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A TED RCN' R. E. WEEK - ALL .RIANA PAUSE TO REFRESH SPRING, 1963 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROING 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 (lance that night. HIeadquarters 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 the convention is to coordinate and exchange ideas through closer relations be tween the clubs throughout the Southeastern states. New Loai Made Avt A loan fund worth $1,000 for undergraduate students at USCI has been established by the Savan-' nah River Section of the Ameri can Chemical Society. The loan is limitedl to students studIying 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 b $20per semester. Although nee 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 rep)aid within two years of graduation or of leaving school. Students are reminded that the ODK( OFFICERS: New officer include: Perry Mose., president; lae Shellev- thhir vice-prealdent; ani .1 To Lecture r Tuesday Professor Walsh directed a joint Air Force - Syracuse University Russian program, and he has lec tured at the Army War College, the NATO Defense College, the Naval War College, and the Cana dian National Defense College. Born in Brookfield, Massachu setts, Professor Walsh did his undergraduate work at Tufts Col lege, and received his A.M. and Ph.1). from Harvard, the latter in 1935. 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, -imong them Russia and the Soviet Union, Perspectives and Patterns: D)iscourses on History, and the hree-volume Readings in Russian History. Replacing Debators Important Debate coach M. G. Christopher ;en this week issued a call for stu ients interest.'d in trying out for )ositions on the University's de )ating squad. "We have a fine record this year," he proudly pointed out, 'but we lost several debators from first semester due to their leaving ;chool. We have openings on both .he Varsity squad for experienced ;tudents and on the Novice squad 'or those who are interested in earning to debate." Professor Christhphersen also ointed out that several of his ;eam are graduating in June and nust be re placed with some alented underclassmen. Interested students are invited o stop by Davis 114 and discuss imes for try-outs and practices. iFund iila ble leadline for submission of com )leted scholarship applications for ~he 1964-65 academic year is Feb 15. Scholarships are awardled pri narily on the basis of superior icademnic performance and to a esser degree on need. Sophomore students and above v'ho failed to receive National De rense Loans for failure to meet ~ho academic requirement may be ligible for a United Student Aid Eiund loan if their cumulative GPR is 2.0 and if they are not on probation. For further information and ap plication blanks, contact the D)i rector of Student Aid, 206 Ad ministrative Annex, at extensior. :3123. for' ODK, national honorary frateri e Bowling, fires vlee-presidents; John imnmy Willis. ,eeteiary. Dean ( . . .. .. ? ..w.. .. COMMAND CHANGE: Past Be mander, J. E. Sanders as Lt. (j. g., and Ensign H. M. Loche watch in ti 'There Is In All Kn "Christians a n d Communists i have access to the same set of i facts about man, but they come l to different conclusions about the identity of man. "The difference," said Dr. John c Haddon Leith, "is in faith which i organizes and interprets facts." N Dr. Leith, professor of histori cal theology at Union Theological Seminary at Richmond, Va., was c the speaker for the Protestant I convocations of Religious Empha- v sis Week at USC which ended yesterday. I His theme for the week was I that "the community of learning I and the community of faith belong t together." Dr. Leith explained: I "The community of faith is al- a ways healthiest when it is subject u to the criticism and investigation of the community of learning, and t when it is the beneficiary of the v community of learning." The Rev Gerald M. Dolan of St. s Bonaventure Monastery at Pater- t son. N. J., had his overall subject Two USC Gra Peace Corps 1 James C. Anderson, an alumnus c >f USC, has begun a two-year as- a signlment as a Peace Corps Volun- e eer in Bolivia. F lie is one of 27 Peace Corps v Volunteers scheduled to depart for a Bolivia on January 16, to work in " i public health program.n The major objective of the .pro- V trami will be to help improve the d reneral health of the population 'y teaching better health and n ;anitation practices, and to pro- ' ide on-the-job training for Boli- s 'ian personnel.t Among t h e Volunteers are registeredl nurses, medical techni- Ih S y f f -,Staf/ Photo by Robertson Ii it ere elected last week. 'Thcy ' (uti, scondvlc-prshlet; im 1 a Alrifhf 4M ttalion Commander F. K. Jones han J. C. Brooks, Lt. E. M. Steudel, L e background. 