Photos from 1971 Midlander

"I'm a charter member, and our group that year were charter members of C. X, 4th Regiment, Persian Rifles.  Now, for our initiation, we had to have a five-foot wooden rifle.  We had to paint it blue.  We had to get all the members of the drill team to sign it.  We had to get all the officers--army officer and NCOs to sign it.  We had to get the PMS to sign it.  We had to carry a two and a half-gallon bucket of water around with a gold fish in it and keep it alive in our left hand.  We had to wear our uniforms with spit-shined boots, and everything, and the rifle at right shoulder arms.  Everywhere we went on campus, we had to do that carrying our books and everything."