Arkansas State University - Indian Yearbook (Jonesboro, AR)

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Freshman orientation was WE SELDOM CONSIDER THIS VIEW WHEN THINKING OF FRESHMEN.

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MR. DENNY visits the combat zone. INDIAN NETWORK SPONSORS, Marvin Melton, Lowell Simpson, and Walter Hix, present checks to Charley Thornton and Bob Howe. R.O.T.C. summer training A-STATE ' S CADETS AT SUMMER CAMP. I i :

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different this year The new group of freshmen came to Arkansas State a week early for Freshman Orientation. After being issued red and black beanies by the Student Government Association to signify inexperience in the college world, and yellow signs for those who were late, the newcomers filed through lines, took tests, filled out forms, and went to street dances. Under the vigilant supervision of the sophomore class president, Charles Crow, the freshmen tipped their beanies to Clyde, the Indian statue, sang the Alma Mater and Dixie, collected names of upperclassmen, sat to- gether at football games, and were generally harrassed by the student body. At the end of the ten-week orientation period, the upperclassmen were thwarted in an attempt to win the annual freshmen-upperclassmen tug-of-war in an amaz- ing upset. Freshman orientation is the vital time in which the student begins to feel he is a part of Arkansas State, and with the help of the SGA, this year another new and larger group of freshmen were integrated into the student body.