大学开学迎新发言稿

大学开学迎新发言稿（精选6篇）

1.大学开学迎新发言稿 篇一

1青青校园，喜迎莘莘学子。

2新学期，新目标，新发展。

3坚持从优待师从严管师，全面提高教师队伍整体素质。

4 精神成人，知识成才，态度成全。

5一切为了学生，为了学生的一切。

6今日我以母校为荣明天母校为我骄傲。

7我望眼欲穿的等待，终于看见你的笑脸!

8珍惜新起点，笑迎新生活!

9热烈欢迎大一新生加入某某学院大家庭。

10起点更新，校园更新，生活更新，开启精彩大学路。

11寒窗十二年年终圆梦今日重新起航。

12提升教育质量，建设和谐校园!

13因为年轻，未来属于我们!

14经世济民做栋梁，海阔天空展雄才。

15接过你的行囊，我们就是一家人。

16用我们的努力催绽知识之花，用我们的智慧开启成功之门。

17珍惜美好时光，书写精彩生活!

18新学年新风貌，工作学习更高效。

19建设新校风，建设新学风。

20尊重别人就是尊重自己，才能赢得别人的尊重。

21潜心求知，踏实工作，稳步推进，和谐发展。

22人的一生，没有一味的苦，没有永远的痛;没有迈不过的坎，没有闯不过的关。

23业精于勤而荒于嬉，行成于思而毁于随。

24美好的大学生活，我们将一起度过。

25实践新课程，创造新教育。

26弘扬尊师重教风尚，推进教育改革发展。

27经世济民做栋梁，海阔天空展雄才!

28今朝梦圆挥笔墨明日驰聘舞乾坤!

29不要生活在自我与狭隘的小时代，要做勤奋与自信的合伙人，用努力与奋斗致我们的青春。

30鸟去藩篱，虎归山林;激流独上，龙门鱼跃，粪土当年高富帅。

31插上理想的翅膀，扬起青春的风帆。

32博学明德经世致用传承大学精神，勤奋向上求实创新弘扬优良学风。

33迎新同学，展新风貌。

34高目标，高要求，教学相长，拼搏方可成才。

35今天你以学校为荣，明天学校以你为荣。

36努力造就实力，态度决定高度。

37新学期，新举措，师生共进，拼搏才能收获。

38欢迎新老师，欢迎新同学。

39校荣我荣，校兴我兴。

40今朝莘莘学子以梦为马，竞知笃行展机械雄风;明日机械桃李意气风发，大展宏图耀重大风采。

41重德重才，潜心造就新一代;重教重学，全面培育栋梁材。

42栉风沐雨养莘莘学子，呕心沥血育科大精英。

43海纳百川容千舟竞技广科，厚得载物育八方有为英才。

44教育改变命运，知识创造财富，学习充实人生。

45少说多做，句句都会得到别人的重视;多说少做，句句都会受到别人的忽视。

46只要我们能梦想的，我们就能实现。

47外在压力增加时，就应增强内在的动力。

48千教万教教人求真，千学万学学做真人。

49以科学发展观为指导，创建和谐文明新校园。

50百年大计，教育为本。

51蓝蓝的天上马云飘，遨游书海天之骄。

52世上最重要的事，不在于我们在何处，而在于我们朝着什么方向走。

53青春列车，今日重新出发;新的起点，我们携手努力!

54迎接新学年，迎接新同学!

55设计自己、塑造自己、营销自己、成就杰出大学生。

56青春列车今日重新出发;新的起点，我们携手努力!

57金秋送爽喜迎八方学子，丹桂飘香共祝美好明天!

58昔者，高考雄狮;今者，车辆学子;来者，世界鳌头。

59因为年轻，不会轻易悲伤，所以一切都是年轻的摸样;因为复旦，努力地生长，依然随时可以为梦想疯狂。

60志存高远，勤奋学习，全面成才。

2.大学开学迎新策划书 篇二

以心迎新 以心动心

二、活动背景：

伴随着秋收的季节，我们又一次迎来了希望的种子。在浙江财经大学法院的这一年里，我们快乐地成长着，现在，我们将用我们的经验去引导我们的学弟学妹，让他们更快的融入我们这个大家庭的学习与生活。

三、活动宗旨：让学生安心，让家长放心

四、活动目的：

为了使13级新生熟悉大学环境，适应大学生活，让他们尽快走入新的集体，感受新家庭的温暖。此外，也为让学生家长对我们院充满信心，放心的把新生留在美丽的浙江财经大学大学。同时，借此活动展现我们法院院师生的良好精神面貌，表达出法院学生会全心全意为同学服务的宗旨。

五、活动时间：xx年x月x日

六、活动地点：浙江财经大学下沙校区

七、参与对象：法院学生会全体成员、青协法院分部志愿者及其他自愿报名同学

八、活动形式：

(一)定点处流动人员：

(1)校外：选派若干干事分别在学校附近公交车站牌、各校门口、校车接送站点等新生流聚集的各处进行引导、指路。

(2)校内：选派若干干事在校内各校门附近、生活区附近、以及其它学校标志性建筑(如图书馆)等各处为新生及家长进行引导、指路。

(二)定点处固定人员：在学校南门口花坛处放置桌椅，为新生及家长提供引导、解答问题、纸笔及饮用水等基础服务。

(三)校内流动服务人员：带领新生及家长前往院楼辅导员办公室、法院报名点、各宿舍楼(包括成蹊与桃李两个园区)、园区内各处超市等地点，帮助新生提拿行李，同时为新生讲解院及园区基本情况。报名结束后引导家长前去院参加新生家长会。

