Arizona State University - Sun Devil Spark / Sahuaro Yearbook (Tempe, AZ)

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Rush week is exciting, exhausting — a time for meeting new friends and renewing old ones — and it culminates in a moment of emotion-packed joy when the rushees pick up their bids. 29

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Rushees register as they enter the Phi Sigma Kappa house for a smoker. The Phi Delts improvised when they were unable to find punch bowl. 1967 Fall Rush: Greatest Show on Earth During fall rush 760 rushees testified to the popularity of Greek acceptance as a mode of developing individuality on a campus of 22,000. The 32 national Greek organizations the rushees with open doors, friendly greetings and punch and cookies. The rush parties lasted between 20 and 40 minutes, during which time rushees and sorority and fraternity actives rated each other. Following formal rush there was a period of informal rush that served as a means of secondary selection. Ultimately pledge-bids were distributed to 451 hopefuls. After a semester of and pledge lessons they then were eligible to become actives. The Panhellenic and lnterfraternity responsible for arranging and rush, realize that the seemingly endless strings of parties is not a perfect method of choosing future sorority and fraternity members, but that it is the best procedure available. 28

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What do you become when you are one in a line, a group or a crowd? Is a crowd the assimilation of many faces and resulting in a nondescript of people? It is this only to the unperceptive or uncaring. Behind each expression is a heart listening. So when one is not in time with his perhaps he is listening to a drummer and a different beat. Let him move to the sound of his own music, however measured or far away. The rhythm of a crowd need not be Look at the expressions and try to hear the other tunes; try to understand, that ' s how harmony is created. Conversation and warm food make the cold, compartmentalized aspects of the campus seem more remote. Unpredictable as the action on the field is the reaction in the stands. Even during intermission, a show goes on. 30