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VOL. 72 • NO. 1 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY August 31,1 994
Orientation Welcomes Class of 1998 to LMU
By James Keane
News Editor
Saturday, August 27, marked the
arrival of the class of 1998 to
Loyola Marymount University, as a
new crop of first-year students
poured onto the LMU campus un¬
der the care and direction of a fleet
of Orientation Leaders, teachers,
and administrators.
The first four days on campus
were busy ones for the incoming
students; after moving in to Resi¬
dence Halls and parting with fami¬
lies after lunch, they spent the next
three days with their O’Leaders,
registering for classes, being intro¬
duced to the various facets of the
university, attending workshops and
activities designed to educate the
students on college life, and meet¬
ing and socializing with their new
classmates at a number of social
events, including the Reggae
Sunsplash Dance, the RHA Wel¬
come Back Dance, and the College
Lip Sync.
The success of Orientation ‘94
attested to the immense amount of
preparation and planning th at went
into the event, led by Dr. Suzanne
Frentz of the College of Communi¬
cation and Fine Arts. With a crew
numbering in the hundreds and in¬
cluding O’Leaders and Head
O’Leaders from all four colleges,
the Student Workers, RHA, ASLMU,
ESM, teachers and administrators,
members of all campus service or¬
ganizations, and the support of work¬
ers throughout the university, the
team worked successfully together
to give the first year students a
positive first experience of their new
home.
In addition to activities designed
to bring the new students together,
informative sessions were sched¬
uled to educate the students about
the dangers, benefits, rights, and
responsibilities that come along with
the college experience. On Sunday
and Monday, each O’Group at¬
tended sessions on Alcohol and
Other Drugs, which explained the
dangers and consequences of al¬
cohol and drug abuse, and on Rela¬
tionships, which provided informa¬
tion about AIDS, sexually transmit¬
ted diseases, pregnancy, and absti¬
nence as a viable choice for the
college student. Sessions stressed
the importance of cultivating “ma¬
ture relationships based on mutual
trust and respect.”
Sunday also brought “Celebrat¬
ing Cultures” to the new students,
an exercise designed to increase
щ
Photo Courtesy of James Keane
An Orientation Leader escorts his first-year students out of St. Robert's Auditorium during Orientation '94.
knowlege and awareness of the
multicultural heritage of the class of
1 998. With each ensuing class at
LMU demonstrating more diversity
and with the position of LMU in the
continued on page four
Wanda Coleman Named
to Fletcher Jones Chair
Internationally Renowned Writer, Editor
and Poet Joins LMU English Department
Orientation to Be
Revamped for 1995
■he following is taken from an
Director of Orientation, about the
By James Keane
News Editor
Wanda Coleman, a nationally
renowned poet, writer, and
editor, has been named to the
Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of
Literature and Writing at Loyola
Marymount.
Coleman, a native of Los Ange¬
les, writes the “Three on the Town”
column in the Los Angeles Times
Magazine and has gained fame for
her poems and stories. She has
published more than 500 poems
worldwide, appears in more than a
dozen anthologies of contemporary
poetry, has been co-host of KPFK’s
‘The Poetry Connexion” since 1981
and has also taught literature and
writing workshops and courses at a
number of universities.
Coleman won an Emmy in 1976
for her work as a writer on the day¬
time drama “Days of Our Lives.”
She has received a Guggenheim
fellowship, a National Endowment
for the Arts literary grant, and a
California Arts Council fellowship
grant. She is also completing a
libretto for the Houston Opera.
Coleman has written nine books,
including Dicksboro Hotel and Other
Travels, A War of Eyes and Other
Stories, Twenty Four Hours in the
Life of Los Angeles, Imagos, Mad
Dog Black Lady, Art in the Court of
the Blue Fag, Hand Dance, African
Sleeping Sickness, and Heavy
continued on page four
Photo Courtesy of Public Relations
Wanda Coleman, recently named to the Fletcher Jones Chair.
By Krista Mann
Contributor
entation program beginning with
Summer, 1995,^
of all, wl ia
changes” we’ve heard about?
:
with the 1995-6 academic year,
ing and registration have already
been done there’s more room for
age students to get acclimated to
ways heard “if it ain’t broke,
don't fix it”?
While it is true that LMU has had
Orientation will split into two parts
for our incoming students: in June,
we will run six two-day sessions
during which groups of about 120
incoming students will come onto
campus, take their placement ex¬
ams, stay overnight in the dorms,1
and register. In August, the Satur¬
day and Sunday before classes
begin, the students will move in en
masse and participate in an orien¬
tation program much like the first
two days of the program we run
now, but since the academic advis-
of-summer fouf-day model, stu
dent and institutional needs
change. Studies show that stu¬
dents who register in early arrive
llfi campus in the fall better pre¬
pared and less anxious — they
;ii have the i r sjchisdules, they can plan
iyvork around them and concen-
trate on «Jetting to know their new
school and each other instead of
their placement exams. Being
: ficMsed and registering at the be¬
ginning of the summer gives them
early contact with other LMU stu¬
dents and faculty and makes their
integration into the “LMU family”
that much easier for them. Plus,
everyone’s least favorite part of
our current Orientation is sitting
under the pre-registration check
tent hoping the computers stay up
continued on page three
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