Show What U Students Think Spur Voices Protest Against To the Last night at a fireside national honorary service organization for sophomore voted on whether four independent chosen last spring on their activities and should be dropped because they pledged a and four new independent Spurs We admit that the independent Spurs should have their girls but we can see no reason why the other girls can not also remain as active Spurs without a. vote The national constitution states that any independent girl who pledges a sorority is automatically dropped if she is a if she is she remains without a vote and a new Spur is This clause was not mentioned to the independent girls when they pledged last Now they bought their and have been functioning as Spurs all this Tin's year they decided they would like to pledge a With the precedent followed other years of ignoring the constitution and allowing the girls to remain in Spurs without a vote in the girls made their Suddenly a bomb burst upsetting all their It was announced in meeting two days before formal pledging that Spurs were going to live up to their constitution for the first time this It was the only time many Spurs actives and had ever heard this particular clause Of course the girls could wait until they were active Spurs and then pledge their But this would be very unfair to the girls chosen to take their place as these girls would miss all of fall quarters activities besides their initiation and knowing this the girls went ahead and pledged rather than waiting until they were active and taking the place of the new Last night the voting was not on whether new independent spurs should be but whether these girls who pledged now should be dropped from the organization with no notice except two If the girls had been dropped last year under like circumstances Spurs would have lost several of their outstanding girls including Donna Spur of the would be any harm in allowing these four girls to remain in the chapter and then next year make it a definite point to live up to their I don't think it would be very democratic or fair to automatically drop these girls on such short A Spur |