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Plan To i Stud4 By MARGARET SHAIEULY Staff Writer The Christmas carols have all been sung. The gifts have been exchanged and the turkey has all finally been digested. Having enjoyed two luxurious weeks of loafing or picking up a few extra dollars by working, USC students are contendedly preparing for final exams. It is well to notice that a gen eral feeling of calm and serenity prevails on the campus. No one is worried. After all, finals are merely a part of life which have to be faced twice a year. It's like taking shots or dying. A difference of attitude can be seen between freshmen and up perclassmen. Despite the true, gory stories of "exam days," the SHIRTS Li V "SLEEPINE FITS WELL STORE IA One Day Servic LAUNDRY MAIN A ACROSS FROM TH Whoosh! What y standard) equipn tuned, chambere frame, springs an including 3-epeed nealer's. The 4-4 .Telax .nts ( freshman 's eagerly looking for ward to a week of free cuts and nothing to do. Their older colleagues merely shake their heads and chuckle. The two weeks of no classes and only a scattering of tests will give each student a chance to really relax and catch up on his needed sleep. College is such a picnic anyway. Interested students who find that they have slept to their fullest capacity and have relaxed to their heart's content may find amuse ment in some of the planned activi ties to be held next week. With all good luck, cartoons may be again shown in the Russell House. Of what importance are the activities of the Allies during World War II when the antics of Serving The Gamecocks In Their Own Backyard DOK SHARP fITH I COLLARS" S S WELL! )OKS SWELLI e By Request . . . & CLEANERS T BLOSSOM E MEN'S DORMITORIES was here u almost saw above was the wooliest hent includes a 400<cu.-in. 345-hp V I twin pipes. And "sticky" red-line di shock. that make lean and sway m synchromesh, 4-on-the-floor and Je -2 is a restless beast! (And it's the kc T1% a Rket in Ao A0I1 Donald Duck may be seen. Naturally, the Game Room will )e open to hold the usual record :rowd who find time on their iands. As every good professor says at east 40 times during a semester, Colleges Throughout the United States, -olleges are revising their curricu ums and rules to meet the de -nands and needs of modern stu tents. Recently USC changed over Irom a six-point system to a four )oint system. Numerous rumors imong students and faculty specu ate on the possibility of Carolina ilso changing over to the trisemes 'er system. T r i n i t y College, Hartford, Conn., intends to increase under graduate enrollment by twenty five per cent. Between Septem ber, 1965, when enrollment will jump by 60 or 70, and 1970, the undergraduate body will grow from an average of 1,000 to an average of 1,250 students. Trinity had doubled its enroll ment between World War II and 1963. The new increase, sched uled for the 1965 entering class, would bring the total enrollment to 130 per cent since then. The grad uate s t u d e n t enrollment had risen from less than 50 students in 1946 to the present 500 students. Other New England colleges of size similar to that of Trinity are also planning future enrollment in :reases. Colby plans an increase of 150 Lundergraduates over the next two years, bringing its total enrollment to 1,400. Middlebury, currently with 1,350 undergraduates, plans to increase this number to 1,800 by 1974. Wesleyan is planning to increase its enrollment by fifty per I cent to 1,800 by 1972, including 300 graduate students. Student Personnel Committee at A n t i o c h College, Yellow nube inyas lsoies44 -8ml ake ih4bar.cr nireer nd yernt Oldsmortbili 4 are memories. Three transmission a' taway automatic. Better hurry ovi weet priced high-performance car ii MOEBILE in... Tnk i t Old (r he. MNe Aboi "It does not do any good to cram before an exam. Go see a movie. Enjoy yourself." The local theaters are preparing for a really big crowd this semester. They have booked such encouraging thrillers as "I Was a College Flunkie," "Get Make Nu Springs, Ohio, has reviewed stu dents' tenure policy as a result of their social and political ac tion. The policy, drawn up by Dean of Students J. D. Dawson, recognizes the following situa tion requiring SPC review of tenure: Failure to comply with the Com munity Handbook's requirement that a student consult with the dean of students before "under taking a social or political demon stration or activity that may in volve Antioch College publicly." Another situation r2quiring re view of tenure is "conduct" by the student in social and political activity. The Handbook contains an elastic clause saying, "If a stu dent goes out of reasonable bounds in his social or political action, he will be subject to review and his tenure may be jeopardized." The student, it says, must follow those standards of ac ceptable conduct that "he knows the College expects." Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., will take the first step toward a projected course of studies lead ing to a doctoral program in philosophy by establishing a master of arts program in that field. The new curriculum which will start this fall was announced by Dr. Robert D. Stout, dean of the Grad uate School. Through the new sequence, the department of philosophy will offer advanced work in the area of systematics, with particular em phasis on mathematical logic, scien tific methodology, epistemology, philosophy of science and philo sophical analysis. The normal load for a full l. Sporting (and nd acoustically era, heavy-duty railabilities, too, ir to your Olda m America!) it Fiir Yourself a College Dropout," and "Dear Mother, Dear Father, I've Just Flunked Out of College Grenada." The more intellectual students of USC may find their free time more aptly filled by visiting a local merous C time student under Upland Coi lege's, Upland, Calif., news tri mester calendar will be three courses. The Faculty Curricu lum Committee anticipates that this simplification of the sched ule will allow the student more time to study in depth for the courses he takes. Previously, the college student on this campus enrolled under a rather traditional semester cur riculum for as many as 18 semes ter hours which included two and three-hour courses. While it was mathematically possible under such a system to register for as many as nine separate courses, courses carried by the average student numbered about six. The new curriculum will create block-courses equivalent to ap proximately five semester hours. The student will take only three such courses each of the nine tri mesters required to complete his degree. If he follows the normal program as it is proposed, he will receive his college diploma at the completion of only three years. The block-course curriculum and a judicious arrangement of t(n weeks of vacation each year are part of the design to make the three-year A.B. program feasible for the large majority of students. In addition, seminar courses in the culture and history of the Far East, Twentieth Century Man (a study of the great issues of our century), and a senior Seminar in Values will give the students op portunity to probe in depth ideas the problems which are too often only superficially touched upon in traditional departmental survey courses. The new program for student teachers in secondary education at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz., combines all the student's method courses and student teach ing in one semester. Under the new program, called the "profes sional semester," the student has the opportunity to observe his pupils before he starts student teaching. The semester is worth 14 units and trains students in their specialized fields. In the past, student teachers have taken their method courses dur ing the junior year and then have begun student teaching the senior year. The first six weeks of the professional se mester is devoted to general methods, special methods, and visitation and observation. The system enables the student to become a regular high school faculty member, attending PTA, faculty meetings, student govern ment meetings, and to participate 'in school activities. The student teacher starts in structing one class and gradually works up to teaching three or more classes a day. Hie has the opportunity of viewing grade levels other than the one he is teaching. After student teaching, there is a three-wveek seminar. It is held daily and is planned to dis cuss such things as philosophies of education, getting jobs, signing contracts, liability of teachers, membership in teaching organiza tions and job recommendations. Also, d ur i ng these three weeks, the student has class room observation three hours daily. There he observes team PIC-A -DILLY 928 SOU OPEN 7 A.M# LUNCH and SUPI Choice of appe: 3 vegebables, br, coffee WE SERVE SANDS T ry our Kosher Corned Ii HQGURE ABOUT OUR SOAR , e smAm STUDnam ial E book store and spending their lei sure reading. A best seller lately has been a recent work cGncerning the methods, devices, and habitats of cheating. Naturally, many students are heartbroken that another semester hanges teaching, teaching machines and teaching English as a secondary language. Oddly enough, comments Dr. Jacques Barzun, Columbia Uni versity, New York, N. Y., provost and dean of faculties, while the liberal arts college, abetted by the graduate school, is squeezing out the old liberal education, the chief professional schools still ask for it in their candidates for admis sion. Accorfing to Dean Barzun, the law schools want students who know some history and can read English; the medical schools want well-rounded men; and the engi neering schools profess the greatest respect for the humanities and social sciences. In practice, he adds, admissions committees often be !tray these principles and prefer the candidate whose record shows a positive gluttony for science and mathematics. New and more lenient regu. lations for course enrollments and withdrawals have been is sued by the Registrar's Office at the University of Massachu setts, Amherst, Mass. Gone is the twenty-eight day limit for dropping a c o u r a e without credit. The deadline has now been pushed up almost a full month, until six days after the c'osing of midsemester marks, to give students more time to decide whether or not the course wil' be worth while. Action taken by the Student S. nate which has the effect of calling upon the administration for certain policy formulation necessi tates abstention on the part of the Office of Student Personnel, since, in effect, "we are directly involved in the subsequent action to be expected," states Dean of Students Charles Van Way, Jr., of The American University, Washington, D. C. Dean Van Way stated further that "we will expect to abstain in the large number of routine s.