Bowling Green State University - Key Yearbook (Bowling Green, OH)

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l. V. W: 3i W,' .4? Contestants in the Sigma Chi Derby Day wrestled with burlap bags, canoes, and oil drums. Top: Herb Moskowitz and date Norma Flade, left, played roles of Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus at the annual Association of Women Stu- dents Christmas formal dance. Bottom: AWS regularly packs both gyms of the Women's Bldg. for the dance, the first formal of the year. Women receive 2 a.m. permissions. ' .4 A 3w, W, 20 I M Na Resisting Change, Traditions Linger The bulldozers have spared a Iiew lumps in the highway of progress. The crazy spring week ends re- main - Derby Day, Chariot Race, Pi Week, Bike Race, Sadie Hawkins Week - and fraternity men still brave cold pond waters after pinning their girls. Bridge re- mains number one time-waster; students still flock to the quarry on hot days. The campus movie exists again for penniless Friday nights. No one has yet solved the park- ing problem despite the new lots, and monsoons still periodically envelop the campus in clammy dampness. New traditions sprout - May M76619 Commencement Week End, hPounce - but students still cling to the old ones as they would to a pair of old shoes, comfortable, familiar, beloved. ATO,s start a fresh rider on his lap in the annual Delta Upsilon Bike Race. Theta Chi won the 1956 race, with Alpha Xi Delta's Debbie Aunger reigning over the contest.

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The changing University, like a kaleidoscope, never remains constant long enough to be accur- ately described. Last spring the University an- nounced :1 new social program, to feature week- end open houses in the ttlnterim Carnation Room, a revamped recreation hall. This idea disintegrated with the temporary departure of Dr. Maurice l. Mandell, former social committee adviser, this year. To replace the former Alumni Association, no longer recognized by the University or Board of Trustees, Pres. Ralph Hf. McDonald appointed an II-member committee of alumni and admin- istrators to develop an organizational plan for a new association. Council on Student Affairs began a series of meetings this year, called Clumein, where or- ganization presidents could air their grievances and problems. The president instituted monthly press conferences, and room rates went up $20 per semester to help pay for construction. BGSU students received Salk polio vaccine shots through the Health Service, and Rodgers Quad- rangle men inaugurated a date bureau. The University installed a private telephone system for on-campus calls, classes began at half past the hour, and the local chapter of the Amer- ican Association 01' University Professors decided that Bowling Green was ttanti-intellectualfi An independent publication called ttLes Miserables stirred up a torrent of controversy in its short but intense life. Probably the most meaningful de- velopment t0 the 4,238 students - next year's Christmas vacation will be three weeks long. Students search doggedly for mates to shoes they are carrying in a Fun Night mixer. The social committee sponsored Fun Night Oct. 13 in the recreation hall as part of the new social program. Part of the Dads' Day festivities, presented Nov. 10 by the Spirit and Traditions Board, was a variety show, left. Alpha Tau Omega fraternity originated the annual Dadst Day, and this year named Mr. Gus Peek us the football uDad 0f the Year. 19

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Mugging for the camera, left, two members of fall pledge h classes revcrt back to childhood a :11 Gamma Phi Beta's traditional 97 4 ull-campus pledge party. Cold carolers gather around the giant Christmas trees in front of the Administration Bldg. dur- ing the annual all-campus Christmas caroling, sponsored by the Association of Women Students. The most persistent tradition, a boy and a girl. The faces change from year to year, - but the story is the same. Zl