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JAYPLAY 09.06.2007
HOW WE met COZY COMRADES
TheymetanInternationalStudentAssociation meeting last November. Rehman and Malakasis became best friends at first sight, talked about their cultures, which are both very superstitious, and discovered they had a lot in common. They often walk hand in hand down the street, and they say people incorrectly think they're lesbians. They are both interested in belly dancing, and they read Turkish fortune cards together.
Daniel Reyes
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Mahaeen Sarah Rehman, (left) Pakistan senior,
and Carol Malakasis (right) Greece junior
THIS WEEKEND HASKELL INDIAN ART MARKET
The famous Native American weekend is back. The 19th annual Haskell Indian Art Market will be held this Saturday from 10:00 a.m.
to 5p.m., and Sunday from 10a.m. to 5p.m.at Haskell Indian Nations University. More than 150 Native American artists from all around countries will set up an booth to
show their crafts. People will also have a chance to enjoy tasty Native American food from more than 15 food booths. Virgil Aleen, co-chair of the Haskell Indian Art Market, says the event is one of the top 15 Indian art markets around the country. Last year, more than 20,000 people visited the market. Admission is free.
Seongbae Cheon
WHAT it's LIKE TO BE A HOUSEMOM MΩM
What do you call a college woman who's single, doesn't keep a permanent home and gets paid to live with dudes? Mom.
Or at least housemother, the job title of Marilyn McElhayn, the new female-in-residence at the Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji) fraternity house.
"it's much more fun than raising your own kids," McElhany says. "All the fun, none of the legal responsibility."
McElhany moved in with the 66-or-so brothers three weeks ago after a four-year hiatus from Greek life. Before then she lived at the Alpha Tau Omega house, currently the Pi Kappa Phi residence, for 12 years.
"The ATO house was well-known as one of the great party houses of all time," she says.
But McElhany, a birth-mother of four and grandmother of six, says the animal-house stereotype that fraternities have just isn't true. On any given night, McElhany says you'll see freshman Fijis completing their four hours of mandatory study time, not running around all drunk and naked.
The Fiji's Web site says that last spring the
house earned a cumulative 3.0 grade point average, and McElhany says that the house is pretty quiet most of the time.She's simply there to organize the occasional chaos of multi-male living and make sure her fraternal stepchildren are content.
"As long as they're happy, I'm happy. But there ain't a boy in the world that won't tell you 'if mommy ain't happy, nobody's happy,'" she says.
McElhany says that being a housemother is more a lifestyle than a job. Her sleep schedule is often more like a student's than an adult's and she lives with relatives, takes vacations or goes to her summer home in Colorado when the house closes for academic breaks.
But she freely admits that being a housemother is especially suited for the strange.
"It's a wonderful way of life, it's just a little odd," she says. "It's bizarre, I mean, who would want to live with a bunch of men?"
Nathan Gill
THU 6 WHITE GHOST'S SHIVERS
W EITA VENETIA'S EYEFUL TOWER, FEAT. RED LEFTY
FRI 7 VALIENT THORR VOLCOM TOUR 20017
VALIENT THORR CODE+TOTIMOSH
NEW PRANKL PANTHENS
SAT 8 RED BALLOON TO DO & AFTERPARTY
THE SPOOKLIGHTS & COAT PARTY
THE SPOOKLIGHTS & COAT PARTY
MON 10 BEYOND BLUE MONDAYS 8-9PM
W/ JP NICHLOS & JIMMIE MEADE
COAT PARTY
FAST COMPUTERS • WATERFOWL HABITAT
TUE 11  SHAWN FRANKLINK BENEFIT
HITS WITH BIG STACK DESIGN • VANILLE
BIG STACK DESIGN • VANILLE
WED 12 WHITE RABBITS
VIA AUDIO • MASON PROPER
SAT15 AM SYNDICATE AMPLE BRANCHES • TBA
FRI 14
BLUGEGRASS MATINEE 6PWI
BIG CAT KANSA & FLOOKERS FREE TIPS WELCOME
WILLIAM ELLIOT WHITMORE 10PM
TIM BARRY* JOSM SHAW
SAT 8 THE RESULTS
THE RUNAWAY SONS
FRI 7 SHIVERS ROCK SHOW
WHITE GHOST SHIVERS PLAY METAL • THE OLD BLACK
THU 6 THE BELLES LEAVES
SUN 9 RED ROCKET
TBA
MON 10 METAL SCHOOL WITH DJ MOTLEY CRUZ
TUE 11 PAPER CITIES DRAYTON SAWYER GANG • PRINT
WED 12 PATCHWORK
AMPLE BRANCHES