九、前期宣传：

(一) 本次活动以网络宣传为主，于暑期建立20xx级法院新生群，并在群内邀请下届新生加入学校各大人人主页以关注学校迎新动态。

(二) 在法院学生会(如法生活)等的人人主页上发布此次迎新的相关信息，请各部门主页及各位干事相互转发。

(三) 在浙江财经院的贴吧上发布帖子来宣传本次活动，以求扩大宣传范围。

(四) 以海报等纸质媒介为辅，以求达到宣传效果的最大化。为此次活动制作总宣传海报两张，于迎新当天摆放至定点桌椅处及文化长廊法院报到处。

(五) 由各部部长提前以群邮件或短信方式告知各位参与迎新的干事本次迎新活动的详细流程。

十、前期准备

(一)于下届新生录取结果发布前建立20xx级新生群，选派若干大二及大三负责人事先加入新生群，以便日后对新生群的管理与重要迎新信息的公布。

(二)由院学生会统一通知各部门本次活动的时间以及活动形式和所需参与人数。由各部门部长选派条件允许的干事参与迎新，并及时上报进行统计。

(三)参与迎新的干事应最晚于新生报到前一天(拟定于8月30日)到校，由学生会统一召开临时工作会议带领全体参与的干事了解活动形式及具体流程，并分组安排工作。

(四)由实践部或办公室负责人事先联系校方或校会物资部，进行场地以及海报架等物资的审批工作。由宣传部设计制作定点处海报及工作人员胸牌，以便报到当日新生辨识。

(六)组织全体参与人员进行迎新前培训。内容包括迎新礼仪、充分熟悉校园及园区内各宿舍楼分布、新生报到流程、法院相应报名地点等。

(七)在预算范围内进行道具清单列置，并及时进行相应采购工作。按照13级法院各专业级班级打印台签，报名当天置于文化长廊法院报名点。

(八)提前向院领取新生班级、宿舍分配表并打印多份，分发给各处引导人员。并在KT板上粘贴一份，报名当天置于文化长廊法院报名点。

(九)设计制作院史、院情宣传册，放置若干份于固定咨询摊位处，其余册子于

家长会时发放供家长传阅。(暑假期间制作)

十一、具体流程

(一)前期准备(8月20日—28日干事报名、宣传工作、材料准备等)：

1. 8月20日：召开学生会工作会议，确定此次活动最终策划及具体流程。由各班团支书、各部部长分别下发飞信招聘志愿者及干事参与迎新。

2. 8月22日：志愿者及干事报名截止，由办公室统一筛选后统计人员数量、名单、联系方式及预计到校时间。(人员筛选条件详见备注)

3. 8月23日：将定向策划发至各部门公邮，召开工作会议，组织干事了解活动形式及具体流程，并分组进行工作安排，由各组负责人带领落实各个小组相应工作。(建议各工作小组建立QQ临时讨论组或飞信群，以便远程讨论工作动态)

4. 8月24日：联系校方咨询或进行审批所需场地的相关事宜。

5. 8月25日—26日：各人员积极关注新生群及学生会公布的迎新动态，在新生群中宣传学校及院的各个公共主页及院网站。宣传组于家中绘制海报，以便到校使用。

6. 8月27日：在新生群上大致询问新生预计到校时间，在群上公布迎新负责人联系方式，以便提前到校同学与志愿者联系。

7. 8月29日：选派若干杭州本地志愿者按照采购清单进行采购，并打印台签、制作院欢迎新生所用横幅。(因处于假期，采购需开发票，并尽量由一名学生会成员带领)

8. 8月30日：参与人员基本到校，召开会议对大家进行简单培训，使各位同学完全熟悉报名流程及院设置的各摊位位置等;常务组及采购组负责人员及物品清点。前去院领取班级及宿舍分配表，并打印若干份。告知全体人员报到当天佩戴工作人员胸牌。(尽量统一着装)

(二)活动当天流程：

1. 07:00 全体人员检查胸牌是否佩戴。常务组负责到法院搬桌椅，置于相应地点;其余各点工作人员于07:30前领取所需的物资后到达相应地点，做好迎新开始前的准备。

2. 08:00 现场总监确定各点工作准备无误，若出现特殊情况，及时调配人员。

3. 12:00 由采购组负责为全体工作人员(除校外各点)定工作餐，并联系各组负责人送饭或取饭。校外人员先自行解决，日后请院酌情报销。 4. 12:30 由宣传组部分人员对家长会场地进行简单清扫及布置。

5. 17:00 各处工作基本结束，各点工作人员清理场地及现场资料。

6. 17:30 各点人员回到文化长廊报名处，帮忙搬桌椅，清点并整理已报名人员及新生报名材料。

7. 18：00 选派若干干事进行晚间值班，为报到来迟的新生进行引导、服务。

8. 20：00 晚间值班人员将晚间报名同学名单及资料整理上交至院

十二、工作安排：

(一)前期准备安排：(未定)

