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MsUn-ormatM The most frustrating experience that can happen to a reporter Is to spend time gather ing facts, supposedly true facts, put them together after much sweat and toil only to find that when these facts finally appear in print, they are dead wrong. Several ultra competent members of the "Gamecock" staff have experienced this harassing incident recently. We feel that we owe the student body an explanation as to why this* has happened. When a reporter checks three different news sources and comes away with the same in formation from all three, he is quite certain that the information is correct. Such has not been the case on several occasions in Students Not Another Religious Emphasis Week has come and gone. We could not help wondering just what was being emphasized. It was re ported in these columns that coffee con sumption went up by 60 gallons per day in Russell House. Each day at ten-thirty any one near Russell House was in danger of being trampled by those rushing to partake of that Slater "brew." We didn't make the daytime lectures, but attended nightly discussions. After en gaging in some serious discussions directed by Lt. Harwell from the University of Florida, we came to realize that there is something missing at Carolina. It may sound corny in a world where togetherness A Welome' Approximately 400 members of the South Carolina Press Association will appear on campus today and tomorrow. They are gathered here and in Columbia for the an nual winter press conference. Each year relresentatives of the various South Caro lina newspapers, daily and weekly, get to The Case Of Th4 It seems that there is always something that bugs every person. Sometimes bugs bug a person. Recently, it was suggested to us that something should be done about the bugs which are and have been accumulat ing in the shade of the lamp hanging from the porch ceiling of Sims Dormitory. Nat utrally, our suggestor was a Sims resident. Apparently, this young lady always looked Russ Burns .. Beware The \ Or Chipped Pa "Bewvare the woman driver!" ter what the at is a common phrase in male so- the male sex wvi ciety. with such excu: From the time we assume even other dizzy dan the slightest responsibility for a wvoman; you< the family car until the time do any better." we are too old to push an accel- Why cant w erator, we are constantly aware doi be(tter? Why of the enigma called the woman behavior so ex driver. Two A re we committing some in- A s a male justice to the ladies by doubt- choices: Smile ing their ability to coordinate your big mot themselves on the road? Or, per- slammed shut haps, are the dubious whisperings no fury . . . etc. grounded upon fact? Now we ar< Revealing Observation woman's ability her attitude w Several months ago, we de- can't help but s cidled to diligently observe all ta tlat5 automotive activities--other than tyhat gt lehind5 necking-around Carolina in r- ithi one thoug der to settle once and for all, "Look out 'cau if only to our own satisfaction, Everybody el the case of the woman driver, watch out for ei The results we have gained are They know the not statistics, but are pure, al- hand and they most-unprejudiced impressions. est. Woe unto And these impressions cry out intewy only one thing . . .if Carolina intet way.i is a representative cross-section, fore going furt then IT'S A CRIME to allow Aguwilt most of South Carolina's female Anguyisl in sex behind the wheel. nvehi. c. .i.Wh Crown Men Cry city, it is inevit Inconsiderate, smug, self-cen- sooner or later tered, show-offish, dictatorial, parking space. stubborn, childish, thoughtfMs, "" ndt' he able t< heedless, and incomprehensible, doorc com pletel: these females demonstrate in a it come in cont; sterling way how to make a cent car. grown m'an cry. . . . - C:hipp Yet, for the most part, no mat- Flinging ope CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CARO Mesmber of Associated Collegiate Pr Feuaded Janus 80, 1908, with Robert EllHott C the Uvudyof so. ysoIa ehi, 7, de Loatsm 8. the dit. an f.t.. ..tb not ea.tit.te a od mi. The right to oit ., ..bIIt..n....,r s. e,w...d. - )n Must Cease the past two