De Anza College opens its newly constructed doors today to more than 3,000 students, bolstered by Orientation Week, five days of rallies, get-togethers, tours, cokes, speeches, and a few minutes off perhaps for finding out just what De Anza is all about.
“Campus tours, led by potential student government leaders,” says Joaquin Herrero, “will meet at the registrar’s office every hour and will be followed by free coffee for everyone.”
College Hour (Monday and Wednesday, 1 p.m.) will offer free coke and conversation.
Friday at 1 p.m. has been designated as the time for De Anza’s first rally. The football players, cheerleaders, pom pom girls, coaches and pep band will be there to help spark enthusiasm for the Saturday contest with Foothill College.
Culminating Orientation Week activities will be Friday night’s welcome dance, “Meeting People Going Places,” to be held in the main gym.
A student reception, originally planned for the first week of school, has been postponed until Foothill Fiesta Week, the forerunner of De Anza homecoming celebrations in years to come. Free cokes and hot dogs are among the many special events planned for Fiesta Week.
Dance to cap hectic week; top band at barefoot affair
A frantic first week of making it to classes, buying books, attempting course changes, getting lost, reading instructions and listening to orientation advice culminates this Friday night with De Anza’s first Welcome Dance.
Based on the theme “Meeting People Going Places,” the dance decorations will feature travel posters adorning the gym. Music for the 9 to 1 affair will be furnished by Chicago’s “South Side Sound System.” The group has just completed an engagement at the Avalon, and before then played to enthusiastic dancers at the Filmore.
Tickets at 50 cents a person go on sale today at a table set up outside the food service lounge by the Auxiliary Gym. Tickets for the stag-and-drag affair will be sold for the remainder of the week at this location.
Dance co-chairmen Bette Peter and Linda Bothwell said dress for the dance will be “sports attire — but with a difference.” Because the dance wll be held in the Main Gym, dancers will be barefooted to avoid damage to the basketball floor.
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