Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Esprit D "Esprit de corps" is no longer a thing of the past here at Carolina. The enthusiasm and fervor displayed by USC fans at the Duke game last weekend was a most reward ing spectacle, as was the performance of the Gamecock football squad. In short, the team was great and so was the cheering section. Part of it was due to the cooperation and personality of our new coach, Marvin Bass. Part of it was due to the enthusiasm of the new freshman class. Part of it was due to 1 the Gamecocks' prowess on the field for 58 minutes. It reached its peak at the end of the game when the team, although it had lost to Duke, was given a standing ovation by the crowd. This is the kind of things you see in the movies, but it actually happened at Carolina t Stadium a week ago tonight. Everyone deserves a hand - Coach Bass, the players, the cheerleaders, and the fans. This is the kind of thing we must keep going, and improve upon, not only in athletics, but in every other phase of our life at carolina. This means supporting the Student Government in its undertakings ... attending the Artist Series presentations ... taking an active interest in campus elections in short, doing something for Carolina. Rush In A Rush is again upon us. For another week 4r so campus fraternities and sororities will be in an uproar . . . taking rushees out to lunch . . . stag smokers . . . all smiles . . . t "where you from?" . . . balling sessions ... . pledging. For those of you interested in Greek life, 1 rush can be the most exciting time of your life, provided you approach it with the right i OUtlook. The status of being a fraternity man or I sorority woman does not "make you or break I you" on the Carolina campus. If you're i interested, there are many rewards, which, t except in special cases, outweigh the dis- i advantages. However, some students give fraternity t life, rush, etc., the wrong perspective, mainly because they are going into something blindly. There are a few things which one< should know before going out for rush. One of the main points to remember is to 5 Exchange Tulane University's Delta Tau ig ocvwhr D)elta Chapter succeeded in placing wasrvnasa a rather unusual phone call last Ietcatra spring wvhich resulted in the addi- h )ls(eie tion of two kangaroos to New . Orleans' Audubon Zoo. ncthNe0 Followving a desire to make a nokgaosad long distance p)hone call andl after theloSskdf havng eenunuccssfl i rach plce Moscow werc Membe of AsocithDedied Colga i v. Theopnios xpessd y clutys ad orie paving ateen nuccet ssfli reach pacd herdeq MANAGINGOR EDITATE ADETSNGVESIMANAOUGERRLI MS' D ETISIN MAAERe CoCgat r HN EDTO is ihdyd ro SOTe UvEDsITOR ofSuhCrlnCeky,ordy,drn CAPUSto EDITO Materrsreered MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS SECREARYE ADVEFRTGRMANAGER RAPOTADERS nING MlANksAE.R.,J n Cokr CAmPUS EDiTORMay. CEOUMNIRS: Chlein Celirsng, Joh JohAnn,a Cor Daniels, Sam Freed, Audrey Hand, Joe Major, Jimm3 Peden, Mike Sheheen, Brenda Williams. PHOTOGRAPHERS: Robert Gaskins. Fuller Horton. 0 Corps School spirit also ties in with friendliness. rhe University is deep in the tradition of rriendliness. It is assumed that most of us ire here to make friends as well as to cram t lot of "book learnin'" into our heads. This rings us around to one of my pet peeves: ;hat being the relatio,iship between Carolina ithletes and the rest of the Student Body. A large majority of students look upon the 'ootball team as a bunch of animals, hell )ent on looking and acting as bad as possible. Some of them might fit into this category; here are a few bad apples in every barrel . . in every fraternity or sorority . . . in very interest group on camp .s . .. in every lormitory . . . everywhere. On the whole, they're as good a bunch of ellows as you'll find anywhere. They're ,arolina students, just like you, so treat hem as such. One complaint is that the players are -ocky and won't speak. There is a reason or this. A lot of these "cocky" athletes don't lpeak because they know "ordinary" students von't speak back. They are ostracized the iinute they get to the campus; consequently, hey're actually afraid to be overly friendly. ipeak to them; they won't stomp on you. "'hey do that on Saturday afternoon, while you're up in the stands taking it easy. Nutshell ead and obey the rush rules set down by he Interfraternity and Pan Hellenic Coun ils. These rules are to be strictly adhered o. Most Greeks are upstanding enough to efrain from inticing rushees to commit nfractions of these rules. Most of the of enses reported are the result of ignorance ir forgetfulness, but even these can ruin a ushee or a fraternity as a whole. As far as "how to act" theories go, the )est policy seems to be to "act natural . . . e yourself." The people you're trying to mpress won't be impressed at all if you tell hem how many aunts you have who