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Meredith Herald Volume XVN, Issue 1 Educating Women to Excel August 23, 2000 On the inside: New students Go for Gold at Meredith □ Find out about services offered to Meredith stu dents. Page 2 □ What Is a student to do in Raleigh? Page % □ Orientation in pictures. Page 3 □ One student relates her par ents’ experience with an empty nest. Page 4 Meredith Herald at Meredith College 3800 Hillsborough St. Raleigh, NC 27607 (919) 760-2824 FAX (919) 760-2869 maxwelU@meredith.edu □ Meredith wel comes over 500 new students. Lesue Maxwell Editor In Cniel Months of preparation and anticipation ted up to move-in weekend, when freshmen and transfer students arrived at Meredith. Saturday, Aug. 19 mariced the beginning of freshmen ori entation, and Sunday, Aug. 20 saw the arrival of transfers on campus. Planning for orientation began in February, when stu dents advisers and resident assistants were selected and committees began meeting. Each year, orientation has a theme. Themes of the past two years were Destination: Mered ith and Design Your Future. The theme for Orientation 2000 is Go for the Gold, a theme that revolved around the Olympics. This theme was selected because of the Sum mer Olympics, which will be held in Sydney, Australia, in September. This year. Residence Life members arrived on Sunday. Aug. 13. Orientation Crew members arrived on Tuesday, Aug. 15, and Student Advisers arrived on Wednesday, Aug. 16 to prepare for the arrival of new students. Senior Elizabeth Jack son, an Orientation Crew member, said of her role, “I enjoy helping freshmen get adjusted to Meredith life.” Fifty-six freshmen stU' dent advisers. 10 transfer student advisers, 28 resi dent assistants and 45 Ori entation Crew members welcomed 406 on-campus freshmen, 27 commuting freshmen, 36 on-campus transfers and 52 commut ing transfers. Move-in began at 8 a.m. on Saturday, but some freshmen and their parents began arriving around 7:30 a.m. After constructing the balloon rainbow at 5:30 a.m., Orientation Crew members greeted the new stu dents and their families, direct ing them to their residence halls, providing information and handing out water bottles. This year, as opposed to other years, students moving in placed cards on the dashboard of each car. These cards allot ted them 30 minutes to unload, an effort on the part of the Campus Police to move cars out of the way quickly. After lunch on Saturday, parents and freshmen attended different sessions and speeches introducing them to life at Meredith. Orientatiori Crew members Leslie Gilliland and Jennifer Wynne greet a Meredith freshman Saturday. Freshmen were greeted with Olympic rings as they came to Meredith to Go for the Gold on Saturday. Johnson Hall greeted them behind the rings. Pwojo BV Steve Wilson and she noted that orientation went well. Also on Sunday, all new stu dents attended a skit on campus life, performed by members of the Orientation Crew. Jenkins noted that the skit was perhaps the most amusing part of orientation- “1 just laughed the whole time.” she said. Sunday was also the day that sophomores, juniors and seniors returned to campus. Monday. freshmen attended diversity training workshops at which they played the Game of Life. Each workshop was led by students and staff. Monday was also drop/ add for returning students. Tuesday, freshmen regis tered for classes and bought books. Today. Wednesday, an activ ities fair w'ill be held at dinner. New and returning students can show their interest in clubs and organizations on campus. Nikki Bissell. assistant director of Student Activities and Leadership Development, was impressed with the way that Orientation Crew mem bers. student advisers and resi dent assi.stants worked during Orientation, "with everything that has been done and is still getting done." PmiTi) Steve Wilson The day concluded with a barbeque in the courtyard. Chrissie Bumgardner, co director of the First Year Expe rience, said of the day, “I think it's gone as smoothly as it’s ever gone.” She cited the will ingness of the Meredith com munity to participate as the rea son Orientation went so well. “The campus community was wonderful." she said. Cheryl Jenkins, director of Student Activities and Leader ship Development, agreed: “I can’t even think of a hitch,” she said. Dena Price, assistant direc tor of Student Activities and Leadership Development, cited the weather as a factor in the ease of the day. "It’s usually 95 degrees.” she said. Instead. Saturday’s weather was breezy and sunny. Sunday, marked the begin ning of transfer orientation, when the transfer student advisers began their part in orientation. Rebecca Raw I. a sopho more transfer student adviser, said that she enjoyed “the chance to work with people learning about Meredith, not about college." Stephanie Helms, director of Commuter Life and Spe cial Services, played a main role in transfer orientation.
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