Freshmen get best of everything at UNC
drop-add, odd roomies, burnt food and class
By TONY Gt'NN
Assistant News Editor
Puzzled by the words "Drop-Add"? Can't find Venable Hall?
"Whaddaya mean Wilson Library is stacked?"
If you're a freshman, don't worry. Some seniors are still puzzled by
Drop-Add. Some wish they had never found Venable Hall. And
Wilson library is not stacked full of books, but is full of stacks.
College can be a harrowing experience for the newcomer during
the first few days. You are forced into a new living situation. You
have a roommate (some of you are fortunate enough to have two)
and probably have to do some serious cooking for the first time in
your life. You have to get acquainted with the hassles of registration,
dropping and adding classes in Woollen gym, spending some hard
earned dollars on textbooks, and of course, standing in lines.
Some people get along just fine with their roommate. They have
the same likes (each other's girlfriend, for example) and dislikes (that
nerd down the hall). Others simply put up with each other until they
can switch or until the end of the year. If each person makes an effort
to cooperate, however, problems will be solved with ease.
Drop-Add can also present problems. It's a place where every
university department is represented. By picking up or discarding
computer cards, you can drop or add courses.
One rule to remember: ALWAYS ADD courses before you
DROP them. Otherwise, you might get stuck with no courses at all,
or a choice between two courses, neither of which you want.
Some people get lucky and pick up some really great courses in
Drop-Add. And after you graduate, you will always remember the
hours you spent in Drop-Add.
Classes are a bit different from those in high school. First, instead
of going from room to room, you go from building to building. But
the 10 and 15 minutes between class changes allow enough time to
move from one to the next.
Some classes are also larger. To some this means a lack of
individual attention at least less than you got in high school. But
this also enables you to get in some good courses with good
professors. You'll even want to stay awake for a few professors.
Others are better than a sleeping pill. ; .
For most people, though, the freshman year is one of the best at
Carolina. Students are away from home, many lor the first time, and
they grow to love the campus. Being able to stay out all night and
party is a sensational feeling, even if you never do it. Just knowing
that you can is enough.
Being away from home also brings more responsibility. Services
that you might have taken for granted at home, such as laundry and
food, are now left for you to do. And if you don't do them, they won't
get done. But someone once said that all this was good practice lor
the real world.
Freshmen also find themselves without cars. This really isn't such a
disadvantage, as parking spaces hardly exist. But bus service is
adequate, and you can always bum a ride from an upperclassman.
During the first days of each semester, everyone stands in line to
pick up their registration slips, to drop courses, to add courses, to bin
. books, to eat and for many other things.
What's good about standing in line is that you can meet some great
people. And you can play the campus' most well-known game. "Do
you know..."
"You're from Lizard Lick? Do you know Sam Clodfelter? He used
to date my sister before she got married."
Freshmen can also look forward to Saturday afternoons in Kenan
Stadium. With the smell of fall in the air and alumni coming back to
the campus and sharing memories with their children, it's a time
. when the old university meets the new. You'll be showing your kids
around in a few years, too.
The freshman year is the perfect time to ask questions. You can
learn a lot in a short time about how this university works. A nd don'l
let anyone tell you this place is "so big!" It's not. In a short time you
will know your way around, you will never get lost and you will never
feel lost. Walking through campus you will run into at least a dozen
friends, ones with whom either you've shared a dorm or struggled
through classes.
Classes are another subject. Soon you'll learn which classes you
should be in. It's all part of the learning experience here. After a lew
months you'll learn which classes are slides, which classes and
professors to avoid.
The first few days might be rough. But soon you'll understand why
people would rather be in Chapel Hill.
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New counseling center strives to improve service for UNC students
By ROBERT THOMASON
Staff Writer
An office to coordinate and give direction
to campus counseling services has been
established by the University in Nash Hall.
The University Counseling Services
Center is an effort to streamline counseling
for students, said John Rienhold, director of
the center.
"The center will help resolve some of the
problems of counseling," Rienhold said.
"We will develop better means for
counseling. The different services will be
more in touch, and we hope to expedite
referrals."
In addition to overseeing the scope of
counseling on campus, the center offers
personal and social counseling.
"If a person has a problem with his family
or his roommate which cannot be resolved
by the resident assistants, this is the service
to come to," Rienhold said.
The personal and social counseling
service is staffed by six full-tirne
professionals, including the director. These
professionals will work in comjunction with
the mental health division of the Student
Health Service.
The Counseling Services Center will
constantly survey the financial needs of
campus counseling services. Part of
Rienhold's job, he said, is to look at the
increase of decrease of needs of the various
counseling services and make budget
recommendations to the University.
The center itself will house three
counseling divisions: the personal and social
counseling section, an educational section
and a vocational section.
The 5 educational section will assist
students in determining the course of their
academic careers. This will include helping a
student choose a major or design a course
load that is right for his personal
educational goals, as well as assisting other
problems a student might incur within the
academic community.
The vocational section will offer
counseling for career and work planning.
Designed for the younger student, it will
help him determine the general field of his
vocational ability and interest.
The vocational last section wil be
coordinated with the existing Career
Planning and Placement program, located
in Hanes Hall. This program assists the
student in the latter stages of establishing
career goals and finding a job.
Career Planning and Placement has a full
time staff of six persons. Among the serv ices
provided are a, resource library with
information on job' openings and
employment trends, direct contact with
employers who come on campus to
interview prospective employees and a file of
summer job possibilities.
The Reading Program, located in
Phillips' Annex, also is under the direction
of the center. Staffed by two full-time and
several part-time instructors, the program
helps students improve reading and study
skills.
Hours for the program are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
A $10 fee for students is charged.
The Student Health Service is also part of
the center. Its main offices, located in North
Carolina Memorial Hospital, are open from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. but facilities and personnel
. are available around the clock to handle
emergencies.
The Student Health Service provides
general medical services, including an
infirmary, a mental health division for
major and minor problems, couples and
marriage counseling, problem pregnancy
counseling and a gynecology clinic.
M any of the services under the wing of the
center have overlapping responsibilities.
The new center will try to alleviate some of
the overlap, but it will also try to determine
what overlap is appropriate.
"The overlap of services among the
different programs gives the student more
choice in counseling," Rienhold said.
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Bus riders are in a special position.
They can take their eyes off the road,
do homework, snooze or serenely
watch the struggles in the four-wheel
world below. They also get to work
on time. They don't worry about park
ing. And they save their cars for low
wear long-distance trips. Obviously,
bus riders know how to get around.
You should be a bus rider.
Save Your Car
Around-town dr iving does for your car
what smoking nine packs a day does
for your body. Only worse. Tooling
around town doesn't just waste gas. It
wastes parts, fast. At today's prices,
car repairs can cause heart failure.
And a new car can put you in debt for
life. So ride the bus. Your car and
your bank account will thank you.
200 mpg
Mileage has replaced horsepower in
the car advertising numbers game. But
the numbers that really count are
miles per gallon per person. Even a
moped can't match the 200 mpgpp of
a full bus. So if you want to talk real
mileage, you've got to talk bus. Or
even better, ride bus.
Get a Bus Pass
School starts soon, and with it the real
Chapel Hill year begins. Now is the
time to get a bus pass. No more fight
ing traffic. No more combat in the
parking zone. No more fueling around
with self-service pumps. No fishing for
change either. Just serenity on six
wheels. With a pass, you've got a
ticket to ride.
People who ride buses
really know how
to get around.
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