Arizona State University - Sun Devil Spark / Sahuaro Yearbook (Tempe, AZ)

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rhythms iJand dancing feet, incoming students hit the dance floor during orientation week. The dance was sponsored by the Memorial Union Activities Board. ten his own way, incoming freshman Eric Katinka goes airborne during the MUAB Beach Par- ty . The event was held as a part of orientation week. 0 week was a chance to in- troduce students and their parents to college life at ASU. The theme of the week was Celebrate ASU. Sunday was Welcome Day. Residence halls opened, and academic colleges sponsored programs for parents. That night, the Memorial Union Activities Board had a barbeque. AND WE ' RE OFF! Orientation signals new year Academic and Parents Day was Mon- day, with many departments holding sessions for students. That night, each hall had programs (or the new residents. Diversity Day, Tuesday, celebrated many backgrounds of ASU students. The day ' s events included an orientation for disabled students and a Splash Party. Celebrating Transition Day was Wednesday, which featured a Casino Night sponsored by MUAB. More than 700 people attended Casino Night to play blackjack and other casino games. Area merchants donated prizes. Thursday was Cultural and Fine Arts Day. ASASU sponsored art displays and an activities fair in the Memorial Union. Night activities included a party with a luau, movies, comedy and swimming. The final day, Friday, was Leadership and Spirit Day. This featured an open house at the University Activity Center and a pep rally that night. 1 thought that most of the programs would be geared to freshmen only, said Suzanne Wellsley, who transfered to ASU from a college in California. It was really informative about the different campus resources. After a busy week of orientation ac- tivities, new students had the weekend free to learn the way around their new campus before classes began on Mon- day. di CAROLYN PYE 2 geavtallar

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the walls go up, workmen climb higher to put the next layer on the new Fine Arts Annex. The build- ing was being built on Mill Avenue, just south of Tempe Center. the construe- lion site clutter, workers take a quick break for water. The 100-plus degree tem- peratures of the Ariz na summer often made work uncomfortable. Pruett p rowing, growing, gone. ASU ' s cam- pus was trying hard to keep up with its expanding student body. The result was a campus filled with work fences, buildings in various stages of construc- tion and lots of extra noise. Andrew Mark, an Arizona State senior, said all the construction was an inconvenience. ASU needs some sort of method to limit its growth because we ' re running out of room, Mark said. I don ' t think they should tear down the old buildings to put up new ones. Senior Mary Badini agreed. It ' s a pain to have to walk around the library to get to the MU from the Social Science building. Older students remembered when the Hayden pit was a beautiful grassy, green area with cool shade trees and park benches. Steve Taxman, a second- year graduate student, realized he would be gone before all of the construction was completed. It ' ll be great once everything ' s finished, Taxman said. Too bad I won ' t be around to enjoy it. Freshman Jen Johnson had a more op- timistic opinion about the construction. It ' s nice to see advancement, Johnson said. Hayden library will be accessible to a lot more students once it ' s finished. Claudine Babinski, freshman, did not have any complaints either. The con- struction doesn ' t really bother me, Babinski said. I think it ' ll be worth all the hassle in the end. A KIM C 11 UrrA ROWING PAINS University expansion brings mixed reactions ewhiewral

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all odds, Mike Mahe antes up at the MUAB casino night. The event was among the most popu- lar of the orientation week activities. in the mud is always fun after a tough game of Oozeball. The Student Alumni Association Oozeball tournament ended orientation week. The week before school started was a good time for new students to learn their way around campus. Be- cause of construction, it was hard for students to find a straight route to classes. I got stuck in a building because I didn ' t know where the handicapped ex- it was, said Eric Arnold, a new student who used a wheelchair. I ' m glad (the orientation staff) showed us where these access places were located. down at the tropical explosion intro- duced students to the finer points of limbo ASU style. One of the goals of orien- tation week was to ac- quaint students with their surroundings. Layout by Darryl Smith