Syracuse University - Onondagan Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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SENIOR GUIDES who explain the Syracuse blueprint to incoming freshmen TITA OBANDO Campus Chairman A branch of Women ' s Student Government, the Senior Guide Program has proved its worth in the orientation of freshmen women. Waiting at assigned freshman cottages to welcome the newcomers the day they arrive on campus, guides begin their work at the very first house meeting by aiding the house- mothers and student deans to explain university regulations. Throughout the next few weeks guides help freshmen girls master the system of permissions which seem so complicated to inexperienced frosh. Traditions and customs of Syracuse are described and questions about activities are answered. Guides also point out the Who ' s Who ' s at Syracuse— from university officials and profs to student campus leaders of all activities. This program, which might well be called a Big Sister program, in its own way, indirectly helps every organization and professor as well as the individual girl and the university itself. 26

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Government JACKIE JUDGE The job of House Presidents ' Assembly is to interpret the rules and regulations of Women ' s Student Government to the co-eds of Syracuse. One hundred and thirteen mem- bers, the presidents of all the women ' s living centers on campus, meet every two weeks to talk over any problems that might have arisen in their houses. Suggestions are offered. rules and customs are clarified and a better understanding of the university and WSG results. Jackie Judge, president of HPA, is always on hand to odd any supplementary information which might be desired. When penalties, special pers and house rules have all been thrashed over, HPA mem- bers manage to squeeze in a few social affairs — such as their get-acquainted party early in the fall, and the party given before election of officers in the spring. Working in the office WSG Court 25

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Guides This year brought an improvement in the basic structure of the Guide program. While the Senior Guide limits her duty to advising the house as a whole, the Junior Guide now has the responsibility of getting to know each girl, her ambitions, and the difficulties she encounters as her freshman year pro- gresses. WSG, in promoting this new plan of friend- ship between the guides and freshmen women has found that its plan of orientation contributes to prob- lems in co-operative living. In this program the Junior Guides are better trained for their work as Senior Guides. ►J . ANN TOMPKINS City Chairman JUNIOR GUIDES have the responsibility of guiding the individual freshman in her adjustment to college life 27