Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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'Blue Monday' Blues Laundry[ BY JOAN WOLCOTT Staff Writer Even detergent hands can't keep Carolina men from their rendez vous with "Blue Monday." When a campus bachelor real izes that his closet is bare of clean apparel, he becomes a man of action. Grabbing the flakes, he heads for the nearest laundromat, whistling " S o a p Gets in My Eyes," as a spirit-lifter. Hot air, familiar faces, and ma chines of all kinds greet Boy Friday as he enters the laundry. He doesn't hesitate at the deter gent and bleach machine, for he is armed with his favorite brand name flakes. Washing Process Diligently, he unloads his pack, adds the soap, and puts the wash Sweaters by Jantzen Puritan Slacks CO by Botany Frety Ivy Style Have a n The best toba lomesticat ing process in motion. It takes only once to learn that blue socks and white underwear aren't friendly when mixed in the same washer! Laundry lounging is old hat to this "do-it-yourself" man. lie oc cupies his time either by reading the wall signs, playing cards, or visualizing ways to spend the money he's saving. A construc tive lounger may even study or read. Transferring his wet clothes to a dryer, Boy Friday nears the end of his labor. In a matter of minutes, he is stuffing c l e a n clothes into his bag. He trudges back to the campus, a satisfied pack-horse. Forces Joined Several males join forces with S6 PELAND CO. 1409 Main Street ft cco makes the be~ It J. lItinbh Ti es Campus other laundry laborers and pool their clothes. Sometimes the bill is reduced while on other occa sions, a sorting party results. Hand - washing of linens and underwear presents the problems of wet leftovers. Radiators partly Mack Writes Mama Again BY ORIN ANDERSON Staff Writer Dear Mania: Well, I "here again take pen in hand" (thats College for riting a letter). I want to thank-you for the check you sent to me-It have been graciously recieved by my self. I am sorry to here about Pore ol' Jed Slogan's mule, Matilda. I would have thunk that with all harvesting that Jed had to do he wouldn't have fod Matilda the sour mash from his s t ill . It must've been purty funny to see Matilda "play chicken" with that steam roller, though. Oh well, Chunkie Furd (my roomate, you know) got called into the Deans office about get ting his hand caught in the news paper rack. But don't worry, everything's fine. le explained that real good. You see, he got it s t u e k in there when he was leaning on it watching this girl by a paper - (Chunkie is girl crazy) and she slammed his hand in their. I am studying real hard. Es 1)ecially Freshman IHistory. Pro fessor Chowen say that I got real "4potential" as a author. Professor Chowan a real happy man; he laff a whole lot. The other (lay when we had a test about the Fueding System (yon know, about thieves and vessels) and I hand my paper in, he laff til the tears roll down his face. le shore a happy person. I forgot to tell you something; Chunkie is in the Air Force ROTC. lie laff about it a lot and calls it the "Junior Birdmen." Chunkie is real funny; every Wednesday nite he prays for rain. Chunkie doesn't like his flight leader either. Well, I better quit riting, cause I got to go carry supper to Chunkie. It 12:30 and lie's been walking tours (that means carry a rifle around the campus) since 6:00. Your son, Mack C. Twvirls 'e-have a C '\us" p ~ \ '4G e4 Bachelors eliminate this p r o b 1 e m and clotheslines are b e c o mi i n g the latest in interior decorating. Most campus bachelors h a v e their shirts done professionally. Some have their pants "finished," while others add the iron touch themselves. When there's no iron ing board, a desk covered with a sheet is their "make-do." Laundry Progress Men are experts in all fields, so it's said. Who wants to knock t h e i r progress in the laundry line? Soon it'll be even nicer to have a man around the house! Seen. Aeard. Spoken ON CAMPUS B(isketball p 1 a y e r throweing itickelm in a milk bottle. F'ootball player skinning a pig. Track star jiunping over fence ii front of Russell 11ouse. Tennis player rxalting bad miin ton. C'od saying, "flave you seen through the vindoes of the buys' (1a, its (it night. from sceond floor of RusselI House?" lhotogriladcphr of "Gamecock" sen iiriting oed into the dark Cocd ducking a kiss on the front puorch of Sims, and her unsuspect inf date kissing a concrete wall. Tchephone operator cutting tele photne lines to Ma.xcy dorm. Lca-es drifting across sidewvalk in front o f racant tencmnents dur ing Thainksgiving weekend. Lonely student left on campus orer the holiday eating a haim sulndvich ior Thanksgil,ing dinner. .: ::<, Ir Students gazing in ivonder at orderly cards on the Russell House bulletin board. * * * U'nconscions co-ed in new Pickens Street housing prouidly showing off newv telephone and .plaining, "The University ex tended recognition." 3AMEL O "Cocky" "T ME TUL VW NAT . 