FRIDAY, 9 APRIL 1965
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
PAGE SEVEN
FRIDAY, 9 APRIL 1965 TIlE MICHIGAN DAILY
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POPULAR PROGRAM:
Summer Orientation Acquaints Students with U'
WAKE UP!
IT'S SPRING!
By NANCY SUNDHEIM
Summer orientation is a two-
day program designed to take
care of the routine procedures
necessary for entrance into the
University.
In addition, it provides an op-
portunity for freshmen and trans-
fer students to become acquainted
with the University, its dormitor-
ies, activities and academic coun-
selors, Director of Orientation
Jack Petoskey said. About 70 per
cent of the 'freshmen entering the
k University in the fall participate
in this program.
Transfer students entering the
literary college from other uni-
versities may also attend summer
orientation. Their program is not
quite as extensive and lasts only
one day.
During the two-day summer
session students take placement
and aptitude tests and register
for courses for the fall term. They
also take a tour of the campus.
"The orientation program began
about 1925. It was more academ-
ically oriented then, with coun-
selors instead of students for
leaders," Petoskey said.
"The summer program began in
1956 andhas been a tremendous
help in view of the size of the
University," Petoskey explained.
About 3000 freshmen are able to
attend one of the summer ses-
sions, thus somewhat alleviating
the fall crowds.
"Its success with new students
is indicated by the evaluation
sheets," he said. Only two out of
2700 students who filled them out
indicated that they would not par-
ticipate in the program again.
A group of six students act as
orientation leaders during the
summer program. They are usually
students who have had previous
experience with this type of work,
since during the summer this is
the only type of orientation pro-
gram in operation, Petoskey ex-
plained. "They are excellent stu-
dents and have always proved
very competent in whatever they
pursued," he said.
There is also a fall orientation
program for incoming students
who are unable to attend in the
summer. These students must re-
port to campus three days prior
to those who participated in sum-
mer orientation.
The fall program is slightly dif-
ferent from the summer one. Dur-
ing the first two days, students
who have not already attended an
orientation group go through test-
ing and registration.
The remainder of the program
is geared towards new students,
but is open to returning students
as well. This part of the program
includes activities of a more social
and cultural nature :
The SportsSpree will be held
Aug. 24 at 8 p.m. in the Intra-
mural Bldg. "It is co-ed and al-
ways a big hit," past chairman of
the League University Services
Committee Elizabeth C o o p e r,
'66Ed, said.
-Student - Faculty discussions
will be held Aug. 26 to introduce
students to various professors.
There are a total of 16 lectures
on 16 different topics.
-College afternoon, a program
sponsored by the individual col-
leges, gives students ail oppor-
tunity to learn about the academic
divisions of the University, their
policies, faculty and courses. It
will be held Aug. 26.
-The President's Welcome will
be held Aug. 26 at 8:30 p.m. in
Hill Aud. "This is something that
students don't forget," Petoskey
said. "The President's Welcome
really makes the new students feel
like part of the University," Miss
Cooper added.
-Activities Day is Aug. 27 from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. "The purpose of
this program is to introduce the
new students to the activities at
the University and reacquaint the
old ones with them," Miss Cooper
said.
Each of the activities partici-
pating sets up a display in the
Union Ballroom. Students can in-
quire about and perhaps join each
activity.
-Still in the planning stages is
a Band Concert, something new
this year, scheduled for Aug. 27.
This program will. be an all-Uni-
versity event and will afford the
new student the opportunity to
learn the school songs and cheers.
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general, was invalid.
Another technique, according to
jGomillion, was the board's sim-
ply resigning after it had register-
ed as many whites as it felt pos-
sible.
"It took time for the state to
appoint another board, and, for
some strange reason, it always
took a long, long time," the Tus-
kegee professor noted. Three
times within a decade the county
was without a board of registrars
for over 18 months, he added.
Finally, however, the Alabama
Legislature, alarmed by the large
numbers of successful Negro regis-
tration applicants which were
fast creating a clear Negro ma-
jority on the voting rolls, passed
legislation in 1957 gerrymander-
ing the city of Tuskegee and elim-
mating 3000 Negroes from its
boundaries. 400 of them were
voters.
Gomillion and members of the
TCA, however, intervened. In
1961, after a protracted court
struggle, Alabama was enjoined
from enforcing the gerrymander.
This paved the way for the 1964
election victories of Negroes in
Tuskegee and in the county.
By that time Negroes outnum-
bered whites 3,624 to 3,499 on the
county registration rolls. In Tus-
kegee the figure was 3,237 to 1,507.
Gomillion and the TCA pur-
posely ran only five Negroes for
the eight county spots and two
Negroes in the sequent elections
for the five-member Tuskegee city
E council.
"It gave Negroes a chance to
gain the knowledge of the inner
workings of city government and
have a voice in policy without be-
ing in the majority that will be
held responsible for actions of the
council. This way it will be easy
to gain experience for new can-
didates to use in the upcoming
elections and hard for the whites
to say, 'I told you so,'" Gomillion
explained.
Another Leader
Paul Puryear, another Tuske-
gee Institute professor, is leader
of a new group, the Non-Partisan
Voters League. It unsuccessfully
ran four Negro candidates in the
council race.
Puryear believes Gomillion's
group is too gradualist. Gomillion
has said he will not say anything
derogatory about the new group.
Although both Gomillion and
Puryear unite in condemning eco-
nomic,, social, and educational
segregation and discrimination
which they say has hardly chang-
ed at all, most observers agree
with the "Southern Patriot's" as-
sessment of the area.
"The Patriot," the paper of Rev.
Fred Shuttlesworth's Southern
* Conference Educational Fund, said
in December, 1964, that the county
"has become the first county in
the deep South with a truly bi-
racial government."
Economic Security
Gomillion feels that the eco-
nomic security of many of the
area's Negro citizens, plus the
fact that Negroes make up over
four-fifths of the county's popu-
lation, have helped.
He also feels the TCA's tactics
have been significant.
; "We know we weren't going to
make any sudden advances," the
civil rights leader says. "We tried
to stimulate interest in the re-
lationship between political power
and employment, social welfare,
and democracy. We decided.where
we were and where we wanted to
go-
"Then we had to define the
situation," Gomillion says. "We
took stock of our' resources and
asked If we could afford to pay
the price it would take to get us
to our goals."
Sometimes, he said, he would
discourage his friends from work-
ing actively because their jobs
were percarious or they were in
debt to white merchants.
The TCA also worked diligently
on finances, never solicited for
contributions in order to develop
financial independence. It also set
aside a large sum in a bank to
earn $1200 in a year's interest.
gee has shown us the way to solve
the problem."
But Gamillion and the Negro
community feel that bi-racial gov-
ernment is the only problem that
has really been solved.
"The situation has changed," he
adds. "We can do. more now.
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