University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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Some quick sign-painting was done minutes before the groundbreaking ceremonies for the Space Science Research building. Folk singer Guy Carawan entertained September 30 in a concert co-sponsored by the Arts and Sciences Commission and the Denver Friends of Folk Music.

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For the most, registration meant standing in endless lines. The long wait to talk to an advisor was only one of the many registration hold-ups. The hectic week of orientation actually began in earnest on Monday with the All-Women’s Meeting and the AWS style show for big and little sisters. The initiation into University life also sent freshmen running to placement exams, medical exams, swimming exams and the traditionally taxing social exam aptly called Rush. Tossed into the middle of the week’s snarl of activities was the frustrating, exhausting experience of registration. Would-be students spent maddening hours wandering from ID photographing to department tables to advisors to check-out stands to financial windows with registration booklets and twenty-odd cards gripped in their tired hands. At the BOG Activities Fair each campus organization furnished information on their particular programs and signed on prospective members, and the Alpine Club schussed off with the l est booth award. 23

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The SU Lounge was then turned to outer space for a NASA exhibit, held in connection with the groundbreaking ceremonies for the Space Science Research building. Astronaut Scott Carpenter appeared for a talk and discussion with faculty and students. September 23 — first day of classes and many long-held breaths were slowly let out. To finally settle into a routine was a welcome relief for most. To be or not to be a Creek was the traumatic question still left to l e answered Preferential dinners were the climax to Rush — the smiling, the barrage of conflicting points of view concerning fraternity-sorority affiliating, the chitchat about home towns and majors — came to a quick and silent halt as the rushees plodded back to their dorms to sit nervously waiting for the bid pick-ups. Astronaut Scott Carpenter came to campus for the SfHtce Science Research building groundbreaking ceremonies. For many, the trauma of Rush was well worth it.