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

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...» 4 AFTER WALKING THROUGH the doors of th« Unrversity Conference Center. Missy Bitter is greeted by her new Phi Mu sisters. Pam Abikj. Alisha Hyatt and Kendra Ounlap. The soronties waited for their new sisters outside while rushees received their bids. PtKtto Amy Roh AFTER A GAME of football. Ryan Dold. Sigma Phi Epsilon rush chair, talks with rushees Nick Wills. Brock Thomas. Jamie Hall and Darrin Osborn about the day ' s events. Another rush event was a fraternity barbecue where members and rushees could get to know each other better. Photo by Jason Myers DELTA SIGMA PHI member Spurgeon Williams tnes his hand at putting at a rush week function. The rushees walked from room to room playing miniature golf. Photo by Jason Myers y f »»rfj» .1 Rush 01

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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

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MEMBERS OF THE Second City discuss how they got their start in comedy and their future plans. The Second City had theatres in Chicago, Detroit and Toronto. Photo by Amy Roh GREG MILLS LISTENS to his fellow actors ' responses during a press conference following their performance. Members of The Second City rewarded the audience with an encore performance. Photo by Sarah Phipps AFTER THE SHOW, Martin Garcia jokes with his Second City castmates. The comedy troupe had rehearsed skits as well as improvisational skits based on audience input. Photo by Amy Roh 020 ENTCRTAINMKNT