Washington and Lee University - Calyx Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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Left: Upperclassmen get adjusted following their move into Gaines Hall. Below: One of W L ' s 24 exchange students joins in experiencing Dining Hall cuisine. Bottom right: Security guard Steve Tomlinson orients a parking violator to the W L parking fine. jssor Sidney Coulling, who first began teaching it W L in 1956, said the increase in enrollment .vas a trade-off for what he said was now a Tiore diverse faculty and expanded curriculum. Various activities were held throughout the eek to familiarize freshmen with student life at iVashington and Lee and unite them with their ellow classmates. The Alumni Association barbeque was one of several special events offered this year to fresh- Tien. The September 1 7th issue of The Ring-turn hi quoted Dean Ken Ruscio as saying that the larbeque deserved special mention because it ' s he one... activity that the freshmen can come ogether as a class in something other than the )lacement tests. 1987 marked the first year that upperclass vomen organized activities for the freshmen ■oeds for each of the three nights that freshmen men attended open houses at the fraternities. The Big Sister Little Sister dinner and meeting held Thursday night provided the opportunity for all W L women to meet. The program ' s success insured that it will be included in future orienta- tion week programs. Matriculation this year followed the same format as in the past, but included a Student Ac- tivities Fair on Friday. Sophomore Mary Alice McMorrow organized the program so that students would have the chance to learn more about the activities offered at Washington and Lee apart from the chaotic rush of the matricula- tion line. The fair also gave the freshmen a final event to attend while the upperclassmen mat- riculated. Matriculation 21

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Enrollment Hits New High Freshmen push total to 1,543 Members of the Class of 1 99 1 started off their freshmen year at Washington and Lee with a week-long onentation program in September. As upperclassmen remember all too well, the week was a myriad of lengthy assemblies in Lee Chapel, informative speeches and a series of meetings designed to acquaint freshmen with the Honor System. W L experienced a noticeable population in- crease among the incoming freshman class in 1987. The freshmen class had 432 students en- rolled at the beginning of the year, which made the it the largest class at W L in 1987, 12 per- cent larger than the returning sophomore class, which had 386. Although the junior class had in- creased in size more than the other classes at 20 percent, it still trailed slightly with 384 students, and the last all-male class of seniors was the smallest class, with only 341 students. The 1987-88 enrollment at W L represented 46 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. ter- ritones of Guam and the Virgin Islands and 14 other countries. In an October 29th issue of The Ring-turn Phi, Frank Parsons, Assistant to the President, said that no further enrollment increases were expec- ted in the near future for W L. English ?xo{- Topleft: Freshmen Simone S. and Stephanie Shank get acquainted at the Big Sister Little Sister Dinner. Above: Upperclassmen and freshmen socialize at the annual orientation week barbeque Bottom middle: The afternoon sun sets on Graham-Lees Dorm . 20 IVlatiiinlatioii f -M ' Tf

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Getting the Bid in ' 87 Rush l ' ».X7 may be renienibcrcd as the car- uppcrckissiiK ' n |oked, ' I ' ou ' sc had a v ,cek Id de- cide - Now Choose ' For the nieiiibers ol the Class ol 1441 . houever. the joke became more of a reahty with the accelerated rush schedule Wide-eyed freshmen arrived in Lexington on Sunday. September6. and by the end of the tirsi week of classes, many had registered for and attended nine open houses, participated in eight rush dates, and received bids for fraternity mem- bership. The women of the third coeducational class at Washington and Lee were also invited to participate in the rush activities. As Dean ol Students Lewis G. John noted, the women would not be eligible to affiliate with a frat- ernity . but would certainly have the same op- portunity as the young men to learn a great deal about the fraternity system and its contribution to the life of the campus. As a result of the shortened rush schedule, the no contact rule was expanded and revised this year to include freshmen women. The new rule slated. From the arrival of a freshman, male or female, in Lexington until after Rush Date 8. there shall be no contact by chapter members with the treshman except at times and places stipulated in the Rush Calendar. Many fresh- men joined the upperclassmen in opposition to this regulation. As freshman Billy Hirschman put It. It ' s hard for us to get to know the houses or s hat the guys are like, so we end up going by v hat we ' ve heard. Upperclassmen suggested that the time factor, in addition to the rule, en- couraged rumors and dirty rushing. The fresh- men coeds also voiced their discontent w ith the rule. Freshman Laura Dodge said. Theoretic- ally, the No-Contact justly and equally applies to both men and women, yet I have difficulty fin- ding acceptable reasons for not allowing any contact between freshmen women and up- perclassmen . the women may say something sub|ecti e to a fellow freshman, but since Rush occurs the first two weeks of school, how well could the freshmen know each other anyway ' . ' Several fraternities were punished for violat- ions of rush regulations by the Judicial Board of the Inter-Fratemity Council, The majority of the rush offenses were alcohol-related, or were the result of excessive noise. In order to eliminate some of the problems that were encountered dur- ing rush this year, the IFC established two man- datory seminar programs to educate the fresh- men who pledged a fraternity. One seminar focused on alcohol aw areness and the other dealt more specifically with the IFC Constitution. The September 24th issue of the Riiii; Turn Phi men- tioned the IFC ' s hope that informing the pledges of their obligations as fraternity members would cut down on the problems associated w ith rush in the future. In spite of all the apparent problems. Rush ' 87 was a success with approximately 68 percent of the freshmen pledging a fraternity. The Oct. 1 . 1987 Phi reported that Phi Delta Theta and Pi Kappa Alpha each received 25 pledges. Kappa ■Mpha 23, Sigma Alpha Epsilon 20, Phi Kappa Sigma and Phi Gamma Delta 17, Phi Kappa Psi 16. Pi Kappa Phi 15. Beta Theta Pi 14, Kappa Sigma ? . Sigma Chi 1 1, Chi Psi 7 and Sigma Nu 7, Lambda Chi Alpha and Sigma Phi Epsilon 5. andZetaBetaTau4. Delta Tau Delta was put i)n probation throughout rush due to an un- fortunate incident that occurred at a summer rush party. The Delts. however, did conduct a suc- cessful second term rush. Looking ahead to Rush 1488. there will again be some changes made in the existing rush fomiat. The first of these changes was initiated by the Washington and Lee faculty, who voted on February I. 1988, to remove the Inter- Fratemity Council from the rush scheduling pro- cess The Student Affairs Committee will now i handle all decisions regarding next Fall ' s rush ' calendar. Fraternity members were understand- ably outraged. Senior Phi Kapp President Tommy McBride expressed in a February 1 1th ' ;; editorial that he. along with the other six- teen house presidents and the members ot the IFC (have) busted (our) tails making this past 22 Hush n: