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I VOL.S7, N0.1, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. SUMMER ORIENTATION ISSUE
:orientation Staff shows
.freshmen the way around
ByT. L. STANLEY
Cardinal Editor
The freshmen orientation pro­gram
at the University of Louis­ville
is striving to accomplish sev- .
era! objectives. The most impor­tant
one, according to Jenny
Sawyer, orientation director, is
"to try to make the freshmen come
back in August with positive at­titudes
and feeling good about
their choice to attend U of L."
During the orientation sessions
- seven for freshmen, three for
transfer students and two for
adults - Sawyer and the mem­bers
of the Student Orientation
Staff will emphasize the good as­pects
of U of L, but won't ignore
the bad, said Sawyer, who is in
her third summer as U of L's
orientation director.
"Students have rights and re­sponsibilities
and we will explain
how important it is to know
these," she continued. "No one is
going to spoon-feed students in
college and we want them to be
aware of this." .
Sawyer said she and the 21 SOS
members will make orientation a
positive experience for the stu­dents
participating.
"Students come to orientation
with some basic needs- to be ad­vised
and to get registered,"
Sawyer said. "Other than fulfill
these things, we want to provide
some interesting sessions they will
enjoy and remember."
The seven orientation sessions,
aimed primarily at traditional in­coming
freshmen, each will last
two days and will include work­shops,
a picnic, a dance and sev­eral
special interest sessions on
extracurricular activites.
The workshops, possibly the
most weighty parts of the pro­gram,
will address issues such as
sensible use of alcohol, dating in
college and the subsequent risks,
both of which are repeat perfor­mances
of successful sessions last
year. Two new workshops have
been added this year.
One of the new workshops is en­titled
"Louisville .. . What's in it
for you," and will focus on the ad­vantages
an urban university can
provide.
"We'll be introducing ways to
use the city- internships, co-ops,
social and cultural experiences,
clubs they (the freshmen) can join
that will tie in with their majors,"
Sawyer said. "We want to make
them feel good about coming to
school in Louisville because there
are some unique opportunities
here that they couldn't get in a col­lege
town."
The other piloting workshop,
"How to talk back to your profes­sor,"
is designed to help students
know their rights in the classroom
and to learn to be assertive.
"We change workshops in this
area every year and we're n•ever
pleased with what we do," said
Sawyer of the workshop that re­places
a learning style session.
·"But a faculty member suggested
this workshop because students
have a hard time relating to pro­fessors
their first year. 11
Sawyer explained this is many
limes the case because high school
students see their teachers as au­thority
figures, not as real people
and many students don't realize
they are consumers once in col­lege.
She also said assertivenE~!I;S is
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AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER 8 PACES
During a recent break from training to prepare
them for the coming Freshman Orientation
sessions, the SOS members with help from the
Staff photo by Tom Thtonlp!;on
Army ROTC repelled off the College of Urban
and Public Affairs. Captain Ed Merkler helped
Victor Bowleg start his 25 foot descent.
Stress is one difference freshmen can expect
By YVONNE D. COLEMAN
Cardinal Assoc. Managing Editor
With orientation and the arrival
of the freshmen to college life
comes the question: What kind of
changes can freshmen expect in
making the transition from high
school to college?
Julie Lewis, Coordinator of
Counseling and Advising for the
University of Louisville's Pre­paratory
Division, said more
stress is the biggest difference
freshmen can expect.
According to the 1985 Almanac
of Higher Education, excessive
stress harms students' perfor­mance
and leads many to forsake
the campus for more psychologi­comfortable
confines.
To aid in reducing stress, the al­manac
lists seven things students
should expect in getting ready for
college. Incoming students, ac­cording
to the almanac, can ex­pect:
1) a feeling of greater isola­tion
with college than in high
school, 2) a greater exposure to
fellow students from different
socioeconomic backgrounds than
was true with high school class­mates,
3) a much greater variation
in class size and teaching styles, 4)
a tendency to base grades more on
written work than on class perfor­mance,
5) greater personql re­sponsibility
for allocating time, 6)
more competition and 7) less feed­back
about progress than in high
school.
Lewis said that to reduce
freshmen should start by :indi­vidualizing
their goals and keep­ing
sight of where they are going.
"More time has to be devoted to
homework. At the college level,
study time requires two hours out­side
of class for every hour in
class,"· said Lewis.
She added, "Because of th<e in­creased
study time, fewer hours·
are left for part-time jobs and so­cial
activities."
Under such stress, Lewis said
freshmen could easily lose sight of
their goals.
