University of British Columbia - Totem Yearbook (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada)

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After wandering all over the glohe in past years. the Mardi Gras finally came home this year with a Totem Land theme. lioth gay and frowning totem poles disguised the posts in the Com- modore Caharet. creating a potlatch set- ting for the nights of january 18 and 19. as the Greelt Letter Societies pulled off another annual success. Charity came closer to home also as twoethirds of the proceeds were turned over to the War Memorial Gymnasium. The remaining third was given to the Community Chest, the chief recipient in the last four years. The committee of 18 Greeks, headed hy Io lean Iohnston and Iohnny Graham, was faced with an increase in costs and a decrease in student spending. Ticket chairman Frank Moore reported a turn- out of more than 1,700 students and THE MARDI GRAS friends in all to see the show and to dance until the wee small hours. Queen candidates from each of the nine sororities drew cheers and whistles. in what was claimed to he the hest selection of campus pulchritude in many years. Red-haired Ian McColl of Gamma Phi Beta won the title of Queen in a balloting that was close all the way. Crowning ceremonies were performed by UBC Presi- dent Dr. N. A. M. MacKenzie, who also had the pleas- ure of the victory waltz that followed. Playing opposite her as King of the Mardi Gras was Phi Delta Theta's Pete Wtillqer, voted in at an ar' i'Winners of the best decorated table was Sigma Chi. Top: Queen of the two-day Greek Letter affair, Jan McCall, being escorted across the stage at the Commodore. Top of page 51 is Di Cox, choregrapher and soloist, and below, two braves fight it out. The all-men's chorus, which provided many a laugh and antic, are in the bottom picture. 50

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withdrawal . . . of any student whose academic standing does not merit his return .... Early in lanuary with everyone present and accounted for. Lethargy had full control. Meanwhile. the athletes had heen calmed hy a vague piece of political machinery called the Ostrom Plan . hrainchild of MAD Boss lrirock Us ITUHI. The ilan called for S525 ier stu- l - l dent per year lor athletics and shunted responsihility for keeping the athletic hall rolling onto the shoulders of a new Director of Athletics who was to he aiwointed hy the Administration. l l . iaid hy them and res ionsihle to them. l . l LSE President Ed Pedersen hol- lered that the plan spelled death for Culture Un The Campus . hacked his holler with a S90 flyer called The CHC Times. For his pains. he got a hill for Silo and a rehellion from the LSE. Hut Pedersen wasn't heaten. Clsittle did he know that he was on the same side as the athletics in the struggle against Lethargyxl Sometime in lanu- ary he crept into Brock Hall in the dark of night and set the AMS mimeo- graph machines rolling off a manifesto threatening to hlackhall the Ostrom Plan unless AMS fees were iumped a dollar. An alert Lhyssey reporter seized a copy and rushed it into print. LSE rehelled again and Pedersen disowned the manifesto-to the great glee of Lethargy. Gym Pund Chairman hill Hag- gert hecame Campus Spirits next torch hearer. Haggert shocked the campus hy reneging on his previous stand that no direct contrihutions would he soli- cited from students. Said Haggert: All other plans have failed. All we can do now is call for a 53.43 pledge from each student. Students hollered hriefly. hecame intrigued hy the alliterating figures. and signed the pledge. Elections were in the wind hy late lanuary and forces of Campus Spirit hegan to write Lethargys ohituary. But still most of the spirit re- mained right where it had always heen -in the Georgia Tavern. 49

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Jn iermiuion ikemembered . . . the audience that got in the way of the short girls' chorus . . . the person that upset a patron's dinner by step- ping across the head table . . . the traffic ticket Cook received for parking in a lane while pick- ing up decoration materials . . . the five free haircuts that long- haired co-chairman Graham won in the raffle draw . . . the reception of flying sandwiches, ice cubes and sugar cubes and the collapsing teepee that greet- ed table decoration iudges Jo Jean and Mrs. Chant in one fraternity corner . . . the appar- ent satisfaction Johnny of the Commodore got out of wearing a feather in his hair all night . . . the entertainers who forgot their passes and almost didn't get in the door . . . the clown that knocked over band leader Ole Olsen in the process of making the grand gesture . . . the person that iumped on the chair to make an impromptu speech and sailed right through the wicker bottom. Not remembered . . . who drank the liquor left over from the patrons' cocktail party . . . who dropped Di Cox on the floor . . . what took up all the time at committee meetings. upset election at the pepmeet of the preceding Tuesday. The gala pepmeet was featured by the free- for-all that broke up the presenta- tion of the king candidates, the parade of queen floats, Al McMillan and some members of his band and, something new in the way of pep- meet entertainment, Chief of the Capilano Tribe, Ioe Mathias. The decorations chairmen, Marg Braim and Phil Cook, claimed to have the only inebriated totem poles in captivity, and placed them in a prominent position above the or- chestra that they might set the tone of gaiety for the whirling couples on the dance floor below. The rest of the decorations were for the most part authentic, UBC's Totem Park and anthropological museum having supplied the models on which they were based. The two girls' choruses made up in spirit and skill what they lacked in authenticity, and, if they didn't look exactly Mic the Indian maidens and totem poles they were sup- posed to represent, they looked good enough to the male members of the audience, judging from the leers on said faces. Credit for their success must go to Di Cox. Nflbsa