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Leaders seek growth for Greeks
By Rex Seline
The newly installed presidents of the
Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils say they
will seek continued growth and more
involvement from individuals in the Greek
system as they begin their first semester in office
Both Barb Hengen, president of the
Panhellenic Council, and Al Eveland,
Interfraternity Council (IFC) president, voiced
the concern that, in Eveland's words, "people
have a misconception about IFC (and
Panhellenic). They look at it as the office in the
Union; they don't realize that they are IFC (or
Panhellenic)."
The new executives said they are in the midst
of planning seminars and the annual Greek Week
festivities which they hope will get more people
involved.
Seminars planned
The seminars being planned will involve
officers and committees from within the
individual houses. Those serving in similar
positions from the different houses will get
together to discuss mutual problems. The
program will be run along lines already
established by a similar program for treasurers
that has been running for a few years, Eveland
said.
Greek Week, planned for March 9-14, will
include a Trivia Bowl competition and a Greek
Follies variety show according to Hengen. Other
activities are still being studied.
Both Hengen and Eveland said that
membership in fraternities and sororities
continues to increase after a period of slight
decline in the late '60s and, although no new
fraternities or sororities are expected on campus
for awhile, they say that no house is in serious
trouble.
Attitude blamed
The slight decline in the '60s was blamed on
antiestablishment attitude that "came with the
beginning of the Vietnam War," Eveland said. "I
suppose that- the Greeks did represent the
establishment then, if that's the term you want
to slap on them."
Eveland said that since then, fraternities have
been "scrapping the traditional ideas" including
such infamous activities as hazing. He added that,
to his knowledge, UNL fraternities have followed
UPI article, away from such harassment of first
year members (pledges).
"Fraternities are moving toward programs of
pledge improvement instead. Pledges aren't
being made to conform, they're being
encouraged to branch out," Eveland said.
Hengen said that the activism of the '60s
"never really hit this campus's Greek system,"
but gave credit to a new image which increased
the number of girls going through rush (the
process of selection where potential members
pick and are picked by a fraternity or sorority).
New image
"The new image has lost some of the old
stereotypes," Hengen said. "The old stereotype
that sorority girls are the rich and elite who sit
around all day playing bridge and sometimes
going to class doesn't hold and is at least starting
to go from most people's minds."
She added, "Girls are turning away from
dorms because sororities aren't that much more
expensive in comparison to an on-campus
home-like atmosphere."
IFC is in the process of planning a "model
house" program which "probably won't be
implemented until next semester." The program
will incorporate, into volunteer houses, ideas on
what programs are best in areas such as
scholarship and alumni relations.
Buying study
Hengen said that a feasibility study on
cooperative buying being made by the IFC
alumni advisory board will continue. She said
preliminary reports indicate it would take at least
15 groups, making an initial investment of
$1,000, buying merchandise in volume to make
the program work.
Both executives discounted the rumored
possibility that freshmen will be forced to live in
residence halls in the future to bolster declining
residence occupancy rates. At present freshman
men are allowed to live in the fraternities while
second semester freshman women can move in if
room exists in the house.
Eveland is a junior art major from Ames, Neb.
Hengen, from Wahoo, is a junior in the Teacher's
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