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Apartments lose that first-year feel

Freshman orientation is an important time for students to begin their adjustment to college life. However, this year, that adjustment will begin in the Tom Brown-Pete Wright Residential Community instead of Colby Hall.

This move may have a positive effect on these excited, wide-eyed students. Right from the start they can get a taste of where they could live after they’ve achieved those precious 54 credit hours.

Orientation can also be overwhelming and awkward. Being in the on-campus apartments not only gives students one roommate to talk to, it gives them at least three. So, even if you’re not the most sociable student, you don’t have to go far to meet a friend.

However, because of the differences betweem the apartments and Colby, it may seem as false advertising. And the switch does take away something very important — tradition.

Both males and females have lugged their belongings up the steps of the all female, mostly freshman, Colby Hall for orientation for a long time. We understand that Colby Hall doesn’t have the perks of the on-campus apartments, but sometimes the most lasting memories are created where most of the history is, like walking the same steps many freshman before you have walked. It is places like Colby Hall where students cram for their first college test and have their first all-nighter. Students won’t get to experience that place from the start any longer.

While we applaud the idea of allowing students to see what they can one day gain, sometimes it’s best not to mess with tradition.