The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, November 18, 1960, Page Page Two, Image 2
Where Is Roligi
Rutledge Chapel, perhaps the most beau
tiful building on campus, stands deserted
and quiet while the campus religious life
cries for strengthening.
Religion should not be forced on any col
lege student. But on every campus there
should be a religious atmosphere which the
student is free to take or leave, an atmos
phere which can be easily found, not one
which must be hunted.
Carolina's religious life seems to need
strengthening. For many students, the
campus religious centers do not satisfactor
ily satisfy spiritual needs. Then too, many
students (1o not feel a part of downtown
church services; they feel as if they are
mere spectators at the big services.
It would seem that a weekly student serv
ice in Rutledge Chapel at the Sunday morn
ing worship hour would be of great benefit
to the campus. Guest speakers could be
obtained for the major number of the serv
Police, Green Str<
Followiing the request of Student Council,
the University administration has placed
several regulations on pedestrian crossing
of Green Street. Council complained that
students were endangered by traffic when
they crossed the street and requested that
the Administration ask the City of Co
lunbia to investigate the problem.
The city, in cooperation with a traffic
engineering firm, decided on several regu
lations concerning crossings. It proposed
limiting pedestrian crossing to three places
- the intersection in front of the Univer
sity gymnasium where crossing is facilitated
by a traffic light, the intersection in front
of the observatory which also has a traffic
light. and the area directly in front of Rus
sell House. At this last crossing a Univer
sity policeman would be placed to direct
traffic.
The city recommended stopping all cross
ing at other points, even at the gap in the
dormitory wall at Snowden College. A closed
gate was placed there to preVenlt students
from crossing at that point.
When the Student Council discussed the
decisions of the city traffic committee, it
rejected the provision concerning the gate
at Snowden. But by that time, it was too
late for rejection of the plan. The matter
had already been turned over to the city.
A roar of student protest has arisen over
the restrictions, especially the one imposed
by the gate at Snowden. The plan has been
very inconvenient to many of the students.
The students do not like the idea of hav
No Auditoriui
A common complaint about Carolina
has become its lack of an auditorium.
There is nio lahce onl campus1 that is suitable
for conlcerts, for meetings of the stud(ent
body, for gradunat ion exercises, etc.
The adm in ist rat ion also recognizes the
nieedl for ani auditorium. But their reasons
for no' t bu1 idig one are wise.
The Vniversity is in its greatest period
of growth. Officials have predlicted1 that en
rollnent will be doubled by the year 1970.
This yea r an i ncrease' of six per cent in stu
dlents wNas anticip)atedl. The increase wvas 13
Such growth wvill continue. In ordler to
be able to meet the needls of such a tremen
dIons student body, the University must
begin to e~xpanid immediately. The admin
ist ration's dlans for construction of dlormi
tories, classrooms. anrd additions to existing
buildings are st aggerinrg. Newv studies will
The Big
W\Tith the tremeu(ndlous incr ieases in enroll
merit which face the University, 011oldues
tions must be answeredl again.
Thle queostioni which always faces the
school is one that conicerins the University's
acadlemic life andl its duI.ty to the p)eole of
the state. Should the University cater to
the average Sout.h Carolina student or
should it limit its enrollment andl Provide
nourishment for t.he state's brightest chil
dren?
With the fees of a state'-suppjortedl school
fairly lowv, it has a (duty to edlucate all the
worthy young people of the state. Because
TForever
"Here's a health, Carolina, forever to
thee."
Just for the sake of the record, the stu
dents should get together on how long to
lift their hands in tribute to Carolina dur
ing the singing of the Alma Mater.
Ion On Camapus?
ices; perhaps it could become something of
a little Religious Emphasis Week every
Sunday.
The services could be interdenominational
and could attract some outstanding speak
ers. Students would have a large part in
the programs. It would seem that services
of this type would appeal to a large number
of students. They would better satisfy stu
(lent needs than downtown churches, and the
students would feel more a part of such
services.
The opinion of the students is needed on
this matter. If enough show their willing
ness to participate in such services, the Uni
versity would probably agree to arrange
them.
Answers are needed to these two ques
tions. Is the religious atmosphere on
campus adequate? If not, would a program
of weekly services in Rutledge Chapel
strengthen it?
Let, And The Gate
ing to cross the street at certain points, often
not the one closest to their destination. They
do not like for their short-cut at Snowden
to be closed.
However, inconvenience is a small price to
pay to eliminate a dangerous traffic situa
tion. If the Green Street situation is really
serious, and if this is the only plan which
can be devised, then the students must ac
cept it.
It would be well if the committee and the
University could give a little more thought
to the plan. Perhaps a better, more con
venient system could be devised. We, how
ever, recognize the city traffic committee's
knowledge and experience, and believe that
all responsible students will abide by their
decisions.
If the present plan is the best one, we urge
students to cooperate with it.
What we question is the very existence of
a traffic threat on Green Street. We have
never known the traffic there to be very
dangerous. We just cannot see the necessity
for any plan.
There is a problem at the intersection be
tween Dorms H and J and fraternity row.
City planning is needed here.
