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94 TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI

SIGMA, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
Sigma girls have been busy, feverishly busy, during the past two
weeks of the new semester with the two-fold problem, cooks and
freshmen, or how to keep the one and get the other. In the kitchen
the cook is lofty and slothful, the second boy intrusive, and the
house manager lives between rage and despair. At the luncheon
table the hopeless-eyed entertainment committee views the freshman,
unappreciative, bored or shy, and looks for mercy from the stem-
browed sisters. Yet rushing has filled every minute.* The girls have
given themselves up heroically to filling out the freshman's card
with courses in which they will have a strong body-guard of Alpha
O's, telling them the college traditions, feeding them with mint
frappes at the "Campus Inn" or at the "Sign of the Bear," dragging
them to the house for luncheon and dating them for dinner and the
evening; in other words, dogging the freshman's trail in every
waking hour.

Now we are elated and swear by the dogging process, for we
drew two precious freshmen, quite a feat when only thirty new girls
registered in college, and one junior. They are Dorothy Richardson
'14, of San Rafael, Helen Thayer, '14, of Witter, and Margaret
Hurley, '12, of Phoenix, Arizona, and all are house girls. We are
very proud of them, and are so in the spirit of rushing that we intend
to have more card parties and dinners.

Our life in the college world is also successful, busy and antici-
pative of coming jolly times. There is the "Occident" dance to be
given at the Beta Theta Pi house, and the Prytanean show on Feb-
ruary fourth, and the Masquerade in the evening. Jeanette Miller
has charge of the punch booth, and there are several of the girls who
will be in that and other booths. Then there is the Sophomore
Women's dance for the benefit of the Senior Women's hall, and our
sophomores intend to take an active part. Already various appoint-
ments on the papers and committees have been made on Woman's
Day. This is the day when the co-eds take all the student publica-
tions, such as the "Daily Calif ornian," "Occident" and the "Pelican"
and demonstrate their ability to manage and edit them. On the
Occident staff there are Rose Gardiner, '11 ; Mary deWitt, ' 1 3 ; and
Olive Cutter, '11, as art editor with Grace Weeks, '12 as assistant. We
have contributed more than our share of artists, for there was Lilian
Rice, '10, and Grace Morin, '10, who always comprised the art staff
in years gone by. We miss "Pink" or Lilian more than we can
express. But we must tell how glad we are to have Claudia Massie,
Randolph-Macon, '13, with us this semester.

In the fraternity circle, there comes the Alpha O. birthday on