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Let,'s I According to a recent press A&M College has adopted th trance Examination Board tee This in itself does not const earth-shattering importance. However, bring the questio and it becomes more importai Here at the University, w( school seniors to take the Collej prior to accepting them for ad universities and colleges do n< thing but a high school diploi to decide, in some cases, whicl Personally I favor the forrr are reservations to my opini( of the matter is that our ent ments are too easy. Unless I am mistaken, the the requirements, but no ir responsible, a vast revamping The average student entering sumes that the scores he ma trance exam are a close app what he will make once he swing of things at the Univer. true, three-fourths of the Stu( Carl Sandburg, poet, his paperman, guitar-strummer, g folk singer, and man of parts facet in his visit to Washingt cuff verbal editorialist. The Sandburgian views ha) and vigor of the 84-year-4 earlier writings. Examples: On Kennedy: "He's going I of the great Presidents. It st inaugural address like a psalr relief from the press conferen D. Eisenhower, the most t: President we've had." On Eisenhower: "He had fi the Philippines before he car U. S. Chamber of I AFree on What do communist leaders plan for us and our children? What can we do about it? Our understanding of the answers to these questions can make a dif ference, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States believes, in I determining whether this country can meet the communist challenge. A new course designed for per sons interested in studying the answers to these and other questions on communism has been prepared by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. The course contrasts principles and practices of democ racy and communism. Major em phasis is on economics, but military, political, and ideological aspects of communism are also covered. T ITLE OF the course is "Freedom vs. Communism: the Economics of Survival." It involves eight dis cussion sessions for groups of 15 to 20 people. Course leaders need no experience. A how-to-do-it manual shows them how to guide the partic ipants through each session. Ma terial for the course Is contained in this leader's manual and in eight pamphlets for participants, one for each session. The Chamber says the emphasis (ROWING FON UNIVERSITY OF 5 Member of AssocIi Abu ed e ," s,p me Univ.s,sity of Sosth Carlina we 'nhe epil. - bi -----a,fy the.e of '*The Gameco Letter, to the Edit.r, but a11 letter EDITOR ...... MANAGING E DITOR... . BUSINESS MANAGER...... ADVERTISING MANAGER ... AS8'T ADVERTISING MANAG NEWS EDITOR..... SPORTS EDITOR.... FEATURE EDITOR... A88'T FEATURE EDITOR. SOCIETY EDITOR.... CAMPUS EDITOR...... CIRCULATION MANAGER. EXCHANGE EDITOR.... BUSINESS SECRETARY . CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER.... REPORTERS: Blanding Clarkson ton, Cloudy Hardy, Ellen Horto, Fred Schumpert, Bobby Brown, E Henderson, Regina Galgano, Jack BUSINESS STAFF: Murray Cok Emily Redding, Jim Van Osdell, J1 COLUMNISTS: Charles Behling, Daniels, Sam Freed, Audrey Han Pedun, Mike Sheheen, Brenda Will PHOTOGRAPHERS: Robert Gai Maise Our Stan release, Texas never get into e College En- Also, it is n ting program. terial on the itute news of taught in the is a false sup n closer home For there i it. the exam he 1 require high will take in 0 re Board exam Immediatel mission. Some to think I ai t require any- Carolina is na. It is hard serious! I'm a is best. crackdown as er. But there ins. The crux been left out. rance require- When the s University, tl tate regulates (lid not. Cons atter who is tion of our gr( job is needed. instead of rai - Carolina as- a less scholar de on his en- suppose) are roximation of the Dean's Lih gets into the entrance exan lity. If this is Why, the I lent Body will known to give bandburg View borian, news- President.... oat herdsman, of the Unite< , added a new socialism are i on - off-the- 'welfare state. state since he re all the pith West Point." )ld scivener's On Khrush< tragedy of wa times I think., ;o rate as one a sense of hu arted with an there - I thii r . . . a great will bring moi ces of Dwight On Henry ngrammatical "You couldn't feller was sicl fteen years in that book... e back to be .ommerce ... r vs.Com is on economics because a strong economy is essential "to maintain a military deterrent sufficiently strong to discourage Russia - or any other country - from turning the 'cold war' into a 'hot war.'" "An economy," the Chamber said, "is the sum total of the work and the will of the people in it." Content of the