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August 24, 2024
On Friday, the final day of Orientation 2024 on the California campus, members of the Class of 2028 spent their time together learning and having fun.
After one last orientation meeting in the morning and lunch in St. Joseph Commons, the freshmen enjoyed guided tours of the St. Bernardine of Siena Library and the Pope St. John Paul II Athletic Center, where they learned about the resources available to them there.
As on Thursday, the students attended a practice seminar in the afternoon, this time discussing two essays about the nature of the liberal arts. The discussion gave the freshmen an opportunity to consider the project that they will be undertaking for the next four years and to contemplate what it means for an education to make men truly free.
That evening, the freshmen gathered outside the Athletic Center for pick-up games of volleyball, Spike Ball, and soccer. They then headed into the gymnasium to face off against the prefects on the basketball court!
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The freshmen women played first, while their classmates cheered them on from the sidelines. The game was tied 18-18 when the clock ran out, but the prefect women won in the final three minutes of overtime by a score of 26-22. In the game that followed, the freshmen men took on prefects and upperclassmen in a fierce battle on the court. Andrew Langley (’28) played his trumpet to cheer on his team, while his fellow classmates yelled encouragement to the players. Buoyed by such support, the freshmen cruised to a dominant 31-12 victory.
With Orientation now concluded, the freshmen await Convocation on Monday, when they will formally join the rest of the student body as the Class of 2028!
