Drum roll, please

Orientation activities acquaint first-year students to life at Tulane. View the photos.

Orientation activities acquaint first-year students to life at Tulane.
The Tulane Marching Band drum line warms up outside McAlister Auditorium before playing for One College, One Tulane — an event that introduces first-year students to resources available on campus to help them thrive intellectually, socially and professionally.
Orientation activities acquaint first-year students to life at Tulane.
TIDES Peer Mentors wait to distribute Mardi Gras beads to the Class of 2022 as they exit McAlister Auditorium.
Orientation activities acquaint first-year students to life at Tulane.
This year’s traditional Newcomb-Tulane College Mardi Gras bead features a likeness of Newcomb Hall.
Orientation activities acquaint first-year students to life at Tulane.
Chloe Fontaine from New Jersey, left, and Lucy Sartor from Monroe take a selfie with their latest Tulane bling.
Orientation activities acquaint first-year students to life at Tulane.
Isabel Verbena, third from left, and Clarice Castillo, third from right, pose with their parents at the Victory Bell. Verbena and Castillo, both first-year students, are from Guatemala.
Orientation activities acquaint first-year students to life at Tulane.
First-year student Myles Ortiz-Green, right, shows his father Sovonto Green photos from the previous night’s Welcome to the Wave event.
Orientation activities acquaint first-year students to life at Tulane.
Members of the Hullabaloo staff hand out the latest edition to passersby on McAlister Place.
Orientation activities acquaint first-year students to life at Tulane.
Matthew Gernon from Kansas City eats his first ever snowball (strawberry!) as he and his parents, Jill and Cosby, walk towards the Lavin-Bernick Center for Community Life.