Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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21 Sororities 3' X ' - . r a'svf aJ3-4 -Q5 Il 111' 'JAVT' ' nf f ' 1 Lf:l'ffi:'f- ff? . I 1 ' F l , I I I . 1 . ' fu-...pi 1 'V' 'ff ji '5- fliqw' its ' J. X , 'Q 9 CE 'fs-.- 5 The rushees had been almost impossible to live with for days before bids came out. As time for the announcement drew near, their anxiety increased. Tension broke and near hysteria burst out in dormitory halls as one girl after another received the news over the phone that the Chi Sig actives were waiting downstairs.

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Paul Ricoeur Paul Ricoeur, a Sorbonne phi- losopher, came in early October to slhare his reflections on the philoso- phy of the will with Marquette students. He described his method of philosophizing as proceeding from the abstract to the concrete ilhrough a three-level approach: escription, reflection and interpre- ration. On the descriptive level, one iiries to describe his own relation- ship to the object of his will, ex- glained Ricoeur. The existential uestion is set aside in this first level. However, existence must be ionsidered in the second, or reflec- tive, level in which the person turns hack into his own existence to find the source of his acts, to try to de- ermine who he really is, said icoeur. This is accomplished through linking desire and effort, ' hich Ricoeur considers expres- sions of our being. Desire and effort seek expression ,nd this expression, whatever form it takes, is called language. This is the level in which signs are im- portant and is called the level of interpretation. It is a task not only to discover one's self, but to know one,s selff, said the Frenchman. To reach this self-understanding, a person must go from description to reflection and from reflection to interpreta- tion of the signs of his existence. We have an intuition of what we aref said Ricoeur. Thus I link the concept of self-understanding to that of signsf, Many students were puzzled after Ricoeur's lecture and wel- comed the opportunity to meet with him for discussion.

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Those not involved could not really understand why any girl would want to go through it all, but at that moment, no pledge would have been capable of giving a coherent answer to the question, Why do you want to belong to a sorority?,' But the pledges knew they wanted to e part of a group in which they had 'lsomething in common with everyonef, as one sorority girl put it. The sorority was lil sure way of finding many close friends, for all the members shared the bond of at one common interest-desire to be- to that sorority. The presentation of bids was preceded three weeks of rushing. During this the hopeful pledges underwent a scrutiny by the actives of the five sororities. The rushees tried to ap- as charming, witty and attractive as to choose a sorority and make actives of that sorority want them for