were nembers of Kappa Kappa Kappa sorority, ir that your great grandfather was one of he founders of Tappa Keg. They know this ort of thing already. They will, however, >e imp)ressedl by your personality . . . your leatness ..onversation . . . manners... ~te. Giv~e it a whirl if you can afford it. It's a ~ood life. Corner a Delt alum wrote an explanatory letter. >assador and a In August, two baby kangaroos, [ichigan State, each a year andi a half old1, arrived o call Austra- andl ar happily living in Audubon Park. leans' Zoo had A-aloo (her1' At Central State College in st and ltere 'Edmund, Oklahoma, there are 10 s,adlt r ather' unusual transfers. The 10( newVcomers, from Color atdo State University, are mice andl are the p)roperty of onie of the Biology instructors. A t the University of Southern California, in preparation for exams, the counseling service of. fers 5(essions for freshmen on how t to take tests and how to read he coilese rapidIly and efficiently. I are not * * mncorag.. . hi~ dUniversity officials at Southern ~od. llinois University have set up a HELLAMS plan by wvhich students andl fac . Dug rayulty members can fly to E'urope. Doug Gray for study or tours at redluced Gene DyBon rates. Bob Hill The project, which will cost ap) arol Esleeck proximately $310 round1 trip will evona Page only fly students and faculty to arrll rayand( from Europe' on a chartered arrollGray hmne. While there, they will be an Wolcott i.o their own. ry Hankins Also at Soutdern Illinois Un rty Sheheen v,esity, freshmen are warned not rm Newman to bu.v season passes for a bus ara Ckr nsporting studlents to classes ira okr t, an extent ion from upper class Pat .Peden men. iily Redding it seems selling these fake Van Dyke passes for rides which are free Cathie Dut. has become a favorite of SIU :ay HIughey, u ppe'relassmen. nard Hloefer, At Southwest Texas State Col layton, Mike lege co-eds can now take ballroom Mann, Pat dlancing and charm and modeling classes as part of a newv Student Union nogrnam. Charles Behling . A In his very excellent Annual Re port, President Robert L. Sumwalt called recent growth and progress at the University "the t eginning of a Renaissance." What an ex citing and accurate way to describe the condition of our University! Truly, Carolina is beginning to grow to the position of greatness which she occupied at the beginning of her career. But, despite all her advance ment, there is still a great need wxhich must be filled at our Uni versity, and a great danger which lies in all her progress. It is a need which can prevent her from cver becoming great, and a danger which can destroy all her advance ment. The need: a new attitude to match the new University. T IlIE danger: losing the heart of Carolina. Progress in thought must pre cede progress in expansion of physical facilities and academic advancement. Carolina seems re luctant to change; she seems afraid to introduce new programs or new ideas in activities and services. She has the realization that many of her existing programs need im provement, but is reluctant to make that improvement. New ideas seem feared - "they are too much of a gamble!" For example, our Orientation Program has for a long time ob viously not been as excellent a prograni as t.he University is capable of presenting. This year inprovements were made by the University in the over-all Plan of the Week, but the job was only half done. The extra measure of co-operation and progressiveness was lacking. The program was not lade compulsory; other essen :al factors to the complete success of the program were denied. A change was needed, but changes were feared and thus were not made. Our attitude toward Orien tation had not grown to meet the needs of the new University. For tXo long we have sat around coniference tables, noted new pro grans of other Universities, and remarked that "we'll have to look into that someday." Now it's time for us to take the lead. We have reached the pint where we must be progressive, we must lead the way into new and better ideas. It is now time for administrators at other schools to sit around their conference tables and dliscuss the pirogress and excellence of the Uni versit-y of South Carolina! W1 E MUST change our attitude to match the newv University. We must be willing to see wvhere our1 system can be changed and wve mtust not be a fraid of making those changes. Certainly, changes are gambles. Butt, it is a certainty that we will niever attain our full service to the state and nation if we insist in always lagging a step bechind1 our fullI g reatness! Tlhent too, we must never allow outrse.lves to lose hold of the real heart of Carolina. In a massive uiversity it is a great temptationi to become so bogged down int pap~er wyork, red ta pe, andl fittancial p)rob) lems tat we destroy the heart of he campus)LI. The stutdents atre this heat; they ate the most importat IDeat Sit: