~ The games ~-~ pledges play
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t was late. and groups
of weary pledges returned from their sneaks to find their favorite stuffed animals or reams of toilet paper hanging on nearby trees. This " present" was a welcome prepared for the pledges by their upperclass brothers and sisters. But before they had left. the freshmen had pulled some pranks of their own. Usually early on a Saturday morning. when few people were up and about. the pledges began their traditional task. Creeping around otherwise quiet houses. they carried out their assigned jobs with the utmost speed and efficiency .. No one would even have known they were there except for the occasional sounds of muffled voices or stifled giggles. They were carrying out an age-old Greek tradition. and they were determined to be remembered by many
pledge classes after them. Before they left on their pledge sneak. they had to leave their mark. They must make their absence known to the upperclass members. Lisa Gibson said the purpose of a pledge sneak was to bring the pledge class together. And as they hid all the silverware in the house. took all the toilet paper. did away with the electric blanket controls and took the front doorbell apart. the freshmen developed a bond that would last the rest of their lives. The same was true for the upperclassmen too. In return. the members would let the rest of the Greek system know that their pledges were sneaking. They accomplished this by moving entire pledge sleeping porches to the front yard and by hanging cherished stuffed animals by the neck or underwear from surroun-
ding trees. In doing so. bonds of memories and friendships developed that would not weaken through the years. The pledges of Pi Kappa Alpha would not soon forget their return from McCall late one Sunday night. when they discovered their sheets in a huge frozen block of ice in the front yard And the pledges of Sigma Alpha Epsilon would remember untying the sheets and blankets from the tops of trees or moving their bunkbeds back onto the porch at I a.m. "Someone had to expect the worst when we got back. but I had no idea." said Craig Rabe. " We just took their (the upperclassmen's) silverware and dishes. I didn 't have any idea what we were in for." Some fraternities and sororities went on their sneaks together. The
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Beta Theta Pi.
FRONT ROW: Jeff Williams, Charlie McDevitt, Jeff Johnson, Frank Ng, Oscar Salinas, Scott Cleyerly, Todd Young, Greg Livel y, Tim Schwarze. Gary Maxwell, Clay Fulfer, ). Dushane. SECOND ROW: John Newhouse, Bob Liston. Her b Splnkel, Thorn Gough, Mike Kleffner, Eric Gosswlller, Carlos Lacayo, Joe Carpenter. Dane Myers. Brent )ones, Scott Bridges, Jeff Brown, Brian Duffy, Mike Burke. BACK ROW: Steve Bosley, Tyler Gilbert. Rob Champlin, Brett Kleffner. Joe Kleffner, Tobe Thompson, John Farley, Mike Marler, Kevin McEntee, Terry Reynolds. Mike Bryson, Joe Keegan.
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