weeks. Those perfons who are supposedly enligl4ened as to what is taking place on campus, apparently, have been ob taining the same "misinformation" and pass ing it on as absolutely true. Consequently, the- "Gamecock" has been placed ifi embar rassing circumstances due to this absolute truth. When those responsible officials are mis informed, then it can be safely assumed that so will the student body. We hope that in the future these responsible officials will be certain that they are correct before passing on their information. Either this must take place; or the "Gamecock" will have to resort to giving the source for all information gained from those "in the know." Hd Counselors has been doomel to Hades, but Carolina needs more togetherness than we now have. This campus is in need of some qualified persons who understand student problems an( can offer good solid advice to students. Where is there for a student to go to ob tain needed advice and counsel; to the pro fessor who just gave him an "F," to the dean of the school who knows him only as another statistic? We need more than this; we leserve more. We need persons who are qualified counselors, and who can let their hair down with a student; not someone who sits back and listens to a student tell his story and then announce with authority, "You do have a problem." ro The Press gether to discuss problems and suggest so lutions. We are honored that such a <listinguished groiip of people chose our- campus as the location for their <liscussions. We extenl a heartyv welcome to v'ach al every one of them. Swinging Bugs it) at the lm) about five minutes before sign-in time and all she saw was hugs. They annoyeL her; actually, we think she resentel the fact that the hugs <diln't have to be in at twelve o'clock. So, it is.our luty to make it known that some bigs need to be removed from the lamp outsi<le Sims. Which goes to prove that lead< bugs aren't gool bligs not even when they are swinging. Voman Driver int Goes Flying rocity committed, utinaeali ochpd 11 wearily give in pito orniho' nr o ~es as: "'J ust an- tk oed iigtenx e e."' Or "wvell, it's w(k.Wthhwagy~'l an 't expect her to patialyuj tiisdo. nsid expect them to ca.Wthhwmtwon is their hungling gv e or hv pn :usable? suti ginalu(lnada f:hoieshe o ait you have two Toh nrflijutonmc olerably, or open rI'cfrtefml i.I th and get it sotte itcntb o ee again. Hell hadthi .te reecsbe m't, speaking otf w r o cnenn l to drive; rather wmn(rvr.W r o lsi hiue driving. We iigalothmshd.War et the impression 'iieaaeo h atta hr % of the women aieecll't.fmldrvrju1 the wheel, do so a hr r os aedies ht in mind. . .atreans h .vr se here I come!'" t~La nrosnm~ro e ~e is supposed to mlsaesml aeesi hi ch woman (driver. ~r have the upper iliighbt.Iishotim >lay it to the full- thytae(loknotfoth the one wvho gets ohrflo,to re an example be-* her: Yuko,a lc fhge Ike pride in keep- euain uha n nvr :op shape; a girl, iyweiie51))edtlav n you drive in a lebidot''lwionhefr' able that you will tcisadsatatn osm park in an angle derelklaisndgtem. Usually, you will ~e,t a norGmcc without having ihaswean'congtte tct with the aidja- tog ihsoehg.Apr tend Paintr i' emer f u idoor thnre- sopn hi odaloe h ta)esecar,ad lo.Ayn ('a haelnesci(as, httter Wt heevoluedofnsudent uingghe tfailtie eahe(ay iisutrly ierssiare tnkee suters in a asteofu chipped takjhee ntes oun the studts,e (po artilype i cleand t thie out s b.mso s yo tomake. h nx ~ gs andi dors aove olin,o rw oelsen wnts o sitn ind you showe of aint . . . thy aresecuslbpe wekarenotfcndemnngnkl Earl P. Murphy . Johnny When I graduated from high school, my folks gave me a won derful gift It was a bouncy, friendly, hairy, ugly little ape. "How much he looks like one of my good friends," I said sim ply, and I named him Johnny. Johnny and I became fast friends during the summer, but soon vacation was over and it was time to go to school. I could not bear to leave my friend behind, so I stuffed him in my ti4ink and off we went to USC. The entrance exam was tough, and Johnny finished ten minutes before me. This made me angry. "I will get even," I said sim ply, "I won't let him use my toothbrush any more." I became