events
Community Service
Annual department-wide picnic
Wine & Cheese“The custom of serving wine with cheese has been popular with peasants at least since the days of Homer. It became the rage among the smarter set only when King Louis XIV of France stopped for refreshments at Varenne where he enjoyed a fresh Brie cheese taken together with bread, butter and a dry red wine. From that day until the present, there have been few treats more sophisticated than the combination of wine and cheese.”
A social event for students and faculty alike in the Department to enjoy each other’s company and conversation whilst partaking in the accoutrements of the socially elite; an event the Sun King himself would undoubtedly approve of. The charge to organize this affair is brought upon the fourth-year students, held annually in the fall semester (to allow those students who might be interning or studying abroad during the spring semester the opportunity to attend). Tradition has it that this event serves as a “gift” to the fifth-year students to celebrate their soon-to-be graduation and to commemorate their accomplishments thus far.