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Founded January 30, 1906, with Robert Elliott Gonzalees the fi University of South Carolina weekly, on Fridaye, duing the eelei The Gamecock is represented nationally by Ntionel Advrtlsis1 legiote Press, the South Carolina Collegiate Proe" Assodation, the N< lion rates are $3.00 per year. SIG HUITT PAT R( Managing Ediur Edor.4 N ew s Editor ....................................................... .. A L DO ZIER Sports Editor .... ---............................. . . 1NIE TRUSIANO Society Editor ......... --........-............................GINNY CARROLL Advertising Manager ...................CARTER CREWE Circulation Manager ......................KATHY LELAND Staff members: Janean Mann, Oba Oberly, Pat Mallon, inda J. Barry Breiburt, Jim Graves, John Russ, Chips Choffin, John tottich, D Will Balk, Caroline Gilcrost, Margaret Shalsuly, Tom Pruitt, Kathy J Julie Winn, John Dennis Culbertson, Margaret Nicely, Butch Pace, P Davis, Lynn Williams, Ruth McBee, John Galloway, Paul Noglej Cal Where We The letters concerning the "seating ar rangement situation" for the Clemson game published below were written two weeks ago, and most of the lingering grudges should have been pacified by President Jones' explanation and apology in Tuesday's State paper. Dr. Jones explained that 100 per cent of the student body attended the game, account ing for 3,000 more spectators than were ex pected. The students knew what to expect though; they left for the 2 o'clock game at 9:30 and 10 a.m., cutting classes, bringing books to Wonen's Goverm A shift in the command of women stu dents is in the offing here with which both coeds and their code of conduct may come of age. Women's Standards Committee is plan ning to petition the Association of Women Students, a national coordinating body for collegiate women governments. A committee for setting rules and restrictions would be set up within each dormitory, with the long overdue result of more power of coeds over coeds. Even if USC girls aren't so wild that they require a personal police force, it's about time we stopped dumping the responsibility of controlling upwards of 300 girls on about two housemothers. It is hard and hypocriti cal for a housemother to be friend, guide and head warden simultaneously. There are scattered complaints when housemothers are too strict, but far more resentment when Are You SuffE The infirmary is as remote as Siberia to most of us UNTIL disaster-we land in there ourselves. We have two conflicting attitudes toward the infirmary; either: A. We feel gypped and disappointed at re ceiving, supposedly, "indifference and a p)lacebo cold tablet," or, B. We are TERRIFIED that if we even walk near the door we'll be slapped in bed for two weeks. Like every other dlepartment on campus adlm inistration, faculty, police-we assume the infirmary is out to get us. Either reaction makes you wonder whether it's us or the infirmary which is infirmer. 'While we're fussing about the degree of fawning sympathy issued by the nurses, a more serious problem is coming to the fore groundl: not long ago a coed had to be turned away because there was no room. This was an isolated instance; just so we steer clear of epidemics such as last year's. Dr. R. B. McNulty, director since 1954, said Entertainmsent Culture For T Since a majority of students as Bob Kellawa; went home or at least, away for Tiffany Richard our "extensive holidays" last as Oscar Nelso w e e k to culturally depraved Lindberg as Dii areas such as D) e I p h i p o i i s, ap)pear. Poughkeepsie, or Union, S. C., "Mary, Mary' many USC students must be and witty examil practically starving from the riage headed fo lack of enlightening entertain- provides an eni ment. funny lines and Tonight Town Theatre opens The play wi its second production of the sea- Saturday, Dec.: son with Jean Kerr's delightful ception of Sund comedly, "Mary, Mary." Many will nights. Tickets remember Debbie Reynolds and adults and $1.50 Barry Nelson in the movie ver- * sion of the play, one of the The Student greatest s u c c e s s e s of recent sent the movie, years. Top" starring S However, in the C o I u m b i a Laurence H arve presentation, dIire!cted by Paul Angel in the Rut Kaufman, Jeanette Kaufman as torium, Tuesday, Mary MeKellaway, Al McNeety the story of a coIf& SOUTH CAROINA ret editor The Gemecesk is psbishe by and for t. otudet Of 1he 'ow except on hWlidays and during examinations. p Service, Inc. The publication is e member of the Asseaed Col ,tional College Prese Service, and the Intercollegiate Proe. SVbecriP )ESSIE NElL1E MERRYMAN I-CMhw Baee Manager Feature Editors ..................................BETHr BROWN. LEWIS LEVY Csmpus e dikw .......... ......................... ...... ..... KIT SOSSAMON Exchenge Editor ............... . SUSAN KNIGHT Chief Photographer ..................JOHN ROCKHOLZ Editorial Cartoonist .................................... ... .RICK AMME Monur, Muck Lundy, Pot Dillinphom, Anne Simms Dian Wilson, :nut ichardson, Terry Price, Randy Loney, Merle Gieb, Jay Jones, :,netos, Patty Oliver, Sandy Huggins, Richard Morrell, Mimi Wilkinson, oula