Most high school graduates who dreamed of the college experience, expected, or at least hoped, that it would be live and in person. Then came COVID-19.
As I woke up at the peak of sunrise, body aching from the day before, I still managed to get up rather perky because I knew Community Engagement Day was only a couple hours away.
Although the tour guides at the University of La Verne have stayed true to the techniques they have used during previous orientations, La Verne started the spring semester with record-breaking enrollment.
Students awaited the beginning of the “Leopards of the Caribbean Carnival” as ASULV set up red and white striped tents at the Ortmayer Athletic Complex for the orientation week finale Sept. 3.
Kristen Campbell, public affairs major, and David Werner, associate professor of English, met in the Campus Center Ballroom to participate in the Lavernapalooza Luncheon on Aug. 31.