Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CROWING FOE UNIVERSiTY OF . Member of Assodal F---d- Jamr 0 98 wi frt editor. Ile -- . is e th Univesity of Soeth Caroline w year empt m hoiays and d"d The ogWom -qmmmed by 2 ------y the"e of "7u ' Gems.. Letters to the Editor, but all letter met conetitute an eaders-e-t. IT publicatiee any letter is remvd. EDITOR ..................... MANAGING EDITOR ......... BUSINESS MANAGER ....... ADVERTISING MANAGER .... ASS'T ADVERTISING MANAG: NEWS EDITOR .............. SPORTS EDITOR ............ FEATURE EDITOR .......... ASS'T FEATURE EDITOR ... SOCIETY EDITOR ............ CAMPUS EDITOR ............ CIRCULATION MANAGER ... EXCHANGE EDITOR ......... BUSINESS SECRETARY ...... CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER REPORTERS: Blanding Clarkson ton, Cloudy Hardy, Ellen Hortoi Fred Schumpert, Bobby Brown, E Henderson, Regina Galgano, Jack Exchangi Around the country, Greek pledges have been reported as fulfilling several odd requirements during the time of their pledgeship. At one midwestern university, a sorority compelled its pledges to shop downtown with an animal on a leash. The animal - one large cow. At another, pledges drove into a drive-in restaurant on tricycles and ordered cokes in baby bottles. Then, there's a northern college where pledges rode to class on don keys and ot.hers carted books around campus in toy wagons. * * * At the University of Southern California, the Kappa Kappa Ganuna sorority president may be seen rid ing around campus on a shiny new motor scooter, with a sidecar for extra riders. The rather unusual mode of cam pus transportation was a prize on a nationwide television program where contestants were all sorority presi dents at USC. * * * At Portland State University, it seems nothing is left unseen. Two ingenious girls were spotted in a women's lounge after swimming class with their hair up in curlers using the installed hand dryers as hair dIryers. Also, due to an extreme lack of office space, there was found in the College Center a men's room in which there is a giant stall wvith only one small item occupying it. It was re ported that sev'eral student leaders without office space have been eye ing this location as a possibility. * * * At Louisiana State Universlty, a pre-Halloween visitor was found in the study of a boys' dorm. The un usual visitor, a bat, wvas found peacefully hanging from the ceiling of the room by a janitor. But his serenity changed when the janitor and others tried to capture him. "The Reveille," student newspaper, reported no one seemed to know how USC Presidei THEIRS & A GREATER OUTH CAROIJNA ad coneglate Press t Rebwt EINen Gamm da 9n.hW bam for the @edmt 01 kr, m darime the ee~ ..im and Wtte wit= am et &." -nw c4m- " esceg minib md ~ d bo ~ do" 0 right to W r frelm .........HOWARD HELLAMS .. ..................Doug Gray ................... Gene Dyson ....... ...............Bob Hill R ..............Carol Eseek ..................Levona Page .................. Carroll Gray ..................Joan W olcott ............Roemary Hanin ................Marty Shaheen ...........Mary Ann Newman .................Murray Coker ......... ..........Pat Peden .............Emily Redding ................Joe Van Dyke Jr., Jo Ann Coker, Cathie Dut i, Carolyn Hoyle, Kay Hughey, d Jacobs, Gail Broughton, Ruthie e Fowler, Donna Russell. i Corner the bat managed to get in the room Perhaps it was just as well; aftei all, who believes in ghost stories? * * * Amusing shorts from the "Dail3 Kansan" and "The Red and Black' from the University of Georgia, an as follows: Question: What did the rake sa3 to the hoe? Answer: Hi, hoe! Question: What makes bees hum Answer: They don't know th( words. "All right Moses, take out yot tablet and nunber from one to ten we're going to have a little quiz." * * * At Florida Southern, there is v campaign under way to re-name th< eompetitive athletic teams on cam. pus. The present name, "Moccasins,' has for some time been under con troversy as some feel it is discrimna tory to the team. Since the nan connotes a water snake or reptile team members have been the subjec1 of nicknaming much j o c u I a i criticism. * * * Texas Christian University i, having trouble with clocks. Student! get up on Central Standard, ea breakfast to Daylight Saving an< trek to class on Rocky Mountai Time. * * * At Southwest Texas State Colleg the old saying "ladies first" ha proven true, at least as far as sport go. The "Gypsies," a girls' basketbal team, was formed soon after th opening of the school in the earl' 1900's, whereas boys' teams wcr not formed until about a year later * * * The New Mexico Board of Regent has condemned t.he University o New Mexico's yearbook, "Mirage." The board criticized the yearbool for putting too much emphasis oi such extra-curricular activities a parties, drinking bouts and generall: "rowdy" events. They claimed th yearbook was not a credit to th school and slighted scholastic activi ties in favor of special events. -- BEAT CIEMSON ! - at Sumwalt Not Th It's that time of year again. It's time for our noble Knights of the Roundhouse to en counter a gang of up-state rowdies inspired only by an animal instinct, a statue of "Pitchfork" Ben Tilman, and a balding mass of personified illiteracy often called, by those who don't care who their relatives are, "Cousin Frank." It's the time of year when Carolina and Clemson meet in football. A few years ago, those connected with the small cess pool in the Piedmont slums saw fit to raise such a furor as to incite the wrath of those connected with the planning of Big Thursday to such an extent that our most precious state possession - outside of the University itself - was buried, draped in the pall of death and carried away in the hearts of every thinking fan in the state. Big Thursday was undoubtedly the great est thing this state has ever seen, but it's gone now. State Fair was almost a flop this year without the splendor of the annual mid week game. And yet our northern neighbors still want to cling to a small bit of the event. Previously, it has been the custom for one of the schools to issue a challenge to the other prior to the game. This proposition, and a subsequent answer from the challenged school, completed a contract agreement, Notma Back to another old problem. It's been two months since the opening of school, and it's been the same length of time since we last heard anything on the parking situation at Carolina. It's still as