Monday, April 1, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Greeks draw sharp criticism
Delegates to the Big Eight Greek Conference at KU last week-end were advised to get rid of the excess baggage in their chapter or risk possible extinction.
Terry Bullock, Topeka attorney and Delta Upsilon area deputy, made the remarks in "The Greek System — Whence and Whither," given before 90 delegates in the opening session Friday evening at the Sigma Nu house.
"The Greek System was never meant to have, but one product—Men and Women, with a capital M and W. It was never meant to deliver, but one service—a process to develop Men and Women," he said.
The fraternity system has picked up a lot of baggage along the way, he said.
Bullock criticized strongly the present rush systems and pledge training programs. He called pledge training the "last form of sadism tolerated in modern society."
Bullock expressed surprise that more pledges don't leave.
"The initiates don't really want into the fraternity, they just want out of pledges."
He said pledge training was used "to inflate the deflated ego of the active chapter."
He asked why rush turned Greek Houses into real estate concerns, restaurants, antique
shops, bookstores and carpentry shops.
"Everybody knows you can get a better room and better meals cheaper in almost any other place. If we depend on our house or how good our food is for exhibition in rush, we are second rate." he said.
Bullock stressed reading the ritual books carefully to come up with a solid program based on the original ideals of the fraternity.
"There were no rush books, no pledges, or housing to contend with in the beginning. There were none of the extras—the sneaks, song fests, and the concern with sex, alcoholic beverages, and the latest cars, there is today."
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It is up to the individual chapter to make a decision on what is essential to the ultimate objective of the fraternity, and to get rid of the baggage—"impedimenta," that which gets in the way of progress.
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Hemis-Fair in San Antonio hosts 25 countries April 6
Tuesday and Wednesday April 2,3 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. Forum Room — Union
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—(UPI)—The siren song from Texas this spring, summer and fall will be "Come to the Fair"—the Hemis-Fair in San Antonio, which opens April 6.
It is an ambitious undertaking, a $156 million exposition situated in downtown San Antonio.
Twenty-five foreign countries, the United States and the states of Texas and Arkansas are major exhibitors. There are 19 private exhibitors, among them three breweries, the Mormon Church and the Southern Baptist Church.
Over the fair looms the 622-foot Tower of the Americas, a fluted concrete structure with a 620-ton, six-level "tophole" that contains a revolving restaurant.
million Institute of Texan Cultures which uses rear projection screens, magnetic tapes, photomurals, and slides to depict the colorful history of the Lone Star State.
When the fair closes Oct. 6 officials expect 7.2 million persons will have passed through its gates, paying $2 each.
The official theme of HemisFair is "The Confluence of Civilization in the Americas."
Using a new motion picture technique, the $6.75 million official U.S. exhibit tells the story of American culture along the lines of the HemisFair theme.
The State of Texas has a $10
HemisFair covers 92.6 acres of land the City of San Antonio took over in an urban renewal project.
The land upon which Hemis-Fair was built was part of the 900-acres granted to the original mission of San Antonio de Valero.
The Alamo, where 188 men died in 1836 in a last-ditch stand against 4,000 to 5,000 Mexicans, is 200 yards from HemisFair.
In acreage, HemisFair is bigger than the Seattle World's Fair of 1962 (75 acres) but much smaller than New York's World Fair (646 acres) and Montreal's Expo '67 (1,000 acres).
Foreign governments that are HemisFair exhibitors include;
Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Republic of China, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, The Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia and Venezuela.
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