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I From an editorial in The State "But whatever betide, we attorney general will not find dispatch aircraft from Shaw . to reconnoiter the University lina campus, as he recently the University of Alabama. I can be forced into Clemson disturbance, then assuredly I nedy will find a calm welcome To W After weeks of debate on cons of graduation on the E Township Auditorium, it we week that graduation would Horseshoe as it has been the We think it is now time Thomas F. Jones and the Committee for considering Noe USC Basketball Coach C week squashed all rumors t resigning-and relieved the students and/or basketball f< Since coming to Carolina t Noe has given enthusiasm ti ences for his Walter Winch Wril W E have before us a strange little drama in South Caro lina. Observe it carefully, there won't be many like it. On the one hand, high figures in the State Administration s h o w laudable concern and evidence genuine in terest in the many problems fac ing our educational status. On the other hand, these same people propose the tuition grant program. S UREIX, our little friends be hind this tuition grant pro gram don't think they will be solving any of the State's many problems with their little plot. And yet, the Governor has ap pointed a task force of very capa ble men to see what can be done about raising the educational level of the state. The two approaches are as in compatible as Martin Luther King and Ross Barnett -- a simile Fellow Students: May I express to you my thanks and gratitude for the con fidence that you have placed in me for the coming year. Par ticular thanks go to each of you who helped in any way throughout the campaign. With out you this could not have been accomplished. Of course, you realize that this office carries with it a tremend ous responsibility and that to function properly we need the help and cooperation of every student. It is because of this that I appeal to you to take an active interest in Student Govern ment and all related areas of our university life. I have talked with Dr. Jones and Captain Witten several times in the past few days, and both of them have been most coopera tive andl have the best interests of our student body at heart. My personal thanks go to Dr. Jones for his action concerning graduation. Next year we shall, of course, face many problems and1 adl versities, but if we can join our studlent body in unity of purpose and spirit, we have nothing to fear. I urge each of you to join me in making next year one of the greatest in Carolina history. Sincerely yours, T'od'l Wilson. Dear Editor: I am a devoted reader of Caro lina's finest news medium, The Gamecock. However, I was some what disappointed in the manner by which the paper has been pre senting news to its readers, es pecially the March 22 issue. To my knowledge, your school paper is one of, if not "the", finest school newspapers in the nation. It is a great pleasure for me to receive this paper; and when the people with whom I am associ ated here in Washington read it, Lonely Splendor? : sity of South Ca think that the He, too, has c it necessary to hope no South ( Air Force Base to mar the attorr of South Caro- while in our atai had done for f Harvey Gantt Kennedy spok without civil tion of Univers ?obert F. Ken- members of the at the Univer- Lonely splend hon It May Con the pros and such length and ] :orseshoe or in point before mal Ls decided this The Horseshof be held on the _seemed prefer past few years. to thank Dr. to the seniors. Commencement The decision s the matter at the matter to res Says No To Runs huck Noe this livery, to everyc hat he may be in giving your minds of USC to basketball ph ins. his year, Coach go-getting coach > banquet audi- We need to g ell style of de- like Coach Noe. - Dave Bledsoe - er Slams Gr that may well have meaning. ITEM: South Carolina ranks low in amount spent per pupil in the public school system. Item: South Carolina ranks low in salaries paid to secondary and elementary school teachers. I TEM: South Carolina ranks high in adult illiteracy, and in high school drop-outs. Now, the Governor and a few others in the present administra tion have correctly stated that ed ucation is the number one prob lem in South Carolina today. Teachers and school administra tors have been somewhat heart ened at the apparent interest fi nally being shown in upgrading our most valuable natural re source: human knowledge. CONTRAST this wisdom and foresight with the tuition grant program . . . in most cases President. they are always commenting on the fine style and news coverage it possesses. These associates re flect that not only is this paper of interest to its students, fac ulty, andl alumni, but also it is an interest to others who are in terested in general college news, social life, fashions, fraternity news, and college sports. They enjoy it as if it were their own school or communlty paper. In reading the March 22 Is sue, I observed the following: Page 1-In this page there is a total of 261 square inches. The pictures were good; however, they made up 86 of the 261 square Inches. Page 2-Editorials and comn men ts-very good page. Page 3-290 square inches of which the advertisements cover 233 square inches. Page 