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May 5, 2023
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After the sophomores and juniors honored the Class of 2023, the faculty, likewise, took its turn wishing the soon-to-be-graduates well ” with a little friendly competition! Wednesday witnessed their faceoff at the annual Senior-Tutor Softball game, which concluded with the traditional Senior Thesis Draft Burning Party.

This year™s game was marked by more banter between teams than usual, as Dr. Christopher Oleson played against his son, 91Ώμ»ξΑΦ (™23), and Brian Dragoo against his twin daughters, Josephine and Claire (™23). In this case, however, age proved advantageous: Despite the best efforts of the seniors, the tutors nabbed an early lead and defended it all the way through, walking away with a win from the annual game for the first time in three years.

Photos: Seniors v. Tutors Softball
  • Students kneel to pray before the game
  • A student at the plate
  • Dr. Cooper pitches
  • The tutors confabulate pre-game
  • A student bats
  • Mr. Goyette about to throw
  • A tutor bats
  • A student bats
  • Onlookers cheer
  • Another view of the same
  • A couple together
  • Another view of the same
  • Dr. Kaiser runs
  • Onlookers look on
  • A student at the plate
  • Onlookers cheer
  • Onlookers cheer and applaud
  • Mr. Oleson bats
  • A student at the plate

After a hearty dinner of burgers, all gathered around a small fire in St. Gladys Plaza, where Dr. John Goyette, dean of the California campus, read a humorous poem congratulating the seniors for finishing their theses. œThis strife is o™er, this battle won; after blood, sweat, and tears, your theses are done, he began. Then one by one, heeding Dr. Goyette™s poetic advice to œspare the wheat and burn the chaff, seniors consigned early drafts of their theses to the flames, offering epitaphs about their papers, ranging from the sublime to the absurd.

Photos: Senior Thesis Draft Burning
  • Mr. Goyette raises his glass
  • A student about to burn their thesis
  • A student burns their draft
  • A student burns their draft
  • A student burns their draft
  • A student burns their draft
  • A student burns their draft
  • A student burns their draft
  • A student burns their draft
  • A student burns their draft
  • A student burns their draft
  • A student burns their draft
  • A student burns their draft
  • A student burns their draft
  • A student burns their draft
  • A student burns their draft
  • Other seniors cheer
  • A student burns their draft
  • A student burns their draft
  • A student burns their draft
  • A student burns their draft
  • Seniors cheer