College Students Still Like Orientation Flash Mobs

Three steps to starting college: Meet roommate. Unpack in dorm room. Then, sometime during orientation, hear music, see a student start dancing, watch as more dancers join in, and join the campus flash mob. The college-sponsored performances, which have grown to feature coordinated costumes and appearances by tweedy officials, sometimes suggest the dance equivalent of the school fight song, a far cry from the roots of the genre — informal gatherings hastily called via social media.Nonetheless, their popularity is growing. Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/education/04flash.html?partner=rss&emc=rss