course is revealed by the titles of the eight pamphlets: "The Communist Challenge"; "Con sumer Control or Controlled Con sumers"; "Profit Motive or Master Plan"; "Who Gets What"; "The Role of Government"; "The Big Picture"; "Meeting the Economic Challenge"; and "What You Can Do about Communism." A S WITH other Chamber courses, course material will be made available t o interested groups. Responsibility for conducting the course will be with these groups. Pilot cour'ses have been held in several cities and towns. The course was written with the help of economists, educators, and authorities on communism a n d Soviet Russia, bo0th in and outside of the federal government. What are they saying about "Free dom vs Communism"? A GREATER LOUTH CAROLINA :d Collegiate Pres th Robert EllBett Consales as . alshed by and for the stmdents of k,on Fridays, dinring thei eeU.ge ====ninations. rmists and letter writers are set :h." -rhe Gamecc- e.c..,ag.s must be signed. Pinhli does HOWARD HELLAMS Doug Gray Gene Dyson ...Bob Hill CR Carol Esleek Levona Page ............Carroll Gray Joan Woleott Roeemary Hanuns Marty Shobean Mary Ann Newman ...Murray Coker' .......... . .Pat Peden ...........Emily Redding .......Joe Van D)yke Jr., Jo Ann Coker, Cathie Dut i, Carolyn Hoyle, Kay Hughey, d Jacobs, Gail Broughton, Ruthie le Fowler, Donna Russell. ar. Carol Esleeck, Bernard Hoefer, im Pressley. John Chappell, Pat Clayton, Mike I, Joe Major, Jimmy Mann, Pat lams. rina, Fuller. Hrtn.e dards the swing of things. atural to suppose that the ma exams is close akin to that college classroom. Again this position. s as much difference between takes in June and the ones he ctober as in day and night. r some irate professor is going ,n attempting to convey that retting too hard. If so, get 3 much in favor of an academic the next guy, but one step has bandards became higher at the *e requirements for admission equently, the academic reputa at institution is being lowered, sed, because more students of ly nature (myself included, I allowed to believe that making it is simply a matter of taking is for a whole semester. riistory department has been harder pop quizzes! 5 He has yet to know the people I States. . . . Socialists and :irty words, nearly as dirty as . . . He has lived in a welfare left the creamery and went to hev: "We've never known the r as have the Russians. Some i man of peasant blood . . . has mor. There's a peasant heart ik he knows that the next war .e disaster to Russia. . . ." ("Tropic of Cancer") Miller: print my answer. . . . That or something when he wrote a damnfool crazy thing." -From "The World" munism' Reader's Digest Editor: "These pamphlets are both accurate and readable, a rare combination in this subject area. The authors deserve congratulations on an impressively competent job." - Eugene Lyons, Senior Editor, The Reader's Digest. Author of "Assignment in Utopia," "Our Secret Allies: the Peoples of Russia" and many other books and articles on Russia and Communism. Discussion Leader: "The program is very sound . . . well done . . . interesting discussion problems. Reading materials the best I have ever seen." Henry N. Teipel, Director of Personnel and Public Relations, Fairway Foods, Inc., St. Paul, Minn. Superintendent of Schools: "Ma terial covered in the text would be valuable supplementary material for use by instructors of high school Economics and Government classes." Dr. Mark H. Caress, Superintendent, Crawvfordsville (Ind.) City Schools. Student: "As a student I enjoyedl the "Freedom vs Communism" course because it is thought provoking andl so designed that everyone has the opp)ortunlity to express an opinion. It gave me a greater understanding and appreciation of problems that Americans of all generations must face today." Jerald Suberkropp, sophomore, Salina (Kans.) high school. Doctor: "A real eye opener... very outstanding course. I gained a better basic understanding of our economic and governmental system in comparison to the Russians. I highly recommend it to all profes sional people." Dr. Marvin Wollen, 0.D)., Olathe, Kansas. P'olitician: "Although I had never taken a formal course in economics, I was able to participate enthusias tically in the "Freedom vs Commu nism" course. As a former discussion leader for t.he Action Course in P'ract ical P'olit ies, I can see that the nlew course will make as large a con tribution to the dlevelopment of good citizenship." Mrs. Nell Blangers, vice chairman, District Democratic Committee, Sixth Congressional Dis trict of Kansas. Training Specialist: "An excellent c'ourse' on our American economic system . . . fine for supervisory em