McKittrick, Carol. Gaulin, Ross Henderson, Brenda Corn, Tommy toonisto: John McCravy, Dave Lewis, B. B. Som. Stand Now read and box lunches that could feed an army. Maybe the student section seemed adequate up to the Clemson game deluge, but the maniacle race for the first seats was growing more absurd every home game. We're comforted that the stadium seating is being given "intensive and imaginitive study"; if the student section isn't enlarged we'll be camping out overnight at Carolina Stadium the way crowds do before the Rose Bowl Parade. Parking lot attendants will go crazy. In the meantime we can transfer our grievances to the Field House for one more cozy basketball season. znent Proposed they are inconsistant. Students' capability to govern themselves has shown itself in the fair success of Pres ton Dorm's government, and in their effec tive policing of the campus before the Clem son game. Also, according to Dean Witten, the number of cases brought before judiciary committees has significantly not increased yearly in proportion to the student body. We are confident that 18-22-year-old col lege women have the capacity to set their own standards and behave responsibly; it's good to see Women's Standards take the in itiative to provide girls here the opportunity to prove their dormant capabilities. The proposed A.W.S. affiliation was an nounced Monday night at short hall meet ings, (luring which girls were also reminded to wear scarves over hair rollers in the can teen, answer the phones within 12 rings, and not leave shampoo bottles in the windows. hring Fron... 38 beds are adequate. He did, however, cite a pressing need for more examining and treatment rooms, and more office space. The problem is the infirmary, like every other organization on campus, is suffering growing pains. Dr. McNulty is in no dif ferent position from the English, journal ism and law school deans who feel the needs of their departments and must wait their turn for them to be filled. Administrative Dean Brunton said the im provements made this summer are meant to see us only through the next several years. Students will then have to be assessed an other building fee again as we were this year for Russell House. Meanwhile the infirmary's two doctors and seven nurses are equipped for every thing but surgery, have a hot line to the specialista downtown, and a psychiatrist available one afternoon per week. It's pretty juvenile to think of boycotting the infirmary's service. They're doing the best they can with what they've got. And what they've got includes $6.50 apiece pre paid from each of us. he Depraved H. EUGENE WILLARD r', Eve Price as young man (Harvey) who sacri s, Gren Seibels fices the love of a woman (Miss n, andl Stephan Signoret) he really wants for a k Winston will step up on the ladder of suc cess. "This film Sets the trend offers a warm for the English version of Italian iation of a mar- neo-realism." the rocks and The movie will be shown at 3, diess array of 6, and 8:30 p.m. situations. * * * I1 run through The Columbia Choral Society LI, with the ex- will present Handel's "The Mes ay and Monday siah" at Dreher High School are $2.50 for Auditorium Sunday night, Dec. 5, for students. at 8 o'clock. In keeping with the * Christmas t h e m e, thea' musical Union will pre- presentation will be directed by "Room at the Mr. Guthrie Darr with the aide, ~imone Signoret, in part, of the Columbia Festival y, and Heather Orchestra. sell House Audi- Featured in the program will Dec. 7. This is be Prof. Hargrove of the USC 5VC Good How Cc Withoi CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE (Ohio)-State auditors recently plowed through the financial records of four recent years at Central State College and con cluded, "It became clearly evi dent that the administrative per sonnel had not assumed the fiscal responsibilities inherent in their positions or commensurate with their authority." The conclusion s e e in e d an understatement, considering that the auditors discovered, among other things, that: 1. College officials forgot to bill the F e d e r a G Government $159,671 for training and feed SuggestWi Bewar SEAT SUGGESIONS To the Editor: Financially, this Uiversity muust he des perate. D)aily the student.' pursue their educational Jimblitions4 in unhelievably rc e t r i e Ie d and crowded cir-umstances, condcitions which must umake it obvious4 to e~veryone c'onnl4(etd with this in stitution that the University's ad minisration is workin,g with a critical shortage of funds. At the Carol ina-Clemson game the desperate need1 for stronger economic aid must have been brought home te the many, many peop)le who had bought tickets to the game. Having paid their money for tickets, spectators ar rivedl at the game naturally ex pecting a seat, a seat they had paid for, a seat some one else had paid for. Thus, the specta tors arriving near game time witnessed not the p r e' - g a nm e warm-up but the USC st udents sitting where they, the ticket holders, logically expected to sit. A t that precise m o m e n t the whole problem of lack of funds should have been overbearingly evident. lHELLIGERENTr DiSMAY Thie