University of Virginia Library

University Recovers From Rushing

By A. U. Mann
College Topics Staff Writer

The University has changed,
changed materially from a few short
days ago when the time-hallowed
custom of rushing was riding high,
wide and handsome. Gone are
high-balling cars, bulging with assorted
first year men; gone is the sound of
grating fenders on Mad Lane; gone are
the Sunday suits and mirror shined
shoes; gone too are the free cigarettes
and free cokes that threw Corner
emporiums into the depths of financial
despair; gone until next year; and once
more peaceful calm has settled over the
grounds.

Conspicuous on the coats of some
five hundred and thirty-four first year
men are the new, shining emblems of
their pledge. And new to the corner
shops are the rows on rows of
unpainted, unadorned two foot
paddles, reminding those possessors of
glittering pledge pins that the fun is
past and the price yet to be paid.

Now, once more, fraternity men
and first year men alike have returned
to the drab routine of classes and
study, and still more classes. Of course,
roads that need fixing, rooms that need
painting, and hedges that need clipping
will come in for their share of
attention from the new affiliates, but
in general things are once more flowing
in the familiar course.

Even the professors are full of the
feeling of rejuvenated scholastic spirit
and popping quizzes so thick and fast
that the mid-night oil is being
consumed in prodigious amounts. The
only living creatures apparently
immune to the wave of increased
energy are the far-famed University
dogs, who once more have returned to
their favorite spots of slumber, now
undisturbed by the noisy wave of
rushers and rushees.

So it is all over. The University gives
out its last echoing rumble and settles
wearily back on its appropriate
foundations. Again the carnivorous
doors of the library admit a steady
stream of worried students and the
Corner's each registers clang out the
joyful beat of prosperity.
"Glad-hands" are gently massaged and
returned to covert pockets, and fender
repair shops welcome the land office
business. Yes, it's all over. All over till
next year when more first year men
will meet more fraternity men so they
can become fraternity men to welcome
more first year men. This can go on
forever - and does.