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A Chuuauge To The J Attention, Athletic Departmentl Trouble spot at South end of Sumter Street in the natatorium, Office of Intramural Athletics. Intramural Athletics has been asphixiated by lack of money. Proceed at once with checkbook and faculty director of intramural athletics. Why? Because we demand a bet ter intramural program for the students who desire to participate in athletics. We have been aware that the intramural program has been on the decline during the past several years. This has been due to a number of reasons; the expansion program of the University and the lack of interest by the Athletic Department. Once upon a time, Davis Field was the site of several well-laid out softball fields, a baseball diamond and other sport fields, e.g., volleyball. The undergraduate Library was erected on the South end of the field which took about one-fourth of the avail able space. A fence around the field further cut the space available until now a 2x4 soft ball diamond remains which, in many re spects, resembles a cow pasture without cows. We are happy to see the University ex pand. Anytime the University erects a new building we feel proud and happy. We should expand since we are the leading in stitution of higher learning in South Caro lina, but in the expansion, we feel that the student should not be overlooked. The idea should not be to build buildings and neglect men and women. We should be ashamed of our intramural program and outside activities which we now have at Carolina. A University of this size and nature should be a seven-day a week college. There should be something for the student to do on campus on Saturdays and Sundays as well as during the week. Not the least of these activities should be athletics. Many students at Carolina are athletically Lecturers InMp4 We are extremely fortunate at Carolina to have such a fine array of guests visit the campus and impart to us students some of the knowledge and wisdom which they have acquired in their special fields. Lectures given by these guests in the past have been well attended, but there could and should be many more interested persons partaking of this knowledge. These lectures are advantageous to stu dents who are interested in learning. They are a distinct method of supplementing classroom discussion and book learning. We can gain much from these learned men who Castro Yells - U Diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States are becoming more strained day by day. At the present rate of disintegration, relations will be completely severed in a short time. Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro seems to be calling the shots at the moment. He talks big, and he denounces United States' actions to the Cuban people via television and the press. He should be happy playing the role of a bearded dictator. It is apparent that Castro is not satisfied with the existing setup in Cuba. The setup seems to change daily depending on the mood of the Cuban hero. Castro is making his point. Just what his point is no one seems to be exactly sure; but nevertheless, he is making it. The Cuban Prime Minister has been sub jected to - many abuses especially in the realm of his political beliefs. Just what his beliefs are no one knows; and we sometimes doubt that Castro himself knows. We feel that Castro is making his point by calling attention to Cuba. We feel that this is the incipiency of his program to "better ithieti W Departe=t inclined. They seek athletic activities and they enjoy playing organizei sports. Or gunizatjpn requires work, not of one man but enough persons to do a thorough job. The present organization of intramural ath letics is extremely poor. A petty gripe, but certainly aproos, Is that student organizations have to pay part of the cost for officials at athletic contests. True, the fee is nominal, but the point is not the amount, but the fact that some money is required. Why? Should a studpnt who Is a member of the University community have to pay in order to use the limited athletic facilities available? The answer Is a re. sounding NO. Never, never, neverl If the University does not get enough money to provide for intramural athletic of ficials then the fee should be raised; but the individual students should not have to pay to play. Next, we come to the existing organi zation such as it is. Without exerting itself the Intramural Office provides for those teams which are already organized to play. This is commendable as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough and does not reach enough people. We have already made our suggestions on a plan of organization. We will leave it at that for the present. Since anything is better than nothing. We are skeptical as to how much better our intramural program is to none at all. One gigantic addition was made to the intramural program during the past seven months. A scoreboard was purchased for the old