4-290 square inches of which the advertisements cover 210 square inches. Page 5-290 square inches of which the advertisements cover 256 square inches. Page 6-290 inches of which the advertisements cover 235 square inches. Page 3-six advertisements. Page 4-eight advertisements. Page 5--five advertisements Page 6-five advertisements. In pages 3, 4, 5, and 6 there is a total of 1160 square inches of which twenty-four ads consist of a total of 934 square inches with the balance of 236 square inches presenting the news. Your advertising manager, Don Sease, Is doing an exellent job getting business for the paper. We are all aware that this is most essential to a paper of this type. However, It appears that the advertising manager and his excellent staff are doing most of the work for the publication. They are getting the business; who will get the news? rolina. ertain civil rights-and we arolinian will do anything ey general's lonely splendor e." to 119 American Associa ity Professors, guests, and press at a dinner last night. )r? coern istening to the student view cing their decision. -with the possiility of rain able to Township, according hould, and we hope will, put t. ors ne for his outspoken beliefs ll to anything you do, and yers and spectators for his ing. ret-and keep-more people ants being proposed by the same per sons for obvious political reasons. The plan is designed to avert court-ordered integration, but it doesn't work. Why try it at all? A good question, and one that needs to be answered. If ever a proposed program should be fought, this tuition grant bill should be. Segregation ist or integrationist, conservative or liberal, Democrat or Republi can - it matters not. W HAT matters is that mar.y people were expecting great things in the field of educational progress when our present gov ernor took office. This tuition grant bill has proved to be a big disappointment. Let's hope that reason returns: one cannot go backward and for ward at the same time. Gentle men, which shall it be? -Electw It appears to me a newspaper, with as many businesses placimg advertisements therein, should be at least eight pages or more in size. With a school the size of Carolina manned with the capable staff I am sure the paper has, I feel sure there must be sufficient news events at Caro lina and in the community which should prove interesting to its readers. Although I am over 500 miles away from Carolina, I receive news from the paper and the friends I have there. This news keeps me closer and makes me more concerned with the friends and life I had made while at tending this great university. Yes, stories which the students discuss among themselves; yet these stories-as I hear them are not printed in the school's paper. News of great importance as Dean George Tomlin's resig nation as Dean of Students. This devoted man preferred to return to his teaching profession. Al though I am only one of the thousands of students who canie to admire and respect Dean Tonm lin, I must be one who must realize the fact that Carolina did not lose a great Dean of Students but gained a devoted professor who has further proven his in terest in the students by return ing to the much-needed position of teaching. I feel sure the administration was just as concerned, if not more so, over the loss of the Dean of Students as the students. I understand that It was Dean Tonmlin who made the first and final decision concerning this matter; therefore, the students should seek and know the truth about such Important matters as this before they start criticizing the administration for decisions which were made by those who are far more capable of making Exci usik A scientific survey reveals that only 17.9 per cent of the stu dent body knows their student government officers. This, and student opinion on other issues, was the purpose of a student poll conducted since early February by The Gamecock. The Gamecock poll was inten tionally designed to be different from those conducted by various campus organizations in the past, in that applicable statistical meth ods in drawing the sample and reaching the conclusions were used while our predecessors in the survey field did not. The Game cock wanted statistical evidence to form and back up the conclu sions. A major purpose of the poll was to obtain valid conclu sions. Because of this, the assis tance of Dr. James G. Hilton of the School of Business Adminis tration was instrumental - Dr. Hilton helped employ statistical techniques to determine an inter val within which the conclusions would have a very high proba bility of correctness. One difficulty in conducting a poll such as this one is that some students simply do not have any opinions concerning the various aspects of their college existence. We feel that if we are to de mand, as a student body, more consideration from the adminis tration, we must take the trouble to formulate some kind of opin ion on pertinant USC matters. T HE possible weaknesses of the survey are that more co eds responded to the poll, not all of the surveys were answered, and the conclusions can only be made about on-campus students. These weaknesses are not too great and the survey appears to have been well done. Exactly 100 on-campus stu dents were selected for the