<p>Anyone have wacky/fun/crazy college traditions at their institution? im not talking about the primal scream before finals or the undie run...everyone has that...what makes your college stand out? </p>
<p>Describe it and name your college please! </p>
<h2>Have any of you guys started your own? I'm VERY curious as to how traditions start and how they catch on. </h2>
<p>I go to UCSD (Univ. California, SAN DIEGO) and we have a SUNGOD festival every spring quarter where we get a headliner and some bands to play for us. We recently had T.I. (king of the south!) and third eye blind. Everyone gets drunk and wasted on this day and it gets wild! UCSD students go see this outdoor concert for FREE and the event usually attract lots of other students to our campus from UCBerkeley, UCLA, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, San Diego State, etc but they have to pay (hahaha). There are water slides and random activities around the campus all day.</p>
<p>UVA's tradition of girls in pearls and guys in ties....nuff said
Oh, and the secret societies, and the Purple Shadows walking the Lawn on Jefferson's birthday, and the Beta Bridge painting, streaking the Lawn, graduation tradition of walking out through the Rotunda, etc etc etc</p>
<p>I think a lot of schools have something similar to that, atlantiz. I go to Harvard and we had something just like that called "YardFest." The surrounding schools (Tufts, MIT, Wellesley) had them too. Harvard got Third Eye Blind (lame), MIT had Ying Yang Twins, Wellesley had Lupe Fiasco, and Tufts had T.I., Spoon, and Lupe Fiasco.</p>
<p>Tufts Naked Quad Run. In the freeze-your-balls-off weather typical of Boston in the winter.. hundreds maybe thousands of Tufts students (many wasted / some not) run naked from West Hall around the res quad on a night right before winter reading period..</p>
<p>Where did this tradition come from? Tufts used to be divided into Tufts for men and Jackson College for women.. when they merged, Tufts men in West Hall protested by streaking the President.. </p>
<p>weird tradition? yes.. weird or awkward? not at all! (especially not if youre completely trashed)</p>
<p>Here at VT we have the Civilian/ROTC snow ball fight. We've got a huge ROTC community here (the school was all ROTC a long time ago) so on the first big snow of the year everyone goes to the drill field (giant field in the middle of campus. I mean huge) and there's a big snowball fight. Good times.</p>
<p>Hotpiece is right, basically every school in America has some sort of concert. Pitt, my current insitution, has generally dropped the ball and invited some relatively weak artists to play (Ben Folds, Lifehouse ~ my apologies to fans, I'm more into hip-hop/r&b). This past year surprisingly ruled though, as we had Nas perform for us, along with Wiz Khalifa (Pittsburgh rapper who has gained some notoriety around the city). I'm hoping for some more acclaimed hip-hop artists for this upcoming year, well, mainly so we don't revert back to our old habits and get Eagle Eye Cherry or the Brian Setzer Orchestra to come out.</p>