(1) 宣传组：

1. 主要负责活动相关资料的制作打印。(院史宣传册、工作人员胸牌、两个摊位处所用海报、院楼所挂横幅等)

2. 新生群、人人状态宣传。

主要负责人：宣传部、新闻中心

(2) 常务组：

主要负责完成活动所需的常务工作。包括场地的申请、各部门的联系通知、;

活动前对人员的培训桌椅、帐篷的租借申请归还，活动当天人员的统筹安排。 负责人：实践部、办公室

(3) 采购组：

负责本次活动所需物品的统一购买。包括KT板、饮用水、工作餐等相关物品。

负责人：生活自律部(及本地若干人员)

(4) 前期准备总负责：(未定)

负责本次活动前期工作准备的所有情况，各负责人定期向总负责汇报。

(5) 物品管理负责人：(未定)

负责物品的管理和核对，在08月30日晚上在法院302活动物品存放处最终核实活动当天所有物资，确保万无一失。活动结束后负责清点并整齐存放活动物资。

(6) 现场活动总负责： (未定)

负责活动前的各点准备情况检查，以及对活动过程中各点进展情况的全面

了解，并根据现场情况对各点做出调整。

(二)现场工作组人员安排(校内流动人员)：(未定) 各校门引导处(文艺部、就业、志愿者)

迎新接待处(实践部、新闻中心、志愿者)

注册单领取点——辅导员(学术部、宣传部+志愿者)

引导新生到法院报到处交有关材料(社管中心、组织部、志愿者)

各宿舍楼领取钥匙处(办公室+志愿者)

新生入住寝室，行李搬运(生活自律部、体育部、志愿者)

引导家长前去院楼参加家长会(全体人员)

十三、经费预算：

十四、后期工作：

(一) 活动后会场处理

1、清理打扫会场。

2、各点工作人员将所借桌椅归还至院。

3、各点工作人员统一将道具送至法院302，整齐存放。

4、报名材料或文件照片分别交院老师或负责人存档。

(二) 活动后期宣传

1、联系宣传部出一期相关宣传窗，宣传学生会团结齐心，干事们及志愿者为同学服务的精神。

2、通过微博、人人等进行网络宣传，联系新闻部将此次迎新活动的新闻报道及照片发至人人网各主页上。

十五、注意事项：

(一)负责人要保证各小组干事都参与了本次活动的筹备，确保每位干事都能熟悉整个活动的各个环节，保证活动的顺利完成。

(二)各工作小组之间团结互助，共同完成任务。

十六、应急预案：

(一)遇到不利天气(如大风、大雨等)，视具体情况决定活动是否改变场地等，并及时通知各位工作人员，安全第一。

(二)若活动过程中出现工作人员因身体不适等原因不能继续参加工作的情况，活动负责人因及时采取相关措施，以保护同学为第一指导思想。

(三)活动当天如出现因各种原因而引发的纠纷或矛盾，活动总负责人因及时赶往现场，做好调解工作;并及时向主席团或老师汇报。

(四) 准备医药箱，安排医护人员随时候命。

浙江财经大学法院

xx年x月x日

备注：

(一)人员筛选条件：着重于态度好，认真负责，工作积极努力肯干，青协志愿者、学生会干部及干事、有经验者优先，以自愿为主，要求尽量为身强体壮的男生和少量女生，人数控制在适当的范围内。

(二)工作具体要求：

(1)全体人员能够按照分工，迅速开展工作。

(2)所有参与接待的人员必须按时到岗到位，不得迟到、早退，确有特殊情况者，提出申请并做好交接工作。

(3)热情、热心、耐心。不要因自己的冷漠和失误给学校带来负面影响。任何情况下都不能和学生家长争吵。遇到难以忍受的情况采取个别沟通的办法解决，不能在公共场合发生冲突。

3.大学开学迎新晚会节目主持词 篇三

结束词

A：今夜，我们热情奔放，共享这充满激情的时光

B：今夜，展开年轻的翅膀，放飞我们心中的梦想

C：今夜，我们搭建了一个绚丽的舞台，展现我们的青春与风采

D：今夜属于你，今夜属于我，今夜的欢声笑语留在你我的心间

A：青春的自由，青春的动感

B：青春的世界，充满梦想和希望

C：有爱的地方就有梦想

D：有梦想的地方就有希望

A：愿我们的新同学在4年之后收获累累硕果

B：愿我们的学院明天更加辉煌

C：愿我们的大学日新月异的发展

D：愿我们的祖国更加繁荣富强

A：现在我宣布齐齐哈尔大学生命学院XX级迎新晚会

合：到此结束

B：衷心的感谢各位领导和嘉宾的到来

C：同时感谢-----------------------------------------------------------------------

和--------------------------------------------------对我们的大力支持

D：祝各位晚安!

