News Tip/Photo-Video Opportunity: March through the Arch set May 6 at noon

News Tip/Photo-Video Opportunity



May 3, 2011


“ISU Graduates March through the Arch”


What/When: “ISU Graduates March through the Arch” – excellent photo/video opportunity for ISU Commencement stories – beginning at noon May 6.

Where: May 2011 graduates, who will participate in ISU commencement ceremonies on May 7, at 10 a.m. in Holt Arena, will meet at Swanson Arch on the ISU campus between Frazier Hall and the Physical Sciences Building. Graduates will “March through the Arch” and then proceed to an outside picnic on campus. Members of the campus and Pocatello community, as well as family and friends of graduates, are encouraged to gather at the Arch to say farewell to the graduates.

Contact: For more information, contact Allyson Johnson, Office of the President, 282-4798.

Additional background information: Swanson Hall, constructed in 1902, was the first building at the Academy of Idaho, now Idaho State University. The structure was razed in 1973, but the arch that formed the building’s entrance was saved and now stands on campus.
The “March through the Arch” tradition was started in 2000 to symbolize the beginning of new students’ academic careers and also as a tie to the alumni in the University’s 100-year-plus history who had walked through the “doors” of Swanson Hall on their way to class. Freshmen walk through Swanson Arch starting their academic careers and graduates walk back through the arch symbolizing their exit from the University and entrance into new life adventures.