-lections and1 procedures taken by the Senate, in view of its amply demonstrated c 0 m p e t e n c e in handling such matters. In many areas, however, we will announce our standl through our vote on issues before the Senate. Without precommitment to any specific vote it may be expected that we will continue to support all efforts to create conditions of student life and environment which will be conducive to academic success, a harmonious climate of in u t u a I esteem and good will and a feeling of security and confidence on the part of our students. "We will continue to support student efforts to inform them selves individually, or by com mittees, as to matters pertain ing to themselves and their academic programs and prog ress. Upperclassmen at Linfield Col lege, McMin.nville, Ore., will not need to take Basic Christian Thought to fulfill their religion requirement, according to an an nouncement here. This is due to recent passing by the faculty of six new religion coure's. The religion departmei. is also adding a new course, Theology in the Twentieth Century, designed as an introduction to contemporary theologians in depth. This course makes up for the gap between philosophy and theology. RESTAURANT rH MAIN .- 7:30 P.M. *ER -70c and up izer, one meat. 'ad and butter, rr tea VICHES ANY TIME eel and Pastrami on Rye D PLAN AND MEAL TiCKETS ...LsP WANTED xams has ended and now they are only seven more semesters away from graduation. No more of their favorite history classes, no more impossible quizzes by their dearest prof. To show their true feelings, some students have started col lecting to buy their professors a gift which would serve as a lasting memento of their devotion. Unfortunately, the price of chew ing gum has gone up, so the drive was not much of a success. One class member proposed a banner laboriously painted with blood saying, "To Stinky, With Re gards." Since life is as it is, all good things must come to an end. Eventually exam week will be over and numerous students will fondly think upon these carefree days as they diligently shovel dirt on the newest road construction. Many Sleep, Relax During Long Vacation Another Christmas is past, and, for a while yet, Carolina students will continue to savor memories of the holidays, the old friends they met, the places they went, the sleep they caught up on or missed, and, last but not least, the 10 pounds they gained. With as many out-of-state and out-of-town students as we have at USC, the past holidays witnessed a great many friendly family re unions. Students traveled by bus, train, car, and plane; they went as far west as California and as far east as New England. Some returned from northern excursions with complaints of "It didn't snow." Others came back with the same remark made cheer fully. All in all, it seems that from the approximately 7,000 students that go to USC, not one knows of anything spectacular, or even note worthy, that occurred during the holidays. Some people, about the usual one-tenth per cent, actually did some studying. It is rumored that one student wrote an 11-page type-written term paper in addi tion to critical analysis of a popu lar novel. .It is safe to say, however, that most students returned to campus relaxed, well-fed, and unprepared. In oneC Monday morning class, three or four people, out of 25 or so. had done the assignment. The result was over 20 F's to start the new year off right. Most students celebrated New Year's Eve in the appropriate manner. You know, they all stayed home, gathered around the tele vision sets, and watched the year end via the floating balloon at Times Square. Then came New Year's Day and, after that, the trip back to Caro lina. Upon reaching his destina tion, one student discovered that his father had put a case of assorted quarts in the trunk of his car; they were all empty, of course. Have you made any resolutions for this year? Or have you re solved to give up making resolu tions? Quite a few students have de cided to give up smoking. Quite a few are already smoking again. One such person came into the Gamecock Room Monday evening and said, "I just found out some thing very interesting about my self. I can't quit smoking." His destination was the cigarette ma chine, what else? So that's it, this is a new year. Registration for second semester is following closely. Club. and o' ganirzations are continuing under new leadership. Whatever the past semester was like, the coming is sure to be better. Students everywhere are turning over "new leave.". .. The bridge player will be a better bridge player, the butterfly will flit around more, the eco ff ee drinker will drink more coffee, and the sincere student will study taor. diliently.