Dances, movies, plays:
an event-filled summer
THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1978
-e By FLA VIA KRONE
ly fc Battalion Campus Editor
n- Two dances, 65 movies and two
inner theatre productions will
eadline a schedule of evening
mtertainment programs at Texas
V&M University this summer.
Tnnight the Grove kicks off the
■ summer session with a dance
eaturing the four-man Houston
in “Southbound.
0 j Students with I.D. can dance
1M rom 8:30 p.m. to midnight free.
t | r Ion-students must pay $1. A con-
Hion stand will sell snowcones,
Hcorn and peanuts for 25 cents
Hi and soft drinks for 30 cents.
Hire dance will be held at the
Srove outdoor theatre at the west
n ;nd of the drill field. In case of rain
th (hedance will be moved to DeWafe
in Fieldhouse.
as fWednesday the Grove will show
of hus Christ Superstar the first of its
fifeduled movies. The Grove will
:how movies every night of the
iuimner session except during the
Inal exam periods.
All movies will begin at 8:45 p.m.
The gate opens at 8 p.m. Students
with I.D. can see the films for free.
Non-student adults must pay $1.
Children 12 and under pay 50 cents
and children 5 and under will be
admitted free.
This summer. Grove movies will
range from John Steinbeck’s “The
Grapes of Wrath to the kinky sci
ence fiction “Rocky Horror Picture
Show.”
In rainy weather, films will be
shown in the MSG. Students should
call Student Programs at 845-1515
for rainy weather room numbers.
In addition to the movies will be
two dinner theatre productions be
ginning with “Butterflies are Free”
July 5 through July 8.
Directed by assistant professor of
English Lawrence Leach, the play
by Leonard Gershe deals with a
blind boy’s fight to win his indepen
dence by living alone in New York
City.
The play will open on July 5 with
a non-food night. Tickets for the
non—food night are $2 for students
and $3 for non-students.
Tickets for the July 6 through July
8 dinner-theatre productions are
$4.95 for students and $7 for non
students. Dinner begins at 6:45
p.m. and curtain time for all shows
is at 8 p.m. in Memorial Student
Center Room 201.
Auditions for the two male and
two female roles in “Butterflies are
Free” will be held tonight in Rud
der Tower Room 510 at 7 p.m. Stu
dents interested in working
backstage are also invited to attend
the auditions. Rehearsals for the
play will begin Wednesday.
A Second Summer Dinner
Theatre production, “Pajama Tops”
will be presented Aug. 2-5.
Directed by Roy O’Valle, this
comedy by Mawby Green and Ed
Feilbert is a spin-off from the
French farce “Moumou.”
Auditions for “Pajama Tops’ have
not yet been announced.
fJew students are processed
during freshman orientation
Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr
Don Rohel, assistant student programs coordinator, discusses
the lineup of movies that will be shown at The Grove this
summer. Movies will be shown every night except during
finals.
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"Which way is Zachry?”
m‘When can I buy football tick-
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W'What do you mean I can’t have
mle visitors during the confer-
mce?”
Hi he trauma of new freshmen — it
Hy happens once.
■Texas A&M University is assisting
imoming freshmen by holding 13
orientation conferences this sum
mer.
■During the two-day program held
on campus, new students and their
Hrents will be welcomed and pre-
Hred (perhaps braced would be a
■tter term) for the next four years.
■Parents attend a program that
imiliarizes them with A&M and the
Banges they can expect as semes
ters go by.
■ “How can we get our student’s
■hdes?” is the most often-asked
Hestion by parents. Dr. Lee Milli-
kin, assistant director of the
Academic Counseling Center, said.
i|His answer? The student merely
signs the release form handed out
during registration, Dr. Millikin ex
plained.
Freshmen take a battery of
placement tests during orientation
that will help determine their
academic standing and potential
goals.
Next they meet with advisers
from the college they will be enter
ing. Advisers help students select
first semester courses based on their
test results and individual goals.
Most freshmen will choose a major,
but the academic counseling center
makes provisions for those students
who either do not have a specific
major or desire to change their orig
inal major.
Students who do not select a
major are placed in a general studies
program. The program includes
basic courses which are often re
quired in almost any of the prospec
tive colleges.
Approximately 300-350 incoming
freshmen will attend each of the 13
sessions, Millikin said.
A special session was held this
past weekend for freshman who will
be attending summer school. A final
count of 107 incoming freshman at
tended the conference and will reg
ister for summer classes today.
Millikin said the majority of in
coming freshmen do attend one of
the conferences and have the advan
tage of being more familiar with the
University. In addition, freshmen
who attend orientation pre-register
for the fall semester whereas those
who do not attend will have to wait
until the last Friday of late registra
tion week to register.
Freshmen conferences primarily
furnish academic information. To
prepare for student life, Millikin
said, the freshmen are invited to at
tend the YMCA-sponsored P’ish
Camp in August.
In the meantime, most questions
and frustrations are fielded.
“VVhaddaya mean I can’t live on
campus? The University regulations
say I have to. ”
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ears ago from Rice University,
lick has seen the physics machine
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