Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-01-28 | Page 9 | 198 Pledged by Sororities and Fraternities at University

' . . . , 198 Pledged by Sororities and Fraternities at University!1 Higher Education Is Coeds Pedal Bike . " Rush Week Climaxed Forgotten for Time In Annual Derby On Utah Campus ' of men and women ttudcnti wait hopefully (or Invitation! to join a fraternity or aorority and only a figurative handful are Invited. Preparations and detail of the Sigma Chi derby were kept a On a platform a bicycle was ' deep aecret all week, but fiatur- mounted. A speedometer wae at- day noon, In front of the Sigma tached to the bicycle. Every aoror- Chl house, the mystery wae Ity pledge wae required to mount cleared. the bicycle, pedal It aa fast aa her Complete He! of pledgee oa Pag 1C Higher education wae forgotten forgot-ten Saturday at the University of Utah in the rueh of a aoclal whirl which etamped 51 men and 107 women students aa fraternity and sorority pledgee. And just to make the whole thing "legal." the annual derby of the university chapter of Sigma Chi, national social fraternity, was staged with pretty coeds pedaling a bicycle. The whole thing climaxed "rush week." that annual period in university uni-versity life during which hundreds legs would move. Result? The sorority whose pledgea pedaled the fastest was to be awarded a ailver trophy bowL ' The girls still war pedaling Saturday Sat-urday afternoon. After the derby, coffee and doughnuts were to be served and a matinee dance waa te be staged In the Sigma Chi house. Effie Jensen, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Ernell Jensen. 1S27 Harvard Har-vard avenue, chosen eweetheart of Sigma Chi this year, occupied the derby platform while Fielding K. Smith, local commercial artist, acted aa master af ceremonies. Starllne Frederick Price, derbv chairman, waa proud that the bicycle bi-cycle angle of the derby waa kept aecret all week, "Otherwise," he mused, "the gala might not hava been so eager to r get hooked." The street waa blocked off la front of the Sigma Chi house, 13M Eaat first South street. Member of the university faculty ware In the throng w,hlca watched the derby. ' Men "rushed" during the week by fraternities Indicated, In lor- ; mally, to which fraternity they gave preference, while women : handed In written choleea after "preference" banquet Friday night.