Rochester Institute of Technology - Techmila / Ramikin Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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directing traffic and baggage OPPOSITE, Freshmen queued up to receive their free “hospitality kits distributed throughout the first days of Operation Campus. LEFT, The committee members at tables an- swered questions, gave directions around the campus, and handed out many cartons of gifts and pamphlets. BELOW, Between the scheduled OPUS activities, staff and newcomers alike relaxed in the central quad.

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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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RIGHT, An OPUS staffer prepares one of the many signs used during Frosh Daze, BELOW LEFT, An un- identified but welcome frosh signs for gift. BELOW CENTER, Ralph Cyr relaxes at lunch between OPUS events. BELOW RIGHT, Costume Ball favorites were odd couple Greg Evans and Linda Silva. 16