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PaUlne Ta Pauline (the little witih): Mama, mama, can Ah borrow the broom t'night ta ride o'er Columbia and haunt the kids at USC? Please, mama, please can Ah bor row the broom? Mama Witch: Honey, chile - ya just know Ah shouldn't let ya take the lil ole broom t'night, but, punkin', Ah'll let you ride - yaur mamais broom t'night if ya promise, sweetcakes, ya'll not do too much harm at Carolina. Pauline: Gee, mama, that s'nuff is peachy keen. I'll take really, really good care of yaur broom, hear? Mama Witch: Beat it. Pooof - Pauline flew away like a bat out of hell. She flew directly over Columbia and landed her mama's broom at the University. She first tried to haunt the Wesley Founda tion, but her efforts failed - they asked her to spend the night and offered her meals. Next, little Pauline flew, flew away to the infirmary, where instead of fright, she was greeted on sight and offered polio sugar lumps. Upset, disillusioned, and weary, Pauline de Our Honc The honor system is dead. It died several years ago when many members of the fac ulty began to question the honesty of Caro lina students and they, in turn, took ad vantage of being placed on their honor. Although buried deep in the past, the honor system has seemed to live on from semester to semester - in name only. To day, the honor system at USC is merely a matter of jest, since it is not seriously con sidered functional by either students or faculty members. Students on the Honor Board are pres ently doing all in their power to revive the noble principles of the honor system; but, their labors will be useless if the faculty does not co-operate. Right now, there is little encouragement from the faculty regarding the use of the honor system; only one pro fessor, Dr. Daniel Hollis, has personally approached us with the problem. We think the honor system could be a PETE AN Let's Take A Stan A M 0 V I E entitled "PT-109" had authored no s played at one of Columbia's of legislation. theaters earlier this week. To add to his S t a r r i n g journeyman actor comings, the your Cliff Robertson in the role of a regarded as anti youthful and courageous World widely criticized War II PT-Boat commander, the to take a stand o p)roduction wvas almost a routine atrJspR.M Grade D war movie,.iho tels As it turned out, "PT-109" was snes rescued1 from obscurity (and fi- Yti h u nancial failure) by the fortuitous teDmcai c'ircumistance that its PT-Boat tinJohnFtz commandler, N a v y Lieutenant alotbcm h (jg) John Fitzgerald Kennedy, prsdnilnm was destined to become the 35th yerlar,i1 President of the United States. wnbt h rs In the spring of 1956, John tinrdth e Fitzgerald Kennedy wvas a some- lwd what obscure first ternm United ~ EDR States S e n at o r from Massa- jhok"TeM chusetts.det-1(0"g A LTIHOUGH his book, "Pro- o hthpee files in Courage," had been Layin"F - NI.mber of Aa of Clegisationr.. Fritor 'Te Co~icok" pulicodmi ngs,ra ctheyur yea e~pt n ulluyiana d rig ea rdeast anti nec~sarnl tueof TheGaecokw""Tey Gcriticze I.etc~ o te dior buntal L t oer mstake asi nd oubl notcn~ttue n ndoseen. h.rihto Joedph R. Mct puhlivaton anyiltternIsheteried EDITemocaticN Newarsditorre 1 Chinebothotherpresr CirculationnManagerlSc Andrewbook,d"Narrow aaded Smth. Plitr ize, hake Cli. ty Mytn. Tom itaner,Mker amp KAocenJi Collgiat Prlgreo, en Pyor,ud e Jaarde I0 9.i th oe. rte rElleot Con ae UIl nol ierYsit g Anuth Carona . w eelee on arday, durng K. Looe.tr ta dteEdtr, Stally eeRsmry heoiody. mI naotuP, Dnsitult n b Wndo tkmns, Thaele righ t da r i pulcain nflteriyrsrvd kes A Ride cided to bug home, and at once went to ge her broom. But, to her shock and surprise upon her mama's broom was a parking ticke from the campus cops. Meanwhile, back home: Mama Witch: Honey, chile, ya home al ready? Pauline: Yeah. Mama Witch: A'm here in the kitchen wit] Naomi sippin' s o m e h o p s. C'mon ir sweety, and tell us 'bout t'night. Pauline: Mama, mama, those nasty campu cops at Carolina gave little ole me a park ing ticket on yaur broom . . . Ah ain believ'n it! They give j'st ev'rybody on th campus tickets - they must be makin' fortune. A'h wonder what they do with al those coins, huh? Naomi: Don't knock it, kid! I'm having ai affair with one of those cops - how dii ya think he's keeping me, huh? Pauline: But that ain't fair, hear? Naomi: Shut up, kid, ya don't question th authority of the campus cops. Mama Witch: Beat it. >r System