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Show IW^H|l»S«3itlM*'' Intramural tennis, basketball and softball winners collected trophies to add to the "files of pride." Increased participation describes the 1958 intramural competition in which over 500 male participants representing some 25 fraternities, clubs, and independent organizations tried to wrestle the championship from its long domination by the Pi Kaps. This program offers a variety of activities to participating students. Sports competition is engaged in all the way from a tussle with the pigskin to the more polite social contact of bowling and ping-pong. With such a large and diversified program there comes much in the way of coordination and direction. This big job is handled by Tony Simone. Assisted by the Intramurals Board he takes care of the scheduling of events, obtaining of referees, and the tallying of points. As with most programs of such nature, the primary objective is in the area of association and sportsman-like development rather than competition alone. In this program students have the opportunity to meet and associate with each other and thereby gain friends and colleagues which would not exist otherwise. In the overall analysis this is probably the most beneficial facet of the program. On a campus which is tied up so tightly in fraternity and sorority life such a program is needed. It gives the independent student the chance to participate freely and, as far as his abilities allow, to win. Also, students need a program which will draw them into activity other than that which is obtained in the classroom. Many are not of the position or inclination to hold membership in a social group. It is only here and at the girls' dorms that their social experience is given expansion. Such is the intramural program - competitive, diversified, and social. 329 |