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Rains slow greek house projects
By DeDra Janssen
Staff Reporter
Rush is a hectic time for sororities
and fraternities.
It’s even more hectic when the
chapter house is under renovation.
But for members of several greek
houses, summer renovations didn't
stop them from having a successful
rush.
Chi Omega housemother Barb
Stickels said work on the house didn’t
hinder sorority members during rush.
Members, however, were unable to
move into the house until Aug. 10,
two days after most sorority women
*• 1 returned to campus.
Renovations, which began in April,
• were delayed because of me rain dur
I ing the summer, Stickels said, and
alternate living accommodations had
| to be made until the addition is fin
I ished.
“A few girls are living with Lin
coln relatives and some are kind of
doubling up,** she said.
The project, which is scheduled to
be completed in five weeks, will add
| six new bedrooms to the house, along
with two large bathrooms, two laun
dry rooms, a computer room, a televi
sion room and a new housemother
apartment.
“We wanted to have more girls
living in,” Stickels said. When the
addition is completed, 67 women will
live in the house.
But until the addition is finished,
they will have to make do with what
they’ve got, she said.
“The new addition is closed off
from the existing house. We’U use the
existing house for rush and tell the
rushees about the addition,” Stickels
said. “It’s very obvious from the out
side that something’s going on here.”
Delta Upsilon fraternity also caught
the remodeling bug, but housemother
Linda Halbgewachs said renovations
were close to being done.
“There are still a few things here
and there — a few light fixtures and
switches,” Halbgewachs said. “It had
better be ready by (Aug.) 15th.”
Renovations, which began in
March, include the addition of a third
story with several new rooms and a
change in the entry way's appearance,
air conditioning and double air-lock
doors also were installed.
“It looks more like a fraternity
now,” Halbgewachs said.
Halbgewachs said that although
rain slowed construction, the renova
tions did not interfere with rush and
the men would be able to move in this
week as scheduled.
Halbgewachs and the members are
excited to come back to the new and
improved house, she said.
“They’re tickled to death,” she
said. “My favorite thing is die air
conditioning.”
Renovations on the Delta Tau Del
ta fraternity house also were delayed
by this summer’s weather. The project,
which was to be completed before
school began in the fall, will be done
by Labor Day.
Chad Jaeger, a sophomore pre
physical therapy major, said a new
roofwas being put on and the entryway
was beina repaired. The house had
water-leakage problems in the past.
A wheelchair ramp also was added
to die house to comply with the Amer
icans With Disabilities Act requiring
university buildings to be accessible
to the disabled.
Fall rush attracts nearly 600 women
By Kristin Armstrong
Stuff Report*__
While most UNL students were
watching the summer end, a group of
mostly freshmen women was experi
encing a new, Greek beginning by
participating in the 1993 rail rush.
This year 575 University of Ne
braska-Lincoln women participated
in the four-day event which began
Friday at campus sorority houses.
Rushees arrived in Lincoln Friday
and moved into university residence
halls. In the evening, the women at
tended a rush orientation, then broke
up into 15 groups for brief tours of
each sorority house.
Panhellenic President Lisa Sickert
said the first day was designed to
Introduce the rushees to the greek
system.
“We discuss problems moving into
the dorms, where they’re from, shal
low stuff,” she said.
Rushees attended up to eight, 50
minute parties Saturday, and five on
Sunday, depending on the number of
invitations they received.
During parties, rushees toured the
houses ami visited with sorority mem
bers.
Rushees had to narrow their choic
es to three houses for Monday’s final
round of parties, each to last 90 min
utes. From those three houses, nish
ees must list their preferences in or
der.
“Do not pass go, do not collect
$200, just make your choices in the
order you want,” Sickert said.
Monday evening, alumna from
each house worked to match the wom
en to sororities* The former members
accomplished this by trying to meet
the rushee’s choice, and not necessar
ily the choice of the sorority, Sickert
said
“It is a mutual selection process,”
she said “The rushee has as much
influence over what sorority they get
into as the sorority itself.”
To gain this influence, a rushee
must have attended all parties and
events, Sickert said. If she does this,
then she is virtually guaranteed a place
in a sorority.
Jayne Wade Anderson, director of
greek affairs, agreed
“There is a place for every young
woman who wants to be in a sorority,”
she said
Out of the 575 women who went
through rush, 459 pledged a house,
Anderson said. Those 116 who didn’t
pledge were a combination of women
who withdrew before rush began;
dropped out during rush or were not
selected by a sorority. »
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