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3.迎新春晚会节目主持词

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4.大学迎新大会教师代表发言稿 篇四

非常高兴，也非常荣幸作为教师代表和大家进行交流。

我和大家的交流包含四层意思。

第一层，衷心祝贺同学们经过多年苦读成为郑州大学的一员，圆了自己的大学梦。孟子将“得天下之英才而教育之”视为君子三乐之一，同学们的到来无疑是我们郑州大学每一个老师的乐事。

第二层，和大家交流一下对学习的认识，这也是我和大家交流的重点。当年神光向达摩求法，达摩说：“诸佛无上妙道，旷劫精勤，难行我行，非忍而忍。岂以小德小智，轻心慢心，欲冀直乘，徒劳勤苦。”意思是说，要想取得大的成就，必须勤苦修行，行常人所不能行，忍常人所不能忍；有小德小智、轻心慢心之人渴望成功只能是痴人说梦。修佛如此，要学好我们的专业同样如此，既需要有恭敬心，更需要立勤苦志。

在很多同学看来，大学不用像高中那样头悬梁锥刺股挑灯夜战了，于是彻底放松了自己，这是不对的。大学是我们生命中最美好的时光，苏轼说：“百年三万日，老病常居半。”人的一生其实是非常短暂的，有一个卖牛奶的做广告，从你出生那天开始，就喝我们的牛奶，每天喝一袋，只要坚持喝到36500袋，保证你活一百岁。百岁高龄也只是36500袋牛奶的事，更何况我们的大学生活只有短短几年呢？所以经不起挥霍。

我给大家算笔账，本学期总共20周，140天，现在已经是第三周了，还剩17周119天，在这17周中，星期天占了34天，国庆节、中秋节、元旦放假又占了10天，还剩75天，每天休息8小时，另外，吃个饭，聊个天，上上网，遛遛弯，能剩下10个小时学习就不错了。这样一折算本学期有效的学习时间也就不足32天了，平均到每一门课上只有几天时间。每一个学期也都大致如此，所以时间是如此地短暂，应该继续发扬高中时期枕戈待旦的拼搏精神。总之，与其潇洒做梦，不如努力圆梦，今天只有努力圆梦，明天才能安心做梦。

圆梦既需要我们夯实专业基础，更需要有开阔的胸襟和健康的心智。大学教育是开放式教育，要善于发现别人的优点，当发现周围人人皆是优点时，你就生活在了天堂之中；可是当你无视别人的优点而刻意放大别人的缺点时，你便生活在了地狱之中。放眼学界，立足专业，以长者为师，以能者为师，把别人的优点变成自己的长处，这是学习的智慧。在专业学习中，要处理好课堂领会和课外巩固拓展的关系，须知课堂讲授强调的是整体接受，而课外学习则更能突出个性发展，注意发现自己的兴趣点和兴奋点，扬长避短，洪钟善撞，多向师长请益，必会有所成就。

第三层是一个期望。我个人觉得，一个好的老师除了需要自身扎实的学养之外，还离不开同学们的督促，教学相长并非虚话套话。我经常给我的学生说，感谢同学们培养了我，不是哗众取宠。尺有所短，寸有所长，是同学们指出了我的不足，让我在完善中成长。如果每个同学都能如此，我们郑州大学的教学质量和科研水平必将更加辉煌。

5.大学新学期迎新晚会班主任发言稿 篇五

漫长又快乐的暑假过去了，迎来的新的学期，在此大家欢聚一堂，班主任要为新学期新的的开始发言，本文是范文，欢迎大家阅读学习。

亲爱的同学们：

大家上午好!

一年一度秋风劲，又是丹桂飘香时。很高兴能够参加 xx 学院 xx 级本科生迎新大会，我是 xx，来自 xx 班。金秋送爽，在九月广州旖旎风光中，又一批新鲜血液注入我们学院，在此，我谨代表学院全体高年级本科生，向各位新生表示由衷的祝贺和热烈的欢迎!

看到你们，我想起了去年的我，怀揣着对大学的向往和憧憬，踏入了中大的校门。从对学科的一无所知到现在的得心应手，从社团的干事到学生干部，数计院一年教给我的绝不仅仅是书本上的知识，更多的是缜密的思维方式和对人生的思考。这一年中，我有过迷茫，也有过困惑，就连是否继续学生工作也有过动摇，但在老师的指导下，我做出了属于我的选择，形成了以“学习为主，工作为辅”的生活模式，也对接下来三年的大学生活有了清晰地规划。

大学，的确有很多东西需要你们去经历，值得你们去思考。但作为你们的学长，我要告诉你们：历史已离你们远去，不论是辉煌亦或是暗淡，大学是一个全新的起点。新的环境，新的挑战，在你们每个人的面前都摊开了一张新的白纸，那么我们将如何在这张白纸上画出人生的又一幅精彩的画卷呢?我想答案只有四个字，那就是“求真务实”，题目需要大家潜心地去想，学问需要大家踏实地来做，切勿好高骛远，一分耕耘，就必定会有一份收获!

