University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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Freshly-shaved bald heads, trailers and trunks full of clothes, bewildered students, anxous parents all were unmistakably and painfully evident on the first day back at school. Freshmen, faced with a strange room- mate, orientation, their first registration, and rush, hardly had time to become excited about their new experinece because of that ugly little creature called fear gnawing in their stomachs. While, at the same time, upperclassmen, seemed completely unmoved by the whole situation. But everyone soon began to feel at home at their home away from home. The Welcome Rebel dance on the downtown square in Oxford, with Rebel yells led by the cheerleaders, the parade downtown, and Bill Justice providing the music, assured the newcomers that they had little to fear at Ole Miss. Freshman orientation—but why is it that the hallowed Ole Miss instilled by the Cardinal Club have to be covered with a beanie? Who says girls at Ole Miss have a lot of clothes? The girls came. Chief Tatum and Mother got the freshman girls settled.

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They got to rest at registration? The square came to life at the Wednesday night Welcome Rebel party as we rocked to the music of Bill Justice.

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Sorority rush was the week of ice-water, little cookies, Ipana smiles and Small talk. It was the week of mo- ments of disappointment mixed with happiness and extreme indecision. It was the week when rushees dressed from head to toe in new fall finery; while so- rority houses fairly rocked after each party with such comments as, Yall, we ' ve just got to get that girl! and She ' s from a lovely family—rush her! Fraternity rush was perhaps a little more dignified— with less Small Talk and more Man Talk. Sessions after rush parties were less frantic but long and brutal, with their Golden Boys and black balls. All thoughts of studies and books were put aside during this week as rushers compared rushees, and rushees compared frats. After bids were delivered and pledge pins acquired, we listlessly picked up our books and trudged slowly back to classes. How would you like to be Alice in Chi0-land ? Clean shirts and clean-shaven heads—both were much in evidence as rushees gathered for transporting to fret houses for soft drinks, cookies, and cigarettes in broken packages. Robert E. views the KA ' s solemnity.