Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Smell those magnolias? It's p perfect example of that statement magnolias, staff photographer Ro the President's backyard would mal Scenes Around Campus. Iy the w Howard Hellams . W< Ever since Russell I-louse was built, a few years back, the cry has arisen from "The Gamecock," Student Government, and our Student Body as a whole: "Save the student union for the stu dents." That is, the cry has gone up whenever the facilities of our "Student House," as the plaque of the first floor lobby wall reads, have been relegated to the use of outside groups. While student groups maintain use of the building most of the time, some on a permanent basis like the newspaper, yearb)ook, and The Pep Club, with the able the cheerleaders, is currently drive Cocky andl everyone el be excitedl about. The ultimate dIrive is the largest South C flag in the worldl. The flag, if purchased, andl( unless you do your part, will feet by 50 feet. Tlhe total cos the neighborhood of $540. T1 underway is to collect 5,400 after we look at the value of feel this mark can be reached Carolina's spirit has been bul Several years ago, the edit Gamecock" said Carolina's g was an auditorium. Not much } about an audlitori umn since ti most of the attention has bee' the pr'ospect of niew indloor ai ties. We agree this is importat lina is in dire need of such faci must also point out the need torium onl our campus. It is common knowledge th possib)le for all of our I student I a group anywhere on campus don't have anyt hintg large en commodlate everyone. TFhere we the dIrawing boards at one tin addition to the Russell Ilousi build a good-sized meeting p)lac has been saidl about it since tl announcement, and it is~ rumo plan will not be completed at; As we walk over our campi see new dormitories stretchinnt Scenes Arom ringlime in the South, suh! And a is our lovely campus. Instead of bert Gaskins thought dogw(mm in te a prettier picture for this week's my, what does dogwood smell like? ) Are Still E radio station offices, it is not un usual to find civic groups, educa tion associations, and the like occupying the assembly room and other locations throughout the building. And this usually creates pan demonium among students who would like to put one of the rooms to good advantage at the time when the "outsiders" are taking over. In the past I've prided myself on being able to see both sides of this question: of course the students should feel that Russell House is for them only - it was b)uilt for that purpose; but on the r 'Round Thae F1 assistance of over the past sponsoring a dIon't have a t; se seems to instance, many goal of this as their tangil arolina state foldIs at every the longest rug it won't be owvners of the measure 30 be the beginnii will run in be handed dow~ -te p)lan now now, we have dimes, andl We believe y the flag, we this drive. And easily. tribute, don't I lding rapidly afford. It will I A Great Need ors of "The sky, a new Lif reatest need tion to Currell as been said of Engineering at time for struction was focused on can't see how ~hletic facili- would provide t, andl Caro- the student boi ities, but we overlooked. Pe for an audi- postponed. As an examr at it is im- suppose the ra odly to sit as (luring the day We simply The only build: ough to ac- be the Field Hi is a plan on crowd was on ie to add an them would be 3, and in it This, of courn e. Very little major point is ie day of its student body t< red now the purpose. We ki ill. dous constructi is today, we would like to towarrd the auditorinm in t ad Campus Anyway, if there are some of you v leave the Cotton Patch early one af lorseshoe. Nothing could be finer. Gaskins.) oeing Invad other hand, letting outside groups use the facilities of the University (and most of these groups do have some direct affiliation with Carolina) does a pretty good public relations job for the school. And we need all the good will we can get. However, I believe I'm getting a little narrow-minded, for after this past weekend the public rela tions side of the question is grow ing a little hazy. I must register a complaint, this time in favor of the students' point of view. The ASCE (I think that's the American Society of Civil Engi neers) put on a pretty big show lag two years, but even so, we mgible means of spirit. For schools have live mascots le means, and Clemson un home game what they call in the world. By being the largest state flag, we could 1g of a tradition that could n through the years. As of no tradition in school spirit. u can see the importance of when you are asked to con iesitate. Give what you can e well worth it. e Science Building, an addi College, and a new College wing. When all of this con plannedl some time ago, we the need of a building that as with the ability to bring ly together as a whole was rhaps not overlooked, but le of one of the needs, let's ins fall heavily this spring of commencement exercises. ng we could turn to would >use. And if the usual large hand, a great majority of turned away. ~e, is just a minor point. The the inability to bring the >gether as a whole for