Amtteticants staind at a cross toadts today~', and face a quiest iont of inmmenise i mpotance. Shall they retain thteirt heritage of free dlom--a hetitage made po.ssihle toutgh the obhsetvalnce of li mited governmett, private enterprise, and a morality basedl on eternal truths and principles ? Or shall they turn to one of the various systems of collectivism-systems which deny morality and truth systems which have destroyed the freed(om of peoples throughout the wotld ? T[he answer lies with the youth of A merica. It is the youth who must shoulder the burdens imposed by the mistakes of the past, and it is the youth wvho will be res ponsible for the future. With the very survival of their nation and their freedom at stake, the youth of America must participate miote than ever before in the political life of their nation. It was to provide the youth of A merica with such a means of Conservative action t h a t the Young Americans for Freedom was established. Meeting last Sentember nt Sharon. Connecti Need ...Ar persons at a University. They are not more statistics - they must be understood, and an attempt must be made to supply their full needs, academically and otherwise. Ideas which seem fine on paper must be submitted to the higher test of student welfare. The stu dents, faculty, and administrators are not to beconse slaves of the IBM machine and the financial balance sheet. Rather, these things are to assist the students and ad ministrators in their advancement. Of course, many programs de sired by the students are simply not practical. If given a chance, the students will understand this. However, too often students are not given this chance. "Don't," someone says when he should say "Don't, because . . . ." When the wisdom of a rule is expressed, the students will co-operate with it. If students are to become serving alumni, they must be treated as future alumni. The University must realize that Carolina has trained its men and women to think for themselves. They cannot be treated like a flock of sheep! A S THE University grows, it must not lose sight of the stu dents and Carolina's ideal of a high-minded school spirit. As the University grows, it must gain new attitudes and conceptions t(c match its new size. We are most certainly now in the Renaissance of the University Jimmy Mann ... 'Yeah, E They tell the freshmen "USC is ,a friendly place," and everybody agrees that USC is a friendly Wace. except for a large number of students who have been hanged, ztabbed, drawn, quartered, and Shot at sunrise for parking in a prohibited zone. And thence hangs a tale. The stUdent parking problem on campus is worse-if possible than ever this semester. There are more student cars than ever this semester, more students in apartments and at home in Co lumbia who have to drive to class. This was expected. What was not expected, and what makes the problem so much more acute, is that coupled with more cars there are less parking spaces on campus this semester than there were last spring. Construction of new dor mitories has eliminated the large parking lot behind H and J. The zoning of the street by the mar riedl students' apartments and of Hull Street has eliminated more spamces. A conservative estimat.e by the chairman of Studlent Gov ernment's Tlraffic and Safety ('ommittee is that USC needls 700 more piarking spaces right now. So what's being (lone by the Administration and Student Goy Tihe AdiniIstration--which is dloing a superlative job with a treme'ndously expanding school in making (Carolina great, faced often with iniadequate finances or time -is aware of the p)arking p)rob)lemr. A soluotion looms in the near fu Some parking spaces will prob. aly he created on Blossom St reet, andm one of the first fea Letter To 1 ut, the founders adopted the fol lowving statement of principles: TlE SHIARON STATEMENT In this time of moral and p)olitical crisis, it is the respon sihility of the youth of America to affirm certain eternal truths. We, as young conservatives, believe: That foremost among the transcendent values is the In dividual's use of his God-given free will, whence derives his right to be free from the re strictions of arbitrary force; That liberty is Indivisible, and that political freedom cannot long exist without economic freedom; That the purposes of govern ment are to protect these free doms through the preservation of internal order, the provision of national defense, and the ad ministration of justice; Tihat when government ven tures beyond these rightful functions, it accumulates power which tends to diminish order and liberty; That the Constitution of the United States is the beat ar rangement yet devised for em powering overnmnent to fualfil id A Dang of South Carolina. There must be no limit to the improvements we "Joe College c/0c" P00 V. IEV IL Gun Him Down" etween The Hei tures of University expansion below Blossom Street will be the