Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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By train, by bus, by car, even by thumb, we came to Valpo the second week in September. From Califor- nia and Massachusetts, from Louisiana and Minnesota we come to make up one of the largest freshman classes in years. Strangers come to make us at home in the bare rooms of Lembke and Altrurio; we did not have a chance to become lonesome. We made friends quickly in the commonness of our situation. Freshman week passed suddenly, and we were soon in the complicated process of registration. Two days later, we attended our first classes. How we envied the upperclossmen who took every- thing so cosuolly. Would the work be tougher than high school? What would the profs be like? Still in a daze from the excitement of the previous week, we were suddenly jolted by the mighty Sophs. Button, Frosh! Grab your onk'es! We were marched down town, and, encouraged by paddles, forced to scrub the courthouse steps. But the Sophs's hazing did not go unchallenged. One morning the campus become measle-spotted with red 43's- which we had to scrub off with bricks. The Sophs rushed our Homecoming bonfire. They lost. They sock-roced against us. They lost. After Homecoming, fraternity and sorority rushing began, bottling us with the sudden change in our posi- tion on the campus. Smokers, dinners, and Stags were