University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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time a fraternity man was chosen S.Cy. president. The social picture changed too. Never, according to old-limers, was so much attention paid by the cam; pus to the activities of the fraternities and clubs. LF. Ball, I. C. Ball. rushing were the focal points of many weeks, discussion, and while expectations were not al- ways reached1 19551-55 marked the hrst year of the return of fraternities and clubs to the lifeblood of the campus. Their aloofness was gone, the Greeks plunged into campus activity with a vengeance. No longer scorned, overlooked, forgotten, alert, competent leader- ship in the fraternities and clubs grabbed-off their share of the activities pie. The organizations them- selves were no longer willing to cast out a competent leader merely because he was a member of a frater- nity. Some attractions were holdovers from a campus segment that seemed t ' ' to be dying. Even the Folklore Society had their concert in the Fiji One tmportant orgattlzatmn on campus was forced House- to undergo drastic: re-orientation to meet this changing The many, varied. competing events still held an attrattion for the newer type of student as the bulletin boards displayed the notices 01 a differ- ent party, movie, meeting 14

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Alf! pminous sign was football practice in Stagg Fieldhhut in this instance. it was only practwe kickmg iOr the touc-h-inu'a-mural contests. but an examination of the Autumn elections--a1most the only instance where the student body en bloc expressed its desireshshows the elements of the changing campus. Never had the left-wing political party been dealt such defeat. S.E.P. took only three seats ftwo hy defaultt. Once again they had raised the 01d issues-primarily LT.S.-Soviet student exchangehbut this time failed to catch fire. The campus wastft interested in remaking the world, they were interested in what Student Government could do for them here and now. 5.3.13. was about seven years too latehthe student body voted its approval of I.S.Lf5 tHatine-age hook exchange. More significant was the fact that S.E.P. candidates did not reHect the new campus. The same sordid left-wing Bohemian types were trotted-out, went down this time to defeat while a clean-cut slate of 1.5.1... candidates eased to victory. Fer the first Th0 apparrt was changing 100; Bermuda short; began to appear on malt as. well ag female,

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Even the Cammull?despite 5,6. protestserec-eived a different look. B. and C. workers whitened the walls. cleaned the shields, even washed the windowx situation-wStudent Union. Organized, run by, in large part, indepen- dents, it failed to meet the needs of a changing campus. The Director of Student Activities steppedvin: it was exterminated: the rebuilding process began, led by a fraternity-politician. Other groups underwent the requisite changes of their own accord, 01' new groups sprung-up to replace them. Student Advisory Board onet the pro-Hutchins flavor of Orienta- tion Board, the I.S.L. platform no longer seemed ghostwritten by Chan- cellor Hutchins, a Festival Of the Arts was inaugurated to co-ordinate several campus activities, present some of their own in one week-end extravaganza. Alone at the 01d organizations possessing any degree of security without changing was the Maroon. Where does this lead? Where will it stop? The question is as impossible to answer as: When did it begin? It is as easy to fmd two campus observers who agree when the spirit of Hutchins defmitely died as it is to find two historians who agree on the exact date In April a wry. mustached man sud; denly sprouted all over campus1 adver- tising 1hr. Inspertnr General. U.Tfs pro- dur'tinn of Gagul which drew remrd crowds.