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New president delivers first official address in Barton

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Saturday morning saw one of the rare events that filled Barton Hall. But President David J. Skorton was a bit more family friendly than Ludacris and (slightly) less funny than Jon Stewart when he delivered his first official public address as head of the University to thousands of incoming freshman and their families.

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3,200 new undergraduate students, 500 orientation leaders and welcome volunteers and only 9 hours — those are the hard and fast numbers summarizing move-in day on Friday. But those numbers alone cannot convey the monumental success of this well-executed plan.