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DELII "XAJ5PEfr| T '' Alot/il Fish Out of Water Orientation leaders help incoming freshmen make a smooth transition to college life PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY GUY ROGERS AND CODY WAGES BY HEATHER BRONDY The Battalion P ut your howdy face on Ags, be cause something is fishy in Ag- gieland — and judging by the in flux of tender, fresh faces, it must be freshmen orientation season. The New Student Conference Com mittee is a student and faculty gov erned organization that conducts the conferences focusing on making the freshmen and their parents feel as com fortable as possible during their regis tration. Their mission statement reads: “Continually connecting new students to Texas A&M by personally support ing, serving and using all available re sources to help ease the transition for them and their families.” Nicole Walker, a junior biomedical science major, and Cindy Brown, a se nior political science major, are this year’s directors of the New Student Conference Committee. Brown said she and Walker are responsible for select ing an executive committee to help or ganize the orientation leaders. “This committee is responsible for the interviewing and training of the ori entation leaders,” Brown said. Walker said many leaders are need ed because of the large number of in coming freshmen. “We have 150 orientation leaders volunteering this summer and working very large conferences,” Walker said. “There are over 500 students coming in twice a week, so they’re really busy.” The orientation leaders are selected in the spring using an application and undergoing an interviewing process. Once selected, the leaders participate in training programs which inform them on everything from Aggie yells to the nearest bathroom from Fish Pond. Laura Wimberley, the committee ad viser and staff coordinator for the fresh men orientation program and a history graduate student, said she is pleased with the student orientation leaders who were selected for this year’s pro gram. “We’ve got a really enthusiastic group and they’ve done a great job this summer,” Wimberley said. The actual orientation work load consists of greeting the freshmen at check-in, running mixers and “energiz ers,” giving campus tours, conducting parent programs and leading “Aggie in sights.” Wimberley said the insights are an important part of the orientation program. “We have two orientation leaders randomly select 10 new students who show up to the insight [session],” Wim berley said. “They then take the stu dents out and show them around cam pus. The purpose is to answer any questions or concerns they may have and not want to talk about in front of their parents.” The energizers and mixers are other orientation events aimed at bringing the freshmen together and getting them out of any shells they may be lurking in. Rhonda Wehbe, an orientation leader and a junior chemical engineering ma jor, said her favorite part of the orienta tion occurs at the mixers. “We pull, out any of the freshmen we see sitting by themselves and get them to go out and dance with us,” Wehbe said. “It’s really cool when you see one of those fish later on talking in a big group cause you know you helped them to open up.” Parents naturally need a little new stu dent nurturing as well, so the New Stu dent Conference Committee has made sure to organize a few parent programs for any empty-nest sufferers. see Leaders on Page 4. 013 Reed McDonald Building • Telephone (409) 845-3313 • FAX (409) 845-2647 p •Staff Application* Fall '99 Name: Number of hours vou will take in the Fall: Phone Number(s): Expected Graduation Date: Major: Do you have another job? Classification: Where and hours per week? Email: Will vou keen it if hired? Please check the position(s) for which you are interested in applying. 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