gymnasium. This item alone cost the overwhelming sum of $250; and we could hear from the Horseshoe the tears which fell on Rosewood Drive. We challange the Athletics Department to give us an intramural program of which we can be proud. It will cost some money and some time; but the time and expense will be worth while. art Knowledge give freely of their time to speak at the University. The International Relations Club is a grand organization for students interested in world politics and relationships among the countries of the world. Many erudite speakers address this body at its weekly meetings on Thursdays at five o'clock in Russell House. One of the many fine features about the lectures at Carolina, is that they are free for the taking. No money no boxtops, no ID cards, just go and get from it what you can. S. Take Note the lot of the Cuban people." It is a known fact that if one makes enough noise, he will attract attention. Castro is making noises, and he is getting attention. In this respect, he has won his point. He will win more points. Already the effect of the noises in Cuba are being reverberated in Washington. Castro wants a change in America's policy towards Cuba; and the odds are definitely favorable that he will obtain these changes. Positively, it can be said that the United States is re-evaluating its Cuban policy and its Latin American policy. What changes will occur we will not venture to say; but changes will occur and in the near future. The more noise Castro makes, the more people squirm in Washington; but one thing is quite clear, when one has something to sell, he can't continually insult his cus tomer and continue to sell his goods. Castro has sugar and his number one customer is the United States. The Cuban people don't want to eat three and one-half tons of sugar per year, the diet would be a little sweet. Letter to the Editor . .. Davidsonian Lauds Fence Around Dorms Dear Editor, After months of anxious wait 4ng, I am overjoyed that at last the young amseb of your cam pus are Oecure in their towers behind the fence. I have been aware .for some time now "t the maidens w e r e in need of more protection, because It has been my fear that, though ad nvirably suited to this purpose, the decor of Sims lobby might no t be sufficient to frighten away all intruders. However, you will agree that in matters of this nature one cannot be too cautious. A fence of this type is hardly unbreach able; and, since your administra tion apparently feels that the bulwarks m us t be impregnable in order to keep the princesses thus, I would suggest the -ol lowing additional measures: 1) A guard be posted around the battlements. This would provide an opportunity for guard-changing ceremonies which should warm the hearts of all true South Carolinians. 2) A moxt be dug outside the fence, to encircle the block completely. A drawbridge over this would be qulite picturesque, and a deeided safety measure. 3) A dragon, at least a very small dragon, be obtained to r o a m the sacred pre cincts inside the fence. Per haps, if none can be pur chased in your vicinity, an unemployed housemother might substitute. 4) A few more monuments of W a d e Hampton on horse back be scattered here and there among the shrubbery. This area seems to be con spicuously lacking in them. The pigeons inevitably ae companying these would be the best defense yet men tioned. Please do not feel obliged to thank me for these suggestions. I consider 'it my bounden duty to do my part in protecting our cherished i d e a 1 of Southern Womanhood. Sincerely, Ed Spivey Davidson -College Russ Burns . . Don "A word to the wise s suf fieient," said 'a sage. We hkave a word . . . quite a few words in fact. We shall de fer the question of wisdom until a reaction is effected. The words are directed to the campus polrice force, or more ex actly to their leader: Sir, you have been watching too many TV murder mysteries, it would appear. From your re 'actions to -innocent situations, one miight almost type you as the little man in the box scream ing, "The whole damn world is no good." You know, Sir, we really don't hate you, despite your malicious atti,tude 'in "carrying out the law." You may jail us and show no mercy to the fairer sex... ah, Dragnet. You may call 'in the City Police to tag cars which these same City Police saw fit to leave alone. You may give us fines completely out of propor tion to the offence. You may even attempt to discredit a stu dent organlization such as you did last y e a r for "allowing something to be stolen" when its your duty to maintain the security of the premises dur*ng vacations. You may do all these things and the multitude more, yet we won't dislike y o u , terrifically. You may hinder instead of help wherever you please. However, as startling as it may sound, why not try to un derstand and work with students rather than slap them down at every turn lest their play be come m a r e detrimental. You mlight be s ur prise ed at the change. A word to the wise. Up, up, and away . . . that's the cry of Superfence. At least 'It's up, but unfortunately not away. And from the looks of things, this feshee Isn't likely to succumb to blasts on trumpet., either. We can't hope for an other Jeroho. So w it4h a bit of painful re Anthony E. Brown Tales Of M Conta T HE thousands of tales told of membern of the literary world are as legion as Lucifer, but each atory seems to fetch up some universal truth, hidden deep within, perhaps, but never theless t 4s usually there. As an example, consider the. vivid and involved existence of the master of the tale with the *4"twist" ending, 0. Henry. Often in jail and down on bis luck through some very Interesting misdeeds. 