University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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A more serious side of Orientation was the series of proficiency tests in the U-Ark Bowl. The second week of September was a week of preparation for everyone. The proficiency tests were complicated, but not com¬ pletely impossible. The lectures on scholarship were interesting, but maybe it was too early in the year . . . even the faculty seemed more interested in the skits by the sorority pledges.

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The Zeta pledges entertained the freshmen with an exhibition of some of the finer things of college life. Freshmen were shown through the Engineering Building. the light prologue Most of the freshmen and transfer students at¬ tended the extras of Orientation Week . . . the guided tours, the mixer in the Union, the programs at the Greek Theatre. ODK supervised the presen¬ tation of skits by the sorority pledges, and speakers from various honor societies on the campus told the freshmen how important it is to study. AWS had a picnic for the freshman girls. Mr. Cross outlined education requirements for new students.

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Carol Lynn Lackey decided to beat the line in purchas¬ ing her school supplies. the beginning of the struggle It was difficult at first, after three months of no eight o ' clocks and nights spent at the movies in¬ stead of the library, but the classes and books and nights of study gradually became familiar again. Even so, it took several days and numerous trips to the bookstore to acquire even the minimum amount of the lab manuals, the texts, the theme paper, the economic outline maps, and other ridiculous para- phanalia that professors believe to be so absolutely necessary for their courses. John Rockwell tried to accustom himself to the library. Martha Mann made good use of the Holcombe study hours.