University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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A cross is burned over the issue of segregation. It was a mercy killing Leo had cancer. The Russians invaded the Florida Union to play chess. The result a hoax. 11

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A crowd of voters and vote getters gathers in front of the gym on election day. The new President of the Student Body, Fletcher Flemming, gets a hand from students as his victory is announced. In contrast to the picture above, the gym seems utterly deserted after the election. 10 Carrying the banner of a polyglot alliance of former friends and enemies, Fletcher Flemming swept himself and the entire University Party to an overwhelming victory in the campus Spring elections. Supposedly drawing his support from a handful of fraternities and independent groups with nothing in common save a desire to win, Fletcher dealt the incumbent Florida Party the most crushing blow ever felt by a campus political faction. In doing so he not only earned the presidency of the Student Body, but carried almost the entire University Party slate to victory. For the Quiet Man from Laurel Hill, this was a rags to riches parable in politics. From an unsuccessful candidate for an Honor Court position, he suddenly catapulted to the number one spot in Student Government. Political experts for weeks afterwards were puzzling over the reason for the great influx of voters at the polls and the parallel reason for such an outstanding and complete victory. Both friends and foes were amazed at the tremendous drawing power of one man on the ticket. For all their polls and predictions, broadcasts and barnstorming, ideas and issues, they may well have overlooked the quiet, unassuming, competent manner of Fletcher Flemming and (as a result) the President of the Student Body.

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Sigma Chi Derby Weekend Mud in your eye dirt in your face. Anyway, it ' s a mess. Volumes have been written concerning the eccentricities of the American female. Why does she do this? Why does she do that? No one knows. Yet once a year, a partial answer reveals itself. Why does a coed refuse a dinner date with her favorite beau ? Why does a sorority decline an invitation to play hostess for your Spring Rush Weekend? Why does the entire Panhelle nic population suddenly go com- pletely berserk? The answer is obvious . . . it ' s Derby Time. It ' s Sigma Chi Derby Weekend. The high- light of the sorority season. No formals. No banquets. No flowers. Just potato sacks, tug- o-war, and pies (both mud and custard ). But the girls love it! For them it ' s the country fair, a three-ring circus, and the entire intra- mural season rolled into one big day. And when it ' s all over, one of them will be Derby Queen (and get a trophy); and several of them will have won individual events (and also get tro- phies). Then they stop throwing mud, stop tugging on ropes, stop racing down the field in potato sacks, and go back to Rush Weekends, formals and dinner dates. But next year the same thing will happen again, so get used to the cycle as long as there ' s a Sigma Chi Derby. This girl got a free sample of shaving cream, but who wanted it ?