CLU PAINT JOB.Byline: Christopher Noxon Daily News Staff Writer Student orientation for the new school year at California Lutheran University Mission statement The University's mission statement is as follows: "California Lutheran University is a diverse, scholarly community dedicated to excellence in the liberal arts and professional studies. continued Sunday with a 2-year-old tradition that resulted in a sense of cohesion cohesion: see adhesion and cohesion. Cohesion (physics) The tendency of atoms or molecules to coalesce into extended condensed states. This tendency is practically universal. and some paint-splattered faces. At the high point of their second day of orientation, 250 freshmen climbed up Mountclef Ridge to paint a formation of rocks that spell the letters CLU (language) CLU - (CLUster) An object-oriented programming language developed at MIT by Liskov et al in 1974-1975. CLU is an object-oriented language of the Pascal family designed to support data abstraction, similar to Alphard. . The job was left to maintenance workers until two years ago when a student peer adviser had the idea of turning it over to incoming freshmen. ``It's the neatest thing,'' said peer adviser Jamie Rempfur. ``You walk up there as a huge group and you get to know each other.'' The job took 50 paint brushes and 50 gallons of white paint. What would take one worker a full day took the freshmen less than an hour. Their reward came halfway down the mountain: 63 pizzas delivered by an overwhelmed o·ver·whelm tr.v. o·ver·whelmed, o·ver·whelm·ing, o·ver·whelms 1. To surge over and submerge; engulf: waves overwhelming the rocky shoreline. 2. a. delivery man. ``It brings them all together,'' said peer adviser Dianna Miller. ``You get that unity thing going.'' The orientation program included a pep rally, a drive-in movie, a day of beach activities and a pancake pancake, thin, flat cake, made of batter and baked on a griddle or fried in a pan. Pancakes, probably the oldest form of bread, are known in different forms throughout the world. breakfast served by the football team. There also were meetings with academic advisers, a welcoming speech by the university president and a speech about sexual harassment sexual harassment, in law, verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature, aimed at a particular person or group of people, especially in the workplace or in academic or other institutional settings, that is actionable, as in tort or under equal-opportunity statutes. . All of it helps bond the class together and ease the passage from home to university, said senior Michelle Levine. ``It can be really hard being away from your parents for the first time,'' Levine said. ``This totally helps. Everyone here gets thrown into the same activities. We're all in the same boat.'' Many workers were quick to discover other uses for the paint brushes and paint. Amy Beuthel, peer advisers coordinator, was surrounded by a trio named Teri, Kami and Kristi, who quickly covered her legs in random splotches. Others decorated themselves with handprints or nicknames. ``We're starting a tradition here,'' said Kyle Stalder, an 18-year-old freshman from Portland Oregon. ``All year we can look up here and say, we painted those letters. Now I'd like my pizza.'' CAPTION(S): 3 Photos Photo: (1--ran in SIMI SIMI Sea Ice Mechanics Initiative SIMI Search for Intelligent Monkeys on the Internet SIMI Students Islamic Movement in India SIMI Society of Irish Motor Industry SIMI Smallholder Irrigation Markets Initiative and CONEJO--color in CONEJO only) The new freshman class at California Lutheran University repaints the CLU initials on a campus ridge. (2--ran in SIMI and CONEJO) Sommer Sommer is a surname, from the German and Danish word for the season "summer". It may refer to:
(3--ran in CONEJO only) Freshmean at California Lutheran College trek up Mountclef Ridge. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News |
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