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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1964
Sorority Rush Changed Since Mom Went Through
Rv Linda Machin
Rush week just ain't what it used to be . . . and what a relief!
Gone are the days when rushees were housed in the sorority houses themselves during rush week. This year freshman rushees will remain in the dormitories, Corbin, Gertrude Sellards Pearson, and Grace Pearson, while all upperclass women will be consolidated on seventh floor of Hashinger.
FOR THOSE freshmen and upperclass women registered, the formal rush period begins in two weeks—January 28, with open house and ends officially the following Tuesday, February 4, after lists of new pledges for the 12 women's Greek houses are released.
Alumnae recall the days "when they went through" attending teas and other formal parties wearing hose and heels, sometimes hats and even gowns. Today, Rush is much less formal in many ways. Unlike the past, it doesn't require a new wardrobe. The average woman student's school clothes are fine—skirts and sweaters, blouses and jumpers, and flats and loafers.
As with clothing, the rule of thumb, comfort and ease, holds true
Pinnings
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Suzanne Northecutt, Vernal, Utah junior, to Tom Sego, Lawrence senior. Phi Kappa Psi.
Penny Paul, El Paso, Tex, junior at Texas Western College, to Larry Bucher, Eureka junior, Lambda Chi Alna.
Rosemary Mahoney, Wakefield,
Mass. junior, to Edward White,
Wakefield, Mass. junior, Phi Kappa
Theta.
Nancy Patterson, Wichita junior, Chi Omega, to Metz Metzler, Lake Forest senior, Sigma Nu.
Jan Walker, Sedan junior, to Stephen Bly, Wichita junior, Phi Kappa Theta.
Mignon Scarpino, Prairie Village freshman, to Bob Meyer, Prairie Village sophomore, Sigma Nu.
Marlene Haug, Topeka sophomore at Washburn University, to Dennis Waetzig, Topeka junior, Phi Kappa Theta.
Charlotte Ensley, Kansas City, Mo.
senior, Alpha Phi, to John Townsend,
Atherton, Calif. junior, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon.
Engagements
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Karen Kay Dietz, Great Bend junior, Chi Omega, to Bob Moffat, Great Bend senior, Phi Delta Theta.
Judy Grigg, Lawrence sophomore, to Jim Bodin, Lawrence senior, Kabba Sigma.
Sandra Lorton, Kansas City sophomore, Delta Gamma, to Steve Renko, Kansas City sophomore, Phi Delta Theta.
Virginia Koger, McPherson sophomore, to Allen Baldwin, McPherson freshman at Kansas State University.
Ellen Shaffer, Moberly, Mo., sophomore, Delta Gamma, to Bill Owen, Eartlesville, Okla., sophomore, Delta Tau Delta.
Stephanie Sooby, Mission sophomore, Gamma Phi Beta, to Mike Deer. Lawrence senior, Sigma Nu.
Nancy Lintecum, Prairie Village senior, Chi Omega, to Fred Hamilton, Iuka senior. Sigma Nu.
Doris Hartwick, Westwood, N.J.
freshman, to Terry Truax, Kansas
Phyllis Huffman, Pratt sophomore
City junior.
at Wichita University, to Joe Hamilton, Iuka sophomore, Sigma Nu.
Helen Warren, Maple City sophomore, Alpha Phi, to Dan Fair, Sterling senior.
Helen Bingham, Wichita senior, to Mike Elwell, Wichita senior, Sigma Nu
Eubette Cowley, Downs junior, to Ted Rathbun, Lorraine senior.
Deanie Stahl, Bethel sophomore, Alpha Phi, to Edward Powers, first year law student at Washburn University.
Carolyn Conaway, Winfield sophomore, to Herbert Hesser, Kansas City senior.
Sheri Anderson, Lawrence sophmore, to Jim Stein, Spearville senior.
tor other changes in the system. No longer does the rushee have to worry about being pressured into pledging by alumnae, boyfriends or sorority members.
