Clemson University - Taps Yearbook (Clemson, SC)

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4 Wild A fternoon of Sports and Games Dale Day I Meg Latimer of Kappa Kappa Gamma SorOP ity was one of many who enjoyed Saturday ' s fun, sun and plenty of beer

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Animated horse racing, giant sundae eating, beer guzzling — is this what Spring Fever was truly about? YES — when the Clennson University Student Union sponsored Bengal Ball 1976! The Bengal Ball weekend started on Thursday, April 8, at the Union nightclub. That night, Clennson students becanne big-time gamblers as they participated in ' A Night at the Races, betting play money on animated race horses. The evening finished with an auction for prizes that were paid for out of the win- nings. Friday was perhaps the best day for the gluttons on campus. The Union made a giant chocolate sundae in a wading pool located on the plaza. When the heat of t1 ie Spring sun began melting the giant dessert, people crowded around the pool to get a bowl full of the afternoon delight! Sun, beerand music freaks all trekked out to the Y-Beach on Saturday to enjoy the Celebration of the Sun. The Coun- try Gentlemen and Mission Mountain Wood Band provided background m usic while students drank and sunned their cares away.

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Dixie Day 1976, sponsored by Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, was the finale of all inter-sorority oompetition for the Dixie Day trophy. Each organization had been collecting points since the previ- ous fall in events such as football, Softball, basketball, volleyball, bridge, a beauty pageant, scholarship points from the fall semester and Sorority Sing. Dixie Day turned out to be a chi lly day in April. A scavenger hunt commenced at 10 a.m. v ith such crazy items as a man- hole cover and a live frog on the list. At noon the games began on the Rugby Field. Beta Theta Pi sold teeshirts of different colors for each sorority and plastic mugs as souvenirs of the year ' s events. Beer flowed freely from kegs lo- cated at each comer of the field. Alpha Delta Pi and Pi Beta Phi sororities had just been chartered the month before but they participated in thie Saturday games, competing but not collecting points for the Dixie Day trophy. The games consisted of relay races such as sack races, wheelbarrow races and Izzy Dizzy. The wild afternoon came to an end as awards were presented on the field afterthe conclusion of the games. Soror- ity Sing, won by Kappa Kappa Gamma, had been announced the night before at a dance for sorority girls. The overall Dixie Week trophy was also presented to members of Kappa Kappa Gamma. The sportsmanship trophy was awarded to Chi Omega. student Life 11