survey by a scientific random fashion. Each person was interviewed per sonally. Actual interviewing was done by The Gamecock staff, Sandra Shahid, Henry Eichel, George Law, Bill Lynch, and the Phi Epsilon Pi pledge class. For mer student body president Osce Self aided in preparing questions asked in the poll. P ARTIAL results of the survey are printed below; other re sults will be published in coming issues of The Gamecock on ques tions of particular interest to USC students - the honor system, in tegration, USC libraries, campus recreational facilities, the food service, and the Greek system. Following are the results of the -Letters to Editor group of students who claim they are representing the students, yet who are actually representing themselves. Howvever, some of the students' representatives are truthfully honest in their at tempts yet without really pos sessing the full knowvledge of events pertaining to some of their moves, they fire the stu dents with information which will not solve any task but which seems to make matters worst. I feel the administration made an excellent choice in Captaiin Charles Witten as the new Dean of Students. I came to know Captain Witten while at Caro lina, and I am sure that he will become another most respected, beloved Dean of Students who shall follow the footsteps of his successful predecessors... To Dean Witten, the Students, and the Administration of Caro lina, my most sincere congratula tions. Perhaps one of the most im portant news events of the sem's ter concerns the proposal of hold ing the commencement exercises at Columbia Township Audito rium. I have heard that the students of Carolina are placing the pur pose of this proposal on Presi dent Thomas F. Jones as a bene fit to him and the administration rather than the students. Now, I appeal to you, the studenits, to take time to analyze the details of this move. By all meauns this isn't true as our most capal,1e President Jones and his taff are consistently considering their ev ery move for the benefit and betterment of the University of South Carolina and, you, its students. The students should realize the truth that no move is taken by one man alone; we have committees, the choice of the minority, trying to make the best decision for us, the majority,. In the March 22 i.s,meeri -Robert Want (e: Student S first series of questions posed stu- to dents: be 1. Percent of students who knew all their student body offi- sic cers is between 10% and 26%. qt 2. Percent of students who fav- be ored some sort of change in Stu dent Senate voting procedures is in between 31% and 53%. or 3. Percent of students willing tie How To Put Sa Of Progress ! Here are twenty-five of the best v Whether applied to the question of m creative thinking, a judicious combinati dampen enthusiasm and isolate the virl This list is not exhaustive. Why n overlooked to the Editor, WORLD CAI of the judges is final. The winner will 1 blanket (small size). Best entries and published in a later issue of WORLD The Dialerical Go ahead, hut don't spend any m-7ney. Go ahead. but I warned you. Do wehatrer you want but don't get raucht. Sounds good but it wan't work. The Prudential U'., don't uant to huet anybody's feelings. It might be rant rove-rsial. tio don't want to shock people. Don't m<nke a saroe. The "Iland.W'ringer" I iaon my omen repautation to think of. 'eople tar' e to take ume the way I am. It hurts nw mare than it does you. Don't get personal. CROWING FOR UNIVERSITY OF SOI Member of Associated Founded January 30, 1908, with Rol Editor, "The Gamecock' is published t University of South Carolina weekly, on except on holidays and during examinati The opiniosns expressed by colunn necessarily those of "The Gamecock.' Letters to the Editoe, but all Letters r not constitute an endorsement. The r pubication any ... e is reserved. EDITOR ........... MANAGING EDITOR. BUSINESS MANAGER ADVERTISING MANAGER COPY EDITOR ..... NEWS EDITOR .. SPORTS EDITOR CAMPUS EDITOR . SOCIETY EDITOR . FEATURE EDITOR CIRCULATION MANAGER ClllEF PIHOTOGRAPIlER BUSINESS SECRETARY REPORTERS: Mim Russell, Rob We Bledsoe, Sara Elliott, Henry Eichel Jacqueline Lee Davis, Lita Golson. EDITORIAL COLUMNISTS: Di hers Giv Quinn, whom I also had the it pleasure of knowing while at -- Carolina, made a charge that the c< University is departing from the i traditions of holding the exer- ir cises on the horseshoe at Caro- ir lina. Yes, I agree with Tim ti that the University is growing at w an extremel yrapid 'ate, yet with t< such a growth couldi you honestly I believe the horseshoe is the best g locality for such an important 11 day in the lives of the seniors h of Carolina? No, look hack to a al few years when the stage was set, u the players in their places, andl all at once the weather conditions C were unfavorable and this act as ci it turnedl out was considered a g dlisanpointmenrt. If you should U consider the first exercise held on fi the horseshoe with such a small ti (class and as this aspect errowv ir and terew the exercises here were ei held in many places in Columbia w --on the horseshoe, in the field- Ii house, at the stadium, and even ti at an old theater dowvntown-.you a' can see a more appropriate phitce s< is needied. The weather conditions g must he