jealous of Johnny. When we registered, he went to the head of the line and nobody complained. "They like him better than me," I said simply, "He'll pay for this." The whole thing came to a head after mid-semester exams. Johnny made all A's, while I barely passed. "A- sad lot will befall him," I said simply. "The ,wrath of Shadrak, Meischak and Abednigo. will squelch this dullard." I resorted to cowardly devices such as: tightening the wheels on his skates, hiding his bar of life buoy, giving away his guitar picks, and breaking his Roy Acuff records. How I laqghed when he lost his part-time job at the liquor store. Johnny made the football team and became quite popular with all the girls at freshman dorm. This further enraged me, and I was inexorably bent on revenge; irreconcilably provoked, goaded, as it were, to evein the score. "I shall uniravel his Block "C" sweater," I said simply. One night after a Gamma Rae beer bust, Johnny came in and stumbled to his bed. "This is my chance," I said simply, and famous quotations began to sear my brain. Things such as: "Mon soeuir est tras lourd," - Rousseau. "Jacques a une jambe" -- Rabelais. "Hank Snow joue une trOs lhon guitar" Sartre', ete'." Shaking these p r o f o uc n d houghts from my troubled mind, I clasped the manacles to his legs acnd secured the c'hain to the bed'(. Now he was mine. BMOC., fooitballI phiyer, straight A's, G;amma Rae fraternity man. All of the thoughts werie locked in mcy concave breast. TI'he days progressed beau ti fully, and although he wans rest le'ss and often rattled -his c'hain at night, JTohnny wvas resigned to his dut ies as my lackey. I noit.icedl, howeve'r, that be was b ec'om ing rather p)eeked looking Anthony E. Brown H.L Men I N a itteir and highly prejudiced essay facetiously c'alled "'The Sahara of The llozarts,'' Henry I ,ou is Meneken let fly all the in vec'tive' of his acid mind against the South and the Southern way of life as far as the ar'ts were conce'rned, circa 1920. He terms the area to the south of the P'otomae' mud-flats ''a stupendous region of fat farms, shoddy cities, anid paralyzed c'erebr'ums from which a worth-wvhile thought has not ema nated since the m iddtle of the nineteenth century.'' H ere was a man in a posit ion of' power who took his pen in ha nd to destiructively crit icize wh'n he wvas e'vidently very ill iniformed of the literiature which he so handily damned for lack of quant.ity, quality, and anything else that occurired toi him at the time. Let us analyze briefly the thesis of his essay which we have quoted above, adding to it htis observation that the South could never lie of any real value politically or culturally uinless inspired by the erudite North. In the first glance at the idea that the South has been dead where literature is concerned since before the Civil War, it may be seen re'adily that Mene ken was either poorly read or he 'li not cnnidle the exelen Goes To ( and his coat was getting dull. I guess this is normal, though, when one doesn't eat. Neverthe less, when he began to rattle his cup on the radiator, and to toss, back the bones I, threw him, I knew that he needed some APO's from the infirmary. The "doc"' brought back the sad news. After a thorough ex amination, he concluded that Johnny was not an ape as I had thought, but a laconic ver sion of a cross between a Rhesus monkey, an Apus Africanus, and a Lebanese Linebacker. - "What have I done," I asked' simply? The "doc" explained how this had come to be, and I listened enraptured to his strange story. "Over two thousand years ago," he said simpl.y, "Johnny's only ancestor, a rather dull conversa tionalist named Pete, inhabited the area of the eastern Med. All day he would lie around the water and watch the Yarri birds, the green-gold-flecked Telanders, and the tight-skinned Cummocks at their play. Then, becoming rest less, as was his nature, he took a job dealing Black-Jack with Alexander the Great. In this mode of employment, he worked his way southward into Macedonia and then east ward into the Serbo-Slavic na tion. Here he worked several years as a singing waiter in the Moscow theater, but was banished into the nether regions of Great Britain