DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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A DePauw player rests on ihe bench. wishing for some way for DePauw To overcome the Wabash lead. The tiger angrin struts along the sidelines as another DePauw attemm to score fails, The cheerleaders and the mascot discuss 16 game. Get you next year. Cavemen was a lamiliar slogan. DePauw ians snuggle under blankets as they wa1ch the game and the people walking by on the track 15

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Gorgeous Lilly Bruere and iriends go manwhunting. hoping their balloons will attract more attention. DePauw and Wabash players ctash on the tieid dure ing the first play of the battle for the bell. Quarterback Tracy Clifford and Coach Nick Mour- ouzis map out the game strategy before the game begins, Get You Next Year Needless to say a rivalry exists between DePauw and Wabash. Along with this rivalry is the quest tor the Bell. It is not lust any bell, but the Monon Bell. Once again the Tigers went against the Cavemen to end their football season and fight for the title of Home of the Bell. The game was not just a Saturday afternoon; it was a weekend. To start the weekend off, a concert by the Micheai Stanley Band was scheduled for Friday. This provided a perfect excuse for a warm-up party. Warm-up parties were needed once again before heading on the road trip to Crawfordsvilie tor the game the next morning. November 13. DePauw's Phi Gamma Deita's took the same road trip earlier in the morning with a somewhat different mode of transportation, by foot! Each year, the Fiiiis are responsible for running the ball used in the game to its destination. As game time approached. the Wabash stadium was crammed with alums, parents, profs, and students all outfitted in heavy coats. blankets, mittens. scarves. three layers of socks, and thermoses ttull of who- knows-whatt. Before, during, and after the game, DePauw women looked for Wabash men and DePauw men looked for a fight. Amid all the scoping and partying, a game managed to be played. -DD

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Rush: Accept, Regret, The dorm was filled with the shrill screams of delight as the freshman girls on the floor received their bids to join a sorority. Hardly noticed, one girl ran out of the dorm crying hysterically and broke down in the middle of the quad e she had not gotten a bid. As this incident illustrates, both excitement and disappointment make up rush. Since it takes place in the week before classes start, rush serves virtually as the freshmants introduction to DePauw. And since DePauw is so prominently Greek, rush is much more than a bunch of parties to attend and new people to meet. Competition and tension are as much a part of rush as the fun. The treshman's highschool hotshot frame of mind is challenged as it becomes apparent that DePauw is full of valedictorians and homecoming queens. From that point on, rush tests the value one places on oneself and the value one places on the opinions of others. , For girls going through rush, it is a garbled haze of soda shop parties and western theme parties; for guys it is handshakes and siideshows. The rushees are constantly trying to see the hidden meanings in the HGreek to Me books and in the ttgood-byes after each party. The answers to the superficial rush questions are memorized as, ttMy name is . . . Im from My major is I dotdon't have an HTH ... My hobbies are ... And whenever a rushee sees a group of upperctassmen in the hub or the bookstore during rush, the ever- n prevalent question comes up. ttWhat house are they in? As the week progresses the parties become longer and more formal and the rushees receive less and less invitations back. This receiving of bids, the tensest part of rush, also makes up the major difference between fraternity and sorority rush. Fraternities have open houses on the last night of rush when the rushees are told where they stand on the fraternity's preference list. The sorority system is much more ' secretive as Panhellenic rules prevent discussion of preference lists. Also fraternities have Hsnag line. This usually takes place at one in the morning after the regular bids have been given and accepted. Interfraternity Council meets with the thirteen rush chairmen in the Science and Math center and go through each guy that got oross-cut tnot offered a bidt. The rush chairmen may then offer these cross-out guys a bid. Men can also can wait to pledge a house until Open Rush which sororities have too; Open Rush is informal, inviting the rushees over for dinner individually and such. For sororities it lasts two weeks, but for fraternities it lasts until Spring. Only houses that did not take quota tthe maximum pledges a house can taket can open rush. Sorority quota this year was thirty girls. Fraternities make their individual quotas based on house capacity. After each day of rush, rushees return to the dorms and talk over the day of rush. The fraternities and