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

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Not since the ■ - n ,, i o heinous device as this been brought into use The crowd got a laugh, the hen got a free meol, and just what the victim got we couldn ' t say but he wasn ' t the some for some weeks. Though there was no trumpet to sound. Judgment day came all the same to freshmen or anyone else who violated Blue Key ordinances. When the official Kangaroo Court was called into session, errant freshmen knew their day of reck- oning had come. Blue Key members, robed in stately black, took their places in the jurj ' box to deal harshly with any offenders. Prosecuting attorney Jack Blaess showed no leniency, as he presented each out- rageous case. And since defense attor- ney Bud Phillips could do little to free his clients, he decided he might as well enjoy the proceedings. And proving that justice is always supreme, his honor and the jury convicted all the defendants. This rare shot shows the Blue Key jury in one of its most serious moments The jury was noted for its intellect- ualism, its foimess, ond its perennial lust for smelly cigars. A knock for corvmg paper dolls was also evident among all members

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Chte ' HiH tOillie—The upt ule Along about a week before Hobo Day every year, a familiar figure appears on the scene, signifying that Hobo Day activities have officially begun. Weary Willie, the glorious tramp of State College lineage, ushers in the fes- tivities of Hobo Week. Upon his arrival, things really start happening. Starting on Wednesday evening, stu- dents thronged to the railroad station to greet Willie, the idol of hoboes every- where — i.e. at State College. After Willie had safely arrived on the freight, the group trooped back to the campus in pouring rain to witness a test of supex ' - iority between the freshmen and soph- omores. The two classes matched their muscles in a tug-of-war to determine whether the freshmen would be bound to the initiation rules for the remainder of Hobo Week. If the f rosh were success- ful in outpulling the sophs, they could toss their beanies to the wind, don their make-up and comb their hair, and be normal again. Losing the battle meant sticking with it for the rest of the week. After much geeing and hawing, the sophomores proved determined to keep The frosh-soph tug-of-wor, stoged in a murky drizzle, was greot fun for all involved and a bonanza for the local loundry services. Object was for one teom to pull the other through a large mud puddle. Thanks to the weather, • ■ ' t ' o wos puddle, so the objective wos occomplished among the contestonts and spectators alike. 29