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
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for.”
Cook said he felt the Hous
ing Office, which ran counselor
orientation, “dwelled too much
on the social and cultural as
pects of dorm living. 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.
The program is sponsored by
the Oregon School of Architecture
and Allied Arts.
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Although most of the counsel
ors agreed that some form of or
ientation is necessary and that
they received a lot of helpful
information from the sessions,
many took umbrage at the way
they were treated.
McKnight said that much “of
what was given was given on the
premise that we weren't actual
ly infantile but they didn’t cred
it us with much intelligence.”
Various activities—skit nights,
sit-down dinners, and banquets
were connected with the orien
tation in order to give the coun
selors a chance to get acquaint
ed with each other. 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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