THE LAWS OF ALTERNATIVE WELCOME

ZEROTH LAW. THE STATE OF NEWNESS IS NOT HAVING, LOCALLY, "MET, BEFRIENDED MANY PEOPLE YET, NOT HAVING A FULL COMPLEMENT OF WELCOMING SOCS WELL-MATCHING BOTH PERSONWISE AND ACTIVITYWISE".

FIRST LAW. MOST PEOPLE SHED NEWNESS WITHIN THE 3 WEEKS OF FRESHERS WEEK AND THE SQUASH WEEKS.

SECOND LAW. THE REMAINDER ARE WHOM WE TERM THE SHY AND THE DIFFERENT. MOST JUST TAKE LONGER, BUT SOME TAKE FOREVER.

THIRD LAW. THEREFORE, SUCH AS ALTERNATIVE WELCOME ARE TO SERVE BY EXTENDING FIRST-THREE-WEEKS STRUCTURES TO THE WHOLE ACADEMIC YEAR.

SUPPORTING SPECIFICATION 1. THE PRINCIPAL FIRST-THREE-WEEK-STRUCTURES THAT ARE TO BE CARRIED ON, PATCHED AND DIVERSIFIED FOR THE SHY AND THE DIFFERENT ARE COLLEGE PARENTING, *ICEBREAKERS*, *SOC-ADVERTISING* AND PROPERLY WELCOMING FIRST CONTACT FROM SOCS .

SUPPORTING SPECIFICATION 2. THE SUPPORT OF THIS NATURE WE OFFER IS CENTRALIZED, OPEN TO ALL PERSONS WHO NEED IT AND ARE THEMSELVES TOLERANT AND RESPONSIBLE ENOUGH TO NOT ENDANGER SUCH ACTIVITIES. FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS GIVEN ELSEWHERE, WE OURSELVES OPERATE FROM SOCS THAT SPAN THE UNI AND THE YEAR (AS OPPOSED TO CONTINUING FIRST-THREE-WEEK STRUCTURES AT THE COLLEGE LEVEL), THOUGH SOME COLLEGE WELFARE REPS MAY WELL WISH TO TAKE NOTE OF THIS PAGE.

SUPPORTING SPECIFICATION 3. OUR OWN DEFINITION OF ICEBREAKER IS RATHER BROADER THAN THE CONVENTIONAL; AS SUCH THE ENTIRETY OF SPECIFICATION 1 MAY BE SEEN AS ICEBREAKERS. BY THIS, THE THIRD LAW MAY BE SUMMARIZED AS "ICEBREAKERS FOR 3 TERMS AND NOT 3 WEEKS". THIS IS THE FUNCTIONAL CONTENT OF ALTERNATIVE WELCOME, WHEREAS THE FIRST LAW IS WHERE MUCH OF CONVENTIONAL WELFARE AND SOCIETAL RESOURCES GO. THOUGH IT IS ALSO ALTERNATIVE WELCOME'S ORGANIZERS THAT ENVISAGED AND FORMULATED THE ZEROTH AND SECOND LAWS.

SUPPORTING SPECIFICATION 4. BASED UPON OUR DETAILED OBSERVATIONS SINCE THE MID-90S, LIGHT-HEARTED AND QUIRKY SOCS ARE PARTICULARLY USEFUL AS ACADEMIC-YEAR-LONG ICEBREAKERS. LIGHT HEARTED AND QUIRKY ONLY PARTLY OVERLAP. MOREOVER, THE ONE IS A PEOPLE-PROPERTY AND THE OTHER IS AN ACTIVITY-PROPERTY. EACH SOC-TYPE HAS A LIGHTEST ELEMENT, WHETHER ACTUAL OR THEORETICAL. CULES FOR ACTING, ROCK GOSPEL FOR CHOIRS...

THE KEY SUGGESTED STUDY TO STRENGTHEN THIS IS THEN, WE SUGGEST, TO COMPARE THE CONVENTIONAL THEORY OF ICEBREAKERS TO THE QUIRKY SOCRING AND THE LIGHTER SOCSET. WE HYPOTHESISE MANY PARALLELS BUT ALSO THAT THE TWO WILL COMPLETE EACH OTHER BETTER, IMPROVING BOTH.