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DIRTY RUSHING This week's lead edito rial points out the bla tant disregard of the IFC tEtye Butte Chronicle rules. See Page 6. Vol. 4G—No. 19 Duke University, Durham, N. C. Friday, February 23, 1951 Les Brown Will Play for S V S SVSandHVH Bixby To Assume Lead Phi Kappa Sigma Leads Adjust Schedules Spring Rushing Season Of Next Year's WFAC For Friday Night Molly Bixby will succeed Patt McAIister as the chairman of the Uncertain Roster Ends With 236 Pledges Woman's Advisory Council for Causes Economy After a week of handshakes and hotboxes, formal rushing the coming year. came to a hectic finale late Saturday afternoon as 218 freshmen The Freshman Advisory Coun Les Brown and his "Band and 18 upperclassmen returned bids to the fraternity of their cil is composed of about forty of Renown" will add to the choice and officially became pledges. upperclass students who are festivities of the Shoe 'n' Slip Phi Kappa Sigma leads the pack in number of pledges with chosen by the House Council and per week end, April 20-21, if 20, while Sigma Alpha Epsilon .... Joe Han Upperclassmen: Jim Chamberlain. the former Freshman Advisory he puts his signature on the and Lambda Chi Alpha have 19 Kappa Sigma Council. The members of this contract, promised Bob Renfrow, each and : Beta Theta ~" Wayne Cunningham, Don Kovegno, Joe council aid in the freshman president of the organization. Other fraternities ranged from ]Healey , Hugh Johnson, Robert Trcbus. Peter Goubert, William Smith, Marvin Decker. orientation program and serve 15 to 2, with the average num Charles Brown James Farbei, James Bradr, as guides and friends to their Brown will provide the music ber of pledges being approxi group of girls throughout the on both Friday and Saturday mately 11. nights. Because the Hoof 'n' Lambda Chi Alpha year. Each freshman group con Of the 320 freshmen eligible John Collins, Jim Wylly. William Maddox. sists of about ten girls. Horn's last show is also on April Dick Ware, Lee Barnes, 5a 20, Friday's dance will start at to join fraternities this semester Robert Brannoo, John Nessen, Dean Miss Bixby will assume lead 218 became pledges. They rep UttOO, S^iv-in Piersen, John Adams, John 9:30 while H 'n' H will begin its Lawther, Dick Brennen. Bill Hames. Pen Str ership of the council in March presentation 15 minutes earlier resent 36 per cent of the fresh ict. Drayton Justus. Kim Watson. when the new Freshman Ad than usual. man class. Eighteen upperclass Upperclassmen: Bill Williams. visers are appointed. Her posi men also pledged Saturday. (Continued on Page Four) In answer to expected com Staggering Pledges tion also entitles her to be the plaints about having only one parliamentarian and ex - officio band for the week end, Renfrow Many fraternities had "st member of the Woman's Stu explained, "The draft and vol parties for their new pledges dent Government Council. Saturday evening. Candidates Vie unteers may have cut down our 1 She has been active in campus membership, and we do not Bids were sent out to under- ~r XJ • E * J affairs and is a member of Ivy, elections are the chairman of the know at this time the exaet ros classmen and upperclassmen Fri-: J_ fj, MTT'\'Ze JTJJXalS dean's list, Pegasus, Glee Club, Student Forum Committee to ter of the club. Because it is a day after a series of open houses' Freshman Advisory Council, Re replace Wink Boone, chairman proportional cost affair, and be which the 20 campus fraternities j Finalists for Angier B. Duke ligious Emphasis Week Commit of the Student Coordinate Board cause there was a slight financial sponsored for the purpose of | Scholarships from the eight re- tee, and the-Kappa Alpha Theta to replace Joanie Craig, the loss on the last dance, this econ better acquainting freshmen and'' gions of North Carolina will sorority. chairman -of the Campus Chest, omy is being planned." fraternity men. Accepted bids;meet here March 16-17 for final The selection, marks the first and the members of these com Two Packages were returned to the respective j selection of nine prize winners, of several appointments to be mittees and Sandals. All these In the history of the club, sections at 5 p.m. Saturday, and j These finalists are being se- made in East Campus politics. organizations are subsidiary there have been only two "pack rejects were given to Dr. How-, lected in regional contests this Others to follow after the March groups of the WSGA. age" dances in which more than ard Stroble, head housemaster,,. week. Five candidates from each one dance band participated. In by 4 p.m. the same afternoon. : region will be chosen for the the spring of 1950 Glen Gray, The following students pledged : final contest. Charlie Spivak and Blue Barron Saturday: | John M. Dozier, executive sec- Phi Beta Kappa Elects Fifteen all played here and last fall Alpha Tau Omega i retary of the prize committee, Vaughn Monroe and Tex Beneke Singlet . shared the bandstand. Perry, Clay Willi. Little. Ken OrV, Die* , a maximum of $3,000 for study To Ranks of Honor Fraternity .