2A- Thursday, September 6, 2007 NEWS The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom 4 HAZING RITUALS BEFORE THE DEPRESSION When all freshmen were potheads If you'rea freshman, you're prob- ably a little bit stressed out right now between trying to figure out when Angell Hall ends and Mason Hall begins and weaving in and out of the shelves of Ulrich's. Imagine doing all that clad in a shiny green beanie. Up until the 1930s, freshmen were forced to wear green toques - a type of close-fittinghbeanie - and perform for the upperclassman at the beginning of the fall term. Freshmen were requiredto wear "pots" - the nickname for the headgear - at all times from Con- vocation well into the beginning of the term, except for Sundays, accordingto a notice The Michigan Daily printed in 1919. Generally enforced by the soph- omore class, hazing rituals forced freshmen to do things like climbing light posts, mimicking monkeys, miming paddling a canoe down State Street and proposing to pass- ing girls on the street for onlookers' enjoyment. Michiganensian yearbooks from the time reminisce about the inevi- table skinned knees and scraped noses that resulted from the tom- foolery. In 1922, two freshmen ignited a campus controversy when they rebelled against the tradition, refusing to wear the hats. According to "The Making of the University of Michigan" by Howard H. Peckham, the strongest backlash against the two outliers came not from upperclassmen but from their peers in the freshman class. The class voted to shun the students and even campaigned for their expulsion. After one of the non-compliant freshmen had his head shaved by fellow students and the student's parents became involved, then- University President Marion Bur- ton stepped in to investigate. A faculty committee ruled that the customs should not be forced on students. Conformity, it wrote, "cannot be made a prerequisite to the enjoyment by any student of the privileges of the University." But the tradition continued until fizzling out during the Depression. The Undergraduate Council offi- cially put an end to the practice in the fall of 1934. The council declared that the custom was simply "outdated." 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Man's best friend bites man WHERE: University Hospital Emergency Room WHEN: Tuesday at about 8:45 p.m. WHAT: A victim was taken to emergency after being bitten by the family dog, DPS report- ed. DPS was uninvolved in the matter but was informed as a formality. Ring missing WHERE: University Hospital WHEN: Tuesday at about 9 p.m. WHAT: A patient lost a wed- ding ring, valued at $3,500, after leaving it on a food tray or in the bathroom, DPS reported. Dar Williams concert WHAT: Dar Williams brings her folk-pop act to Ann Arbor WHO: Dar Williams WHEN: Today at 8 p.m. WHERE: The Ark, 316 S. Main St. Welcome Week free skate WHAT: A free ice skating session to welcome students to campus WHO: Yost Ice Arena WHEN: Today from 8 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Yost Ice Arena the Diag WHO: Office of Student Activities and Leadership WHEN: Today from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: The Diag Free movie screening, snacks WHAT: A meet and greet for new North Campus students with free food and a showing of the newest Bond Movie, "Casino Royale" WHO: University Unions Arts and Programs and the Society of Women Engineers WHEN: Today from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. WHERE: North Campus Diag 1A California man is suing the police for the return of his seized pornogra- phy stash, The Smoking Gun reported. The pornography, valued at $25,000, was taken after the man was jailed for videotaping a woman and 17- year-old girl in their rooms and bathrooms. 2 Despite controversy, New York City's school system opened the first public Arabic language school in the nation yesterday. 3 A former Chinese Com- munist Party chief plagiarized an apol- ogy letter during his trial for corruption charges from a different resigned chief, the Procuratorial Daily reported. Festifal ORCIN WHAT: Representatives CORTIN from more than 400 student Please report any error in groups recruiting at tables on the Daily to corrections@ michigandailycom. 10 4 4 4 a I I