truly good thing for the University, but fo it to be successful, the faculty will have t take the first step. They should begin b; placing students on their honor during exam inations. We can cite many, many instance when we have taken a test under the watch ful eyes of a suspecting professor and hi assistant, both of whom were pacing th, classroom for 50 minutes in search of stu dents who might be cheating. This is an honor system? If this is th way the faculty (as a whole) wants to en force the honor system, then it is time t get rid of it, for it does not serve the purpoa for which it was established. If, however, the faculty desires to con tinue the honor system, let us offer them i challenge: place students on their honor When students are aware that they are beini trusted by their professors, the good and noble ideals of Carolina's honor system wil: begin to be realized. - Myers DREWS ---- d: John Kennedy ignificant piece The picture that emerges is one of a shameless and ruthless poli political short- tician who makes the most of g Senator was money, good looks, and public labor. He was opinion polls to project to the for his failure public the "image" of the leader a the late Sen- that they want. Carthy. He was If the American people voted of Senate ab- for an "i m a g e" in 1960, an "image" is what they got -- an ner of 1956, at idol, a movie hero, but not a stional Conven- leader. ~erald Kennedy AS Eleanor Roosevelt said of is party's vice Kennedy at the 1960 Demo nee. And four cratic National Convention, "Sc )60, he was to far he has shown considerably dlential nomina- more profile than courage." tion which fol- One by one the problems of Laos, Cuba, Civil Rights, South .White, in his Viet Nam, etc., have been left for king of a Presi- the pollsters to solve. It is ar1 yes an account exercise of statistics, not states. So does Victor manship. It is a case of the blind - The Man and leading the blind. The Columbia Fine Films Coin mittee did not sponsor "PT-109.' Clearly they missed a trick. Foi "PT-109" is an important movie symbolic of the age in which wi live, a symptom of a disease. It is a measure of the political skill of our chief executive and ol our willinc'ness to follow him. A as the first ie1=Exchange SMYERS M. C r e Ms.State Univ.: BLEDSOE Cow bells are coming back ... R USS EL L they will be sold at the coming REDDING games at Moo U. Northeastern Univ.: ina Calgano The housing department of :e McCarthy Northeastern Univ. has another Connie Wall under its care ..,. a "cute, brown, PatRoesleandi rather fat" mouse. He is sit. Pat Ressle uated between two lockers on the rlton O'Neal Commons Concourse. lill Campbell Univ. of Florida.: arry Barrett Tickets sold for game . . . only problem . . . seats are not there. niIa Reardon Washington State Univ.: ie Merrymnan Former student, Brain Stern K. Roberts berg, who was paralyzed In a drcsPee trampoline accident last July is dik.Pte recovering slowly. A "Brian Sternb)erg Trophy" has been 00(d- established by the Seattle Times. KyId tohf . Univ. of Colorado.: He ns. ,n Twenty-six co-eds are learning -,r )~I the "gentle art" . . . otherwise 'n rc.ayce known as judo. The literal mean e. Ann noarton, ing of the word judo in Japanese t S LET Et e Orngbug RE h poiino teMethodist Chuchanitga In Ieswouldie to qutoteratwo brief paragraphs from The Dis cipline of The Methodist Church, 1960 General Conference: "We stand for equal rights of racial, e u l t u r a l , and religious groups, and insist that the social, ecnoic ad piita prnipe se frh nthscre, plyt allalke Te igh t cooe hoe0ne cho,scr m pomn,vot, rjon 'huc Evnsoeupn Wh aisofhis MhrisiansEer StandofGdi entitle or ta lc i oit whche asonyhindsr Dad Mr. chaacer. o ey:i Orn-ug thath position oo eas of ithe aMethoiset Chon isterth-i tin Igoodl eiike (Par quot2tw bre Aagrapchsc frol hw Dis 1-6 everalo Ceonenha ,"ae ia stand.eqa Unfotsu groups, andappears that man sol economic Chiansiital porcipe t foton in thcee Church has alke. onthe right toestion, a plynt,i ve, Cr jint'schrchl soul not beo limaitdnb a per "Toricrimi f ntisa pter Io solely upon the sens ofhis Cstian.haverm douthild ofhecki futted ito tht pltaeinoci t whc e ha wo eyhsidsr thtdition fhnrbcueo the accnk fhsbrhi neithr hr. Mers:tdmcrc o Afte rediging theaO. 