Sorority members vote on proposed rush systems
Bu DIANE SEAVER
A ballot of proposed sorority rush systems was voted upon Sunday night by all members of KU's 13 sororities.
These ballots, accepted at a joint panhellenic meeting of rush and presidents' councils, will not select next year's rushing system but will comprise a survey so the President's Council can choose a system more intelligently.
Rush at KU is a system within a system. It is a process used to select new sorority and fraternity members every year, and recently dissatisfaction has been building up within the sorority system.
THE SURVEY will give the presidents of each sorority an "understanding of how sorority members see their rushing program," according to Glenda Hord, Kansas City senior and president of Panhellenic.
Mrs. Kala Stroup, Assistant Dean of Women, said, "No system is perfect. Any system will work. We must understand the advantages and disadvantages of any system we adopt."
Complaints from sorority members concern the amount of time spent rushing first semester. The present system includes fall rush during orientation week, open houses during a fall weekend and invitationals during the break between first and second semesters.
SPEAKING FOR the administration, Aldon Bell, assistant dean of the College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences, felt that the present system is causing undue pressure on the freshmen during the first college semester, often the "sink or swim" semester for students.
The ballot asks those voting to choose between rush during the freshman year and rush at the beginning of the sophomore year. If the freshman year is preferred, a choice between four alternate plans is requested.
The tour freshman plans include:
- Fall rush before school with open houses and invitationals between semesters.
- Fall rush and open houses before school with invitationals between semesters.
- Transfer or fall rush, open house, and invitation between semesters.
- The present system.
CURRENTLY, fall rush is held for transfer women and those who failed to make a 1.2 grade point average their first semester at KU. This rush period is mainly to fill sorority vacancies created during the summer. The present formal spring rush is the major rush period held each year.
Before presenting the ballots to their houses, every president read a series of specifies about each plan. Emily Taylor, Dean of Women, said the survey was taken to find out what every individual wants without telling them what to want.
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SALUTING THE NEW GOVERNOR OF KANSAS Framing the cannons which saluted Governor Robert Docking of Kansas 19 times, is a national guardsman at attention. Docking later reviewed the troops and Kansas Highway Patrolmen.
KU students divided on draft question
By JACKI CAMPBELL
Yes, girls. Drafted
Professors may hear a new plea from female students one of these days: "Please, oh please, may I hand in some research paper or something to raise my grade? If I can't—I'll be drafted."
A recent poll conducted by "Scholastic Magazine" concluded that 46 per cent of America's junior and senior high school students favored involuntary service for women.
The votes of KU women were equally divided on this question.
THE REPORT SUGGESTED that this involuntary service should include "tasks of protecting, conserving and developing our country or those countries we wish to aid."
What would their uniforms be, we wonder—mini skirts and green berets?
Female drafting may sound funny now, but the airplane was probably seldom thought of with more than a snicker before Wilbur and Orville's escapade at Kitty Hawk. And who could have foreseen beatle-mania before the group made its hit?
The growing controversy over the draft system: i.e., who should be drafted; when is one eligible; and yes, even if there should be a draft in the first place, has grown.
SEVENTY-SEVEN PER CENT of the high school students interviewed favored adopting a National Service Program under which men could be drafted for non-military activities, rather than be inducted into active military service.
The KU students interviewed were equally divided on the idea of a National Service Program.
Non-military services would include such organizations as the Peace Corps, Vista and related programs.
KU students rejected the idea of stricter requirements for those giving non-military services. A longer duration of time and lower
salaries were the rejected requirements.
A MAJORITY AGREED that "every able-bodied, American, 18-year-old boy be required to go into the armed forces for at least one year.
Men's answers resulted in a 3:2 ratio with the majority saying they would "prefer to meet their own service obligation through military service."
The idea of a lottery system, with names of all "physically and mentally able" 18 and 19-year-olds being drawn from every year was emphatically rejected by the majority of these KU students interviewed.
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