. And the South too must change some of ita values in order that it might be come a more integral part of America as a nation. One hundred years from now someone will look back and note that in 1959 America had be come of age. Let us ho'pe that he will be right. CROWING PO0 UNIVERSITY OF Member of Assoca the.UnIvenSy of seta Ca yea encep enhlidays ad d necessarily b. ef"e EDITOR. MANAGIN EDITO Dave Bledso. . . Student Response: Ho-Hum We must regretfully return to the wars. Aegretfully, because the efforts of a large number of people are being set aside by a small minority. We are informed by supposed experts that this will always bp the case. One rotten apple spoils the entire barrel.. . . but we are not apples, we are intelligent human beings in quest of- knowl edge. Item: C e r t a i n individuals stuffed an elevator full o( paper in one of the new men's dorms and set it afire. Item: The petition for the re naming of Carolina Stadium was stolen from Russell House infor mation desk. Item: The local newspapers were forced to call in city detec tives to halt the thievery of news papers from the racks. Tough Stirring Isn't this a pretty sickening indictment of a University? And yet, we feel safe in assuming that no more than 50 people were in volved in these episodes . . . ap. proximately ONE per cent of the student body. What, then, must we do to rid ourselves of what appears to be an innate core of rottenness? Are we a sodden group of noth ings standing aimlessly by while our more boisterous brethren foul the nest? Stirring this school to action is like using a damp soda straw in a thick milkshake . .. it seem ingly can't be done. Students respond with a rousing ho-hum. Do Something? As stated, we regretfully re turn to the wars. A certain weari ness settles as we see the efforts of decent, responsible students poured down the drain. We feel almost like saying: "Please, all who read-do something. Don't sit and stare, don't shrug it off do something." State-wide attention has been drawn to the University by the campaign to name the football stadium in honor of Rex Enright. Not all comments are favorable, but all have commented on the drive and energy, the spirit, with which the move was made. Now we have someone in our midst who thinks it is "cute" to take the petition and hide it, burn it, or whatever was done to it. Really funny, isn't it? Now, all the stu dents who worked for this proj ect, often at the expense of them selves, must fight the handicap of a delay in re-signing. A mil lion laughs. New dorms were built at great expense .to the University... and they were solely built for the students. University officials don't live in the dorms, profes sors don't live in the dorms, just students. These grateful students set the elevator on lire and stole its control panel to show their appreciation and admiration. 'This Is Human? -No wonder there are rules that sometimes cramp and gall . . . at least a police state is safe to live in. In checking back over past issues of the "Gamecock," we have found that the problem of disappearing newspapers has been around for some time. Why in the name of all that's holy must students take a newspaper that even in these inflationary days, still costs only five cents? Without becoming maudlin, at least consider the fact that the paper vendors work within a small budget that has no room for theft. It would be a nice gesture on ,the part of the students who are responsible for this cheap larceny to put a little extra in the coin box;.,. but this won't happen. A'buses, abuses, abuses... Just for one week, couldn't some thing go right? Couldn't we for one short space of time live up to our potential as a great com miunity of students? Couldn't we, for once, act like human beings instead of animials? Please? I A GREATER soUTr CAROLINA sh.d ..m s ,. GLENNA BRYANT ........Karen MeKibben