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The Gold Bug, Wc;atem Maryland College, WeatmiDiter, Md.. September 18, 1941 PAGE TWO This W •• k's. ------------. At this time, however, upper-classmen arrive. Personality Calloused by one, two, and three years of college • ~_ • On the Campus life, and conceited because they have never fol- With this, the first issue of the Gold Bug for lowed the advice of the orientation committees, the new session, the newspaper staff extends its they quickly destroy all the worthwhile ambitions Ice. With the completion of this sincere welcome to the new freshman class. of the freshmen, and immediately begin to initi- course, Miss Tweed became a member You are no doubt thrilled at the prospect of ate the freshmen into their own ways of doing of the dietetics staff of the Johns coming to college, and you have reason to be. things. Hopkins Hospital. It was after a There is no grander experience than the first few This procedure is wrong, and upper-classmen year and a half of such work that days at college. You are entering the portals of should make a conscious effort not to undo the Miss Tweed came to Western Mary- opportunity, and upon your shoulders rests the work of the orientation committee. land College. responsibility of securing the greatest possible If the upper-classmen will reflect over their Christmas Dinner Is Big Job benefits from your college career. We will not own freshman days, they will recall that each One of Miss Tweed's biggest jobs add to the many offers of advice which you will time an upper-classman shattered one of their during the winter is the Christmas receive from the faculty and upper-classmen ambitions with a comment like "That's not done dinner. However, she says that does when you arrive here, or from the other pages of here. That's only the way the faculty suggests not compare with the work that goes this publication. you do it", they felt that they had been disillu- on in the summer. "Cooking for' con- We would only remind you that around the cen- sioned. ferences practically amounts to run- tral underlying purpose of college have sprung They forget that they have succeeded not be- ning a small scale hotel-the people up a number of customs and institutions which cause they did not follow the advice of the orlen- are given choices, and that makes seek to lure the unsuspecting student from more tation committee, but in spite of it. They do not rcnl work". serious academic pursuits. realize that if they had followed this advice, their When asked about the college's Many of these non-essentials are quite attract- own college careers should probably have been favorite foods, Miss Tweed said the ive, and very often this attractiveness destroys still more full and successful. men's favorites were entirely differ- the student's sense of proportion and obliterates The orientation committee does a good job. ent from the women's. The men like his view of his academic pursuits. Let's all aid it this year, and see it mold better heavy foods-meat and potatoes and College, however, is a long-time investment, and more successful classes at Western Maryland pies, while the women (in general) while the non-academic parts of it are only tem- College. l'tIOO Tweed prefer lighter foods, such as salads poral. Those who are collecting dividends on Miss Sara Suzanne Tweed, dieti- and desserts. their investments are collecting on the more seri- tian, and thus the head of one of the Likes Horses ous college work. most frequented places on the cam- "Horses and cars are probably my A liberal arts education is more than &. prep- pus, the dining hall, stated that she hobbies" said Miss Tweed. She has aration for a profession. It is a preparation for One of the duties of many members of the fac- likes people so weU that she doesn't the car, but has yet to 'own a horse. life. See to it that the preparation for your life ulty is to serve as advisors to the freshman and mind catering to over 500 of them. Her mother keeps two horses at their is as varied and worthwhile as,your college career sophomores until these lower claeemen choose "In fact, said Miss Tweed, "anyone home in Florida; so on vacations Miss can make it. Good luck. their major subjects. doing this type of work has to like it, Tweed rides horseback as much as possible. Miss Tweed's ambition is to real effort." The administration attempts to assign these because it requires York, but living in own a farm in Western Maryland, Born in New lower classmen to faculty members in fields re- Pensacola, F'lcr-ida, nearly all her life, where she can have the horses she lated to the vocational desires of the student, but Miss Tweed had the usual baby car- desires. to do this .accurately with the scarce knowledge Last vear Miss Tweed took charge This year. as every year, the college orientation which the administration has about each fresh- riage - kindergarten - grammar school- of the training table and put it on a existence. that high Aftcr school committee has arranged for the freshman class man is impossible. she attended the Florida State Col- "scientific" basis. Up to that time an orientation program to introduce the fresh- The lower classman, ignorant of the many re- lege. While at college, Miss T{veed no one who was really trained for the men to the various college personalities, institu- quirements which he must meet to have a major, was active in college gOVC111ment work had supervised the table. Miss tions, and customs. to graduate, and to meet his professional require- activities. She served Oil the board Tweed says she enjoys this work a Much of the time is spent in giving them hints ments, relies almost entirely on his faculty ad- of her dormitory and then on the great deal-for the boys really ap- as to how to "get started right" scholastically. so- viser for advice on these matters. college government board. After preciate good food. Since teams need cially, and in athletics. Unfortunately, some advisers, burdened with graduating from the Florida State energy-since food gives energy- The orientation program is a great aid to other affairs, sometimes misguide their advisees College with a B.S. degree, Miss and since Miss Tweed plaris the freshmen, and fills many of them with ambitions and cause these advisees much worry and trouble Tweed attended Johns Hopkins Uni- menus, we have high hopes for a and desires which, if given the opportunity, they as they seek to rectify the error caused by the versity for graduate work, in dietet- championship eleven. would attempt to fulfill. Although many of these laxness of their advisers. desires would be only illusions, most of them are _ To preven€ such concern to innocent students, Here's Chance To Diet, Gill-Is worthwhile, and the freshmen would gain much faculty advisers should make it their business to and'~he rfo~~~]y,~~le