<p>Carleton:
Chase after the bust of Schiller (a group of students are the guardians of a portrait-bust of this German poet and he appears at various school events, whereupon a chase ensues)
Play in Rottblatt (a softball game with a keg on each base with as many innings as there are years in Carleton's history)
Break into the tunnels
Climb the water tower
Have sex on the Hill of Three Oaks
Watch the orchestra play "Night on Bald Mountain" in costume on Halloween
Bake cookies in the middle of the night at the Dacie Moses House
Smoke in the Japanese Garden
Streak. Anywhere. Any event. Particularly the opening frisbee toss or the Late Night Breakfast before finals... but anything.
Make fun of people who believe there's a cougar in the Arb</p>
<p>Okay, I made up the last one, but it is an activity we engage in frequently. We also have a primal scream and Screw Your Roommate, but those are fairly common.</p>
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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
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HAHAAHA i was going to talk about the Doheny Library sex (its not a joke... I know people who have done it. Too bad too, its a nice place to study =.=) and the fountain run but seems you covered it pretty well.</p>
<p>USC continued-
Band plays in front of the Leavey Library for about an hour every day of the Final study days. Annoys people in the library for sure.</p>
<p>Sex on the 13th floor of the SciLi at Brown, though recently I've heard an updated SciLi challenge-- have sex and a shot on each of the 14 floors in one night starting in the Study Center in the basement...</p>
<p>rushing the field started in the 60's or 70's and was banned in '86 when the rush (which included a much larger portion of the freshman class than it does now) trampled some spectators in the visiting bleachers.</p>
<p>the tradition used to be somewhat more orderly, as freshmen would go out and make the numerals on the field, as the '11s did this year, but it was not sanctioned by the college and was in fact organized by students each year. Since '86, however, the tradition has grown to somewhat more cult-status, as rushing the field became 'illegal' and thus had some more risk attached to it.</p>
<p>all in all, yes, it's not as old a tradition as the bonfire (late 1800s), or a homecoming football game (1922), but it's tradition nonetheless</p>
<ol>
<li><p>paint the spirit rock (it's a giant rock in the quad with many many layers of paint of clubs or activities or silly stuff)</p></li>
<li><p>stay up all night in the engineering design lab (some people keep sleeping bags there)</p></li>
</ol>
<p>UCSC
1. First Rain run
2. spend the night in porter cave
3. climb tree 9
4. make a wish at the wishing tree
5. get thrown into cowell fountain
6. have sex in the Barn, library, the woods somewhere
7. find the hidden tree house in the woods</p>