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F TROMP gg RS The TERPS The CAVALIERS UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROiANA VOL LVIs NO. 16 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 25, 1966 Class Cuts Rules Study Progresses Two Student Senate-passed bills concerning attendence regulations are currently receiving action. The first, passed Nov. 17 re quested that all professors obey the University rule allowing un limited cuts for students who are academically eligible. According to Student Body President Jim Graves, Dean Patterson will be asked to write letters to all pro fessors at the University request ing them to honor the rule. The second bill, which called for unlimited cuts for all uppercla4smen, was still under study by the Student Faculty Relations Committee. How ever, Graves said that the committee seems to agree that a system of un limited cuts with no excused absences would be feasible. After two weeks of questioning the location of bills passed, this week the Senate received reports from Dean Witten and Graves on the status of several bills. Vice- President Thorne Compton read a report from Dean Witten concerning the present status of various measures passed by the Senate. One important bill upon which action has been completed involved a modification of curfew. Although policy will be determined on an event-by-event basis, gen erally the curfew will be extended 30 minutes following University wide functions. Also listed as still pending was a bill calling for an investigation into meating at Carolina Stadinm. Dean Witten stated that the bill called for in investigation by thte Student Senate tnd since he had received no report from such an investigation t h a I action lay with the Senate. )ean Witten stated that the bill passed last week concerning the compulsory board plan had been referred to the Dean of Adminis tra')n and would be fiven ap propriate study. After reading the report, Compton expressed thanks to Dean Witten for he14. infowmation. INSIDE Editorials 8 Features 6 4 General News 2 & 3 Gravesyart8 Locker Talk 7 Placement Interviews 2 Society 4 & 5 Sports 7 Sorority Sc SFor Monda The annual sorority Song Fest wvill be held Monday, Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m. at Drayton Hall. The program is sponsored by Alpha Order, senior women's hon orary which will tap new members wvhile the judges are conferring. Junior women with high qualifica tions of scholarship, leadership and service are eligible. Joan Bennett, president of Alpha Order, will be mistress of cere mtonies. The order of presenbation will be: Alpha Delta Pi, led by Nancy WVyman: "PI'l Never Pass This WVay Again" and 'Bye, Bye Blues." D)elta Zeta, led by Mimi Wilkin Son: "Give Me Your Poor, Your 'Tired" and "I've Got Plenty of SNothin'." Kappa Delta, led by Jackie flicks: "Try To Remember" and "Chim Chim Cherree." Pi Beta Phi, led by Stephanie Adair: "1- Enjoy Being a Girl" aend "Where or When." Zeta Tau Alpha, led by Lynne Robison: "The Sweetheart Tree" andl "F'eed The Birds." Ohi Ome'ga, led by Lynne Cor bett;, "The Water is Wide" and "It Might as Well Be Spg.." MMMSM PROFESSOF Final Totals Of S See Substantial C Enrollment for the Spring se mester, although down 2.7 per cent over last fall is 19.5 per cent higher than Spring of 1965. The total USC enrollment, in cluding the seven regional cam puses is 10,215 or 97.3 per cent of the Fall total. Main campus day students num Air Force Unit Lists Officers At Annual Ball A i r F o r c e Cadet Wing Com mander for 1966-67 is David Haig ler of Columbia. Haigler will head a cadet staff who serve as department heads and coordinate the work of various units in the Air Force program. The Wing Commander position carries the rank of full cadet Colonel. Steve O'Donnell of Bloomfield, N. J., will command the honorary Arnold Air Society. Angel Flight, Arnold Air So ciety's coed auxiliary, will be di rected by Sharon Smith of Colum bia. Announcement of the selections was made by Col. Cornelius M. Smith, head of the department of aerospace studies, during the an nual Air Force military ball at the Fort Jackson Officers' Club. The banquet-dance featured entertain ment by the Burrell Bates Band. ~ngfest Set y Evening Delta Delta Delt.a, led by Holly Lumpkin: "1 Never Will Marry" and "Big Bad Wolf." Admission is 50 cents for stu dents, $1 for adlults. Tri-Delt will host a campus wide drop-in immediately follow ing Songfest in the Delta Delta Delta sorority room. Defense Nearly 600 University at may well find themselves y~ loans for next year, accord one administration official, It is feared that a gap b< the termination of one F loan program and the beginr another will leave many st without economic aid. Funds for the National D Loans and the Health Prof< (Nursing) Loan Program hi been i celuded in the Budg< hefre aongrraa. Instad. tI t STEPHAN pring Enrollment ;rowth Over '65 hered 8,382 in September and now total 8,156. Although there were 950 more day students on the main campus last fall than a year earlier, 104 fewer students dropped out for any reason during or at the end of the semester. Dropouts - departures by stu dents' choice - hetween semesters this year declined by 170 in con parison with a year ago. Also at the end of the 1965 Fall semester, fewer freshmen were suspended