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ALL-AMERICAN A PAUSE WEREFRESH SPRING, 1963 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA VOLIV,NO.1CRONG FOR A GREATER CAROUNA VOL LIV, NO. 18 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA FEBRUARY 7, 1964 FOUNDED 1908 Dr. Walsh I. S. Grouj On Tuesday evening, February 11th, at 8:00 P.M. in Drayton Hall on the campus, the Department of International Studies will present Warren B. Walsh, Chairman of the Department of History at Syra cuse University, in a lecture on "Current Soviet Views and Meth ods in the Cold War." Dr. Walsh has long been recog nized as a leading scholar in the field of Russian and Soviet his tory. Because of his vast knowl edge of Communist strategy, he has frequently been called upon by the United States Government for special teaching and consulta tive assignments. lie is currently on the Board of Consultants of the National War College, at which institution he served from 1952 to 1955 as Di rector of the Political Affairs Di vision. Prior to his association with the National War College, Newman Club Hosts SEPNC Delegates from four states will be in Columbia today through Sunday for The Southeastern Province Newman Club conven tion, hosted by the USC club. Nearly 200 delegates are ex pected to attend from North and South Carolina, G e o r g i a and Florida. They will register at the Thomas More center and the Tre mont Motel upon arrival this afternoon. Seminars and discus sions, as well as election of new province officers is on the agenda for tomorrow, Feb. 8, followed by a banquet and dance that night. Headquarters for most of the ac tivities will be the Knights of Co lumbus. The Newman Club, the Roman Catholic youth group on campus, has as its purpose to provide spiri tual, intellectual and social ac tivity to the Catholic student on the secular campus. The purpose of 'he convention is to coordinate and exchange ideas through closer relations be tween the clubs throughout the Southeastern states. New Loai Made Avi A loan fund worth $1,000 for undergraduate students at USC I has been established by the Savan nah River Section of the Ameri can Chemical Society. The loan is limited to students studlying chemistry or chemical engineering and preference will be given to those students who are in their last year of study. The maximum loan granted will ' be $250 per semester. Although needl for the money is the primary criterion, an applicant must have at least a cumulative 2.0 GPR and must not be on probation. The loan must be repaid within two years of gradluation or of leaving school. Students are reminded that the OD1K OFFICERS: New offleca Anclude: Perry Moses, president; La Shelley, third vlee-pre.ldent; amtd To Lecture o Tuesday Professor Walsh directed a joint Air Force - Syracuse University Russian program, and he has lee tured at the Army War College, the NATO Defense College, the Naval War College, and the Cana dian National Defense College. N Born in Brookfield, Massachu setts, Professor Walsh did his undergraduate work at Tufts Col lege, and received his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard, the latter in 1915. Since that time he has been on the faculty of Syracuse Uni versity, where he has been a full professor since 1946. An Associate Editor of the Rus sian Review, Professor Walsh has published over forty articles and two hundred reviews. He has also contributed chapters on Russian history and Communism to a num ber of collections and has pub lished several definitive books, among them Russia and the Soviet Union, Perspectives and Patterns: Discourses on History, and the bree-volume Readings in Russian History. Replacing Debators - Important Debate coach M. G. Christopher- h sen this week issued a call for stu- f lents intereste'd in trying out for t, ->ositions on the University's de- ii )ating squad. "We have a fine record this I vear," he proudly pointed out, o but we lost several debators from first semester due to their leaving c ;chool. We have openings on both S .he Varsity squad for experienced t students and on the Novice squad c for those who are interested in s learning to debate." Y Professor Christophersen also pointed out that several of his t team are graduating in June and must be re placed with some talented underclassmen. Interested students are invited w to stop by Davis 114 and discuss tc times for try-outs and practices. 0 c rt Fund zilable deadline for submission of com pleted scholarship applications for J the 1964-65S acadlemic year is Feb 15. Scholarships are awarded pri marily on the basis of superior academic performance and to a lesser degree on need. Sophomore students and above who failed to receive National De- V fense Loans for failure to meet 13 the academic requirement may be eligible for a United Student Aid Fund loan if their cumulativn - GPR is 2.0 and if they are not on i probation. ' For further information and ap plication blanks, contact the Di rector of Student Aid, 206 Ad' ministrative Annex, at extensior. 