University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., addressed the flock of freshmen clustered in Conte Forum this past Thursday at First Year Academic Convocation. A maroon tapestry cloaked the bottom of the platform, emblazoned with phrase: Go set the world aflame.

After winning the Goldwater and Churchill Scholarships, Jesse Mu will spend the summer working for Amazon before moving on to Cambridge for his master's in computer science and Stanford for his Ph.D. in engineering.