First-Year Program Common Events
1996-1997

Fall Semester
  • Welcoming picnic
  • Lecture, Terry Tempest Williams (author of shared text, Refuge)
  • Ice cream social for all years of FYP
  • Day trip to Boston
  • Apple picking excursion
  • FYP town meeting
  • Production, Arcadia, Huntington Theatre Company
  • Visit to St. Joseph's Abbey
  • Anthony Kuzniewski, lecture on Jesuit life
  • Parents weekend reception
  • Last Call, drug/alcohol performance
  • Boston Aquarium trip
  • Cantor Gallery opening: Michael Jacobson-Hardy photographs
  • Production, Measure for Measure, Fenwick Theatre
  • Concert, Bach B Minor Mass, Sanders Theater
  • Everett Fox, lecture on The Book of Job
  • Michael Jacobson-Hardy lecture
  • Dr. James Gilligan, presentation on prisons
  • FYP retreat weekend
  • Ice cream social

Spring Semester
  • Film, A Passage to India
  • Production, Rent, Shubert Theatre
  • Film, Skin Deep, and discussion on racism
  • Concert, Holy Cross Chamber Players
  • Film, The Power of One, and discussion
  • Date rape presentation and discussion
  • Lecture, Abraham Verghese (author of common text, My Own Country)
  • AIDS Project Worcester presentation
  • Film, And the Band Played On
  • Film, Schindler's List
  • Concert, New York City Interdenominational Gospel Choir
  • Concert, Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale
  • Religion and Modernity Lecture, Cornell West
  • Film, Obedience to Authority
  • Film, Anne Frank Remembered
  • Franz Muller, lecture on German Resistance Movement
  • Weekend trip to Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C.
  • Ice cream social
  • FYP banquet