3123.r -a for ODK, natlinul honorary fraterni se Bowling, first vlee-preident: John 4 Jimmy Wilia.s,a-v*A. " .....44fbe COMMAND CIIANGE: Past muander, J. E. Sanders as Lt. (j. and Ensign R. M. Loche watch i There Is In All Kn "Christians a n d Communist ave access to the same set c acts about man, but they com > different conclusions about th lentity of man. "The difference," said Dr. Joh [addon Leith, "is in faith whic rganizes and interprets facts." Dr. Leith, professor of histor Eli theology at Union Theologica eminary at Richmond, Va., wa e speaker for the Protestan )nvocations of Religious Empha is Week at USC which ende esterday. His theme for the week wa iat "the community of learnini nd the community of faith beloni )gether." Dr. Leith explaincd: "The commun ly of faith is al ays healthiest when it is subjec the criticism and investigatioi f the community of learning, an hen it is the beneficiary of th >mmunity of learning." The Rev Gerald M. Dolan of SI onaventure Monastery at Pater mn. N. J., had his overall subjec Two USC Gn Peace Corps James C. Anderson, an alumnu USC, has begun a two-year as gnment as a Peace Corps Volun er in Bolivia. lHe is one of 27 Peace Corp olunteers scheduled to depart fo olivia on January 16, to work il public health program. The major objective of the .pro ram will be to help improve the eneral health of the populatioi y' teaching better health an< mnitation practices, and to pro ide on-the-job training for Boli ian personnel. Among t h e Volunteers ar ~gisteredl nurses, medical techni -Stall Photo by Robertson ty, were elected last week. 'They Glarifi IR1IM /- e Battalion Commander F. K. Jones hamd g.) J. C. Brooks, Lt. E. M. Steudel, Lt. n the background. A Moral F .owledge, k s in the Catholic convocations "mak f ing theology relevant in the life of e I a Christian." e Dr. Israel J. Gerber of Temple Beth El, Charlotte, N. C., dis n cussed "the meaning religion has h in the everyday affairs of men as well as nations." Theme of R-E Week was "The 1 God - Shaped Blank," which the s convocation speakers and group t leaders developed in their indi - vidual ways. i "There is a moral factor in all knowledge," Dr. Leith said. "We s learn only if we desire to learn. ? As Augustine once said: 'In order i to know the truth, we must first love the truth,' which especially - applies to the truth which affects t us personally. I "The Christian is under obliga i tion to love God with his mind as e well as with his heart and hands." He also said the "vocation of a student is in part an expression of - the vocation of a Christian." t In his discussions of the rele iduates Begin Assignments dana, health educators, a dentist, and community development work ers. They will join more than fifty Peace Corps Volunteers presently working in Bolivia in public health r and sanitation. Another seventy Volunteers in Bolivia are engaged in agriculture, co-operatives, uni versity education and community ,development. a The group trained for twvo I months at the University of Washington, Seattle, where their studies included Spanish, the his tory and culture of Bolivia, United States history and world prob - lems. - From Seattle the Volunteers went to Camp Radley in Puerto Rico for three weeks of field training. The group then divided, with four Volunteers receiving leprosy training at the United States Public Health Service Hos pital at (Carville, Louisiana, while the rest of the group worked throughout Puerto Rico in out posts maintained by the Puerto Rican hlealth Service. Linda L. Thomas, an alumna of South Carolina, has begun a two year assignment as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Saba!' Sarawak. She is one of 52 Peace C7orps Volunteers who left on January 2 for Sabah and Sarawak. These Volunteers will begin work in the fields of education and rural com munity action. This group will join 88 other Volunteers already serving in Snbah and Sarawak. These areas are part of the newly formed Federation of Ma laysia which incorporates the for mer country of Malaya and the territories of North Borneo and S n1S i.sUniv --Staff Photo by Robertaon aover the colors to the new com D. R. Roth, Ensign R. A. Schwab, actor aid Leith vancy of theology in Christian life, Father Nolan considered questions concerning revelation, faith, the response given in an act of faith and Christian moral ity, and the challenge of the futuro te Catholics. Dr. Gerber's topics in relation to religion in everyday affairs concerned the value of reason, freedom from war, and "recogni tion of differences that must exist in our world and accepting them in the spirit of the greater glory Af God." D)r. Leith said he found the Uni versity students with whom he talked "responsive" to the R - E Week "focus of attention on re ligious questions." Father Dolan said the principle >f Religious Emphasis Week is 'good," but he challenged studets li generate greater response - 'to develop a keener attitude to fhe program and use this week to ind out specific answers to prob lems confronting them." In Dr. Gerber's view, the sue ess of such programs comes' when "everyone feels an obliga .ion" toward them "because of the >reneofitmtha,and derecogni Lonvofatifnes thtmstut exist hich they woroulad acoeptn them ith the seprafte greter ofre USCGod." Werisuns Pithwoze L.ane "rsonsie otest Unekrsityu of attention Caonae uniReligious Emasis Winekm isa Studenete raters conesonson 'toeelby theentttudentdeatet nan mjorma( uho hs w to tn ein a ou spcii ansersm ta poth loems conrontn $50foewm tngth icle Dr.o Gerer'svew, that?," hich ofcouragesrCriams coe he "evenryoe fean threeg$25 nion toar them1646 "becaues ofh 'TheoBatist fstudent afcomgit nagictey "ublhd coe awath >ft the soearabte ssB.nw [uge foC h rn ontest wereverstyH. C.oBtrhearolBea urMiss CaHolkinhemd is aro nes-l edineri "Thsve BaTist nseant" andriter conter, edio Loe bThe atsttudent" ament Mashvillc. ersity Excuses, W Absences I "To start the spring seme ration are trying to do ever; -ersity policy concerning abs tls," states L. Eugene Coopei Of primary importance tc lean of women, Miss Elizabet anlerstanl that all excuses i propriate office within three not included) after the last ) serve this regulation will rest the excuse. All requests for an excused ab sence must be in writing and can :e obtained