0. Henry was one of the few writers wo had the Dave Bledsoe 'Students Towards C After last week's snow job, we are moved to comment on the proposed Constitution being con sidered by Student Council. It Is pointless to debate the document as is. Nearly any governmental writing looks good - on paper . . . the motives behind estab lishing a different something are noble indeed, but the entire idea presupposes something that isn't there. We cannot legislate student support of student government. Let's face it--student govern ment 'is in the hands of a min ority group. Apologists for this say it is because the fraternity -sorority .individual is the only person who will take an active interest in student government. Perhaps. Why No Interest? On the other hand, we see no reason for the majority of Caro lina students to take an interest in the power machinations of a minority group . . . and, un fortunately, the machinations of what we refer to as a repre sentaive student government. The eitremely capable leaders that the fraternities can and do produce are f rankly wasting their time trying to re-arrange a system that-as the pundits* love to say - has certain inherent weaknesses. The average Carolina student the majority from whence noth ing is heard, is largely untouched by student government. It has no 't Fence MA fence, and the prison for which it s ta ndsa, one concentration camp, indivisible, with torture and gloom for all. Er . .. that :is, with just this one parthian volley. About a half e n tu ry age, a kindred spirdt in 'the Anti-barricade So ciety crisply set the thought to poetics. He, too, realized t h e cramped, retarded progress that g r o w a within walls. 'He, too, knew the (irony of a fence with out a purpose. On this subject Robert Frost sweeps aside the mists of delu sion w 4 t hi the poem "Mending Wall" in which he pokes fun et his wall-building neighbor. For the reader's edification here is a -portion of this noble work: "...He oanly says, 'Good fences make g ood neigh bors.' Spring is the mischief In me, and I wonder If I could put a notion In 'his head: 'Why do they m ak e good neighbors? Isn't 'it Where there are cows? But here 'there are no cows. Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or wal dng out, And to whom I was like to give offence. So methlin g there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down. I could say 'Elves' to him, But It's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself. I see him there Bringing a toen e grasped firmly by the top In each hand, Like an old-stone savage armed. He moves ein darkness as It seems 'to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his father's saying, And he lIkes having thought of It so well He says again, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'" .rary World Truths can see New York. I'm afraid to go home dn the dark." A NYONE who wites, whether it be story, tale, or novel, seems to have his own net af peculiarities, all of wblih are capable of immediately ddentify. ing one and only one writer. George Bernard, upon being asked by a reporter why he Hved in Ayot St. Lawrence, repHed, "When I firt came here, I vis ited an old graveyard, and on one of the stones I read, 'Mary, born 1800, died 1880. May she rest in peace, hei time was too short.' That settled it. I decided that if eighty years was considered a short life in Ayot St. Lawrence, this was the place for me!" Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, among twelve-hundred other pubHshed works, loved animals almost more than he loved writing. For pets, he had <twelve dogs,' three apes, two peasants, two parrots, two peacocks, a vulture, and a cat. Dumas once said that "It should be ag easy for a novelist to make novels as for an apple 4 tree to make apples." He proved it, too. Besides his seventy thou sand pages of fiction, he wrote sixty-four plays and many as says and travel volumes. Dumas was perhaps the first and only writer to hire a corps of ghost writers and put the production of books on a assembly-line basis. He also lived like a king, and as in many other cases of great suc cess, Dumas died a pauper. On his death bed, he remarked, "I came to Paris with twenty francs in my pocket. That is exactly the