Counselors Question Orientation By NOMI BORENSTEIN Emerald Associate Editor Dormitory counselors arrived at the University a week be fore the general student body in order to attend counselor orien tation. The orientation was supposed to inform the counselors of the resources made available to them by the University and to let them know what the housing office expected of them. Now that the counselors have been working for two weeks, many of them have divided opinions about the value of ori entation. One counselor went so far as to call the whole procedure a ‘•sack of shit.” But others, like Cheryl Taub man. felt that it was a ‘ positive experience.” Many Topics The orientation covered many topics from the "philosophy of housing, academic advising, and the Conduct Code" to social pro gramming Alt are considered by the housing office to be impor tant aspects of dormitory liv ing. The housing office philosophy is that a dorm should be more than a place to live. It should provide a student with the op portunity for social and cultural growth. The dominant theme in the orientation was that the dormi tory ideally should provide each student with a positive exper ience in group living” and should again be something more than a hotel. In order to make group liv ing more comfortable and more efficient, certain rules must be followed, according to the Hous ing Office philosophy, and some of these rules—like visiting and quiet hours—should be decided upon and enforced by the dor mitory residents themselves. Emphasis Study But over riding the philosophy of having the dorm be a place for culture living, it must he a place where the emphasis is on studying As Jeff Cook, a second year counselor said, of all the rules, the only one “I’ll be pushy about is quiet hours. After all, that’s what students are here Knit Spectacular! 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A lot of it just repeated what was in the counselor’s handbook. “And at other times,” he con tinued, “it seemed as though they assumed we were sort of simple — when they were show ing us how to fill out IBM cards and practice rosters, etc." But he agreed, “They tried and they came a long way in cutting out the crud from the year before.” Many counselors said that the things most helpful to them were the group discussions by old counselors about problems. Counselors Richard Ireland agreed with him about the value of talking with returning coun selors. saying, “They had a rca listic idea of what’s going on.” Ireland also said that the main purpose behind the “ideal counselor” talked about so much during the orientation was to make "you really think about what you’re going to do ... j before. It’s a lot better situa tion than if you just went into it blind." Residents More Active During the last four years, dorm residents have been play ing a more active role in gov erning themselves, although there are some people on cam pus who feel that the students are still not playing an active enough role in governing them selves. The reason for this flexibil ity is the Conduct Code, adopt ed by the University three years ^ ago. With the adoption of the; Code, many of the counselor’s j old disciplinary privileges have been transferred to the student' court system. Today, our coun selors are responsible to the courts and any decision of theirs may be challenged by a stu-, dent through the minor court system. During the orientation, Larry Ross, Conduct Committee chair man, and Francis Nickerson, as sociate Dean of Students, spoke Comp Placement Tests Scheduled Students waived from Writ ing 121, because they scored 650 or higher on the C o 1 - lefe Board English Compo sition Test may take a test for possible waiving of Writing 122 and 123. The test will be given to eli gible students by appointment at the University Counseling Center in Susan Campbell Hall during the week of October 10 through October 14. Students may call the Cen ter at ext. 1361 for an appoint ment to take the test any time during that week. Results of the test will be available from the Composition Department in Prince Lucien Campbell Hall. to the group of counselors on how their duties reluted to the (.'ode and the philosophy of stu dent maturity it operates on. For instance, should a coun selor suspect students of drink ing in their rooms, which is against both the dormitory reg ulations and the state laws, he is still not able to enter the student’s room without knocking and announcing himself lirst. “Sure," one returning coun selor told the group, “this gives them a chance to hide the bot tles but you can warn them and tell them that sooner or later they'll get caught.” Some other counselors, like Harrold McKnight, criticized the Orientation because the counsel ors were expected to sit through two three-hour sessions every day, which he said he felt could be shortened considerably. He said he also felt that much of the sessions were repetitious and pedantic. Placement Service Needs Schedules Students who filled out Uni versity Placement Service forms but did not provide the office with their class sched ules are urged to do so imme diately in room 246 Susan Campbell. The office needs this information in locating jobs for applicants. Committee Action Urged by Duncan Representative Robert B. Dun can urged Tuesday that the House Judiciary Committee give prompt, favorable report to a bill to pro hibit use of interstate transit fa cilities by those who intend to incite or participate in riots or other civil disturbances. Duncan wrote Committee Chair man, Rep. Emanuel Celler, that “in view of the violence which continues to erupt in our cities, the need for enactment of sepa rate legislation is, I believe, ap parent.” Such a provision was included in the House-passed omnibus civil rights bill that later died in the Senate. Duncan noted, in con cluding, "I hope your Committee will take positive action.” Peters to Speak On Lighting “Architectural Lighting: Is It a Guessing Game” will be the topic of a lecture at 8 p.m. tonight in 106 Lawrence. The speaker will be Richard Peters of the department of ar chitecture in the College of En vironmental Design at the Univer sity of California, Berkeley. 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Some peo ple liked them and others vio lently disliked them—especial ly the fact thul they have to give a “sit-down” dinner them selves before they could give one in the dormitory. And in fact, this attitude could sum up opinion toward the orientation as a whole — for someone who disliked every part violently, there was someone who said the specific activity was helpful. The disagreements and dissat isfactions are present all the time — about anything the dor mitory system does, and the peo ple in charge are trying to change things for what they hope is the better. But there is still a large group on campus who do not think things are changing fast enough. 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