FRATERNITY RUSHING RULES
The shortening of the rushing season from a week to three days, and a plan for "open-house nights" at fraternities prior to the start of rushing week are the leading changes in the fraternity rushing rules as adopted by the Interfraternity Council. The complete rules are as follows:
I. That a post-carnival second semester rushing season is the most desirable for the present fraternity situation in Dartmouth.
II. That the operation of this plan begin with September first in the college year.
1. No pledge shall be binding if given before 8 o'clock on the evening of the second Saturday after Carnival.
2. There shall be no entertainment of first-year men for fraternity purposes until the second Wednesday following Carnival. The phrase "no entertainment," etc., means that no first-year man shall be entertained in a fraternity house, nor shall organized calls at the rooms of first-year men be permitted. Organized calls means any calls made by fraternity men on first-year men with the following definite exceptions :
(a). This does not prohibit the natural friendly social intercourse of men living in the same dormitory or dwelling house, nor the ordinary social, friendly intercourse of men on the street, on the campus, at games, at the movies or about town. It does, imply and prohibit all entertainment in so far as it concerns the spending of money for the benefit of the freshmen.
(b). All contacts and entertainments of this kind shall cease promptly at 8:30 p. m. In other words, there shall be no evening calling and the opportunity for meeting freshmen and for freshmen to meet upperclassmen shall be limited to the natural time of contact, namely, 12 noon to 8 p. m.
(c). Upperclassmen living in dormitories or private houses shall not invite first-year men to their rooms to meet upperclassmen nor shall they invite upperclassmen to their rooms to meet first-year men.
(d). Fraternity houses may entertain freshmen on such Sunday nights as are designated by the Interfraternity Council as "open-house nights." The Interfraternity Council shall designate the fraternities that are to hold such nights, it being generally understood that only five houses shall entertain on any Sunday evening. These houses may invite the freshman class in toto or they may invite by personal invitation those men regarding whom they have received information from their alumni or other sources, and any other freshmen that they see fit to include. The limit of expense that any fraternity may incur in the entertainment of freshmen shall be established and enforced by the Interfraternity Council.
3. Beginning the second Wednesday following Carnival entertainment of first-year men for fraternity purposes shall be only in the town of Hanover.
4. Between 7p. m. of the second Wednesday following Carnival and 11 p. m. of the following Friday shall constitute the "Rushing" period, subject to the following restrictions:
(a). There shall be no contact whatever between freshmen and upperclassmen between 8 P. m. Tuesday and 7 p. m. Wednesday of the Rushing week when the formal chinninopens.
(b). At 11 o'clock Friday night all rushing shall cease and a period of silence shall commence, ending at 8 o'clock Saturday night, at which hour the first-year men shall be in their rooms.
(c). Uniform formal invitations will be left at the individual's door at the above hour at which time he will signify his acceptance or rejection in writing and will promptly proceed to the fraternity whose invitation he has accepted.