We urge increased study of the Green
Street situation. First, it should be proved
that there definitely is a danger to students
crossing Green Street. If there is a problem,
then the experts must give it careful
throught to find the best solution. And
finally, the students should abide by the ex
perts' decisions.
m For Carolins
be added ; expansions of existing services
will be made.
Carolina will become the New University
of South Carolina. Opportunities galore
will crowd on her threshold. The school
will have no choice other than greatness.
The needs of such expansion must be met
before such pleasant luxuries as auditoriums
can be constructed. For the time being, the
city of Columbia has agreed to allow the
University to use the gigantic new audi
torium andl coliseum that it is building. The
University will not have to assist in the
financing of the project.
Although the auditorium will be at quite
a dlistance from campus, it will be a great
b)enefit to Carolina.
And so, luxuries which we all desire must
be forfeited in order to satisfy the demands
which greatness imposes upon our school.
Question
a person is not a superior studlent should
not (deprive him of receiving an education.
Still, there should be a school where the
superior student of only modest financial
means can receive the education of which
he is capable.
Which of these dluties should the Uni
versity fullfil? There is (definitely a need
for Carolina to improve its academic at
mosp)here in view of the tremendous num
bers of students which will be knocking at
its doors. But how far should this emphasis
To Thaee'
At the football games it seems that every
body has a different time to lower his hand.
Actually, the hand should be raised
throughout the entire last line of the Alma
Mater, from "Here's a health" until the
ened of the ng
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Monday after Thanksgiving overp .
2,800 USC students will receive
500,000 Christmas Seals as a part
of the American TB Association's
54th annual Christmas Seal cam
paign.
Last year 2,700 students received
Christmas seals. From this num
ber 86 students made contributions
amounting to $108,00.
"As college students, young men
and women are becoming re
sponsible members of their com
munity," said Mrs. Cecil D. Amick,
Richland County Christmas Seal
camp)aign chairman.
"They receive Christmas Seals
partly as an educational measure
to enable them to exercise their
responsibility to their fellowman,"
Mrs. Amick said.
Students will receive 200 seals
each, a letter explaining the canm
paign and an addressed envelope
for contributions.
"No one is expected to contribute
CROWING FOR
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Gene Platt, Pat Peden, Bonnie
Derrick, Richard Sullivan, Betta
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Roberson, Gene Stead man, Tomna
Ann Cox, Herb Bradley, Doris
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t large sum. Students should
'ealize that each dollar counts,"
4irs. Amick emphasized.
Contributions of a dollar or
ess are welcomed by the As
;ociation, Mrs. Amick said.
The Christmas Seal Campaign
a the only source of income for
;he American TB Association,
Eoy Massenburg, Carolina stu
Jent assistant of the Richland
,ounty Association, has said.
Tuberculosis s t r i k e s one
American every six minutes,
qassenburg added. Every 45
-ninutes someone dies of TB. In
south Carolina, there were 1,007
iewvly reported cases last year.
l'here are 571 knowvn cases in
~ichland and Lexington Coun
lies.
The TB Association fights the
lisease by p u b I i e education,
vork with official agencies in
~ase finding surveys, rehabilita
ion assistance, and, most im..
ortantly, research.
A GREATER
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ancy Arial, Anita McCartney,
Levona Page
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Kelley Jones
Lee Jordan
Doug Gray
Robert Glymph
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r, Philip Hayes, Pat Butters,
Miller, Robin Burns, Gene
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iy Marchant, E. V. Kimbrell,
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e Sheheen, Bland Roper, Bill
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'Gamecock' Reporter
Interviews Hagerty
(Editor's Note: Levona Page, "Gamecock" news editor,
was at her home in North Augusta this weekend while
President Eisenhower was in Augusta on vacation. Levona
managed to get in touch with the President's press secre
tary, James Hagerty, and asked him to arrange an inter
view with the President.
When Hagerty explained that the President did not
plan to grant interviews during his vacation, Levona
asked for an interview with Hagerty. He gave her permis
sion to come to a press conference which he was holding
the next day for top-notch professional reporters.
After the conference, the busy press secretary invited
Levona to have coffee with him. Levona agreed and a
conversation of an hour and a half followed. While with
Hagerty, Levona met several other famous newsmen.
Levona's account of her interview is printed below.)
James C. Hagerty, press secretary for President Eisen
hower, said recently that the three most important things
for rising journalists to have are an understanding of world
economics, a layman's knowledge of science, and fluency in
speaking at least one foreign language.
In an interview in the King's Inn of the Richmond Hotel
in Augusta, Ga., where the President is vacationing,
Hagerty told a "Gamecock" reporter of his experiences as
White House press secretary and gave advice for those who
would like to aspire to his position.
For 13 years Hagerty was a reporter for "The New
York Times," before he became press secretary to Gov.
Dewey of New York. "Then in May, 1952," he said, "I
took a leave of absence to work for a man by the name of g
Eisenhower." Since that time Hagerty has been a reflector
of the actions and thoughts of the President.
It has been his duty to report to the news media the
actions taken by the President on various matters. He has
to have a knowledge of the way the President is thinking.
