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Orange-shirted I-Guides a big help on move-in day

By Debra Pressey
Sunday August 19, 2007

Robin Scholz

Sophomore I-Guide Joe Gonzalez hauls a University of Illinois freshman's belongings Saturday into the Illinois Street Residence Halls.

Wake-up: 7 a.m. Breakfast: 7:15 a.m. And by 8 a.m., Joe Gonzalez is on the job at the Illinois Street Residence Halls, a smiling greeter and hauler of boxes and bags containing everything freshmen think they're going to need to survive their first year away at college.

"A lot of freshmen bring a lot of things," said Gonzalez, a sophomore aerospace engineering major who was among hundreds of orange-shirted I-Guides helping with the University of Illinois freshman move-in Saturday morning.

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