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Ml Freshmen face first day in a typical first-day daze By Lori Stonhauer Of tke EamM Yesterday many upperciass students casually roiled out of bed fust minutes before their first class began. But new freshmen, facing their first ex posure to college knowledge, awoke with butterflies — an ticipation and excitement on the first day of school. After 18 years on the farm or living in parents' apartments or where ever, attending classes with several hundred other peo ple and writing Shakespeare term papers through the wee hours of the morning can be overwhelming. Waiting for meals in cafeteria lines and residing in a strictly student society of the Universi ty unfolds a foreign and sometimes brightening way of life. In on-the-street interviews with the Emerald yesterday, several students shared the highlights and horrors of start ing college. “It was horrible, it was scary,” Soledad Ormachea. a Soled ad Ormachea Pfwito by fitU* Rigg* Four female freshmen from the resident halls, (from left to right) Tina Boa, Liz Skully. Christen Brooke, and Kristin Cummer, all felt the University’s traditional first-day frenzy. junior in computer science recalled. “I didn’t know where the buildings were or anything. It was pretty bad.” But despite fighting a language barrier. Ormachea. who came to the University from Bolivia, says she “got used to it pretty easily after about a month.” Liz Hill, a senior who studies biology and Scandanavian. says she also could have used a navigator on her first day of school “I was late to my psychology class because I couldn’t find die says. Academic struggles comes to mind far a graduate student named Jim, when he thinks hack to being a freshman. He partially blames poor advice boas academic advisers for his problems. but also believes his impairment may have come faons the perils of dorm living. "I faced iL That’s probably why those courses were so hail.*’ he says. And the freshmen residence halls still have a non-stop pulse, as Inge Fangsrud, a freshman from Portland, discovered at an early hour. "People always come into our room about four or five in the morning,” Fangsrud says. ' 'They always come in our room when they’re drunk and wake us up.” Freshmen Sue Hamilton and Giselle Vancann also agree the dorms are "noisy.” But things aren't unbearable. “It’s fun when there are no classes,” says Hamilton. She isn't alone in finding the residence halls entertaining. Liz Scully, a freshman, chose school in Eugene because it wasn’t too far from her mother in La Grande. When she left she said she would call home the day after she arrived at school. "And then after like a week I finally called,” says Scully, who was so busy having fun she forgot her promise. “I’ve met mass people in the dorms,” Tina Boa, a freshman from Seattle says. Boa’s biggest worry, coming to the Universi ty, was getting to know the mobs of strangers. Resident hall freshman agree on one thing they miss: After dorm food for a week, they all long for an old-fashioned, healthy, home-cooked meal. IFC guidelines to be reviewed Members of a special revisions committee will be reviewing the Incidental Fee Committee guidelines during the next month. The action is being taken in response to an administrative rul ing earlier this summer regarding the power of non-student committee members. The opinion was issued in late June by At torney General Dave Frohnmayer, who recogniz ed the conflict of allowing non-student incidental fee committee members to participate in organizations that are affiliated with student government, according to the document. Because the University’s seven-member IFC consists entirely of student members, its staff is exempt from possible review, according to sum mer IFC chair Mary Kay Menard. However, other schools in the state, such as Portland State University and Oregon State University, were re quired to amend their committee structures as a result of the attorney general's decision. “1 think the overall effect of it will be to bring the standards of the other campuses up to our own,” says ASUO Vice Pres. Marc Spence. Students are welcome to comment on the guidelines documents, which will be available for review today at the ASUO office in Suite 4, EMU. For more information, contact ASUO Pres, lulie Davis at 686-3724. Oregon daily emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald is published Monday through Friday except during exam week and vacations . 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