University of North Texas - Yucca Yearbook (Denton, TX)

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XY X HAVING pledges scrub carpets with a toothbrush is one standard low blow members pull on Pledge Exchange Day. The right bid is the most wonderful thing that can happen to a girl who desires to join a sorority. BEING a good pledge often includes doing some household chores. WM DURING elections, pledges are often called upon to guard places for a member's posters and to remove them at the end of the campaign.

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RAIN doesn't stop students from going to class though it does make them hurryg a drizzle certainly doesnit halt the erection of many colorful campaign signs on campus. A COED gazes at the endless display of signs but realizes that soon the campus. bare of adornment, will resume its natural state. Within a brief period, the main campus block is transformed into a gaudy display of posters and signs proclaiming the merits of candidates for office. This is Election Week, when cam- paigners Worry Whether their signs Will pass the Election Boardis requirements that they be in the proper condition and that they be taken down on time. It is a time to pass out handbills, candy, and a funny line to passers-by for the person you support. Friends campaign for candidates, and groups backing the Homecoming queen nomi- nees contrive extravagant attention get- ters, from Wearing mop wigs to throw- ing gay street dances. This fall, elections were dismal be- cause of gusty Winds and drizzly Weath- er, but these did not halt senate con- troversy or improve polling places. Election Week always ends abruptlyg 2 3 f it f 2 i at ,sg f -- N M ,X 4 f I , , .1 F it S f x. z ' I ...- 'fi 3 , ,fm 14 one day 'the signs brighten the campus and the next day they are gone. i L wp