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Wednesday, August 21, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Kansan Staff Photo by DEBBIE GUMP
Speech Trailers Moved
Half of a mobile office-classroom was towed last week to its new home at the Kansas Biological Survey in the west part of Nebraska.
trailers were the offices of the speech and drama department, which now have moved in Wescott Hall. The trailers will be used by students as part of their studies.
University of Kansas students who want to vote in the general election this fall must register by Oct. 16, according to D. E. Mathia, Douglas County clerk.
Registration Deadline Is Oct.16
Students must live in Douglas County 20
studies to be eligible to register to vote.
May not attend school.
Students can register from 8 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday in the county clerk's office at 11th and Massachusetts streets.
Voters also will be registered at Allen Field House during enrollment, Aug. 21-23, and at other locations in Lawrence. More information will be announced later, he said.
Mathia said that if a person had changed his address since the last election, he must re-register to be eligible to vote. The only other need for re-registration would be a legal change in name since the last election, he said.
If a voter is going to be of town on election day, they may say an absentee ballot. Mathis said it would receive an abstention.
Orientation Gauged to Academics
By CARL YOUNG Kansan Staff Reporter
Whether it's called previews, summer orientation or fall orientation, it means the same thing—help for new students trying to adjust to the University of Kansas.
Fall orientation for freshman students will be divided into two parts, Gilbert K. Dyck, dean of admissions and records, said. One part will be for students who attended summer orientation and the other for students who didn't.
The freshman who didn't attend summer orientation must have their KU identification card photographs taken, take physical exams and have a faculty adviser help them decide which classes to take, Dyck said. The freshmen should also make sure they already have done these things, he said.
The adjustment process can be a painful one, but the University does an "adequate" job of helping students solve adjustment problems, several administrators said recently.
Most of the KU orientation is academic,
Dyck said, and isn't designed to help students with emotional problems associated with the transition from high school to college. If a student has problems getting used to living with a roommate or feels overwhelmed by the physical size of KU, orientation can show him where to find help, but it isn't designed to prevent emotional problems, Dyck said.
Three residence halls will offer more personal help to new students, Phil Frickey, president of the Association of University Residence Halls, said. Hashinger, O., or Katherine incorporate student orientation advisers into their orientation programs, he said.
"The idea is to take the tension out of the whole (orientation) process." Frickley said. "We try to make them feel at home as we do our work and help their business as efficiently as possible."
The student orientation advisers will help new students adjust to campus life and residence-hall living, said Helen Marmarchev, director of the advises. The
advisers will be available to new students throughout the year, answer questions and encourage new students to get acquainted with new students feel at home, she said.
The colleges-within-the-college were created to reduce the impersonalization of University administration, Alvin Dewey, assistant director of Centennial College, said.
By separating the freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences into five groups instead of one large one, Dewey said, the University can give students more personal attention. More personal attention means the admissions office is more aware of individual student's problems and can give students more help, he said.
Jeanne Gorman, assistant director of admissions, said new students had an enrolment fear that the orientation staff tried to dispel. A student's fear of enrollment comes from rumors he hears before and during orientation week, she said.
Gorman said a new student from a small
The most common problem of incoming freshmen is getting used to living away from home, Gorman said. Most students adjust through peer support because all freshmen have to go through with it, she said, and they help each other.
town wasn't at a disadvantage when compared with a new student from a large high school. How well and how quickly a new student will depend on his self-confidence, she said.
Dyck said a one-hour class on adjusting to University life should be offered. This orientation class would include library use, reading clinics, how to study programs and everything else that would help new students.
Dyck said he suggested this orientation class to the administration *i* year ago, but he didn't.
ballot, the voter must request the ballot from the county clerk's office.
the affraidiv, an absentee ballot is sent to the voter.
The county clerk's office then sends the voter an affidavit to complete and return to that office. The affidavit states that he received from his voting precinct on election day.
The deadline for arranging to get an absentee ballot is noon Nov. 4, although it is difficult to mail the ballot to the person in time to vote Nov. 5, Mathia said. He suggested absentees voters try to get their ballots as soon after Sept. 1 as possible.
When the county clerk's office receives
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