European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes August colleges try to make freshmen comfortable by Lee Mitgang a education writer for Harvard University fresh men this the fast track to Success begins with a boat ride in Boston where they pretend to be at the University of Kansas in Law no new students education is considered Complete without a crash course in waving the a hand gesture used by Jayhawk fans at football the University of Colorado in Boulder offers Book discounts to its freshmen to get them to mingle with at those schools and others around the freshman orientation programs mix fun and outdoor activity with sem Inars on subjects like room mate problems and while freshman orientation is hardly a new College those activities have recently taken on added urgency for the schools quite apart from the benefits the students colleges desperately want students to feel Happy and Well adjusted because they want to keep those students As paying customers for a full four show that its the first four weeks of school that determine whether a student remains at the univer sity whether they become comfortable with the said Lovely who coordinates orientation activities at the University of some schools have extended the Orien tation process to to create a sense of kinship Between the school and the parents and to ease the anxiety of having their children leave Vanderbilt University in offers parents a talk on the pangs of aimed at dealing with the loneliness parents and students May Carnegie Mellon University in Pitts Burgh is conducting Parent orientation for the first time this and Canisius lege in invites parents to join students for orientation the University of Colorado holds a wok Roll seminar for incoming at which fresh egg Rolls Are served up with the school also offers discounts on student Bookstore purchases for every faculty autograph a freshman gathers during the autographs serve As proof that students have made an Effort to meet their future in addition to the traditional Beach Rollins College in Winter offers workshops on responsible use of alcohol and handling firs year students at Washington University in Louis will be treated for the first time this year to a four hour Mississippi River Stern Wheeler we had the idea of giving students a picture of helping students fit into the Community and not just the said school spokeswoman Carol the Harvard boat scheduled for also Aims to sensitize new Stu dents to the Rich world of Boston that lies outside Harvard students will be asked to imagine they Are modern Day immigrants Landing in Boston we want them to open their to look at advertisements on build at manhole we want them to land in the Harbor the Way immigrants said Burriss Harvard associate Dean of on a decidedly serious Syracuse University requires freshmen to draft and sign formal agreements with their room mates setting ground rules on study stereo overnight guests and any other potential source of Hood College in has printed a Roommate negotiation Workbook to help new roommates head off problems of living most orientation includes outdoor especially at schools that have Beautiful Colby College in of fers about a dozen trips around the state for incoming from leisurely canoeing on the Belgrade lakes to a rugged climb up mount University of Kansas freshmen gathered last week at their football stadium and celebrated traditions a recreation of a 1952 orientation ceremony featuring fight songs and a lesson in waving the which is what Kun students do with their arms during football games to imitate wheat blowing on the 45 hospitalized after train hits stalled truck Ohio a about 45 people were hospitalized Early monday after a 19car Amtrak Passen Ger train crashed into a tractor trailer truck stalled at a officials a spokeswoman in the emergency room of Mansfield general Hospital said Only that quite a few people were admitted but that there were no critical Rescue workers were searching through the cars during the Earl morning hours to Check for additional officials said they did not believe there were any we had a lot of people that were just shaken said Mansfield fire dispatcher Gary there seemed to be a lot of Chest possible Back Singer Pearl Bailey and her Louis were on the train but apparently were not said Ken executive director of the Richland county american red they checked into a hotel Here for the Amtrak spokeswoman Marci Larson in Washington said Bailey frequently travels by Amtrak because she does not like to travel by fifteen of the cars were derailed in the which occurred about in the compound of the Empire Detroit steel but none was Larson the two engines that powered the train also were derailed but remained the in route from Chicago to new was carrying about 425 passengers and 16 she riders who were shaken up or slightly injured were taken to the Richland county where the red Cross provided food and their Luggage also was taken a High Point of the Campaign a photo new York mayor Edward Koch campaigning for during the Pakistan Independence Day Parade in new the mayoral shakes hands with Muhammed an unidentified Parade official is caught Between Alam said to be the worlds tallest Koch and who stands 8 3 inches tall to pay Kin of 82 pan am crash victims Washington not the Federal government has agreed to pay millions of dollars to relatives of the 145 passengers killed in the crash of a pan american world airways jetliner outside new or leans in officials of the Federal aviation administration said the crash was attributed to violent wind shifts that caused the plane to dive sudden relatives of the victims said the Faa failed to Alert the pan american Pilot sufficiently about possible wind Shear and was partly at Frederick a spokesman for the said the government had agreed with pan americans insurance carriers to split the payments to the with the government and the airline each paying it was cheaper for the Faa to pay half the damages than to contest Farrar we did not believe and do not believe that we were at our traffic controllers gave sufficient warning that wind Shear could be Farrar said the Agency had decided to Settle the cases primarily because a Large number of the perhaps 40 in were travelling to foreign destinations and were thus covered by an International treaty that through a quirk in the increase the likelihood that the rather than the would have to pay most of whatever damages might be assessed by the James an a called International Law a very important element in our he noted that the Warsaw an International trea limited the liability of airlines to per there was a substantial he that relatives of the International travellers on the flight would win Large judgments in the courts and yet the airline would have to pay Only a fraction of the leaving the govern however Small its culpability might to pay the bulk of the Dillman said except for that Al the settlement was in the main Stream of the kinds of settlements weve made in other airline such As Dillman said most of the claims had been except for some where the relatives were seeking higher amounts in the he estimated the governments total payout As in the millions of dollars but not the tens of experts investigating the recent crash of a Delta air lines Jet in Dallas on 2 have also focused on wind Shear As a Possi ble officials of the Faa and Michael a lawyer whose firm represented two plaintiffs in the 1982 said the Faa had paid damages in other cases where the Agency seemed Likely to be judged partly culpable for an so the latest settlement would have no special Impact As a precedent on claims arising from the Delta