• Brown is an alumnus of the Bartlett, Dick Linden. at Duke will be awarded to Phi Beta Kappa elected 15 un head of the Department of class of '36, and during his four Upperclassmen: R. N. Norton. three girls and six boys from dergraduates to the scholastic English at George Peabody Col years here led an orchestra, "Les Beta Theta Pi representative regions through- Tom Dulin. Bill Bryant, Bob Mayer. John „,,* «._ c-ta+o honorary fraternity, Wednesday, lege, Nashville, Term. Brown and his Blue Devils." At Reed. Charles Novak. Doug Smiley. Stan Col 0L"i, ™ *™le; ' Feb: 21. that time Johnny Long, also an nie Wingerter•rijjL-nt-., Charles Schuck, Ken, Establishe-_d in 1946, the An- Receiving an honorary elec r Gerbt Juniors who received the hon tion was Dr. Walter McKinley alumnus of Duke, played at feio^'jol D&. n£%£" Randl<:' ! §ier Dul^e prize Fund is design- or are Welty Kenney Withers, Nielsen, professor and chairman dances in this section, creating 'ppt.-r Farquhar, Dewe; ed to aid and encourage out Sally Prosser Verner, George of the Physics Department at competition between the organi Chi Phi standing students who are resi Edward Binda, Olin H. Ingham, Duke. zations. Morgan Brenner, Richard Van Zandt. dents of North Carolina. Herbert Trice Dukes, Ernest Dr. Furman G. McClarty was In 1949 Frank Sinatra named Delta Sigma Phi Gene Reeves, Robert Matthew elected president of the Duke Les Brown's orchestra "the best William YenzSC James Cedetstrom. William Wiita and Roy Stanley Wood. all-'round band of the year." To Roberts. Franklin Rufty. Wilburn Herring. World War Threat chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The Delta Tau Delta Most are pre-medical students. other officers were Dr. William add |o his success, his recording Peie W'aldrop. DcLeon Stokes, Perry Stewart. i Six seniors who were elected F. Stinespring, vice-president; of "I've Got My Love to Keep Thomas Progler. Donald Richardson. Warren Thwarts Chronicle i.iebfricd. Stephen Karpman. An Holmes, are Mary Elizabeth Trimmer, Dr. James Cannon III, secretary - Me Warm" sold one million James Fulton. James Cranwell, Charles Cooley Robert Laird Van Dyck, Carl copies. Albert Bragg, George Freeze. George Fesper- Complications arising from treasurer; and Dr. Paul J. the present international situa Preston Rose, Walter Edward Kramer and Dr. Theodore Ropp, The saxaphone-playing leader Hudgins, Doris Lee Crowell, Ar Kappa Alpha tion have thwarted efforts of members of the Executive Coun has composed several songs, his Rudy Lacy, Duane Wolfe. Fred Farmer. the CHRONICLE to publish two thur Weir McConnell and Alan cil. best known number probably be Henry Boshamer Ralph Paris, Don Roberson, William Sliker. John Neely, Bill McGuinn, Tom Price, Fuller issues per week, as it had stated The annual Phi Bete initiation ing "Sentimental Journey." Glass, Pete McGarry. Jimmy Redwine, Paul it would do this semester. Roy Prentice Basler, Ph.D., and dinner will be held Wednes i In an article appearing in a Duke '34 was also elected to the day, March 21, in the Union I last-semester issue, the CHRON- scholastic fraternity. Dr. Basler Ballroom on West Campus at Dick Johnson Gets Top Chanticleer • ICLE announced that it would 6 p.m. Dr. Goodrich C. White, return to its old policy of semi- president of Emory University, l weekly editions, which had been will speak. Business Post in Pub Board Election i discontinued two years ago. But Reserve Lowers 1 the printers were unable to fit Business manager of the 1952 i the added paper into their al- Professors, Staff Chanticleer is Dick Johnson, I ready heavy schedules because Grade Standards elected Wednesday afternoon by 1 of the recent loss of three press- Back Development Pub Board. He was the only 1 men to the Armed Forces, College seniors may apply for candidate for the office, succeed i The five-column format, how- commissions in the U. S. Naval Duke faculty and staff mem ing Bob Peterson. ! ever, will be continued. CHRON- Reserve 120 days before gradu bers have rallied to support of Elections for editor-in-chief of ! tcLE editors believe that the ation under reduced academic the Duke Development Fund the yearbook have been post 1 present format, originally pro- requirements, reported C m d r . with contributions totalling $81,- poned until Wednesday, Feb. 28, Clyde Van Arsdell, executive of 951 from over 441 subscriptions, • oosed last spring by Associate at 4 p.m.