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AUGUST 2005 - Page 3 WELCOME FRESHMEN Five to survive: Failed paper, foot fungus? Compiled by Beth McLane, Co-Editor Every problem has a solution Your freshman year can be one of the best experiences of your life. Inevitably, though, there will be a few bumps in the road. To help you with these hypotheticaJ (yet highly possible) situations, we've compiled a few typical problems and the real solutions. We hope that knowing the solutions will help you move smoothly through your freshman year. Scenario One: Your first English 1101 paper is handed back with a big red 0- at the top. Solution: First, don't panic. The helpful staff at the Writing Center (Hill Hall, Room 111),will work out any kinks in your writing for future papers. Simply walk in for assistance, or call x2420 to make an appointment. The Center is open seven days a week and often until midnight. Writing tutors will go through your paper with you and offer writing tips that will build our writing skills and confidence. Now, next time, try not to write it the night before it's due. Scenario Two: You break out in a funky rash after forgetting your flip-flops in the shower. Solution: While this may be a little TMl for your friends, the folks over at Smith House Health Services can diagnose your problem and take care of it. Call or stop by to make an appointment, and a registered nurse will take a look. Smith House is where you head for sports physicals, and any other medical or mental health issues. And don't worry, they've probably already seen it before. Smith House extensions: x2700 or x2243. Scenario Three: Your roommate has some peculiar habits (think excessive, 24-hour nudity) that you just can't deal with. Solution: If it's just too hard to work it out, first, contact Liz Towle or your residence life coordinator. TIley can start the search for another roommate, or at the very least try to organize a roommate contract. Residence Life can also help set you up with others who are in need of a roommate - hopefully, you'll find someone who likes to hang out with their clothes 011. Scenario Four: You feel like your voice just isn't being heard on campus, and you want a way to make a difference. Solution: While there are many forums for you to get involved in at McDaniel, a great place to start is the Free Press. You can write commentary about school issues, or national and world problems, and get your opinions heard. You can also write stories about issues that affect you and the college community. Other great ways to get involved are SGA, Cap Board, and other groups that make decisions and organize events on campus. Most importantly, get involved. If it is important to you; make your voice heard. Scenario Five: You get locked out of your dorm room, in your towel. Solution: Keep your towel on tight and find your RA, who will let you back into your room. If they aren't around (they have lives too!), have a neighbor call Campus Safety, and they can let you in as welJ. Most importantly, don't freak out. Embarrassing situations like these have happened to every- one, and Campus Safety has probably seen it all. Next time, make sure your roommate knows where you are before he or she heads off to class. Living it up for Live 8 Sway, Russell Simmons, and G8 summit happened with a lot CHANAN DELlVUK even Bam Margera. But aside of focus on the aid to Africa, STAFF WRITER from all the great perfor- and more people are learning mances that day, it must be about the harsh realities that Every 30 seconds a said that the real reasonl at- Africans are faced with ...every child will die; hundreds of tended the Live 8concert was day. thousands of Africans live on toproudly wear my "Happy If upon reading this, any less than a dollar a day. It Helpers for the Homeless" t- of this, you find yourself lost or seems that now more than shirt, a white ONE band confused, just take a moment ever fair trade and medica- around my wrist, and to hold out of your instant-messengi.ng tions to fight deadly diseases the sign that bore the words time and go to www.one.org like AIDS are something that "Make Poverty History." and educate yourself on real is- Africans need more than Iam more than positive sues about real people. Then monetary aid. that not all of the one-million- maybe you too can take a stand For a great cause and plus people who at- to "Make Poverty His- with plenty of entertainment, tended that tory." the Live 8 concert really is an great event event that made the history knew the root books. From Jay-Z and of it. But, at Linkin Park, to Kanye West least the and Dave Matthews I couldn't believe the amount of talent that went into the spark of the "Make Poverty History" revolution. [ was so close to the stage and had the camera crews directly at my left side; occasionally Ispotted MTV's What did you discover during your first year at McDaniel that you wish you had known right when you arrived?