8. Moral F >wledge,' n the Catholic convocations "mak ng theology relevant in the life of Christian." Dr. Israel J. Gerber of Temple 3eth El, Charlotte, N. C., dis ussed "the meaning religion has a the everyday affairs of men as vell as nations." Theme of R-E Week was "The 'od - Shaped Blank," which the onvocation speakers and group eaders developed in their indi idual ways. "There is a moral factor in all nowledge," Dr. Leith said. "We earn only if we desire to learn. Ls Augustine once said: 'In order D know the truth, we must first >ve the truth,' which especially pplies to the truth which affects s personally. "The Christian is under obliga ion to love God with his mind as rell as with his heart and hands." He also said the "vocation of a tudent is in part an expression of he vocation of a Christian." In his discussions of the rele luates Begin 4ssignments ians, health educators, a dentist, rnd community development work rs. They will join more than fifty 'eace Corps Volunteers p)resently 'orking in Bolivia in public health nd sanitation. Another seventy olunteers in Bolivia are engaged a agriculture, co-operatives, uni ersity education and community evelopment. The group trained for two aonths at the University of lashington, Seattle, where their ~udies included Spanish, the his >ry and culture of Bolivia, United tates history and world prob From Seattle the Volunteers ent to Camp Radley in Puerto ico for three weeks of field -aining. The group then divided, ith four Volunteers receiving prosy training at the United tates Public Health Service Hos ital at Carville, Louisiana, while ie rest of the group worked aroughiout Puerto Rico in out osts maintained by the Puerto ican IIealth Service. Linda L,. Thomas, an alumna of outh Carolina, has begun a two ['ar assignment as a Peace Corps olunteer in Sabah Sarawak. She is one of 52 Peace Corps olunteers who left on January 2 )r Satbah and Sarawak. Thcee olunteers will begin work in the eldis of education and rural com aunity action. This group will >in 88 other Volunteers already a'rving in Sabah and Sarawak. These areas are part of the ewly formed Federation of Ma aysia which incorporates the for ier country of Malaya and the erritories of North Borneo and - 'i1 nE ti !11 4>e -Stal/ Photo by Robertson ds over the colors to the new com D. R. Roth, Enugn R. A. Schwab, sI bi actor il h< said Leith , vancy of theology in Christian il life, Father Nolan considered (i questions concerning revelation, m faith, the response given in an ai act of faith and Christian moral- cl ity, and the challenge of the yi future to Catholics. v4 Dr. Gerber's topics in relation (1 to religion in everyday affairs 0 concerned the value of reason,:f freedom from war, and "recogni- i tion of differences that must exist Pl in our world and accepting them T in the spirit of the greater glory "' of God." th Dr. Leith said he found the Uni versity students with whom he b( talked "responsive" to the R - E w Week "focus of attention on re- d< ligious questions." th Father Dolan said the principle fa of Religious Emphasis Week is "good," but he challenged students to generate greater response -- "to develop a keener attitude to m the program and use this week to cO find out specific answers to prob- te lems confronting them." m In Dr. Gerber's view, the suc- of cess of such programs comes when "everyone feels an obliga- al tion" toward them "because of the tu benefits that can be dlerived."vi Hie also advocated large, joint v convocations for students from jat which they "would come away a with three separate sets of new ideas rather than a single theme." en a r USC Girl Wins Prize In Contest University of S o u t h Carolina junior, Miss Carol Windham, is a first-place winner in "The Baptist Student" writers' contest spon sored by the student department, B a p t i s t Sunday School Board, Nashville. Miss Windham, 19-year-old Ger man major who hopes to attend t semina ry to become a youthtI worker, won $50 for writing the st article', "Who? Where? What?,"a which encourages Christians to "Live Christ." The seven prose and three $25 y poetry winning entries will appear Cl in one of the 1964-65 issues ofri "The Baptist Student," a collegiate at magazine published nine months es of the school year by the BSSB- to Judges for the recent contest co were Mrs. H. C. Brearley, Bel mont College English instructor; ar Miss Lucy Hoskins, e d i t o r of ,a church administration materials, eo BSSB; Ed Willingham, religious gi news editor, "The Nashville Ten- s nessean" and Bill Junker, editor of "The Baptist Student"; all of Nahville. ersity xc uses, W Albsences .i "To start the spring sem ation are trying to do evet rsity policy concerning ab s," states L. Eugene Coope Of primary importance t an of women, Miss Elizabe uderstand that all excuses opriate office within thre )t includled) after the last rve this regulation will res ie excuse. All requests for an excused ab nee must be in writing and car obtained only from the dear women or the dean of men 'ter securing such an excuse, i ust be presented to the ap opriate instructor within fiv ys after the absence. Excuse Regulations University regulations are quit ecific on reasons that a studen ay be excused from class. Thes asons are: illness (student mus ing