p)loyees." Porter Raley, Manager, Training and Communications, Kel logg Company, Battle Creek, Michi gan. Organization Executive: "This new course complements th(e Chain her's excelle'nt Economic D)iscussion Group program which my organiza tion endorses wholeheartedly. The "Freedom vs Communism" course should motivate participants to con tinue their study of our economic system and the 17-week Economic Discussion Group program provides the perfect vehicle." Robert G. Welch, Vice President, Steel Service Center Institute, Cleveland, Ohio. "Joe College 00PS! Mike Daniel . .. Russian Sch "The Russian school system is much inferior to the United States, as a whole," reported Dr. E. R. Crow, director of the State Educa tional Finance Commission, after re turning from a three-week tour of Russian schools. Dr. Crow was among 18 educa tional administrators, six of whom were from the South, that made the trip to the U.S.S.R. under the auspices of a United States-Russian Exchange Program inaugurated in 1956. Leader of the group which were from all parts of the United States, was a former South Caro linian, Dr. Virgil Rogers. Dr. Rogers, a native of Spartanburg County, is now dean of the School of Educa tion at Syracuse University in New York. D R. CROW felt the reason for the inferiority of t h e Russian schools to the United States' is the amount of work that the Russian children are compelled to do. The Russian students take almost twice as many subjects as the American students do and therefore, can not master any subject as well as the Americans do with fewer subjects. The educator based his opinion on another fact. This was that the many science and math courses taken by the Russian elementary students is true. But, the same courses are taught here in the United States under more elementary titles. An example is science. In Russia a fifth grader is taught phy sics while in the United States a fifth grader is taught general science. T h e American general science course is equal to the Rus sian physics course. No theories or high math is involved at all in the fifth grade physics course. The ma terial covered in both courses is basically the same. One phase of Russia's educational program that Dr. Crow~ did respect very much is the teaching of foreign languages to grammar school stu dlents. "To be ab)le to communicate in the world we live in today with By Steve Walter :ols Inferior people from foreign nations is of utmost importance," said Crow. The Russian children go to school six days a week and have a con siderably longer school day than the American children do. In most schools they have a two-shift pro gram due to the lack of school room space. Sometime classes aren't over until late at night. No school will ever permit more than 30 pupils in one classroom, when an over-crowded problem arises in a class, another class is immediately organized. T HE RUSSIAN school system is in the process of some transitions at the present time. Up until now, the system had a ten-year program which was even longer than our 12 year program in actual time spent in classrooms. The change will add another year to the education pro gram, making it 11 years. By adding another year students in high school will be required to divide their time between school and a job which will be found for them by the govern ment. The students are not paid until government thinks they have procured enough proficiency in the job to merit pay. Russian officials said that this new program will keep the academic world from becoming isolated from the "work-a-day world" preventing academic "snobbishness." The grammar schools and high schools have one program of study that everyone takes. Students are promoted as fast as they mentally are able to be promoted. Dr. Crow p)ointed out wvith this fact that the standards of promotion aren't too rigid, due to the limited time a stu (dent has on each subject. M ATH AND the physical sciences are taught more in their high schools than they are in ours," said D)r. Crowv, "but the reason for the heavy emphasis on these subjects is (Iue to the highly industrial and technical society Russia has, nowv." Dri. Crow was under the impression that even though the Russians have more math and science courses than the Americans do, their training was no better. PI4 LCR Exchang At Michigan State University, a professor was automatically asked at the end of the class period whether or not he planned to give a quiz the next day. Nonchalantly the professor answered, "A quiz? Why, I'd climb through that transom over the door before Id give a quiz tomorrow." Relief plainly showed on the faces of his students. But