Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Jack Potter Only the Godfather's friends were allowed to enter the Kappa Della Rho speakeasy; all others were politely kept out with oozie water guns and the intimidating muscles of the brothers. Carrying primal partying to the extreme. Kappa Sigma brother John Knoblich hangs out in a tree during the Caveman Party. Jack Potter Rush Grcck Theme Parties 21

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A cheery and primitive welcome to the island of Pik-ia is offered by PIm brothers Evan Kaliner, left, and Roger O'Conner. Splashing up some fun at Delta L'psilon's Jungle Party is brother Gary Cohen. Jack Potter GREEK THEME WEEKEND THE PARTIES YOUR MOTHER WARNED YOU ABOUT “It’s the best party weekend of the year,” commented one student. The night of the fraternity theme parties marked the beginning of the end of Fall Rush, and the parties were as much a part of the tradition as was rush itself. A number of the houses went with a theme for which it was easy to decorate. The “cave look —crumpled brown paper hanging from the walls— appeared at many parties, including the Kappa Sigma Caveman party, Phi Kappa Theta’s Night-Bcforc-thc-Day-After, Pi Kappa Alpha’s Island of Pi-kia, and the Hell half of Delta Tau Delta’s Heaven and Hell. A brother at Phi Kappa Theta admitted that they hung the paper “about ten minutes before the party started.” Not so quick and easy, however, were the outside adornments of some of the houses. The volcano of Dante’s Inferno, made out of wood, cardboard, and papier mache, took the brothers Five days to build. The waterfall at Delta Upsilon’s Jungle Party was the design of senior mechanical engineering student and DU brother John Judge. Their masterpiece also took five days to put up, and pilfered trees and bushes added to the desired “jungle” look. In addition to the work put into decoration, the brothers had to dress for their parties. Brothers at DU, Kappa Sigma, and Pika wore “animal skins”—consisting of everything from sheepskin car seat covers to plastic garbage bags—to help carry along their houses’ themes. The brothers at Kappa Delta Rho sported fedoras and white carnations and carried water-squirting machine guns to guard the speakeasy at their Godfather Party. And, despite temperatures near eighty, the brothers at Pi-Lam were decked out in scarves, hats and mittens, trying to look as cold as they could. Some of the houses had bands and others disc jockeys, but they all had beer at their theme parties. 1986 Rush differed from those in the past in that the administration implemented a partially dry- program with non-alcoholic parties and events. Dry Rush sparked some interesting results, including Pika’s milk and cookie night, while Theta Xi rocked the house with their Jolt Cola party. Article by—Angela Taylor Layout by—Susan Devaney 20 Rush Grcek Theme Panics

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TARTAN GOES HIGH-TECH NEW TYPESETTING SYSTEM IMPLEMENTED From light tables, x-acto blades and long nights to state of the art software. Macintoshes and more sleep: such has been the transformation of The Tartan. In the fall of 1986, the student-run newspaper replaced its former typesetting system with a new computer system that permits the layout and printing of entire pages. The ability to see and design whole pages at once is an enormous improvement over the old system of printing out single articles and headlines and cutting and pasting them onto the page. The new system, which uses the Pagcmakcr pagination program from Aldus and Macintosh Plus terminals connected on a MacScrve network, shortens the production time of each issue considerably. Headline writing, corrections, and even major layout changes can all be handled directly and immediately by the section editors, and staffwriters hand in their articles on disk. The layout of the Tartan has become more creative with the implementation of Pagemaker. With options like changing column widths, varied points sizes and leading, and wrapping text around photos or illustrations, an eye-catching or unconventional layout is more easily implemented. Two LaserWriters in the Tartan office allow for tabloid-size proofs of each page before printing on the Art and Technology Center’s Linotronic 300 Typesetter, which the staff has access to. The proofs take the suspense and guesswork out of page design. Future improvements planned for the Tartan include plans to integrate large screen Macintoshes instead of the normal MacPlus terminals currently in use. Article by—Lisa McAnany Layout by—David Si tar Preparing the comic strips each week for :■ Tartan is Art Editor Kurt Shaw. CftmX llt-rn hl nmril Drawn away from his duties as Production Manager. Russ Setigman gives the camera a wide-eyed stare. Widely read by the campus community, the Tartan fills the time between Tuesday classes. 22 Tartan Newspaper