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Orientation Issue Z-160 ^'HSITY of VOLUME 31 BUFFALO, N. Y , MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1950 NUMBESl 1 Miss Hass Tells Frosh Advantate of Union Your entrance University llfe with its wide field of interest opens to you opportunities for study, recreation, culture and friendship. In some universities student unions ere available to the students to foster their inter est in non academic campus life. In the University of Buffalo this Institution is Norton Union. ■ffflthln the next few weeks heavy demands will be made upon you for your time. Those of you who are able to remain on campus outside of class hours must choose how your time is to be spenjt and make decisions as to what you want to achieve in the activities which you find. Most student ac tivities are ' centered in Norton Union which is designed chiefly for student use and operated as a student majority Board of Mana gers. Games and sports are pro vided for your enjoyment. Music and distinguished speakers are in cluded in the program which is designed to broaden your cultural opportunities. Student activities including publications, dramatics, debate, glee club and athletic teamwork offer you opportunities for the development of personality and experience. Dances and en- terliainment will be staged to amuse you. Here you will make friends. Election to membership on the Board of Managers will come to a few of you. This honor ranks among the highest which the University of Buffalo is able to offer students as a measure of their judgment as appraised by their associates. The extent to which you will participate in activites defends largely on your ability and on your likes and dislikes. For those who are able to invest time in the non academic life of this University there is to be expected in return broadening of character, experi ence, and many, m^ny good times. You are advised to survey the op portunities and to decide thought fully which enterprises will pro duce the greatest results for you, an(t for the University of Buffalo. You will look back on your ex periences in Norton Union as among the happiest and most pro ductive that you enjoyed at the University of Buffalo. You have four years ,in which to build this experience and its influence will last throughout your lives. You may make of it what you will. . Some of you will want to ask for advise and counsel in planning your non-academic careers on this campus. You will find capable and friendly advisers. It is the privilege of the Board of Man agers to serve the Interests of our Norton Union membership and among the Board members there are both student and faculty mem bers who can help you and who would like to do so. The office of the Director and the Office of the Program Coordinator are always open and will welcome you at any time. Your desires and your prob lems will be many. To express them to those who can lie of as sistance is one way to solve them. Student benefit to be gained through Norton Union as thru the entire University of Buffalo de pends upon the initiative, judg ment and motives of each indi vidual as well as upon bis native ability. In short it depends on you Dorothy M. Haas. Cheeileadeis To Conduct Pop Bally on Wed. Wednesday of this week la your opportunity to learn the cheers and songs of The University of Buffalo. At noon on Wednesday make your way to Rotary Field and take part in the first Pep Rally of the Season. Between cheers you will be introduced to the athletic faculty of the univer sity including Mr. Jim Peelle, ath letio director, Jimmy Wilson, head football coach, Mai Eiken, head basketball coach and Fritz Febel. The big surprise of the day will be an Introduction of “Bosco\ the only U.B. student who uses Feeps. During the course of the pep rally there will also be tryouts for the freshmen cheerleaders. Any fresh man is eligible and experience is not, necessary. Anyone who is in terested will be asked to lead a cheer of any kind. The varsity cheerleaders will assist in any way possible, but the final decision will be up to you, the freshmen. These newly elected cheerleaders will cheer at all freshmen games' and will assist the regular cheerleaders at the varsity games. If you are inter ested speak to any cheerleader. They will be in uniform' during orientation. The program will be concluded by an introduction of the football players to the freshman class. Let’s see as many of those dinks as possible at the Cortland game this Saturday. LELAND L. JONES POPULAR ALUMNUS TO LEAD SONGS AT OPEN HOUSE Tuesday’s Open House will bo your opportunity to meet one of U.B.’s outstanding alumni. Leland Jones, past president of tbe Board of Managers and past treasurer of the United States National Stu dent's Association, who is now Supervisor of the Fifth Ward in Buffalo, will head the Community Sing on Tuesday evening. Those of you who have been present at