There are two mistakes •that~
freshmen make, according to
Lewis. One is forgetting that they
are human ~wo is carrying too big
of a load. For working students, it
be to 9
Fraternity brothers of Tau Kappa Epsilon bore
their flag and their "Greek God,' Gino Di­giovanni.
as they marched past t he Oval to the
Greek games which are held each fall. The
Greek God contest is one of the many events
held at the Greek games, a sort of olympic farc,e.
Activities of a growing Greek system are
more than mere' Animal House' blowouts
By MIKE CASPER
Cardinal Correspondent
Fraternities and sororities,
which offer students a chance to
get involved in service, sporting,
academic and social activities,
have grown in popularity at the
University ofLouisviUe recently.
Last year, the number of stu­dents
in fraternities jumped 18
percent and those in sororities
rose 6 percent, according to Joni
Burke, Greek Adviser. Evidently,
more students are realizing what
Pi Kappa Phi member Burt Mon­roe
noticed: "It's important to take
a hand in what's going on in cam­pus
life ... With nearly 85 percent
of students commuting to school,
Greek organizations are in a
unique situation to make a stu­dent's
campus life more com­plete."
The fraternities and sororities
are involved in activities beyond
the "animal houses" image. Char­lie
Fell, a member of Phi Kappa
Tau fraternity said his brothers
participate in the Wednesday's
Child program for ,orphaned chil­dre•'
ror instance. Kappa Delta
soro. •ty is active locally in the fight
against child abuse, according to
Linda Taylor, the sorority's presi­dent.
KD's social activities include
hayrides, mixers, and tailgate par­ties
at football games in addition to
study sessions.
There is a diversity of emphasis
among the houses, some being
oriented toward careers in specif­ic
fields. Others are strong in
academics, community service or
intramurals.
During formal sorority rush
week students have an opportu­nity
to tour the houses and to ask
questions. At the end of the week,
students and sorority members
make mutual selections according
to their preferences. These are
then matched to make a final
selection bid. Burke said
sororities are not exclusive, every
interested student usually gets a
bid to at least one house.
Rush for the sororities will begin
Aug. 19 and continue through the
24th. Interested women need to
fill out applications and pay :a $5
fee. The fraternity rush w~~ek,
which doesn't require the applica­tion
procedure, will run from
Sept. 7 through the 15th and i less
formal than the sorority session.
The organizations at U ~~f L
range from the old and traditional
which were founded in the 1920s
to some that are relatively new.
The newer ones are develoJPing
their own traditions, Burke saLid.
This fall, two new fraternities
will appear at the University:
Kappa Alpha Order and Sigma
Chi. Each will begin colonizing
after rush week. Kappa Allpha
Order was at U of L in the 1 120s,
but lefi in the 1960s; Sigma hi is
making it& first appearance at U
ofL.
Students should "check out sev­eral
to make a wise choice,"
Burke said. Membership is for
life, there are many opportunities
for alumni members to stay in­volved
in house and UniversitV ac-tivities.
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to 12 hours each ::;emester.
"Most students do not graduate
in four years. The ones that don't
are in the majority, not the minor­ity,"
said Lewis.
Furthermore, emotional in­volvement
and support groups
will be different in college. "For 12
years, the students have been in
groups that they are familiar with
and then go where they know
very few people," said Lewis.
She added, "When entering col­lege,
students go through a period
where they want to be indepen­dent
from their parents and they.
may also have a girlfriend or boyf­riend
who is still in high school.
Because of those factor-s, students
may experience some guilt feel-
"
Lewis said parents could help
the students by showing them un­derstanding.
Students have to be
strong to keep school a priority
without guilt and self-reprisals.
According to Lewis, support
groups are a very important part
of college life and her recommen­dation
to students is to seek out
and develop new support groups
because they won't just come to
them.
Another change that freshmen
can expect is the difference be­tween
professors and high school
teachers. Lewis said professors
expect stuaents to take more re­sponsibility
outside of class where
as high school teachers put most of
the responsibility in class.
Moreover there is a ,.,.~•~··--·--
in the amount of time college stu­dents
meet with their profe ssors.
Lewis said that unlike high school,
the students do not see the profes­sor
everyday. Because of this "it is
important to get the professor's of­fice
phone number and the office
hours," said Lewis.
Stress and other problems, ac­cording
to Lewis, will be a part of
every freshman's transition from
high school to college. Available
assistance at U of L includes the
counseling center, tutoring cen­ters
and stress management
workshops'.
Lewis said the best thing a stu­dent
can do during the transition
period is to be aware of stress and
other problems and to utilize the
services availa ble early. Don't
it is too late.
