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Saul said that unrealistic expectations were also part of the problem.
"It's hard to know what college life will be like," she said. "What else is going on in their life is going to affect them too."
Many times, people aren't aware of an individual's other personal problems, she said.
one also emphasized that size of the hometown is important to the vector in how a person would handle transition.
SHE GAVE AN example of students from towns of 1,000 breezing right through KU, while someone from Overland Park could have problems
"A student came from a place where he or she had a niche—maybe to tips in crowd—and a crowd they ran around with," Saul said. "You've finished that phase and put it behind you."
"You're starting over again. Don't fool yourself, it's tough."
With the transitional problem affecting every student who comes to the University, the administration and residence halls have been challenged by the challenge of college life easier to adjust to.
David Barnes, Oliver Hall resident director, said he saw the freshman transition period as a problem and explained what he and his staff did to help.
"Resident assistants are there to help them make it," he said. "They serve as a resource person helping them find the area that can solve whatever problem they have."
Barnes thought the RAs were the key to the transition. With them, incoming freshmen immediate their own actions.
"They introduce themselves, and tell where they live," he said. "It helps to make new freshmen feel a part of what's going on. The better the RA, the easier the transition."
GLORIA MATZDORF. Overland Park
seller, has started her second year as an RA in
Kansas City.
"Just being there is helping them," she said.
"Since I'm acquainted with the University, my main job is showing them the resources where they can find out the information they need."
she said that a large part of what she did was getting people involved in hall activities.
"We have all of the committees here at Oliver," Matzdorf said, "and they are all pretty active. There are intramural teams, we just got our third team." We do, we do many things with our social committee."
She also said the freshman transition could be made smoother with the help of roommates.
"You at least know them; they introduce you to their friends; it's a continuing circle."
to their friends; it's a *continuing circle*.
Matzord said that freshmen don't see her as a
friend.
"They feel with me they can show what is really doing" on "she said."
But as Matzdorf emphasized, RAs are not trained to treat a problem.
"Our role is to listen to the problems and then send them to someone who can help," she said.
Oliver Hall also has a student orientation committee to assist the incoming freshmen. They arrive with the RAs a week early to help prepare the hall and to help the freshman and other retraining residents settin' in, Barnes said. "We had 35 on the committee this year," he
said. "They help people move in and help initiate them into University life."
"They themselves would organize tours of the campus. The whole idea was to give freshmen an idea of where they are. Putting yourself back at most position of not knowing anything is not easy."
THE PEOPLE WHO help train the RAs are part of the University Counseling Center, a part of the School of Education. At the center 'Balaey is available to students living on or off campus.
Eleven people with doctorates in either counseling or counseling psychology and three others in other disciplines.
Counseling is the largest part of the center's
activities, but it also helps in career planning with various testing.
the center administers certain standardized examinations like the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) and the Law School Admission Test (LAST).
"We deal with the normal problems of development," the center's director, Richard Rundquist, said. "Sixty-three percent of the population is illiterate or underprivileged in our concerns. The rest are all over the spectrum."
Rundquist said the center was usually able to help people within a week of the first time they were there.
"But we do take some walk-ins," he said.
"That's what I am doing right now. We rely on the staff."
Rundquist said most of the people with personal problems came in at pressure points
"We have more than we can usually handle at mid-semester, or later in the semester, when people realize they are probably going to get an F in a class they hoped to get an A in."
WHEN PEOPLE COME in for their first appointment, Rundquist said, they are given a sheet to fill out for the departmental statistics and to tell what part of the service is needed.
The student then discusses his concerns with a counselor. It is up to the counselor and the person to decide.
"It may solve the problem," Rundquist said, "but we will not make decisions for the person. We will help them in the decision-making process."
"Ours is a short-term center," he said. "I would suspect that people come in here four to five times each, but that is just a general impression of the casehead."
Rundquist said that the center saw more freshmen and sophomores, but it also saw juniors and seniors and a few graduate students.
Michael Johnson, director of freshman and
master programs at the transition
problems when he went to college.
He said he thought that freshmen probably had less problems adjusting now than 20 years ago because their home environment was less protective.
"But emotionally, it's probably still the same," he said.
Johnson said he noticed signs in class that individuals were having problems adjusting.
"But unless someone comes and talks to me, there's not too much I can do," he said. "You have to be careful you don't start playing parent; as a teacher that's not what you are for there."
HE THOUGHT MORE help for students was needed from individual sources.
wanted to stay, but couldn't be away. "It matters where an individual should be helping."
He said he thought some students that left the school were making the best decision for themselves.
"Sometimes a junior will realize that he's wanted, and what he never wanted to do." In the first place he had
Most students make the transition and continue with their education here at KU. Rod Smith taught in 2013.
