Fall 2017 New International Student Orientation (J-1 Students)

Friday, August 18 – Day 2 Mercy Hall, Room 301

9:30 a.m. Breakfast, Welcome, Q & A (Dittmar Dittrich) 10:00 Health and Counseling Services (Asia Wong, Associate Director - Loyola

University Counseling Center) 10:30 Wolf Pack Athletics (Courtnie Prather, Assistant Athletic Director – Intercollegiate

Athletics & University Sports Complex)

11:00 Break 11:15 Out & About in New Orleans (Jess Haley)

• Transportation • New Orleans Cuisine • Events

Noon LUNCH in the Orleans Room with Orientation Leaders 1:00 p.m. Safety (Captain Roger Pinac, Director - Loyola University Police) 1:30 New Orleans Music (Dr. Janna Saslaw, Associate Professor of Music Theory -

Loyola’s College of Music and Fine Arts)

2:30 Break 2:45 Student Panel - The Inside Scoop (Alexandra Soto, Camila Naranjo, Nicole

Wilkinson, Daniel Vijil): ‘What I Wish Someone Had Told Me My First Year at Loyola’

Get advice from current Loyola students!

3:30 Q & A, Wrap-up, completing of Evaluation Forms

Saturday, 8/19 Mid-Summer Mardi Gras Monday, 8/21 CLASSES BEGIN!