<p>At Wake Forest, they toilet-paper the main Quad (intensely) after big sports victories. Fortunately, it doesn’t happen all that often.</p>
<p>It doesn’t involve nudity or substance abuse, but every spring UC Davis has a lot of fun with Picnic Day - a huge open house for the entire campus with parades, events, competitions, concerts, etc. One of the cutest and most popular events are the Dachshund Races, which are put on each year by the sophomore class of the veterinary school. People bring their dachshunds from many miles away to compete.</p>
<p>[Welcome</a> to the Doxie Derby Website](<a href=“http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/Doxie_Derby/pages/results.html]Welcome”>http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/Doxie_Derby/pages/results.html)</p>
<p>MIT’s hacking culture. Star* linked to some of the most famous hacks a few posts above this one. The full hack gallery is here: [IHTFP</a> Hack Gallery: Welcome to the IHTFP Gallery!](<a href=“http://hacks.mit.edu/]IHTFP”>http://hacks.mit.edu/)</p>
<p>Also from MIT (partial list):</p>
<ul>
<li><p>The tradition of student choice in housing. It used to be just one Rush for dorms, fraternities, sororities, and independent living groups. Now they each have their own - Dorm Rush, Fraternity Rush, etc. But the spirit is reasonably preserved.</p></li>
<li><p>Steer Roast: [Steer</a> Roast](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/senior-house/www/history/roast/index.html]Steer”>http://web.mit.edu/senior-house/www/history/roast/index.html)</p></li>
<li><p>The Baker Piano Drop (from the roof of Baker House, a dorm).</p></li>
<li><p>The Pumpkin Drop (dropping pumpkins from the roof of the Green Building, the tallest building on campus and in Cambridge)</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Arkansas - Callin’ the Hogs</p>
<p>Georgetown-Trick-or-treating at the foreign embassies on Halloween.</p>
<p>Also, the stealing of the Georgetown Healy Clock Tower hands. Every 5 or 6 years, the students manage to sneak up to the tower, steal the giant clock hands and send them to someone famous who then is supposed to mail them back to the University. In past years they’ve sent them to the Pope and Bill Clinton!</p>
<p>[Healy</a> Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“Healy Hall - Wikipedia”>Healy Hall - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Temple University Fans](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xglZlm2gE1M]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xglZlm2gE1M)</p>
<p>Cherry Crusade represent</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Temple U](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbB_YGOQJsA&feature=related]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbB_YGOQJsA&feature=related)</p>
<p>Williams has three that I love.</p>
<p>First, Mountain Day, on a gorgeous fall Friday (once each year) the President will cancel classes so anyone so inclined can do a long hike. At the top of the mountain they will encounter cider and donuts and acapella music. </p>
<p>Second, The Walk. Anytime Williams wins its homecoming game, the whole team marches up Spring Street for beverages, cigars, and crazy head-shaving pattenrs at St. Pierre’s barber shop:</p>
<p>[Williams</a> College -](<a href=“http://williams.prestosports.com/sports/fball/The_Walk]Williams”>http://williams.prestosports.com/sports/fball/The_Walk)</p>
<p>Third, Trivia:</p>
<p>[The</a> Williams Trivia Contest](<a href=“http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/trivia/]The”>The Williams Trivia Contest)</p>
<p>More Williams traditions here:</p>
<p>[Williams</a> College :: About Williams - Williams Traditions](<a href=“http://www.williams.edu/home/traditions/]Williams”>http://www.williams.edu/home/traditions/)</p>
<p>Definitely Reed’s Renn Fayre:
[Reed</a> College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“Reed College - Wikipedia”>Reed College - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Burn up the rough drafts of your senior thesis after parading through the cheering faculty and have a three day blow out.</p>
<p>My undergrad (Spelman, a historically black women’s college) had some great orientation week traditions, but they’re generally kept semi-secret from first-years until they happen so I won’t elaborate.</p>
<p>But our graduation traditions are great too. We have Class Day on the Friday before graduation, which is planned by the top 10 seniors in our class for the class, and then we all walk under the Alumnae Arch after a long line of alumnae who are there for renunion. They stop on the other side of the arch and applaud us as new alumnae when we go through. It’s such an awesome feeling.</p>
<p>We also have a festival each semester on the day before finals begins.</p>
<p>Agnes Scott seniors (another women’s college) ring a bell in a bell tower when something important happens. It used to be for women who were getting married, but now it’s if you get a job or get into a graduate school.</p>
<p>And Wellesley’s got that hoop run.</p>
<p>Stanford-Full Moon on the Quad, Gaities</p>
<p>Wake Forest rolling the quad
After the 2006 ACC Championship game:
<a href=“Athletics | About Wake Forest | Wake Forest University”>Athletics | About Wake Forest | Wake Forest University; (that is not snow)
[YouTube</a> - Wake Forest ACC Championship Mayhem](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlJq2DMKBP4&feature=related]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlJq2DMKBP4&feature=related)</p>
<p>not bad for a school with a little over 4,000 undergrads.</p>
<p>Scav Hunt at Chicago</p>
<p>Le Moyne College:</p>
<p>Dolphy Day. It’s a day sometime in the spring semester (usually towards the end, like in April) where there are no classes and just fun things like a carnival and parties and picnics all day. It’s unannounced and set up by “wizards” so it’s a nice surprise.</p>
<p>Green Beer Day Miami University hands down no question…no offense to all other traditions but they involve some type of sports event or prank, in my opinion not real original. if you dont know what green beer day is google it, but you most likely know.
i am biased bc i go here but it is literally insane and no other college has anything comparable. I know many people who have visited from college not limited to but including wake, navy, maryland, cornell, yale, ohio state, northwestern, vandy, nebraska, colorado, richmond, uva…you get the point…anyways they were blown away, by far the most original and i would also bet if youve experienced it the most fun as well…students come from all over to visit on this interesting day and i recommend you do as well. enough said</p>
<p>^^^i forgot to mention how many companies have opened with their primary revenue coming from your tradition, green beer day has become so popular that chicago now has it’s own, how many of your traditions have been adopted by a city of chicago’s magnitude</p>
<p>Princeton</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Theft of the bell clapper in Nassau Hall by freshmen during orientation week to prevent the start of the first day of classes - 150 year tradition.</p></li>
<li><p>Nude Olympics in Holder Hall during the first snowfall.</p></li>
</ol>
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<p>Yes, because an all day drinking-fest of green dyed beer is exceptionally original…</p>
<p>Walking through an archway of alumnae is a sports event or prank? I’m a third-generation Chicagoan and I’ve never heard of Green Beer Day here, except for St. Patrick’s Day, which I’m pretty sure wasn’t invented at Miami.</p>
<p>Anyway, Auburn rolling Toomer’s Corner after a victory is pretty amazing in person.</p>
<p>Harvard: Primal Scream!</p>