The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 03, 1999, Image 3

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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.
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