Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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DEAR FRESHMAN: YES, YOU HAVE TO! The symptoms are easily recognizable: long, long lines, organized chaos, pink rejection slips from the library, IBM cards, disappointment, smug looks of the faculty, dull pencils, lost packets, lost advisors, a profusion of check books, and usually hysterics. lt's unavoidableg it's necessaryg itis REGISTRATIONQ the most Well attended of all campus activities. Pre-registration helps some, but some faculty members just do not understand why a 3 to 5 Friday lab is undesirable, why 7:30 A.M. classes suffer from lack of at- tendance and why 3 classes at one time is conducive to cuts. Writerls cramp is a vocational hazard, so is a slightly numb expression. Experienced students, who have previously planned to beat the system, give up after 20 minutes of frustration. Freshmen devote their whole day to the proceedings and usually wish they could do it over-differently. Registration has its advantages: a student develops patience, fortitude, persistence, and determination. If it has other advantages, no one has ever discovered them. Casualties were few this year: several freshmen gained a distorted view of college before ever attending a classg seniors discovered there were no snap courses left and a few were reduced to tears, sophomores and juniors saw the seniors and resolved to never become one. It was a little drafty near the exit door, probably from sighs of relief. 23

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l I ' OF COURSE, YOUR FEET HURT! Discovering that they have 59 instant friends, confidants, and defenders is generally a slight shock to most freshman women when they get the 'abig bidf' but the ten-day madness that precedes it can only be described as overwhelming. This is Sorority Rush. Its ingredients are complex. Take one sorority with approximately 40 rushers, add about 300 eager rushees, blend until highly organized, then relax and enjoy. As the parties progressed, smiles grew wearier, handshakes less hearty, and feet much bigger. But it looked like it was worth it to anyone watching the pledges-to-be streaming out of the Deanis office after receiving their bids. Joy is released with abandong so are tears. Fraternity men start calling friends to get themselves fixed-up with new pledges. Singing is uproarious as the sororities discover their new members, one hy one. and drag them into the Circle. Pledges will learn how to build Relays floats, how to polish trophies: how to drink beer, how to smoke, how to do the Twist, the Continental, and the Hully-Gullyg how to live together, and amazingly enough, how to study. lsn't college wonderful?