San Francisco State University - Franciscan Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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521551533 Ilan Ldliuluqy At the Gym, all was supposed to be ready for 15,000 registrants. People Wearing badges and har- ricd looks answered questions as if they were reading from pre- pared speeches. If the students touched their cards with more than thr H ee fingers, they--the fingers--were stamped.

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skits, dances, jokes . Campus Kick-off Campus Kick-off 1963, a week long collection of formal and in- formal meetings designed to orient for is it confuse'?D the new student, had both its educational and enter- taining sides this fall. The guided tours of the campus Qincluding the library and dormsj, the fireside chats between faculty and students , and the informal dis- cussion groups presided over by counselors, all served to indoc- trinate the newcomer into the mys- terious , often IBM-dominated, ways of STATE. Bewilderment, some freshmen said, was only compounded by the pre-registration orientation, but a little diversion usually took care of that problem. A warm, friendly greeting from President Dodd-- followed by a get acquainted weekend dinner-dance--made the students forget about the drillings they had just received and the hor- ror yet to come--registration. Insanity filled the air at the weekend dance as skits were pre- pared and performed by the fresh- men students themselves. The skits fa Campus Kick-off tradi- Highlight of the cvcnin was thc counselors presentation of My Little Pink Nightie. tionj, were loaded with the usual skit techniques: unbelievably bad slapstick antics and off-color jokes which got worse and worse, and had students alternating laughs with jeers. But the intent was to make the troubled and anxiety- filled students forget their woes, and, if nothing else, the skits did accomplish this.

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Registration The sky was stormy enough to put you in a rain coat and the humidity was high enough to melt you out again. That's how uncooperative the weather was from September ll-13, when thousands of STATE students stood in line for Fall registration. Ralph Verre, FRANCISCAN'S assist- ant editor, toured the registration line, backwards-just to be different , and got these impressions. I found the lines at thc stations 1. ' ii X , :XA Isn't it great? Everybody looking in different directions--no one knew what to do or how to do it! X ,. 13 W' i i ik M'--sir-fwxi moved faster--after you paid your fees. Y ,ww I 1' i . mmf... I.. , M