Your friendly tour guide: sit, girl

Folks in Grant Hall will stop at nothing to recruit good students, even if it means using a tour guide that is, well, not human.

Kate Elliott, admissions counselor, recently received a typical glowing letter from a prospective student, which began: "I enjoyed the unique tour around campus last Thursday with you and Sally."

"For a second I thought, 'Who is Sally?'" Elliott remembers thinking when she read the note. "I don't have a tour guide named Sally."

Then she remembered: Sally is a golden retriever belonging to Dan Lundquist. The vice president for admissions calls the practice of using canine tour guides "recruiting by all means necessary."