University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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Revenge is sweeter than custard pie for the Geek. Sigma Chi Derby Afternoon lab in Biology 13 . . . one speciman per student.

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Nurses perform . . . Coed strippers. In the spring of each year the campus harkens to a derby bugle call and descends on Kenan Stadium for an afternoon of fun. The event is the annual Sigma Chi Derby, sponsored by the local chapter of Sigma Chi fraternity. Contestants, made up of coed groups, compete in zany events — searching through a bog of mud for a can of beer, chasing chickens the length of the football field and throwing pies at an unfor- tunate Geek. Highlighting the Derby is the Miss Modern Venus contest. Spectators are treated to a fleshy array of beauty as two dozen sweater-and-shorts clad coeds strut past the stands to wolf whistles and cat calls. Joan Brown was last year ' s queen, helping the Tri Delts to their second straight Derby victory. The Derby is a national event, sponsored on cam- puses throughout the country by Sigma Chi chapters. It began in the early thirties, coming to Carolina in 1944. Local merchants support the Derby with more than a hundred prizes which are distributed to the free ticket holders. M mmmmm gpz m Miss Modern Vc HitsstantB . . . Bardaj eould use ihe Chi Omegas get directions ti the post. vl P f ■ x reSfe- J 1 L k | Ep3 Pi ii

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fcrSa g ■ A field of 22 runners break away from the Carolina Theater and start down Franklin Street toward Durham. All finished the race. Can follow on the Durham highway as the chase their shadows along the 11.6 mile DUkathon Richard Rigsbee and Tony Houghton ran the race together from the beginning, setting a new record of one hour. 12 Ed Joyner and Larry Thames are escorted across the finish line at the Durham Post Office. The contest was sponsored by Delta Upsilo fraternity who gave medals to all of the runners. The fraternity hopes to make the event an annual affair as it had been in the past.