University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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FRESHMEN are learning quickly — don't just sit around during the free minutes. Fill your time by playing cards. ALL RIGHT, GANG, here's my plan. Jcanie can distract the other team's members while we run for the touchdown.

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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

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BIRTHDAY CAKE has to be stretched a long way when hundreds of eager students turn out to celebrate in front of Northrop. Welcome Week Acquaints Freshmen With U “Isn’t this place huge? Man. was I lost in the Union! These and other comments were heard all over campus during Welcome Week, me third phase of new student orientation. Lasting six days. Sept. 18-23, Minnesota's orientation program is one of the most elaborate in the nation. Three ideas guided the week’s activities. The first was a preview of academic life which included convocations. lecture demonstrations and a “How to Study session There was also a general introduction to each of the colleges in the University. Another was introduction to the facilities, services, faculty and staff. Student organizations and interest groups were presented at the Activities Mart held in the Union. Social activities were not forgotten. These ranged from Greek Night to Dr. Lombard’s “Introduction to the Lively Arts to the Welcome Week Whirl on Saturday night. The high point of the week was the Friday convocation at which Canadian Superior Court Justice Samuel Freedman summarized the new student's relation to the University community as a whole. PRESIDENT WILSON gets the first piece of his chocolote and white birthday cake from hostess Jo lynn Edberg. 16