indignamtion of st uden'ts anid t icket-hearers ali ke was obviouss and so ind4ignmant were muanyi that what should have been. the nmost pleasanut anud exciting afternonm of the foot hail season tuned into a scene of helligere'nt dismay. It is hardly necessary to out line the expenses one must pay for such a week-end as last Sat urday. It should be noted, how ever, that students as well as ticket-bearers had to pay ex penses. The scene on the sunny side of the stadium was obviously one of the most inequitable situa tions students and otherwise could have imagined. Who, then, was to blame? The JUniversity students who came to cheer and witness their team in action? The ticket-bearers who paid their money for seats and many of whom probably had to drive a great distance to see a football game? Or, should the University's administration bear P'C CO{ HAMPS C CMP Dt Luck olleges Go at Really ' ing some Peace Corps workers in the summer of 194. 2. Uncollected s t u d e n t fees total $562,000, with some dating back to 1931. 3. Faculty and staff members owe $46,000 for banquets and parties at the student union. (It is unknown how long it took the faculty to run up a $46,000 tab for parties.) .1. Gasoline has been dispensed from college pumps tinder a self service "honor system." (Amount unknown.) 5. The health center has stocked a supply of 48,000 bar biturate tablets for a student population of 2,712. etteri o. ons Ma de j p Of Ifearra debacle which happened off the playing field? The blame flls on eve'ryonei of us, who allow, year after year, the situation3 to worsen whereby the U niversity admziisitratioi n m u t seek. new anid no0w perhaps callours meithods~ to mnee finanucial demand,' lrouglht on b)y an nuneededl and4 unnecessary dearth of funds. How can the s itu ati on be eased? Measures taken by other states equally as poor financially as our state render us some ideas as guidelines. Deficit financing for education, not glittering state office buildings is one approach. The rewards and benefits this state could gain by going far into dlebt enormously outweigh the temporary sacrifices. Tax a tion on such items as cigarettes and soft dlrinks have p)rovided other states with funds which have produced whole new cam puses. And to stretch the p)oint, such sins as I e g a I i z e d gambling whereby all reve'nue received by the state wouldl be turnedl over to the state's educational system in toto. One horserace at one race track wouldl providle any state institution of higher learning with sufficient funds to create one new de('p ar tm en t. Far fetched? Hardly. It's all been done and is being (lone in many states who lack funds as we most certainly do. If our sztte legislature could IN' conv1inIced t h, a t thle econom)Ific pamralysii now inflicted on every state' edlucaition,al unit whether o.f higher, secondari or elemnentari learnming is an ouitlanidish waste and .'inanuiderinig of vital talenmt, thaen uand l mly then, could this state expect trute and rapid pirogress. What's more, this University would not be forced to resort to me'thods(1 which, on t he surface, as at the game Saturday, ap pear to be fleecing the students. RICHJARD) SULI,IVAN 0 0 0 I)ear Mliss toennRle: It is an indignant injustice when the studAnnia of a finivar Exchangi The Brackety-Ack of Roanoke ,ollege suggests there are two chools of thought on campus oday - the "alcoholists" and he "culturists." The editorial stated that "the ilcoholists" are concerned with he drinking directive. They are nterested in little or nothing lse. If they can't go someplace kild drink there, they don't go. knd if something costs money, >ther than liquor, they can't af ord it. The "culturists" are those stu lents who sit back and scream ibout not having any cultural 'vents on campus. No alcohol md no culture . . . how much ,orse off could one be? In a meeting with the deans, it ovas suggested that the students do i btud of the driiking probleni, -mniparing it with sintiliar prob ems on other campuses. The "cul urists" who are always coiplaini ng about lack of culture on the -anpus, were reminded that wh1en1 here was sosethiig preented for heml, they usually donl't attend IVway. The solution: the "alcoholists" and "culturists" should hand to Broke rrying The auditors also reported, with dismay, that a state examiner sent to the college in 1957 had wound up on the college payroll as a tennis coach. le received $1,500 plus $636 in expenses. The University has a policy like many other schools of letting students living in that state to et a reduction in tuition. It was discovered by the auditors that several out-of-state students at tended the school free of charge. There was some consolation in the auditors' report, however. Their report "did not disclose any instances of theft or wanton misconduct that would require rriminal action." ~7te 611or ror Footba au nging Y1o4 sity are unable to find seats at the most im po rt an t football game of the year. I suggest that at further Caro lina-Clemson games the student section he e'nlargedl to accom modlate the most important peo pIe, without whom there could be no institution. RICHARD) NELJSON 0 0 