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Students Role Of I BY COOKIE CRUM Staff Writer With Religious Emphasis Wee still fresh in mind, many of us ai searching our minds and heart for answers to questions place before us by the guest speaker This week, the questions presente to various students of differing ri ligions were: "What is the purpos of the religious group on can pus?" and "Is it accomplishin this purpose?" JILL RYON, a senior, says: "In my opinion, denominationi groups on a campus should provik a place where religious philos phies In general and especially t dogma of the particular church ca 'be examined in an adult manne Their primary aim should nc be social or to provide service. "I am not qualified in any we JILL RYON to judge all church groups or eve one, but my impression is the their purpose is not the one envision." R OS EM A R Y FELLERS, sophomore, gives her opinion: "The various religious group on campus have a very definil place in our crowded schedules. think that when a student come to college his ties with a chure may be broken, and the religiot organizations on campus try i prevent this from happening." JOHN GRUNERT, a junior, b lieves: Haves! The best tob Review 1. . leligion "I believe t4pat- the religious groups on campus serve the exact k same purpose for which they are e supposed. In other words, they are e here to promote and enhance the religious values w h i c h are so easily lost by young people out d from u n d e r the influenee of parental and neighborly authority e for the first time. Religion is necessarily an integral part of all phases of life and definitely in col lege life. The campus religious groups, so far as I can see, have admirably succeeded in their basic e - -- e. ri ot ROSEMARY FELLERS purpose. Those itudents who do not actively engage in any of the individual religious organizations are necessarily affected by the examples of the more active par ticipants. Therefore they serve a good purpose." ALAN HOLMES, a junior, says: n "The job of a religious group on Lt the college campus is 'to be and to I do'. First, the members who form its fellowship must seek God and a try to live in His way. Then, they must go out into the world around A them and help others to live as He would have them live. "The religious group can play an h active, vital role on the college s campus. It can provide fellowship, o a home, and most of all a monu nient to God. When,, and only when, it does this will it fulfill its place on the college campus."~ sial cigarett 9 acco makes the besi Roll Call Reveals Variety BY STEVE PIKE Staff Writer In browsing through the campus directory, we discovered th ese facts about the University staff: there are more Smiths In it than any other name; these eight are followed by five Joneses. (And on into the use of names . careful, there.) Without putting on Airs, it can truthfully be said that the staff of the University has a name for everything. In the horizon, there is no Moon but two Starrs. There is no Fowle, but a Bird, a Boyd, and a Wrenn. Among the Flora (there is no Fauna), you'll find Woods, a Fig, and a Rose. From the animal kingdom, there are a Lamb, a Moose and a Bass. There is also a Ham. Water, But ,No Bridges Along with two Adams, the staff has a Steven and two Stevens, a Thomas, two Daniels, a Moses and a Jacobs. It has no Rivers, but an Ashley, Waters, and Boggs . . . no Bridges, though t h e r e are Rhodes and Groves (as well as Graves) and a Field. There is no Hatt, but a Darby. With Holland, t h e r e are two French and a Scott. There's a Temple with Spires and two Sav ages and a Bushman with Spears. In the Troup there are two Tay lors, a Tucker, a Bishop, a Butler (but no Maid), a Cook, a Clowney (excuse me), t h r e e Kings, a Knight, a Merchant, a Miller, a Porter, a Register, Sanders, and some other Fellers. Around the Barre Among the other Folk around the Barre, are two Collins (not Tom), three Martins and a Booser . . . also, a White, a Black, three Browns, and another who's Brown ing. Their Means are very Lytle, there being only one Cash (a Pen ney). Among Castles and Coates, one Sees that this will Fall Farr short of meeting the two Prices. Of two Carrs, only one is a Ford. There is a Brock on campus and a Hersey (no Hershey) . . . no Saltines, only Grahams. Looking >ver this page of effort, I have decided that I Cannon go on. Preparing t h i s Sample of names has been a Ball, but one can not always Winn. (Please pardon the puns.) B-have a C This Gi Elke Maron C In Germany A BY JUDY KILLOUGH Fekture Editor There is on this campus a freshman girl f r o m Mullins, S. C. She looks much like any other freshman g i r l---a little more purposeful, perhaps. But there is one major difference be tween