after becoming entangled in some sort of revolution. After several months of tire less effort, he landed a job as chie.f hurser on a luxury liner called the "Pinta," which was chart,ered by the Pilgrim family for a visit to Jamestown. The trip was uneventful, except for a few minor skirmishes with belli gerent Nazi submarines, and they landed somewhere in Southwest Utah. Here it was that Johnny was born, the first of a highly controversial romance between Pete and a traveling Orangutan fan-dancer called "Cookie." "You know the rest," he said simp)ly. I was torn 'asunder. What should 1 do? I gathered up his chain and returned to the dorm. Securing his chain to the bed once again, I fell into a deep sleep. For several days, I ponidered the situation in my fevered brain. Should I free him? Forgive? For get? A fter all, lie had been my friend. At length, I decided to restore him to grace. My heart lept with excitement as I rushed back to my room. I tip-toed softly dlown the hall and forced open the door with a coathanger. I was met by stark tragedy. There, before mine very eyes, cke n: Right wvriters who were at their p)eak during the period he happily de spises. D)id he not forget .Joel Chandler Harris, a G;eorIgia-bor~n master of dialect and the fore most contributor to the growth o,f one of the inflhential news pa pers ever published in the South, the A tlanta "Constitu Ition ?" W II does he omit the name of William Gilmore Simms, the South CarolInian who pro duced some of his best works after 1850? Is it p)ossib)le to leave 0. IIenry out of a list of South erners, ,for although 0. HIenry did not wvrite while he was in the South, Meneken claimed that no writer of merit has come from the~ South (luring the period of wvhich he was writing. Also, he seems to have forgotten, or never bothered to become aware of, authors such as George Washing ton Cable, Sidney L.anier, .John Pendleton Kennedy, and a score of others wvhose names and works are internationally knoivn in lit erary circles. Mencken unctuously overlooks the fact that woodworking Is an art In which the state of North Carolina has excelled since the founding of this country; that New Orlanns nnd Charlneton hiann L17- 4p, .ol1lege was the mangled and mutilated body of the "sound" man lying on the floor. It seems as though Johnny had been pickin' and singin' to his buddies-Max Moss, Ino Spi vey, Jason Moore, an.d ASa Mil ler. The "sound" man, o r "preacher" as he is more affee tionately called, had attempted to break up the noise-making by taking Johnny's guitar. This proved to be his downfall. In a fit of ill-tempered restlessness, Johnny sprang upon him and proceeded to abrase him, to lacerate him and to create various types of superf icial wounds perpetrated to remove himi from his troubled existence in a tax-ridden world. He suec ceeded. After the deed, he had be come an ugly thing. His instinct for survival became prevalent, and hie bounded thru the window, breaking the glass and trampling the well-groomed greenery that the Beetles had worked so hard to save. Now hie is gone. All is.-empti ness. Once I stopped a swaggerian and asked of him, "Frienid, in thy travels, hast thoui heardl of .Johnny?" "Aye," hie said simply, "' tis hie that sings the saddest song around the water hole at even tide ,where one again the yarri and- the Cumock play amidst the fields of poppy an the eucalyptus trees." "I understand," I said sily, "anl walked slowly away." Pitching Horseshoes Texas-Talk The Waco, '4exas "Times Her ald" ran this ad: "The Pioneer Air Lines offers you two frights daily." And from the "Catholie Weekly" at Lansing, Mich., ap peared this boner: "The second unis perpra teuteon a hmt o stobed existence,00. ftro the deed,sport, e-n "Times":ugl "ThinllGis intichs ta was bondthruaki the window Tekn tpe glasshind rampling wth itself-ine areneryumorou maner eete th wrerrsordo thoug:s ReerndDaid. Matthes gpre.ed and opned nce open ead aopvend and From askedd im, annoneeni thy trae, hst,o Texas,"rdss" cae thist:"he godt orie aound the wen hodlefat evn-a tOI ,hre nc again <th Yarn twodo the umo i plant at the fmusic of phouth ans the eoflpttees.op" r n Patn vrithningAeia ObvosMencknh