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EfficencT Or 01 "An Epert is one who knows more and more about es and le. -Nicholas M. Butler Efficiency! Carolina students now realize more than ever the need for such a thing. According to the administrative plan, 5,000 students were to complete the nerve-racking process of registration in one day. Lines, lines, lines! If this is the result of an efficiency expert, we would prefer the work of a nescient dreamer. We need nol enumerate the registration lines, but need only to point out the result of someone'. planning. Standing in one line for, an hour, only t< find that another line had to be wade< through first, is far from efficiency. Man3 students didn't realize that the unliste' station of obtaining housing cards had to b checked before standing in the fee checkinj line. The fee checking line itself was rathe unnecessary in many cases. Students havinj only university, tuition and housing fee needlessly, had to stand in line along wit] Pefty Tiev It seems that we at the University ar encountering a problem common to all col leges, that of petty thievery. The latest out break has been on textbooks. This bega when the bookstore announced that use textbooks would be bought. Aside from being inconvenient, it is little disturbing to carry books everywher one gbes. It is, also, inconvenient to carr a lock and chain to secure books for a shor time. Obviously those persons responsible fo thefts of books are few in number. It i unfortunate that they are in our mids Russ Burns . Registration. R Mathematics, it is said, holds a few atrociti( the key to the universe. Appar- registration ently the author of this state- hearty pionee ment made a profound impres- his top over. sion upon our campus efficiency Closina experts-at least, it showed up For instan in Monday's and Tuesday's stu- lady who sto dent exercises. for several i Everywhere you looked all you the window s could see was straight lines and "Sorry, w curved lines. It was the greatest lunch. . . ." geometric display this campus Well, what has ever seen. there for an The military has long been for the check noted for its strategy of sendinjg give up in d recruits through seemingly end- tiently, she a' less lines. It's all part of the urer's office game of indoctrination, one there .money. Senseless iJnes "No, I'm But here at a university where take your nmo civilities supposedly prevail, what Howv to w in hell is the sense of senseless fluence suicit lines! Year after year, it's the Lighte same old story, and the story Which brir grows longer every year. . . . somehow, This wveek students were kept impression th wvaiting in line for such a great ing procedur< length of time until some passed load on the out and others became quite ill. wvriter is in I Not all of us know the military tending the 1 trick of flexing the knees to pre- Carolina, an< vent fainting after hours on our have we seeni feet. ganizedl chao 0. K. So call the younger gen- Perhaps by eration weak or pampered or tiede is publi unpioneerish. However, there are dents will ha UJnes provIde a familiar but unpopular as (Photon by Allan.) rganlzed Chaos? students having additional few. It seems the time eleient is not so urger that students are forced to pay fees in tw days. Is it necessary to have the whole regi tration process completed in such a shoi period of time? If there is a certain admini trative reason for the short registratic period, its disclosure might help explain tt r6eed for a two-day limit for payment of fee Many students are unable through variot class and work schedules to stand in lines f< I several hours in order to pay fees. Fro necessity the payment period had to be e: tended. - Registration by classes instead of in a I phabetical order would enable. graduatir r seniors to obtain needed courses. Many wl I were in the last registration group (12:' a to 1 :30) were unable in most cases to beg r registration until after the University lun hour, by that time, many classes were q e ready filled. K Lines, then, for each individual step 3 registration do not provide efficiency. i at least it didn't Monday and Tuesday. ery Increases L Certainly they do not belong in an instit . tion of higher learning such as Caroli where honesty is a major part of our mor code. The money obtained from the sales used books is extremely small. It is ce tainly not worth the risk of being caugl a Once the stamp of untrustability has be e placed upon a person, it remains. Y Until such time as we have better metho t of apprehension of those persons who ma a habit of picking up what does not beloi r to them, we shall have to watch out f 8 ourselves. It is an unfortunate situati( when a person cannot trust his fellow ma umbles- Remain Ks committed during And the line- to pick up reg which even the trationinaterial are just as ha would have blown organized. Now we don't prof to know all the aspects of r For Lunch ganizing a registration, but ce, there was the WOuld seem to us that one meti od in the fee line of reducing lines would be ours only to have mail the materials to the ca ammed in her face. pus students. After all, the p e're closing f 0 r office places papers in the oi every day. Would anl additioi do you do? Stand packet once a semester disrt >ther hour, waiting acites er' to come back, orRaeFr(use sgust? Cursing pa- Ofcmu tdnsw iproached the treas- te aepatclyn ie in hopes that some- fgt .ould .accept her O ore