only from the dean )f women or the dean of men. After securing such an excuse, it must be presented to the ap *)ropriat.e instructor within five Jays after the absence. Excuse Regulations University regulations are quite specific on reasons that a student may be excused from class. These reasons are: illness (student must bring note from a doctor or from home stating the nature of the illness and the dates he was at home; if confined in the infirmary, students receive excuses from Dr. McNulty's office); marriage in the immediate family; birth in the im mediate family; death or serious illness in the immediate family (immediate f a m i l y includes mother, father, sisters, brothers and anyone who has lived with the family for the past five years I; or representing the Uni versity in an authorized activity (notification must be sent to the Office of the Dean of Men or Of. fice of Dean of Women on th< day that the student is partici pating in the authorized activity. These are the only reasons for which an excuse will be granted, the dean emphasizes. In addition, excuses for the day before or the day after a holiday will be granted only when the stu dent himself is hospitalized or there is a death in the immediate family. Attendance Mr. Cooper also emphasizes that no credit will be allowed for a course when a student fails to at tend 75; of the scheduled class meetings in a semester regardless of the cause of absence. Students with a g.)p.r. of 4.0 on all work carried 1 minimum of twelve semester hours) in the pre v'ious semester's work are allowed voluntairy attendance, hut the 75' attendlance requirement mentioned above must be meb. Four unexcused absences in each course in a regular session are permitted. The unexcused ab sences are intendled to provide for unexp)ectedl contingencies w h i e hi necessitate absence from class. This will cover reasons such as automob)ile trouble, appearance in court, routine medical appoint ments, etc. Consequently, it is im port.ant that students use the four (Contmnued on page 8) President . On USCE Nearly half of the students at tending state - supported institu tions of higher education in the state are at USC, while only about a decade ago the University's share was about one-thirdl, Dr. Tihomas F. .Jones saidl Monday. l)r. Jlones, president of the Uni versity, told the Richiand Kiwanis Club Monday that the University's rising share of enrollments at state - supported institutions ii especially impo-tant because "th< total number of students going tc college has increased vastly." The total will "increase more and more as the complexities o: iur space age civilization demant college edlucation and skills of greater number of people," h4 said. Increased Enrollment President Jones reiterated thi onlseion reached in a TT-i. Policy ith dra wa is, mp hasized ster out right, we in adminis vthing possible to clarify Uni ences, excuses, and withdraw , dean of men. the dean of men and to the h Clotworthy, is that students nust be secured from the ap days (Saturday and Sunday lay of absence. Failure to o6 lt in the student being deniet Collection Exhibited At Museum First Showing Of Air Force Documentary A double-take was in order last year just after the staff of Co lumhia's Museum of Art had com pleted their plans and selections for an exhibit from the United States Air Force Documentary Art collection. The Sunday version of "Steve Canyon" came out re producing in its strip many of the canvases which were to he brought to Columbia. Two years in the planning, this exhibit open,-d at the Columbila Museum of Art on Sunday after noon. February 2. between the hours of 2:00 and 6:00 p.m. A public reception tO which were invited the staffs of Shaw Air Force Base and Fort Jackson wa" held from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. More than 2,500 paintings in the colossal collection of the Air Force were studied to make the selection of fifty which have been flown down to Columbia. Thrill ingly the creative artist catches the pride of the Air Force in it, global role of peacemaker. the character of foreign lands, and the vastness of space. VALItlIE.liISTORICAL RELCORD These p a i n t i n g s and their artists were the suit ject of a 1961 article in the NATIONAL GEO GRAPHIC MAGAZINE written by Gen. Curtis E. LeMay through his personal experience with that pro gram. ' h e t' x h i h i t will continue through March 1, free of charge to the public. Group visitors may call the office of the Museum for any special arrangement.s that may be dlesi red. This is a relection of paintings from the USAF Art Collection, a valuable historical r-ecor-d of the youngest of the military services. The collection, which includes over 2,500 works of ar-t, covers the p)ast 50 years of the Air Force story. The paintings chosen for this exhibition are a small part of the collection. but they represent it well in portraying the vigorous role of the Unitedl States Air Force in preserving peace. rones Talks rpansion sity enr-ollment study which fore cast its studlent body will increase in 10 years to approximately 16. 000 -about double the current annual figure. Blecause of the Urban Renewal Program and the adlvantages of high-rise buildings, the Univer sity's principal problem is not so much one of land "as of peop)le not acreage, but I. Q.," Dr. Jones said. "To expand as we must, we shall need a far lar-ger faculty and a general strengthening of our teaching potential all along the line," he said. iDr. Jones said student failures inuniversity studlies may be at tr-ibuted to lack of good study habits, too many social distrac tions, too many cars, too much en I tertainment, and too many "gad