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THE TWIG
MARCH 26, 1984
g EDITORIALS / LETTERS
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CommiUee deserves thanks
Something happened last fall at Meredith that shod^ed nearly
ewryone. Rooms.on campus were searched for alcohol.
Students that lived in these rooms claimed that their rights
had l»en violated and the sean^i had been conducted unfairly. No
definite set of guidelines had been established at the time for
room searches.
Thanks tathe complaints of those students and the diligent
work of the EGA Executive Committee, guidelines now have been
set for future room searches and were mailed out to students last
week.
TTie Executive Committee should be praised f6r their efforts
in these guidelines to insure that each room is searched fairly.
Several good points have been set in the guidelines that desen/e
specific mention.
One good guideline is the document that must be signed by
the room's searcher and occupant to verify that the room was
searched according to the prepared checklist. This pives the
occupant responsibility to make sure that the search vuas con
ducted fairly and to m^e additional comments on the sheet if
necessary.
Another good procedure is the requirement that a resident
advisor be present during the search of a room. This gives some
authority to the search other than that of students and also is
another dieck that the room is searched fairly.
A set of guidelines or njles is excellent to have ,fw any
procedure. It seems unnecessary that rooms be searched.
However, students now have a source to go to in order to Insure
thdr fair treatment. MLS
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Have you hugged your transfer today?
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Traisfer students at Mere
dith College struggle witii
everything from preparing their
schedules to establishing new
friends and a hs^py social life.
As one transfer student said,
'Transferring is tough.You feel
you’re being put on the spot
everywhere you tum...and that
doesn’t make you fe^ at home.”
According to a recent suney of
'40 transfer students which I in-
formally conducted, 1 found
that many Meredith transfers
had a difficult time adjusting.
Tiie first complaint Mere
dith traisfers had cortcemed
the August orientation
scliedule. These new students
said they feltintlmidated having
to go through a seven-day
orientation program with fresh
men. "Rie rnajwity of transfere
believed a separate two-day
transfer program should be of
fered at Meredith. This program
could consist of meeting
faculty, touring the campus,
and a handbook test. "We don't
need a three-day seminar on
learning college study habits,”
one junior transfer Impatiently
said. "I’ve already had two years
of college!"’
The second complaint con
cerned new friendships. These
complaints were startling if not
down right disturbing.- “The
friends I have are the girls I
transferred wfith,”is a common
reply. One transfer even s«dd
siie lived on a hall with SO girts
in five months time she had
only met three girls. This same
transfer was an outstanding
student at the college she had
previously attended. So what
went wrong? The answer that
continued to arise was that
Meredith Is a very cliquish
school. Yet as bitter as trans
fers may be, some were quick to
take up for Meredith by saying,
"Well If I'd been here since my
freshnen year I'm sure I’d stick
with my own set of friends. It
would seem unnatural not to!”
But the fact still remains, tiiese
40 transfer students have not
been at l^redith since their
freshman year, and after a five-
month period the social stnjg-
gle persists.
One solution suggested
was for each hall on campus to
adopt two transfers durtng the
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first week of school. That w^
one transfer student would have
made approxlm^eiy ' 30-50
acquaintances during the first
week of school. One transfer
would then introduce her
adopted hall to another transfer
and vice versa. This would in
crease the ratio of aquaintances
per transfer.
How else could the transfer
adjustment be made easier? A
surprising one-third of the re
sponses concerned hall ad-
isors. Transfers felt that hall
advisors ^tould tie more out
going and more willing to help
transfers adjust. One junior
transfer bluntly replied, “My
hall advisor treats me as if I
were supposed to feel conv
pletety at home from day one.”
A small number of transfer
students said planning their
schedules was the toughest
p^ of transferring.No one was
there to tell tiiem not to take
two diffteult English classes
and a statistics class in the
same semester. Discovering the
do's and don'ts in the academic
field takes time. Transfers
could use advise from non
transfer peers concerning sche
dules.
Is It any wonder then, that
transfer students stoiggle with
their new lives at Meredith Col
lege? Faculty and students
need to tie aware of the pro-
' blems of transfer students. The
majority of transfers agreed that
a special smile or extra shovv of
kindness would make them feel
more at home.
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porting” as the major irritaits In
their reiationshlDS with the
papers.
"interestingly enough,” the
report adds, “few student
govemnrtents were willing to ad
mit or hypotheszle they could
be as much to blame as the
papers for any strain.” Yet the
“condescending tone” of many
of the answers led Torgan to
wonder if part of the blame
could be assign^ to tlie of
ficers. .. ..... •.