25issu of rapi Gaeck, wil shwthwat tieor meo daeoiaction am, the stonstarfen toanothera tan on the raeotistion, ander many Willia fai Medlincoprt intotero liesdhit's Parabl: tofshhe,GooeGamaritan had Hisa hasrntiofa unrieal brThe I trust that the stuens wo fther sitainto the itattion o ILLIAMtuent. MDIolN h Meudain Attacdbeand Edrn h nn. G gi so fo ar w '.th th fa to ti( Cc Bc du of OS W4 S"'r Y?3 50 ho w I to of th Get Tickets ClI W( be ERS ho ha, In closing, I would like to say that the best thing Medlin could do now, besides publishing an apology, would be to keep to him self for a while. (Let's say two or three years.) J. D. L. 0 0 0 Campaign Feature Editor The Gamecock Dear Mr. Myers: I was rather impressed by Miss v Kathleen Higgins' article of Oct. 25. If I were to follow her lead,je I would suggest the following a standard campaign poster form, n which every candidate would be n required to use on all posters: (1) name of candidate, (2) office d sought, (3) qualifications (list ar previous leadership experience), ~ and (4) character references.m While Miss Higgins' approach Ni might emphasize the seriousness th of student body offices, it would t also have the effect of reducing Bn both the number of candidates ~i and the number of voters. At the be moment I would say that Cairo- be lina is in greater nieed of students 19 interested in student govern- o ment -- whatever their means of ou campaigning -- than of featureth writers who go to any length for a "filler" article. m ma If the venerable Miss Higgins sui is so interested in the quality of thi campaign posters, why doesn't ofi she run for office? STEPHEN FOSTER tai * * * ma cal Homecoming Gripe n Editor de' The Gamecock gio D)ear Mr. Myers: me We wish to express our disap- era pointment at the poor handling of ani our Homecoming half-time cere- bee monies. A f t e r spending much lin extra time, effort, and money at ba< the "request" of Interfraternity act Council and Dean Cooper for the to betterment of our Homecoming cot festivities, we feel that we are brc justified in feeling duly slighted. pol We understand that only 15 pa: minutes can be devoted to half- cle time ceremonies; however, with Joi some planning equal time could to have been given to all partici- the pants, all Even to a student, this show cxc appeared to be highly disorgan- s'g ized, so one might imagine how aer it appeared to the alumni and rat visitors. We suggest that in the future a little more consideration be given to those organizations miu wvho worked so hard trying to e improve our Homecoming. adm JUDY McDOWELL, WI ELLEN HORTON flue L~ULA MURRAY in TODD A Nei M- Aum I AY I extend to the newly ti elected officers of Student a, >vernment my sincerest con- cl atulations. You have elected tc me fine people to serve you ki r the remainder of the year, d I look forward to working th each of them. These elections do bring one al ing to mind, however. Some ing of concern to me is the vv et that our class officers ac ally have little to do in connec- t in with the office that they I Id. There is nothir,- in the at nstitution nor in the Student su dy Statutes that offers any er ties for these officers to pur e. This year we are fortunate in ving some of the finest class h ficers in quite some time, and b are in high hopes of finding C0 mething for them to do that n >uld be constructive and help- ar 1 to the University. We are, wever, starting from scratch er th nothing to guide us. su fe RELIEVE that we need to be gin class meetings in order F find the opinions and interests i the members of the various pr isses and can do more to pro- p )te unity among the classes ev emselves. This would be par- E1 ularly helpful for senior de isses to plan reunions, etc. and Bi )uld, I believe, be a great al nefit to all of our classes. cv Before attempting to plan si< ch action, we will need to know pe w you feel about such matters ac d what suggestions you would cc ve along these lines. In addi- in -Carl Hen Can We Afford To Shelve Our Weapon's Systems? V E note with interest that in the Air Force B-47 Strato- Wi force, once comprised of 1,400 Lia nbers, is now being phased out shi I lined up for a massive burial ir Tucson, Arizona.j Every week more of these nu- bu nr capable weap)on's systems en being added to the vast Br veyard, and by 1966 accord- W to Defense Secretary Mc- re, mara, the B3-47 will be comn- eri tely Phased out. Also, we note thi it production has been stopped K< all bombers including the W, 52 Stratofortress and the B-58 ha stler; the Skybolt missile has an m scrapped, andI the 11-70 has no mn drastically curtailed. In fu 19, when