University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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AV liat ' s AV rong AV ith The Ivappa Oi5ternooa; That poignant question has bothered the loyal support- ers of Kappa Kappa Gamma for some years. We submit that the trouble is largely due to the follow- ing items — -some large and some small — although in general they may be said to carry out the Kappa tonnage tradition. First Dorothy Rose is a shining light though somewhat dimmed by the Sweetheart election. Three years ago, fresh from Wellesley, the tender bud felt the necessity of bursting into full blossom. Which she did by joining every organization that asked her, and by assuming that sweet but serious air so necessary for female executives. But nobody gathered the bud or the full blown Rose and its sweetness is being rapidly wasted on the desert air (or is it hot air such as Bubba Harkrider). Rachel (the Horse) Dougherty, it is said never smiles because she is afraid she might freeze that way and give somebody the impression that she could be pleasant oc- casionally. Then there is Shiny Baby Griffith but everybody knows about her or has at least heard her. Just one ex- ample of Dorris (you must have both r ' s ) Williams ' repertoire of childish tricks will suffice, though this one back- fired on her: she called Jim (Pinky) McLain and in what she supposed was a disguised voice told him that there was a calf for him at the Express office. He replied that if it looked like Dorris Williams keep it down there, and might we add that if there had of been a calf it probably would have looked like her. Since time immemorial the Kappas have been famous for their big women (and we don ' t mean big on the campus) and though many of the finer and bigger specimens have departed there are several newcomers to carry on high, to- wit: Dorothy Milroy, Eleanor Chance, and Mariana Butz. Then last but no means least, the Kappa House is no longer, if it ever was, inviting because it is constantly in- fested with A. T. O ' s and Dekes. Nell (Malaprop) Colgin ' s remark seems classic. The Pi Phis after their usual fashion of tending to everybody ' s business were discussing the resignation of Lucy Field ' s campaign manager Adoue Parker due to a rift in their relationship. Nell said: I don ' t think it was very demo- cratic of Lucy to break up with Adoue in the middle of the campaign. Little did she realize (but does she ever realize) that many lost votes were regained by that move. The Sigma Nus managed to keep the ugly fact that Fleming Waters was one of the brothers for a year and a half, but the truth is out now. They might have known that a Skeleton in the Closet of the magnitude of Flaming could not be kept a secret for long. Things began to get hot Rush Week when Mary Edson and Margie Bright stomped into Mrs. Goldbeck ' s office to complain about th e Kappas (but who doesn ' t?) and the Thetas (ditto) and their dirty rushing tactics. The Pi Phis seem to think that whenever anyone else does better than they do that there is something dirty about it. Well, it ' s time the rushees were getting better educated. Imagine anyone wanting to pledge Phi Gam in the first place, and then consider the sad case of Al (Pike ' s Peak) Kendall who has hung around school (much to everyone ' s disgust) just to do that. Now he is finally successful (?) and is another wearer of the shining star, and we might say a worthy one. The rumor persists that the A. D. Pis broke Althea Klumpps ' pledge because of Joe Scott, but we discount it — for who could get excited over Joe Scott? You cannot say the Zetas are not trying anyhow; they require their pledges to drink cokes at Mac ' s three times a week. A V lassic ol JVionterre 7 Monterrey! Ah, Monterrey, the hunting ground of false and facetious males from the fojlishly, frolicking circles of the Phi Gap and Sigh intramural clique, was a place of beauty which could not be duplicated in the length and breadth of the land. But that was before the influx of the weaker sistren, the Wearers of the Golden Error. A place to lure some eager lad, who due to his lack of brain power and consistency of allowance had become the owner of a neatly jeweled pin, which to his calloused mind lifted him into a classic set apart. There some damsel The gay revellers shining in front oj old A ncira might surreptitiously and with foul intent lift the afore- said pin from his heaving and adolescent breast and re- turn to the city of Austin to bask in the benign, dubiously approving smiles of their more fortunate sistren who do not long to see the pen-house of the old Hotel Ancira. One trip should hardly be singled out to receive ac- clamation and defamation, but it so happens that upon