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The transition from high school to RIT begins when the seniors pile their suitcases and trunks, their parents and themselves into their cars, and head to Rochester. In times past every loaded car seemed to converge at the corner of 1 Plymouth and Main at the same minute, tying up traffic for blocks as parents and students unpacked their illegally parked cars in the early i September heat and rain. This year plenty of parking was available and the weather was decent. But after they had moved in, after their parents drove away, the new freshmen still faced all the problems their predecessors had: strange environment and food, and thousands of new faces to sort out. They had one new experience, however, that no group had encountered before. They were the first to use the vast, Henrietta Campus. S. A. Director A. Stephen Walls fielded hundreds of ques- tions from new students,TOP LEFT. Opus staff members manned desks and guided frosh throughout orientation week,TOP. Lunch provided a welcome break during OPUS activities, LEFT. Coffee and impromptu guitar music filled the long afternoon as the day drew to a close ABOVE. 13
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To meet this need for a guiding force, several years ago Operation Campus, or OPUS was created to help new students become accustomed to col- lege life. This year OPUS was built around the traditional Frosh Daze activities, but with some additions and changes that were inevitable as RIT moved from the middle of the city to its periphery this fall. OPUS's biggest task was to famil- iarize the hundreds of just-arrived students with the layout and organi- zation of the new campus buildings and roads. The OPUS committee, headed by Chairman Neil Gorfain, arranged an extensive series of tours through the first days of Frosh Daze week. Committee members had the additional work of similarly educat- ing the upperclassmen of the new RIT geography near the end of the week, but most of the OPUS time was concentrated on the frosh. The highlight of the activities was the big Sunday afternoon picnic. New students consumed thousands of hamburgers and hotdogs and gallons of coke before the affair ended late in the day. It was ac- knowledged to be the best organiz- ed and run of all the OPUS week ac- tivities that included volleyball and baseball games in the grassy area behind the residence hail complex. Other events during the week of Frosh Daze included a short play produced by the Drama Guild that didn't attract much more than idle curiosity, and a costumed ball, that despite a good deal of planning and imagination, failed to come off. At the close of the formal OPUS activ- ities was the Frosh Daze Concert which featured the Friend Lover and The American Breed groups in a three-hour-long performance. The credit for the success of the 1969 Frosh Daze week goes primarily to the hard working OPUS staff that Gorfain organized and trained. The committee started to arrange for the various OPUS events during the spring of 1968, and met many times that summer to check the details before the frosh arrived. They printed up signs, pamphlets and maps, and generally prepared the new RIT campus for the thousands of students who were about to spend several years here. GS 14
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