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To D R A G M A

VOL. X V I F E B R U A R Y , 1920 No. 2

Entered at the Postofhce at Menasha, Wis., as second-class matter, April
• 3> •9°9> under the Act of March 3, 1879.

Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section
I I . 0 3 , Act of October 3, 1917. Authorized August 1, 1918.

To DRAGMA is published four times a year (Sept., Nov., Feb., May) at
450-454 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wis., by George Banta, official printer to the
Alpha Omicron Pi Fraternity.

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twenty-five cents. Life subscriptions, Fifteen Dollars.

Etta Phillips MacPhie, Editor-in-chief. Carolyn Fraser Pulling, Business
Manager.

A GLIMPSE OF T H E HOUSE FINANCES AND CONDI-
TIONS AS T H E Y EXIST AMONG T H E ALPHA
OMICRON PI CHAPTERS

(Although the definite figures are not included in these reports, they are ob-
tainable for sister chapters upon request. When looking over the articles, it is
well to remember that some of the chapters have tuition, which does not show
in the reports.)—EDITOR'S N O T E .

PI

T O speak of a financial report f o r Pi Chapter sounds almost too
sophisticated and businesslike. Owing to conditions govern-
ing fraternities at Newcomb, we have practically no expenses. I
mean we do not have always the butcher, the baker, and the candle
stick maker. Down on the old campus we had rooms provided by
the college f o r which we paid a merely nominal rent and w i t h many
alumna? and friends i n town, furnishing was not much of a problem.
For the past year and a half on the new campus we have had no
rooms of any k i n d because there is not a nook nor cranny i n the
buildings completed so f a r to put us although i t is the plan o f the
Board of Administrators to give us rooms on the campus eventually.
The faculty have never approved o f f r a t e r n i t y houses or o f frater-
nity rooms off the campus but they now agree to a Panhellenic
house w i t h rooms f o r the eight fraternities somewhere near the
campus. T h i s w i l l be an entirely new problem i n building or rent
and upkeep and one about which we can say nothing u n t i l we have
more definite plans.

As f o r rushing, according to Panhellenic rulings, we can give no
parties o f any k i n d , consequently there is no expense attached to i t .
Really our only expenses are flowers and catering f o r initiations and
pledgings, small routine expenses, and giving our share toward vari-