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  • et cetera.. I almost didn't write a column this week, but then 1 figured this would be a bad week not to write a column because once again our fair campus has been converged upon by a heterogeneous number of people who for the most part, I hope, are glad to be here. So I thought I'd better write something for them. Some problably aren't glad to be here. Some In fact, could probably think of several places they'd rather be. Hopefully those people are in the minority. Personally, I can think of few places I would rather be than Cullowhee Imaybe the beach for a week, but that's about all]. Needless to say, there are a lot of different programs either beginning or already in progress on campus. Welcome Upward Bound, Early Bird, Gifted Students, Youth Conservation Corps, cheerleader camp, and, of course, last but not least, a special welcome to the brand-spanking-new WCU freshmen. Hey, you. Freshman...yeah you. Wondering why they're aren't any bars to be had around here? Don't despair! Everyone else around here had been wondering the same thing. But hey, you got it easy. Until last year when Jackson County got beer, we poor dry students had to drive clear to Waynesville just to I et a RiY-napL lor Actuallv, most people up here sort of gotten used to not blowing a whole paycheck in a bar on Friday nights. You know what we've done to beat (he total lack of bars? We've become expert keg partiers! It's better than bars because l| they're not as inhibited, and 2] they're a hell of a lot cheaper. Shoot, everybody can chip in a buck on a keg and there's plenty of beer to go around. Kegs aren't allowed in the dorms though, so you'll have to find someplace off campus. But enough about parties. You'll find out all you want to know about them soon no doubt. There's even other things to do up here too! Know why? Because you're in the mountains. That alone is saying a mouthful. In the warm weather it's hiking, camping, rock climbing, canoeing, rafting, kayaking, and tubing. In the cold weather it's snowball fights, skiing, sledding, hiking, camping, rock climbing, canoeing, rafting, kayaking, and tubing. What's that? They tell you there's a school here too? Really? No shit? I'll have to look Into that. Just kidding. Yes, there's a school here. Hopefully you'll learn something. You'll have to try though. Yes, despite all you've heard about Western, you'll have to try. Who knows, you may get something out of it in the long run. We've got a great system here; instead of allowing for long lines of cars, we require that they run out of gas before they can buy more. Astronomy course offered Course to meet July 7-3 Constellations, black holes and life in the universe will be among the topics to be covered in a two-week WCU short course, Astronomy for Teachers, which begins Monday. The course will meet July 2-13 in Room 322 of WCU's Natural Science Building. Posted hours are from 8-1 lam, but alternate afternoon and evening hours will be arranged at the first class meeting to permit sky observing. Elizabeth James, WCU assistant professor of science education who will teach the class, said that no tests are Tragicomedy to be featured at Little Theatre June 28, 1979/THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN/Page 3 Catamount Corral The difference for the border* line student From page 1. The Transitional Program has been in existence for some five years, but this is only the second year for "The Catamount Corral" and the faculty workshops which were held, taken as an aggregate may just mean the difference in making it and not making it, for the borderline student. The instigator of and catalyst behind "The Catamount Corral" is Dianne Wood of the CAP Center. Created as an offspring of "The Western Roundup" (an orientation program for freshmen entering in the fall), the objective according to Ms. Wood is to give the students an opportunity "to feel less lonely and less insecure. To allow them to feel more comfortable at Western." The freshmen registered in on Monday evening at the U.C. Grandroom. At this time they were divided into a number of groups, each supervised by a student leader, mostly upper classmen. The student leaders were encouraged to identify with the freshmen; to tell of their own personal experiences as a new student on campus. Basically, says Ms. Wood, "just to let them know they have a friend on campus." On Tuesday afternoon the activities moved to Camp Arrowmont, located at the top of Cullowhee Mountain. There, there was volleyball, a cook-out, disco dancing and a continuation of the discussion groups. By Tuesday night the new students were probably better acquainted than they would have gotten all session had it not been for "The Catamount Corral.' planned. Instead, participants will research two or three major astronomical topics and methods of teaching them, she said. Topics include stars, double stars, space travel, telescopes and other instruments, the solar system, the Milky Way and other galaxies, the sun, the moon, and changing astronomical concepts. The course will carry three semester hours of graduate or undergraduate credit. Further information is available from the WCU Summer School office, telephone 227-7228. Two WCU stage veterans will share top billing in "The Sea Horse," an adult tragicomedy to be performed at 8pm Tuesday through Thursday (July 3-5) in the WCU Little Theatre. Leonora Forrister will play the role of Gertrude Blum, owner-manager of the Sea Horse, a California waterfront bar. Terry Nienhuis is cast as the merchant seaman Harry Bales, who tries to break down Gertrude's defenses with matrimony as his object. The story of the two-person play centers around their turbulent courtship. Written by Edward J. Moore, "The Sea Horse" won the 1974 Vernon Rice Drama Desk Award for outstanding new playwrights. Dr. Donald Loeffler, head of the WCU department of speech and theatre arts, will direct the play. Set design is by B. Anne Stump, and lighting is by Steve Fryar. Admission will be $2 for adults and $1 for students. Reservations are available by calling the WCU department of speech and theatre arts at 227-7491. The statistics which have been gathered over the past few years, speak favorably of the Transitional Program. Of the 116 students who were enrolled in the program last summer, 97 successfully completed it and were eligible to enter unconditionally in the fall. While some who were eligible to enter chose not to and others didn't make it through the year; of the original 116, over two-thirds were still enrolled at the end of the spring semester. Of those who enrolled in the program in the summer of 1977, over 33 percent were still in school at the completion of their sophomore year. While the one year statistics are slightly lower than the average, the second year figures are almost identical with the norm. What this indicates Dr. Jody says, is "If they decide to put their heart in it, they probably will make it" in the long run. It is also significant that the average QPR of the provisional student after two years is only about one percentage point lower than that of the student who entered the university unconditionally. The statistics seem to indicate that with a little desire and a helping hand, the student who might otherwise have not been allowed to go to college, will often make it.
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