Page 42 - To Dragma November 1924

TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 37

B Y T H E T I M E this magazine reaches you, Alpha Omicron Pi will have
three new chapters, one active and two alumnae. Pi Delta chapter
at the University of Maryland was installed on October 25, Milwaukee
Alumnae chapter on October 14, and Birmingham Alumnae chapter
on October 24. The next issue will contain complete details of these in-
stallations about which you are all anxious to read. In the meantime
greetings and good wishes to Pi Delta, Milwaukee, and Birmingham
Alumnae.

O U R N A T I O N A L W O R K is an established and growing thing. The last
issue of To D R A G M A told you what the fraternity had done along these
lines and what it hoped to do. This number records another achievement
with the naming of a bed in the Children's Orthopedic Hospital, by the
Seattle Alumnae chapter, assisted, this first year, by the National Work
Fund. Three phases of our national work program are realities, and
not just dreams.

T H E F O L L O W I N G clipping from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, for October
3, 1924, touches a real problem of college and fraternity life and
should be productive of a good deal of thought along its lines:

Because they want to avoid hurting the feelings of girls who failed
to "get in," sororities at the University of Washington refused to publish
the names of their pledges, it was revealed yesterday.

The policy of keeping the names of pledges out of the newspapers has
been adopted by Panhellenic, the inter-sorority council, and is strictly en-
forced. The purpose behind the policy is said to be to make the sorority
system more democratic and minimize the tendency to place girls who fail
to "make" sororities on a different social plane than their more lucky
fellow students.

It is common knowledge to us all that there is a gap between sorority
and non-sorority girls. Various ways of lessening this feeling have been
tried out at different institutions. At the University of Minnesota, for
example, it has been the custom for the pledges to be given corsage
bouquets on pledge night. In olden times it was the custom for the new
pledge to proudly display these trophies pinned to her coat in classes the
next day. A few years ago Panhellenic passed a rule forbidding pledges
to wear their bouquets on the campus. This, like the Washington rule,
tends to remove the sorority girl from the limelight. The whole question
is a vital one, though, and much more could, and should, be done to better
the condition.

* T P H I S I S C O N V E N T I O N Y E A R and we want you all to save your pennies and
*• walk, ride, Ford, or fly your way to Radisson Inn and stay with us
for one week by the waters of Minnetonka. No more delightful place
could be found to make new Alpha O friendships and renew old ones.
There will be canoeing, tennis, swimming, and golfing, and just lots of
talking to be done. If you've never been to convention you want to come
to see what it is like; if you have been you want to come because you
know what it is like. If you haven't but thirty-seven cents to your name