University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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Helping a new roommate move in is always ri key to breaking the ice with new friends. Anxiety Runs High During First Days Arts and Sciences students find a pleasant reassurance during their orientation meeting with Dean M. M. Wliite. Parents and freshmen who did not participate in the summer orientation program found the long lines and drizzling rains a trying experience. -W'-01-wie--w ' W f-f- f -' -f f --A-W'-M

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Freshmen and transfer students get their first intro- ductions to the University during a summer orientation program that is a day of visiting main campus build- ings, taking placement and physical fitness tests, and flu shots. For 120 freshmen students there is an extra chance to learn of the many advantages of the University dur- ing the weekend YMCA-YWCA Summer Camp held in early September at Natural Bridge State Park. At summer orientation students get an early taste of a UK tradition, lines, lines, lines. To the confused freshman, talks with advisers are strained but welcome

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For freshmen and upperclassmen alike, the first days on campus are con- fusing and hectic. Organizations night, fraternity and sorority rush, dormitory politics, and innumerable meetings pose continuous questions to the student. Faced with the strain of uncertain de- cisions freshmen learn hard lessons in self-sufficiency. This mounting anxiety and the rigors of registration and informal opening class meetings leaves the neophyte ques- tioning himself about his college career. Through the days of moving into dormitories, attending orientation activities, and registering for classes new students looked ahead to the first classes to learn the real way of the Universitv.