PoliSci Commencement Weekend Festivities

Professora Carolina Calvillo with some PoliSci Chair dude…

OK… this is for our students, friends, well-wishers, wannabes, and hangers-on: The time has arrived for Commencement 2008 — Friday and Saturday, to be precise.

Before we celebrate, we have to do our penance and thank the Lord that you’re actually graduating by participating in the Baccalaureate Mass on Friday evening at the Archdiocese’s new Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart.  And no, contrary to the rumors floating about, if Cardinal DiNardo sprinkles holy water on the PoliSci faculty they won’t do this:

Heh.

After the conclusion of the Mass, the University will hold it’s annual Graduation Reception on the Student Life Mall.  We are not holding our traditional pre-Commencement party at the PoliSci House this year, primarily because of this:

Taylor nearly getting arrested by HPD in 2007 on a noise violation because of the band that we hired…

Ahem.  Helpful safety tip: Never peeve the nuns.

We also thought that it would work better by throwing all of our efforts into a real-live, honest-to-goodness, college game day tailgate party, by damn. You people give me a hard time for my days as a beer-drinkin’, football-lovin’ Lambda Chi at OU, but it will pay off big-time on Saturday.

This is the future of UST Fightin’ Celts tailgating!!

Plenty of food, drinks, and loud music will be available.  During the Commencement pre-game party, we will provide a continental breakfast with certain adult beverages (as well as non-alcoholic beverages).  After Commencement, we urge you, as well as your family and friends, to attend our post-game party, which will include various grilled meats to begin your journey down the road to arteriosclerosis, a number of different adult beverages for your drinking pleasure, and the unveiling of UST’s unofficial fight song (courtesy of us, of course).

See you there!