the plans to phase w( the B-47 were first an meced, it was widely assumed a It the force would be aug- oa nted by development of other o *nned systems, but this as nption has been discarded by a highest echelon of dlefense a icials.hi ccordling to Defense Secre- fI y Robert McNamara the to nned bombers and the large th >ital ships are no longer inc ided while the more sophisti- coi ed missile systems are being ph, reloped and placed in opera- fo: n. Secretary McNamara has Ke t with opposition from soy- wa 1 responsible military chiefs mi I one by one these men have to n transferred, whipped into rea 3, or retired - often in a th< khanded fashion. McNamara's CCI ions have not endeared him the military leaders of this1 ntry, andl they often appear w-beaten into supporting his tru icies. This fact was quite ap- us *ent in the hearings on the nui- the ir test ban treaty. Some of the Ch nt Chiefs of Staff appeared we have grave misgivings about ma treaty, but said that since ho: the other powers (with the Th eption of W. Germany) had stil nedl the treaty, it would be a ef ious political mistake not to th( ify it. thi is f E agree that it probably det would have been a political cor take to reject the treaty, but the are also concerned with the fac 'antage given the Russians. the y did not the treaty forbid all per lear testing - underground, a the atmospher, on lnd, .a .l ILSON lowly Elected lass Officers d Some Duties on, if you have any suggestions to what class officers or asses themselves may attempt pursue, please let them be town. NOTHER thing which we should like to hear from you )out is your reaction to the omecoming events of last eek-end. All of you realize that is was far different from any ing that we have had in the at several years. Many of us e hoping that we can continue ch events and bring in the tire student body so that eryone may be involved in the Dmecoming activities. Now that sig Thursday" is no knger re, this could develope into the ggest day of the year. Of urse, for this to be so, we will ed a holiday for homecoming id we are confident that such n become a reality if there is ough student interest, so be ire and let us know how you el. E owe a great deal of I thanks to Dean Cooper who !rsonally took charge of the rale and had a lot to do with erything that happened. Doug t more also assisted on the stu nt side of the activities. Carl -azell and the Alumni Office so did a remarkable job to keep erything going on the Alumni le of things. We had a lot of ople working together and the tivities were a tremendous suc ss. We hope to see a lot more the near future. dricks the ocean ? We think that this is an infinitely greater mis Ke, and( a mistake which we all live to dleeply regret. r is good that the Soviet lead eras seemi willing to negotiate, t we ask -- can we trust thenm Lugh to unilaterally disarm? itain made this mistake before Drld War 1I and she has never rained the strength and lead ~hip in the world community it she once enjoyed. John F. nnedy, in his youth, wrote in F4y England Slept that Britain dI disarmedl to a great degree di that the United States must t make that mistake in the ure when she has attained 'rId leadership. l'hat future is with us now v d we seem to be dismantling r manned forces and relying the missile systems more and re. The type of war which we likely to fight in the future 11 not be one of nuclear anni ation, but one of limited con7 :-ts, or police action. We need augment and strengthen all Sareas of our defense posture 'luding troop carriers, hell >ters, manned bombers, cargo nes, ground forces, guerilla 'ces, polaris submarines. John nnedy once said that he nted a choice in the use of itary forces, but it appears us that his choice is being tricted, and that eventually re will be no alternative ex >t "fight or surrender." H lE communist objective is still to bury us. We can st the Russians to deal with only when the advantage is 'irs; we cannot trust the inese at all. How, then, can retire the Strategic Air Coin nd in the face of such open itility? According to General omas S. Power, the B-47 is I a potent weapon and could ectively deliver its weapons in year 2000. Many others feel S way, and we insist that this not the time to reduce our errent strength, while the rimunists are not reducing ir offensive capacity. Another. t which is alarming is that' missile systems are not 100 cent reliable, as assumed by great percentage of the pop tion.