Freshmen to Tour South Bend Notre Dame Welcomes Most Diverse
/ ^ X T H E bserver OThe Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 41 : ISSUE 1 SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 2006 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Notre Dame welcomes most diverse incoming class man class should have no from 41 nations. Incoming students trouble rising to the challenge. Freshmen come from as far boast high test scores, The Class of 2010 is the north as North Pole, Alaska most diverse in Notre D am e’s and as far south as La Paz, S d tjle J & R F 1 strong credentials history, with minority groups Bolivia, Saracino said. making up 24 percent of the “It’s a great mix of kids,” he said. OF 2 0 1 0 By MARY KATE MALONE incoming freshman class, said Dan Saracino, assistant Eighty-six p ercen t w ere in News Editor Zurufknaob B # 1 % of: fgfc provost for enrollment. In the top 10 percent of their DhMtm y/Alumm * *^1*f prior years, the percentage of class. Seventy-three percent Em/iis j!JJ The University has high minority students has hovered earned varsity letters in high expectations for the class of around 22 percent. school. A'Jumiin AVI: 2010, and given their stellar All 50 US states are repre And they were selected from Avsfim SAT: ^ imm Wl’jliU credentials, the roughly 2,025 sented in the freshman class, Amount hi top 1 D% Sourer. Notre Dstme Adnwsstats students in this year’s fresh which also boasts students see FRESHMEN/page 9 of itmduyiimi okiom JEFF AIBERT/Qfcsewer graphs ROTC students suit up for orientation Reality Freshmen Army, Air hits post Force, Navy participants arrive for training Frosh-O By MEGHAN WONS News Writer By EILEEN DUFFY Assistant News Editor While many members of the Class of 2010 have been marching to the If every day were Freshman Bookstore to purchase “The Shirt,” Orientation weekend at Notre freshmen in Notre Dame’s Reserve Dame, dorm T-shirts would be Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) pro the official uniform, icebreak gram have been wearing uniforms of a ers and egg tosses would different kind.
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