Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, Festival Choir and Alumni Choir members performed at the spring concert in the St. Thomas Chapel Thursday night.
The evening focused on showcasing all the choirs’ talents as well as saying goodbye to the seniors.
Junior Aaron Behnke conducted the Chamber Singers’ first piece, “Seasons of Love” from “Rent.” As a vocal music education major, Behnke has taken conducting classes at St. Thomas, but said this was his first time conducting a large group.
The men’s basketball team presented its NCAA Division III national championship trophy Tuesday afternoon in Schoenecker Arena.
The group leaves Wednesday morning for Chicago to perform two concerts at the American Choral Directors Association convention. Only five college or university choirs are invited to perform at the convention.
Eight hundred and twenty five St. Thomas families registered to participate in this year’s Family Weekend, according to Assistant Dean of Students Sister Sharon Howell.
Graduates received their diplomas in an unfamiliar place Saturday. Commencement ceremonies were held at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, due to the construction of the Anderson Athletic and Recreation Complex.
Students are hanging shirts and jeans on clotheslines this week in the Lower Quad, but they’re not doing laundry.
The display is part of a nationwide project to help build awareness about domestic violence and sexual assault directed toward women.
St. Thomas’ Knights of Columbus have a tradition of praying in front of Planned Parenthood every Friday.
The group meets at 3:15 p.m. in the lobby of St. John Vianney Seminary and then car pools to the business on Ford Parkway in Highland Park.
Junior Sean Grismer said the group consists mostly of seminarians.