University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Headaches and Heartaches . . . That ' s Rush Week ... But Once It ' s Over Everybody ' s Happy It is so hard to understand why women who are free to do what they wish return for Rush Week. Too much should not be said against them, however, for next year this senior will, no doubt, scrap together her summer earnings and gravitate toward Lawrence at Rush Week time. Her aim might be the innocent one of merely wishing to see all the girls once more, but then again sister or cousin might be hiding under her protective wing. At times like that Rush Week really seems important to a Greek almost as important as when she was a hand-trembling, purse- clutching, glove-fingering rushee. But in a long night meeting, tired, disgusted, sleepy, she finds it so easy to forget the real joys of a sisterhood carefully selected so easy to want nothing but eight hours or a week or a month of sleep. But days later when she finds herself eating, sleeping, and living with a new group of pledges, she forgets the horror of 4 a.m. ses- sions. Then it is that the pin-wearer tells everybody gleefully (and this time means it), We really got ' em this year. We really got ' em.

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20 felt, it was marked by half-sick grins and cheery words, Oh, we ' re getting along fine, to any inquiring outsider. Dramatic, but hardly sincere. No Grecian, especially a Grecian woman, is anxious to admit this point. It is definitely not a sales plug but rather leads up to the third change. Such quaint practices as spiking and hot boxes were perfected to a greater degree this year. In fact, the F.B.I, men have nothing on the K.U. girls when it comes to making the guilty person say the right thing. Immod- erately, the sugar-coated third degree hit an all-time high. Benefits probably accrue from such action since it causes both parties to think fast and furiously for at least fifteen minutes. Ironic indeed are Pan Hell rushing rules which prohibit any kind of pressure being put on a girl. Inadequate, too, was the release list plan. How do we know who we ' ll want to take by the end of the week? is the pin- wearer ' s defense. Leave every one at all ' possible ' on the list. We may get bumped. THE JAYHA.WKER And so they did get bumped, every one of them in varying degrees. Another startling incident occurred which was new to the author. For obvious reasons neither she nor her sorority sisters had perused that well-known but little-read pamphlet, the Rushing Rules. They leisurely prepared for a rushing date an hour later than the correct time. The visitors were therefore greeted by the housemother and houseman. This broke the monotony for the rushees, however, and enabled them to remember the house better. Knowing women, this senior has always con- sidered Rush Week an Eternal Miracle. In her wildest imagination she can hardly imagine thirty or more feminine minds agreeing on one individual of the same sex, let alone fifteen or twenty. Yet she has seen this phenomenon occur for four years and promise to continue for at least another four. The methods and the means are not always so miraculous as the re- sults especially when strong-minded and well- intentioned persons called alums are present. (AH Photos by Maurice Jackson] I lie v All Prepare

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