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

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Friday morning, which began at 7:00 a.m., was full of assemblies, department tours, and testing. It was through the efforts of Robert McKane, Institute Liaison, that these and later programs were coordinated with the SOS schedule. Friday evening's activities included a swim party and a coffee house. On Saturday the annual orientation picnic was held. Due to a slight mix up John Tuxell, Food Service Liaison, had a hard time finding the event. It seems Food Service setup the facilities in the wrong field. Somehow the picnic, with over two thousand students, faculty, and administrators in attendance, ended up in the middle of the soccer field during a game. That evening, a beer blast featuring Your Father's Moustache was held in the Union. Transfering students moved in on Sunday afternoon. That evening Senator Charles Coodell spoke at a political forum, taking questions for an hour after his speech. After a day of registration, on Monday, the new students enjoyed an Interfraternity Council Beer Blast. Following an hour of departmental meetings, on Tuesday morning, many spent the afternoon becoming acquainted with over forty of RIT's student organizations. The organizational contacts was one of the many events coordinated by Tom Camiolo, Special Events Chairman. That evening a concert, which featured Melanie, was cancelled due to the performer's poor health. There were many persons who also were an important part of orientation. Apart from the committee workers, Greg Lewis, Financial Chairman, Roberta Lindgren, Secretary and Gary Tucker, Property Control deserve mention for their individual efforts. The most significant innovation in the SOS program was the First Relevant Educational Experience. (FREE) The program included a wide range of topic areas and featured resource people from both the campus and community. Subjects included; student rights, abortion laws of New York State, Planned Parenthood, birth control. Student Association, NTID's program, and RIT's relationship to the community at large. Another program, though not a part of SOS per se, was Interact. Sponsored by the Housing Office, the program brought together fresh- men and faculty to discuss various kopprlnun factors of interest to them. The groups were not assigned specific topics, but were left free to discuss any area.

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Registration September T171 22 29 Tom stood in front of the large panes of polarized glass. He watched the reflection of himself in the morning dampness. Suddenly he noticed others who, like himself, were standing in line. Tom tried to avoid eye contact by looking at the brown metal letters, Clark Memorial Gymnasium. Clark Memorial Gym,... who was Clark anyway? And why would they erect a big brown brick monster in his memory? Tom had expectations of the worst. Maybe they had lost his cards, or there was no record of him paying his tuition bill. After all, housing had had no record of him coming. At any rate the unknown loomed inside that gym; Tom was a freshman and that day was registration day. Even after the days of SOS, brick city looms as a forbidding unknown in the new student's eyes. One of the first contacts the entering student has with RIT is registration. The process is full of unexpected turns. As George (Jed) E.D. Brady II, Registrar said during an interview, ... registration is a bit of a hassle. The long lines, course mix-ups and the many forms to fill out, wear the patience of both student and staff thin. To understand registration one t« must understand the overall function of which it is a part. Brady sums up his job this way: we have got to get the students' requests and needs for courses together with the faculties' ability and availability to teach the courses all together in facilities that are appropriate for these courses to be taught. It's becoming more and more complex as the nature of the Institute changes. Brady says that there was a time when RIT was a lock-step institution. That is, the courses a third year business student would 7