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Students Confused by Abstract Orientation

Posted on Monday, August 30th 2010
Tags: creative, freshman, orientation, programming, satisfaction
Students Confused by Abstract Orientation
by Brody K. Truce Senior Staff Writer On the heels of four years of negative feedback about student orientation, the Office of Student Orientation at The College of Eastern Nevada took an unusual departure from their normal agenda this year. “Times have changed and our students don’t want to sit through hours of presentations about [...]

Harry Potter Actress Joins Elite Ivy League Orientation Activities

Posted on Monday, September 14th 2009
Tags: activities, brown, college, emma watson, freshman, human knot, ice breaker, icebreaker, ivy league, orientation, university
Harry Potter Actress Joins Elite Ivy League Orientation Activities
Emma Watson, the actress best known for portraying nerd witch Hermione Grainger in the Harry Potter movie series, successfully completed freshman orientation at Brown University in Providence, RI this fall. Ever since, rumors about the brainy actress’s activities at the Ivy League school have swirled through the blogosphere. “We heard she played an M&M game [...]

Greg Inexplicably Embarrassed by His Cool Mom at College Orientation

Posted on Monday, August 31st 2009
Tags: college, first year, freshman, ice breakers, icebreakers, noda, orientation, student affairs, student leader, university
Greg Inexplicably Embarrassed by His Cool Mom at College Orientation
Greg Ellison made a fool of himself by acting too cool at his freshman orientation at Meadowlands Community College last week. “We couldn’t believe he was such an a—–e,” said Greg’s orientation leader Debbie Wantanoh.” He muttered under his breath and acted like a jerk when we made him to join hands in our human [...]

Students Must Return Orientation Safety Magnets as Act of Contrition

Posted on Friday, June 19th 2009
Tags: college freshman, college orientation, first year students, freshman, freshmen, noda, orientation, plagiarism, plagiarism statistics
Students Must Return Orientation Safety Magnets as Act of Contrition
Following the lead of the NCAA, six universities are requiring that their freshmen return the complimentary magnets given to them by their campus security offices at orientation. “We applaud the NCAA for taking back Florida State’s trophies because some of the FSU student athletes were involved in academic dishonesty,” said Marjorie Kapp, Penn State-Butler’s assistant [...]

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