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What's Love Moon, Bliss And Carolina By DEBBIE WELCH Staff Writer Love is a night heavy with ro mance as myriads of stars and a quarter moon hang suspended be tween earth and infinity. . . . . It is the transformation of the meekest fellow into a suave Casa nova and the shyest girl into a lovely Juliet. It is the uncanny remembrance of such lines as "Love is the silent saying and saying of a a i n g I e name" and Browning's "How do I love thee, Let me c o u n t the ways." . . . It is a sudden reflection of that which had been forgotten and a new hope and anticipation of the future. . . . It is mountain of knowledge based on ascetic wisdom.... Yes, love is all of these, but even more. . . . Love is a Carolina Coed and her beau, while captivated by the magic of the night, they hasten to check the hour at the ODK Sun dial. . . . DEADLINE The deadline for copy for the society and feature pages is Monday afternoon . . . news turned in earliest will be given priority. Dateless Thrill O By JULIE TEMPLE Staff Writer "Do you have a date for Home coming?" This question, of course, is asked in an assured voice, and a sigh of relief follows the expected re sponse, "No." At least you know you are not alone. A ringing tele phone is electrifying, but then the girl on phone duty passes your door, or pops her head in to call your roommate. With the exception of orientation classes and walking past the benches in front of Rus sell House (6-8-4-10), this is one of the worst ordeals of the year. Then old "what's - his - name" finally gets through to you around 11:59 after trying for three days and nights, and you finally have a (late. Now the question is, "How do I get off campus?" There are G 3407 Broadw. 3UPERN M" COcK PART 1woWO()oP: Im OWAT PILL CAu. o LAT WEEKotWE WT10 O.ot AA rELL ndOWN or MT msCouf M~ M10 RINg (till HE Now 4poid's 'SPIMS AN 7 . covens VI.m R E 0V0 MP OF IT LooS AS 54JIDINLY... 1 ~ x,LOV6*3 Lftim C04Sq ua= Colorfu Carolin; BY MARGARET ANN NICELEY Staff Writer Since it was first chartered in 1801 as South Carolina College, USC has undergone steady change and expansion, so that today it is a mixture of the old and the new. The Undergraduate L i b r a r y, opened in 1959, faces Davis Field, which served as a parade ground during the Yankee occupation of Columbia after the Civil War. The brick wall which saved the campus from burning when Sher man entered the city Feb. 17, 1865, still stands. It encloses a number of buildings, including a radio television center and a science an nex, being used for the first time this year. The wall was originally built to keep the school's 200 male Seekers her Sex several ideas with potential on this subject floating around, but be cause some housemothers read this paper, some things are better left unsaid. The men have problems that are just as bad, if not worse. There they sit, hands folded, waiting for that distant girlfriend. Slowly the pictures come out of the drawers and the girl you haven't seen for two months is the only one again. Excitement r e a l 1 y builds by Thursday, just after you've made a thirty on an hour quiz. Your girl is coming tomorrow and second semester is a long way off. With this in mind every freshman awaits Homecoming with a clear conscience and the feeling that this will be one of the greatest experi ences of his or her college career; aside from passing that history quiz, that is. Campus revolution! Slacks that never need ironing-never! Galey and Lord permanent press fabrics of polyester and cotton. tay neat-however washed! ateyad.ord iIPM! 7NJr A4 1 Histor a To So students from the temptation of amusements in Columbia, then a booming metropolis of 7,000. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE Several other buildings on cam pus are left from the University's early days, when it was South Carolina College or College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The name was changed several times. It was the University of South Carolina from 1865-1877, 1887-1890, and 1906 until now. DeSaussure, built in 1809, was the second building on campus. As were many of the early structures, it was used as a Confederate hos pital during the Civil War. The first building was Rutledge Col lege, finished in 1805, followed by Harper, Legare, Elliott and Pinck ney, all built before 1865. S o u t h Caroliniana Library, erected in 1840, was the first separate college library building in America. For over 100 years it served as the school's library, while today it is one of three. The building now used as a classical gymnasium by modern athletes has served as a chapel, a hospital and a science building since its completion in 1855. In tended as a chapel, it had poor acoustics, and its roof blew off twice within 10 years after it was built. These buildings are no more a part of Carolina's community, however, than are Russell House, South Dorm, South Tower, the new men's veil-block residence halls or any of the other buildings added in recent years. In relation to the entire City of Columbia, the Uni versity has simply kept pace, its major changes being those which come with expansion. Students themselves are actually little different from those who at tendled South Carolina College ex cepting the addition of coeds at the ou I qe.40 Gtwr up AND ar a DOsOX $s . Ka Cr.ft yOCarri amI Wo PDOWT To l3y:W ILK ~4__ 'Y Carril arig S turn of the century. This year's rebellion against Slater Food Service is paralleled by the "great Biscuit Rebellion in 1852," when 108 students threat ened to leave school if the com puslory commons system were not abolished. They eventually lost their battle with the board of trustees and became among the school's first drop-outs. Men of Carolina who are at tending school through veterans' programs or Reserve Officers' Training Corps are setting no prec edent by their connection with the military service. In 1861 the entire student body volunteered for the Confederate Army as the College Cadets. Beating Clemson was a high light of the academic year in 1896, when the first Big Thursday game was played. Carolina came out on top of a 12-6 tally that year and had its only undefeated season in 1907 when the Gamecocks beat the College