South Dakota State College - Jack Rabbit Yearbook (Brookings, SD)

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SooAtet Sum ' i H iftil4 H h ha While Hoboistic enthusiasm was build- ing up at State, steps were taken to interest the surrounding territory in Hobo Day. A group of shabby, disre- putable looking young men — (at least I thought they were, but it was rather hard to tell behind all that growth of beard), hauled out the Bummobile, all the old clothes they could affix to them- selves, and proceeded to Minnesota and all points celestial. New Ulm and Tracy, Minn., and Es- telline,Lake Preston, Huron and Madison, S. Dak., were visited on their summer trips. While in Estelline. the old Bum- mobile forgot its age and dignity for a few frantic moments and entered a stock car race, but the Collegian reports that it came through in the official time of The Stote College Hobo bond provides dinner music at a lunch counter during the )954 Stote Foir ot Huron. Proprretors dished up free lunch in return for the con- cert. one hour, fifty-five minutes. After recovering from this little ex- pedition, it was brought out again to make the trip to Ames, Iowa, for the Iowa State-South Dakota State football game. It was escorted by a grizzly look- ing crew of booster bums, devoted to bringing the Hobo Day spirit around, and giving the country a preview of State ' s colorful homecoming. The rain that the fellows encountered on their first couple of stops did not dampen the spirits of the bums, a la State style, as they made with the music, parades, and enthusiasm. hOBO DA)f Ai 25

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■? ' ? ♦« -««%■ Um—Zi Hend 9 ' i otte Let it be known that the Student Association of SDSC hereby empowers Blue Key .... with the authority to enforce the traditional shaving ban on all men students. And with these words, horror mounted in the hearts of all hearers and readers, as the 1954 shaving ban and initiation rules went into effect. In a sad, solemn ceremony the razor, symbol of a past civilization at State College, was laid dutifully, but dolefully, to rest by black-robed Blue Key mem- bers, during half-time of the State-Man- kato Teachers football game. With sad if A. tt «v r V f dignity and honor, the beloved relic of days when a moustache was exclusive, was borne to its final resting place. Mourning Stakota Club members fol- lowed the procession. And things got rough all over. Not only did the men get the word from Blue Key officials, but all fresh- men felt the sting of the initiation rules. Green beanies became the order of the day, and the order of the bookstore, as all freshmen were required to appear be- decked in these loathsome lids. Frosh women resembled the girls they used to be, without make-up, and their hair in pig-tails. Quite a trick, it might be added, to get pig-tails in a poodle hair cut that are obvious enough to satisfy the administrators of justice — the Blue Key. The Stakoto Club looks on in bleory-eyed agony while Steever ond Anderson put the finishing touches on the razor burial. Leon Pfotenhauer puffs his cigar with treocherous unconcern.

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justice uptem In a democracy such as found at State, it is sometimes necessary to enforce cer- tain laws for the good of all concerned — like green beanies, and beards, for in- stance. And when there is a law, there are offenders — such as the victims of Blue Key ' s untiring search for the erring. The weed of crime bears bitter fruit, but it doesn ' t seem to bother this errant frosh. Notice she keeps Q tight grip on her meol ticket, so she evidently expects to get out before dinnertime. Whenever one of the ever watchful members of the crusade for justice would spot a student suspected of some heinous crime, be it a trace of make-up or suspicion of making with the razor, he would haul the villain into court. Judicial procedure consisted of bring- ing the defendant before the stand to face the jury, the most honest and un- biased young men on the campus, being members of Blue Key. The jury would hear the case and con- vene to practice so that they could shout guilty with just the right feeling. And then came the punishment. Several of the students met with the fate of the stocks or the jail, which made its first appearance on the campus this year. Other sentences meted out to the erring were of the fertilizer collection variety or getting only one-half of the face shaved. A freshmon violator gets oil lathered up over nothing during Kangoroo Court, while Mike Rodtke looks on glee- fully. The clothesline in the bockground was in keeping with the general sanity of the proceedings