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During first week students add drop, - pay expenses and explore Academic Alternatives Whether you were 18 years old Activities planned by dormitory or 20, for most of us, college staffs and campus organizations, dur life presented the opportunity ing the first week of the fall semester to live away from parental authority, made adaptation to (or back to) col rules, regulations and any sense of lege life easier. order painstakingly instilled by well- According to Jim Smith, director o; meaning parents. College years were residence hall life, the most important the turning points in most of our element the housing office strove for lives. at the beginning of the academic year Mollie McGinnis, a communica- was individual involvement in resi- tions freshman from Huntington, dence hall life as quickly as possible. W.Va., enjoyed the distance away At the beginning of the year, we tr' from home as far as the freedom it to run movies in dorm lobbies, hav; gave her, but felt it was close enough dorm floors or entire dorms play on; for road trips home every once in another in an intramural activity, awhile. UK excited me because it Smith said. Our main objective is t was so big, McGinnis said. I was have individuals interact with one ar - overwhelmed at first, but after I other. After all, you are going to b ? moved into the dorm, met my room- staring at these people for the next 1J mate and got involved with school or so weeks. and dorm activities, I felt at home. Every area of campus planned dil- Joseph Schmitt, an engineering ferent activities to involve studenti, sophomore, said although he moved said Smith. Activities were easil into a new dormitory, separated from planned for freshmen or new sti- many of the friends he met freshman dents, but upperclassmen presented a year, he looked forward to returning more difficult challenge. For uppe:- to UK. I thought I might not meet classmen, activities at the beginnirg new people, but all the guys on the of the year center around floor-type floor got together to play softball and activities in the individual dorms ' intramural football the first week of Smith said. They've been around a school, Schmitt said. The athletic little while, and maybe are mo e activities gave me an opportunity to skeptical of things. At that stag , meet a whole new set of people, we're more interested in promotirg Sure, I still hang around with my good group living. friends from last year, but I've met a whole Freshmen were sometimes surprised new group. to find that UK provided activities Valerie Sullivan, a biology sopho- for them the first week of school. A more, said at the beginning of school lot of freshmen are shocked to find she associated with her friends from that UK provides more than just an the previous year, but her group of academic atmosphere the first week friends expanded as the year contin- of school, Smith said, ued. I met new people from the For freshmen, we try to get them dorm, plus people from friends I had used to the fact that there are differ- previously, Sullivan said. ent people with whom they will asso- continue on page 19
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