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One Friday evening each semester, groups of about 20 91����� Aquinas College students from all classes � seniors and freshmen, sophomores and juniors � gather in classrooms across the campus for the All-College Seminar. Although separate, these groups engage in a single, common activity, namely, reading, analyzing, and discussing the same text, one that is not part of the College�s ordinary curriculum. Two members of the teaching faculty lead each of the discussions.

This semester, preparations for this semi-annual event began Friday afternoon, when students met up in the campus coffee shop to assemble pizzas for the post-seminar party:

Then, that evening, students, tutors, and chaplains met in classrooms for the seminar itself. �This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of the College�s founding and governing document, A Proposal for the Fulfillment of Catholic Liberal Education, generally referred to by students, faculty, and staff as �the Blue Book,�� says Dean John Goyette. �In honor of this anniversary, we selected this document as the reading for this spring�s All-College Seminar. We thought it fitting to reflect on our founders� articulation of the nature of true Catholic liberal education.�

The discussion continued afterward at the party in St. Joseph Commons: