Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Description

Ronald Croick, recorded in Leeds, talks about American university and college campus folklore: initiation and the wearing of dinks (type of headwear); carrying orange and maroon lifesavers; matches for cigarettes; student handbook; answering questions on the university; feats/clothing on specific days (e.g. The Sky is Falling day); origins/evolution of feats for freshmen; freshmen Stunt Night; Float for homecoming; Panty Raids, and variant, Potato Night; reactions of the girls; freshman girl initiation; fraternity customs - Rush Week, votes/bids, pledging, duties, assigning of big brothers, Hell Night, raids on fraternities; fraternity rivalry; facilities, membership, sport, secret handshake, tests/signals/signs, ritual meetings; description of informant's fraternity; coat of arms. Fraternity floats - themes, sabotage of other floats; bonfire nights; Clean Up Days - community work, springtime; collector relates story of a professor's curse on a Kentucky university - parade to commemorate his death; informant talks about college rumours; graduation ceremonies; practical jokes; campus characters and one girl considered promiscuous; dating custom between fraternities and sororities - giving Pledge pins/Fraternity pins - Pinning and serenading; hobbies (collecting road signs); dorm activities; inter-dorm sports; graffiti; campus subculture activities; nicknames. 1 of 6.

Metadata

Identifier dd78rt6g
IRN 414296
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A247r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/dd78rt6g
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Wilson, David L
Date 25 October 1971
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 93' 43".

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