Senate bill lifts salary limit,
but no state money allotted
By DAN BLAKE
Cardinal News Editor
The Kentucky Senate passed a
bill last Thursday that would lift
the three percent limit placed on
salary increases at the state's uni­versities.
The bill passed with a 36-
0 vote and is expected to be con­sidered
by the House this week.
"From a practical standpoint, it
doesn't mean anything to the Uni­versity,"
said John Yarmuth, U of
L spokesman. The bill, if ap­proved
by the House, would not
provide any funding for facu lty
and staff raises beyond the three
percent limit that was enacted in
1984.
Any increases would have to
come from the University, whose
budget for this year was approved
by the Board of Trustees in June.
Y armuth said an unforeseen
Special session
windfall could provide money for
raises. Also, if the University was
competing to keep a particular
faculty member, U of L would be
freer to promise a salary increase,
he said.
The state universities also were
seeking a prohibition of any simi­lar
limits on salaries in the future
such as the one that kept increases
down to two percent in 1984 and
three percent in 1985, according to
Dr. Tom Crawford, assistant pro­vost
at U of L, who spoke at the
July Faculty Senate meeting in
place of Dr. Donald C. Swain,
president of the University of
Louisville.
Blocks of tickets offered
to student organizations
ByT. A. PACK
Cardinal Correspondent
If you want to sit with other
members of your University of
Louisville organization at an ath­letic
event, you now have the op­portunity.
"My office," said Harold
Adams, assistant vice president
for Student Life, "in conJunction
with the Athletic Ticket Office,
has reached an agreement
whereby any student organization
desiring to obtain seating in a
group may do so."
The program, said Ticket Man­ager
Betty Jackson, "is being
done to answer a request and a
need that was established by the
students."
Adams said the policy will work
this way: "During the week of
June 17, 1985, student season tick­et
mailers will be sent to all stu­dents
enrolled for the Spring
semester, 1985. If your organiza­tion
desires group seating, you
should contact your members and
have them r~turn the filled out ap­plication,
including social security
number, and check or cash to
your organization. Beginning July
16, you will come to my office to
sign up your organization on a
first-come, first-served basis.
Guest tickets will also be available
under this plan. However, once
the original names and applica-lions
have been turned in, no one
can be added to the group and ex­pect
to be seated in the same area.
For people within a group who
would like to sit together, you
should designate a group leader
and have each applicant place the
name of that person on the upper
right hand corner of the applica­tion.
"On the evening of July 17, all
organizational seating will be as­signed
to the members. This will
give individuals two days to obtain
'their tickets, so there will be no
basis for complaints on group seat-ing.
"On September 10, 1985, tickets
for football may be picked up.
This is to be on an individual basis,
and you must have a valid ID card
at the time."
Jackson said a similar program
was used in the past on a limited
basis. She said the Athletic Ticket
Office "felt like it wasn't done as
fairly as possible for all organiza­tions,
so that's why Harold Adams
and I got together and established
the new procedure."
"I believe this policy to be fair to
all students," said Adams, "it
accomplishes previous requests
for groups to sit together witho~t
standing in Hne together. Yet 1t
does give individuals the opportu­nity
for standing in line during the
first two rlavc; and to receive the
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Even without the prohibition, it
is now going to be harder for the
legislature to put any limits on in
the future, said Yarmuth.
The universities also are trying
to gain support for legislation that
will be sought in the regular ses­sion.
All the state institutions will
be hoping for an allotment of
money that would provide five
percent raises to universities' em­ployees
and a special fund that
would make faculty salaries in
Kentucky more competitive with
other states, according to Craw­ford.
U ofL will be seeking money
to build the Student Activities
Center, Crawford said.
Yarmuth said a special session
is not the lime to pursue large
budgetary allotments which are
not already on the agenda. "It
wouldn't have time to go through
the budget process and wouldn't
be in the spirit of things to be han­dled
in the special session. 11
The live percent increase for
each year of the biennium would
be an average increase and indi­vidual
raises would be done on a
basis of merit, according to Craw­ford.
The special fund would be
used "to offset the damage done
by the limits of the past years,"
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Inside
Trustees laud Swain as "out­standing;"
faculty evaluations
are due this week . . . . Page 3
Course evaluations should be
published and here's why
.............. . ... Page4
U of L sports are more than foot­ball
and basketball . . . Page 5
Central Park gives the summer
entertainment-seeker an alteJ'I­native
to Rambo . . . . . Page 7
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Afterclass . . . . . . . . . . Pal(e 7
Classifieds . . . . . . . • . Page 8