this girl and any other freshman. Five years ago, Elke Marol could not speak English. Leaving a bombed-out home in Leaky Pen, A Blobovink Life Goes On BY 1. LO OVINK Special Writer Silence . . . oh, golden, blissful lack of sound. What? Ah, so . . . genius at work . . . writing, writ ing, writing . . (lack of words perhibits (I kin two spel . . . spelll . . . oh, well.) better and more varied wVrds. The artist at work . . . with pen in hand (mostly because he can't type) . . . slaving away and away and away. And in the midst of the ni o s t glorious epic ever . . . naturally . . . a blob ob ink . . . of a blobovink . . . or whatever. Anyway, the train of thought and the Pulitzer prizewinner is spoiled. And all because of a leacky . . . leakey . . . leakie . . . (ah, shucks!) . . . anyhow, the pen don't hold ink. Start over. with a clean slate ... sheat . . . shete . . . anyhow, a new piece of paper. Another effort . . . ah, near success. Oops another blobovink. Darn pen. Funny (peculiar, not HA, HA) . same way with life . . . when the eraser starts wearing out be fore the pencil, you suddenly get the idea you're making too many mistakes. But what can you do with a blobovink? 'Specially the permanent kind. It's sorta like most things . . . everyone makes mistakes . . . some worse than others . . . some just have leakier pens than others . . and naturally, they have more blobovinks. Ah, but "what price glory ?" AMEL IIC ri Has ompares Life nd America East Germany, running south away from the Russians, hiding in cellars, this was Elke Maron's childhood in Germany. Elke has a warm voice, with that tinge of precision t h a t marks the foreign-born. She has an out-going, yet reserved quality that attracts people. Before World War I1, Elke's family lived in E a a t Berlin, which is now in Russian hands. Gertraute Nixdorff and Hermann Maron were married in 1940. Elke was born in 1941, while her father was away fighting on the Russian front. After their house was bombed, Elke and her mother went to live with her Grandmother Nix dorff outside of Berlin. In 1944 word came that the Russians were advancing on Berlin. Elke, h e r mother, and grandmother started south. T h e y traveled slowly, getting rides with other people who were traveling south in great waves. They stopped here and there with relatives, going into cellars at night to escape the whining bombs. In 1949, Elke's father rejoined his family. They went (in to Wurzburg, in Southern Germany. By this time, the war was over; but Germany was to be rebuilt. The Russian threat was very real. Elke's mother taught school to help provide for the family. Her father, who had been a doctor, went to the medical association to try to get a job. There was great confusion in post-war Germany. It seemed that they had too many doctors. T h e association told him he might as well try to get into some line of work. It was sug gested that he become a brick layer. Then began a chain of events that led to South Carolina. Dr. Maron knew someone who worked at the American hospital in Wurzburg. They employed Germans. He applied for a job at the hospital. He worked there for five years. Elke's sister, %>n. MeuArd. Spokes ON CAMPUS Student going uptown to phy sician for cold medicine in order to eZ(ade infirmuary. Coned racing madly in pursuit of personnaI letter swiped by teind. Donuble da*ting students return iny from, r-a ternityi party, in a Radio announcer thinking himRIfisl off the air using gtrong a3d jectiives to describe lack of Studelnt declarDing for h imself al hoIlay from elanses on Lain coIln's birthday. Combo collecting in shower on 3rd1 floor of R?uiding H. W all collapRingduring "battle of thie shariing ereami cans" in Shoaieshin?e boys gir'ing a vaude rifle rout ine in front of mien's Student e.rperimnenting a I laundering own~ clothes finding hee had usRed the dryer first. ('irculatinag runwrs of a strike by the "Green Reetles" for muore * * * - Coed inquiring if Religious Emphasis Week twas a serie's of religious holidays. Confederate flag taped atop Ma.rey monument. F'luste'red would-be basket ball pilayerD discov'ering square dance p)rogre'ssing in gym. A Switch.: Student explaining to parents that probation simply mneantI he was on Dean's other list. Panic: Student's tranasister going dead in closing 30 8ec onds of Carolina-Virginia ae Two Co :X3 FLKE MARON was borii n ierlinl, S. C. Oni campus. Elke i at meni language major. She would like and "live as a German. . . ." (Pho Petra, was born while they lived in Wurzburg. Someone at the hospital knew a doctor in Mullins, S. C. This d o c t o r decided to retire. He agreed to sponsor Dr. Maron and his family so they could enter this country. America seemed strange at first to 13-year-old Elke. She