Howard Payne College - Lasso Yearbook (Brownwood, TX)

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Slime Just Love ‘Fun’ Activities Initiation is a time for fun and games. Sept. 17 the freshmen cleaned the H-Pond, had a picnic, and sat together at the football game. The H-Pond cleaning was probably the least enjoyable of the three events, but the picnic was fun as the fresh- men ate, played games, and elected their new cheer- leaders, Eva Gutierrez and Tim Doyal. The first home football game gave the class members a chance to sit together and display their spirit. They outyelled the upperclassmen several times because the upperclassmen would not attempt to yell. They also had to do button-ups and each lose one shoe, which they retrieved after the game. The Tug-of-War between freshmen and upperclass- men was Sept. 26, but the freshmen lost. Probably the freshmen’s most favorite day of all dur- ing initiation was switchout day. For 24 hours, freshmen got to be upperclassmen, and the freshmen tried in this ■T £ VjI % i - t ,.4 ' one day to retaliate for everything that had happened to them for the past four weeks. But upperclassmen have long memories, and they didn't let freshmen live an easy life after switchout day. October 1, as soon as the final gun sounded in the football game between HPU and Southwest Texas State, freshman initiation ended for the class of 1981. And were they glad! (1) Linda Crawford and Kim Capps wait for their turn in the three-legged race during the freshman picnic. (2) At the first home football game against Texas Lutheran College Sept. 17, the freshmen sit together as (3) Upperclassmen sometimes wear strange garb on switchout day. 30 Campus Life