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LOCAL PAN-HELLENIC ACTIVITIES

THE BARNARD PAN-HELLENIC COUNCIL

Interest in the activities of the Barnard Pan-Hellenic Council
this vear has been to a large degree overshadowed by interest i n the
Fraternity Investigation Committee, the meetings and discussions of
which are of more vital concern to the fraternity world than are
those of the Council. This commission is making a thorough investi-
gation of the fraternity situation at Barnard and, by consultation
w i t h alumnae, students, and faculty, is aiming to f i n d out how much
justice there is in the serious charges that have been made against
fraternities just recently. I t has not executive power, but by the end
of this term, it w i l l present its report in the form of a recommen-
dation for the abolition, retention, or modification of the present
system, and this report w i l l no doubt be legalized and enforced by
those w i t h the power to make the final definite r u l i n g .

The Pan-Hellenic Council, since the formation of this commission,
has realized the need f o r concentrated action and has been working
valiantly to show the college the strong points of the fraternity
system. A new rushing schedule is being tried and its success
watched carefully by the Council. This new system provides f o r
one formal party f o r sophomores w i t h its expense limited, no restrict-
ing regulations in college, and no informal entertainments of any
sort out of college. T h i s rushing plan is w o r k i n g out w i t h far greater
success than the many-ruled, petty-restricting one o f former years
and the council is rejoicing in the improved interfraternity spirit
and decrease i n breaking of rules that has come w i t h the decrease i n
the number of rules to be broken. Pan-Hellenic feels, that, i f a l -
lowed a longer time under the present rushing system, it w i l l become
clear that many of the faults now attributed to fraternities at Bar-
nard were simply the result of a very f a u l t y set of rushing rules.

The Council has, however, not spent a l l its time trying to remedy
old faults. I t has just started discussion of a plan f o r a Pan-
Hellenic entertainment for the Barnard Building Fund. This enter-
tainment w i l l give the fraternity world a splendid chance to unitedly
serve the college and w i l l show, better than can new Rushing Rules
or many Pan-Hellenic meetings, that fraternity girls have the in-
terest of their college keenly at heart and strive at a l l times to be
great powers for good in the college world.

FRATERNITY WORK AT NEWCOMB

Pan-Hellenic at Newcomb is making such an advance i n the r i g h t
direction, that i t seems to me the f r a t e r n i t y w o r l d as a whole should
recognize and applaud its work.