University Daily Kansan / Thursday, August 29. 1991
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Counselors assist new students, parents in adjusting to college
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Freshmen, take note.
There are a few things you need to know before entering the ivy-enclosed halls of academia, and the crowded hallways of the residence halls.
Bring a toothbrush. No pets. And never, ever tell a professor you're not sure to miss his next class and then ask, "Will be doing anything important now?"
Not, that is, if you want to survive to midterms.
College counselors across the country are bracing for fall orientation, an annual rite in which freshmen, usually green and always numerous, are assigned from planning an academic career to date rape and AIDS prevention.
But there are also the minuteia, the small details of academic life that counselors say should be ignored only at a student's peril.
Boston University has a guide called "Packing 101" for freshmen entering the residence halls. For those accustomed to new students, and Dad, some tips may be shockers.
For instance, bring a bucket to carry your toiletries to the popular communal bathroom. Bring sheets, but remember, residence hall beds are 81 inches long, while standard sheets are 76 inches long. Bring an iron, and learn how to use it. And don't bring Fido or Tabby.
As for bringing a wardrobe to your spacious dorm room, Maureen Hur
"We try to prepare parents for when they get a letter that says, 'I want to tell you about the changes I've made. My hair is green and I have an earring in my nose.' "
Maureen Hurley, director of orientation at Boston University
ley, director of orientation at Boston University, advised,"If there are clothes in your closet you haven't worn in two years, leave them there."
Money is inevitably a sore point between freshmen and their parents. Hurley advised hashing out finances early and not waiting until October, because the student is looking at this first $200 bill, and turning to Mom and Dad.
Students should count on a 40 percent increase in possessions by May much to the chagrin of their parents, Hurley said.
Richard Mullendore, associate vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, broaches the topic of money at orientation by displaying a college brochure; his mother received as a student in 1941.
The book recommends that women students spend no more than $1.50 a week.
Students entering Wichita State University in Kansas receive a 50-page book that includes a list of 13 things never to say to your professor, such as, "I worked too hard to get a C" on that paper," and, "If you would have read my paper like it meant,
At Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn., freshmen receive a brochure of school slang. "Turb class" is a session running 2/12hours, the far car from home. "The one with the orient," and a "cheape" is the $1.50 sandwich at campus del.
If all this seems too burdensome to remember, freshmen are advised to step into the shoes of those who must field their questions.
"Somege asked me, What's the best kind of pencil to use on a test?" said Jimmy Lee, a senior at the University of Oregon in Eugene and a student counselor. "I told him a No. 2 would probably do the job."
Indeed, a counselor's work is never done. Freshmen usually manage to survive their first few weeks of beer parties and skipped classes, but their parents, waiting and worrying back home, often need some hand-holding.
And Hurley readies parents for
Thanksgiving, when students venture
hiking in the woods.
"We try to prepare parents for when they get a letter that says, 'I want to tell you about the changes I've made in my life and I have an earning in mymose.'"
Woman, 25, abandons baby in bar
The Associated Press
TOPEKA - A Topeka woman was arrested for allegedly try to sell her infant daughter for $5,000, authorities said.
The 25-year-old woman was arrested Tuesday and was being held on $10,000 bond in connection with the count of child abandonment
Authorities were called Tuesday and told the woman was trying to sell her 5-year-old daughter, said Jack Metz, detective in the Shawnee County Sheriff's Department.
Sheriff's deputies said they learned the woman apparently needed the money to pay off a drug debt.
A couple who had been trying to legally adopt the baby called because they were afraid she did not it to other people, Metz said.
Officers were setting up an undercover operation to buy the baby when the woman walked into a Topeka bar with the baby and wrote a note giving custody the child to the bartender and left.
The bartender then called the sheriff's department.
The infant was in state custody late Tuesday.
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