University of Wisconsin Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta Vol. MADISON. WISCONSIN, MARCH. 1956 XXI Retiring President Reports Chapter In Fine Condition Our Fiji House We Love It By ALAN McCONE It's ours, we've got it, By PETER SCHILS The school year of 1955-36 has certainly been a full and successful one for .Mb chapter. From the first day of .fall cleanup through Febru Mcnstrcius square hulk on the side of a Number i hill. Although I'd never thought it. Llcyd Wright's the guy who wrought it; ary the brothers have worked to- A.nd we're the guys who bought it. .gether Dsar hulk, I confess thai I ponder projects. The first few days were filled with dust, vacuum cleaners, and paint brushes, with the result that the hou.se ha.s looked this year as fine as it ever has. New dining you still. So distant from campus, That aching feet stamp us. Your rooms, great hulk, crampus. When we dump in our gear. But you're our Fiji home sweet home. We love you dear. Just because we love you, we won't WELLS SCHILS Illinois, who took office after the eiecticns held March 12, With .spring rolling in upon the spacious Midwest many o£ our old brothers are falling into wedlock. John Berryhill of the class of '55 was recently married to Barb Ivetson of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Brothers G. Richard Cope and The rest of the cabinet consists of Ahm McCone, Wallingford, Pa., treasurer; Alton Schmitt, Sheboy- gan. Wisconsin, recording secretary; will marry Miss Joyce Krogan in June. Brother Jon Werrbach will Marry Bonny Buxton in Milwaukee on June 16, Brothers "Small" Paul Conaghan and Dan Teehan—both '55 are in the Brother Wiehaupl I'ecently with Waterman Pen Co., was last mother's club played a big part in this. Through the football season we were pleased to welcome many alumni who once again passed through the "portals of Phi Gam ma Delta." Our annual Homecom ing banciuet and decorations were a huge success and the Di,xie Bash and party afterwards were well at tended. In October we had the pleasure of torian. ter meeting. Before leaving he sup Wells, who transfered to Wiscon Retir'ng li orn office are Peter Schils. Sheboygan, president; How ard Brrnton, EYan.ston. Illinoi.s: treasurer; Jarnes Prasch, Wauwato- ?a, recording secretai-y; Robert Bar tholomew. Beloit, coiresponding secretary; and .Darroil Maclntyre, MadLson. historian. insurance field in Chicago and fhe surrounding area. the sociation and drapes donated by the field secretary, Fred stayed for several days and attended a chap cabinet is comptj.sed of sophomores, USNR, of D.C-, corresponding secretary; and ond semester junior in mechanical t.hgineering,' The ""reil'iSintlor of the-' Ensign, sorts Richard Neuman. Beaver Dam, hLs- sin from Coi-nell this fall i.s a sec now and having as our guest Fred Lekson, LaFoilette, Company of Rockford. Illinoi.s. and Brother- Lang«t present in the Donald Ursin, '55„ kinds 'Washington, Bronson Dale Lange are making plans for April weddings. Brother Cope ('53) is working with the National Lock Brother all tables supplied by the alumni as Wells Heads New Cabinet The new president of Mu chapter i.s Marshall Wells of Park Ridge, Roving Alumni on wuide is serving with Uncle Sam's Navy and Brother Hutchens is in plied valuable advice to all the brothers on fraternity life. In Jan uary we invited C. Ernest "Ernie" Lovejoy, Senior Counselor of the fraternity, to Madison, for a visit and chat. His stay, though short, was invigorating and informative. This past week Tom Mulcahy, SecI'continued on page 3) Classics Professor Views Progress Professor Herbert Howe of the Cla.ssics department began this se mester's speaker program "when he spoke after dinner on March 8 on the impact commerce and engineer '.seen in Chicago thinkirrg of west the sales field. ward travel-S, fi'om the law school, commerce, po and Terry Hulchins, '55, are both Bi'othei's Dave Baver, '55. and Robert Erzinger, '.53, are now sta tioned in -Koi-ea with the U. S. on Army. phy departments. Brother the Konrad west coast. Testwuide, Brother '5.5. Test- ing have on our modern civiliza tion. Other speakers are scheduled litical science, speech, and phi!o.so- \r\nPage 2 THE MU NEWS. March. 1956 Firecrackers By THE PHANTOM FOX The Mu News Comes Out With a Siss, Boom, Splat By BROTHER MEPHISTOPHELES The Fijis on pro are turned out at large to follow a Pied Piper— this one has an accordian instead, though. Wally Jacobs is pinned to a Badg er Beauty! Wow! Bronson LaFollette has been un pinned ever since the pledges stole that picture of his favorite girl. Bob Nelson is running for Kampus Klown. Bad snarking weather. The Al pha Xi's are getting too shrewd. Dick Ela's ice boat cracked up and made good timber for the to boggan slide. With these jocks going through, "help" week here will certainly liberalize to a great extent. Would you get rough with a monster six foot six? At last Mu Chapter has managed to get out its Mu News. It was a tough push, but with the pledges typing he copy up for us during "Help" week (why, of course, that's what we call it!) the going was not as bad as it could have been (no actives know how to type). Copy poured in at a prodigious rate, sat around for two weeks, and after rewriting it about three times we finally got it into some semblance of Journalisic shape. In this condi tion we present it to you. A chapter newspaper is of necessity directed to the alumni membership. It is supposed to spread the Light, to inform them as to the Brilliant and Grand Works here at our enlightened undergraduate organization. It should with its familiar intimations touch into their own store