University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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TUG-O-WAR a! the Ag Olympics on the Si. Paul campus during Welcome week brings competitive grins and grimaces on this side of the rope. 18

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many buzz sessions which gave you a chance to ask questions such as ‘‘Should I join an academic sorority or fraternity.''” It was a comfortable time. You met your counselors ami got to know many students. You lived in blue jeans and sweat shirts. There were the Olympics to see who could throw a paper plate or a soda straw the farthest. In the evenings you swung your partner to square dance music or danced more quietly to popular music. Every minute of camp was crammed full of activities. Buzz sessions lusted late into the night and you got up around seven for breakfast. By the final evaluation session of camp everyone was beat, just beat. FACULTY COUNSELORS Steeling them-iclvci for the onilought of compcrv

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Welcome Week JOANNE KORTE wo crowned Freshman Queen oi the climax of Welcome Week. Si ill tired from Freshman caui|), you rush into Welcome week, which is crammed full of more things than you can possibly do. There is a constant round of meetings, discussions and classroom previews which, you have been told, have a new emphasis to help you broaden your intellectual and cultural outlook. Other years students commented the programs were too long and frivolous. Over the past several years I he emphasis has been shifting more toward learning about the I'niversity, instead of merely giving the student a good time. Your discussion groups were designed to answer questions like How will your |K rsonal values change at school?” and What opportunities does the I’nivcr-sity afford students to develop a questioning mind?” You learned to ask more questions aland the I’ni-versity than you had even thought of before. In spite of the new intellectual emphasis and the planning, students found time for just having fun. During one Welcome week day on St. Paul campus there was a PARTHENON BALL, o Greek-sponsored octivily during Welcome week, colls for hilority in gome ond costume.