University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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10 T H IC J A Y H A TV K I-I Ii KINTZEL TRIUMPHANT MOMENT H - FOR BOTH SlDES FRESHMAN FRUSTRATION SETS lN 'PEA FUR TWO HUNDRED JUST DON'T DO ANYTHING FISHER No spiking on the day of teas . . Legal spike cards . . . Preferential and pledge dinners combined . . . ln the best Hawkshaw fashion, active members, oiled, and with firearms oiled, advanced cautiously across the new mine field of rush rules laid down by Pan-Hellenic when open season on rushees officially began September 12. Big brothers off to the Seven Seas, more girls than ever enrolled at the University and for rush week. Competing in the race were 286, 30 more than last year. But gone were those infamous times when a pledge class was formed - and unformed - all on the day of teas. Gone also, were the days when Greek women dashed into another sorority house, grabbed a spiked rushee by her well-done locks, and yanked her out the back door to reconsider her pledge. Once a girl said I do, she was rushed to the nearest recruiting station QMrs. Brune's headquartersb, to sign her Jane Henry on the dotted line. For a change, the spike card was the final step. Breaking the spike meant that a rushee could not pledge another sorority for one calendar year-which disproves the theory that it's a woman's right to change her mind. KINTZEL

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18 . - 1 NWO l. , fQ,,ij T aff? ITH the approach of fall, University officials again resigned themselves to the task of organizing a pro- gram for the new fall semester. And as a matter of course, following an age-old tradition at K.U., a date was set for registration for men's rush week. Soon after, a meeting of the Inter-Fraternity Council was called, and the big men of Greek letters got their heads to- gether to formulate a scientific plan of attack Ccapturej. It was soon evident that the number of new men starting school in September was even smaller than the number in the july semester, when no rush week had been necessary because of small enrollment. Strained, attentive ears sagged dejectedly when informed that, because so few men were arriving, it would be necesary to apportion them frac- tionally if every fraternity was to have an equal chance. CThis system would have been suitable, except that it might have led to trouble with anti-vivisectionistsb Since rush week would come in the middle of a semester for those who were attending the summer session, it seemed a bit impractical to ask men who were engrossed in their studies to take time out to organize a formal rush which would be completely superfluous. Navy men, who con- stitute a large percentage of the active fraternity member- ships, could have only Wednesday nights free for rush dates. The week-end before the beginning of orientation week was not practical. The fact that new students would not yet be in town obviously made rushing activties rather difficult at that time. The week-end after new student orientation was also discarded. The council recognized the fact that formal rush week after new men students had been running around on the campus freely for a week would be ironically futile. And so the big men of Greek letters rationalized beauti- THE JAYHAWKER MELVIN KE'1'1'NER EXPLAINS WHY MEN'S RUSH WEEK WASN'T. fully and said that after all it would be better not to have a formal rush week. The council declared an open season on new men students, and adjourned, entrusting the lives of a group of innocent young men to several desperate posses of Roger Hailfellows. Remarkable changes appeared in rushing techniques after this decree by the Council. Petty quarrels and little feuds disappeared entirely. Name-calling and mud-slinging were abandoned. Instead of the old techniques, fraternities declared open war on one another, employing machine guns and flame throwers. Traditional booby traps and hot boxesu passed almost completely out of the picture, also. ln their place came un- restrained kidnapping, effected by means of lassoes wielded from flashy convertibles which crusied the campus and streets of town. No unidentified man with the freshman look was safe anywhere. Inter-fraternity Council men just shut their eyes, covered their ears with their hands, and shuddered. There were several new men students who had read about a rush week registration in the bulletin sent out by the Uni- versity, but who had apparently, in spite of all these large scale operations, not yet been contacted by a fraternity. Inter-Fraternity Council officials quickly prepared to register all such men after the first new student convocation. But to no avail. It had been practically impossible for a new man to get from a train station to the University without being assailed somewhere along the route by omnivorous fra- ternity men. Practically no one was left by convocation time to register at the Inter-Fraternity Councils registration. At last, fortunately, the bloody week drew to a close. Only a few exceptionally hearty men were left on the cam- pus without some sort of fraternity affiliation.