Freshman Induction and Move-in 2009
Transcript
Voice from off-camera: "Is this the most important thing that goes into your dorm room?" (A student carries a desktop computer across the courtyard outside his residence hall.) Student: "Nah... Probably second to the X-Box." Narrator: Move-in day at Indiana University is a day of excitement for seven thousand incoming freshmen. (Students and their parents carry boxes and push carts full of items, while other families greet each other and converse with campus staff.) It's a day many mothers have dreaded for years. It's a day fathers wonder how all this stuff will fit in that one dorm room. [Background conversation] In the morning, top IU administrators, including President Michael McRobbie, spread out over campus greeting new students and their parents. In the afternoon, those same administrators presided over IU's annual Freshman Induction Ceremony, offering words of welcome, advice, and inspiration. (President McRobbie addresses the audience from the stage of IU Auditorium during the Freshman Induction Ceremony.) President McRobbie: "This is a world that requires an education that spans the breadth and plumbs the depths of human knowledge. This broad education in a wide range of subjects, so central to understanding the human experience, has come to be known as a liberal education. Here, in Bloomington today, may you begin your success." (More students and parents carry boxes into residence halls.) Narrator: Freshman move-in day is always hectic, but chaos will soon make way for academics and late night studies. After all, these new students are only 600 classroom days away from becoming new graduates.
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