any onw Carolina has a tremen o,n load as of now, but we make another plea for an ha future. eho don't believe spring is here, ternoon and take a look at the Gamecock staff photo by Robert 3md here last Friday and Saturday, and it suited me fine for them to use Russell House assembly room for their meetings and the Con federate Room for their banquets. There were a good many digni taries down, and I'm sure they were impressed with the Univer sity - its hospitality, service, and facilities. But I wasn't very impressed with a half-million dollars worth of tractors, steam shovels, and road scrapers on Davis Field. Besides the fact that it looked like Farm and Home Week at Clemson (Heaven forbid), it also put a few gullies on the ROTC drill field, the intramural field, etc. Hope the Navy and Air Force Cadets don't break a leg. And to top it all off, everyone had to eat upstairs in the smaller Confederate Room, because the charming little Future Teachers of America had taken over the dowvn stairs cafeteria. True, wve need as many teachers as we can get, and I'm not trying to set higher education back on its heels, but let's encourage the Future Teach ers in another way. Let's encourage our students another way, too. CROWING FOli UNIVERSITY OF ' Member of Associat Founded January 30, 1908, wit first editor, "The Gamecock" is putl the University of South Carolina weec year except on holidays and during The opinions exparessed by coina necessarily those of "The G.amecou Letters to the Editor, bu.t all Le4tte, not constitute an endorsenment. The publication any letter is reserved. EDITOR......... MANAGING EDITOR. BUSINESS MANAGER.. ADVERTISING MANAGER NEWS EDITORS SPORTS EDITORS ... Bla FEATURE EDITOR. SOCIETY EDITOR.. CAMPUS EDITOR. CIRCULATION MANAGER. EXCHANGE EDITOR. CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER. BUSINESS SECRETARY REPORTERS: Cathie Dutton, El Hughey, Bobby Brown, Ed Jlacola derson, Regina Galgano, Jackie BUSINESS STAFF: Murray ( Hoefer, Emily Redding, .Jim Va COLUMNISTS: Charles Behling Mike Daniels, Audrey hand, P1al Williams. PHOTOGRAPHERS:. Robm.+ G. Mike Sheheen . . AnsN T HE South Carolina Legislature recently passed into law a $50 increase per year in the tui tion of state-supported schools. This was done after careful con sideration was given to all methods of supporting the insti tutions. Now a group of Carolina stu dents, in good faith I am sure, but without the careful considera tion necessary, has reacted to the increased tuition. They react with a petition to Governor Hol lings "loudly protesting" the action that was taken by the Gen eral Assembly. Why? The increase in tuition resulted only after the state law makers realized the budget for the state wouldn't allow the col leges and universities in South Carolina to continue their pres ent rate of progress. A rate that I say is necessary to compete with other universities. The petition states that the in crease in tuition is an unfair price increase, a step backwards, and a penalty on higher education. W HY ? When our university is the second cheapest in the nation in tuition is an $85 increase over the two-year period of 1960-62 unfair. Why? When we as students are being sub sidized by the state at the rate of about eight to one should we fuss at paying a fairer share? Why? When the penalty on high er education would be the lack of funds to continue that educa tion, not the increase in funds that the tuition would result in. The petition contends that the action would increase the demand for Federal Aid to education in South Carolina. Why? The Gen eral Assembly saw the shortage of funds and tried to remedy that shortage by the increase in tuition. If they failed to increase the tui tion, that would call for increased Federal Aid because the state wouldn't have the money, the stu dents wouldn't pay the money, so we would have to ask Uncle Sam to make up the difference. By signing the petition we are supplying the critics of the large amount spent on education with ammunition for their gun. They see us balk at being asked to pay our share for education, and question the state putting the Letters Policy "The Gamecock" encourages "Letters To The Editor," and they 'will be printed wvhenever possible. Letters must be signed and ac companied by the contributor's return address for the purpose of certification. An unsigned letter wvill receive no consideration. If the writer desires, his name may he withheld, but the anonymity will not be granted automatie ally. No partisanship will be shown in the printing of letters. How ever, "The Gamecock" reserves the rights to reject any letter because of content or character. A GREATER OUTHI CAROLINA ed Collegiate Press h Rob,ert Elliott Go,nzales as the lish,ed by and for the students of kly, on Fridays, during the college exana,nations, rnists and letter writers are not k." "Thle Camecock" encourages s nwst be signed. P'ubil.