Tuesday, August 2, 1966 Summer Session Kansan
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This, more or less, is view of KU previews
By Margaret Ogilvie
Imagine you were a KU previewer, one of 2,091 at the ten two day sessions this summer. You are a freshman, not a transfer student. Transfers will take placement tests during orientation week, instead of with you, as 400 of them did among 2,654 previewers in 12 groups last year.
it was "strongly suggested" that you attend, but the letter from the admissions office did not say it was "required," as such letters have done before. (Is that why more register than come?) If you were one of 71 women who moved into Hashinger Hall Wednesday for the last preview, you were outnumbered by 109 men. It was the sixth time the fairer sex had been overpowered in groups ranging from 321 at the first session. June 23-24, to 130 June 30-July 1, the third.
YOU WERE RECEIVED by the preview's assistant, Kay Patterson, a senior from Newton Square, Pa. She thinks you are one of "the most interesting people on campus," and is "amazed at how old" you seem. She says that most of you are "very enthusiastic," even though, as you have been heard to complain, "there's so much you just kind of don't know where to begin." Kay, who was a freshman counselor last year at Lewis Hall, understands that you have "come up here with rather indefinite ideas about what to expect."
ideas about:
Sometime between 4 p.m. and
7 p.m. you picked up a folder
at a desk in the lounge. At 8
p.m., Miss Gloria Farha, a representative of the dean of women's office looks at it with you. (That is, she does if you're a woman.
If you're a man, John Myers,
representative of the Dean of
Men, will address your group.)
Miss Farha discusses "lots of interesting things": the parking sticker, the student number, the code numbers for the college, and the fact that "2" signifies "female" and "1," "male." ("That's how we tell the boys from the girls! No, not really!")
"MAYBE YOURE a little worn out by going over this schedule," she says, pointing out that "everybody can't do everything together," and that you will have an identification photo taken, get a physical exam, and arrange an individual interview with an adviser yourself during the second day, when there will be one hour-long placement exam.
hour-long place.
The first morning, another exam takes four and one-half hours, and you may have taken a language placement the same afternoon before you went to the reception and dinner, all in the Union. Miss Farha anticipates questions, even though "they may seem a little silly." She tells you, "If there's any doubt, please ask."
Your counselor may be Linda Voorhees, Kansas City senior, who says new students "are real different at every preview. Some won't ask any questions at all" and some ask "every question in the book" and she "just goes, duh'". If you were the girl who told Linda, "I have no idea what I'm doing," she would have given you a room assignment on a floor of about 25 girls and replied, "Well, we'll proceed to confuse you some more."
YOU MIGHT HAVE walked up the stairs to Linda's eighth floor "Penthouse" with a "Kansan" reporter who was taking notes of your reaction when Linda said, "I want you to know how to live, kids." Or you might have stepped off the elevator with a small group from Kansas City, Mo., senior Terry Hoyt's floor, and joined the meeting to the tune of "The Gang's All Here." ("Hail, Hail, the fifth floor crew...what
the heck do we care, just so we get our share...Hail, Hail, the fifth floor crew. . . . Sorry that you had so few!"
Linda would explain the sign-out sheets, the 10:30 closing and how the porch lights are blinked as a warning. Would you say, "Like my mother!" as one giggling girl did, or would you choose to argue with Linda that red menus should be for women and blue ones for men at the Previews Dinner? Would you understand how to operate the intercom in your room, when, as Linda forecasts "You'll hear your name coming out of the wall"?"
WOULD YOU BE overheard commenting on the new AWS rules as Linda says, "We threw out all the nasty old regulations and made new ones. I'm sure you'll like them, won't you?" ("There are no hours," whispered one girl between puffs on a cigarette, "because they figure juniors and seniors should know better than to stay out till all hours.")
Or would you ask, "Suppose an emergency should come up, and the doors were locked and you want in, and you get in trouble?" After Linda had explained that you would be sent to the counselor and maybe Dean Taylor, would you add, as one girl did, "And then you'd send me to the hospital?"
You might be one of those who asks Linda if it is permissible to wear shorts to class, or you may have been the girl who wore hip hugger slacks on her arrival. She caught the attention of Independence law student T. J. Snyder, one of five men counselors. He said she wanted to know the prospects for meeting KU men
T. J.'s OBSERVATION of the male previewers is that many are "trying to be cool as they can be" while "looking at the young ladies." The first inquiry about housing for married students came from one whose girl friend is a junior in high school: "How do you get in there? Is it true that if I get married, I can't be in ROTC?"
T. J. said, The dean's office does an excellent job of putting them in the right frame of mind." He thinks most males are "a little bit scared" because "they haven't been around the university enough, and don't know what to expect...some even call us 'sir' once in a while!"
