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==History== | ==History== | ||
Since time immemorial, students have always sought a way to make new students "official" members of [[Skule]]™. It was in that spirit that the original F!rosh Weeks were carried out. Mostly the responsibility of the second years, those events typically involved a simple afternoon of hazing, followed by a large F!rosh-Soph banquet to show that there were no hard feelings. These orientations tended to involve whatever physical abuses or humiliations the second years could think of, but this was all quite acceptable at the time. In those days, there was a strong sense of camaraderie among the engineers that diminished significantly during the '60's and '70's, but is now again on the rise. In fact, Dean [[C.H. Mitchell]], who became dean in 1919, insisted that he too was a "freshman" and decided to endure the same initiation as the other F!rosh. | Since time immemorial, students have always sought a way to make new students "official" members of [[Skule]]™. It was in that spirit that the original F!rosh Weeks were carried out. Mostly the responsibility of the second years, those events typically involved a simple afternoon of hazing, followed by a large F!rosh-Soph banquet to show that there were no hard feelings. These orientations tended to involve whatever physical abuses or humiliations the second years could think of, but this was all quite acceptable at the time. In those days, there was a strong sense of camaraderie among the engineers that diminished significantly during the '60's and '70's, but is now again on the rise. In fact, Dean [[C.H. Mitchell]], who became dean in 1919, insisted that he too was a "freshman" and decided to endure the same initiation as the other F!rosh. | ||
The 1919-1920 F!rosh year, however, consisted of a large number of returning veterans from World War I, and staged a revolt known as [[The Great F!rosh Uprising of 1919]]. | |||
By the 1920's, orientations had become a bit more structured. The following "Rules for Freshmen" were published annually in that venerable paper the [[Toike Oike]] from the '20's through the '40's: | By the 1920's, orientations had become a bit more structured. The following "Rules for Freshmen" were published annually in that venerable paper the [[Toike Oike]] from the '20's through the '40's: | ||