social functions over which Lee has presided in the past, will long remember bis al most traditional “Lion’s Hunt” and his masterful leadership of the Alma Mater. New Freshman Greets Fellow Frosh at U.B. On behalf of the faculty and ad-<^ mlnistrative staff, I extend to all new students a cordial welcome to the ynlverstty. In a very real sense, you have joined an educa tional community. Education at U.B. is a cooperative enterprise. The success of our efforts will de pend on how cooperatively, hbw thoughtfully, how completely in a spirit of good will all of us — stu dents, faculty, and administration — work together. It is very important for you to be here. Competence and leader ship, which should be products of a university education, are always essential in a free society. They are all the more necessary in a period of national crisis. The sur vival of freedom depends on the development and utilization ATTENTION VETEBANS! “All Campus PL 346 veterans (PL 16’s excluded) will be re quired to place a deposit of $60.00 .with the Bursar of their School upon reentering In Sep tember, 1950. Early notice of this new policy Is given so that all concerned will be prepared to comply In September, 1950. Full details of this policy are posted on the bulletin boards In Crosby Hall, Hayes Hall, and the Engineering Building. Vet erans affected are requested to read these notices at their earliest convenience. Although we wfuld like to keep Individual Inquiries at a minimum, further information Is available on re quest In Room 125, Crosby Hall.”' BE SURE AND BRING YOUR DINKS Square Dance For Freshmen At NvU. Tonite BYeahman, are you frustrated? Nurse, are you neurotic? You may find a solution in Psych. 101, but that won’t start 'til next week. But if you want to reverse that reserve shuttle off the shyness, and get to know some of the interesting peo ple floating around today. Norton has just what you need. The answer? The NU Square Dance. The old union will really be rocking tonight when expert caller, Harry Martin spins his records while freshmen fellows spin their partners. Square danc ing is fast becoming a favorite pastime at U. B. so U you’re a be ginner, come out and learn how, and if you already have mastered the art, come and show us how. Before the dance, mixer games will be played to get you acquaint ed. The whole building will be open for dancing—first and second floors so there’s room for all of you. All you have to give at the door is a glimpse of your registration card, but wear your freshman dink. When dry from doesy-doeing, there will be cider and doughnuts served over the bar downstairs. To get them all you have to do is show the food stub you got earlier that day. So heed the signs on the back of that blonde—don’t let the skunk scare you away—but come out—8 to 11—NU and dance, drink and be merry. many kinds of highly specialized abilities, whether in civilian life or in military service. But it rests even more, perhaps, on general intelligence, on an understanding of the vastly complicated prob lems of our time, on the ability to bring knowledge and methods Of thinking to bear on these crucial issues, and on, willingness to dis charge the obligations of citizen ship. The National Selective Ser vice System has recognized the importance of university training for the national welfare by permit ting local draft boards under cer. tain conditions to deter outstand ing students. The urgency of the time puts a special obligation - on students to take full advantage of their edu cational opportunities. This I am confident you will do. This University offers you out standing opportunities for the de velopment of your talents. Some times sne may be so close to an institution that he fails to sense its greatness and uniqueness. Let me say to you that this is a dis tinguished University — widely known alike for the excellence of its professional schools, and the distinctiveness of its College of Arts and Sciences. May you have a successful, and a happy year at U.B. T. R. McConnell Board of Mana^rs Offers Cooperation To Freshman Class As the student government of our university, we welcome each of you, who for the first time are entering the University of Buffalo. During the coming weeks, we will become friends with many of you. It’s obviously impossible for us to know all of you, and it is to those whom we cannot meet personally, that our welcome is . especially devoted. About this time, you are prob ably feeling a little hesitant and confused about university life. Don't expect to have this feeling disappear Immediately. The first noon you enter Norton and are hurled into the melee of fraternity and sorority pins, ticket selling students, and a blaring public ad dress system, you’re going to feel a little lost. When first 70U enter Lockwood Library and view a row of studious fellows surround ed by stacks of books, you may question how much you learned in (Continued on Page 1)