this particular trip the success of the female Tarzans was unprecedented. So much so, in fact, that their raucous strident cries of triumph could be heard in Austin for weeks. Four girls (count ' em): Harrison, Edson, Jackson, and Hancock returned wearing pins — the first two brazenly and the last two brazierly. And four boys (don ' t count ' em): H. Chilton, Seewald, Kolhausen, and Adair returned. Howie and Ridgeway also ran — too fast for Korth and Miles (the Olive King). The brethren and sistren will retire to the ranks singing He-pinned Me in Monterrey. We are glad to see the Betas make some move even though it merely carries out their usual self-effacing atti- tude. When Frank Ryburn went to the Phi House for his rush date, he announced that the Betas had abolished the paddle. That might have pledged Ryburn but think of its effect on the ordinary freshman. It is all right for the Dekes to go around praising their members, if you go in for that sort of stuff (and we hope you don ' t), but it ' s carrying things a little too far for Joe Sullivan to always be bragging about the athletic ability of his brother Gordon, but then it ' s going too far to allow Joe around anyway. Page 341

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Sissy Alpha Epsilon has definitely decided to become a local group of the Woodmen of the World. The Chapter has declined of late and only has about two hundred and five members within its select walls. Of course this number is absurdly small even for an exclusive club like the Vallee Boys. Under the new plan, pledge buttons will be distributed by the cashier of the Dolphin Grill and along with the button goes a theatre ticket and a half gill of goat ' s milk. It is expected that this system will bring in several more brothers of Murray Butler — Bill Terrell type. Ed Barlow went to see Tarzan, panted and heaved, because he imagined himself in that role. The success of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity in the past rush week is beyond even their comprehension. Their unsuspected good fortune lies in the fact that they realized their subdued and long standing ambition of pledging the most outstanding (?) freshman that San Antonio has produced in many years. Pat Ireland Nixon commented during rush week that he realized that the aforementioned chapter was not up to the high standards which he had set for the fraternity of his choice, but that he felt that he and his brother who is coming to school next year could declare a moftopoly on the future crop of rushees from San Antonio, and thereby a further and much needed improve- ment could be wrought in the present personnel of the chapter. We wish to take this opportunity of congratulat- ing the A. T. O. ' s on pledging a man of this caliber and hope that it won ' t irk to take criticism and help from a freshman; for if his claims are true Nixon will fit the A. T. O. chapter about like Peg Watson ' s clothes would fit Louise Aiken. Munster was finally elected President of the Curtain Club, because, as his supporters said: he would look so darling in the President ' s chair, and further added that Munster had so much pull in Austin that the entire city, as well as the University would be behind the Club ' s every activity next year. Barnet Pshaw, always the big- hearted one, saw that Lee Thomas was given a place on the Executive Board, thinking this would appease his wrath; Thomas withdrew from the meeting, but not be- fore he had told the powers-that-be where they could take themselves and the organization with them. Munster came through with a one-vote lead. Dean Moore has a neat trick of apple-polishing. Being a joiner, he has all his keys loose on his watch chain, and slides the proper one out when he is with that particular group, or would it be particular in that situation? Just to show that fine bond of fraternalism in the Dekes, we might relate the story of Benno Schmidt and Allen Conner. When it was found that they had two quiz papers in the same handwriting, Benno explained that he had told Allen to write one for him just in the spirit of good clean fun, and Allen said that he thought he was to do everything a brother told him to do as a good pledge. This great tie was binding though Allen ' s pledge was still sub-rosa. PAN5IE5 {To he sung to the tune of Violets, with apologies) pansies, pansies, you ' re the fairy-est flower to me. pansies, pansies, emblem of fraternity; with your perfume memories come of college years of girlish fun. fairy-est flower except the son, my pansies. pansies, pansies, you ' re the fairy-est flower to see. pansies, pansies, emblem of effemininity. with your perfume, come to me dreams of deah ol ' vawsity. fairy-est flower on land or sea my pansies. Page 342