bad as it was, and maybe worse, for more students are registering their cars on campus every (lay. Student Senate's Traffic and Safety Com mittee outlined a list of grievances and sug gestions for the solution - or partial solu tion - of the problem, and has on several occasions approached the Administration vith its ideas. Naturally, some of these sug gestions are not feasible, and some had either been thought of previously or were under way at the time. The only thing we were promised at the beginning of the semester were a few long range programs - say about six months off. However, we're not dealing with inter continental ballistic missiles - we're dealing with students who can't find a place to park s er whereby the Editor of the newspaper repre senting the losing school was duty-bound to eat - literally eat - the editorial page of his paper. We have been informed that those from the hills who subscribe to the "Pro gressive Farmer" have drafted a resolution stating their desire to continue the afore mentioned policy of paper consumption. However, tradition shall be laid asunder this year, for we of "The Gamecock," as representatives of the MEN AND WOMEN OF CAROLINA, do not wish to continue such "kiddie-crap" activities. Our reasons are two-fold: first, a lot of things seem to get a little sillier with age, and college students seem to get a little more mature with age. (The position of the Clemsonites is readly understandable, how ever, for we do not consider them college students.) Secondly, why do away with only part of Big Thursday? Why not do a thorough job! We feel that if we're going to have to con taminate ourselves with "Guernsey Fallout" by traveling up to so-called "Death Valley" every other year, we might as well kill Big Thursday altogether. This includes doing away with the paper-eating affair. As a matter of fact, it might not be bad to quit playing the Bashful Baron's Baboons at all. Rg Yet most of the time and who wind up feeding meters all day long when and if they do. Getting back to the Committee, it's done everything it can. After all, what else can a student organization do in dealing with the "higher ups" except suggest? Again, miracles cannot be expected. But it seems to go without saying that some ef fort should be made to take a little of the heat off, particularly in the area of student fines for overparking in metered zones. It seems to me that the City of Columbia would be willing to lose a few dimes in order to help the Student Body. They'd actually be making money, for it's pretty reasonable to assume that when new parking areas are constructed, the money will have to come from the state. And it's also pretty reason able to assume that the state will derive this money from higher taxes. And it's also pretty reasonable to assume that everyone at City Hall will be paying their share of these taxes. "Joe College Maybe Clemson Will Joe Jordan ... 'Two Blii The newly reorganized University Players are well along in prepara tions for their first play of the year, "Two Blind Mice." The play, a comedy written by Samuel Spewack, is slated to open in Drayton Hall November 28. It is to rni for five nights. Most significant of the many steps to producing the play is the almost complete easting of the characters. Of the 19 parts, only four remain vacant. The other 15, including all the major roles, have been announced. Next in the steps to the finished product is the read-through, a familiarization process. The first of these was held recently. Since then the Players have been meeting al most nightly in order to get their lines down pat. T lE play is about two little old ladies who are operating a de funct government agency which through some oversight, not un typical of Washington, still receives its annual support. The two blind nice dutifully destroy their checks and suatain their activities through assorted sidelines. They operate a parking lot, sublease to a pants presser, a rhumba teacher, and perate a maternity service. There appears to be no limit to their Their former s<m-in-law, a news paper man, arrives on the scene just as they receive a request from Washington to share their offices svith the OSS Liquidating Agency. I'he departments of Army, Navy, Air, and States are to send repre entatives, and reporter Thurston, xnswering to the fear and bewilder nent of the mice, assumes his new, elf-appointed role of Supervisor af ~he Office of Medicinal Herbs, which ieretofore has been only sending out sackaged seeds. Thurston puts it over on the iquidators, making them believe bhat his mice are the foremost clemson Presi ...FRIENDI By Steve Walter S ou)rMernaA Go To A Bowl Yet! Id Mice' scientists in the world in the area of herbological warfare and that all the "peculiarities" are security covers, as are the liquidators them selves. The plot then proceeds in ever-ascending spirals of laughing comedy to its hilarious finish cal culated to keep the audience laugh ing for hours afterward. T HE director, Lewis Ingram, has announced the following major characters' parts: the blind mice, Lucy Fugiel and Innis Anderson; the reporter, Tommy Thurston, is Henry Weeks; and his ex-wife, K a r e n Norwood, is Rosemary Hankins. The major supporting characters are Senator Kruger, Congressional watchdog and enemy of the mice, is Monk Hennant; State Department representative, Threadwaite, i s played by Ned Kneece. Among the other supporting roles are Loy Doggett and Sam Bongiorno, 9 who help represent the branches of the service; Jack Winslow, who plays the part of a newspaper man who is sucked in on the hoax by Thurston; and Fayssoux Dunbar, who plays the rhumba teacher. A note of interest is struck by R. C. Wilkie who will play an old mailman and a young sergeant, both of which are character roles and will be aided by changes of make-up. T H E Players would like to an nounce that anyone wishing to help in the production should feel welcome to offer their services, as many of the things that need to be done need people to do them, in order to make the play a success. Some of these are stagehands, ushers, box office personnel, as well as those who like to build things . . .like sets. Those interested should let them selves be known by either dropping by rehearsals at Drayton Hall in the evenings or putting a card in the campus mail with their name, address, and phone number. The card should be addressed to Uni versity Players, Box 867. Go see it. It's agood one. -hEAT CLEMSON! dent Edwards Y RIVAL RY