The DePauw, February 13, 2001

              TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2001
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As rush ends, campus sighs relief
byJ.K. Wall
It was a powerful contrast.
Dance music thumped across campus from Alpha Phi sorority just
after 10:30 Sunday night. and screaming women streamed out of the
house into Locust Street. Waving their sorority paddles, dancing and
chanting. the women stopped their party only for passing cars.
But the noise carried tension into the quiet lobby of Mason Hall.
About 15 women sat clustered on the maroon couches. chatting anx­iously.
Senior Julie Egner, their rush counselor, walked in with a
stack of envelopes. each one holding an invitation. Egner distributed
the stack slowly. As they waited for the signal, women flipped the
cards over, some jittered it in their hands, others held it up to the
light, yearning for it to reveal the secret inside.
"One, two, ... three," Egner said, as count three was muffled by the
women ripping open the envelopes like Christmas presents. Then
came the screams, and women started hugging each other.
Sorority rush was finally over. The women had participated in var­ious
get-to-know-you activities throughout fall semester, then spent
four straight nights watching rush presentations, chatting, and par­ing
down their choices. The Mason residents were among 226 women
who ran across campus to their respective sororities.
NEWS
Is the Winter Term party over?
Four chapters - Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Phi, Kapp<
Alpha Theta and Kappa Kappa Gamma - took 36
women, according to numbers released by greek affairs
at 11:30 Sunday night. While quota was 34, Panhellenic
Council traditionally allows such quota additions. Pi
Beta Phi missed quota by one. Delta Gamma had 28
pledges. Delta Zeta had the fewest with 21.
Once again, however, a significant number of women
found no home. The number of women who were cross­cut,
or had no further invitations from chapters, totaled
21 this year, up from 17 last year. Five were cut after the
first round this year, while 12 were cut after second
round. Unlik<l last year, when 13 women were cross-cut
after the final rush round, only four women found them­selves
cross-cut after final round this year.
"If! knew how difficult it was going to be to tell girls they
were Icross cutl ... ," Egner said.
Seven women from Mason and Rector halls were cross­cut.
"I prayed a lot I and II cried with every single one of them,"
Egner said.
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