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One Friday evening each semester, groups of about 20 Thomas Aquinas ������ý students from all classes — seniors and freshmen, sophomores and juniors — gather in classrooms across the campus for the All-������ý 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 ������ý’s ordinary curriculum. Two members of the teaching faculty lead each of the discussions, which are followed by a party in St. Joseph’s Commons.

This year, 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 to discuss Flannery O’Connor’s “Parker’s Back.”