Ron Hall, left, rings a cowbell presented to him Tuesday [August 18] by MSU President Mark E. Keenum, right, during the university’s second Freshman Convocation. Hall, co-author of the university’s 2015 Maroon Edition common reading experience selection, “Same Kind of Different as Me,” shared life lessons with the more than 3,400 freshmen in attendance, who make up the largest class in the 137-year-old land-grant university’s history.