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POMP IT UP!
Katie Molloy - Corner Post Staff

October 18, 2003 - For the last four weeks, Greek students all over campus have been pomping. That's right… pomping! This process entails taking a small piece of tissue paper and wrapping it around a marker, dipping it in glue and sticking it on a piece of plywood. It sounds simple enough, but it takes over 5,000 pieces of pomp to complete one board.

Houses pomp from 20 boards to 56 boards. In order to get people to pomp, some sorority and fraternity houses demand mandatory hours. If members don't complete their mandatory hours, they can either be fined or banned from certain house events.

Some houses demand anywhere from five hours a week, to forty hours a week.

"Sometimes it's like having a full-time job," Alpha Gamma Rho member Phillip Snodgrass, agribusiness management, said. "It's worth it in the end, by doing your hours, you get a chance to really help out your house."

Be sure to take a drive through Greek Town on homecoming weekend to see these amazing house decorations and see how MU's Greek's have been "Pomping It Up!"

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