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Show Half A Program Orientation Woes 1 eral studies students are excluded from orientation, it is not difficult to understand how many of these students come to feel inferior and alienated. Feelings that may form the attitudes they will hold throughout through-out their college career. Money Is Main Problem The first question any administrator admini-strator would normally ask when resquested to include transfer, evening, eve-ning, and general studies students in freshman orientation is: Where wiU the MONEY, MONEY tol EY come from? ' M Well for a start, the $20,000 Sto on academic counselors could! ter be utilized. These peon!!1 aided the freshmen during tion were paid two weeks wages i, less than two days of consultatj If other portions of the budm were spent as wisely, under pro! management, each freshman tending the next orientation couii be paid around $3.00. By SCOTT ROBERTSON During the winter quarter of 1967, more than 250 freshmen entered the University of Utah for their first time. Unlike the freshmen students stu-dents who entered the University the next fall these students missed the fun of Welcome Week, got no greeting from President Fletcher, and did not receive the University's hand-dandy we-done-it-for-you loose-leaf. loose-leaf. And most important these students stu-dents receive none of the $50,000 worth of freshman orientation. Freshmen who enter winter, spring, and summer quarters are not the only ones who are passed over in this basic indoctrination. Last quarter 1,278 transfer students stu-dents were admitted to the University Uni-versity with no more knowledge of the campus than the new freshmen. Yet they were not included in orientation. orien-tation. Evening Students Left Out There were 3,150 evening students attending the University last quarter. quar-ter. Though many of these students have attended day school, others are entertaining their first experience experi-ence wit college life. The evening student is in probably the most unique position of all the students who did not participate in orientation. orienta-tion. They are not required to pay an activities fee. Most are in good academic standing with the University. Uni-versity. They deal with the same instructors, administration, and competition day students deal with. And all should have the opportunity opportun-ity to receive the same information about the University fall quarter freshmen have. General study students, those who have not been officially admitted to the University because of some deficiency in their entrance requirements, require-ments, are the students who could most benefit from the freshmen orientation program. These students stu-dents are faced with more administrative admini-strative problems than any other group entering the U. When gen- |