Below are the 2024 Blue & White Homecoming Weekend & Spirit Week schedules.

Schedule of Events: Spirit Week

Monday, October 28

Theme: Class Color Day 

On-Site Service Project/Homecoming Tabling
Warch Campus Center

Tuesday, October 29

Theme: Dress Like A Literal Viking 

Cardboard Boat Regatta
Buchanan Kiewit Wellness Center - Boldt Natatorium

Wednesday, October 30

Theme: Student’s Choice – Voting at Open House (September 26)

Open Mic/Talent Show
Warch Campus Center

Thursday, October 31

Theme: Halloween 

On Campus Trick or Treating
Campus Wide

Grocery Bag Bingo/Costume Contest
Warch Campus Center

Friday, November 1

Theme: Spirit Day 

Schedule of Events: Blue & White Homecoming

Friday, November 1

Campus Tour
2 – 3 p.m. | Chapman Hall - Admissions Lobby

Archives Open House with University Archivist Claire Cannell
3 – 5 p.m. | Seeley G. Mudd Library, Archives

2024 Lawrence Intercollegiate Athletic Hall of Fame Reception & Dinner* (Invitation Only)
6 – 9 p.m. | Warch Campus Center, Somerset & Pusey Rooms
*The 2024 inductees are the Men’s basketball teams from 2003-2004, 2004-2005 and 2005-2006. 

Fall Term Musical: Working 
7:30 p.m. | Stansbury Theatre, Music-Drama Center 

Lawrence University New Music Ensemble Concert featuring Flute and Trombone Ensembles
7:30 or 8 p.m. (Time TBD) | Lawrence Memorial Chapel
This concert, which highlights the Conservatory's forward-looking approach, will premiere nine new works. Isaac Mayhew (LU '17) is the Interim Executive Director of the Millennium Composers Initiative, a consortium of composers, and has facilitated the collaboration. The event will feature faculty members Erin Lesser (flute), Tim Albright (trombone), and Michael Clayville (director of the New Music Ensemble).

Blue & White Homecoming Dance 
8 p.m. | Warch Campus Center, Esch Hurvis Room & Mead-Witter Room


Saturday, November 2

Family Breakfast with Cabinet
9 – 10:30 a.m. | Warch Campus Center - Esch Hurvis Room
Families, supporters, and their students are invited to join President Carter and her Cabinet for this special breakfast. Get to know our campus leadership while indulging in a hot breakfast buffet from American Dining Creations. Lawrence gear or Blue & White is the preferred attire. Registration required.
Register

BLUs Central (Face Painting, Temporary Tattoos, etc) 
10 a.m. – 1 p.m. | Warch Campus Center 

Presentation and Discussion with New York Times Bestselling Author Harry MacLean ’64 – Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree That Changed America
10:30 – 11:30 a.m. | Warch Campus Center, Cinema
All are welcome to attend.

Men’s Basketball Alumni Scrimmage 
10 a.m. (Tentative) | Alex Gym

LU Swimming - Intrasquad & Alumni Meet
11 a.m. | Buchanan Kiewit Wellness Center - Boldt Natatorium

Midwest Conference Men’s & Women’s Cross Country Championships
11 a.m. Start | Reid Golf Course, Appleton 
Shuttle from Campus.

Men’s Soccer vs. Grinnell College (Senior Day) 
11 a.m. | Banta Bowl 

Women’s Soccer vs. Grinnell College 
1:30 p.m. | Banta Bowl 

Fall Term Musical: Working 
2:30 p.m. | Stansbury Theatre, Music-Drama Center 

Blue & White Homecoming Tailgate 
3 – 5 p.m. | Banta Bowl Parking Lot 

  • 2024 VHOF inductees in President’s Plaza 

Football vs. University of Chicago* 
5:00 p.m. | Banta Bowl 
*The 2024 Lawrence Intercollegiate Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will occur during halftime. 

Fall Term Musical: Working 
7:30 p.m. | Stansbury Theatre, Music-Drama Center