Rite of passage

Micheline Lubin, 22, of Buffalo, foreground, one of 138 freshmen in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, listens intently during the white-coat ceremony, the annual "rite of passage" for entering students, held Aug. 9 in the Center for the Arts. During the ceremony, students take the Hippocratic Oath and are cloaked in their first white coats.