The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1958 Page: 5 of 6
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February 7. 1958
THE REDBIRD
Fraternity News
(Editor's note: Beginning next week, Stuart Kinard will
edit this column which will be devoted to news from the
social and service fraternities. All announcements and
items of interest should be given to Kinard or delivered
to the REDBIRD office by noon Tuesday.)
Deadline Set
Registration for frater-
nity rush will continue
through Feb. 12 in the of-
fice of Norris Kelton, Dean
of Men, 201 Student Union
Building. A registration
fee of $2 will be charged
to each student.
To be pledged to a social
fraternity, a studen t with
previous college credits
must have posted a mini-
mum of 1.0 grade point
average for me preceding
semester and be regis-
tered as a full time stu-
dent at the time of pledg-
ing. New students with no
previous college credits
must have been accepted
without condition by the
college, and be a full-time
student. A full-time stu-
dent is defined as one who
is signed up for a mini-
mum of 12 semester hours.
Pledges will not be accep-
ted by any fraternity until
Monday, Feb. 17. Rush will
end Friday, Feb. 21, after
w h i c h no student may be
pledged until the fall sem -
ester.
Sig Eps to Install
Texas Epsilon chapter
of Sigma Phi Epsilon will
install its new officers at
the Monday, Feb. 10, for-
mal meeting in Canterbury
House at 7:30 p.m. Re-
cently electee were
George Harvey, president;
Bennie L. Jarratt, vice-
president; J. E. Sherman,
comptroller; Alvin Payne,
pledge trainer; and Donald
Coffey, Inter-Fraternity
Council representative.
HankSmith, historian; and
and Gerald Morvant, sec-
retary; were re-elected to
their respective offices.
Initiation of fall pledges
will take place shortly at
Mont Leon Hall, but the
date is indefinite. The can-
didates for initiation are
Allen Crouch, Carl Dum-
esnil, John Durrenberger,
Charles Hicks, Sheldon
Lee. Douglass Libby,
George Mayers, Don Rice,
and Leonard Tibbetts.
KA Invites Rushees
The Kappa Alpha Order
is giving a rush party at
the Ridgewood Motel on
Sunday, Feb. 9, 2-5 p.m.
All interested rushees are
invited to attend.
Sigma Nu Party Set
Rushees interested in
attending the Sigma Nu
rush party on Saturday,
Feb. 15, are asked to call
George Anderson at TE
3-0374.
George Honsberger and
Bud Morgan are the new
representaitves of Sigma
Nu on the Inter-Fratemitv
Council.
ATO Rush Party
The first rush party of the
Sororities Announce
Rush Party Schedule
Mrs. Bess Gentry, Dean
of Women, has announced
the schedule for the rush
parties to be held by Pan-
hellenic sororities preced-
ing the opening of spring
op&ii rush. All rushees
registering for open rush
must attend all four pa rtiesi
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Spring session for Alpha which will be given Sunday
Tau Omega will be tonight, latter no on, Feb. 16. The
7:30-9:30 p.m., in the
Cardinal Room of the Stu-
dent Union Building. Dress
will be coat and tie. An in-
vitation is extended
through the REDBIRD to all
rushees who have regis-
tered.
Kappa Alpha Chapter
Attends Convention
Plans for a national con-
vention were made at Alpha
Phi Omega's Southwest
Section Conference held
this past week-end in San
Antonio. Carl Wells, pres-
ident, and several mem -
bers of the Kappa Alpha
chapter at Lamar attended
theeventwhich ended Sun-
day.
Corivention delegates
planned to hold the nation-
al convention in Austin
during August. The Kappa
Alpha chapter was put on a
committee in charge of the
smoker prior to the con-
vention. Theywill work on
the projectalongwith Alpha
Rho at the University of
Texas and Delta Omega at
the University of Houston.
Activities of the conven-
tion included a guided tour
to the Alamo and other
points of in te re st in San
Antonio, a breakfast and a
banquet.
Attending the session dele-
gates of the Lamar chapter
were: Fred Smith, Johnny
Lopez, Rodney Gary, New-
ton Lemke, Ralph Smith,
Lg_rry Murphy, Raymond
Rice, Jim Lester and Wen-
dell Radford.
Agnes, Please come home,
all is forgiven. Love, Jim
times and places are as
follows: Delta Zeta, Union
building, 2:00-2:45; Alpha
Chi Omega, Dining Hall,
3:00-3:45; Alpha Delta Pi,
Union building, 4:00-4:45;
Kappa Delta, Dining Hall,
5:00-5:45.
Registration will be held
from Feb. 10 through noon
Feb. 14 in the Dean of Wo-
men's office. A fee of $2.00
must be paid at this time by
girls registering for open
rush for the first time at
Lamar. Other rules and
regulations are available in
Dean Gentry's office.
FROM THE PRESIDENT
(Cont. from page 1)
126 hours required for
graduation, of about one-
sixth of the total hours re-
quired to take a degree.
Even these twenty-four
hours of work are designed
to contain a large percen-
tage of subject matter."
Thirdly, our president
points out, more than one-
third of all credit hours
taught at the college are in
technologic a 1 cours'es.
Quoted figures show that
23,511 student semester
hours were taught in sci-
ence, engineering,and
mathematics last fall out
of a total of 62,082 credit
hours taught. A further
breakdown shows that
there were 10,626 hours
taught in the sciences,
6,024 in engineering, and
6,861 in mathematics,
'We at Lamar feel that
we are doing an excellent
job of training future sci-
entists, engineers, and
teachers with a minimum
of delay. However, not a
day goes by that we do not
work for still greater im-
WESTERN WEEK CONTEST—Johnny Sigona holds the
greased pig he caught in one of the western week con-
tests held on campus Tuesday.
(Photo by Tommy Dixon)
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Passin’
Fashions
Cherrie
Editor
Hunter- -Fashion
Which part of your bod},
actually carries your pas-
sin' fashions? Which part
of your body, next to the
heart, carries the greatest
load? Simple- -jrour feetl
These two plodding weight
carriers, as they are often]
thought of, affect your ap-
pe a ranee more than you
realize. Yes, of course you
choose your shoes with the
greatest of care in regards
to outward appearance. But
right now the spotlight is on
the size four and/or nine
provement in our require-
ments and techniques,"
Dr. McDonald concluded.
that you couldn't get plenty
of that just walking from
class to class, but foot ex-
ercise takes some concen-
trated effort if it is to be
effective. Here are some
easy-to-do foot exercises:
1. Stand with your feet par-
allel. Rise up on-your toes,
then slowly sink down again.
2. Walk on the outer edges
of your.feet.
3. Stand and rock back and
forth. Raise your heels off
the floor and stand on your
heels. Alternate this.
4. Sit down. Extend your
legs. Spread your toes out,
fan-like, as far apart as
they can go. Then bring
them under, as if you're try-
ing to pick up a pencil with
that slide into the stylist them (in fact, try picking up
footwear. jBUjjj nr* N
One of the most import-
ant factors in foot care is
pencil with them.)
5. Sit down. Extend your
legs. Raise your feet off
exercise. That's not to say the floor and bend your toes
up and back as far as po
sible toward the kni
(Cont. on page 6)
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LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick Bibler
"HE'S IN PRIVATE CONFERENCE WITH MISS LUSH-CARE TO WAIT?*
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