had never heard rock and roll. She says, "Rock and roll hit me straight in the face." She could not speak English when she first came to America, though she had taken English in grammar school in Germany. She had gone to a teacher's school in Germany in which the children were segregated as to sex in the first two grades. She says that German schools were harder except for the language barrier. To Elke, the American girls, who were dating and wearing make-up, seemed m u c h more mature than 13-year-old German girls. The differences have slowly faded out as Elke gets to know America better. Of the first acquainting period, Elke says, "I thought everyone was a little crazy. It took me a while to know that people are people. Now, I don't see much differ ence." The friendliness and willing ness to help of Americans has impre'ssedI Elke. She says that they seemf tao want to share be cause they have so much. Th'e Martons went b)ack to viswit Getrmany , t h i s past summer. Ek'younger sister, P e t r a , Payola-Free 1 Dish onest Rat BY STAFF WR1~IITER Payola . . . that's what I call really . . . living ? L.eastways, it beats wvorking. Another thing, it sure dhoes get attention. So, all you "glory-hounds" pay close attention to the news. The nation is very concerned over all this payola racket... and they make as much racket about it, too. If you ever want to get your uname in the paper... other than in the left-hand column at the bottom of the front page of a certain local daily . . . Just par ticipate in this little gem of a scheme. However-, watch your step. If you're a disc-jockey or something similar (if there is anything simi lar), take it slowv and easy (the payola that is) or you'll be out of a job. As one actor put it, "Everybody has become so suspicious that if you say 'Oh, my God!' on tele vision, people think you're being paid off by the Holy Father!" There is no doubt now in the minds of anyone that payola really does exist. The only point for deliberation now is; just how BAD is payola ? In some ways It can bei considered simply as paid advertis ing, which is legal in any media. In the summing up of this issue, one member of the advertising and bradcastin in..u-.._ put it t. Li trieS German. Slhe iow live.. in Mullins, -r of Alpha Delta Pi mid a foreign to go back to Germany s4onetinme o by smnons.) kept wanting to go "home." She considers America home. German relatives said Pet r a spoke German with an American accent. She was only five when she came from Germany and has picked up a real southern drawl. After becoming used to the largeness of America, Elke felt rather caged-in amidst the clus tered scenery of Germany. Grandmother Nixdorff, now 74 years old, came to America this time. She speaks no English but is happy to be with her family once more. In 1959, after the required five-year waiting period, the Maron.s became American citi zens. That is. all except Elke. She was eighteen, therefore did not become a citizen automatic ally with her parents as did Petra. Elke plans to become a citizen in May. She will have to meet the s a m e requirements her father and mother met. In comparing her two coun tries, Elke seems to think that though America is far ahead of Germany in material wealth, Germany has a cultural back ground that America lacks. As for going back to Germany, Elke says there is now no reason to return to East G;ermany be cause all of her relatives now live in West Germany,. There is, however, a cert aini feeling about the counltry of her birth. IElke says, "I would like to go lack and0 live ais a Gerimn, and see if I st ill like it." A girl with two counltriies. nterprise, Or kete ering? wayv, by saying that payola in one fomor anot her is a part of A merican business. "Let hinm who is without sin cast the first stone." Free enterprise? The American - way of life ? Democracy ? Capital ism ? Commercials? Payola ? And suddenly the whole nation is con-fl cerned. What is the difference be tween payola and commercials? Unless it's just that SOME people dlon't get their cut ?! 'Mademoiselle' Gives Contest New Deadline "Mademoiselle" magazine an nounces an extension of the dead line on the college publications contest to June 30, 1960. The purpose of the extension is to put the contest on an academic year basis. There are three categories in the contest: The best student-writ ten article, the best alumni-writ ten article and the best faculty wvritten article. In each case, the articles must have been published in a college newspaper, feature magazine, or alumni magazine. Only nonfiction published dur ing the period Jan. 1, 1959 to June 30, 1960 is eligible. Entries must be submitted by the editor of the publication. They must be postmarked not later than Junne R0, 19*0