Inter fraternity Council

The Interfraternity Council has announced the rushing rules which apply in the pledging of the class of 1932. These follow very closely those which governed the pledging of 1931, and are set forth with the hope that they may be established with some stability, and not be the victims of the undergraduate mania for change which insists on a new set of rules each year and never observes any of them with any degree of faithfulness. The rules have teeth with at least apparent efficacy as set forth this year in The Dartmouth, and it would appear that the Interfraternity Council is growing out of the epoch of futility by acquiring unto itself a lever of authority.

President Hopkins has definitely quashed the movement of the malcontents for a return to first-year pledging, on the grounds that the second-year rule has brought better scholarship, fewer flunkouts, and other benefits. This year's rules provide free contact between fraternities and freshmen; forbid any agreements prior to the second Thursday of the rushee's sophomore year; provide for chinning periods at which rushees may be "sunk" on this Thursday and the following day, and the final pledging at midnight on Saturday; arrange for an information bureau concerning the men who have been "sunk" at the chinning periods; require pledges of honor by fraternity presidents; and authorize the punishment of fraternities violating rules by fines, unfavorable publicity, and temporary prohibiting of pledging of any men by the convicted fraternity. The Council has the tacit backing of the administration.