the next day at the class hour, there was a sudden clamor outside the door. The transom screeched open and, to the utter amazement of the students, in climbed their professor - grinning broadly and clutching a three-page quiz in his hand. * * * "The Washington News" re ports that Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who as a college professor, married a student in his class, de fines a diplomat who can persude one of his students to marry him without threatening to flunk her if she refuses. * *~ * At the University of Kentucky the canine mascot of the Lambda Cocktails Definitions of the day "Kiddie-crap" - m e a n s a rinky-dink, childish. "Guernsey Fallout"-comes, indirectly, from Coach Frank Howard of Clemson College, a land grant institution in the Piedmont section of our state. At a recent Columbia Touch down Club luncheon, Coach Howard was interviewed by phone, and he made a casual remark about the "Gamecock Fallout" in the city of Co lumbia. Both terms pertain to radioactive d u s t particles present in our atmosphere im- p mediately following a nuclear explosion . . . nothing else. Chi's, I)ammit, is a proud father. The new arrival was immediately )urnit as he is "too young to cuss." New students who know nothing of the mascot are often (uite startled to hear someone yell, "Come here, Dammit," and then to see a huge black dog come running. No telling what they will think when they hear the new call, "Come here, Dam m it, Durnit!" "The Toreador" of Texas Tech has a suggestion for getting the most out of college with the least effort. "Cutting classes is often risky and must be delicately handled." If the student wants to leave class after the roll has been called, he should begin to cough violently, clutch his throat and stagger out the door after collect ing his possessions. "The prof is so awed at the sight of a student obviously overcome with t h e plague that he fails to go back and nmark him absent." The University of Indiana had a squirrel who delighted in hunt ing people rather than nuts. As an unwary student walked by, the squirrel would dart from behind a MN'HHn e Corner tree in a running attack. After several students were treated for bites on the legs and even on the ear, the campus police locked up the animal for eight weeks to determine if it had rabies. There was no indication to back this charge, so he was sprung and re turned to his home. He promptly resumed his old activities, but soon bit off a little more than he could chew. A grad student chose to defend himself. Funeral services have not been announced yet. + * * At the University of North Carolina the Student Legislature is in a muddle as to what is and what is not necessary as far as the financial system goes. It is felt that Homecoming was worth the total expense, but many ques tion the cost of certain items. Eighteen charms costing about $12 apiece that were given to the Queen's court and the Sweetheart girls were termed ridiculous. One legislator proposed an amendment to another bill sug gesting that the legislature ap propriate funds to procure a con cubine for the student body presi dent. The editor of the "Daily Tar Heel" was surprised it didn't pass in the light of the money appropriated f o r the "trinket fund." * * * A reknowned parachute jumper about campus, Robert Richardson of Texas A&M, took advantage of a unique opportunity recently: while floating down from about 5.000 feet. he noticed two boys and their dates far out "in the woods" near the jumping area. From .100 feet up, he hollered, "Iowdy!" Needless to say, the two couples were startled! The "Emory Wheel" reports that there are a lot of couples who don't make-out in parked cars. The woods are full of them. At the University of Georgia, with the monsoon season so far overdue, one student was heard to say, "I'm building an ark, wanna' rent a room while they're still available?" While at a recent football game, one boy selling programs peddled them w it Ii t h i s statement: "Wanna' buty a program? Great to swat flies, blot lipstick, beat your wife, dry tears with. Letters Policy "Letters To The Editor" are en couraged by "The Gamecock" and will be p)rinted whenever possible. They should not exceed 300 Letters must be signed and ac companied by the' contributor's re turn add(ress for the purpose of certification. An unsigned letter wvill receive' no consideration. If the writer dlesires, his name may be withheld, but the anonymity will not be granted automatically. No partisanship wvill be shown in the printing of letters. How ever, "The Gamecock" reserves the right to reject any letter because of content or character.