%hing does right to edit or withhold from ............DOUG GRAY Joan Wolcott Bob Hill .......Murray Coker Pat Peden, Jo Ann Coker nding Clarkson, Fred Schumpert Rosemary Hankins .... .. ....Cloudy Hardy Gail Broughton Jimmy Pressley Sherry Rottman Joe Van Dyke Emily Redding en Hlorton, Carolyn Hoyle, Kay s, Gail Broughton, Ruthie lien Fowvler, D)onna Russell. oker, Carol E'sleeck, Bernard n Osdell, .Jim Pressley. ,John Chappell, Pat Clayton, Peden, Mike Sheheen, Brenda keins, Warren Nym ver To A Pei majority of its budget into pro- I viding that education for us. th The petition opens with the cc statement "the future growth of ol South Carolina directly depends u] upon the education of her youth." si LITTLE MAN 0 LPIMONAI. mAr A TwacIIATFul OLCH A IOr AFr9 Exchange The Colorado Daily reports that M a few days ago about 200 Univer- re sity students, unable to get up gi enough pep for a riot or a panty m raid, settled for an impromptu w: twist party held behind the pi School of Music. The thing began when a large bl crowd of students gathered shortly fc ifter dinner and began making la half-hearted attempts to get a ai panty raid started. Nervous resi- cc dence hall officials locked the doors. The crowd milled around fq for about 15 minutes, but made ki no attempt to enter either dormi- c, tory. bi After a while, an unidentified u student set up a record player it blaring out twist music on the at loading platform of the Music in Building. The crowd, which in- di eluded a number of coeds, aban- V doned the dorms in favor of the a Music Building. Twenty to thirty d( couples started twisting, and it Sc was announced that the Boulder M sound truck was being rushed to w the scene to furnish better ampli- et fication. f The truck arrived about 45 V minutes later. It had been re-P quested by a number of students, t1 and University officials, appar- at ently unwvilling to see a repeat a performance of Monday night's ~ demonstration, granted the re quest. ul * * * ci Campus politicos take their p)olitics seriously, but there's al- in ways a humorous side claims the Daily Tar Heel of UNC. For i instance, anyone seeing Larrya McDevitt strolling up the road tot the Newv Dorms the other night, el would have been surprised to see him throwving rocks at his own political banner stretched above ' the road. Of course, to Larry it T wvas a perfectly legitimate action, considering he was attempting toD uncurl the sign so that it woukld display his name to best advan- Ii tage. But to another lone soul, ir also traipsing back to his dorm, this action took on different mean ing.a Dorm Man: "Say, I was think- i ing of dloing that myself, getting that sign dowvn. . . . I'm sick and , tired of looking at it." Larry and the boy started walk- p ing up toward Avery, and the fella lii elaborated sonme more: "You know, some of my buddies and I have ai been thinking just how wve could ca get that . . . thing dowvn. We've la had several tentative plans, the in best one being to put a roek on at a piece of rope, toss it over and just rip it down. Sound good ? bc Oh, by the way, we've not really nc met, I'm John Doe." c Candidate: "Glad to know you, 0 I'm Larry McDevitt." fr * * en B< A lab instructor at Texas A and sh M was busy teaching his lab the p, other afternoon. He turned his to back, iIe shouldn't have because th a Corps senior and two civilian of studlents bailed out the window to tl the outdoors beyond. A soph- ea onmore walking by the building Jo was slightly shaken b)y the es.-g cape. , , ,co th Workmen clearing brush on a ori hillside across from the Vimiia a ition agree. The state is doing some ing about it too. The statement uld also read, the future growth South Carolina's youth depends >on his education. Let's do our are to help ourselves. N CAMPUS Corner ilitary Institute cadet barracks cently uncovered a hole in the .ound and scattered bricks re indful of a long-ago incident ich makes present-day campus 'anks seem like child's play. Back in 1884, a group of cadets ew up an entire building, per rming the job in such spectacu r fashion that only the bricks ld the hole the workmen un vered remained to tell the tale. The hill, now the site of several culty homes, was formerly iown as "Magazine Hill" be use of the location there of a 'ick structure which had been ied to store munitions. By 184* had fallen into disuse and to complish the job, the cadets volved smuggled several hun ,ed pounds of powder f rom the MI ordnance storeroom through hole bored in the wall. The !ed apparently was done by a eret group known as the "Molly cGuires" after a lawless society Mich troie t nnsylvania alrgosi lbrdsue llwigth9Cvl a. Th MIepoinapaetywsi Thenames ofNhos wo ble >Chebuldnere ee fi iially leantted nea cadetrcs eotey unoerednter i the,a odiatind sattlee buritie he maes wreet-ayl tcapu *aks vew lik schi play. rbacns8 ash demoupio of aet ewu netire building,er rTn he aoadin hsu offeredcur rafsudentat onrles te bricks dthoe t hevrkenoidun heerpdrmanity to telaph tale. Thillh nowdethero sitch plaevsral culey Auburn, as formerly :awe s notgznete Hill"rded usethishedyationsphere armed ick notrutrhingbuh had benn hads fallnit diways ane toa cvitabsh teing, testo cadts voved smugle nsever arlibn-. mis poumns the pemarfrmsing esi ornceWhereothathrogh ole knorewi he wall. 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