Show RUSH Tongs Roll Out Mats to Greet Gullible Frosh By Bette Feature Editor it's in again rush week we Last quarter it engulfed the too weakened to fight back juniors and a few but this quarter the persecuted minority happens to be the freshman Now this group consists of the most innocent saints as ever caused John R. Park to drop his law They came upon this campus as green as a ten cent store and not half so They gazed around at the big buildings and the countless freshmen gazing around at other They ogled at the sophomores and wondered if any group could get so dissipated in one found the answer to that question shortly They were a confused mass of frosh caps and high school graduation But look at them now After only one quarter they are a sophisticated They know all the answers you ask the right and they can develop a compound alcoholic fracture as quick as any Upper classman in the publications It is at this time that the Deans feel the fledglings are ready to spread their and enter into the realm of pledge pins and small latter being the predominant feature no matter what issue is And so the tong members start polishing up their houses and their lines el The upstairs of the that formerly looked like something the scrap collector would turn are spruced up to impress the of the neatness and cleanliness of the but the joints are mopped up in such a hurry that if any prospective should ever look under the beds or or in the clothes all would be There are many things about rushing and the terms involved that some of the don't All this week Dean of Women Myrtle Austin may be heard explaining to some sweet young thing that a neckerchief isn't the president of a Due to the shortages of every thing but rushing has been streamlined to meet the restraints of existing The sororities offer you absolutely nothing in the way of caloric food to and unless you go to a rush party party armed with a large sack filled with comestibles you are in as bad a spot as those poor people of The lack of coupled with the fact that one feels like one is in the middle of a riveting machine at full speed are enough to frazzle everyone's nerves just a It seems that one has to have special qualifications to be asked to join a tong There is one for who is indeed sought It seems he was best speller in his row in Room B in the fourth grade of a public There is a little wench that is famous due to the fact that her mother's cousin is a good friend of Betty Grable's And so it Let for the sake of good fellowship and a few-other useless or into the life of a female and bring out a few of the low-lights of those few daze of chit-chat wherein she sells her and makes countless sacrifices in order that she make wear an enameled and talk about A rush party is the nearest thing to a Roman orgy as can be found on this end of a There is invariably some sort of as it is loosely consisting of a more talented member of the tong rendering to Me Only With Thine or Yourself Hut Don't Smear Your Everyone applauds strenuously at the end of the because they are so damn glad it's over and the prim madonna graciously grants the lucky listeners another number with the gusto and vigor of a suckling pig at lunch This time its Sailboat in the Moonlight and or on a Ship with a After the has died the sinister purpose of the whole get-together becomes all too Like mad everybody tries to be subtle and succeeds ns well as Hitler's Russian There is constant giggling and countless faces turning red as a result of all the lovely things said to the sweet When the smoke of battle has died away and the pledge is revived everybody heaves a sigh of relief and the chains are Someone makes a big ceremony out of the deal and shakes with everyone else within the radius of three Then the president of the tong makes her peace think of you are now a member of Un Kappa Coca |