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PAGE TWO The Gold Bug, Western Maryland College, Westminster,Md., November 2, 1944 • And The • The Living Is Easy Rolling Stone By Sara Jene Ric2 • Sororities? best friends who did not receive bide-e.be- By Conni2 Stone • cause they were not known, or because they We wish to present a problem which is wore pink hail' ribbons the day that every- Sorority initiation seemed to act These are words from George concerning many of the students and not a one else wore blue ones. like a magnet on the alumni of W. M. Gershwin's folk opera, "Porgy and few of the faculty members of Western Fourth, we have gotten to the place where C. and back they trooped to see their Bess." T say that there are now in ex- Maryland College-the problem that arises there is the nucleus of an espionage system new sisters of the pin and also, just istance entirely too many Beeees thicker than smoke from the smouldering to check on the subversive activities of our to see their Alma Mater. Among crooning to the American public this ashes of the recent sorority furor. "friendly rivals". Sigmas that came back were Dottie highly dangerous lullaby. Perhaps none of these things seem signifi- Rovecamp, Hortense Shipley, Mary Soon after the discovery of the There are four sororities on the Hill at the \ cant of brewing trouble, but to say the least, Miller, Pearl Bodmer, who was here New World, a trek began which has present time, each one comprised of some of they are a far cry from the original intent with her husband Lee Lodge, and ultimately brought together people the finest girls of the campus; there is a Phoebe Johnson. from every nation in the world. Upon group of co-eds not enrolled in sororities, f:~hht p::~~~~v~a;~~~:~~ the sorority sys- Doris Himler, Jeanne Dieffenbach, this wealth of traditions, America and this group, too, can boast that within it- and Ruth Spry were up rooting for built a culture that is now the most self lies much of the great talent and promise There wae.a time when it was a supreme the Delts, while Jeanne Eckhart, rich materially and mentally in the of W.M.C. honor to be chosen for a sorority-only a Gen Spry and Margaret ,Ann Smith world. Each sorority offers much pleasure to its minority group ever managed to get the held up the fort for the Phi Alphs. After only two hundred years, privilege of stringing a group of letters, J'he Gammas didn't have any ex- America now etters to its citizens the members, and in every case, the clubroom Greek 01' otherwise, after their names. The W. M. Cc-itea back. They're probably best of everything in this world: the has become the most pleasant spot on the majority of the campus sat back and re- going to turn up en masse some week finest and most universal system of Hill for the exchange of idle gossip, 01' the spected the people chosen-for they were end and make things pop. education; the privilege of every man carrying on of ardent bull sessions. Each leaders. Phoebe Johnson and Jeanne Eck- to rise from the status of life into also gives its members an opportunity to hart are both counting on going into which he has been born; modern con- know each other better and to learn to work Since those days, the sororities have the WAVES soon, they tell me. veniences that even the poor man can together for the common good-of the indi- grown, till now, the majority belongs, and Song sensation of the week, which purchase for his home. vidual sorority. the minority looks on. Many of the people will drag out into a month, of hor- Ali of this we know, but few of us Each sorority presents an outlet for feel- in the latter group look on because they sin- rors, is "Her Tears Flow Like wtne''. who are generations removed from ings of loyalty, for social gatherings of peo- cerelv believe that their stand is thereby If you haven't heard it yet, you're the old countries can realize. I, and ple of like ideas, and for an occasional feed' more democratic than would be their stand definitely a back number. If you other-s of my generation, have noth- that goes further than the customary cheese if they were on the other side; these people care to hear it just drop around to ing with which to compare America. I and crackers. we believe are the most fortunate of all the see the girls of table No. 33, and can only listen to my relatives return- madding crowd. you'll hear it every meal. 'Coot' Haus- ed from war areas, speaking of high- No one denies the values of sororities for We have no solution to the problem as it man is an authority on that song! ly fastidious social distinction, and the reasons listed above and for other rea", Next week-end, we hear tell, Har- the low status of women that one en- sons, obvious to participants or on-lookers. exists at the present time; we simply believe vey Buck will be singing under counters with the London mist, and There are, however, a few disadvantages in that the fact that students and faculty are Blanche Ward windows again. He'll moonlight on Lake Lucerne. We in the sorority system as it now stands, and beginning to realize the existence of such a be down from York, Pa. (Rah!) Amer-ica lament the shortage of con- these we tend to overlook. problem indicates that the answer is not too where he holds down the job of ra- veniences that are for the most part far in the future. dio announcer and, I believe, publici- unknown- to people in the rest of rthe First, there is the fact that while working We suggest that a committee begin now to ty director. Rumor has him headed world. for the sorority, we fail to realize that the work on the situation to see to it that on our for bigger and better- things. Rumor The United States-c-notwithstand- sorority is only a part of a larger whole- Hill fewer throats get cut by sharp words, also has it that Harv will be joined ing its crooked politics, its system of Western Maryland College. Any activity and fewer hearts get cracked, if not broken, by Peck Bond to complete the quartet education that emphasis interesting which we undertake on the Hill should be as a result of thoughtless acts. of last year, which consisted of those presentation of subject matter rather directed toward enhancing the Alma Mater. two and Bill Smith and Bob Adams! than mastery of that subject's being Second, we sometimes forget that we have We suggest that this committee be corn- Incidentally, have you heard Bob a privilege and a duty,-is the most a Hill family as well as sorority sisters, and posed of interested students representing Adams' rendition of "The Wreck of rich on earth. that there is such a thing as getting four or- each club, representing the "independents", the Old '97"? That you must hear This is the question: Shall Ameri- ganizations to work together as one instead representing the faculty, and representing or you just haven't lived! ca that is so rich matei-ially be able to of working in a frenzied fashion to prepare alumni. Dr. Wills is back in Westminster survive by dint of her spiritual rich- for the kill the week that bids go out. We ask every Western Marylander to for a few weeks and it certainly did es. Civilizations disintegrate when think about the sorority system as a whole: seem good to see him having break- spiritual stamina becomes bogged Third, we are so anxious to perpetuate the to think of ways to keep its values, but to fast in the Grille. down by luxuries. The supreme test clubs that we fail to think of the feelings of eliminate its evils; to think of a truly demo- Donald "Mickey" Schobert is out of a man's character is his ability to individuals, and sometimes individual mem- cratic way of living together on the Hill. of the A.S.T.P. and back in civilian discuss conclusively issues concerning bers of a sorority find themselves separated clothes here on campus again. a starved and emaciated neighbor af- by an intangible wall from some of their ---