RADFORD, Va., July 3 -- Radford University issued the following news release:
It's early in the season, still, but Radford University's campus has already seen
a fairly full summer.
Across the past month, the school's main grounds and its Roanoke site hosted visits
by some 1,900 incoming students, as well as nearly 2,500 of their relatives, guardians
and friends.
Those 4,400 guests all came for Quest, Radford's streamlined and multifaceted orientation program, which ramped up on June
5 and was concluded by July 1.
Quest gives freshmen and new transfers a chance to dip their toes into the waters
of college life and check the temperature a little; to find the currents and map the
shallows before they have to swim.
They get acquainted wit...