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Birds Loo " bU6on Cit q nw j GRAND OPENING DINING ROOM SOUTH HALL ALL WELCOME FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 -5:00 P.M. Free Ice Cream and Cake for Everyone Ontampu . (Author of "I Was a Teen-age Dwarf', "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis", etc.) WRITE? YOU'RE WRONG In the recent furor over the assassination of President McKinley, it may have escaped your notice that a nationwide study of the writing ability of American college students has just been 9& published. The survey reveals an astonishing fact: that when students have completed their freshman year and are no longer required to take English, their writing skill progressively declines until we come to the fantastic situation where graduating seniors actually are poorer wTiters of English than incoming freshmen! Many theories have been offered to account for this incredible fact. Some say that seniors know less English than freshmen because all seniors major in French. This is not true. No more than 94 percent of seniors major in French. How about the other six percent? Well sir, of the other six percent, half-or three percent take physics, and it is ntot hard to understand how these poor souls growv rusty in English when all they ever say is "E equals MC squared." Of the remaining three percent, two-thirds-or two percent major in whaling, and their English too grows feeble with disuse. Whalers, as we all knowv, do not speak at all except to shout, "Thar she blows!" maybe twice a year. Of the one p)ercent remining, it cannot be fairly said that they are poor writers. The fact is, we don't know what kind of writers they are. Why not? Because they never write. And why don't they ever write? Because this remaining one percent of American college students are enrolled at tho University of Alaska, and never take their mittens off. (Incidentally, I received quite a surprise upon first visiting Alaska two years ago whmen I was invited to Juneau to crown the Queen of the Annual Date Palm Festival. Frankly I ex pectedl to find a surly and morose populace. After all, going through life with your mittens onI all the time is hardly calcu hated to make you merry as~ a cricket. Not only can't you write, but you miss out on all kinds of other fun things-like three 4 card monte, making shadowv pictures on the wall, and lint pick ing. However, to my astonishment, I discovered Alaskans to be a hale andl gregarious group), mittens notwithstanding, and I soon found out why: b)ecause mittens notwvithstanding, they couild still smoke Marlboro Cigarettes, still enjoy that rich mellowv flav'or, that fine, clean Selectrate filter, that truly soft soft pack, that truly flip-top flip-top box-and that, friends, will make anybody happy, mittens notwithstanding. In fact, Alaskans are the happiest pecople I have ever met in the whole IUited States-except, of course, for the Alaskan vendors of Mairlboro Cigarettes, who have not beeni paid in many years indleed, nev'er- because hiow can anybody dig out coins to pay for cigarettes when lie is wearing nmittenis?) But I (digress. WVhat are we going to do about this deplorable condition where college studenits, having completed Freshman English, become1I steadhily less p)roficient in the use of the lan guage? TIhe answer is simple. We will make them take Fresh man English all through college. In fact, we won't let them take anything else! This solution, b)esidles p)rodlucing a nation of graceful writers, will also solve another harrowing problem: where to park oni camipus. If everybody takes nothing but Freshman Eniglish, we can tear dlown all the schools of law, medicin(, engineering, and whaling, and turn them into p)arking lots. Can't we? C ia6 h..aablmaa The makers of Mtarlboro, who sponsor this column, plead guilty to being am,ong thlose Americans whose writing skill is not all it might be. ilowrever, we like to think that as tobacconists wre know a thing or two. Won't you try us and 01 angI Flag Will Be Shown October 6 BY DUCK MATIHIS "0 say can you see by the dawn's early light. . . ." Just as Old Glory kept up the spirit of the American forces during the War of 1812, so does the Pep Club hope that their newly acquired South Carolina state flag will boost the spirit of the USC stu dent body. According to Pep Club presi dent, Bud Edens, it is the largest South Carolina state flag, and the third largest flag of its kind to be made by the R. L. Bryan Co. The vital statistics of this "blue baby" are 30 by 50 feet. A special flag corps, composed of 30 boys and girls, has been or ganized to usher the football team onto the field before the game and at the start of the second half. President Thomas Jones will formally present this emblem of spirit to the Carolina student body during half time intermission of the Georgia game, October 6. Sophs Lead Team Debut Versus Duke Looks like the word "sophomore" is going to be heard quite a bit this year - Coach Marvin Bass has used this terni quite effectively in his selection of a football team; now track Coach Weems Baskin brings up the subject again with his '62 cross country runners. Tomorrow, a soph unit com posed of Ken Smith, Allan Rose, Mike McCarthy, Ed Cribb, and Bland Addison joust with the Duke "Blue Devils" in the first cross country meet of the season. Next Friday, Oct. 5, the squad will journey to Atlanta, Ga. where they'll meet Georgia Tech. Remember the pictt television screen 01 you remember that that it reached the private enterprise c Since that summ has relayed electroi vision broadcasts, te and others. But there's one 'l missed. Look into th below and you'll see orR1 .4 . .. "Tread softly, Mr. Rappold." ' Coach Marvino Bass as he prepares h with the Duke Blue Devils. Duke, ii as a strong passing, as well as a rur cain contai Mr. R1appold amid his col All-Ameri< BY EVA EDLESBURG