VIGILANTES OF L.I.U. FIX RULES FOR WOMEN FRESHMEN
Brooklyn Standard Union 7 October 1931 Must Wear No Jewelry and Carry Blue Sock on Right Foot The annual hazing of freshmen women students by members of the sophomore vigilance committee began at Long Island university when the regulation blue bibs, hair-ribbons and sock were inflicted upon women of the entering class. Nine rules in all were prescribed for the conduct of freshmen women. They were: 1-Freshmen are forbidden to wear jewelry. 2-Freshmen must not use the Pearl street entrance or elevator. 3-Freshmen must wear a blue sock on the right foot or a blue hair-ribbon. 4-All freshmen must wear bibs. 5-Freshmen are forbidden to use cosmetics. 6-Freshmen must address upper class students as "Sir" or "Miss." 7-All rules must be observed within a radius of one block of the university. 8-Regulation bibs and socks must be purchased from the vigilance committee. 9-Rules will be in effect during the entire month of October. Miss Dora GALPERIN is chairman of the sophomore vigilance committee, other members of which are Miss Bessie SHULMAN, Miss Liboria MARCESCA, Miss Hortense ROTHSCHILD and Miss Viola B. IORIO. L. I. U. SOPHOMORES TO APPLY PADDLES TO GIRLS...PERHAPS Vigilantes at a Loss to Enforce Rule for Bib-Wearing Probably the greatest triumph achieved by mere man since woman suffrage is being celebrated today at Long Island University. It is there that the much-abused and ridiculed college man is at last coming into his own. His recognition is coming from, of all persons, the college woman. These are the glad tidings. Long Island University girl sophomores, in issuing nine prescribed rules for the conduct of the freshman female, are admitting that without the help of their sophomore brethren the rules cannot be enforced. As a result an emergency call for help is being issued to Brother Sophy for his aid in doping out an easy way to guarantee their enforcement. ENFORCEMENT DIFFICULT The annual rules for the freshies include the discarding of all forms of jewelry, the wearing of a blue sock on the right foot or a blue hair ribbons, no cosmetics and the wearing of bibs. Thus far, the sophy-ettes admit that the enforcement has been much harder than the passage of these regulations. When an offender was found Miss Sophomore was helpless. It was too much to ask a dignified second year student to actually come to blows with the upstart. It is here that the men enter into the scheme of things. Miss Dora GALPERIN, chairman of the sophomore vigilante committee, has ordered a wooden paddle which is to be presented to the male sophomores. When a female offender is stubborn and refuses to follow the precepts of the class, Mr. Sophomore is to be called in and if he can get away with it he will administer the paddle as only a male sophomore knows how. If it becomes a question of which wears out the sooner, the offenders or the paddle-administrators, Miss Sophomore is willing to string along with the latter. Of course, the sophomorettes as a group are not at all pleased with these arrangements. Most of them would sooner not have started prohibiting if it meant admitting defeat to the males. MORE DOCILE Two of them yesterday admitted as much to the Standard Union reporter. There was Miss Selma BAUM, who remembers that when she was a freshie the sophomores seemed to have no trouble at all in enforcing the rules. In fact, according to Miss BAUM and her friend, Miss Minnie FINK, the freshies today are more docile than in former years. Miss BAUM cited the case of a number of professors who thought they were 'seeing things" when they found themselves at the head of a classful of bib-tuckers and ribbons-wearers. The main difficulty in enforcing the nine rules is at the college annex at 176 Montague street. The entire personnel is made up of freshmen, making it a literal first-year stronghold. Neither sophomores, juniors nor seniors are accorded any respect at all there and it will probably be up to the male sophies to invade this territory to uphold the name of the upper classmen and women. PRACTICAL JOKE The male freshies, apparently, have been well taken in hand. While the rules are not as stringent for them as for their weaker sisters, they seems to be following every wish of their older schoolmates. The entire school still talks with awe about the master stroke performed by the sophomores on their inferiors. One day on the bulletin board there appeared a notice that all freshmen were to report immediately to the new annex at 170 Remsen street. All that day the telephone in the university office kept ringing and an angry voice kept repeating that if these students weren't told to leave the "episcopal diocesan" house at once there was sure to be trouble. To the credit of the freshmen let it be said that they followed orders. It wasn't until a professor from the school came over and explained to them that a mistake had been made that the more than 100 "victims" returned to their studies.RETURN to 1930 GRADUATE MAIN RETURN to GRADUATE MAIN RETURN to BROOKLYN MAIN