They also arrange balls, choirs, revues, and sports activities, provide restaurants, publish newsletters, and lay on some student housing. The highlight of the student social calendar comes on the last day of April. The next day, the First of May, the chairperson of LUS conveys the students' respects to the Vice-Chancellor outside the University Building. The stage reached by the blossoming magnolia trees in the quadrangle is always one dependable element in the Vice-Chancellor's reply. In the evening many people assemble in the quadrangle again to hear the Lund University Male Choir give their traditional spring concert, broadcast on nationwide television.
Every fourth year is carnival time in Lund.
Above all the carnival means a huge parade of floats through the streets of Lund, attracting close to 200,000 spectators. The whole spectacle is immersed in the theme melody specially composed for the carnival, and the re-sits in August are necessary for many of the 5,000 carnival workers who have devoted more of their spring term to carnival preparations than to revising for exams. The next carnival will be held in 2002.