作为你们的学长，我要告诉你们：大学的校园生活并不像有的人想象中那般轻松自在。你将开始一段独立于父母依赖于同学的新生活。在这里，没有丰满羽翼的庇护，更多的只是同窗间的相互关心、互相体谅;在这里，没有老师拿分数“逼迫”你努力努力再努力，更多的是同学间友好的“明争暗斗”;在这里，没有人会督促着你按时上课、按时完成作业，更多的是一颗颗勇于挑战的心对学术高地发起一次次的冲击。

作为你们的学长，我要告诉你们：良好的开端是成功的一半。一个好的开始，就意味着同学们应该树立起一个远大的理想，就像一棵树，正是有了对阳光的渴望，它才可能直插云霄;就像一只鹰，正是有了对蓝天的向往，它才可能遨游天际。所以，只有有理想的人生才是积极的人生，才能飞得更高，才能飞得更远，才能真正体会到“会当凌绝顶，一览众山小”的境界。其实，本次数计院回迁南校也正是大家放飞理想的一个机遇，增加了与教授和研究生的接触，也就意味着有更多的资源有待大家去挖掘、去利用。我想说，校区在变，环境在变，不变的是数计人敢于拼搏、永不服输的心!

作为你们的学长，我要告诉你们：人生非坦途。同学们应该有充分的心理准备，学习中一定会有很多困难。所以，拿出你“天生我才必有用”的信心，拿出你“吹尽黄沙始到金”的毅力，去迎接人生风雨的洗礼，毕竟只有经历风雨，我们才可能见到美丽的彩虹。

“长风破浪会有时，直挂云帆济沧海。”让我们揽万卷文集，汲白代精华，踏实地走好每一步，共同携手，打造数计院灿烂的明天!请记住：今天你们以数计院为荣，明天数计院以你们为傲!祝大家在校园中的每一天快乐、幸福!

同时又值教师节来临之际，祝所有老师节日快乐，道一声：“老师，您辛苦了!”

6.大学开学迎新发言稿 篇六

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在法博上看到耶鲁大学法学院院长2008年迎新发言，英语听力不大好，于是找到英文原文对着听 Dean‟s Welcoming Speech Harold Hongju Koh Yale Law School August 27, 2008 http://cs.law.yale.edu/blogs/files/7/214/StudentWelcomeKoh082708.mp3

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Welcome to Yale Law School!

I am Harold Koh, and I am the Dean here.Please call me Harold.I really mean that.I have taught Procedure and International Law here for more than two decades, and I have called New Haven home for nearly five.If that is who I am, who are you? You, collectively, are the 197th group of law students to receive your legal education here at Yale.Formal legal education began here in New Haven around 1814, at least three years before Chief Justice Isaac Parker of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts founded a law school up at Harvard, and 32 years before a law school was founded down at Princeton, which closed its doors only six years later.As you will hear this afternoon, when Professor John Langbein tells you about the early history of Yale Law School, legal education first came here more than 200 years ago, when a Yale college graduate named Seth Staples and two of his students—Samuel Hitchcock and David Daggett, all of whose portraits now hang in Room 127—started to teach budding lawyers in the New Haven building that became Yale Law School.(Parenthetically, that explains the seal of the Yale Law School that is now your shield: which honors these founders with a field of Staples on the left, in honor of Seth Staples;a greyhound on the right in honor of David Daggett(whose original family name was Doget);and an alligator on top— which Samuel Hitchcock and his family took as their symbol after the family moved to the Bahamas.)You, nearly the 200th class ever to study here, include 189 entering JD students from 77 undergraduate institutions, 28 LLMs, 7 new JSD students, 14 transfer students, and several visiting students.You are, quite simply, the finest group of entering law students assembled anywhere on this planet this year.Each year, one school in this world gets to say that, and this year, happily, it is us.You are the best, not just because you are so able, but because you are so interesting.Collectively, you have lived or worked in 77 countries;you read and speak at least 30 languages.(Take a look at this map).Your classmates include: A Chinese yo-yo artist, a hip-hop dancer;a certified judge for the Kansas City Barbeque Society;a scholar of Korean soap opera;a firefighter;a member of the College Football Hall of Fame;winner of 2007 The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest;a former Brazilian professional soccer player;a sailor who twice crossed the Atlantic;the youngest university graduate in the history of Germany;and the leader of the cymbal section of a marching band that once played at the Vatican.By the numbers, your group includes: 1 Flamenco dancer 2 Military officers 2 Debate champions 2 Competitive skydivers 3 Radio talk show hosts 4 Black belts in martial arts 4 Eagle Scouts 5 Mountain climbers, including 2 who climbed Mt.Kilimanjaro A television producer who won 5 Emmy awards 7 Marathon runners And a partridge in a pear tree.:-)

Now hearing this litany, I know what you are saying: “So what on earth am I doing here?”

If it makes you feel better, let me assure you that you are not alone.I know just how you feel.The only difference between you and me is that we started law school 30 years apart.Like you, until now, I have been lucky in my career.Like you, I have been to places I‟ve never dreamed I could go.And like you, I have sometimes wondered whether I got to where I am at Yale Law School because somebody well meaning made the wrong decision.But what I have learned over time is that there is no such thing as a wrong decision.There is the decision that you make, then what you do to make it the right decision.On the day I was invited to clerk for the Supreme Court, I asked my late father: “Do I deserve this?” He paused, and answered, “Of course not.No one deserves to clerk for the Supreme Court.But if you give it your best, by the time you are done, you will have deserved it.”

