<p>List all the things that students should do or traditions that outsiders don't know about.</p>
<p>Havard:
Pee on the Havard statue. no joke, kids do it. some make it a goal even.</p>
<p>jumping off the bobst library</p>
<p>Auburn:
Roll Toomer's Corner at least once. As much as possible really, though.
Get lost in the labyrinth that is Haley Center.
Whatever you do, do NOT step on the seal.
Have a slip-n-slide in the quad, in a storm, when it's raining so hard you can't see more than a foot in front of your face and the tornado sirens are going off. (yes, this has happened at least 3 times since I've been in school here, though I'm not quite crazy enough to participate)
Go to UPC's Tiger Nights (carnival) and the semesterly concerts.</p>
<p>Brandeis- </p>
<p>Explore the Castle
Climb to the roof of the highest Castle tower
Decorate the statue of Louis Brandeis for your club
campus sing of Handel's Messiah
hang out in the Chum's coffee house
sunrise over Boston from any of the many points on campus to see
Sachar Woods!</p>
<p>Dartmouth -
The dartmouth 7
Ski
Streak the green
Ledyard Challenge
Polar Bear Swim
The 50!
Dinner at the Lodj
Fort Lou's</p>
<p>jack4640-you forgot getting stuck in the Hayden elevators.</p>
<p>Swarthmore:
Hunt the Pterodactyl
Screw your Roommate
Play misery poker
Watch "The Graduate" the night before classes start
Run the McCabe Mile
Make a boat for the Crum Regatta
Primal Scream</p>
<p>UChicago Scavenger Hunt!</p>
<p>
interesting...</p>
<p>USC:
sex in the Doheny Bookstacks (i wonder if this is a joke sometimes...)
fountain run
Chanos (Mexican food) at 230AM
for the band, play in front of dorms at 500AM on rival week</p>
<p>The Duke Core Curriclum</p>
<ol>
<li>Drive around the main quad circle backwards.</li>
<li>Explore the underground tunnels</li>
<li>Get on top of Baldwin Auditorium Dome.</li>
<li>Have sex in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens</li>
<li>Have sex in the library stacks</li>
</ol>
<p>I'm already 2/5 as a freshman ;-)</p>
<p>Berkeley: sex in the library: scheduled for me soon</p>
<p>definitely going up to tightwad hill and getting blitzed watching CA football</p>
<p>I believe its Union College where you're supposed to have sex on the 50 yard line of the football field?</p>
<p>Phobos: At my college, "Screw Your Roommate" was a party where people arranged dates for their roommates. My guess is that Swarthmore's event is something similar, and not quite...as it sounds :p</p>
<p>i believe the sex on the 50 is a tradition at most schools ... at least those with football teams (ie not Swat :-P)</p>
<p>just kidding, swat is awesome, and screw your roommate is perhaps the silliest and one of the most fun things i've ever seen.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cadetx.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Traditions%5B/url%5D">http://www.cadetx.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Traditions</a>
<a href="http://www.cadetx.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Stupid_Cadet_Tricks%5B/url%5D">http://www.cadetx.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Stupid_Cadet_Tricks</a>
<a href="http://www.cadetx.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Memorable_Spirit_Missions%5B/url%5D">http://www.cadetx.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Memorable_Spirit_Missions</a></p>
<p>Service academies have the weird tradition market cornered.</p>
<p>Doesn't Dartmouth have the blue light special, or is that another made-up tradition? Rushing the field and touching the fire are probably made-up traditions, at least if the comments on the Dartmouth Review's blog are anything to go by.</p>
<p>Also, I can't remember the exact nature of this list, but I think there's also a definitive list of places to hook up at Dartmouth - I believe the stacks and BEMA are two of them. The 50 is probably another one, but at Dartmouth, "the 50" really means something else, thanks to the DOC.</p>
<p>Yes, Screw Your Roommate is a blind-date dance where your roommate sets you up on a date and you find the person because they're wearing a costume matching yours (as in, Jasmine finding Aladdin, scientist finding lab rat, etc.). Sorry--I forget sometimes that not everyone knows what Screw is!</p>
<p>"Harvard: Pee on the Harvard statue"</p>
<p>Also have sex in the Widener stacks. And streak (or at least scream) in Primal Scream.</p>
<p>There used to be a tradition of flipping butter pats onto the ceiling of the freshman dining hall, but nowadays the freshmen eat in a space with a 60-foot vaulted cathedral ceiling, so that tradition is dead as far as I know. You'd need some kind of slingshot to even come close.</p>
<p>rushing the field is definitely NOT a made-up tradition, it's just that the administration came up with the super-amazingly-lame "go and make an 11 on the field" thing for you guys, and shamefully people actually did it instead of legit rushing the field.</p>
<p>the definitive list of hookup spots is the dartmouth seven ... ie the seven places you need to on campus in four years... </p>
<p>my "the 50!" referred to the DOC hike in the fall and summer.</p>
<p>and blue light special isn't really a tradition, it's fun if you're slammed... because you're like "oh snap, noises and flashing lights"</p>
<p>Interestingly TDR's blog got comments from alumni complaining that rushing the field was something they'd never heard of till the 1980s. (I also recall reading somewhere, either in the Review or in back copies of the yearbook, that making the class number on the field was a tradition until the administration stupidly banned rushing the field in the late 80s/early 90s.)</p>