乱伦社区 begins the first week of school with the EDM event, formerly known as the Extreme Dome Makeover. It gives students the opportunity to go into the community to do service. Activities such as landscaping, small scale painting or general cleanup are ideal for this project. All activities must be completed within the city limits of Canton.

Work will be done from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22. Applications are due June 1.

An application for your project to be part of Everyone Doing More can be found at culver.edu/edm.

Interested people should contact Rev. Amanda Sorenson, chaplain at Culver-Stockton, at 573-288-6420 or聽asorenson@culver.edu.

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The first wave of students will be in Canton on聽Friday, Aug. 9聽when the players on the women鈥檚 volleyball team and the men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 soccer teams check in at 10 a.m. at the J.E. & L.E. Mabee Recreation and Wellness Center. The players on the football team will check in at 1 p.m., and an official welcome for the students will be at 4:30 p.m. at the Alexander Campbell Auditorium in the Robert W. Brown Performing Arts Center.

International students will have an orientation day on聽Thursday, Aug. 22, and all other freshmen students will check in at the Mabee Center at 9 a.m. and move into campus residences on聽Friday, Aug. 23.

The kickoff to orientation begins at the Performing Arts Center at 2 p.m. Friday, and matriculation begins on the steps of Johnson Residence Hall at 2:45 p.m. During that ceremony, bagpipers and a faculty procession lead the incoming freshman class across campus. The new students meet President Kelly M. Thompson at Johnson Hall and sign their names in the C-SC鈥檚 Matriculation Book. Ronald Leftwich 鈥�64, chairman of the Board of Trustees, will present each new student with a penny to cast into the fountain on the quad with their wish for their college careers.

An evening of orientation events will end with an event featuring hypnotist William Mitchell 鈥�79 at 7:45 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center.

Students will take part on聽Saturday, Aug. 24聽in the Everybody Does More (formerly known as Extreme Dome Makeover) service project. The 11^th聽annual event starts at 10 a.m. and will take place at about 20 locations around Canton and Lewis County. It will end with lunch for the groups of students at various locations. The women鈥檚 soccer team will play the first athletic game on campus this season at 6 p.m. at Ellison Poulton Stadium.

Returning students will move in on聽Sunday, Aug. 25.聽A 鈥淲elcome Back鈥� barbecue and concert will be at 5 p.m. in the courtyard of the Gladys Crown Student Center. Classes will begin on聽Monday, Aug. 26.

All students, faculty and staff will gather at the auditorium in the Performing Arts Center for the opening convocation, led by Thompson, at 11:30 a.m. on聽Thursday, Aug. 29.

The first men鈥檚 soccer game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on聽Friday, Aug. 30, and the football team鈥檚 season opener is scheduled for 6 p.m. against Baker University on聽Saturday, Aug. 31.

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