It wasn’t referred to as Fb, however we had a New Pupil Report once I was a freshman on the College of Maryland. The Interfraternity Council (IFC) revealed the guide, which included details about the Greek system, together with pictures and pursuits from freshmen who submitted their info.
I already knew I used to be going to hurry a fraternity earlier than I set foot on campus for my freshman yr, however the New Pupil Report was a great tool for background on Greek-letter organizations.
The guide’s opening pages gave an outline of fall rush and what to anticipate from the bidding course of. It additionally included a Q&A web page on prices, what fraternities and sororities do on campus, and so on., in addition to the Greek alphabet and terminology associated to the Greek system.
Up till then, my solely curiosity in becoming a member of a fraternity was the events. The New Pupil Report additionally did a superb job of introducing freshmen to brotherhood and sisterhood, management, philanthropy, and intramurals. Nonetheless, the events have been the primary attraction for me then.
That info was helpful, however as I regarded by way of the pages, the actual draw for me was seeing my fellow incoming freshmen and questioning which of them I’d meet.
The image I submitted was a grainy shot of my highschool commencement, and my pursuits have been music and soccer – some issues by no means change.
As I began school, my plan was to be a journalism main, as I listed within the New Pupil Report, however I by no means made it out of Pre-Journalism, as a result of I got a 1.0 GPA in my first semester. From there, I meandered into Radio, TV, and Movie as a significant for a time, however in the end graduated in Communications.
It was fairly exceptional to me that the majority of scholars within the guide have been from New Jersey and New York. Although I grew up ten miles from campus, there weren’t many individuals from my highschool on the College of Maryland. I believe I bumped into possibly a dozen of my highschool classmates over my 5 years at Maryland. That’s in all probability not an enormous shock, since Laurel, MD was a working class city.
Paging by way of the New Pupil Report now, the individuals I acknowledge are largely my brothers in Pi Kappa Alpha, and others who have been within the Greek system.
Each now and again, it’s enjoyable to look again and see the entire large hair on the women and the mullets on the fellows – what a magical time. However I do additionally marvel how issues turned out for all of those faces. Did they persist with their main? Did they transfer throughout the nation or world? Which ones are not with us?
These photos of the 1988 freshman will at all times be the age within the photos to me.
