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Show welcomeEntering freshmen may be "green" when it comes to college life, but last fall's crop of new students were not visually as green as their predecessors. In years past, all entering students were required to wear bright green and white beanies to denote their lowly status - not so this year! In an effort to create closer unity between beginning students and the rest of the student body, the traditional freshman beanies were abolished. With Welcome Week activities keeping them so busy, no oneseemed to notice their absence.Getting Welcome Week off to a good start was the President'sReception, which provided an opportunity for all new studentsto personally meet Dr. Olpin and some of his staff.Various aspects of campus life were discussed at the convoca-tion and in the discussion groups following his address. Manyinformal lectures and group discussions gave freshmen an ideaof what the university expected of them as incoming students;what the school had to offer in outside class activities; and whatthey, as students, could do to make college life both enjoyableand rewarding.Meeting in their counseling sections for the first time, the students labored over the task of fitting in a physical education class that did not interfere with their 9:55 English because it did not leave room for the Friday chemistry lab., and rescheduling the whole program because of a failure to leave a free hour for lunch.Due to rumors circulated by upperclassmen, apprehensive frosh viewed registration with misgivings. They pictured it as a frenzied shuffle where students ran around frantically, could not get the desired classes at the desired hour, and were forced to make hasty substitutions on number nine cards. To their great relief, they discovered that it wasn't half bad, not at all like their imaginative minds had feared. Arriving at the appointed place at the appointed time, students were systematically and orderly enrolled in the University of Utah. |