Northwest Missouri State University - Tower Yearbook (Maryville, MO)

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w I htfwstudenbi got tired of Maryville and the same I irs. people, parties and the lack of other ' ndjj fen , they could either complain or load up the car. i Rob Wa terfiel d uid Dennis Houik tool any opporttinity available to take a road trip out 3f town. the past, Jones and Waterfield used concerts excuse to take a break from the attractions iry ville offered. Most often, the two packed a car V laryV ' llle hiU of CDs, clothes, beer and friendsand headed to iedt Lawrence, Kan. They saw bands like Tricky, Crystal Method, Tori Amos and others at clubs and bars in Lawrence. One September weekend, Waterfield, Jones and uF dwrided to go to Chicago 10 We Massive Attack play at The VicC 1 U fTI b 1 3 The trio left Maryville Friday afternoon, picked up some more friends in Kansas City and drove to Columbia, Mo., to stay with another grmip of friends. Then they headed4o Chicago on Saturday morning after only a »w hours of sleep. They saw Massi M A Wadc Saturday night and left Chicago Sunday afternoon, only to arrive back in Maryville around 1 a.m. Monday. That nuy have sounded like a lot of driving to some stiulents, but not to Jones and Waterfield. avenpau. . ,. .„,... ll- Ob lously wi- would not spend all that time m the car — 20-24 hours — to spend a few hours in Chicagti if the trip was not fun, Jones said. Waterfield said the many hours spent driving were worth it because of how much fun they had. We had some of our nuttiest times in the car on road trips, Waterfield said. Those 10 hours home from Chicago were pretty crazy — just like all the others. Jones and Waterfield believed more students r)uld have tried to venture out of Maryville to es within driving distance to meet new people whne discovering more culture and excitement. The weekend in Chicago was a nice change, Jones said. They had a different culture there and lots of things fndo. Weekends in Mar ' -ille tended to get mundane ' s Road trips out orMaryville were a great way to Qjpndjwjth friends and get a change of .scenery. Lack offc ariety encourages , I rs Mirhelle Kriinilx-rk ROAD Tmrs 017

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Greeks produce ainore by Jason Hoke natural for the sorority rush to undergo a change. This decision to restructure sorority rush came from the National Panhellenic Council a few years ago. With the no-frills rush, sororities cut their budgets as well as some of the songs, dances, balloons, streamers and all the hoopla of rush. The Panhellenic council thought 1998 would be a good year to start the new rush. We decided that with all the construction on campus and with rooms not avaible in the Union that it would be a good time to implement the no- frills rush, Panhellenic President Jennifer Simler said. It may have seemed that Northwest was behind, but some schools down south still had huge budgets for rush. Our bud- gets were cut from $1,200 or $1,300 to $600. The sororities also included a scholarship, sisterhood and philanthropy day, so rushees f; could get to know the sororities on a personal level. New rush practices aside, fra- ternities and sororities achieved — the thing they strived for each year. They gained new members AS THEY BOWL at Bearcat Lanes, Sean Duvall When the structure of the fra- waits for his ball as Ryan Geiter gets ready for his with whom the actives became next turn . This rush event was one of the activities , , , ., , Delta Sigma Phi held to promote brotherhood. ... j ■ .. „ ternity rush changed, it wasonly p.„, . , „ „ brothers and sisters. With a more structured, formal rush and a cut back on the balloons and streamers, the Northwest Greek system kicked off the fall rush. After the 1998 spring rush, there had been some discussion in the fraternities about changing rush. I spoke to the National Interfratemity Council which was the governing body of all Interfrater- nity Councils across the country, Campus Activites Director Bryan Vanosdale said. They gave me some insight and steered me to a couple of schools that had a comparable Greek system and, especially, fraternity system to what we had here. Fraternity rush became more structured and got away from having an open style. The fraternities also included an aspect that the sororities used in their rush, a rush adviser. This was a person who disassociated themselves from their fraternity and was there to answer questions rush- ees might have had about certain fraternities. Part of fraternity rush in- volved going to the individual fraternity houses and seeing what fraternity life was like. Photo by Jason Myers 018 STUDENT LIFE