ASU's Week in Pictures
Students crowd Taylor Mall during the Fest Devil Pep Rally and Taste of Downtown in preparation for Homecoming.
The annual Locks of Love/Bald for Bucks charity event took place on all of the ASU campuses for Homecoming. Emma Burr, a senior majoring in biology, has her hair cut by Monica Erran of Serenity Salon and Beauty. Burr has been contributing hair to the Locks of Love since high school.
William Vera, a sophomore mechanical engineering major, gets a buzz cut from Deran Moore. On the Tempe campus there were 27 hair donations and over $2500 raised for the Locks of Love/Bald for Bucks charity event.
The Alumni Association and the Sun Devil Club honored College Football Hall of Fame coach Frank Kush at the annual Legends Luncheon. Former player James Shaughnessy (left) and Kush pose during the group photo.
Danny White, Sun Devil and Dallas Cowboy quarterback, regales the gathered with stories about Coach Kush.
After several stories from his former players, Coach Kush finally said a few words of thanks to a sold out Legends Lunch, Oct. 28, in downtown Phoenix.
Former ASU baseball coach Bobby Winkles visits with Frank Kush prior to the Legends Lunch.
ASU Hall of Fame Bobby Mulgado signs a helmet after the Legends Lunch honoring Coach Kush and his players. Mulgado played running back for the Sun Devils from 1954 to 1957, amassing 2,003 yards and 21 touchdowns.
Alumni show off their Sun Devil Pride prior to the Lantern Walk. From left to right: Mahilani Akiono (2005), Joe Schneider (2005), Autumn Mesanko (2002), Jenifer Ciraulo (2001).
ASU’s longest standing tradition reveals one of the most beautiful views of all Tempe. The Lantern Walk began in 1917 as a symbolic passing of the torch from the senior class to the junior class.
The “A” on Tempe Butte is outlined in lights as the participants in the Lantern Walk gather on the mountain.
The ASU Marching Band leads the 2011 Homecoming Parade.
Two year old Abby Baker of Mesa showed her Sun Devil pride but found the marching band a little too loud.
The homecoming parade makes its way east on University Drive.
With the parade reflected in her sunglasses, Susan Monshaw, an ASU parent, watches the procession.
Other ASU parents participated in the parade. Tina Norgren, marched with others to celebrate twenty seven years of supporting student success and faculty excellence.
Tau Psi Omega is a community multicultural service fraternity. They marched with students from the Be A Leader Foundation, which prepares middle and grade school students for higher education.
The float from Pi Kappa Phi and Chi Omega makes it way down the parade route.
William Aja and Jennifer Truong are the 2011 Homecoming King and Queen.
Following the parade, the Homecoming Block Party showcased Arizona State University with interactive displays, games and activities along with reunion tents for colleges and alumni groups.
Jason Budd, 9 (left) and Jacob Budd, 8 (middle) try out the robotic arms at the School of Earth and Space Exploration area as their mother, Heather watches.
Karla Moeller, a Ph.D. candidate in biology, acquaints Alexis Rodrigues of Tempe with a snake at the School of Life Sciences tent.
Alex Tomaiko, 11, takes the bent triminos challenge at the Mathematics & Statistical Sciences area.
Pro football Hall of Fame defensive back Mike Haynes, who played for coach Frank Kush at ASU, chats with fans during the ASU Alumni's Autograph Session at the Homecoming Block Party.
K.M. Choworei has James Brady sign her football during the ASU Homecoming Block Party.
Prior to the parade, the W.P. Carey School of Business held a ceremony to break ground for a new building east of their current location. From left to right: Steve Evans, Jane Edmunds, Ardie Evans, John Graham, Geoff Edmunds, Sharon McCord, President Michael Crow and dean Robert Mittelstaedt.
Philanthropist Sharon Dupont McCord spoke at the event W. P. Carey groundbreaking event. The new building will be named after her and her late husband Bob McCord. The 129,000-square-foot building will be added to the school’s two existing structures to help ease crowding for the student population that has expanded over the last decade and to provide facilities competitive with other top business schools across the country. The W. P. Carey School already has more than 10,000 students – more than some entire universities. McCord Hall will include more classroom space, technologically advanced team study rooms, a new career center, outdoor assembly areas and world-class conference facilities.
ASU President Michael Crow and Follett President Tom Christopher cut the ribbon as part of the formal grand opening of the Tempe Sun Devil Campus Store on Oct. 27. To learn more about the grand opening visit http://asunews.asu.edu/20111020_TempeBookstoreGrandOpening.
Eighth-graders from across metropolitan Phoenix took the bench at the Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse on Oct. 28, as part of CourtWorks, a program co-sponsored by the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law designed to introduce youngsters to constitutional principles and the judicial system and to create a context for professional careers in law. More than a dozen law students assisted about 300 pupils from ASU Preparatory Academy, and Bethune, Garfield, Hamilton, Kuban and St. Vincent de Paul elementary schools in learning about the federal court system in action. Michael Brown walks through the courthouse lobby with a group of eighth-graders on their way to their assignments.
Law student Brandon Nagy (left) assists an eighth-grader as she gives the jury's verdict of not guilty. The pupils re-enacted a U.S. Supreme Court decision at the downtown Phoenix federal courthouse, performing every role in the case, and acted as judges, jurors, prosecutors, defense attorneys, defendants and witnesses. CourtWorks is a partnership of the U.S. District Court, led by the Honorable Mary H. Murguia of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the College of Law. It is supported by Valle del Sol, a community-based organization with extensive ties to local communities and their issues.
Ashley Verigood (left), an Air Force veteran, works on her laptop as Josh Silva, a former Marine, uses one of the Tillman Veterans Center computers to check his schedule. Verigood is working on her degree in political science, while Silva is in the exploratory phase of his college career. For more information about ASU’s student veteran population visit http://asunews.asu.edu/20111103_veterans_week_staff.
Oscar Arias Sanchez (left), former President of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Laureate, has his photo taken with Grant Whitson, a junior studying biology in society, following Arias’ visit with students in Barrett, The Honors College. Arias was at ASU to deliver the 2011 Flinn Foundation Centennial Lecture and meet with students at Arizona State University.