Monday, June 21, 2021
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The Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house on Saturday, March 28, 2020.
Kaleb Tadpole Staff Reporter Greek Rush is back. After COVID halted the regular style of rushing last summer, fraternities are finally back to a
normal state with Greek Rush in the full swing of things already. Fraternities have already started Interfraternity recruitment this summer following Greek Discovery Day in April where juniors and seniors in high school can come and get a taste of Greek life at OSU and see what it is all about. Sorori-
ties have not yet started their Panhellenic recruitment; It begins on Aug. 10 and goes through Aug. 15. Now that school is out for the summer fraternities have started to ramp up the recruiting process and get to know their potential new members. Fraternities will spend the summer recruiting potential
new members through a variety of events. “Different chapters will have different activities like golfing, swimming, barbeques, any place where they can do an activity where they can get to know each other bet See Greek on pg.2
Today, Saturday, June 19, 2021, is a day to celebrate. It’s a day that salutes history, exalts freedom and holds up the best aspects of American democracy. This day does those things because it is the first day in history that America will observe an official day of celebration for the end of slavery. President Joe Biden declared Juneteenth a national holiday Thursday, and we almost certainly wouldn’t have this holiday without the tireless efforts of a 94-year-old Fort Worth, Texas, woman. It must be said that we’ve arrived at this milestone much too slowly. Today marks 156 years since enslaved people in Texas learned of their freedom. That event, itself, was marked by delay; it took more than two years for news of President Tribune News Service
See Juneteenth on pg.2