for academic deficien cies than in any previous term for which the University has complete records - 132, or six per cent. The percentage was 7.1 in 1963 and 6.1 per cent a year ago. USC officials consider the Uni versity's retention power to be about four percentage points bet ter than last year's, thus indicat ing a sharp gain in Carolina's ability to hold students. Anong the colleges and schools of the University which registered en11rllment gains this spring over the Fall semester, the College of Busi ness Administration had the largest - 107 student for a new total of 2,009. Enrollment in the seven regional USC campuses declined slightly a loss of 49 students for a spring total of 1,280. Associate degree programs in secretarial and commercial science and nursing gained three students, bringing their total to 400. IILUE KEY members hold a ri ration for the March contest. Tr< uning sorority, fraterniity, amid lidu overall trop.hy. Members at this r Kilgo, Tom (:othrana, 'F4wde (Aim and Stan Applehaum. 575 i Loans udents tional D)efense Educ rithiout vidles for interest-fr ing to to college students. 'The latter program etween not be effective in 'ederal for at least another 1 ing of the D)efense and Num udents .granms -terminating thi L'niverIty's 575 studi efense lng aid from these 'ssions find themiselv.es short ve not To prevent this e: ~t now funds for next year mc Na- Association oa tuci Job Dept. Head To Retire By JANEAN MANN Managing Editor Professor R e n e M. Stephan, Head of the Department of For eign Languages at Carolina since 1957 will retire from this position following the end of Spring semester. Replacing Stephan as the de partment head will be Prof. David G. Speer, Chairman for French and Italian at Purdue University. Recognized by many students and professors alike as the man with the silver-gray '41 Packard, Prof. Stephan has taught at the University since 1923. Although he will no longer serve as head of the department Stephan said that he would remain at USC and would "be available for advice," which, he added, "I give freely." Unknown to many of Stephan's acquaintances, the professor was a fencing coach here for a short time. "We even won the championship one year," Stephan recalled. Accord ing to the professor USC played one team and defeated it. Tat team in turn defeated another fencing team thus g i v i n g Carolina a technical chanpionship. Coming to the United States from France at the age of 18 the professor held various positions before his arrival at Carolina. These included teaching, news commentating, a n d advertising gasoline "when I didn't even know how to drive a car." The Packard convertible which Stephan drives now has become the language professor's trade mark on campus. "That's the only identity I have!" he said. Accord ing to Stephan, however, the trade mark does have its disadvantages. "Of course I can't go spying on my f r i e n d s, because they all recognize the car," he smiled mis chievously. Professor Speer, who confirmed his appointment in a Wednesday night telephone conversation with the Gamecock, has an M.A. degree from the Jnivemity of (icago and a [Certificate from the Universite de Stra: urg. A definite date for Speer's ar rival at Carolina is currently under discusFion and may be some time in August according to the newly appointed department head. amecock staff photo by Calloway) oek College Bowl session in prepa phics will be awarded to the win apendent group in adkdition to an eactice session from left are Marty pton, Norman Barmett, Bob Steele, SAffected At L May Em tion Act pro. Aid Admini ee bank loans passed a prop ,however, will to continue tI South Carolina grams. ear. Thus with The propos< sing loan pro- will fill the e is t'emester the (dents in the nts no0W receiv- will not sui progams a~ During the e :pected loss of Carolina stu the- iouthern more than $4 ent Financial the two prog Cha PROFESSOR HALiEY Four Groups Via Computo Computer registration for at least four University departments is scheduled for Fall 1966. Those departments which, ac cording to Dean of the University William Patterson, will u t i I i z e computers are the College of En gineering, the School of Journal Deans Release Fall Averages Zeta Tau Alpha led all Greeks on campus in fall semester scholas tic averages. Ten fraternities, led by Pi Kappa Phi, topped the all-men's schola-ic averages. Chi P-i and Pi Kappa Alpha followed close behind. Cumulative GPR's were ranked by the offices of the dlean of men and the dean of women as follows: WOMEN NAME GPR Zeta Tau Alpha 2 7M. Alpha Delta PI g7*.C Pi ieta Phi . 2 7 iC ALL SORORITY - 2 6'. Kappa ilt-Ila 2 - Delta Delta Ielta 2 ('hi Omega 2 Delta Zeta 2 A1.l WA)MIEN 2 1. NON - OOiTY . 1 MEN NAME GPR'l Pt Kappa Phi 22 Chii Psi 2 1 "I P'i Kappa Alpha 2 111 Phi Epilont.I P' 2 10' Alpha Taui Omega 2 1V. Lambeia (hi Alipha 21's Sigmia Alpha Episilon 2 'i ALL FRtATERINiTY 2 02, Kappa A lpha 2 : Sigma Nu 2 0 1 Sigmai P'hi Epion I '. A LL M EN . 