DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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T P' 'inf Q' V , ,.: 5 ff f'1s'f '-1 11 0 www -L After the final lists are read, the houses eagerly await the arrival of the new pledges. XX'ill the long dinner in the dorm ever end Concurrent with orientation and testing during that Crazy first week at sehool was rush. Open houses were sandwiched in between tests, dorm meet- ings, and registration. The rushees then made their selections for the following parties. Fraternities gave bids on Saturday, and those who aceepted moved into the house that afternoon to begin their lives as lowly pledges. For the girls it was different-the tension increased through four-and then two-party nights until the preferences were signed and the bid lists turned in. Although some decided to wait until spring rush, about two hundred women appeared on campus wearing ribbons of their sorority's color. p ush . to pledge or not I0 pledge . Pledges ure welcomed with c nv-1,49 :pen arms and fraternity applause 'fl 'M'

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fl0IlXL'l'51lIil'Jll is gm nrt wcll tultivxltcd during thc weeks of rush. Ncrvousncss gone, it is cxmjoyccl by 1111. T110 houscm display their talents in the skits :md parties. wClc'omc rcztrllcs out to greet the rus

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- 'xxx ..,. - R Q , --ss -, . 'M' Q.-ss-,,.1 .. tmalr. ff-X -agstfaix ' S-gg Q X M N 3,55 s x GX N t gy i. f if Registration is not t-xtliisively for lreslunen. Ask Ralph jones who had just returned from the YVasl'iingt0n Semester Plan last fall. Registration . climaxed that first hectic week A final inspection and it's all over for this y Clif. Registration marked the end of orientation and testing. Consulting with their faculty advisors. Con- sidering their at'hiex'einent test scores, and wrestling with the SIHIIIYIIIIF of tjlzmes, the lireslnnen finally registered. They experienced the saine exasperation with the long lines. the saine frustrated desire to take the more interesting upperrlass courses and the saine coiiflicts-llasit' Comp or Freshman Fug- lish? Geology or Botany? French or German?-that everyone feels registering lor the first tiine. They learned that you cannot register for three ll tfclock classes. that you don't say to the inan sitting behind a booth 'Allie one prol I ahsolutely do not want is Dr. --- until you tincl out l11'.Y identity. The one good thing about registration is that when it's over, there are four inontlis until it's time again.