Another pass . . . another touch lown . . . another football season' . another All-America. As this season rolls around, we are laying down our chips and taarting to eye our All-America ravorites. This year's "cream-of he-crop" is predicted to be: ENDS-Pat Richter (Wiscon sin), Tom Hutchinson (Ken tucky). Reflections ire above? It flashed across your a hot night last July. Perhaps it originated from France. And U. S. via Telstar, the world's first ommunications satellite. er night, the Bell System's Telstar uic signals of many types -tele lephone calls, news photographs, 'elstar reflection you might have e faces of the Bell System people it. It is the reflection of Telstar's even .. .... r -P? ~ ...... .g..... his is probably the thoughts of is Gamecock team for their battle I years past, has been recognized mning team. Hope the Gamecocks ntemporaries tomorrow! sa Players TACKLES - Bobby Bell (Minnesota), Jim Du naway (Mississippi). GUARDS - D a v e Behrman (Michigan State), Dave Watson (Georgia State). CENTER - Lee Roy Jordan (Alabama). QUARTERBACK - George Mira (Miami) HALFBACKS - Jerry Stovall (Louisiana State), Dave Hopp man (Iowa State). FULLBACK - Ray Poage of Teistar success that glowed brightly on shared in the project. Their engineering, administi skills created Telstar and are down out of the clouds to your These Bell System people, tU dedicated efforts, make your pho more economical, and more us The reflections of Telstar ar 4Bell Telephon eAt Both Teat New Life I BY M Spt The weapons will be differ, but the aim will be the same wl Carolina's Fightin' Gamecocks f ACC pre-season favorite Duke tempt to rebound from open game defeats in Durham tonorr afternoon. The contest may velop into a battle between Birds' vicious running atti matching the Blue Devil "Loi some End" formation. Both teams took their knocks the initial day of the campaip mighty Duke falling before I defensive heroics of under ra1 Southern California, 14 to 7, wl Coach Marvin Bass' warriors s cumbed to an awesome aerial tack at Northwestern Universi 37 to 20. Duke was In Southern Ci fornia's territory numerous tin but the Devils had five aeri intercepted% which crushed th drives. The Blue Devils' grou game was limited to 54 yards, 1 Predicte( (Texas). Other outstanding players the '62 season that should rece' due consideration are Billy Ga brell (hb), South Carolina; J Moss (t), South Carolina; ) Gregory (t), Duke; Sonny Gil (qb), Texas Christian; Chax Mitchell (hb), Washington; DE Robinson (e), Penn State; Geoi Saimes (fb), Michigan Sta Steve Barnett (t), Oregon; Rol Kochman (hb), Penn State; v Hugh Campbell (e), Washingi State. the faces of all who ative and operations bringing its benefits living room. rough their talented, rie service still better, aful. many. e Companies Duke ns Seeking n ACC Race IKE DOANE rti Writer mt passing netted them 184 yards. ien Carolina took an early lead in nd their game to lead G-0 but North western came back to turn the tide. Score at the half was 14 to ng ( in favor of the Cats. The Game Ow cocks rolled up 257 yards but ie- Northwestern off.et this by com ;he pleting 20 of 26 passes and 244 xek yards rushing. 1e- Duke uses the two-platoon sys tem and has 26 lettermen that are expected to be in good shape on physically for Saturday's game. n; They have a "senior bull club" ,he that is composed, in most all posi ed tions, of starters from last year's He ACC championship team. The Devils are expected to run at- the same type of offense tomor row as they ran against Southern ty, Cal. They use the wide end, flankers and a man in motion. Lii- Duke was very effective on run Ies ning the halfback pass last week. als Both Duke and Carolina have air men that may merit national recog nd nition. Backs that could play on >ut anybody's team will be plentiful for this game. Both teams field units with talent at all backfield I positions. Walt Rappold and Gil Garner are the Devil playmakers at quar terback and there are few better. In Duke's losing effort against of Southern Cal. Garner completed a ve 25-yard touchdown pass to half mi- back Jay Wilkinson for the Devils' im only score. Wilkinson is rated a Lrt dangerous open-field runner and bs was second in the nation last year lie on punt returns. ,ve Halfback Mark Leggett is a good 'ge runner, passer, and receiver. Leg te; gett, who made All-ACC as a rer sophomore, is not the only aerial nd backfield threat since most of the ,on Duke backs are capable of passing. Billy Futrell is a powerful - running halfback. Fullback Barry Ramsey will round out Duke's backfield. le is the only un-tried Devil back. This year Duke, running from a unbalanced line, will use their lonesome end to the strong side of the field. Pete WVidner, Ed Chesnut, and Stan C'risson, experi enced lettermen, will man the l onesomie endl spot. Aggressive bl ock er, Zeke Potts, will start at the tight end Position. Duke's outstanding lineman is tackle Art Gregory, weighing 205 pounds. Last year Gregory was voted the A CC's best blocker. The D evils' heaviest starting lineman is 215-pMund( .1 can Berry. Berry ex. eells on both offense and defense. Tlackle Dick llavens is a rough man as is John Mardas at guard. Pivot man for the Devils is Paul Bengel who roundis out D)uke's Last year Carolina's tackle Jim Moss receivedl the honor of being namedl National Lineman of the Week for his tremiiendious effort in the Birds' heartbreaking loss to D)uke. As you remember, Duke won the game in the last twvo minutes of the game'. IThe Duke elev'en is favored, but cat-like' Billy GambrellI and hard hitting D)ick Day and Marty Rosen could easily pull out a v'ictory for the Gamecocks if they're given a little "white space" in that for ATLANTIC TWIN THEATRE 32'>0 Two Notch Rd. SU 7-1225 GINA""""" LOLLOBRIGIDA MAYMIgjT SUN., MO. TUES., WED. SEPT. 30, OCT. 1-3 TIlE BOLDEST VIEW OF IFE YOU HAVE EVER SEENI IAF VALLONE6