THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, FEBRIUAR 'Rushing' Visit to Campus Fraternity A, ** ** Camera Sees Men Rushees InspectPsi U This week *over 350 men began a seven week period of extended fraternity rushing, and on hand to cover a typical gathering in picture and story was a Daily pho- tographic team. Altogether, there are 40 fra- ternities on campus including two which are beginning operations this semester. There are approx- imately 1,600 fraternity men on campus, according to the Inter- Fraternity Council, which is the coordinating body for all Houses. It is the IFC which draws up and supervises the overall rushing pro- gram. Rushing is held here each se- mester, beginning with an open house at all fraternities during which rushees may visit any house they choose. There follows a series of after dinner "smokers," later on dinners, and finally actual pledging. The rushing period is an ex- acting one on fraternity men and rushees alike. "What school are you in?" and several other stock questions dominate most of the conversation at first-but later meetings relax into informal bull sessions which give the men a real chance to know one another. Rushing scenes on this page were photographed at Psi Up- silon, 1000 Hill. They are intended by The Daily to reflect the activ- ities and spirit to be found in each of the other houses. on cam- pus. California, which was a disap- pointment to the gold-hungry Spaniards who came in search of the precious metal centuries ago, has since become the leading gold- producing state in the country, ac- cording to the World Book En- cyclopedia. n n F I I TIME OUT FOR GIN-Rushees Al Johnson, Jack Siering, Larry Shaw and Don Moore (standing, behind table) pause with their guides, Dave Tittle and Bob Jones to kibitz. Lyman Fishburn, (left) and Bob Gustke are the rummy players. ATTIC TO STOKER-Each rushee is taken on a complete tour of the House during his visit. Here Tom Massnick and Andy Smith are led downstairs by Dick Baxter to insnect the base- ment game room. WELCOME ABROAD-Bob Kittredge, Psi U's assistant rushing chairman greets Rtemsen Henry, Tom Alurray and Jack Siering at the front door. Lloyd Jones (behind him) prepares to take their coats. ( tIwzi/q Pie &we Pqre Story by Harold Jackson Photos by Bill Wise, ATHLETICS AND ATHLETES-Sports play an iportant part in fraternity life. Here Dogan Arthur and varsity diver Gil Evans explain the story behind one of the House trophies to Jack Siering, Emmett Dufua and Guy Schmidt. a.. BURY THE PADDLES: Hazing Gone with Advent 0 By JIM WIMSATT Shaven heads, broken paddles and painted carcasses, once fa-I miliar around local fraternity houses, have almost disappeared from Greek letter life on campus. At least that's what the fra- ternity house officers, who were interviewed by The Daily concern-f ing "hazing," seem to think. And most of them don't believe that large-scale abusing of the pledges will ever return. The preponderance of veterans in recent pledging classes has been the big motivating factor in exalting the pledge from his low- ly position into a state of almost- equality with the active chapter members, the house officers as- serted. Cut Paddling Many houses cut out paddling completely when the veterans took over the chapters after the war. A number of them have also substituted work projects for the former "Hell Week." On the whole the interviewees believed the "new regime" in pledge training has been very suc- cessful in getting the men to take an interest in the chapter affairs, which is "the prime aim of pledge 1 training," one man pointed out. Three of the men interviewed said that their fraternities still use the paddle, but on a much more rest ricted basis han for- merly. Spirit Gonie?I "While we still do some pad- dling," one chapter officer said, "we don't carry on organized haz- ing throughout the semester, as I'm told used to be done." How- ever, contrary to the general opin- ion, he also noticed somewhat of a trend back to the old system. with fewer veterans going through pledging. Has the "spirit" left fraternity life? The men didn't think so. "On a large campus such as this the fraternity provides an outlet for the energy and inter- ests of the men which is not otherwise provided." One man summed it up this way: "Part of the energy is naturally of the playful sort, which has just been diverted from the pledge into other channels." "This is a college fraternity," f Vet Pledges another house officer emphasized, 'and our pledges as college men should be able to share in our humor, rather than being the butts of it." "For instance," he continued, "when we gang up on a pledge and humiliate him, then he is the butt of our humor, but when we dress him up like a girl and send him through sorority rushing, then he is participating in it. In fact the pledge gets a great kick out of the joke and often is still telling his friends about it 60 years later." The Olympic Games were, of course, started by the ancient Greeks. According to the Ency- clopedia Americana the first con- test to be held in the ancient Olympics was the "stadion," or short distance foot race. It roughly corresponded to our 220 yard dash. Later boxing and wrestling and then other events were added. Hold Those Bonds! HUB OF THE HOUSE-Everything including the icebox gets a going over during the house tours. Jim Groff, left, examines its contents while Al McGreggor delivers a dissertation on the excellence of Psi U chow. FRATERNITY LORE-No house is complete without its traditions, founders and famous men. Rush- ees Dan LaFerte, Stan King and Jack Arbuckle (all seated) hear some Psi U history from Bill Davis, Dick Daniels and Hank Berry (left to right, standing.). i, Read and Use The Daily Classifieds U IL long sleeves, short sleeves or push up sleeves in tailored or lacy models. White, pastels -. and high shades for sizes 32 to 46. See them today. They're priced $4.00 to $10.95 Lacy Organdy r BLOUSES Tucked fronts, lace yokes with three-quarter length sleeves. Long Sleeved Crepe Sizes 32-36. BLOUSES $6.50 - $8.95 Tailored white, black, brown, or pastel blouses in Gibson Girlf fashions for sizes 32-38. $5.00 to $8.95 '."' ( i . tih 0q E BEfLI" j JCOLOR infra-red, a cosmic color, RED CALF accelerated to the speed of a far tomorrow i . hnrn in a lamn .. wr.a EA. :4 i+ f0 * rIl " ~oc1OY@ . t s 0 + """ + Shut-in friends and loved ones especially appreciate being remembered. Make it a point to stop in today and choose 1, i