Show Academic Excitement Honest Challenge A flurry of predominantly of a social traditionally welcomes new and returning students to the University each fall Several hundred students have just experienced the headaches and heart breaks of rush a large number of although deprived of the traditional green have attended a freshman-faculty made the rounds of activity carnival square-danced at a and made a well-known trek armed with buckets of The purpose of this annual gaiety is the promotion of enthusiasm for campus traditions and activities and the extension to new students of a friendly welcome into a seat of over students and the faculties of twelve This so-called the pre-occupation of so many high school remains too much the pre-occupation of some of those students when they reach A feeling of de pervading football and other campus festivities is a desirable and enjoyable but hardly the basic drive that should motivate a college Interspersed in the social whirl of pre-registration week has been an additional program designed to introduce new students to the more serious side of college Freshmen and other new students have been invited to meet with faculty members and administrators for assistance in planning their class interpreting placement test and becoming acquainted with faculty members in their Informal discussion groups led by students' advisers were also exploring topics including University A Marketplace of If such a program could serve the purpose of making students enthusiastic about what should be the real purpose of spending four years in It takes more time and effort to become excited about academic work than about a football as pointed out by a University professor in the magazine section of today's it is this academic excitement that makes life significant for students who find A university is indeed a marketplace of The opportunity to examine them comes only and four years is a short It is unfortunate for any student to have passed through these years without ever having felt a genuine excitement and enthusiasm for his academic shared by his his and the authors of his It is to be hoped that both new and returning students this fall will feel themselves welcomed by a spirit of academic and that they will prepare themselves to meet it with |