Riverside College - Tequesquite Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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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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club Day Served to Unify Groups CLUBS ON CAMPUS get to- gether once each semester to promote and pledge as many new members and events as they can. It is the one day that clubs attain a sort of ascend- ancy over academics; even the teachers are usually somewhat more tolerant of class cuts on club day tnan on other davs. This year ' s action was as fine as it has been in any year. In the photo at left, for instance, a heated discussion involving books for sale took place at one of the club booths. There is a coffee hour, a lot of spirited arguments; a big soshe generally. It is also the day that the TEQUESQUITE photographers try to find clubs practicing togetherness so the usual cliche photos can be avoided. 3r ' . : ' e.v - t ' t AS THE PHOTO at left indicates, clubs on campus already have enrolled a substantial number on campus. At right, William Chris- tian (left) looks over an en- forcer held by Lanny Wilson. Representatives from each club and organization take part in the ASB Cabinet, which is responsi- ble for the big fall event— Home- coming. Some of the organiza- tions exist primarily to give serv- ice to the college; others exist as part of the professional career patterns developed at RCC. Of course there are many other functions of clubs on campus, one of the most important being the social aspect. The clubs get students together in congenial groupings which allow the indi- viduals to identify with a strong symbol.