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3^EBBBr Diana Shay, a graduate assistant with I ticipants. Orientation a By Susan Muir 8:15 a.m. Doughnuts, pastries, orange juice and coffee are arranged against the Russell House Ballroom's back wall. The camera is set to take i/^lonf if i i An nor/1 tiinfumc iu^iiviitvattuii vai u piciuivo, representatives from religious centers, off-campus housing, Army ROTC, student media, financial aid and student activities stand behind their respective tables as a few smiling people begin greeting students and parents for a day of freshman orientation. Already questions start and smiling people in navy blue "ASK ME" shirts answer easily. Chosen from about 150 applicants, the 11 "ASK ME" people are orientation assistants; they guide students and parents through the schedule and basically run orientation all aay. The freshmen and parents finish their registration business and head to Russell House Theater to be properly greeted and introduced to the orientation assistants and some USC officials before splitting into groups. Parents leave for a student development session where they discuss problems, fears and expectations of their son's or daughter's first year in college. Freshmen split into small groups, each group headed by an orientation assistant, to talk about themselves, their interests and expectations of college for about 90 minutes. CAROLINA WO CLINIC Pregnancy Testing Abortion counseling ana service* Pregnancy can be detected befoi Birth Control Counseling and Pills pap Test and other Female Proble 2009 Hampton St., col 803-256-012 B k I L^TL1 J IB*! I r .. r. ^ ^ ^ MCAI & L Classes Now \ Moved to: m KamMn Egf? EDUCATIONAL CENTER fp( |fl fissmmlt test preparation -^8RBH J"" "---"VI.~.'-"1*../ --.r:---^----- II '-"."'A" Career Planning, assists the freshman orient husy day for IN THE freshman group session, the orientation assistant introduces himself again and sets an easy, relaxed atmosphere. Each freshman gets to know another bv meeting the person next to him, and then introducing their new friends to the group. They fill out and exchange index cards that answer some break-theice-type questions: Who would they have lunch with if they could dine with anyone? What kind of car would they drive if they could have any kind? What animal would they be if they could be any animal? Where would they go if they could visit anywhere in the world? Freshmen discuss their fears and excitement about coming to USC. The excitement concentrates on meeting people, freedom away from parents and, of course, parties. Dominating the fear category are terrors of getting lost on campus, making and keeping good grades and getting along with roommates. Next, a more immediate fear overwhelms the freshmen; it is time to take the English Proficiency Test.^ requiring them to write an essay on one of two given topics. Later these essays will determine their placement in frochmnn TT.ntflich Meanwhile, parents head to a session with academic deans where they meet the department dean of their offspring's major. EVERYBODY ? reads the Thc Mjcro Sl. Gamecock 1982 was in< Optional 48K i-i Asspmbler/Fditc MEN'S printers, Phone Drives, and moi We apologize caused. ) re missing period umbia, S.C. :I )AT :orming I 50$ OFF any all Days. Eves 4 Weekends I I 1419 Pendleton St. Columbia. SC 29205 I | 1000KnoxAbt Phone (803) 256 0673 I 1 Cayce MCAT clattet starling toon | H 791*422( formation About Other Centers B Outside NY Slate 1 I LL FREE: 800-223-1782J PnnMMMB MMWUHMT . Photo by Capers Hammond afion program by guiding its par students IAJNCHTIME, and parents and students are reunited. Many dine with newly-made friends. Orientation assistants and Gerry Strumpf, coordinator of the program, chat with parents and students. Parents talk among themselves: "I wish they included a tour of the dorms." "Have you seen those cemeni Duiiaings ^rne lowers) r They're like dungeons." "Yeah, he's going into engineering. My other son is in business." Afternoon, and freshmen make out their fall schedules while parents tour the health center and library. They then spend an hour at a Student Panel Session. THE PARENTS never seem at a loss for questions. They want to hear about dorm living, campus food and meal plans, shuttlecock schedules, access to athletic event tickets, check cashing, campus security, even tne size 01 aorm Deas. parents are direct with the student assistants. "Are you approached by radical groups?" "What's the drug scene like?" 4 p.m. The orientation program is complete. Most students and parents are impressed with what they've heard and seen, and many feel a little less nervous about college life. A typical day of orientation is over, and the staff prepares to greet the typical crowd of students and parents (from 40 to more than 300) that will visit USC the next day. :ORRECTION lop advertisement which ran June 30, rorrect. The ad should have read: RAM Expansion, Speech Synthesizer, >r, PASCAL, FORTRAN, Dot Matrix t modem's (to dial in to VSPC), Disk *e. ? for any inconvenience this may have SPECIAL steak dinner costing $3.00 or )re with valid use ID :udentand Faculty day ANY time at both stores >ottDr. 767 St. Andrews Rd. bt. Andrews D 772-9252 USC, hospital officials reach new agreement By Susan Muir A new five-year affiliation agreement between the USC School of Medicine and Richland Memorial Hospital will become effective January 1,1983. The agreement replaces a 1974 pact and is designed to be more responsive to the present and long-range needs of the two institutions. An eight-member USC committee and Richland Memorial officials negotiated nearly a year to draw up the new agreement. After the hospital's board of trustees unanimously approved the agreement, it was then sent to USC's board of trustees for approval. "The document that was put together was a sound document," said USC Provost Frank Borkowski. According to the agreement, education for undergraduate medical students is the university's responsibility, while the hospital will educate graduate medical residents. The agreement says USC must pay for any space, personnel, supplies and sevices required by the medical school in addition to those needed for Richland Memorial's patient-care functions. Also, the university's medical educational activities or research requirements of the nospitai must not raise nospitai services' cost. In addition, USC must pay for hospital costs when a patient admitted by USC faculty members does not meet the financial requirements. USC trustee Michael J. Mungo questioned the financial reimbursement policy of the agreement, saying such a policy could lead to "an incredible amount of money." But according to Borkowski, the university has control over how many beds are reserved for the medical school, preventing USC from footing exorbitant medical bills. The document also states that all USC faculty members who want to teach or conduct research at Richland Memorial must obtain permission from hospital and USC governing bodies. No more than 80 undergraduate students from the USC School of Medicine or the Medical University of S C. in Charleston will be located at Richland Memorial's present site. The hospital may limit the number of medical school teaching beds after seeking USC approval. The agreement further states the hospital reserves the authority to establish priorities for bed usage and regulate the number, size and referral procedures for outpatient clinics and emergency medical services. Margaret Wickenburg, chairman of the hospital board, said* Richland Memorial "is pleased to continue working with the USC medical school" and that "the agreement provides for a mutually productive and mutually beneficial working relationship between the university and the hospital." \ wml T sSSz^Ss> j I $1.00 OFF | I Any whole Sub ! with the Purchase of ! -1 any size soft drink! S S $.50 OFF ? 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