creation of parking areas-pos sibly as early as six months from now. H OWEVER, six months is a long time for 700 people without parking spaces. And herein, your author has a bone to pick. With more cars, less spaces, and the worst parking problem yet, the Campus Police, with customary brilliance, have acted to remedy the situation by staging a crackdown on illegal student parking. First offense is $2.00, and $3.00 per offense thereafter. Often cars are towed off, resulting in a $2.00 or $3.00 ticket charge plus a $3.00 wrecker fee, which is soon to be raised even higher. This is more than a ticket costs in most South Carolina towns, and students, as an economic class, ca' afford it. What are these students to do? Is it their fault that they have to drive to school and that there wvill be insufficient parking spaces for at least six moure months ? If the volume of tickets issued is any indication, the excessive fine seems to have little prohibi tive effect anyway. In a situation where students often have no alternative but to park where they can-illegally-the ticket prices are too high and the wrecker bit is rather extreme. O NE wonders where all this income from parking tickets goes--perhaps the Campus Police spend it on ammunition for the pistols they carry to suppress stu (dent up)risings, as another aspect of the friendship campaign to imp)ress visitors. (This might he unfair since the majority of the *he Editor its proper role, while restrain ing it from the concehtration and abuse of power; That the genius of the Con stitution-th, division of pow ers--is summed up in the clause which reserves primacy to the several states, or to the people, in those spheres not specifically delegated to the Federal Gov ernment; That the market economy, allocating resources by the free play of supply and demand, is the single economic system com patible with the requirements of personal freedom and constitu tional government, and that it is at the same time the most productive supplier of human needs; That when government inter feres with the work of the market economy, it tends to re duce the moral and physical strength of the nation; that when it takes from one man to bestow on another, it diminishes the incentive of the first, the integrity of the second, and the moral autonomy of both; That we will be free only so long as the national sovereignty of the Uinited et.a. i...cur. er make and the excellence we achieve! By Steve Walter idlights' tile of our local minions of the law seems to be spent in vigilant search of - horrors! - illegally parked Cars. Maybe somic of the ears fight back at the ticket givers and they have to shoot them. "How'd the beat go?" . . . "Pretty good, except for one re bellious Buick." . . . "l)id you gun him down ? ' . . . "Yeah. Got him right between the head lights.") Your author does understai though, as Swift says, "When con stabulary duty is to be done, the policeman's job is not a happy one." Hut what has Student Govern ient done about the problem? It seems that Carolina Student Bodies build their triumphal arlhies of brick in order to have something handy to throw at their heroes when the first flush of victory has faded. Your author has no desire to throw so-called "Irish Confetti" at President C2happell or his very interested adnd catpale Student Government. S EVEltA L years of activity in Student Government - rather sunmmarily brought to a halt by an unimpressed clectorate last April--conv inced this wvriter that our Student Government, wvith the co-operation of the Administration, can and will do all that can be dlone to relieve student problems whenever the student body is in terestedi enough to ask them to do so. Why not ask Student Senators about a 50e first offense parking ticket wvith a $1.00 maximum thereafter; no more towing aw$ of cars; and p)ossibly some1 justifi cation for the wearing of guns by campus policemen ? What about it, Senators? thoat history shows periods of freedom are rare, and can exist only when free citizens concert,4 edly defend their rights against all enemies; That the forces of interna tional Communism are, at pres ent, the greatest single threat to these liberties; That the United States should stress victory over, rather than co-existence with, this menace; and That American foreign policy must be judged by this cri terion: does it serve the just interests of the United States? A chapter of the Young Amer icans for Freedom has been founded here at Carolina. The one major ob)jective of the organ ization wvill be to do all within its power to realize - through youth action -- the principles outlined in the Sharon Statement. If you are interested in working with us, please contact the under signed at 919 Sumter St. (AL~ 4-0227). Our first meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 3, in Room 102, of Russell House. Every conservative is welcome. Yours truly, Archer Wilder, ..