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. 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