So that is what I say to you about Yale Law School: To be at Yale Law School is a very great privilege.None of us really deserves to be here.But if we all do what we have to do, if we make this place our own, if we do our best and force our school to live up to its own highest aspirations, then all of us will belong here.So that is my first message: today marks the start of our journey together.To prove that I really do intend to journey with you, please mark your calendars for a week from this Saturday—Sept.6—when you can tell the Dean to take a hike, then actually go with him.We will gather at a state park in Hamden and hike to the top of Sleeping Giant mountain(it is actually a foothill, but for us in Connecticut, it‟s as close as we get to a mountain).At the top, we will take pictures, survey the landscape, then hike back down for lunch to celebrate our new beginning.As you look around this room, consider this fact: for each of you sitting here, 20 others applied for your place.We have far more qualified applicants than we can accept, but you were selected for a reason.You were chosen to be a part of this dynamic community because of the unique talents, ideas, and energy that you possess.So look to your left;look to your right.You see what Yale Law School is, and must always be: a community of remarkable individuals, committed to excellence and humanity in everything you do.From century to century, from class to class, this School has remained a community of commitment to the values we share.In your time here, you will hear that phrase from me often:

A community of commitment.A community of commitment.There are many committed individuals who belong to no communities.There are many communities that share no commitments.But what makes the Yale Law School a special law school is that it is a community of commitment: commitment to the highest excellence in our work as lawyers and scholars, commitment to the greatest humanity in our dealings with others, and commitment to lives genuinely devoted not to selfishness, but service.As you look to your left and right, please remember one more thing: this is a place where we are committed to each other.At this school, you will learn best through dialogue with one another.The people who will get you through here;the people who will teach you most about how to be a good lawyer and how to be a good person are the classmates you meet for the first time today.Your classmates will stay with you throughout your lives.They will attend your wedding, join your vacations, serve as godparents of your children, watch over you in illness, send you emails and clients, vouch for you at your Senate confirmations, and speak at your funeral.So if you are wondering: how am I going to make my way here? The answer is simple: Trust your classmates.Right now they are your classmates;but in time, they will be your soulmates.Think of them as your brothers-and sisters-in-law.You are all in this together, and the time to start supporting one another is right now.Now all of this sounds fine, except for one thing: when it comes to Law School, your classmates are novices, too.None of them can answer the questions that cloud your mind: like, how do I get off to a good start in law school?

Well, those are relatively easy questions.Getting oriented is what orientations are for, and this week is designed to help you figure out where things are, and who can help you solve your transition problems.Each of you is assigned to a Dean‟s Advisor;let me ask them all to stand up: Yaw Anim BJ Ard Sipoura Barzideh Jennifer Bennett Lauren Chamblee Caroline Edsall Elliot Morrison Christina Parajon Sergio Perez Sujeet Rao In our Office of Student Affairs, we have a wonderful Dean of Students in Sharon Brooks;a marvelous Student Life Coordinator, Maura Sichol-Sprague;Sachi Rodgers, Special Project Coordinator in charge of Student Organizations;Marie Battista, Senior Administrative Assistant;and Joe Lynch, Student Journals Assistant.As you will learn, in addition to having the best students and faculty in the world, we have the most humane and dedicated administrative staff in the world.The real Deans of Yale Law School, the Administrative Deans who make this place run, are pictured at the front of your facebook, but let me introduce some of them now.First, our two deputy deans:

Reva Siegel, Deputy Dean for Intellectual Life and the Nicholas Katzenbach Professor of Law;

Jon Macey, Deputy Dean for Curriculum and Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law;

Our Librarian, Professor Blair Kaufmann, and:

Megan A.Barnett

Dean for Academic Affairs

Toni Hahn Davis

Dean for Alumni and Public Affairs

and the Graduate Program

Mark LaFontaine

Dean for Development

Asha Rangappa

Dean of Admissions

Mark Templeton

Dean for Finance & Human Resources

Mike Thompson

Dean for Facilities

Jan Conroy

Director of Communications

Judith Calvert

Registrar

Pat Barnes

Director of Financial Aid

Behind them stand many, many others whom I encourage you to meet personally.You will spend much of the days ahead learning from these new friends how the school really operates.They will tell each of you that you have the opportunity to craft an extraordinary law school experience, because you have joined a supportive community that will offer you the resources you need.Let me spend my time this morning discussing a somewhat different question: not how do I study law? But how do I think about studying law? That is what we like to call here: the meta question.As the late Professor Leon Lipson once said, “At Yale, we believe that anything you can do, I can do meta.”

How exactly do you think about this brave new world that you are entering? This world of Law and Law Talk?

Well, first, the good news.As my predecessor, Dean Guido Calabresi, famously told the entering class each year, “My friends, you are off the treadmill now.” After years of carefully triangulating your course to get to this place, you‟ve made it!You don‟t have to do anything here just to get ahead.Here at Yale Law School, we have no class rank.All of you can succeed here.All of you should succeed here.But sadly, there are too many lawyers in this world who remember the day they started law school as the day they began the rat race.But in the words of Yale‟s chaplain, William Sloane Coffin: “Remember that even if you win the rat race, you are still a rat.”

