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Freshmen face first day
in a typical first-day daze
By Lori Stonhauer
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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
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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.
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