 Hello everyone Mitch Daniels with one of our occasional updates to the Purdue community and while the message is for everyone I'm speaking specifically today to our students even more particularly to our incoming first-time students. We can't wait to welcome you here and apparently you can't either you have applied in record numbers and accepted our admissions offers at a record rate so all signs point to a full and thriving campus of well-prepared students again this fall. That's become a familiar scene here at Purdue but what won't be familiar is many of other features of life in this time of this terrible pandemic we've been through. We are out to be the most prepared the safest campus we can be for you and for every other member of the Purdue family who is here to help you with your education and help you launch your life so you'll see face coverings there'll be more cleaning than ever before and there'll be a lot of distance not just the social distance we've all learned to practice but more distance between classes smaller gatherings of all kinds. Undoubtedly we will have to forego many of the big events that are a typical part of campus life at least for a while and limit the size of groups who get together in person. We'll be testing people and tracing those who do prove to have caught this infection for their own protection and for the protection of others and we'll use all the technology that Purdue and our many partners can summon to do this as well as anybody in the country. Anyone who is found to have contracted the ailment will be isolated for their own safety and comfort and that of others. We will need your cooperation to do this preserving a healthy campus environment will be a responsibility we all share and while the safety and well-being of our students is always a central preoccupation with this particular threat as we've all learned it is not our students it is their elders and particular those with pre-existing health conditions who are really it could be at serious risk. We believe the campus experience is a very important part of a complete Purdue education and we are determined to do all we can even during this passing pandemic to make sure that you have that experience and the benefits of it. Behind me here is the 1939 fountain it's a centerpiece of campus big part of Purdue tradition you incoming students at some point in your time here will probably run through it in keeping with that long-standing custom and a few years from now in caps and gowns you'll walk around it and up the stairs here into Elliott Hall for one of Purdue's moving and matchless commencements it's our full intention that you have that entire experience we're going to do all we can we'll work all summer to make sure that we can turn that fountain on and welcome you appropriately in August see you then