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Heavy Cost

But the change cost heavily: to end the
week before Openings caused a collision
with UNC weekend, the first time in two
years that the Tar Heels will be playing in
Charlottesville. Since the IFC sponsors the
"Old Blue Keg" to stimulate the Va.-UNC
rivalry, it was impossible to cancel the
parties that weekend in favor of hour cards.
IFC representatives felt that they could not
rightly expect their UNC fraternity brothers
to stay away from the houses during final
hours: nor did they want to have last hours
Friday night, leaving a full day and a half
between last hours and Bid Sunday.

A compromise proposal was then passed
to allow the fraternities to keep the UNC
parties while not leaving a great amount of
time between last hours and bid day. The
last hour session will be held Friday night
from 6 to 10 on the night of October 31.
The next morning fraternities will distribute
bids in the dorms from 8:30 to 10; the bids
will be returned from 11 to noon. After
that, the houses will go to the football game
with their new pledge classes.

The idea has several interesting features.
On the bad side, especially for the fraternity
men, is the short space of time between 10
p.m. Friday night and 8:30 the next
morning to hold ball sessions and get a
decent night's sleep.