I ask you to think about your law school career differently.I ask you to think about it, not as a competition, but as an adventure.Yale Law School is an adventure, which should have at least three elements:

First, trying new things.Second, combining theory with practice.Third, deciding what you stand for.Let me say a word about each.First, trying new things.Experimentation.Explore the rare intellectual freedom that this school offers.We have very few rules.We have minimal required curriculum.Make the most of that freedom.Don‟t spend your time repeating things you already know you can do.Instead, try things you‟ve never tried.So if you are a good writer, try public speaking.If you are an accomplished debater, join a law journal.If you are a poet, study law and economics.And if you are a mathematician or number cruncher by training, take law and literature.By entering law school, you are not ending your education in the liberal arts;you are extending it.The same goes for your summers.If you have lived your whole life in the States, work for a human rights group in Africa.If you always wanted to be a criminal defense lawyer, try working in a prosecutor‟s office.If you are convinced you want to be a corporate lawyer, spend a summer doing legal aid, and vice versa.Exercise all your intellectual muscles, not just one.At Yale, we intend our approach to legal education to be interdisciplinary, interprofessional, and international.What does that mean?

By an interdisciplinary approach, we mean to show you how the intellectual discipline of law connects with other academic disciplines, some of which you studied before you got here.Law is not the only discipline in this great university.We have a great law faculty, whose members hold advanced degrees in law, of course;but many also hold advanced degrees in philosophy, history, political science, sociology, economics, and medicine.Two of these professors will deliver introductory lectures on their subjects of specialty.Tomorrow afternoon, Professor Jules Coleman will give an introductory lecture on “law and philosophy for physicists.” On September 2, Professor Carol Rose will give an introductory lecture on “law and economics for poets.”

They will ask you to start viewing the law through many lenses, not just one.That will begin this afternoon, when you hear the first two lectures in our Introductions series, from Professor Bill Eskridge, who will give you a tour of the American legal system, and Professor John Langbein who will introduce you to the history of legal education and the Yale Law School.Those will be followed later this week by lectures tomorrow on professional responsibility by Professor Jean Koh Peters;and on Friday, Sept.5, on public interest law by Professor Brett Dignam.And in the weeks ahead, you will also hear from two accomplished graduates of our school who made their mark in different fields: one, Ben Heineman, who became corporate counsel of one of the largest economies in the world, the General Electric Co., speaking on values and vision in legal practice, and another, Margaret Marshall, who was born in South Africa, but after her JD here became Chief Justice of her home state of Massachusetts.Please attend these introductions.They are designed to cast new light on your coursework.You will find them fascinating and useful in seeing how law relates to other concepts in the world of ideas.In addition to being interdisciplinary, I mentioned that our approach is interprofessional.By interprofessional, we mean that we are not the only professional school in this university.You should think hard about how the profession of law relates to these other professions, some of them professions in which you have already engaged: law and business, law and public health, law and media, and law and the environment.Law shapes these fields, and these fields generate new law.To lead these fields, we need lawyers who are genuinely bilingual, who are versatile enough to lead these coordinate fields, so in each of these areas, we are developing joint programs with the other professional schools here at Yale.It is not an accident that in each of these other professional fields, graduates of Yale Law School are leaders as well.That is because if there is one common feature of Yale Law graduates, it is their entrepreneurial spirit, their willingness to take chances.The Dean‟s Program on the Profession is a speaker series that features Yale Law School graduates who have made a special mark within the law or who have moved outside the law to become leaders of the entertainment field, the health care industry, professional sports, venture capital, you name it.What their careers tell you is that just because you are studying law, it does not mean that a lawyer is all you will ever be.To explore your full potential, they will tell you, you must take risks.And if you, the most privileged law students in the world, don‟t have the courage to take risks, who else will?

In entering law and its related fields, you will need to learn how to write again, and you will need to learn how to read again.The most important suggestion I can make is to read closely.Read more closely than you have read before.Read like your client‟s life depends on it, because believe me, it will.And as you read, think of the judges who wrote those opinions as real people, trying to make real decisions.Imagine how you would have made those decisions had they been yours to make.And at some point, I assure you, the magic moment will come, described this way by Hector in The History Boys:

The best moments in reading are when you come across something—a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things—which you had thought special and particular to you.Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead.And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.1

But reading alone is not enough.Which leads me to my second suggestion, in all you do here: Combine Theory with Practice

When you come to my office, as all of you should, you will see on my wall, in Chinese characters, one of my favorite sayings: “Theory without practice is as lifeless as practice without theory is thoughtless.” Alan Bennett, The History Boys 56.Yale Law School is and must always remain the world‟s premier center of legal theory.We believe that no single intellectual discipline has a monopoly on wisdom: that is what it means to be an interdisciplinary law school.How do we get nations to obey the law? The answer to that question lies not just in the law itself, but in such related disciplines as psychology, economics, philosophy, sociology, political science, anthropology.But if you want to understand the relationship between law and justice, you must look not just to the Uniform Commercial Code and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure but to the humanities: great plays like Shakespeare‟s Henry V or The Merchant of Venice, novels like Melville‟s Billy Budd, or works of art like Picasso‟s Guernica.If you don‟t know those disciplines, use your time here to introduce yourselves to them.Spend your time not just in our phenomenal Law Library, but at Yale Repertory Theater, the newly renovated Art Gallery, the Center for British Art, the Globalization Center, and the Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies.Most of all, the study of law is the search for ideas.A professor of mine once said, “Ideas are not butterflies.They are butterfly nets.” Ideas help you to capture insights, organize experience, impose intellectual order on natural disorder.Which is why you chose to attend a great law school in a great university.Once you begin practicing law, you soon find yourself with precious little time to read, reflect, or get new ideas.Law firms have no English departments.Legal aid clinics don‟t teach you economics.If you want to understand more deeply what is right, not just what is right for your client, what is the truth, not just what argument works, you need to study ideas.You need to study theory.But for every yin there is a yang.Theory without practice is as lifeless, as practice without theory is thoughtless.Theory alone cannot change the world;lawyers must actually be skilled in the practice of law to change the world.When the judge asks you why your client should win, your answer cannot be, “Because John Rawls said so.”

