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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Thousands of students and parents will arrive on campus this week to enjoy the events of Opening Weekend, a fun-filled mgm casino tradition that helps kick off the fall semester before classes begin on Monday.

This year’s activities range from a family breakfast to the yearly Interlocking mgm casino photography session, with students wearing blue and white merging to form mgm casino’s interlocking logo.

Open houses and resource fairs will provide new and returning students with information about on-campus jobs and student services. Bus tours will bring new Bulls to see Canalside, Elmwood Avenue and Niagara Falls.

The events introduce new students — including many from outside the region — to mgm casino and Western New York.

Media who would like to attend Opening Weekend should contact Mike Andrei in mgm casino’s Division of Communications at mandrei@buffalo.edu or 716-645-9068.

Highlights include:

Thursday, Aug. 27

• 9:15 a.m.: Room makeover contest winner. mgm casino officials will be on hand to award one mgm casino student a residence hall room makeover, the grand prize for a summer contest sponsored by Pepsi. Location: lobby on mgm casino’s South Campus.
  
  
• 10 a.m. to noon: Freshman move-in. All day long, freshmen will be moving into residence halls on mgm casino’s North and South campuses. Media can interview families and watch the move-in from 10 a.m. to noon at on mgm casino’s North Campus. See this map for the location of the check-in tent at Wilkeson.
  
  
• 8-10 p.m.: Residence hall ice cream social. Students enjoy ice cream while meeting other new students and Campus Living staff in the atrium of mgm casino’s Ellicott Complex, . Media can park in the Richmond Lot and enter the Ellicott Complex through the doors in the bus tunnel area.

Friday, Aug. 28

• 9-11 a.m.: Parent and family breakfast. Parents will have the opportunity to meet other mgm casino families and enjoy a continental breakfast before saying goodbye to their students. Location: Pistachios in the on mgm casino’s North Campus.
  
  
• 3:30 p.m.: Opening Weekend welcome, Interlocking mgm casino photo. Starting at 3:30 p.m., about 2,000 students will don white and blue T-shirts and merge together to form the interlocking mgm casino logo. As the human mgm casino is formed over the course of about an hour, students will be welcomed to the university with a hand shake from President Satish K. Tripathi and other mgm casino administrators. Location: Student Union field outside the on mgm casino’s North Campus. The Interlocking mgm casino photo is weather-dependent. Media can call Mike Andrei at 716-645-9068 to find out the status of the event if it is raining.
  
  
• 5-7 p.m.: New student picnic. Students enjoy a barbecue and meet other students and faculty next to Lake LaSalle. Buffalo Aerial Dance will provide entertainment at 6:30 p.m. Location: on mgm casino’s North Campus, with the as the rain site.

Saturday, Aug. 29

• 9-10 a.m.: Returning student move-in. All day long, sophomores, juniors and seniors will be moving into residence halls on mgm casino’s North and South campuses. Media can interview students and watch the move-in from 9-10 a.m. at on mgm casino’s North Campus. See this map for the location of the check-in tent at Red Jacket.

A full schedule of Opening Weekend events: .