University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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onemaiion New Confusion The making of ID cards at Orientation is one of the first steps to becoming a new student. The thought of becoming just another number at the University is enough to frighten even the bravest of freshmen. However, summer orientation gave incoming freshmen and transfer students an opportunity to receive academic advice, information about UT and its services and to learn that others have similar problems. Approximately 4,200 students attended the eight week-long summer sessions, for a chance to make friends and become acquainted with UT. Sixty-six orientation advisors headed up activities for participants including campus tours, moonlight jogs to Memorial Stadium and preregistration for fall classes. The Union was an important part of orientation. Used as an area for meetings, tours of the newly-reno- vated building were held throughout the week. On Wednesday night before orientees left, the advi- sors presented the Absurdity Corps, a group of advi- sors, who gave a magic show and performed skits. After a week of acquainting themselves with the cam- pus and preregistering for their first semester, most stu- dents said that they felt as if they had made it over one of the first hurdles in becoming a part of UT. Handball courts and other available recreational facilities at Gregory Gymnasium are explained to orientees. Orientation 23

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Face N The advisors, known as the Absurdity Corps, give a show to the orientees on the last night of orientation. 3 ,-r I AW NoWheje --- wsw F - I

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Errors, Racing and Erasing The two-day process of registration was one version of red tape Texas-style. Approximately 10,000 stu- dents waited to get in line in hopes of putting together the perfect course schedule. Days in advance, student bookstores, individual col- lege departments, advisors and the entire registration crew at Bellmont Hall prepared for the steady stream of baffled students. Each student began his plight by pur- chasing a 50 cent course schedule Bible. Later stu- dents were advised in their departments to decide upon a course load. Then came the hard part an outright encounter of the worst kind. Armed with signed dean ' s course card, ID and a num- ber two pencil, each student made his way into Bellmont Hall. Finally inside, the collecting of course cards and course bargaining began. For earlier entrants, going through the process may have been quick and simple, but for others, section closed blues were contagious. The let ' s make a deal atmosphere surrounded those persons willing to sell their souls for CH 325. After conquering the ramps, asking questions and pulling class cards was completed, students trudged to the final tables to surrender their cards for processing. They then found they had to return the following day to pay their fees. It ' s going to be a choice between OS 321 or E 3 The struggling to get into the necessary class, whether ACC 3 1 1 or E 306. continues until one is satisfied. 24