0bb Un iversitj Vacation BY JANET ROBERSON AND BETTY EASLER Staff Writers USC's campus is a nightmare 1 >f loneliness when Carolina stu Jents are homeward hound for .he holidays. You walk into Russell House :nd what do you find . . . No ine is giving announcements at the information desk. Panic. what's wrong? . . . Where are the bridge players, TV fans, and loaf rs that patronize the Gamecock room? There's stillness . . . No music Slater Food Service has itopped slinging hash. The dead line was met in the "Gamecock" asylum (an institution for relief for the destitute or afflicted es pecially one for the insane) . . . No clicking typewriters in the dean's offices . . . WUSC isn't broadcasting . . . And what's worse, you don't see a living soul that you know. It's like a morgue! BA Building On to the BA building . . . Where are the football and has ketball players? . . . The crowded elevator isn't crowded . . . Office. machines are resting, and the ears )f the future stenographers are e'njoying a silence from the dicta- < phones. Walking across Green Street in front of Russell House... What ? a parking place! . . . The1 >ff-campus students would n o t anve any parking problems at a lreary time like this . . . No hi-fiI lets are going full-blast in Pres on. 'The Horseshoe is deserted. Red, 'ellow, andl br o w n leaves are ifting to the ground. but their eautiful hues seem only to add :o the dlesolation . .. Even the ;qui rrels look lonesome . . . D)ead, lead leaves and a deserted, for orn camp~us." Yea though I walkt brough the v'alley of the shadow >f dheath . . ."' Florence Nightingales t What hap)pened to the little busr hat carries our "'Florence Night-e Men who f Skin protection, that is. Old skin moisture. Feels great, te to attract female admirers, bi man needs protection aainsi By Rosemary Hankins bu,qj,yc Tme x0j1bay. r Finds Lonely ngales" to the hospitals of Co umbia . . . The political science tudents are not discussing the utcome of the Presidential elec ion . . . No foreign policies gainst Khrushchev are being nade in the department of inter ational studies . . . Tapes are iut on the shelf in the languages uilding. No future teachers of America .re busying themselves in Ward aw . . . The ever-present slide ules are no longer seen hanging rom the belts of the engineering tudents . . . Freshman boys are ot suffering from PT 1, and here are no ripples in the water f the pool. Fraternity row looks bleak and orgotten, and no midnite oil is >eing hurned in the girls' dorms. Little "Green" Men Little "green" men are wearing ivilian clothes . . . The books n the law library are all closed . . Marching Coquettes are away romi Davis Field . . . LeConte and 1o chemistry experiments. The IBM machines are resting n1 the administration building . . English professors have tem >orarily stopped philosophizing to heir students . . . Psychology stu lents have forgotten about Freud or a while . . . History profes ors aren't telling the usual jokes. Music professors have stopped alking about Beethoven's Fifth ymp)hony . . . Journalism majors ren't leafing through the news aplers5 in the dean's lounge... lath majors aren't trying to be insteins. and AFROTC students ren't t hinokinrg of planes. Frogs Biology students aren't cutting nt frogs . . . Astronomy majors ren't watching the stars, and the ntire Post Office is a "dead let ier office.' The library's atmosphere re enmbles a local cemetery. During het holidays it seems that funeral ites have been performed for the amupus as a w'hole. axce wind and weathe choose the p AFTE R LOT Spice refreshes and stimulates, guar o. Brisk, bracing, with that tangy 01 it what red-blooded girls? 1.0 An. M... Ramnblin' Thoughts HY JANET H(ORERSON Staff Writer Male undergraduate sitting with a group of coeds i the Gamecock Room remarked, "I feel like the grand high ex aulted guardian of the royal harem." Coed: "Russell H o u s e has many services. There's a barber shop for the boys. Why don't they have a beauty parlor?" Male undergraduate: "Why add to th confusion ?' Graduate student remarked. "I wish that somehow I could stop the hands of time." Professor asked. "Why?" Graduate s t u d e n t replied, "Well, then I could make a career of college and would never have to worry about get ting a job." Professor commented. "Trv my profession." Comedians on television are numerous . . . Is it true that most intellectuals prefer to put their minds on the level with Jack Paar? Male undergraduate: "Once a drunkard, always a drunkard . . . The AA goes under the asumption that if you take one drink after stopping for a few% years, you will once again be come a drunkard." Coed: "Have all your friends been s e n d i n g you get-well cards ?" Coed in hygienes class re marked, "I didn't k n o w that syphilis could be transmitted by kissing." ... She sounded worried. Scene - "cold" night at a drive - in. Time - mid - night. Characters--boy and girl. Girl remarks, "Would you please keep your dirty mittens on your side of the car?" Many gre.t men have tried to solve the problems of the world since the time of Adam and Eve, but it seems the world will never stop having problems. Why don't they stop worry ing? . . . In a world with no problems some people would continue to vorry about not having anything to worry about. Most students felt that after the Thanksgiv'inrg holidays they needed to return to Carolina for a rest. Sen oior law~ studlent remarked after Thanksgiv'ing. ''Let's all hwour heads and giv'e thanks I or the ability to mentally un dress coed(s." Professor, "'Mentally ? My, howv timnes have ('hanged.'' Male u nd er gr ad uat e re marked, ''I'm c'razy about the fall fashions this year. They' are just short ermughr to show the d i mt p 1 e s on the c'oed's knees." rotection of... S HAV E ION da against the loss of vital I Spice scent. It does seem U sU L .TO N