oeshi th oTxis-Tumly samd The Waco little "Tim espiHbe ald an thing ad: "ThePeer Negroy. Anor the "C aathic Wek"at anmnsing, guicty afp uit e Sothe parish hailsaid non gra iecs being compled on kile yap-as-ou-golasios atin sera Fom ot that th spot-belum traners rte yvNorthen topporasn ithean tpe ignorant, rnewye manner we thitesu errono Menekeng w ''Revered proaviy be rathews hasidposed o by the aned opens aof Opiernewh and of)ee the Nithias well ayerfth SouethisA item he otdworred oerthenr wken ahis lefonda accusat ioons,teewa"ehp nOr W ronudefetvlygv aee tsubsoantiae rebutalprtally beseairt inat he United Stats, close tho the trusiho th South is no.l oay'here is litemoedwicable Dave gledsoe . State Universities Are Essential D'anciennes haines endormies Ont slrgi comme de 'enfer. -Deschamps We have been accused, lately, of deliberately trying to stir com ment: to which we plead a re sounding "Guilty." Our student body is supposedly concerned with getting an education, and there are dedicated educators to lead them . . . luckily. Unfortunately there are stum bling blocks to the pursuit of knowledge, which, at best, is none too easy. Our one aim is to see them removed . . . and for the best of causes. A university's sole strength is derived from its student body: When this student body becomes the secondary consideration, the entire corporate body of the uni versity suffers. When the student is kicked around, and shuffled to provide convenience of those supposedly serving the student then we feel that it is time for a change. Ti'lime For a Chatige "Time for a change." How long have those words been kicked around? And. how long have they been ignored? How many times does a student suf fer unnecessary inconveniences in (he name of "procedure?" These are not rhetorical ques tions . . . they demand an answer. Note well that, we did not say: "We demand an answer." There is no studeint currently enrolled who can rightfully "demand" anything . . . but there are those of us who can see . . . and in the name of those who are the es sence of this Unliversity-that is, every student -we canl, and do ask that. these questions be an swered. The state universities of Amer iCa are an integral part of an American experimelnt. We are trying to See if a great numb11ler of eoi)le -- people of diverse backgrounds, varying degrees of intell igence, anld striking dis similarity of purpose-can be eduated. Educated in the fullest sense of the Word. InitelectuaI Level We are taking part in a mass raising of intellectual level, and in the terms of history, the age 43f our ex perimen t is young in dleed. Is it to succeed, this dream of ours, this vision of the mil lenium? Or will it fall of its own weight ? These questions wvill be vinodicatedi by time, and time No one pe'rson or group of per sons e'ngagedl in the interest of this University has the right to block or stand in the way. There are peop)le standing in the wvay. WVe say to them : "Move . . . are you helping out or aEe you Part oif the problem?" Let's get on with the buisiness at hand. 9 Today? unadlulteratedl cultural growth in the South than in any other sec tion of the UJnitedl States. The South has acceptedi its short comings and has tried to remedly them in its own wvay, while the North has attempted to dictate procedure for reform in the South andl to build the southern states over in wvhat the northern states believe to be an ideal image. I CONOCLASTs such as Mene ken exist today in the North Rs surely as there are fanatics for a losing cause in the South, and as Va a g a bigotry . and intolerance toward any rational problem are allowed to continue, south or north of the Potomac, there wvill lbe little gainedi. With what the South has to day, she can rise above her past andl become a leader In art, litera ture, music, and politics, In spite of the bombastic Mencken and his ilk, and until the entire North, to the man, becomes awvare that its political toadies d1o not repre sent the "Seco)nd (Coming" in multiplicity, then the South will lie happy to call her "friend" again. Perhaps with such an un dlerstanding, both sections can improve themselves to suit them selves, but never to satisfy the