considlered. The avail- a able capac'ity of seating must he considered., Parking facilities for visit,ors must he considlered. As one person who will he one of these hapny seniors on our special (day, May 31, 1963, 1 have el weirh(ed the pr'os and cons of vi moving the exercises to the Town- t( ship A uditorium for I too would Is like to have the exercises on the ci campus b)ut since we have no fa cilities large enough, we must be seek elsewhere. Yes, not only is :1 the University growing, but go cs visit1 ihe uditorium and care- o1 fully observe the improvement in- si ('ludling the newly dec'(orated fix- bi tures, the new stage equlipment, i the seating capatcit y, the air- a contditioning, the parking facil.. ities, etc., and you too will surely uc understand thait for' an ideal loca- rn tion to accommodate the seniors, si faculty, family, friend, a nn1ri urvey serve on the Student Senate Is tween 67% and 86%. 4. Percent of those who con ier The Gamecock to do an ade ate job as USC's newspaper is tween 65% and 84%. 5.Percent of students who are ,erested in paticipating in one more extra-curricular activi a is between 73% and 92%. nd In Gears ;ans Trying rays to preserve the status quo. inority rights, overseas work or on of these bromides is sure to is of involvement. >t send along one we may have [PUS, Maryknoll, N. Y. Decision )e awarded a World Campus wet the contributor's name will be CAMPUS. The Philosophical t's all a question of semantics. rhere are two sides to erery story. t depends on the way you look at It. Don't confuse me with facts. The Traditional i'o can't do these things overnitht. If we leave it alone. it'll go away. R'e don't scant to aet a precedent. Is's nemer been done before. 4ometimes these problems solre themselves. The Authoritarian You don't appreciate it now. but someday yau'll thank me. You're not old enough to understand. -hen I was your age . 4IlUT UP and GET OUT! sCoCIf a GREATER JTH CAROLINA Collegiate Prem >ert Elliott Gonzales as the first my and for the students od the Fridays, during the colege yea ns. ste and letter writers ame met "Tbe Gamecock" eneourage suit be signed. Publishin does ght to edit or withhokd frm JOANN COKER .. DENNIS MYERS EMILY REDDING ...DON SEASE MARGARET BYRD . DONNA RUSSELL .MIKE McCARTHY WARREN NYE REGINA GALGANO PAT ROESSLE JERRY ARP . . ROBERT GASKINS ..HARRIET LA BORDE ir, Mary Carlton O'Neil, Dave , Tom Hunter, Robert Want, ve Bledsoe, Hayes Mizelli >rteauditorium is sufficient oerain or shine, heat or' I aloagree with Tim concern-. g teROTC Students not hav gteopportunity of graduating their uniforms. This is a cruel ing to (10 to these young men ho have wvorked so hard in order receive their commissions and feel they should be allowed to 'aduate in full dress unifor'm. owever, if the adlmini stration is a sufficient reason for not lowving this, I, too, beg they let knowv. My hope to the students of atrolina and all the p)arties con rnedl is to keep the growth iing upwardl andl let's make the niversity of South Carolina the nest school in the nation. At ec present time and especially the coming semester, all eyes, r's, andl hearts of our nation ill he on the studlents of Caro na andl the manner in which ecy carry on their education ad college life-.-let's give them 'mething they shall never for t. Be the great school it is, id shine, shine, shine. "Hail to you, Carolina!" Sincerely yours, R. C. Wilkie. Editor's Note': Mr. Wilkie. has masen to criticize for Its large ad rIise'mient contentl andi small edi rial copy an issue whichi was orig aily planned as a regular weekly ghit-page e'ditiotn. The issue was cut to six page. 'cause of budiget difficulties, and e timhe limit was too short to niee the ads; it was not herause aniy slackness of the editorial aff or any attempt to make the aiess staff do the majority of e' work, but simply the result of snmali budget. Crame'cock hudagets for first and candl semesters are mtuch the me, bust the source of Income.. indent all>eation fees -- Is ustually miller seconm a.m...... bec..- of Gamecock Columnist Bows Out J ACKIE Lee Davis is no more. Her untimely passing is a source of great regret to the staff of The Gamecock. Jackie Lee Davis, to be sure, existed only in the fertile imaginations of some "Gamecock" staff writers. But she became very real. To many disconsolate young men who eagerly sought her out was given the thrill of the chase and Jacqueline Lee Davis the maturing influence of disap pointment. To the sororities that talked secretly of pledging her: Hal Ha! T HE harmless jest almost got out of hand. Her mail grew to amazing proportions. People began writing her in a serious vein about real problems, and it was not long before no more let ters had to be "invented" for Jackie Lee. The ones that came in were far funnier than the ones imagined. Jackie Lee Davis is no more. The girl who never was has passed from the scene . . . but she's left some memories. Some enthusiasts - who had never seen her - wanted to run her for May Queen. Her bright, flip answers, provided by - well, never mind, who - endeared her to many. PERHAPS that's why Jackie Lee was so popular . . . everyone could see in her exactly what they wanted to see. 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