Great lawyers are made, not born.Which is why each and every one of you should take a course or more in our superb clinical program.Use internships, externships, and summer practice to understand better how you can use your legal skills to change the world.Which brings me to the subtle virtues of New Haven, your new home away from home.A poll in the Anchorage Daily Times reported that New Haven has two of the top ten pizza restaurants in America.It is the home of two Tony-award winning theaters.Some of the best music and the best arts and ideas festival in the country.And it has a remarkable legal history.But most relevant for our purposes, New Haven is a model laboratory for the practice of law.Over the years, Yale law students have helped to build day care centers for unwed mothers, to create nonprofit corporations to shelter the homeless, to found a leading Charter School and community bank, to do the legal work for the Shaw‟s Grocery Store on Whalley Ave.Three decades ago, two contemporaries both worked in the clinical program here;each said it was the best experience they had at Yale Law School.Their names are Bill Clinton and Clarence Thomas.If each of them can do it, and get something out of it, then so can you.In our clinic, we think locally, but we act globally.We do not limit our clinical work to the confines of New Haven.Over the years, our human rights clinic has promoted human rights around the world.It has represented Haitian and Cuban refugees at the Supreme Court, exposed abuses in East Timor, sent students to Bosnia and Kosovo and Sierra Leone and Cambodia, supported international prosecutors in The Hague, and helped think about the structure of constitutional democracy in Iraq.Yale graduates, professors and students in our 9/11 Clinic participated on all sides of Supreme Court‟s military commissions decision last year, and filed several of the briefs in Boumediene, the Guantanamo case that will be argued this fall.Our Supreme Court Clinic has several cases pending on the Supreme Court‟s September docket list.And when Homeland Security arrested two dozen workers this summer, first-year students dropped everything to represent each and every one of them at expedited bond hearings, and our Workers and Immigrants Rights Clinic continues that work today.That brings me, of course, to the issue of our day: globalization.As I said, your legal education should be not just interdisciplinary and interprofessional, but international.In the last four terms of the U.S.Supreme Court, no fewer than 25 cases involved globalization.On Friday morning, I will give you an introduction to transnational law that I hope will start you thinking about the relationship between law and globalization.And later this September, 20 of the world‟s leading constitutional court judges, including Justices Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer of our Supreme Court, will come to this building to talk about how the world‟s leading courts now deal with such diverse, yet common, global issues as torture, reproductive rights, affirmative action, terrorism, and same-sex marriage.These issues occupy our headlines.And what presidential candidate recently wrote this? “We Americans recall the words of our founders in the declaration of

independence, that we must pay „decent respect to the opinions of

mankind.‟ Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we

want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the

wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed…We all have to live up

to our own high standards of morality and international responsibility.We cannot torture or treat inhumanely the suspected terrorists that we

have captured.We will fight the terrorists and at the same time defend

the rights that are the foundations of our society.”2

The speaker, of course, was John McCain, speaking in Europe.And we hope you will all join together in helping us address what is perhaps the greatest globalization challenge of our day: sustainability.As global citizens, one of the challenges that we all face As Tom Friedman of The New York Times recently noted, last year was by far the worst year for freedom in the world since the end of the Cold War.Almost four times as many states — 38 — declined in their freedom scores as improved.3 Strikingly, the least democratic countries in the world are those who derive most of their revenues from oil.So as the price of fuel rises, and with it the price of food and housing, every community must cut its reliance on fossil fuels, not just to save money, not just to protect the environment from global warming, not just to promote our national security, but to promote the rule of law that is this law school‟s mission.Sustainability begins at home.So we will start that conversation with Professor Dan Esty in his introductory lecture on environmental law on Sept.19.The Law School is joining with Yale University‟s sustainability efforts4 on a number of green initiatives designed to reduce the Law School‟s carbon footprint and help us work together as a community of faculty, staff, and students toward a more sustainable future for our campus.Some of these ideas are small changes we can make right away, like turning off lights and computer monitors, carpooling or usingpublic transportation, or using mugs and silverware instead of disposable items.In addition, the Law School‟s “Green Team,” headed by Associate Director of Student Affairs Maura Sichol-Sprague(maura.sichol-sprague@yale.edu)and Director of Alumni Affairs Abby Roth(abigail.roth@yale.edu), is working on larger Law John McCain, Op-ed, Financial Times(March 18, 2008);

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