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

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Registration is never a noisy event, since each student and faculty member alike are too numb to make much noise. Contemplating the millions of forms that must be filled out, the students merely stare blankly into space as they are ed down in section after section. Interminable lines confronted fused students as they tried to avoid certain professors and to get out early on Friday afternoon. Your seven, eight and nine cards, Puleeze. Sorry, you ' ve got to get out of line and finish filling out your seven card and put it in ink this time! These chairs are for registration personnel only. I can ' t help it use the floor if you have to have some place to write.

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RETURN, REUNION, REGISTRATION The first few days were madness. Old acquaintances were noisily renewed among the elite upperclassmen. Freshman girls bore their sorority ribbons proudly, visible signs of the terrible Battle of Rush, while blue beanies sprouted on the gleaming heads of freshman boys like mushrooms on a rainy morning. Freshmen stumbled glassy-eyed through Orientation. Then everybody stumbled glassy-eyed through registra- tion. I ' m sorry but this section is full. sign you up for K hour. It meets at 2:30 on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday . . . What do you mean go home on Friday? Two, three, and four cards, puhleez. You need six more hours of a natural science. Now you can take Physics at this hour. Everyone but the dog-catcher welcomed the students as $ shone in the eyes of all of the merchants with the advent of a new school year. Vide-eyed freshmen leave whatever they were doing in the dorms to run outside and find out where the music was coming from. As they saw the Rebel band marching smartly down the street, hearts beat a little faster and they began to know the feeling of being a Rebel. How do I write $197.50 out in words? Then it was over. Somehow, through the maze of blind alleys and strewn paper, everybody had a schedule of classes, such as they were. The City of Oxford threw its Welcome Rebel Party on Thursday night. Students trooped obediently down to the square, and the basic chase had officially begun. The Ole Miss band appeared in all its Fall finery, the cheerleaders whooped it up with wild abandon, and couples rocked ' till midnight. Despite the chaos, it was an auspicious beginning for an auspicious year.

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By late afternoon the hustle and bustle of the day has ended and an ominous quiet permeates the gym and hangs heavy over those who remained hours to try to salvage something from the schedule that they had. inally figured out. The Law School and the Pharmacy School got into the act with a football game of their own, playing in the Murder Bowl for the old Bloody Bucket. Here one of the politicians awards the Murder Bowl Queen her trophy for which she and her sorority fought even the annual editor.