[Scott Ritchie]

I think you need to appreciate where you have come from and in our FIRST program the freshman do get some of the simple jobs. Don’t get me wrong I have some of the best freshmen that I have ever had and one of them was very vital to the build season. Still I want him taking out the trash, sweeping the floor, sorting nuts and bolts and getting teased a little for being a freshman. I have found in the past that if you give to much responsibility to a freshman and make an easy path for them they get very premadonnaish (sp?) and become very hard to work with as Jr. or Sr. There is a lot of learning at that takes place at the bottom of the food chain, a lot of good foundation learning. Freshmen make me think of the Dodo birds in the movie Ice Age. If they would watch the other more advanced animals they possibly could learn to survive but they think they have a plan and they really just have some watermelons.