Once the weather gets warmer, students flock to Francis Quadrangle. Students go for different reasons, whether that’s to get homework done, hang out with friends or read a book.
Students lie out on the grass in the Francis Quadrangle at MU in Columbia, Mo. on April 18, 2023.
Summer Sterling (right) and Annie McLaughlin (left) sit on a blanket while they do homework in Columbia, Mo. on April 18, 2023. Students do many different things when on the Quad. “I more like doing my busy work and stuff, so I don’t have to fully put in 100% effort.” McLaughlin said, “Reading is nice too, just to be out here and relax,” Sterling said.
Carley Gregg (right), a secondary trainer for Retrieving Freedoms, a service learning program for her Business Administration 2500 class, sits with Bonnie (left) in Columbia, Mo. on April 18, 2023. Gregg started coming to the Quad with the dogs this spring semester. “Mainly when we’re just going for walks, this is the perfect circle,” Gregg said.
Students sit on or against the Columns in the Francis Quadrangle in Columbia, Mo. on April 18, 2023.Lars Saltzmann sits on one of the Columns in the Quad to do homework in Columbia, Mo. on April 19, 2023., “It’s better from just being inside Ellis, or the dorms,” Saltzmann said. “It’s just kind of the most spacious spot on campus. It’s the most visually appealing, this is where they take everyone for the first time on tours.”Katie Gray (right) and Henry Hupp (left), two MU juniors, lay on a blanket in front of the Columns on the Quad in Columbia, Mo. on April 19, 2023. There are usually many people in the Quad. “It is really nice, it’s peaceful,” Gray said. “I like seeing everyone else out here too. We’ve been seeing a lot of … people taking grad pictures.” Kristen Graser (right), a senior at MU and Sivan Guzman (left), a senior at Stephens College play with Guzman’s dog, Masie, on the Quad in Columbia, Mo. on April 19, 2023. It was Graser’s first time doing this. “I always see kids doing it though whenever I used to have classes around on the Quad,” Graser said. “I always thought it looked nice. I would stare at them and think ‘I want to do that.’”
