Campus traditions!

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<p>I got back from touring a couple colleges jut the other day and it seems like many colleges have unique or quirky traditions or activities that the students participate in! Some that I heard of were quite strange. So, my question: what is the weirdest tradition your college takes part in? This post is just for fun! </p>

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<p>Brown has Josiah S. Carberry Day on any Friday the 13th and leap days, where Carberry, a faculty member since 1929, schedules lectures and pots are placed outside the Libraries to collect funds for books. That is in honor of Carberry, winner of a 1991 Ig Nobel prize as a "bold explorer and eclectic seeker of knowledge, for his pioneering work in the field of psychoceramics, the study of cracked pots’. Although he is fictional and never appears for scheduled lectures, there is a university cafe named after him and he has been known to write letters to the editor of the Brown Daily Herald, has appeared in scholarly journals, written a cookbook, and appeared on a playbill. An American Express ad cited him as the world’s greatest traveller. Apparently the local papers, some time ago, refused to publish any more notices of weddings and deaths of family members. He is the subject of the documentary Made Not Born: The Wife and Dimes of Professor Josiah S. Carberry.</p>

<p>Semester of Carberry Celebration 2013
<a href=“Announcing a Semester of Carberry Celebrations! | Brown University Library News”>http://blogs.brown.edu/libnews/announcing-a-semester-of-carberry-celebrations/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“Who Is Josiah Carberry? : Brown University Library Brown University Library”>http://library.brown.edu/about/hay/carberry.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Participated in the Hudson Relays <a href=“Hudson Relays | Student Activities and Leadership | Division of Student Affairs | Case Western Reserve University”>https://students.case.edu/events/hudsonrelays/history.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Yeah, probably you wanted more like Naked Donut Run
<a href=“Brown University - Wikipedia”>Brown University - Wikipedia;

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<p>@BrownParent‌ I’ve been interested in all of them so far but that last one really is something haha :)) </p>

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<p>I don’t consider it the weirdest, but one of the most fun traditions is Foam Sword Friday every semester. There’s a YouTube videos demonstrating the student body liveliness. </p>