Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Back-to-school issue 1 ( Freshman students at Columbia University and Barnard College in Nei York are being issued beanies again— much like their counterfeits in daw pone by. The beanies were mandatary tor Columbia freshmen until the latj 1960s, but the 1977-78 frosh will not be required to wear the cans. Other si tf of the times: The new beanies v.iil have visors rather than the pr . dler used in the old days. And it was discovered iha! petting 2300 beanies iiir.de i no simple t. ' k. One student said, We went to several hatters in Ko-.v Vop who said— ' You ' re crazy. We haven ' t had a t order like that in yeais. ' finally fouiid a small company that worked night and day to turn them out. ! Barnard Columbia Orientation ' 77 received a great deal of publicity, as illustrated by the many newspaper ex- cerpts on this page and on the next. Orientation is Canned With a Be By KEITH MOORE Beanies, those ignoble little skullcaps that for a time were the bane of college freshmen across the country, are making a come- back at Columbia University. It used to be that if you wore a beanie you were identified as the low- est form of humanity on campus. You were a freshman and rreshmen could- n ' t do things like walk across grass or associate with sophomores, an old Georgetown University man recalled. It was like penance, he said. But, even though the be:mie is back, the attitude has changed. What rk yas serious business for college stu- aents in the ' 30s, ' 40s, and even in the ' 50s, is a joke 1o most Columbia under- graduates today. The beanie ' s return is the brain- child of a senior and not a Columbia freshman. The student ' s name is Nick Serwer. It started out as a joke and it still is a joke, Serwer, a coordinator of freshman orientation, said. ' ' No col- lege would have the gall to try to bring back the beanie. But then we thought, why not give them out as a free souvenir? And that is how a 75- year-old Columbia tradition that died in the furious 1960 came to be re- stored. So today, when the nearly 2,300 Columbia and Barnard freshmen begin their orientation, the beanie will be a part of their introduction ingside Heights campus. It will also be a first .women, who never had funny little caps. But 1 apparently already caugjj senior, Claire Tse, who sa more traditions here and hope that beanies will be a pleasant experience. Maybe it will bring college spirit, a jea Yale University official s| at Yale ever had to weai always thought it was in b An official at NYU ; the old college spirit, it ' s a ridiculous idea; it ' | lege freshmen like childrc

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Hat band tudents at Columbia University and Bar- wrd College in New York City are returni- ng to the old-fashioned ways of being a reshman this year. Until the late 1960s, beanies were mandatory articles for many freshmen. Although beanies aren ' t re- quired, new students at these schools are bringing back a little tradition. H eames Mack tor Lolumbm From ButThey ' re No Longer Mandatory NEW YORK, Sept. 1 (TJ PI) — Beanies, nostalgic not give them out free as a souvenir — a replica of symbols of another age. adorned the heads an earlier Columbia tradition, just to keep. And if man said, because the old freshman beanie was a skullcap. We laughed when we first had the idea. said senior Nick Senver, Columbia College coordinator of freshman orientation, No college would have the gall to try to bring Wk ihn lwanic. we said. But then, v d thought, why freshmen. Another souvenir. Senver, a pre law major from Chevy CIia.se, Md,, said it wasn ' t easy getting the 2,300 beanies made. We went to several hatters in New York who said— You ' re crazy. We haveiFRBSHWPM - till that in years. ' We finally found a small company that worked night and day to turn them out.