University of Hawaii Honolulu - Ka Palapala Yearbook (Honolulu, HI)

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The frcthmen: eager Co learn, eager .0 eager Co get «ailed. Through remlnar »ior« they got a panorama ol life ami titualiom on camput. Thb «. the Beginning of Che Ralnlww. Try your lock ac Froth Conference Play che number» on Lat Vega Night: Win your tuition here! ... but Kherc'» the window to change the boltlecapt to cold cath? Pa« on, no patt back . . . thuckt!

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FROSH CONFERENCE We’ve all been guilty at one time or another of complaining alunt preparing a meal. If» »uch a chore, we cit. but wail 'til von try doing it on the big scalc at camp. They came. Carrying suitcases and Pan Am bags and wear- ing bermudas, shorty blouses, jeans, sports shirts, and Kona hats they came. Eager freshmen swarmed into Atherton House, checked in, boarded buses, and were off to Camp Enlman and the Beginning of the Rainbow, singing the Stanford Drinking Song and the ditty about pink pajamas. The Frush Conference, New Student Orientation Camp actually, sponsored by the YMCA and YWCA, has three major objectives: to stimulate the new students to things critically, to provide occasions to make new friends, and to afford oppor- tunities for spiritual search and growth. The program included three platforms and 12 seminars, during which freshmen listened to and talked with professors, politicians, and upper classmen. But all was not listening and discussing. There were folk dancing, games, swimming, skits, all of which seemed to be more fun for counselors than for campers. After lights out, girls sighed over pictures of their steadies. Flashlights aroused suspicion, but intermittent lights in the john went unquestioned and were sufficient for pic lure-gazing and hair-setting. Above the sound of the breaking surf could be heard muffled voices and sudden bursts of laughter followed by a louder Shhh! You'll wake the counselor. A sham really . . . the counselor was making ns much noise. This was for the benefit of the next cabin, lest they too were awake. Conference policy explicitly states that “This conference is for campers only.” but “uninvited guests necessitated a dou- bling of the guards at night. Another conference policy discourages gambling, but Las Vegas Night nullified that policy. Some lucky gamesters won enough bottle caps to pay for tuition, but couldn’t find the window where they could turn them in for cold cash. Breaking ice, policies and counselors, freshmen began Rain- bow life by kicking up quite a storm. They're probably gathering lor the evening eampfiie. Or maybe for the family portrait, but whatever, the pit. romantic beneath the plncs-spooky at nlght- was the outdoor assembly hall at the Mokulcia site.

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REGISTRATION The beginning of beginning , the alpha of college education: Registration Day. Walk, walk, write, write, walk—a dayful. A grueling, confusing dayful, after which the student, finally and officially registered. with five pound of book on each arm, feels he is somewhat akin to live psychology text' white mice. He ha been run through a complicated maze that tests learning speed, physical and emotional endurance, and motivation. The maze-like quality of regi tration procedure can be attributed chiefly to the students' building-to-building course that crosses and recrosse itself. A welcome improvement this year wa the change in stationing the card distribution point from upstairs Hemenway to the ping pong room. Lines moved twice as fa t under the new system. But the rest of the trying procedure remained the same: after the cards and ncce ary schedules are secure in Hemen- way, the route leads to various buildings at all points on the campus for faculty advising and program planning. The wise student, if unhampered by a block schedule, has made .out his schedule of classes ahead of time, and needs only to convince the faculty adviser of its suitability—or even its plausibility. Then there is something of a climax of confusion on the second floor of Hemenway where orange IBM class cards are distributed. There arc long waitings in lines; section after sec- tion “closed ; innumerable trips back and forth to faculty ad- Instruction sheets. IBM cards, forms, envelopes are separated from their orderly masses and form one large mass in alphabetical order. Waiting can be a tedious experience but the line begins to forfl an hour early and winds its way around she Hemenway patio.