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Technician \ North Carolina State University’s Student Newspaper Since 1920 Phone 737-2411,-2412 Wednesday, June 16, 1m Raleigh. North Cardina Volume LXIII Number 90 Staff photo by Sam Adams- Summer, 1982 / Technician'2 Th rough the years of enlight enment by Fred W. Brown 'freedom’ yet. freshman. next two years of college easy trap to fall could turn into nothing but Features Don't tell me you’re not But it's an looking forward to getting into. By your junior year, you wasted time, effort, and Booze! Rock 'n roll! Drugs! away from Mama's apron str- probably will have decided money. Sex! -If you're a normal, ings. what you want to do with healthy, red-blooded That is why I chose 'booze' your life. If you haven’t, it You’ve probably figured American college freshman, to characterize your might be a good idea to take out by now how sex and the you are already well ac- freshman year. a break from school for senior year go together. quainted with each of these One day of freedom can be awhile. The key to your That’s right. The last year is terms. If you are, you have twice as intoxicating as a junior year is knowing what the edge on those who aren’t. whole case of beer. And if you want to do when you However, for those of you that's how one day feels, im- graduate and using your who have led sheltered lives, agine howl giddy you’ll be junior year to help you or for the rest of you who when you realize you’re on prepare for that. want 'to convince your your own for a whole The lucky people who parents that it really is to semester. know where they are going your advantage 'to know Sure, you'll get homesick. by their third year of college about these‘things, read on. You'll miss that nice soft bed, are usually divided into two Why? Because in the next the homecooked meals, and fir7~L/L¢"mail. ‘ groups. Half of them enjoy few paragraphs, together we having Mama to wash and school so much they wish it will discover how these four iron your clothes. If you ‘wise fool.’ You’ll be more would never end. The other subjects characterize the don’t, I feel sorry for you. But foolish than wise if you don’t half are impatient to get out four years of college facing allthat will pass as you make realize that being a of school and start using you. friends and get used to tak- sophomore means you start what they have learned. ing the clothes out of the taking courses in your major. Either way, all of them are dryer before they get wrinkl- Of course, this is assuming hooked. If you don’t fit into ed. that you have ch0sen a ma- Take it from a veteran. As jor. the end Even if you haven’t, the a senior, I‘m nearing x 9° of my time here. The key courses you will take your the big crescendo.' It’s the word is temperance. Don’t let sophomore year will make climax, if you will, of all that freedom go to your your freshman year seem everything you’ve been head. like your senior year in high through the last four years. I school by comparison. refer, of course, to gradua- Now let’s jump ahead in’ ‘ tion. time to your SOphomore year. OK, two down. Now you’re Graduation means many You’ve been through a whole a junior, an upperclassman different things. It's a time to year of college and you think (perhaps I should say “up— ’ look back and say, “If I could you‘ve got a handle on it, perclassperson”). only do it over again, I right? So did I until the se- This is the year I call the wouldn’t make the same cond year began. “drugs" year. That is not to mistakes.” It’s a time to look I call the sophomore year say that you have to take ‘ 7414/1, x (Lug, around you at the school and the rock ’n roll year because drugs in order to survive the friends you will no longer that is when the excrement your junior .year. see everyday. And it’s a time What is the first thing that hits the revolving air What I mean is, this is the to look ahead to the future, comes into your mind when oscillator. year most students finally one of these groups when and pray that you’re you think about booze? Get- The word “sophomore" is a get hooked on college and yOur junior year rolls around, prepared to meet it. ting drunk, right? Well, if combination of two Greek learning and all that other it might be a good time to sit But for now, let’s not you think booze will get you words, sopho and moros. stuff you thought was so cor- back and take a good look at worry about all that. drunk, you haven’t tried Taken together, they mean ny when you were a yourself. Otherwise, your Anybody want a beer? 0.0...OOOOCOOO’OOOOOOOOOOOOOO' The 1982 Freshman/Transfer Student Orienta- tion Special would never have appeared without the efforts of a dedicated group of individuals called: THETECHNICIANSTAFF 99‘t Specnal 99‘t Special Sam Adams, Tom Alter, Dennis Atkinson, Liz Blum, Fred Brown, Clayton Brinkley, Tom Carrigan, Jeff Cooke. Single and Dennis Draughon, Nathan Eller, Kimberly Frazier, Reg. Chili and Milton Howell, Terry Keever. Tim McCarthy, 16 02. Ice Tea- Teresa Moore, Karl Samson, David Sneed, Tom Vess, 16 02. Ice Tea - Betsy Walters, Valerie Wylly, Bruce Winkworth, cheese and tomato extra David Wooten ’ plus tax Good at Western Blvd. only Good at Western Blvd. only with coupon only with coupon only ----------—--L—----J a L Summer, 1982 Technician 3 What should be expected? Welcome to the world of State Allow me to introduce myself. I am a notorious col- umnist, general rabble m were ‘me scam? rouser and perpetual fifth- year freshman. You could be this as well but I wouldn’t ad- vise it. ll! Ill”! But my purpose right now is to help you ease into the the course as it stands is life of being a student. They almost impossible to pass. It — as in the powers that be at has something like 70 per- cent Ds and N05. NF as in No the Technician let me Fun, Man. write this because they know that I have been a freshman This is an editorial com- for. a long time and therefore ment. I think that the am an expert on the subject University should do something and because I‘m extremely about this course pronto. It has passed prolific and we weren’t sure the point of being ridiculous. It is how much space we had to fill. now totally incredibly ludicrous. By the way, in case you But don’t let me scare you. haven’t noticed or heard, I go It isn’t that bad. The best off on tangents. Just stick thing to do is not be afraid to with me ‘— I’ll get to the ask questions. Believe me, point in a minute. you’re going to have to take enough ridicule from up- A few words of advice — it perclassmen without getting . is extremely easy to get your lost on the “huge acreage we priorities confused during call State or running into the beginning of your sojourn brick walls. at college. This is bad Besides, it makes up- because it means that you a) . perclassmen feel important get bad grades and when you ask questions. And therefore, b) get your funds when they feel important, it cut off or c) get good grades takes the heat off you a little and have no social life and bit. So. ask questions if you therefore, d) miss the whole don't know. I could tell you hot. but you meet a lot of peo State’s yearbook; and the And I mean that literally. point of coming to college. some horror stories about ple and do a lot of things and Windhover, State’s literary So, welcome to North College is an education but what happens to people who generally have fun when you magazine. Carolina State University. I your knowledge will not pretend to know something aren’t over deadline or have We’re all located on the hope you have a good time necessarily come from books. when they really don’t. dead air or some fun thing third floor of the Student here and don’t go absolutely College .means learning to The first few days are go like that. The publications Center and you’ll probably bonkers like 99 percent of the deal with people on a one-to- ing to be miserable. Especial? are the Technician. a special get a tour of it sometime dur- people who are already here. one and group basis (such as 1y if you don’t know anyone edition of which you are ing your orientation period. But you probably will, ’cause 10 people in one dorm suite on campus. You will want to reading now; WKNC-FM, But stop by and see us that's the only way to deal fighting over the phone). die. You will want to go State’s best rock and radio sometime one on one. There with the pseudo-reality we coordinate your time so you home.