STORRS, Conn. (AP) - UConn students are getting a bit of help this weekend moving into their dormitories.
The school’s new president, Thomas Katsouleas (KAT’-soh-lay-uhs) was on campus Friday in a “True Blue Move-In Crew” T-shirt, hauling boxes, televisions, even a pet fish up flights of stairs for students.
Classes begin next week for just over 24,000 undergraduates. About 12,100 will be living on campus in Storrs and another 470 will be in dorms on the Stamford campus, where president emeritus Susan Herbst will begin her new jobs as a professor of public opinion and politics.
Katsouleas took over the presidency from Herbst on Aug. 1.
UConn is welcoming 5,450 freshmen this year. The school says about 77 percent are Connecticut residents and about 41 percent are students of color, the highest percentage in UConn history.
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