hswudrl orry, but we can't frternee ore.Ti ney here. . . ."moedmcai,tug,t n enemies, and in- mkn hs tteedo es. apae aetelfoe n The Load hihiforecrsaen gs us to the point i ut~htte aebe we were under the inmotothtmedrg at the new fee pay- ls ieyas Swould lighten the Ye,srefienystek student. Well, this noeooucapsoity tis fifth year of at- aesoefinthtweav Jniversity of South ousaiyGvesantry I never . . . never oftitumladweil such bungling, or- beablnidos rthe time this an- ta eno'byaan ' shed, half the stu- gontolthmpa ih epad her eendoy talny oreckup.e litas tuent wariy waidtee to au s tonemets it 0 3 fb 13. Ig 10 10 in ,h X~ in ) r Ahidde'i bric Wama fi-ont. (Photo bv Allan.) Anthony E. Brown . . . It's Ori la al In Car< yf Shortly after mid-term grades r- had been posted, there appeared on this page a series of articles either condemning or praising the Department of History for its seemingly rigorous standards. It will not be the intention of this ke writer to take either side in the 19 matter, but we shall by use of r)r hypothetical examples try to show )n why many professors are justi fied in the grades they give, low or high. It is superfluous to say that History 11 and 12 have from the beginning of written history, as it were, been nemeses for the freshman in college. Probably the vast number of dates and rulers confuses him more than the logi Ily cal flow of events, but the follow as ing example of almost chaotic e iecollection-or mis-recollection it hears repetition: od "One beautiful night in the to tenth century, Queen Eleanor of m- Aquitaine went into Coventry, D8t and after removing all her clothes ces rode through the streets on a ial white stallion. On her way, she lpt humped into Sir Walter Raleigh, wvho was embarrassed by her ap pearance and threw his cloak uld around her, saying 'Honi soit qui to inial y pense,' which means, 'You need it more than I do.' The sse Q ui e e ni graciously responded, ace 'D)ieu et mon droit,' which means ' 'By George, you're right.' ian the Dave Bledsoe ... ht, do- New S the .Promises N~ ost Exams have ended, a new se ear mnester has begun . . . and the all air is full of rash promises, about "this time it's going to be differ nes ent" . . . and it could well be. not * * * my We see a lot of new faces in the crowd . . . one trasfer from -a prominent womens college up north inquired about Maxcy monument. We would have told her the truth, except that the * A dministration has e a n n i 1 y welded the ball to its supports, hindering honest speculation... and after all, what can one say about Maxey Monument except that its just there? * + * That (lark and devious monster bidden in a part of the adminis tration building called "Machine records" had its moments, too. One student, reveling in the safety of a near "B" average was informed by the machine that he was on acadlemic suspension . . . he revived in time to learn it was a mistake. * * * Still, all in all, registration wasn't all that painful, we think, though, that UJncle 'Sam could solve the problem of the draft by including recruiting forms ir the IRM packets . . . by the time the cards are filled out one i never really sure what he did or didn't sign. * * * To squelch an ill-founded and malicious rumor: The history de partment did not make prospec i. tive matriculates swear that they hna not, or. ever. inteaideA ta IeKissc rary a4 a mass of disat iginality, That :>Iina Exam A "The entire incident is known as the Magna Charta." , Blase Freshman No professional humorist could have thought up that answer to the question, "Give one example of political strife in medieval England." It would have ex hausted him to try. Only the blase freshman is capable of an answer that covers several hun dred years while attempting tc pin-point one incident. Examinations h a v e b e e r handed down through generationm of students, especially those (uizes in courses that everyon( must take and which have had the -same professor for thirty oi forty years. Sometimes the exams are changed to suit new ma terial, but it is very difficult t( make many alterations when th( course matter is solidified in un. deniable truths And facts. How ever, one finds exceptions to al generalities. A professor on the - Carolin campus was being visited by i student who had graduate( twenty years before. The student now a famous physicist at Oal Ridge, had taken several physic courses under the old professor and upon seeing a pile of exami nation papers on * the desk, hK was amazed to see that the ques tions were precisely those whicl he recalled having answered oi his final exam twenty year; earlier. He asked the professo emester \any Things write derogatory or slanderinj remarks ab)out History 11. * * * All is not roses, however.. one political science professo noted that he had a columnis from our illustrous weekly in hi class, andl was "looking forwar to discussing 'things' with him. This is patently unfair, since n one told us when we started wril ing these bits that anyone woul even read-much less remembe -what we had written.... * * * Actually, someone once aske us how we ever got away wit saying the things that we did.. and our reply was simply: "Yo can get away with calling great man a pinhead, hecaus onily pinheads object to bein called a pinhead." * * * An out-of-state student aske us to what degree censorship wa imposed on either the newspape or the campus radio station.. and, our reply was-quite trutl