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Page 4 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, June 20, 1985
Fast-paced orientation program
eases tension for new students

IN BRIEF
From United Press international

(Continued from Page 1)
MANY FIND out that Bo Schembechler's real name is
Glenn, while others turn the cube in Regents' Plaza in awe
of its design.
But program coordinator Paul McNaughton said the
sense of being overwhelmed is tempered by the fast pace
of the program. "We have todo so many things while they
are here - the program is purposely built to keep them
busy," he said.
Apparently, however, the students are not too busy to
get a taste of campus life for themselves. "They do give
you a chance to get out on your own," said incoming
freshman Wendi Zazik.
FREE TIME is given to students, but they are subtly
discouraged from attending locals bars. Students are
awakened before 7 a.m. on both orientation days, making
it difficult for them to partake in late-night action.
The early wake-up on day two reminds students of one
of the main reasons for coming to orientation: placement
tests - four hours of them inAngell Hall.
After the tests, students are given course guides and
spend the remainder of their day with academic counselors
planning class schedules for the fall. The long process of
registration, which takes place early on day three, can be
a treacherous task for the inexperienced student. "It was
a little frustrating," Zazik said.
With all of the information being thrown at incoming
students, it is a bit surprising that most students view
orientation the same way as incoming freshman Fara
Courtmansky did: "It was great."
THE KEY to the successful orientation, McNaughton
said, is that "the planning never stops. It's a year-round
process that we go through."
He said his office is busy with orientation for students
entering in the winter, spring, and summer as well as the
fall, so there are actually four orientaton processes.
Even though the program is well-planned, it has some
problems because "there is a certain amount of infor-
mation overload," McNaughton said.
TOO MUCH information can lead students to be turned
off by the program, but McNaughton said he doesn't ex-
pect people to remember everything they hear during

orientation. "But at least they'll remember some of what
they have heard when it comes up in the fall," he said.
The biggest problem, acording to Kay Chandler,
another coordinator of the progam, is that some people
arrive on the wrong day. She added, however, that "we
can juggle people because we leave enough space."
The planning helps make orientation a success, but
what keepe the program going aretthe group leaders, who
are trained for two weeks prior to the beginning of the
program. The 16 students are the oil that keeps the
program flowing smoothly.
THE LEADERS are knowledgeable about campus life
and the training period helps them iron out any problems.
"It's really a growing experience for the leaders," Mc-
Naughton said.
It takes a lot of enthusiasm to go through three months
of the same regimen, and LSA junior Emily Weber said
that was her reason for taking the job.
"It's really a lot of fun," she said, although she said the
first few groups are tense. Weber added that she expects
the students to warm up through the summer months.
NcNaughton agreed, "The kids who are here now are
the ones who sent in their cards as soon as they got them
and had their parents calling up to make sure they would
get the early date," he said.
The competition for the early date occurs because
students worry they won't geta good choice of classes.
Unlike other colleges, the University's orientation
program attracts nearly all incoming freshmen before
school starts. Bruce Barbee, the orientation director at
U.C.L.A., said he got many of his ideas from the program
at Michigan. Officials at Ohio State Universtiy said the
same.

Bombstrikes airport
FRANKFURT, West Germany
- A bomb explosion ripped
through the international depar-
ture terminal at Frankfurt airport
yesterday, killing at least three
people, injuring 42 others and
causing heavy damage to the
facility.
Hours after the mid-afternoon
blast, a caller threatened to set off
a separate bomb at Munich airport
but police searched that facility
and found nothing.
There were no immediate claims
of responsibility for the bombing at
Frankfurt airport, which stands
opposite the sprawlang Rhein-
Main U.S. Air Force base.
Wounded evacuate
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Rescue
workers threatened by angry
Shiite militiamen evacuated more
than 150 wounded refugees from
two battered Palestinian camps
yesterday as snipers fired on
civilians in the center of Beirut, in-
juring five people.
The evacuation from the Bourj
Barajneh and Shatila Palestinian
refugee camps on the southern
outskirts of west Beirut was the
first concrete result of a cease-fire
agreement brokered by Syria on
Monday.
The Red Cross convoys were ac-
companied by the representative
of the Shiite Moslem Amal militia
to the cease-fire committee and a
Syrian member.
House debates
chemical weapons
WASHINGTON - The House
yesterday debated ending a
unilateral moratorium on
chemical weapons production im-
posed 16 years ago as weapons-op-
ponenets sought to knock nerve gas
money out of the defense bill.
Debate on an amendment to cut
$124.5 million out of the $292 billion
defense authorization package
followed a stormy session in which
members soundly rejected a bid to
strip money for a submarine
nuclear missile out of the measure.

The country has not built
chemical munitions since 1969, and
the House has rejected requests for
new weapons three times in as
many years. The proposal did not
affect the nearly $1 billioni
budgeted on chemical defensive
measures.
Supreme Court rules
1970 wiretaps legal
WASHINGTON - The Supreme
Court decided one of the last
vestiges of the Watergate era
yesterday, letting former Attorney
General John Mitchell off the hook
for illegal wiretaps conducted in
-1970.
In a 4-3 decision that split the
justices two ways on two issues,
the court said Mitchell does not
have to go to trial on charges he
conducted warrantless electronic
surveillance in 1970 because the
illegality of such wiretaps was not
established until a year later.
White and Blackmun joined
Chief Justice Warren Burger and
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in
protecting Mitchell from the
specific charges. Justices Lewis
Powell and William Rehnquist did
not vote.
Anti-porn law upheld
by Supreme Court
WASHINGTON - The four letter
word "lust" may not be the right
word to define obscenity, but it was
no reason to throw out Washington
state's anti-pornography law, the
Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
The court, on a 6-2 vote with
Justice Lewis Powell not par-
ticipating, reversed an appeals
court ruling that said Washington
state's obscenity law was not
specific enough in outlining what
kinds of books, magazines, movies
and other materials were obscene.
The high court reached its
(decision after poring over a
variety of definitions of lust, in-
cluding dictionaries dating to the
1930s and former President Jimmy
Carter's famous remark that he
had "looked on women with lust."

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City rewrites regulations
on landseaping, parking
(ContinuedfromPagel) " Landscape must be 50 percent
regulations will be rewritten before evergreens to achieve 70 percent
they are submitted to the Ann Arbor year-round capacity.
Planning Commission sometime in None of the new regulations would
August. The Ann Arbor City Council affect existing builidings or buildings
will then have final approval, currently under construction, unless
The proposed changes include: there is a use or structure change. If
" Up to 40 percent of the parking that occurs, the owner must make the
provided on an approved site plan can necessary changes and conform to the
be deferred. If more parking is new regulations.
needed later, the owner must provide Tim Gilbert, a city official, hopes
it.Curenty oly esientalthe new parking and landscape
it. Currently only residential regulations will be in effect by
developments may defer parking.
" Parking lots would be defined as January of next year.
1,200 feet, this means that three cars
form a parking lot, instead of the four
that presently define a lot.
" Theaters which are now required O
to provide one space for every 12 seats
would be required to provide a space
for every three seats. NOTES
" Landscape islands must be 150
square feet and contain at least one
tree.
Larceny reported
WYFR-daly-13meter band A purse and contents valued at $106
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drawer on the first floor.
-Laura Bischoff

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