0 IDEAS REQUFSI1lm To The Cam,ecock Staff: On behalf of Chris Edwards, editor, and the 1966 Garnet and Iflack staff, I would like to thank you for your help in making the "Miss Garnet and Black" contest a success. If you have any suggestions which you feel will benefit the planning of ne'xt year's contest, please send the ideas to me c/o the Garnet and IJlack. Most sincere'ly, KATHY GEHMAN Managing Editor * 0 0 lIED (ATASTRIOPIE To the bEditor )ear Miss Roessie: TIhis isE to infornm you of ain in. famnous cr1imei that lias beein com-. msittedl under our very noases ini South Tower. An inmate liss dasred (oh, the audaceity ! ) to mnove her bed frosu itsi original position ! Can you imuaginse? Breakiung a rule she did not e-vesn know existed. Nor dloes it exist - at least in written The beds in the corner rooms in the Tower project into the center of the room. This girl has movedl one of them to form a 90 degree aingle to the other. This arrangement cre'ates more space, makes the r(om look bigger, and eliminates the annoyance of run ning into a bed e'very time you open the door of the~ room. Everyone' who has' entere'd the room hass commented on how ef fective this design is. and ho(w nice it makes the whole place ippeiar. Everyone has remarked on the originality. No one, at any time, seemed( aware of the. crime that was so cunningly carriedi oust withoust anyone's knnwledg. D Corner gether and attempt to work from both ends, hopefully arriving in the middle. The result: an intel lectual drunk. * * . From The Mississippian: "It's a fact that college stu dents worry a lot, and the prob lem is that they too often worry about the wrong things. Most of them get all bent out of 'hape over things such as grades, money, clothes and dates, not necessarily in that order. But all these problems can he helped with a little effort on the part of the student, so there's no real need to worry about them. Of course, there are many things which do give legitimate cause for worry, and these are the problems we cannot solve so easily as those above. Just so you don't go around sweating over the wrong things, here is a list of real problems. Yon need to worry if your girl accidentally calL you by your best friend's name . . . if you lost both the weighdifting contest and the toothpaste test . . . If you diAcover that one side of your face is larger than the other . . . if your seventh grade brother asks you to help him with his math, and you can't. If, on the day before gradua tion you find out that you need one semester of ROTC . . . if you lend a friend your draft card to take to Memphis, and he burns it . . . if, after a semester break in Mexico, your mother finds all those post cards in your drawer . . . if you thought the test was NEXT Tuesday." The Daily Tar Ifeel's award for "driver of the week" goes to a Wood River, Ill., girl who, desiring to listen to the car radio, turned tite ignition. She turned it the wrong way, the motor started and the ar ran through two yards and slammed into a porch. She said she tried to put the brake on, but it turned out that she had her foot o4 the accelerator. Portland State College will soon have a group of official school greeters for visitors, re ceptions, and other official school functions. The group has been (ubbed the "Peach Corps." 1 Seats: wr Reds Hut the criminal was not to 4i%cape) N) easily. Enter the house mothe11r, Roomfl lIspectioni slip inl hand, to) inform our miscreant that she must Return HEer Bed To Its Original Position because It Ia Against 'The Rules! What Rule? It does not say anywhere in the Caro ina CEwd Code or the Carolina Conmuity: do not move the furniture within your room upon pain of dleath! If one good reason could be given for returning the bed to its former resting place, I feel sure that it would be done immedi ately. However, to simply say, "It's against the Rules" is comn piarable only to Mother telling .Jr. "Don't" and upon being asked "Why" replying "Because." N(YI COMPLAININ(. Please don't think I anm com plaining ab)out all D)orm Rules. On the contrary. Some of these I recognize as being put in only" for our own protection, but some of them strike me as being so trivial as to be beneath our recognition. Our parents trust us~ enough to send( us off to school on our own -- those par ents who dlon't trtust their chil dre'n should keep them at home until such time as they feel their off-spring are capable of per forming such tasks as keeping their room fairly neat and study ing without being const,antly sur veyedl. I do not think I am making significance out of triviality. It's tihe principle of tile thing. That a girl cannot even move a bed in her own room is to me Inconceivable. 1 do4 not ask that all Dorm Rules Iw done sway with, but only that someonte takes a good hard look alt how ridiculous some of them are. I would also like someone to ask that a housemother's author ity be deliniated. I mean, re stricting a girl for brushing her teeth too loud or singing In the shower during closed study halls is a bit Too Much. It has hap penedl. Ask some of these poor freshmen. Ask that poor girl who Has To Move Her Bed Back. IANR FRANK,IN