Every year Vincennes University welcomes the parents of students during two special fun-filled weekends. Mom's Weekend is always the first weekend each April, so this year's celebration began March 31 and ran through April 2. The weekend always includes a great variety of events, but the crowning of Miss Vincennes University on Saturday has to be considered the highlight. The celebration actually begins Friday night with an All-Campus Variety Show at Green Activities Center.
Students perform in competitive skits as well as group and solo performances.
Blazer Bowling is another Friday night tradition and usually lasts until midnight. This year's festivities featured the sixth annual Great Wild Duck Chase. Each year the plastic ducks float down the river to the Lincoln Memorial bridge after being dumped upstream. Rewards for the first ducks to reach the bridge total in the thousands of dollars and other prizes are made possible by area businesses and industries. All one has to do to win is adopt a duck at one of a number of locations and hope that duck floats faster than the rest when introduced to the Wabash River.