note from a doctor or fron ome stating the nature of th ness and the dates he was a me; if confined in the infirmar3 u(lents receive excuses from Dr cNulty's office); marriage in th mediate family; birth in the im ediate family; death or seriou ness in the immediate famil mmediate f a nm i I y include other, father, sisters, brotherit id anyone wvho has lived wit e family for the past fiv 'ars); or representing the Uni '-rsity in an authorized activit jotification must he sent to th ffice of the Dean of Men or Of cc of Dean of Women on th y that the student is partic: iting in the authorized activity iese are the only reasons fo iich an excuse will be grantA e (lean emphasizes. In addition, excuses for the da: fore or the day after a holida: 11 he granted only when the stu nt himself is hospitalized o ere is a death in the immediat( mily. Attendance Mr. Cooper also emphasizes tha credlit will be allowed for urse when a student fails to at nd 75', of the scheduled clas ?etings in a semester regardles the cause of absence. Students with a g.p.r. of 4.0 or work carried (minimum o 'elve semester hours iin the pre >us semester's work are allowe< lunitary attendance, but the 75' tendance requirement mentione< ove must be met. Four unexcusedl absences il ch course in a regular sessiot e' permitted. The unexcused ab nces are intendled to provide fo: exp)ected contingencies w h i c I cessitate absence from class tis will cover reasons such a; tomiobile trouble, appearance ii urt, routine medical appoint ynts, etc. Consequently, it is im rtant that students use the fou: (Continued on page 8) resident. )n USC E Nearly half of the students at ad ing state - supp)orted institu ans of higher education in th4 ite are at USC, while only abou decade ago the University' are was about one-third, Di omas F. Jlones saidl Moniday. Drt. Jones, president of the Uni rsity, told the Richland Kiwani uh) Monday that the University' ting share of enrollments a ate - supported institutionsi pecially important because "th tal number of studlents going ti lIege has increased vastly." The total will "increase mor d more as the complexities o r space age civilization deman lIege education and skills of eate'r number of people," h id. Iucreased Enrollment President Jones reiterated th neliuion raceda in a UTnl..m Policy ithdrawais, 'mphasized ester out right, we in adminis 'ything possible to clarify Lni -ences, excuses, and withdraw r, dean of men. o the dean of men and to the th Clotworthy, is that students must be secured from the ap days (Saturday and Sunday day of absence. Failure to ob ult in the student being denied Collection Exhibited At Museum First Showing Of Air Force Documentary t E A double-take was in order last t year just after the staff of Co a lumbia's Museum of Art had com e pleted their plans and selections t for an exhibit from the United States Air Force Documentary A rt collection. The Sunday version e of "Steve Canyon" came out re - producing in its strip many of s the canvases which were to he brought to Columbia. Two years in the planning, this exhibit open:-d at the Columbia luseum of Art on Sunday after noon. February 2, between the hours of 2:00 and 6:00 p.m. A public recept.ion to which werc nvited the staffs of Shaw Air e Force Base and Fort .Jackson wa -held from 3l:30 to 5 :00 p.m. More than 2,J00 paintings in r the colossal collection of the Air Force were strrd:ed 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 spact. VALt IIX. lIISTOI1A.l. IIF-AORI! These p a i nti n gs and their artists were the subject of a 191 article in the NATIONAL GEO GRAPHIC MAGAZINE written by Gen. Curtis E. Le1ay through his personal experience with that pro gram. T h e e x h i b it will continue through March 1, free of charge to the public. Group visit.ors may call the of fice of the Museum for any special arrange'ments that may be This is a selection of pairntinrgs fromi the U'SAF Art Collection, a valu.able historical record of the youngest of the military services. The collection, which includes over 2,500 works of art, covers the past 50 y'ears of the Air Force story. The paintings chosen for this exhibition ar'e a small part of the collection, but they represent it well in por'tr'aying the vigorous r'ole of the United States Air Force in pr'eserving peace. fones Talks rpansion sity enrollment study which fore' cast its student body will incr'ease in 10 years to rappr'oximately 1(1, 000 -- about double the current annual figure. Because of the Urban Renewal Prograrm and thL adlvantrages ol high-rise buildings, the Univer q ity's principal problem is not so much one of land "as of people t not acr'eage, b)ut I. Q.," Dr. Jones s said. "To expand as we must, we shall need a far larger faculty and a general str'engthening of our I tenching potential all along the filine," he said. SD)r. Jones said student failures a in university studies may be at e tr'ibuted to lack of good study habits, too many social distrac tions, too many cars, too much en e tert-ainmnent, and too many "gad