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Dy KEITH ORADSHER
Staff Writer
Though sporting more beards and
fewer blank expressions than the
freshmen now wandering campus
brickways, they are just as new to the
University. Squatting on the third floor
of Steele building, juggling packed
brown envelopes of purple, white and
blue sheets of instructions, they try to
find answers to questions without
looking like those who graduated from
high school two months ago. But for
them, it is not the first time.
Junior transfers come here from two
year community colleges and four-year
university programs around the state
and across the country. By Aug. 20,
UNC admitted 840 to the College of
Arts and Sciences and to the Schools
of Education, Business Administration
and Journalism, said Sandra Harris,
assistant director for undergraduate
admissions. Last year UNC admitted
834.
The University accepts junior
transfers and even actively recruits at
N.C. community colleges to compete
for solid students who chose to go
elsewhere after graduating from high
school.
"There are a lot of very good students
out there who want to transfer to a very
good 4-year school," Harris said. . . .
We don't want to close the door."
Admissions standards for transfer
students are neither higher nor lower
than for incoming freshmen, Harris
said. Work completed in freshman and
sophomore years forms the basis for
selection. UNC asks students to supply
SAT scores for use in counseling, but,
unlike freshmen, they need not give the
scores to apply.
Transfers from two-year colleges
usually want a four-year degree. Those
coming from four-year programs have
a wider variety of motives.
Some were not content with choices
made during the senior year of high
school. "I just pictured State the way
this place is," said junior transfer Brian
Betex of Huntington, N.Y.
Seventeen percent of junior transfers
are out-of-state residents, Harris said.
Others developed interests their
universities could not satisfy. "I knew
they (UNQ had a good political science
department," said Alan Culton, a
Sororities and
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hold orientation sessions tomorrow in
Great Hall to introduce students to
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Once here, junior transfers, particu
larly those from small community
colleges, face many of the same chal
lenges as freshmen.
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transferred from Queens College in
Charlotte. "I'd just like it a lot better
if I knew what I was doing."
Orientation for junior transfers began
Aug. 17 and is less intensive than the
freshman program.
"We treat them like they basically
know what's going on and just need a
little guiding," said Gina Humphrey, a
junior transfer orientation counselor
and commissioner on the Orientation
Commission.
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mandatory Aug. 18 convocation in
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life, including social, scholarship and
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as a nighttime outdoor pool party Aug.
19. The most difficult tasks for the
orientation staff, Humphrey said, was
explaining drop-add procedures and the
Honor Code.
Transfers from smaller schools par
ticularly are surprised by the bureau
cracy, paper work and time spent
waiting. "They're not used to the huge
lines in Woollen," Humphrey said.
Some of the longest lines came Aug.
19, when 500 junior transfers waited up
to two hours to see 14 Arts and Sciences
advisers on the third floor of Steele
building.
The problem is annual, and secretary
Alice Dawson had . just one piece of
advice for junior transfers who thought
they had left such delays behind two
years ago: "What I tell them is to bring
pencils, pens, something to read and
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By NANCY ATKMSON
Staff Writer
With every fall semester, the talk of
campus seems to be the freshmen
their pratfalls and considerations but
UNC also is the new home of many
other people, including incoming grad
uate students, international students
and professionals.
Coming from 37 nations and entering
with weighty responsibilities in their
programs, these diverse newcomers
have an even more difficult job becom
ing oriented than the most naive
freshman..
The International Center and Office
of Student Affairs worked to make this
orientation successful through separate
and combined efforts.
The activities are more informative
than social. They aim to assimilate the
10 percent of the university population
that is scattered in the less accessible
areas of Craige . dormitory, married
student housing and throughout the
Chapel Hill and Carrboro communities.
Jill Bulthus, director of the Interna-
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an introductory slide show about
fraternity life. After the presentation,
there will be a reception during which
the , representatives will answer ques-
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of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. "If they
(the graduates and professionals) get
involved, they will get involved in town
issues," Hunter said.
The students said they found the
orientation useful.
"I think it's adequate because grad
uates come in with a different attitude
toward school," said Jill Petrie, a
graduate student in math from Indiana.
"They are more academically minded
and have more of a purpose."
Susanne Breckinridge, a graduate
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Virginia, said she attended Monday
night's jazz concert.
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in Craige came," she said, "but the
people that showed up were the ones
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Winston Buckley of Jamaica is here
to work on his doctorate in statistics.
"Meeting people kind, caring people
has been the most enjoyable to me,"
he said.
Buckley also said he had been
impressed with the "almost poetic" film
presentation of North Carolina. He
said, "North Carolina seems to have
everything: the mountains, the beach,
whatever you want."
Dr. Aurora Velazquez, . a graduate
student in Public Health from Nicara
gua, also said she was pleased with the
area. "I like this place," she said,
"because the vegetation and the weather
is like my country."
Some students mentioned that the
organization and its orientation were
very helpful.
"To go through registration with such
a large group of students in two days
is amazing," said Narinder Kathuria of
India, a graduate student in business.
Bidur Basnet, a graduate in mass
communications from Nepal, said he
thought the orientation had helped
prepare him culturally. "One aspect that
I liked was when other foreign students
told us what to expect," he said.
The directors already are thinking of
what can be done to increase effective
ness and attendance for the next
orientation. The Office of Student
Affairs is thinking of increasing adver
tising in busses and banks and also of
communicating directly with the differ
ent graduate programs.
The AIS is distributing an orientation
evaluation form. Bulthus said the new
weekend orientation caused a transpor
tation problem for the many foreign
students who live off campus.
"We ended up organizing car pools
at the last minute to get the students
to the orientation activities," she said.
"If they have orientation on the wee
kend again next year, they'll need to
provide full-time bus transportation for
those days."
With impressions still being formed
and activities continuing, the overall
success of this orientation has yet to
be determined. But one thing is certain:
by the time it ends, the new international
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