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Frosh Get Glimpse of Campus FROM THE TERRACE — A group of freshmen survey the Pit, the Quad, the classrooms and their futures on the first day for orientation. They brought with them memor- ies ot past achievements, and solid hopes for the future, plus a huge stock of preconceived notions about college and a lot of misinformation. Some of them are still with us. S .l FEET ON GROUND - Those who couldn ' t get to the top to look down on the passing scene stayed in the Pit and compared notes. The dismal connotations of the word pit may have struck some of them at this point. SUDDENLY DROPPED from the highest level of high school society to the rock bottom of the college sphere, the incoming freshmen took their introduction to RCC with the usual amount of Oos and Ahs (and grunts and groans). From high schools as near as the old Poly and as far away as London, England and Wiesbaden, Germany, they descended upon Landis Auditorium with a unique oneness — the spontaneous spirit of im- pensing adventure. On every face was tfie stereo- typed expression of casual boredom, but few could conceal the look of excitement in their eyes when faced with the proposition of starting in college (at last). The student body guides led their respective groups on exhausting tours of the campus with perfect sophomore aloofness, cris- crossing the Quad pointing out such vital lancf- marks as the Pit, student center, the sun terrace above the pit and every restroom on campus. (They also mentioned a few other incidentals like classrooms and counselors ' offices in the pro- cess.) Despite the tours, however, most of the freshmen were able to find their way around by the end of the first nine weeks and were quickly absorbed into the daily routine.
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...And Advice from Sophomores FORMAL MEETING — Gathering the incoming freshmen to what she called a good group was Pat Hannon, AWS president, who welcomed the frosh to RCC and gave them the lowdown on what to expect. She told them about rules )ke on the grounds if you wish, but not inside) and events and introduced them to people who could da them some good. PROBABLY WORSE than the confusion and frus- tration, was the advice the freshman had to ac- cept with courtesy and grace from those lordly collegians, the sophomores. Some samples: Frosh: What kind of assignments do English lA teachers give here in the college? Soph; Generally speaking, you ' ll have to read 500 pages of Homer and Chauser every day, that is until you get to Shakespeare, when 1,000 pages are assigned daily. Of course, you must also memorize the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales and The Taming of the Shrew. Frosh: The taming of who? Soph: The shrew, that ' s who. This is a somewhat typical conversation and may be a little exaggerated but in many cases the in- formation given to freshmen in the pit, as they say, is all too spurious. Some of the photos on these two pages reflect the seriousness which freshmen characteristically bring with them to their first visit on campus. Many of them fell by the wayside in the early going, but a high percentage remained to light the lamps of learning in a darkened world. FOR SALE — Checking the bulletin b oard for good buys in books or cars and carefully calculating their cost are some of the 1965 freshmen — the consumers of tomorrow.
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