When a freshman comes to the University he is taken around all the Fraternities and tilled up with beer. (The Sororities fill their freshers with equal quantities of tea). He then makes his choice of three Fraternties who in turn decide whether they want him.

There is an initiation period of half a year when the freshman may be asked to do anything, even scrubbing sidewalks with a tooth brush. During this period he is known as a "pledge."

Kiker said that it was the aim of every Sorority woman to get as many Fraternity pins as possible. After a number of dates the Fraternity [unclear: man] becomes "engaged to be enaged" to a Sorority woman and hands over his pin (which is incidentally a very expensive thing). The code says that this pin must be handed back if the girl gets another, but apparently this rarely happens.

H. A. Kiker

Pantie Raids

It costs up to 100 dollars to join a Fraternity which includes the cost of the pin. Rent is from 15 dollars to 20 dollars a term. Some Universities have abolished Sororities, but Mr Hunter left us to imagine the reason.

The debaters said that the pantic raids were nothing more than an expression of pre-exam tension.

They compared them to the goldfish swallowing of their fathers, and the pole sitting of their grandfathers. Mr. Hunter added, however, that exams began in the spring.

Another sidelight on American Universities is the ability to major in such subjects as "Underwater Flora." Thus students at Miami University can spend their whole university life looking at seat plants through the bottom of a glass bottomed boat.