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Show Wined & Dined Rushee Reveals All In Greek Week Diary Editor's note: What goes through the mind of a freshman faced with the prospect of fall rush? The following fol-lowing article is the week long diary of Brad Hayes. By BRAD HAYES Chronicle Staff Writer "WAR IS HELL or ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL" Sunday Mass was held and those in charge gave their blessings to the rushees; after which a quick briefing brief-ing was held. Monday We met the enemy for the first time today. They seemed like nice enough fellows; they treated us well and fed us properly, the facilities facil-ities were clean and in order (largely do to the efforts of prison- ers-of-war called pledges). How- ' ever, contrary to rules established at Geneva they tried to brainwash us. Tuesday War is hell, so they say. By the second day the rushees were really real-ly going through hell. The enemy put all the rushees through the interdigitational torture with questions. ques-tions. I was a good soldier and gave only my name, major and high school. Wednesday We have now met all ten foes and five are conquered. Today, however, how-ever, we meet the other five again. They fed us punch and cookies and kept throwing around some statement state-ment that "the best way to a man's heart is through his stomach" Some of the enemy knew better and arranged for go-go girls to win us over. It was a very effective maneuver. Thursday By today it was easy enough to see that the fighting frats were succeeding in their eager and hard fought battle to increase their ranks. We now were fighting three different groups. In the morning we were treated to all the food we could eat Fortunately in the afternoon after-noon we had a chance to build back our appetites so that we could again eat all our bellies could hold at the night parties. Friday Today the weather won out over fraternities and rushees alike. The big brave soldiers of the fraternities fraterni-ties did not like wallowing in the mud so the fighting was moved back inside. It was inside that some of us really got back at the fraternities by bodily harming their presidents in paddle ball courts, in swimming pools and on basketball courts. They got back at us however. how-ever. They treated us to a scrumptious scrump-tious big dinner and then when our bellies were fulL minds re- (Continued on page 7) Rushee Reveals (Continued from page 6) laxed and uninhibited, they , took us upstairs and "had a friendly little talk with us." They tried to avoid using "high pressure tactics like the other fraternities use," and simply sat one poor rushee amongst ten or twelve active members mem-bers and talked with us, hoping we would commit ourselves to their cause, many did. Saturday Today was a day of contemplation. contempla-tion. The week is nearly over and it is now time to digest all that has taken place. One must look past the parties, the food, the harshness harsh-ness of the situation, and find real friends, real people, a real place to relax, have fun and study. |