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The week in photos: Aug. 19-25

| Author: Aaron Mills | Media Contact: Aaron Mills

Some of the top photos from Central Michigan University events and activities during the week of Aug. 19-25 as captured by University Communications.

An overhead shot of a football field with people standing in the shape of a C with the word Chippewas visible in both end zones.
A timeless tradition at Central Michigan University is “packing the Big C” at Leadership Safari - incoming freshmen and transfer students filed into the classic Block C on Kramer/Deromedi Field, with the help of the 102nd Chippewa Marching Band.
Young people in maroon T-shirts run through a tunnel of other young people beneath flags in a hallway with windows for walls.
Leadership Safari closed with the tunnel run in McGuirk Arena – incoming students cheered and high-fived their Safari Guides as they ran to their last keynote address of the week.
A man in gray pants and a polo shirt holding a microphone stands in the middle of a basketball arena filled with people.
Director of the Sarah R. Opperman Leadership Institute, Dan Gaken, gives a fired-up speech to Safari students in McGuirk Arena. Gaken’s address reflected on many of his own college experiences and stressed the importance of student leadership amid changing social challenges.
A young woman navigates through a string maze in a wooden frame held by seven other people.
Leadership Safari Guides held several team-building games and exercises for incoming freshman at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
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