of Charleston, the Medical College of Georgia and The Cita del. Greeks are nothing new on cam 4 .4 Armn These booklets helped infi ates of all degree levels tc For example, if you w1 section of the country, yo in 28 states-will try to a If you're interested in personally, you'll be inte increased more than 750* that R&D expenditures a future success. We spent of which goes straight intc of new scientific truths ar Our booklets will answi Later--or even now if you or facp to face. Why not like to know about you. BETTEI An equml pVQPM4T rdMB(3) OF Vf CON114VUS SITW or 3_%t-CAK wILL LOVaRS LAIN GET GUr-CMc'..? wAI.t. aupa,-tMVwelk vICoROs ovEA -tS ARCH4-VILLIAN) IR I~ IN&A OPIZOCDE OF ALL CAPE es txties pus. Fraternities existed h e r e several years before they were forced by legislation in 1897 to close or go underground. They were reborn in 1927. The first record of Phi Beta K a p p a at Carolina goes back to 1818, when John Quincy Adams endorsed the school's application for a chapter. CAMPUS PUBLICATIONS Campus publications were started in the early 1800's and e a r 1 y 1900's. The Camfinian, a literary magazine, has been re placed by the Crucible. The Garnet and Black, established in 1899, and The Gamecock, begun in 1908 still exist. Clariosophic and Euphradian literary societies were a central part of academic life between 1805 and 1965. Politics, too, are much the same. When Goldwater and Johnson fans debated at USC in 1964, they were following the example of students who conducted the first open cam pus political campaign in 1928. The Gamecock, however, became the first campus publication to of ficially endorse a presidential can didate. rourself with uence some 863 new technical gradu join us in 1964. tnt to start your career in a certain til find that Du Pont-with facilities ccommodate you. growth for what it can mean to you 'ested to know that our sales have 'o since 1937. You've probably heard re a good indicator of a company's $90 million a year on it, $60 million "pioneering research"-the discovery d new materials. r most of your preliminary questions. wish-we can talk specifics by letter, write us or send our coupon? We'd THINGS FOR SETTER LIVING ..T HROUGH CHEMISTRY Hallowee Old Merr By TOM PREWETf Staff Writer Every year at this time, we read something about Halloween and how different it is now from what it used to be. In every case of this nostalgia I've ever seen, the writer is a person born in the earlier part of the 20th Century and he fondly recalls bobbing for apples, dis mantling a buggy or wagon and reassembling it atop the local school building and soaping the screen doors and windows of some hometown crab. Ahh, those were the good old days! Most college students today were born in the 1940's and grew from there, with their own first hand Halloween experiences. We are now old enough to reward our selves with a little nostalgic glance over the shoulder at the one night out of every year that we donned our gause or rubber masks and paraded forth to terrorize the world. Can't you still feel the cold en gulf you as you left the warmth of your house to start on your nocturnal "visitations"? It seems to me that every Halloween I passed through, there was a full moon . . . or maybe I just imagined that . . . because full moons are choice for Halloween. And still fresh in my memory is the swish swish of my costume pants against the "Trick or Treat" bag that I grasped in my hand. I can't re member ever complaining with the weight of the bag . . . in fact, it seems that the more I went from door to door, the lighter the bag became. When I was a kid, we went on our Halloween rounds in packs ... to ward off the evil spirits, no doubt . . . and it was more fun that way, too. That way no one ever got too tired or too cold to stop until we had gone the com plete circuit. Many times have I walked back into my house blue from the cold with no feeling at all in my feet . . . but who thinks about a little thing like frostbite with the pains you're suddenly experiencing in your gook-filled stomach? Lord, didn't it hurt! But even if Halloween as we kenw it wasn't the wildest thing on facts about D1 Technical men we'll especially n Chemists Chemical Engineers E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. 2531 Nemours Building IWilmington, Delaware 19898 Please send me the faCts abo Name Class Major Col.ege -____ IMy address City --State n Haunts ymaker earth, I think we enjoyed it while we were young enough. Times are bound to change . . . and so are the ways kids celebrate Halloween . . and we won't knock it even if Halloween gets a little tamer each year. We'll just remember we had run . . . and in large quantity. In fact, I think I'll go dig up a paper bag right now. Anyone for "Trick Dr Treat"? Spectator 4 Sez Game Incidental Dear 01' Buddie: How'reya, kid? I'm more'r less out of the whole picture but I'm still conscious and on the old toesies . . . even if they are a little numb from the cold, bad ol' weather. But . . . as th' ol' philoso- F pher . . . whasisname says . . . it's all in the thrill and excitement of the ol' football game. The Homecoming game was simply, simply ... it was too much, 01' Buddie, 01' Pal. (Boy'm I gonna be sick.) I jus' yelled and hollered and stomped and yelled till I thought I'd go out of my mind. The excitement of the cheer leaders an' players and the band an' all that good stuff. Know what I mean? Sure, y'do. Well, every body played a fine game. I'm just not sure which team was which . . . the colored jersies just started spinnin' 'round and 'round. You think tha's dumb? I'm a pretty dumb kid . . . I know I ain't so smart . . . but wait'll you hear this. I don't even know who won the deal. But who cares? The ol' ball game is only a matter of secondary importance for Homecoming day. Hmmm? Sure. We know what come's first at the game, don't we, ol' Buddie. It's our little ol' jolly maker we slip in under our coats, hmmmm? (Censored), yeah! Well, 01' Buddie, I'm beginnin' to feel pretty low now so I better close before sickie time arrives. Pity me, fella. Think how I'll feel in th' mornin'. "Th' Fish" ii Pont med from the Class of '66 Mechanical Engineers Industrial Engineers (inc.) Jt Du Pont. Degree expected______