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.


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