of treasured memories, reach into their hearts and wrest out their conscious vision again the grand and noble ideals which go along with the tradition of Phi Gamma Delta, and no need to say, get a good grip on their wallets if it can. Well, the Mu News won't be doing everything it's supposed to according to these criterion. Of course, we'll never refuse to accept donations from beneficent brothers who have seen a little more of the world than we have, and we'll be happy to weep and kiss their feet for their generosity, if they like. The News, however, will be devoted, like the Cap Times and the State Journal, to giving its readers the straight scoop. We have tried to omit all flowery adjectives and maudlin commentary which our shrewd alums immediately recognize as just so much bachelor of science. We are instead Fijis On Campus Many are active in campus activi ties. Here's what some are doing. HOWIE BRINTON is on the Wis consin Students' Association Hu man Relations committee. MIKE FOX and DON HOOS with their hillbilly songs are one of the top entertaining acts on the campus. MIKE FOX is also a writer for the Badger yearbook, a member of the Men's Glee club, and an NROTC candidate for Mil Ball king. presenting about our chapter the bare facts—the commisary cupboard, our trophy case in great hall, and the young ladies we've managed to sneak into our rooms at times when our obliging housefellow has been out snipe fishing or observing the celestial course of Virgo through his army surplus binoculars (from the snark deck). Yes. alums, we want to come clean to you. In spite of what the expresident says, the call word of our chapter is decadence. We'll even re peat this nasty word, so to be sure to impress up on you the blackness and the opprobrious depths we have sunk into—DECADENCE! The house and property have been neglected. Pledges climbing up from the pledge door trudge heavily through the snow on the lawn, instead of trudging through the snow on the flag stone front walk as they should. That reticent fox that has mystified pledges for years finally emerged recently in bright blue paint on the dining room mural so that all can see him. One of the broth ers apparently has artistic talent. Beer is being constantly spilled on the bar room floor. Lights are left burning needlessly for hours at night in BRONSON LAFOLLETTE writes empty rooms while the wicked brothers are out on the snark deck peer for the Badger, and is an executive on the student committee to change the University's registration pro ing through the darkness in the direction of the Alpha XI house. Classical cedure. nights. Why, we've even neglected to put the pier up this year! (Though some might say that the fact that the lake hasn't thawed yet might have contributed to the delay—don't listen to these mitigators. It's sheer negli ALAN McCONE was chairman of the Prom promotions committee, acted in the Players' plays "Bartholemew Fayre" and "As You Like It," is a Cardinal reporter, sings with the Glee club, and is chairman of Entertainers' guild. BOB WOOLARD is a Badger salesman. FRED NAMMACHER is commodore of the Hoofers' Canoe club. DICK NEUMAN and DICK ELA worked on the Prom promo tions committee. CASEY FUGINA is Cardinal sports writer. Several pledges are engaged in football, bas ketball, wrestling, and crew. music blasts down the hall from some thoughtless brother's victrola, mak ing it absolutely impossible to study during the quiet hours on iprlday gence!) And those disgusting parties we held last semester—all we did was sit around and drink and neck—well, actually, we didn't even sit; one of the brothers used the bar room benches to repair his ice boat. Aside from singing an occasional dirty song, there were absolutely no wholesome community games, like charades or chug-a-Iug contests. And that dreadful Fiji Island party last year! It is the reason why we're on pro now "That was a terrible party," said Dean Troxell when this writer was sipping tea with the old prude (I mean the prudent old gal). A statement like that from the Dean of Women is enough in Itself to encertain a horrible and eternal damnation in a worse hell than the Union Rathskeller for every wicked chap who participated in the odious affair. Financially we are in a perilous state, too. The treasurer is getting too (continued on page 4) \r\nTHE MU NEWS, March, 1955 Pro Stops Top Fiji Parties By BRONSON LAFOLLETTE For the year our s 'cial schedule has been a huge success. Anticipat ing the advent of social probsrtion for the second semester, we planned cur social budget so that it would be exhausted by the end of January —and exhausted it was. Emphasiz ing- the importance of dancing in stead of a theme at most of our partie,s, we managed to have a band almost every weekend. It soon got around that—as usual—the Fiji's were having the best partie.s on Langdon Street, They always at tracted a crowd of welcome guests froiTi the other houses. We also had two formals within two weeks. One the Initiation formal with the "Stag Banquet'' before hand and the other the Christmas formal. Dinner at the Hoffman house preceded the lat ter gala affair, which featured a beautifully decorated Christmas tree brought straight from the north woods by Ron Sylvan, Then came by far the biggest fra Alion SchmiU, Sheboygan, holds his brealh as he bumps down the iced chute made specially for this purpose while the weather was still cold, the fraternities on After the smoke had cleared from rushing. Mu wound up with six freshmen football jslayers and two basketball players. We finished Chapter Shape sixth in out of thut^ luh iiuiutt! fraternities hiu!,,uii the s