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{Me Homesickness can put a damper on the
few months of freshman year.
While some first-year students are out me
new friends, cheering at football games
whooping it up at dorm parties, others are <
nothing?except thinking about home.
Why do some students get homesick,
others not?
That's exactly what Nicole Scaramelli w?
to know. The 1997 Dartmouth College grac
spent her senior year researching a problem
experts say afflicts as many as 30 percent of
year students.
"Homesickness is one of the leading ce
of people coming into the health center to
counselor or doctor," said Scaramelli, a psych
USCPD officer
BOB SIMMONDS Staff Writer
Many students returning to USC will
? into Five Points. But, to insure a good tin
' know how to be safe.
According to Officer Calvin Gallman <
Department, there are several basic rules t
safe while out on the town.
If you're being followed, go to the firs
can find. Never go home or risk being folio
Don't hitchhike. That's a federal law
Avoid shortcuts and isolated areas. T
them in Five Points. Avoid walking on the
get home.
Don't walk alone after dark, even in \
On the street, walk facing traffic. Thi
% from being pulled into a passing car.
Department of I
for Aug. 27, stud
CARA PELLAT Asst. News Editor
Students wanting to change rooms this s
^ to compete with students still on the waitii
according to Gretchen Koehler-Shepley, P
of Housing.
"If s a matter of whether we have space
who want to switch will have to work toj
Shepley said.
There are several students in temporai
students don't show up on campus, their s
house students on the waiting lists.
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Scaramelli said she delved into the topic
, and though she herself never experienced a bad
of the homesick blues. But during her fresh
mted year, "one of my roommates had a difficult
luate adjusting and ended up leaving school," she
i that "That kind of sensitized me to the issue."
first- Working with Dartmouth Professor Wil
Morris, Scaramelli asked first-year studen
luses fill out a questionnaire in the summer b<
see a starting Dartmouth, and then six weeks i
ology arriving on campus. The questionnaire te
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the night," Gallman said,
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wed. For people who try to use t
as well. get into establishments, differ*
here are plenty of "Many will just turn you aj
railroad tracks to ID," Gallman said. All people
to have their identification cht
vell-lighted areas. "Above all, drink in modera
swill prevent you activity to the police," Gallma]
lousing sets fall rooi
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For those wanting to char
Housing will begin the procesi
semester will have building in the area offices Aug
ig list for housing, 0n Aug. 28.
Lssociate Director Room changes between res
and continue until Oct. 28. Tt
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jether," Koehler- In order to change rooms,
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students' personality types. that introverts find i
bout Scaramelli said she thought the survey results "If you have trouble |
ice to would verify what she calls her "grieving" kind of in a bind."
I to a hypothesis, that "people who were happiest with The research sh
jrted their home life mi^it have a greater sense of loss practical strategies fc
ssick, in a new situation, and would therefore be more such as social activil
likely to experience homesickness." she said. Dartmoutl
even But that was not the case. "We were pretty orientation camping 1
bout surprised," she said. "The results were exactly of freshman go hiking
man opposite. People who were most unsatisfied with Also, after hearin
time their homelife were most likely to be homesick." study, Dartmouth's
said. Students were deemed to be homesick by the create a program to
way they answered questions like "I feel lqnely homesick students,
liam here," and "I think about home constantly." The health servic
its to The ones who battled homesickness also were secretaries to doctoi
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students other than when they're sick,'
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>r fending off homesickness, Scaramelli's study drew interest 1
uies for first-year students, focused on "this whole introversion, isol
h, for example, offers pre- causes problems," he said. "We certa
trips, in which small groups lot of that."
;, horseback riding or biking. For some first-year students, "the ?
g the results of Scaramelli's anxiety is tremendous. Some of them are
Health Service decided to by their parents, who can't separate
help identify and counsel them alone," said Turco, adding that ma
share some anxiety about leaving hor
:e's 60 staff members, from Scaramelli, who will attend
rs to nurses to counselors, University's law school this fall, said shi
groups of freshmen. Staff that Dartmouth is putting the study
e-mail messages that say, good use. She said. It's important to ti
rson; if you're feeling blue, people's adjustment as easy as possib
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