"If I don't know, I ask him," Hagerty said.
The most difficult time for Hagerty during the past
eight years was when Pres. Eisenhower suffered a heart
attack. "For three weeks in Denver," he said, "I held press
conferences five times a (lay, at 7 a.m., 11 a.m., 3 p.m.,
6 p.m., and 9 p.m."
f'he President's trips abroad have also proposed prob
lems for the press secretary, especially in conversing with
foreign reporters. "I wish I could speak a foreign language
well," he said. "I have been embarrassed because people in
my )osition abroad can speak Englisl as well as I (o.
Young people in school should be urged to study a foreign
language so that they can speak abroad for their govern
ment."
Asked for his advice to journalism students, Hagerty re
plied that, there were three things he would stress to them.
First, continue in school a study of economics throughout
the world so that we may be able to understand the prob
lems of the world. "The war we fight with the Soviets will
not be a war of missiles," he said. "It will be an economic
war."
Second, urge the students to have a layman's knowledge
of science. He said, "Others may call this the Atomic Age,
or the Age of Missiles, but I call it the Scientific Age.
Washington scientists say that we have made more prog
ress in the last five years than in the past 55 years."
Hagerty told of a satelite that within two years wvill be
relaying messages around the vorld at the rate of 10,000
words a minute, whereas now the average rate of relay is
60 words a minute by telegraph. "'he next generation will
need at least a layman's knowledge of science to be able
to understand these things," he said.
Third, learn another foreign language. "The U. S. will
be handicapped unless we raise a generation of 'your'
people, the ones who will run tomorrow's government, that
can speak a foreign language fluently,'' Hagerty said.
At this point in the interview, Felix Belair, White House
Correspondent for the "New York Times," .ioine(l us at our
booth. lie sanctioned1 Hagerty's three l)oints, b)ut addled
that there is "no substi tute for the English language and
an intensive knowledge of the economic and p)olitical his
tory of the U. S."
"Current events are measured by p)ast events,'' lhe saidl.
''For instance, in covering an election, the rep)orter must
have some knowledge of the voting habits of the people in
years before, so that he will know how to measure the cur
rent contest.''
Ed (Clark, WVashinigtoni photographer for "Life'' maga
zine, who had( p)reviously joinled our group), interrupted to
e'xpre~ss a compjliment for Priess Secretary Hagerty. ''He
has irodlucedl a newv statute into his line of work and has
a new undlerstanlding of' press problems that affect writers
and pihotographers. lie's going to be missed,'" Clark said.
When asked about his op)iniion of President-elect Ken
nedy's choice of pr.ess secretaries, H-agerty replied that he
dlid not know Kennedy's assistant press secretary at all, and
had never met Pierre Sahinger, chief press secretary, but
had only talked with him on the telephone.
Hlagerty, Clark, and Belair agr(eed that photography is
an imp)ortant part of jlournalism. Hagerty said that, al
though he has had arguments wvith rep)orters about it, he is
of the belief that a camera has as muTh right to cover the
President as the p)encil does. lie said that the 01(1 Chinese
troerb that ''a picture is worth 10,000 words" still holds(
Clark commented that p)hot.ograp)hy is an exacting busi
ness and a p)hotograp)her must. be on his toes at all times.
Hie saidl he had miissed( a picture a few (days before and had
worriiedl ab)out it eve'r sinlce.
('lirk said that when President Eisenhower was crossing
the airfield after getting off his plane in Augusta, he was
walking along besidle him making p)ictures. T1he President
was look ig straight ahead, ulnsmiling. Then, suddenly,
Eisenhowe'r smik'dl andl rais(ed his thumb uplward. In the
process of chaniging lens on his camera, Clark missed the
p)icture.
As for his plans for the future, Hlagerty said1, "Of course
I ve made p)lanis, but I c'an't disclose them nowv." Explain
ing why, he saidl that if, f'or instance, he were going to work
f'or a business firm andl between now and January the firm
became involvedl in a lawv suit wvith the government and(
won, l)eople would believe that it was because Hagerty had
1)11-1. 'O,ne thing you can say ab)out this administration,''
he saidl, "is that it has been honest."
l.residlential Press Secretary .James C. Hiagerty, ordi
nar'ily.a Yankee, believes in observing the Southern custom
of eating black eyed l)eas and hog jiowl on Newv Year's Day.
One .of the waiitresses in a co)ffee~ roomf of the Richmond
Hotel in Augusta, Georgia, approached1 him at his booth
and asked him if he remembleredo her ser'ving him the tra
(ditional Southern Newv Year's D)ay meal six years ago when
the I residlent was in A ugusta.
llagertyv repllied that he renmemb)ered and said that he
always wvent along with the supe(rstition, but did not know
the meaning of it.
Explaining the tradlit ion, thie waitress said that it is the
beief that the mor'e l)eas you eat New Year's Day, the
more nioney you will have. Anothe'r superstition, she told
him, is that wvhatever' you do the first (lay of the year, you
will continue to (10 all year' long.
"So t.hat's wvhat happene " ager. sadlugigy