My favorite air to breath is Fall air on a college campus.  Fall and the arrival of students, new and returning, is here!  Football players, Resident Assistants, Sorority recruitment leaders, and band members are likely on your campus right now.  Others will quickly follow! Wooo Hooo!

Most Freshmen arriving on your campus in a few weeks were born in 1992! Other happenings in 1992 were:

• A League of Their Own, Sister Act, and A Few Good Men were popular movies.

• The Pelican Brief by John Grisham, Every Living Thing by James Harriot, and The Way Things Ought to Be by Rush Limbaugh were best selling books.

• Murphy Brown, Home Improvement, and Cheers were weekly television hits.

• Right Said Fred's I'm Too Sexy and Kris Cross' Jump were at the top of the musical charts.

• University of Alabama football record was 13-0-0.

• Toronto Blue Jays won the World Series: 4-2 against the Atlanta Braves.

• The first black female astronaut, Dr. Mae C. Jemison, spent more than a week orbiting Earth.

• Johnny Carson left The Tonight Show. I still miss him.

• Quebec voted to remain a part of Canada.

• The LA Riots followed the recorded beating of Rodney King.

• Minnesota's Mall of America, the largest shopping mall in the US was constructed.

My hope is that this newsletter will give you some practical tools to begin the 2010-2011 school year-from welcoming Freshman and International students to resources which can be used to make collegiate disciples.

Blessings for a new ministry year,

Linda H. Osborne

National Collegiate Ministry Leader