Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-04
Betty COED" Found O. K.
College Students Survive Without Casualties, Search
ing Investigation of Their Morals and
Manner of Life.

the most part members OF this group
are not long-lived in the college COM
munity, so it tends to disintegrate
rapidly. The only harm Is to the mem
bers themselves"
The report then tuxns to the recog-
nized Greek letter organizations which,
it points out, "for the past 25 years
have been under fire in the legislatures
of many States" largely because OF
their alleged undemocratic character.
The attitude of college heads towards
these organizations was found to range
from supreme approval to utter in
difference"
Rushing" Tactics Condemned.
ct wish every man and woman on my
campus belonged to a fraternity or So
rority," wrote one president. But others
refused to accord them any official rec
ignition.
The rushing" tactics Of fraternities
are condemned. These consist, the re-
port states, ''of competitive entertaining
and display, high-powered salesmanshlp
and often underhand methods to dis
parage rival fraternities engendering
distrust and mutual hard feelings on
the campus"
Among sororities. the report reveals,
a new pledge method has been estab-
lished in many colleges. All the sorori-
u
a list of all the freshman girls they wish
to pledge. Without revealing these lists,
the liaison officers asks every girl whose
name Is included on any OF them to
give in order her preferences of the
organizations she would like to join.
If the liaison officer holds q bid for
her from the sorority first on her own
list, he forwards it to her. If her sec
ond choice has asked for her, but not
the first, she is sent that. Only one
bid goes to one girl.
It was found that the scholarship of
fraternitieS is improving. At the same
time the investigators found still sur
viving the quaint old college idea that
poorness of scholarship and success in
after life are in some way positively
related, that the student gets the real
values out of college activities and that
the best thing to do with the minimum
that must be learned to satisfy the
professors Is to forget it as soon as pos
sible.
Solve Housing Problem.
The fraternities, it is stated, take the
difficult job of housing students of the
shoulders of the institution in many
cases. Here, it was insisted, the col
leges and the fraternities should work
together to keep up standards.
institutions frequently reported"
says the report, that the students
rooms were unclean and disorderly, that
sleeping quarters were crowded and I'M
suitable for group life, that the fire haz-
ard was very great, and that the storage
and preparation of food was unsani-
tary."
The survey also included the social
activities of the college men and women
and reports show, it is stated, that
students are just about like people out
side college who make up the population
at large. Drinking was listed as one of
the difficulties in rs of the institutions
reporting. Extreme or improper dane
ing was listed by six and the attendance
at town cafes after the dances by H.
The going to roadhouSes after college
dances was spoken of in a number of
reports as were the stag line, with
drawal from the hall to cars during
dances and auto riding after dances.
Dark or moonlight dances were men,
toned by two or three institutions and
oiscourtesy to chaperons seemed to be
fairly common complaint.