fully-"none." * * * Sort of reminds us of the pr< fessor who told a student: "C (ourse you can argue and pros me wrong, but why jeopardi: your whole future?" A University official told how much they en.joyed tI "Gamecock." "Why," said sh "I can't rest till I've read It fro I cover to cover." Jes' fine, now v~ can't rest, either. * * * Seriously . . . our best to y< for angoA semestne L4 D S n a w do b4 d4 poted expressionslace the attle t Counts nswers t if he didn't know the students f would get wise, and pass the V questions on from class to class. Changing Answers d 1l "Sure," answered t h e prof, blandly, "but in physics, you see, we are constantly changing the answers." t This will work in courses such t as economics, chemistry and phy- i sics, but not in unchanging fields , such as history and music. Aome other answers on exami nations this term which amused us are classics of their kind. In reply to the question, "What are acoustics," given in an oral physics quiz, one main street c weary student answered: "The long sticks used in playing pool." Another student of many years' standing as a freshman was asked on a music exam to identify an "opus." The answer that par ticular student gave will be fa- < miliar to all beer-drinking stu dents at Carolina. He even gave illustrations! This could continue forever. There are literally thousands of unique and humorous answers turned in to instructors every exam period, many of which are either too ridiculous-or too bawdy to appear in an austere college p)aper. Others would probably be recognized by their perpetrators or by professors. Agreeing Students One, last example and we will stop. This proves beyond the least dlouht that statistics are often more confusing than they are 1 CROWING FOR UNIVERSITY OF S( t Member of Associate. Founded Januar 30, I908, wh first editor, "Th Gamecock" is pb the University of South Carolina we year except on holidays and durn e The opinion. expresed bcoua. necessarily those of "The amecoci -letters to the Editor, but all letters not constitute an endorsement. The publication any letter is reserved. r EDITOR... MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER ADVERTISING MANAGER COPY EDITOR ti a NEWS EDITOR.... e FACULTY EDITOR FEATURE EDITOR SOCIETY EDITOR di SPORTS EDITOR sCAMPUS EDITOR PICTURE EDITOR CIRCULATION MANAGER . REPORTERS: Jacquie Splawn, N Loretta Lott, Henry Cauthen, B -Selby Taporek, Novelle Owens, Ar 'f terson, Jay Elgy, Penny Hollani 'e Jimmy Foster, Sara Krebs, Wayni :e May, Lynn Smith, Carlee McLE Gray, Morris Tatum. BUSINESS STAFF: Pegy Wit as ham, Ann Trotter, Jim Tobias. eC COLUMNISTS: Russ Burns, Ant e, Bill Handel. Columnist Emeritus: m" PHOTOGRAPHERS: "Pat" Pat re ford, Sah Fiorini, Russ 1Burns, B raphers: Ed H-endrickson, Seth 6 CARTOONISTS8: Jack Morris, J u Childres. TYPISrS: Mana Pe.ty, Har...t. tters to the Editor . . ion. Thurmond Sends Thanks ear *Student Body": Thank you for the kind ox ression of sympathy from the udent body of the University of DUth Carolina. The thoughtful. ?ss of our friends has helped us I through this sad time. God never made a finer, nobler oman, or -one who was a more !voted companion than Jean. :er tragic passing has left a )id in my life which can never a filled. I send my deep appreciation o all the members of the stu. ?nt body. Sincerely, Strom Thurmond Private Eyes Patrol Dorms ear Editor: Why did the Director of Hous ig hire a private eye to patrol he men's dorms? Is it because e does not trust the honor and tegrity of the men of the Uni ersity of South Carolina? Students have had their names urned into the housing authority or little or no reasons such as ralking in the halls after 9 p.m. r visiting someone's room and iscussing homework or getting drink from the fountain at ight. If men are treated as men, hey will act as men, but if reated as criminals, they will act _ such. We believe in proper upervision, but we also believe hat this is going to extremes. Sincerely, Two Students nlightening. In an exam in a ourse in population survey, the orofessor gave a question which tuted that graduates of Prince on, an all male institution, av raged 1.8 children while grad iates of Smith, an all female ollege, averaged only 1.4 chil Iren. The last half of the ques ion asked the students to arrive it some logical conclusion re iulting from the data given. When the professor was correct ng the papers, he discovered that every one of his students had mnswered: "Men have more chil lren than women." In this light, It would seem wvise to consider carefully the mnswers one places within the yon fines of a bluebook; if not, riis answers may achieve immor tality, of a sort, for it may be round some day that Queen Elleanor, or whoever it may have seen, rode bareback best. A GREA5 IUTH CAROLINA I Collegiate Pres. Robert Elleott Commeles as the abed br and for the stdemts of m,ists and lte wires suae met *BOBBY ALFORD Charles Behling - Ed Spears * Nat Adams Penny Sinclair Bill Lumpkin Margaret Scott Judy Killough SDee Chandler Howard Hellama * Vance NeSmith Blake Fishburne SJim Hatehll ancy Carroll, Ann Ellis Sheek, arbara Able, Margaret Baird, in Neil, Elise McLean, Pat Pat. I, Cookie Crum, Linda Jones, Corbett, Adolph Inman, Larry ndon, Charlotte Gower, Doug here, Serena Jonee, Betsy Gil hony E. Brown, Dave Bledsoe, Carl M. Reynolds. terson, Pete Allan, Doug Shu ill Van Hoy. Assistant Photog arrison, Bilil Allen, Jim Bryant. udy Craig, Punkie Bell, CeM.