| Show I A Hopeful Sign Although there were a few bitter statements by a very small number of fraternity and sorority members to the effect V that their groups would refuse to cooperate with the t pendent executive council in the response by members of Greek-letter organizations to the call for applications for membership on some of next year's committees refutes such On the first call for applications the majority of the were from those affiliated with social fraternities and but with increased More Publicity Given publicity given the applications j by the Chronicle last un- affiliated students turned in applications in large It appears then that the charge made off and on during the school year that only affiliated students were appointed to committee because they were by the council comprised of affiliated was in The fact remains that there were few unaffiliated applicants and the fault that there weren't more seems to lie in the fact that not enough publicity was given the acceptance of Advantage of being a member of a fraternity in getting ap- k pointed to committees seems to be only valuable in that you s have an organization to inform when applications are being accepted in case you missed reading the notice in the The fraternities have learned that it aids them in rushing if have a number of campus personalities on their membership Realizing they keep a close watch for announcement of com-Watch for Announcement being formed so that they can inform ested members to Often the person applying has not seen the but had been told about it by a fraternity while the independent who missed seeing it in the Chron-icle did not apply even though he would have been interested in V- serving on the it was not the executive council's fault if an affiliate for a committee chairmanship if there were only affiliates from which to With the announcement of committee appointments being given a over a i period of several days by the nearly everyone- is aware that applications are being accepted and more students I This is as it should be and with careful evaluation given the applicants' experience and much of the discontent over committee membership should be cleared The new council is starting off early on the right They are trying their best to give in the student body an equal opportunity to take part in the activities and promote things of interest to the entire student And fraternity and sorority members are showing that they can and will cooperate by offering to do their Despite the predictions that school spirit would be torn s apart by the fraternity-independent squabble prior to and during it appears that it has Spirit Strengthened been With the smoke cleared many members of and sororities have realized that most of the inde- pendent candidates had outstanding qualifications for their position in addition to party support in helping them get And a lot of independents have realized that belonging to a Greek-letter organization isn't necessarily against a By getting everything off our we have discovered a lot about each and it's to the benefit of our Will |
