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Students attend the first annual “Fresh Check Day” wellness fair on the Hogan Courtyard. The event, sponsored by Counseling Outreach Peer Educators (COPE), is the signature program of The Jordan Porco Foundation. JPF works closely with colleges, including Holy Cross, to bring awareness of mental health resources and coping strategies to college campuses. It is a celebratory event with interactive booths, free food, and prizes.

Photo by Tom Rettig

Students enjoy the annual Taste of Holy Cross event in Kimball Main Dining Hall. The popular event gives Holy Cross Dining Services the opportunity to showcase the newest cuisine choices available at on-campus eateries including new smoothie and granola options, pulled pork and freshly-made Cuban paninis.

Loaded baked potato samples were one of the many options available.

Photography by Holy Cross Dining Services

Lines of students wait to enter the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom for Student Programs for Urban Development (SPUD) information night. SPUD is the largest student organization on campus, involving approximately 600 student volunteers who answer the Holy Cross call to be “men and women for and with others” in the surrounding Worcester community.

Students had the opportunity to browse and speak with representatives from more than 40 public service programs. From serving meals and working at food pantries, to tutoring children and visiting elders in nursing facilities, students build relationships with those in the local communities.

Photography by Chris Muzii ’16

At the conclusion of inflatable laser tag, students line up on the Hogan Courtyard for ‘Food Truck Friday’. Brought to campus by Perfect Parties, the Campus Activities Board hosted an inflatable laser tag competition during Holy Cross’ traditional Welcome Week. Following the activities, the Office of Student Involvement ’s Food Truck Friday kicked off the semester with Sweet Tomatoes Pizza Truck. ‘Food Truck Fridays’ is free to Holy Cross students all September long with upcoming food trucks, The Dog Father and Dylan and Pete’s Ice Cream.

Photo by Tom Rettig

Holy Cross Gateways Orientation Leaders celebrate after welcoming members of the class of 2019 for three separate sessions of the College’s award-winning summer orientation program. Gateways is a one and a half day program designed to provide new students and their parents with the opportunity to become better acquainted with the many aspects of Holy Cross. The goal of the program is to help students make a successful transition into the College.

Photo by Tom Rettig

Graduating seniors from the class of 2015 participate in the “Hidden in Plain Sight” tour of Holy Cross. Rev. Anthony Kuzniewski, S.J., professor of history and College historian, and Keith Maczkiewicz, S.J., assistant chaplain, led the tour of campus, illuminating facets and sharing legends of the Cross that students may have never seen or heard before.

Photo by Tom Rettig

A sold out crowd packed the Holy Cross Hart Recreation Center for the annual Spring Concert. Pop star Jessie J headlined the concert, performing hits from her most recent album “Sweet Talker.”

During her performance, Jessie J entertained the crowd in a sheer glitter Holy Cross shirt. After the show, Jessie J took to Twitter and Instagram to interact with fans and post a photo from the Holy Cross stage.

Photography by Louie Despres

From a pig roast to a performance by LA Rapper/R&B Singer Luke Christopher, from the Easy Street Fair to a carnival, students reveled in the spring weather as part of Spring Weekend.

A favorite for many was the HOLI Color Festival, sponsored by Developing and Educating South-Asian Ideologies (DESI), a student multicultural organization. Also known as the festival of colors, Holi is a celebration of spring in which participants wear white T-shirts and throw dry colored powder. The festival signifies the victory of good over evil and the arrival of spring. Spring weekend closed with fireworks and a performance by Jessie J at the spring concert.

Photography by Dan Vaillancourt

Members of the class of 2015, joined by Rev. Philip L. Boroughs, S.J., president of the College, celebrate together in the annual Rites of Passage Ceremony in Mary Chapel. The religious and cultural ceremony marks the passage of college graduation for students from the African diaspora who have been active in worship life on campus and have served as Multicultural Peer Educators.

Faculty, staff, students and their guests celebrated the milestone together with prayer, a ceremonial passage between mentors and mentees and song.

Photography by Tom Rettig

Venezuelan artist Gonzalo Grau & the Plural Combo brought verve and Afro-Cuban rhythms to the 2015 Academic Conference opening concert and reception in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom. Equally well-known in the world of Latin jazz with his Grammy-nominated band La Clave Secreta and classical circles for his collaborations with Osvaldo Golijov, Venezuelan multi-instrumentalist Gonzalo Grau and his Plural Combo bring their own twist to Afro-Cuban classics à la Buena Vista Social Club and Fania All-Stars.

A special appearance by Worcester’s own Manolo Mairena, took the audience through soulful boleros to the high-octane rhythms of salsa and timba.

Faculty, staff and students took to the floor to dance, heeding Grau’s advice that “we play better when you dance!” The event was co-sponsored by Academic Conference and Arts Transcending Borders.

Photography by Dan Vaillancourt