University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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The Missouri socialite never regrets a blind date-Well, almost never. If the match works out, he or she can add a name to the date listg if it doesn't, enough humor is found in the situation to provide laughs at bull sessions for weeks to come. Since this is the case, two blind-date traditions annually kick off the social season in Columbia. One is blind-date Weekend, the other, exchange dinners.

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When the Raleighs and the Penns came into the new world, they had to rely heavily on the Indians to teach them a new way of life. Without the aid of the Red-men our an- cestors would have starved. Similarly, every September several thousand colonists enter a new world of their own-the University of Missouri. To them, two complete cam- puses, negative hours, Sbowme, AWS, and SGA are just as strange as the forests of Pennsylvania, corn meal, and stockades were to the first settlers. Fortunately, through student administration and co-operation, our freshmen don,t have to brave a barrage of arrows to get the straight scoop on their new world: a fine freshman orientation program has been devised. During several days of meetings, rallies, and social affairs, the future Student Union presidents and Savilfmf editors get their first taste of the activities they will someday run. And, oh yes, it,s a darn good way to get your first campus date. After all, it was at the first kind of orientation that John Rolfe met Pocahontas. 23

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HOOTIN' FOR BRUTON Politics, with an emphasis on Woman suf- frage, reigned supreme the third week in October. After the two withdrawals-a move to preserve dorm solidarity-Dick Jensen, Steve Lesher, Jim Milne, Robbie Fischer, and Benny Bruton engaged in the battle of skits, serenades, and shoe shines. On Friday night a tartanized crowd Watched Benny Bruton, personable Phi Psi, emerge as 1954 Knight Owl.