Fall Welcome Week 2010

Students from all over the country started filling up the residence halls over the weekend. Fall Welcome kicked off Aug. 14, with 13,000 students moving in across all four ASU campuses.

By the dawn's early light, parents and students lined up at Wells Fargo Arena to receive check-in materials for the first part of the move-in process. Judy Alvarez (third from left), an incoming biomedical engineering student from El Paso, and her mother, Estela Alvarez (second from left) read some instructions.

After picking up their check-in materials, students pulled up to the residence halls where a crew of volunteer movers unloaded the students’ stuff, tagged it with the proper name and room number, then delivered it to appropriate room.

Movers used a forklift to raise containers of students’ belongings to the upper floors of Palo Verde Main on the Tempe campus. The use of heavy equipment sped the moving process up by keeping the elevators from getting clogged.

Coach Dennis Erickson chats with members of the Sun Devil Football team as they stretch out before morning practice.

The Sun Devils work out at the Kajikawa Practice Field to prepare for the 2010 season opener against Portland State, Sept. 14.

Freshmen move in to the Las Casas Residence Hall on ASU’s West campus.

Katie Fischer helps incoming freshman Chelsea Steinkamp (right) from Dana Point, Calif., unload her car during move-in on ASU’s West campus.

Assisted by the move-in crew at the Downtown Phoenix campus, Erin Kennedy (right) and her family unload their vehicle. Kennedy will be studying journalism at the Cronkite School.

Shayla Brown and her mother, Yolanda Brown, unpack in Taylor Place on the Downtown Phoenix campus. Shayla’s family drove up from Tucson to help her move in and prepare to start her studies at the College of Nursing & Health Innovation.

The grassy lawn of Gammage Auditorium makes a nice place for the section leaders of the ASU Marching Band to rehearse.

Jimmy Li (left) and John Bauer unload incoming freshman Mercedes Flores' truck. Flores (far right), who is majoring in architecture, was also assisted by her friend, Khrista Coiner.

Assisted by family friends Pat and Tim Mahoney, freshman Zeyna Aouad arrives at Manzanita Hall on the Tempe campus. Aouad plans to major in business and finance.

Charlie Sherman and his father, Charles Sherman, engage in some quality father-son time as they hook up Charlie's computer in Falcon Hall at ASU's Polytechnic Campus.

Electrical engineering students Abilash Nagaraju, Ranganath Krishnan and Ronik Nandavanam, check out information at the International Students Organization Event held at the Memorial Union.

A couple of computer engineers try out another type of keyboard. In the hallowed halls of Barrett, The Honors College, Allen Hsia (center) gives Joseph Jauregui (front) some lessons on playing a song on the piano while their community adviser, Steven Denke, listens.

Obama Scholars students, registered on the Polytechnic Campus, learn more about how their scholarships will be administered and the opportunities for on-campus work. There are more than 1450 Obama Scholars attending ASU this fall. From left to right: Ivan Sanchez, Jonathan Harris and Monica Media.

On ASU's Polytechnic Campus, Kimberly Long conducts a "Where are my Classes?" tour. The tour helps orient new students prior to the start of classes.

A Fall Welcome concert was held for students Aug. 17, with hip-hop recording artist Chingy as the opening act.

Country recording artist Dierks Bentley headlined the Fall Welcome concert at ASU’s Wells Fargo Arena.

The crowd at the Fall Welcome concert shows off their Sun Devil Pride.

Students Elizabeth Weinberger (left) and Mary Keller stop for a snack at the “Bagels and Books” table in the ASU Bookstore.

Christopher Callahan, dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication (right), chats with incoming journalism students and their parents during the “Java With The Deans” event on the Downtown Phoenix campus.

The Sun Devil Welcome, a “must attend” event for the class of 2014, was held in Wells Fargo Arena Aug 18. The W. P. Carey School of Business students showed an abundance of signs and spirit while being introduced.

Dominick Hernandez, student body president from the Polytechnic campus, got the crowd fired up at the Sun Devil Welcome event. Other speakers included basketball coach Herb Sendek, athletic director Lisa Love and ASU President Michael Crow.

A student from the College of Public Programs was appropriately attired for the Sun Devil Welcome event.

The Sun Devil Marching Band and Spirit Squad were on hand to help instill Sun Devil spirit.

Following the welcoming event, a significant number of students made the trek up “A” Mountain to participate in the whitewashing of the “A.”

Joe Cowen-Richards works inside the “A,” while Michael Cordonzillo hangs on to fellow criminal justice major Jason Kozy’s shirt as he spreads whitewash over the concrete letter atop Tempe Butte.