University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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 DO YOU HATE YOUR MOTHER? Does your mother hate you? Do you and your mother hale each other? Good grief, are they serious about this? What kind of test am I taking? 13 PROSPECTIVE RECRUITS for the University's ROTC program are given a pep talk during the freshmon orientation days. TWO FRESHMEN give these exams all they've got. Soon they'll be taking final and midquarter exams for classes.

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Orientation Makes Freshmen Feel at Home The two-day Orientation program set up by the University of Minnesota administration is designed to acquaint the student with the campus, faculty, curriculum. facilities and the purposes of the University. On the first day of Orientation, students are assigned to small groups under the guidance of upperclassmen who arc especially trained and instructed for this job. The students get to know other members of their groups and their group leader tells them something about the University in general. The rest of the day is taken up by math and aptitude tests, group instruction on registration procedures and a college meeting. The boys learn about the ROTC program from the instructors at the Armory. That evening there is a dinner and program at Centennial Hall. On the second day. the students take off their name tags, stop walking two by two and begin to feel like old hands at this business of University life. They meet their advisers to discuss the schedules they labored over the previous night and arc helped in making any additions or corrections in their programs. Registration, individual activities and a speech and hearing examination fill the afternoon. This ends the first phase of orientation. The freshmen arc now ready to go on to the next two phases, freshman camp and Welcome Week. PHYSICAL EXAMS are one of many freshman requirements. 12

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FRIENDSHIPS which lost throughout your college career and your life too often begin during the weekend at Freshman Camp. Camp Stresses Social, Educational Values Over 600 freshmen and counselors filled buses in front of Coffman Memorial Union Friday morning. Sept. 15, and left for camps in Minnesota and Wisconsin as part of the University of Minnesota's 1961 Orientation program. Freshman Camp is an integral part of freshman orientation each year. The camps are planned by student counselors and headed by student co-chairmen. Work begins winter quarter when the co-chairmen interview upperclassmen applicants for counselor positions. The selected camp counselors meet weekly during spring quarter to plan programs, select faculty and prepare such materials as song sheets and name tags for the camps. At the camp the Freshmen hear talks by well-known faculty members, take part in discussions and organize skits for a Saturday night talent show or mock political convention. The Saturday night skits, like everything else at camp, arc aimed at familiarizing the new. enthusiastic students with University life. They dramatize the great variety of University activities and organizations ranging from MSA to the Health Service. On both Friday and Saturday nights the campers can relax at a dance, play cards or just talk Most important. they have plenty of time to question the counselors about University life. The campers returned to Minneapolis Sunday afternoon, singing their camp songs or such camp favorites as “Yum-Yum and “Poor Lil.” FOOD IS GOOD, service (your own) is excellent and companionship — the best during two doys of Freshman Camp. 14