University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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Sharon and Earl enjoy a typical Ole Miss pastime, a study date.

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M-I-C---See you real soon, K-E-Y---Why ? Because we love you. The Tri Delts appeal to the intellectual type. Sorority rush, easily called a circus of emotions, is greeted with feelings of anxiety and excitement. Evenings are spent at parties where rushees and members giggle, play do you know and carry on meaningless rush chatter. Then, comes the night of reckoning when recommendations and personal opinions are wad ed through in an effort to satisfac- torily fill quotas. After the anxious rushees receive their bids they are greeted with tears and screams of joy by their new sisters. In fraternities only the rush chairman even at- tempts the hopeless task of remembering the names of all the rushees. Name tags are indispensable. Rushees are overwhelmed by the abundance of handshaking, which seems to demonstrate the eternal bonds of brotherhood, and learn why each fraternity is the best on the campus. After all night balling sessions, where everyone has a golden boy , members greet their new pledges with a sigh of relief; for, once again, rush has ended. The Chi O ' s label some of their better attributes.

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The browsing room has become the smoker ' s last paradise in the library. But, George, f thought Columbus discovered America! Stephanie ' s formula seems to be: relaxation above everything. With the pandemonium of rush week over, minds are now forced to turn to studies, which assume various modes and fashions. Although much studying is done in dormitories and frater- nity and sorority houses, meetings are often ar- ranged on common ground—the library—for study dates, which are a means of getting little or nothing done. First semester for pledges is one of hard study in order to make that much sought after 3.0 av- erage, but from then on the amount of study is usually gauged only by what is required to get by. Finally, the student in his senior year realizes that he should not have been working for grades alone but rather to gain knowledge to confront situa- tions which he will encounter in life where the game is played for keeps . Books, bowed heads, concentrating minds and muffled laughs.