For him, finding the right building on campus was difficult at first, but after the first week, he knew his way around. Gonzales attended summer orientation, a program meant for students enrolled in college, freeing him from the dreaded card-pulling at Allen Field House.
"It was different being around so many people," he said. "big and so complex-looking." Gonzales said.
"Enrollment was so different. Even though I came from India and it is pretty big, there were no restrictions."
GONZALES HAD planned to go to Kansas to engineer but now intends to remain at KU.
"It's fun here," he said. "I'm starting to enjoy it. The first three or four days all my friends were busy getting their rooms together and taking care of last-minute things.
"I didn't know anyone and it was kind of lonely. But the dorm here had activities and they
Gonzalez is now vice-president of MECHA, A Mexican-American organization on campus.
He thought that students in high school preparing to come to KU next year should try to
"And when you get up here, don't try to be what you're not," he said. "And don't be scared. I hear everybody goes through it, and I'm glad I've got it all over."
But Elliot said that if this were an early enrollment semester, the Timetable would have had to be out no later than Nov. 1. That means work would have to have started in May, she
The work schedule has already been set back for next fall's Timetable, she said.
Timetables
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WHEN THE current Timetable went to press in October, Elliott sent requests for schedules to all the departments. She predicted the Fall 1982 Timetable would be out by the beginning of
"We've been pushing back a little at a time."
She said, "April is far from what the real school year would be."
The Timetable has to be out early enough to give students plenty of time to visit their advisers, she said. Toward the middle of the month, they would pick up their books and would pick their classes for the next semester.
With the support of all of Strong Hall, including the chancellor, early enrollment in the fall of 2016.
SO ELLIOTT wanted to make sure her office was prepared.
"It's not wise to wait until we're told to do it," she said.
But several questions remain concerning early enrollment, according to Richard Mann, director of institutional research and the organizer of a six-member committee that has been studying
The main question before the committee is the type of system to use, Mann said. The committee is considering two possibilities: an "on-line system," where students sit down with
an operator at a computer screen and work out a schedule, or a "batch system," where students' schedules are all fed into a computer at the same time.
Committee members recently visited the University of Iowa to examine the on-line system there, and Friday they flew to the University of Illinois where the batch system is used.
A committee that studied pre-enrollment in 1978 reported it preferred the on-line system.
Mann said the committee would submit a cha-
neller, about the second week of December.
The University of Kansas currently uses the on-line system for freshmen who enroll during registration.
From now on, the Timetables used for enrollment will be smaller according to Elliott.
MANN SAID that this year’s committee must also consider how advising would change and whether fees should be assessed early or when the new semester begins.
The information is the same, it's just condensed, she said.
"We pick up the blank space at the top and print a page of text on there," a 120-litre bottle holding 140 litres.
She also eliminated the line of space between classes.
Elliott said she hadn't received a bill from University Printing Service, so she did not know how much the University saved by reducing the size of the Timetable.
Industrial company may locate in city
John Sayer, director of the printing service,
could estimate of the savings would be less than $1.
By JOE REBEIN Staff Reporter
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce is courting a major industrial company that could bring as many as 300 new jobs to the Lawrence area.
Fred Bryan, president of the chamber's economic development committee, said last week that a company that produced electrical transformers is located in locating a new building in Lawrence
"We are hoping we hear from them by the end of the year," Bryan told Lawrence City Commissioners at a study session last Thursday. "We're going into Austin, Texas and Albiququerque, N.M."
Bryan said representatives from the company had visited Lawrence in April and again in August and were impressed by what they had seen.
THE ELECTRICAL component firm is just one of 10 companies that have expressed some interest in building new plants in Lawrence, he said.
However, Bryan said that most of the companies, which ranged from distribution firms to manufacturers of auto parts, had decided to build their plants elsewhere.
Chamber President Sherry Schaub said that a badly needed boost to the Lawrence economy.
"I think there is some concern about the industrial health of Lawrence," he said. "There was a decline in enrollment this year at the University of Kansas.
"No new industrial plants have been built in lawrence since 1978, he said." In addition, the company has acquired a plant.
Schaub said the chamber had set two goals when to attract new industrial development.
"First we would like to get the small high quality firms that came to Lawrence in the 1970s," he said. "We are looking for the Quaker Oats, TRWs and K-Marts."
COMPANIES TRAT focus on research and
education in an effort to work with the University
are also a top priority, the university.
Schaub said that one part of the stalled industrial development was the slow economy and high interest rates. He said a more pressing one was the limitations of the Santa Fe Industrial park, the site of most of Lawrence's recent industrial development.
He said that two small tracts were available development, but that they were both less than three.
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