You would be told that residence hall assignments are made in August, but that you will not know your roommate until you report Sept. 12 or 13. You might ask a counselor, "What do you get for your room?" to which she would reply that accumulating a year's supply of everything is "kind of a fun thing to do in your first week."
By the time a previewer leaves, the "fear of the university," that T. J. attributes particularly to life in a small community, is gone. Finding out truths behind rumors, getting "the feel" of KU, and particularly the social emphasis during previews "make the young gentleman feel more at ease." As Bill Robinson, head counselor, puts it, "They feel more like wiedy college students."
"MAINLY THEY want to know what swings," says T. J. and if you were a male previewer, he says, your "immediate reaction" would be, "Is it true that we have 10:30 closing?" You might be one of the former Midwestern Music and Art campers who are prone to ask, "You mean you aren't gonna turn the light out?" Or you may be like the girl from New York who thought it "real unusual" that smoking and eating are allowed in the rooms.
Related questions might be, "Where do you study?" and "How do you manage your walking?" A counselor who somehow has managed, would respond,"At first you get real tired and you calves are just bullying."
IF YOU HAVE any misconceptions such as that of one girl who asked, "Why haven't they closed down the rest of Corbin?" You might stop at each of the three halls to see a model room. Had the newcomer done so, she would have discovered no "stairways falling down," as she had been told they were doing.
Many anticipate the possibility of being a Centennial College resident in Oliver Hall, and some wonder if assignment is by placement test, which it is not. Women counselors back the new project by saying, "It's easier to study, and easier to do everything. It's to your advantage." One asked, "What happens if you're in it and you don't want to be?" She was told, "I suppose if you cry and throw a tantrum you can be transferred out."
You might be concerned about getting into the honors program and "what you can quiz out of besides math and English." There is a chance to take additional departmental tests if your high school record or placement percentiles do not merit advanced work.
WORK.
THINKING ABOUT enrollment you might ask, "Do you get much help from a counselor or adviser?" and be told, "If you really don't know what to do and everything, there is someone to help you talk over general things."
you talk over good Standard freshman inquiries are, "You don't have to pick a major?" and "How will you know what classes to take, when?" and "Is it pretty hard to get the classes you want?" The counselor's effort to soothe you might be, "I don't think they're any harder on freshmen than they are on seniors."
Surprising to one counselor was the fact that her charges said "not one word about activities." An introduction to activities is a mixer registration night also attended by summer school students. A disc jockey.
For Luci, it's a busy week
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Bride-to-be Luci Johnson had the final fittings for her wedding gown at the White House yesterday. It was just about the last quiet time left to her this week.
Between now and her wedding Saturday at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Luci and her intended, Patrick J. Nugent, will be feted at no less than four—and possibly more—prenuptial parties.
FOR OPENERS, there was the reception at the sumptuous Georgetown home of Ambassador and Mrs. W. Averell Harriman during which Luci and Pat were presented to the capital's diplomatic corps. The diplomats have chipped in about $2,000 to buy an engraved stering silver tea service for the young couple.
IN ADDITION, there's a state dinner at the White House Tuesday night for visiting President Zalmah Shazar of Israel. Luci and Pat, who returned during the weekend from Georgia where he was serving on active duty with his Air National Guard unit, will be there.
As for the rest of the week, there is a bridesmaids' dinner, a bachelor's dinner, a cook-out for the wedding party, and the traditional "rehearsal" dinner the evening before the big day.
representing a local music company, conducts a dance contest and gives away records.
STILL THE GROUP may not participate readily. One night men and women counselors attempted to help by dancing together and then asking the previewers, who all sat down again instead of taking it from there. "It was a dirty trick," one counselor remembers, "but sometimes it works!"
A film, "KU's Second Century," apparently works well if one comment from an Edwardsville viewer is indicative. The film concluded with, "Greatness is waiting for the University of Kansas," and the student responded, "You mean it already isn't great? Golly, I thought it was pretty good!"
He had just seen a run-down
of student life, from the goodnight kiss to sports events and research facilities. A girl whose father is admissions director at Washburn University said at the same time that she thought 'previews are a real good idea.' $ ^{31} $
"Last year I used to hear wild things about previews but those things haven't happened," Kay Patterson will tell you. She says that the preview staff—Bill, T. J, Gary Gregg, Coldwater senior; Steve Munzer, Salina graduate; Dick Warner, Lawrence senior; Linda, Terry, Jean Hardy, Hoisington senior, and Carol Pishney, Blue Rapids senior—"have all enjoyed previews." She says, "It's not like having a job, really, because we've had such a good time with them." And she will tell you, "We think you're starting out right!"
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