Fall Welcome Week 2011
Spirits were high during Welcome Week at ASU, which featured a series of events to kick off the new academic year.
Incoming freshmen Dave Pierce from Dallas, Pa., who will be exploring math and science in his first year at ASU (left) and Rafa Feliz, a business law major from Phoenix, look for their dorms on a campus map while waiting to pick up their keys on the first day of move-in on ASU's Tempe campus.
An army of professional movers unloaded vehicles and quickly moved incoming residents into their dorms.
Eddy Acquah and his mother, Joyce, set up his computer during the fall move-in at ASU. Acquah is staying in Palo Verde Main, an engineering residential community and will be majoring in chemical engineering.
During the fall move-in on the Tempe campus of ASU, it's a family affair for Courtney Buller, a freshman biomedical engineering major from Surprise, Ariz. Courtney's sister, Amanda Melluse, a nursing major on the Downtown Phoenix campus assists in the unpacking along with their mom, Tanya Melluse (left).
Stacey Ewan, an incoming life sciences and pre-med major from Ft. Collins, Colo. (center) moves into ASU's West campus residential facility. Helping her are volunteers from the Northwest Community Church Scott Carter (left) and Zach Moore (right).
While the campuses were busy with moving activities, first-year students in the Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law volunteered at the Tigermountain Foundation in Phoenix. Matthew Ishikawa (left) and Hal Cohen (right) help weed the foundation’s community garden. The law school believes its students will make better leaders and be more effective attorneys if they engage in ASU’s vision to transform society and be socially embedded.
Cars line up to unload in front of Taylor Place Residence Hall on the Downtown Phoenix campus.
Arianna Taubodo, an incoming freshman journalism major from Sacramento, Calif., unloads her vehicle with help from family and friends.
Yihyun Jeong, a freshman journalism major from Phoenix, contemplates how to arrange her possessions during move-in at Taylor Place as her roommate, Tegan Kellen, a health science major from Sioux Falls, S.D. watches.
Unfurling a Barrett banner at Eagle Hall on the Polytechnic campus, Mike Manning, Jeremy Glick, Rebecca Wendt and Echo Love prepare for the new arrivals during fall move-in.
Freshman Coleson Warrington, who will be studying aeronautical management (center) and his roommate, freshman Travis Holt (rear), an engineering major, get help unpacking their room in Mustang Hall at the Polytechnic campus from sophomore Devin DeCroo, a sophomore transfer student from Boise State, who is also studying aeronautical mangement (right). All three students are from Fruitland, Idaho.
Having just arrived on the Polytechnic campus from Abu Dhabi, freshman Arun Ravi, a mechanical engineering student, begins to move into his room in Mustang Hall.
Riley Bishop, an incoming freshman majoring in marketing, surfs the web and enjoys the atmosphere on Mill Avenue, near ASU’s Tempe campus.
Flanked by Jason Ohanian, an Army veteran and MBA student (left) and Michael McBride, ASU assistant director of Undergraduate Admissions, university Provost Elizabeth Capaldi cuts the ribbon during a ceremony to open the Pat Tillman Veterans Center in the Memorial Union. At right are Pat’s brother, Kevin Tillman, Kevin’s wife, Kandi and daughter Evie.
Following the ceremony, the Tillman Center was open for tours.
ASU President Michael Crow addresses the students gathered in Wells Fargo Arena for the Sun Devil Welcome event.
Hillary Bock, from the NCAA Champion softball team and Anthony Robles, 2011 NCAA Champion wrestler, ESPY award winner and 2011 graduate, speak about Sun Devil spirit at the Fall Welcome event.
Dallas Escobedo, star pitcher on the NCAA Champion softball team, speaks to the crowd at Fall Welcome.
Defensive standout Omar Bolden (left) and quarterback Brock Osweiler ask the students to come out and support Sun Devil football.
New friends learn the fight song and practice their pitchforks at Fall Welcome. The girls, Daniela Brandlin (left), Ashley Garbacz, Civil Engineering (middle) and Ashley Bernardez, met at the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering’s E2 camp this summer.
Ryan Zavala and the rest of the Sun Devil Marching Band provided musical support during the Sun Devil Welcome event.
Brett Anderson (center), a freshman from Minneapolis who came to ASU to study in the School of Earth and Space Exploration shows his spirit as he learns the ASU Fight Song, along with Jack Tucker and Carlos Perez (left to right at rear) who are psychology majors from Yuma, Ariz.
Infused with Sun Devil spirit following the welcome event, students made their way up "A" Mountain for the fall semester tradition of white washing the large concrete letter "A" on Hayden Butte.
Hundreds of students made the trek to participate in one of the university's longest standing traditions – whitewashing the "A" on Tempe Butte to signify the start of the 2011 fall semester.
See a time lapse of students whitewashing the "A": asunews.asu.edu/20110817_video_paintingthea
Joe Blidy, a junior in the school of Social Transformation, and the rest of the Sun Devil Marching Band prepare for the first home game.
Members of the Sun Devil Football team arrive at the Bill Kajikawa Practice field for a morning workout. The Sun Devils will host the Aggies of UC Davis, Sept. 1.
Steve Pyne, Regent's Professor in ASU's School of Life Sciences (right) chats with an audience member following the first lecture of the the Global Institute of Sustainability's Case Critical series. Pyne and Arizona Republic environmental reporter Shaun McKinnon discussed the recent wildfires in Arizona and their ecological and economic impacts. Pyne spent fifteen seasons as a wildland firefighter at the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park between 1967 and 1981. Since the publication of his second book, "Fire in America," in 1982, he has been known as one of the world's foremost experts on the environmental history of fire.
Jennifer Stults, assistant director for student and cultural engagement, holds the doors of the Memorial Union open as students stream in to experience Passport to ASU, a fall semester tradition held at the Memorial Union, the W. P. Carey School of Business Dean's Patio, and the Student Recreation Complex. The event featured games, performances, food, and over 350 student organizations.