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Faculty, courses
helping freshmen
adjust to college
United Press International
The new hot course officials
are ordering up for college
freshmen?
Orientation, or — how to
survive in college. For up to
three credits.
The mandatory course dif
fers from campus to campus.
But a common mix includes
assertiveness training, career
planning, sexuality education,
decision-making, guidelines
on responsible drinking,
study guidelines, money man
agement, how to handle
freedom.
Why this dusting off and
updating of a course that was
a staple on many campuses
years ago? Because, officials
say, one out of four college
freshmen drops out.
John N. Gardner of the
University of South Carolina
recently ran the First National
Conference on Freshman
Orientation. A professor of-
general studies, he teaches a
three-credit-hour orientation
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course.
Gardner said there was
agreement at the conference,
which was hosted by South
Carolina, that unplanned pre
gnancy and alcoholism are
two prices unprepared nevy
college students pay for not
being able to manage the
violated lA enormous freedom on
campus.
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post-adolescent, alcoholics,”
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priority with many, schools is
teaching students how to be
responsible drinkers. Alcohol,
not narcotics, is the problem.”
He and others at the con
ference claimed students
need specific guidance in
many other areas and the
place to give it to them is in
orientation.
“There’s increased interest
in freshmen orientation; we
heed to help them to survive
and help reduce the dropouts
— now one out of four,”
Gardner said. “It’s a loss of
human resources.”
Conferees linked scores of
situations to the freshman
dropout problem. A fresh
man may drop out because he
or she:
—can’t handle the freedom
to study or not study, to select
friends, to drink to excess or
responsibly.
— can’t handle the sexual
freedom.
— doesn’t know proper
study skill.
— doesn’t know how to
form replacements for “signi
ficant other human relation
ships” left behind—the ties
with parents and close
friends.
— can’t resolve conflicts
with roommates.
— can’t make decisions—
about careers, for example. A
large number enter with no
idea of what they want. Such
types are more likely to drop
out.
Pontiff sees contrasting countries
Pope John Paul II tours Africa
United Press International
LIBREVILLE, Gabon —
Pope John Paul II arrived in
Gabon Wednesday, the third
stop on his four-nation West
African pilgrimage, after a short
stop in Marxist Benin where he
was given a 24-minute lecture on
Communism.
Tens of thousands of
Gabonese gathered at Librevil
le’s Leon M’ba airport and gave
the pope a joyous singing, danc
ing and chanting welcome even
though the pontiff was an hour
and 25 minutes late.
John Paul’s arrival in oil-rich
Gabon contrasted with his stop
earlier in the day in poverty-
stricken Benin after a 30-minute
flight from neighboring Niger
ia. His four-nation west African
tour will later take him to
Guinea.
In Cotonou, Benin, where he
arrived in a thunderstorm, the
pontiff looked puzzled as Benin
President Col. Mathieu Ketekou
delivered a lecture on “The So
cialist Struggle,” which listed the
achievements of his regime and
condemned imperialism.
But the rain, which quickly
subsided, did not deter huge
crowds in African garb and
Western dress cheering and
waving papal flags in enthusias
tic welcome.
Ketekou said in Benin, where
state-church relations have been
rocky: “Everybody is free to be
lieve and not to believe in reli-
gion.”
Most of the more than 3 mil
lion population of Benin, for
merly known as Dahomey, prac
tice voodoo and worship
animals.
Ketekou, who seized power in
a military coup in 1972 and de
clared Benin a Marxist-Leninist
state in 1975, told John Paul:
“Socialism is a struggle between
the forces of progess and the
forces of regression.” He was
only applauded when he
shouted: “Long live the pope.”
The pope celebrated mass in
French for an exuberant but
orderly crowd of 20,000 at Coto
nou’s soccer stadium before
flying to the oil and mineral-rich
country of Gabon.
Benin, one of the poorest
countries in the world, is run on
heavy-handed East European
lines. By law, the state-run radio
must be played at full volume in
all public places.
Fables turning:
Mouse bites snake
United Press International
DARWIN, Australia — A
■Western Taipan, the world’s
eadliest snake, was near death
:oday, suffering from the bite of
a lowly mouse. • ?:>'*•
Two weeks ago Graeme Gow,-
a curator at the Darwin
Museum, fed a mouse to a
aipan named Goddess. As the
snake struck, the mouse bit it on
the side of the face.
“When the mouse bit God
dess, its incisors set up a double
infection,” Gow said today.
“Three days later, her face went
up like a balloon, then her lower
jaw began to swell.”
Since the bite, Gow has per
formed five minor and one ma
jor operations and gives God
dess treatment three times a day.
There is no known antidote
for a Taipan bite.
Oh, yes — the mouse didn’t
live to have the last laugh. God
dess ate it.
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