1 970 Kappa Sigma I 0 NON-FRIATERINiIT 1 9o Phi Kappa Sigma I Phi Delta Thetia I 'ii. Sigma (thi I '.e 'SC strlators last week The osal urging Congress provic ie Defense Loan pro- fju No o ad bank loan program are t< 7onomic needs of stu- these indefinite future, but throul fice for next year. does : Acc< irrent acadlemic year dents have received to th< 15,000 in loans from loan ram . ...... ig es Upper-Eche) Following Ha lB SIG HUIT' Editor-in4hief Carolina's administrative struc ture has experienced a major change, it was announced this week. The shuffle involved the trans fer of Prof. Ashley Halsey, Jr., from Assistant to the President to a new position as Director of Uni versity Publications with "status equivalent to that of an academic dean." In his new position, Halsey, author and former Saturday Evec ning Post editor, will direct the To Register rs Next Fall ism, the S c h o o l of Pharmacy, and the College of Education. At the present time it is uncer tain whether the law school and the nursing school will participate in this type of registration. According to Dean Patterson the Colleges of Arts and Science and of Business Administration will not be registered by computers at this time. Course numbers will he altered to aid computer registration, but not until next year. Those courses beginning with 100 will be desig nat,ed as freshman courses,. 200 as sophomore, and so on. Primary purpose of the new system, previously used for only freshman citsses, would be elimi nation of the confusion of long lines at cliss enrollment time. Students may not have a choice of professors or class times under the computer program. USC has recoived a National Science Foundation grant of $5,. 100 to support an Undergraduatc Research Participation Progran for s t u d e n t s in physics anc iastronomy. For 10 weeks this summer, stu d (ents will be provided a stipend of $0a week. * e . Former l'niver,ity Pres,ident Dr. IRobert L. Sumw,alt will attend his firs,t meeting as a member of the 1. S. Post Office Depsartment Ad 'is,r' Roard on March 2-3. D)r. SuimnwaIt's~ appointmienit was confirmied M O n dNa by the U'. S. Se-nate. l)ean of Men L. Eugene Coopei has. beenl asked to moderate anc take part in two-panel discussions for G;reetk W~eek at Auburn U.niver sity April 14-15. amester new hank loan plan will le interest-free loans for any it in good standing whose Sincome is under $15,000. ther economic requirements > he considered in granting loans. All such loans go ha hank; however, the bank tot have to grant the loan. irdiing to a member of the UJSC intrationt Large scale opposition terminationm of the D)efense project could extend the pro to fll e .xp..d ..p. Told on Shift Seen Isey 's Shuffle University Press and all general USC vublications preparation in cluding alumni publications, cata logues and brochures. No successor to Halse as Assistant I to the President has bkisan appoiited. However, Pres. Thomas F. Jones was quoted as say%ing that the post may he filled at a later date. The action, approved in Decem ber by the University Hoard of Trustees, has brought rumors of further high-level shifts. The top echelon change follows the creation of two high-level posts as associate deans under the office of the Dean of the University, Dr. W. H. Patterson. Assoc. Dean F. P. Pike was assigned to research financing and Assoc. Dean George Curry has charge of learning re sources, including libraries and campus ETV. In regard to a successor to Hal sey The Gaicrock learned t h i s week that among those considered for the post are one of the asso ciate deans and also a former Uni versity professor who is a close, personal friend of President Jones and who is now an administrative assistant to the president of a Midwestern University. It has also been learned that a further administration reorganization might result in the appointment of Dean Pattersotn as Executive vice president of the University, a new position of authority. Halsey, a native of Charleston and graduate of the USC School of Journalism, is a former South Carolina newspaperman. lie served lon the staff of the Saturday Eve ning 'ost for over 17 years ending with his retirement in 1963. He became professor in the School of Journalism, where he teaches magazine writing, and Assistant to the President in the ifall of 1963. nBrief lie will also speak at the Uni versity of Tennessee April 1 on "B u i I d i n g and Expanding the (;reek Letter System." USC Januar, graduate A. Wavne Witt received the award of "Out standing %tudent Engineer of the Year" in ceremonies Wednesday, The award was presented by the Columbia Chapter of the South Caro lina Society of Profesional Engi neers which is meeting during this 'National Engineeru Week. New German Policy" will he ~the topic discussed at the Inter national Relations C'lub meeting on Tuesday at 5 p.m. in Room 205, Russell H ou se. iThe Cruibe will hold a general taff meeting in Room 205, Russell Honuse- at 81 p.m. Monday. All in. terested persons are invited to attend. Lou Holtz, first assistant foot ball coach at the University of Connecticut, said Monday he has accepted a jch as defensive coach at Carolina. Holtz has hen at U. Conau. since January, 1964. Hie was a backfield coach at William and Mary for t.hree seasons before that. Dr. Warren K. G;ieee of the UJnl versity has been appointed one of four membew-aa-large of the U. S. Olympic Committee on Development. Dr. Giese, head o fthe USC De par4hsent of Physical Education, will attend the National Conference on OlympIc Developme-nt May 18-21 In Washington, D. C., when policies and progrmis foe upgrading O ly m p i e talent in the United States will be dete=-mssed.