Page 72 - 1916 February - To Dragma

TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 151

official quarterly magazine of Newcomb, edited and supported by
the students and alumna?; the name, The Tulane Weekly, tells you
what that paper is. I t is edited and supported by the students of
Tulane University and on its staff are representatives from the
different departments of the university; the Jambalaya is the uni-
versity annual, and its board consists of an editor from Tulane and
one from Newcomb, a business manager from Tulane and a busi-
ness manager from Newcomb, an art editor from Newcomb A r t
School, and an assistant business manager and sub-editors from all
the different departments.

Our college schedule for yearly events has been greatly disturbed
by the diphtheria scare which we had at the beginning of the
month. A number of students and many of the faculty from both
Tulane and Newcomb were declared by the doctors of the city
board of health to be "carriers," and were sent home for several
days. Only three or four cases of actual diphtheria were found,
and even those subjects were well enough to stand on their front
steps to converse and argue with the men who were tacking up the
signs on their houses. Nevertheless, the Dramatic Club play had to
be postponed until after Christmas, and both Solidelle Renshaw
and Mary Sumner, who were our representatives in the cast, are
bemoaning the fates of their costumes which were in our rooms and
which seem to have gotten confused with the stack of middy blouses,
gym shoes, and old costumes, which nobody wants to claim, behind
the screen in the second room. The public debate for the Nixon
medal, a yearly event, has also been postponed until the new year,
and in consequence, Rietta Carland is spending her holidays de-
claiming in front of a mirror, "Madam chairman, Honorable Judges,
ladies and gentlemen, etc." When the debate comes off, however,
we shall be justly proud of Rietta for having made the team, whether
she wins the medal or not. The basketball teams have not yet been
chosen, but there are several of us who have great expectations in
that line.

There has been very little rushing done this year by the frater-
nities; the only parties which we in A O I I have given have been
for ourselves, the most elaborate of which took place on the eighth
°f December. We decided that it was wiser to spend money on
those who needed it than on the Freshmen. I f these latter, because
of our policy, prefer to join other fraternities, then they are not
Hie girls whom we want or who would uphold A O I I standards.
Every girl in the chapter has a particular orphan, from the Seventh
Street Home, in whom she is especially interested and to whom she