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Tfrday night marks one of the proudest and the Hun Ih a recent test (recorded in the May Inexpensive power took. The invention of the byproduct! and having her walk about the
most exhilarating traditions oC the college issue (Psychology Quarterly) reienttaui at microwave veri in the 1970s was seen as a campus until somebody either asks her out or
social experience as bid night returns to the Minnesota University proved that laboratory breakthrough in club circles Until it was throw a tarp over her
A&U campus. Bid night is the renewal of rats were much less likely to fight over food discovered that the door had to be shut for the The unique added benefit of bid nights at
kindred spirits and the solemn com- pellets after having been run through a Unit to work disallowing the insertion ot ACU involves the Christian atmosphere that
memoration of past fellowships. But most typesetting machine. And several develop- connected limbs. Many clubs were reduced to pervades each and every activity. Pledges
importantly bid night Is friendship memai psycnoiogy ineones are cicseiy oasea niiiing- pseages over uie neaas wiui ovens mat are encouraged to atiena cnurcn services
had been bought with club funds.
frJpndshln felt ro deenlv as to dafv expression on the adage "Adversity builds character."
byany means other than leather thongs and It Is in this spirit that veteran club mem-
thumb screws. Ders help pledges find healthy doses of
"Sociologists are unsure as to the origin of character via waffled boat paddlesn either
bid night though many trace it as far back as until the members-to-be demonstrate clearly
thVSnnnich TnnuihiMnn. ninrv entries from suDerior character or until thev are able tasit
Spanish officers of that period record ac- on one anothers' shoulders Without leaving that might ruin a good sports jacket.
tivltics strikingly similar to present-day bid the ground. Equally beneficial effects have
and many clubs set up a quiet time during
Moderation and common sense are urged which pledges are paired wiui oiaer Drawers
of sisters and are able to discuss personal w
niehts.. Writes one corooral: "We have begun
to tell them that we are onlv dismembering feeling of unity among pledges. Unity was the
tijbm. because we like them. This apparently proclaimed motivation of some fraternity
and generally observed in the use of
mechanical devices during Bid night struggles while the club member strikes them
ceremonies. Fragmentary bombs are intermittently with a golf club or metal rod.
frowned upon as are incendiary instruments In all case3 bid night is considered by club
members to be one of the most memoraoie
Been experiences of their college careers Students
comforts them and a few even seem to enjoy
it."-"
Ijid night activities were not carried on
regularly in the American colonies until the
late 1700s. The first documented pledge-like
occurrence in America took place in 1728 in
Williamsburg Va. when a young carpenter
fell into a mill and Was crushed to death.
Bid night additionally serves to create a achieved with less violent activities involving approaching Friday night as pledges would
lorceo consumption or exposure to repulsive do well to develop first the ability to laugn at
materials. Such techniques have been 'themsclvesi being double-jointed also would
stigmatized in recent months however since be helpful.
a University of Georgia freshman suffered This weekend and over the next several
permanent brain damage from being forced weeks you will be afforded an experience
to sit through three consecutive showings of unlike any other save perhaps a midnight
"Purple Rain." dash through New York's Central Park with a
Bid night activities of girls' social clubs side of pork hung around your neck. And some
differ considerably from their male coun- day 40 or 50 years from now when bid night
brothers at Louisiana State University in
1967 wheh they forced a group of pledges into
a large clothes dryer and forgot about them
over spring break holidays. The eight
freshmen were literally inseparable after the
ordeal until dental records were obtained
and identifications could be made.
Pledging techniques have evolved con- terparts as public humiliation is preferred to has faded to a subconscious glimmer: while
The psychological and moral benefits of bid siderably over the past 30 years. The 1950s private pain infliction. Many girls' clubs you sit nensivelv on a back Dorch. bouncing
nights have been proven and expounded upon saw dramatic innovations with the. delight in garnishing the face of the least 'your granddaughter on your knee you will
by clinical psychologists as far back as Attila development or many new ano relatively attractive piedgnng witft oil and tar clap her on the ears and laugh.
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Since ACU enrollment is steadily Increasing one
probably would assume that the number of
students placing bids with social clubs Is In-
creasing also.
: Apparently this Is not the case however said
yVlnnle Gibbs associate dean pf students. Even
$lth last fall's record enrollment the number of
Students who signed up for club teas remained
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get most of the slgnees but can only take so many clubs a chance to pledge another club that was '
Many get turned down two or three times." Interested in them Gibbs said.
Dean Gibbs said chartering more clubs wouldn t
solve this problem. "It would be better In my mind
if the clubs went seeking pledges instead of
pledges seeking clubs."
This system of placing and distributing bids was
approximately the same. used before the late 1950s and held manyad-
' The smaller dubs said Gibbs usually receive vantages over the current system for both the
12-1 5 bids while the larger clubs receive between students and the clubs Gibbs said. One of the
00-75. She said one of the main reasons there is advantages Gibbs found in this type of bidding Is"
such a size difference among the dubs is that many that It made the clubs work harder and be more
people feel the need for the security of a club that aware pf the Image that they projected
iialready well established. This system also enabled prospective pledges
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