Many alums remember days when a rushee's boyfriend received greater attention that the girl herself. In order that each rushee has the opportunity to make her own decision of where to pledge, or not to pledge at all - without pressure from other rushees or men students, Panhellenic regulations include a "no dating" provision from January 28 through February 4.
RUSHEES are no longer exhausted and confused by continual rushing before and after parties. A few years ago when sorority preferences could be signed any time during the formal rush period, one alumna tells how rushees were whisked from a sorority house to the Dean of Women's office via sorority members' cars to sign preference cards before they "were quite certain what was happening."
Such persistent pursuit and persuasion is non-existent.
No oral invitations to parties or oral bids to pledge are allowed. Rushees receive and answer printed invitations in the form of IBM cards through their rush counselors each morning.
Rushees will go to the Dean of Women's office "unescorted" immediately after the last parties Sunday, Feb. 2 to sign sorority preference cards.
STIPULATIONS REQUIRE absolutely no contact between the formal rush between rushes and sorority members — actives, pledges, or alumnae — with the exception of invitational parties until after invitations to pledges are delivered Feb. 4.
In some ways, women's rush is more formal than in the past. But, here too, the change is welcome. For the rushee is relieved of needless tension and outside pressures. The days are over when a constant flow of long distance telephone calls from anxious mothers, insistent sorority alumna and curious well wishers made a rushee's decision difficult, tearful—if not impossible. Nowadays,
"rushees shall receive no long distance phone calls from sorority alumnae or others desiring or giving rush information," according to Panhellenic regulations.
Mrs. Kala Stroup, assistant to the dean of women, explained that rush-ees are not banned from phone calls, but that no reference to rush can be made.
DISCUSSIONS OF rush are to be limited to the counselors and the staff concerned. Each dormitory floor has a rush counselor in addition to the regular counselor. All 24 temporary counselors who will move into the dormitories at the beginning of the rush period, are informed sorority members representing the Panhellenic Association. The special counselors will be there to explain rush procedure, answer questions about sorority living, and to help record acceptances and regrets to invitations.
According to Mrs. Stroup, who is in charge of rush, two of the most important jobs for the rush counselors are to clear up rumors and answer personal questions, keeping the information confidential.
Emily Taylor, Dean of Women, pointed out that both sorority members and rushees are responsible for keeping rush rules. Any violations must be reported immediately to rush counselors or directly to the Dean of Women's office.
Initiation, Lecture For Sigma Xi Meeting
Sigma Xi, national honorary research society, will present a public lecture on important new research equipment and will hold initiation and promotion ceremonies for 42 persons Thursday.
L. Worth Seagandollar, professor of physics, will speak at 7:30 p.m. in 411 Summerfield. His topic is "The New University of Kansas Three Million Volt Van de Graaff Generator—the Machine and Its Uses."
Among those to be honored by the research society is Emory B. Phillips, professor emeritus of electrical engineering, who will become an honorary chapter life member.
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Go Easy-on the
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Uncommitted
Netflix
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Wicked Ochre
Strip Ochre
Tappo Ochre
Bringemback Olive
Im Peach
Com Pewter
Lydia Pink
Parlor Pink
Political Plum
Tuckered Out Plum
Illuminous Puce
Rest in Puce
Clare Bootie Lance
Quida Purple
People Eater Purple
Unpertur Purple
Pelly Putty
Better dead than
Red
Blooded American
 Boy Red
Light District Red
Sea Red
Thorob Red
Shad Rose
Billy Rose
Cost-of-Iving Rose
Gypsy Rose
Hackles Rose
Hedge Rose
Too Black Rose
Glasses Colored Rose
Tokyo Rose
Abie's Irish Rose
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Guarantee Rust
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Lean Arm Sandy
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Holy Mackerel
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Bipartisan Slate
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Outright Steel
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Charla Tan
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Room at the Taupe
Tip Taupe
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Down Umbar
Telephone Umbar
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Bled White
Civil White
Inalienable White
'Enry Iygins Just
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Heeple White
Hereford Faced
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Whelp Up
Floreal The Brick
Road Yellow
Stonepark Yellow
Sunlight on the
Mustard of
Coney Island Hc
Dog at Sunset
Yellow
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