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The ideas and opinions of advertisements appearing in this Sarah Niles Managing News Editors Fashion Forward Columnist publication are not necessarily those of The Review staff or the university. Katie Rogers, Brittany Talarico Larissa Cruz }Jt . Aeril 22. 2008 3 Welcoming prospective students to campus 0 •• Blue Hen Ambassadors reveal how they answer questions BY SARA WAHLBERG go?" he said. "But if you have a tour News Features Editor guide who comes in and is charis­ They are seen walking around matic, enthusiastic and really shows campus every day, getting strange that they, themselves, love being looks and passing glances. They are here at the school, that makes a real­ seen enthusiastically gesturing to ly good first impression. buildings, lawns and fountains. "Energy rubs off on people." They are seen walking backwards Junior and senior prospective throughout the campus at least three students are treated to this energy times per day. upon entering the university's They are the Blue Hen Visitor's Center. A slide-show pres­ Ambassadors. entation that starts off the tour The past two Saturdays have includes several statistics, pictures been the busiest days of the admis­ and songs. Facts are emphasized, sions season this year. Decision such as 90 percent of graduates find­ Days were held on campus for ing work within six months of grad­ admitted high school seniors. It may uation, and music from the Deltones be a stretch for some university stu­ singing group and the University of dents to remember the tours and Delaware Marching Band blares activities they encountered during through the room. Pictures of enthu­ their last year of high school, but siastic fans cheering the football BHAs are immersed in the admis­ team and students hiking through sions scene six days per week, train­ mountains on a study abroad trip are ing and giving tours to prospective also highlighted. students and their parents year­ After the show, parents and stu­ round. dents are invited to introduce them­ Senior Matt Engler, coordinator selves and the Visitor's Center staff THE REVIEW/Sara Wahlberg of the BHA program, said the pace member launch into an information­ Accepted students are offered a variety of activities to help make their decision to come to the university. of work at this time of year is espe­ al session based around the words cially fast with acceptance letters "Blue Hen," using every letter to about. We like to show Trabant and we don't say you have to lie and say said attitudes toward academics are going out to students and eager par­ describe an aspect of the university, how expansive it is and how many . on Wednesday nights the lasagna is important to him. ents wanting to explore the universi- such as "B" is for "Beautiful resources are in there." the best thing you've ever had," he "From what I'm being told the ty. Campus." Emily Manz, a sophomore said. "We kit}d of frame it in a way people have an interest in what "It gets a little hectic during this Then, the BHAs take the lead, BHA, said she tells her tourists so if I really didn't like the di.D.ing they're learning and what they're time," Engler said. escorting students through a two­ about the Louise and David Roselle hall ·food I'd say, 'Look, I come doing, which is crucial because As university students scoot hour tour through campus that Center for the Arts because it was so from an Italian family, I got home­ some college kids just go there to around big tour groups on their way includes stops at the president's expensive to build. Another selling cooking every night, maybe the get their degree and walk out with to classes, dining halls and even mansion, Trabant University Center, point for students and even parents lasagna isn't the best. ' " their diploma," Simmons said. their own residence halls this week, North and South Green, an East on tours is the Exelon Trading The entire campus is a selling "Here, people really have a pro­ they could be left to wonder if what Campus residence hall and Perkins Center in Purnell Hall. point in itself, according to several voked interest in what ~hey're the BHAs are saying is true about Student Center. "They told us at our last meet­ prospective students, and the univer­ doing." their own experience at the universi­ Engler said there are some ing to show the trading floor sity has the groundskeepers and A major concern, however, is ty, and what sort of impression places all tour guides have to make because it is new and nice," Manz landscapers to tlrank. the discussion of campus safety on prospective students are receiving. sure to point out to visitors to really said. Michael Levine, a visiting high tours, especially in the past year Engler said those answers all "sell" the university. The parents and students on the school junior from Connecticut, said after the Virginia Polytechnic depend on the tgur guide. "Laird Campus is a huge sell­ tour agreed. One parent wanted to his favorite part of the university Institute and State University and "If you have a tour guide who ing point with all the new residence know if he could try it out himself. was the campus. Northern Illinois University shoot­ really doesn't want to be there and halls and buildings," he said. "I There are some things tour guides "It's really nice," Michael said. ings, Engler said. Almost every tour talks in a monotone voice and just don't think you can go on a regular cannot say to visitors, however. "I like the layout of the green. I got" will have a parent who asks the safe­ points out buildings, how is that tour on any regular day and not Manz said "dorm" is considered a a really good feel for it." ty question. really going to help you make a show people a residence hall. That is "four-letter word," and the construc­ His father, Bill Levine, said he Manz said after the shootings, decision about where you want to the main thing they are concerned tion going on around Brown agreed the school had more to offer the BHAs were instructed to empha­ Laboratory than others he had seen. size the security of the residence ~T:c-.....-:--:-""l:l'!ll'l:l""':'!':l!~~::r.-~--~;-:-->,..--.-:-:-~-""7"-------, should be pre­ "It's clean and has a little bit of halls. sented in a posi­ tradition, which is different from "After Virginia Tech happened, tive light. some of the places I've seen which we learned some things about the " W e are pristine and nice, but they look access card," she said. "I like to talk should say that .· kind of sterile," Bill said. "This isn't about safety when we get to the res­ the campus is sterile for me. It's more college- idence halls." 'constantly reno­ like. " In addition to talking about the vating,' when Engler said this is typical of the PDI cards used to enter residence there are fences feedback he gets on tours. halls, Manz said BHAs also talk around buildings "Overwhelmingly, it's posi­ about the new UD Alert system, the and things like tive," he said.