sum with which I die." O NCE H. G. Wells spoke at a meeting in Boston and later went to a party at the home of the mayor. By mistake, he picked up the mayor's hat when he left and did not discover his error until he reached Buffalo the next day. After admiring the hat on his head in a mirror, Wells penned the following note to the 6mayor: "Dear Sir: I'm afraid I've got your hat. I like it so much I propose to keep it. I shall long remember you and your cordial hospital 'ity. "I take your hat off to you, sir." Sincerely, H. G. Wells A list such as this one could he carried on interminably, for the tales of wrters and their foibles have never been counted, as far as we know. P ERHAPS it would e fitting to end this discourse on a note more close to home. In Julia P eterk in's novel Riack Thur~s ly,a gigantic Negro man has had his legs cut off. Just before he (dies of pneumonia, caused by his wvife's betr'aying him, he says, "Bury me in a man-sized coffrin; I been six-foot-fo'." A GREATER OUTH CAROLINA ed Collegiate Premt th Robert Elliott Consalas as the blished', and for the students of k,as,n Fidays, during the college inists and letter writers axe met ek." "Th Gamecock'" eneerg - * right to edi or withol frean BOBBY ALFORD Charles Behling - - - --. ...Ed Spears Margaret Scott ...Nat Adams .........Penny Sinclair ........... ..Bill Lumpkin -...- ... ...Judy Killough - - . . Dee Chandler . - Howard Hellams . - - .Vance NeSmith - - - -- - . Jim Hate2heHl irley Parsons, Lee Jordan, Lana or, Buddy Herring, Ann Lazza triund, Frances Dearman, Jeah~ mph, Robert H. Stevens, Levona 3 Gray, Lee Skidmore, Linda 4artha Gaston, Sarah Krebs, Kelley Jones, Doug Grey. Withers, Danny Mackey, Ann thony E. Brown, Dave Bledmoe, inolds. Simons; PHOTOGRAPHERS: n Iniorlni, Russ Burns, Bill Van Ed Hendrickson, .Seth Garrison, Judy Craig, Punkie Bell, Celia ble Pannington Dn nol embers Of Lib ins Universal ability to feel rtihe pulse of a throbbing metropolis-or a small, out of the way junction - and touch his pen to paper with the insight only given to a blessed handful of men. Although he was irreparably given to drink, he was a man devoted to ife, his work, and New York. All he ~ asked was "a steam-heated flat eith no ventilation or exercise." If 0. Henry's stories are noted for their unique endings, his life was no different. His last words were, "Pull up the shades so I Apathetic ;overnment power to make itself felt in the student's life, and is content to pass chairmanship of committees that handle student affairs from brothers to brother-or at least to someone else within the sys tem. Take a look at the stand ing committees appointed by stu dent council and check. Question-No Answer What is to be done? A good question, but no one really cares what the answer is. It has been proven over and over that a great percentage of students do not care. We can hardly contain our surging feeling of total apathy t o w a r d the new constitution, even though we need one badly. the general attitude will be "Ho-hum, another constitution6 so what?" We deplore that attitude, but under the circumstances can add only arousing yawn to the mounting silence. A few of our readers have told us that we quoted one of the Air Force Manuals out of context. It is true that the section quoted was dealing with government se orets . . . and to our extent the manual was correct. But it is a situation that bears correcting. Governmental proceedings-take the budget for example-are de liberately obfuscated to prevent intelligent scrutiny. We're glad that people noticed and took time to comment-however, the state ments stand. - In. except at the mn a i n entrance which is too large for a gate to span. Sort of reminds us of a chalin with a nmissing link-it only symbolizes atrength. Maybe, though, a mine field is in the planni,ng for the main entrance. Who knows? And then there was a song called, "Don't F e n c e Me In." CROWING FOI UNIVERSITY OF Member of Associ Founded nua~ 80, 1908, w , first editor, ' mecock" Is pu the University of Sooth Carolina we year except on holiday. and d urin~ neessrily thse of "The an mec( Letters to the Editor, but all lette not constitute an endorsement. Th, pblcataon any letter Is reserved. EDITOR. ............ MANAGING EDITOR...... BUSINESS MANAGER........ EDITORIAL ASSISTANT ADVERTISING MANAGER... COPY EDITOR........ NEWS EDITOR... FEATURE EDITOR.. 8OOIETY EDITOR..... SPORTS EDITOR...... CAMPUS EDITOR..... OIEBOULATION MANAGER . REPORTERS: Claire Foster, Sh Bell, Brooky Dukes, Don Lavend rino, Bobbie Boyd, Ingrid Oest King, Rachel Wilson, Robert Gly Page, AnIta McCartney, Dotti Jones, Walter Lynn 'Smith, Suzanne Watkins, Lloyd Parker, BUSINESS STAFF: Peggy Trotter. OOLUMNISTS:*Russ Burns, An Columnist Emeritus: Carl M. Re CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER: Jin "Pat" Patterson, Pete Allan, Sai Hoy. Assistant Photographers: Bill Allen, J'im Bryant. CARTOONISTS: Jack Morris, bhidresa. TPIDTS:O Ma- P-ey Ha_i.