<p>Ones that I know of so far:</p>
<p>-Spring Fling
-Econ Scream (is this for econ majors in the college only and not Wharton?)
-Ivy Day
-Hey Day
-The Line?</p>
<p>Can you guys give some intimate details about each one, or which ones you found most fun and meaningful? Also, feel free to add other traditions that I’ve missed.</p>
<p>Fling happens every year and lots of people will talk about that so I won't...</p>
<p>The Econ Scream is for everyone taking ECON 001 - doesn't matter what school you are in. My year it was disappointing... don't know what it's been like since then.</p>
<p>Ivy Day no one cares about and I doubt most people even know what it is. </p>
<p>Hey Day is my personal favorite - it's the official day that juniors become seniors. You are fenced in on Hill Field, fed hot dogs, pretzels, and soda (in addition to whatever you have consumed prior) and then released from the cage to march around campus. They actually close down Spruce Street which I thought was nuts (but cool). You wear Hey Day shirts designed by a classmate, wear styrofoam hats that you take bites out of, and carry a cane. I forget why, but it's fun. Then you come to College Green where the President declares you Seniors.</p>
<p>In the past there has been a lot of messiness on Hey Day. It used to be clean but now the seniors throw food and stuff at you. Not cool, but oh well.</p>
<p>The Line - someone made a post about this in the Penn Basketball section.</p>
<p>need some more filler on the why penn essay? :p</p>
<p>we throw toast at football games!</p>
<p>Ah yes, Toast throwing. I myself buy a baguette from the ABP (Bursar it of course) and throw it like a javelin. Good times.</p>
<p>Let us not forget the important traditions of:</p>
<p>Drunchies (drunk munchies) trips to the 24/hr McDonalds
Drunchies shopping sprees in the 24/hr supermarket (FroGro)</p>
<p>And of course, one must go get a Bui's for hangover breakfast...</p>
<p>Let's not forget SPRING FLING!!!</p>
<p>Rowbottom - basically, a riot starting in the quad and spilling out into the streets.</p>
<p>Goal Posts being thrown into the River when Championships are won.</p>
<p>Avoiding stepping on the compass.</p>
<p>Here's a corny tradition: if you pass over the compass on the center of Locust Walk, you will fail your first midterm...</p>
<p>here's a somewhat less corny tradition: have sex under the Button</p>
<p>Rowbottom doesn't exist anymore.</p>
<p>The goal posts are cemented into the field (following the 1998 ivy championship game when they were last catapulted into the Schuylkill).</p>
<p>Skimmer is another one... hasn't happened every year though and isn't as big as Fling. It's actually what existed before Fling did... essentially a party down at the river for sophomores... you can google it and read about it in the archives on Penn's website.</p>
<p>r all of the these traditions uh...school approved? throwing toast sounds like fun, but i can't imagine the staff being very happy about it.</p>
<p>I recommend fusing the compass and button traditions: Have sex on the compass</p>
<p>that's my type of school tradition...lol</p>
<p>The real comination of the compass and button traditions is thus:</p>
<p>If you walk over the button you will fail your first midterm UNLESS you break the curse by having sex under the button.</p>
<p>The school has a toast zamboni to pick up the toast after it's thrown- it was designed as a Senior Design Project for a SEAS student. it's totally school sanctioned.</p>
<p>Ha, to be honest I feel a bit uncomfortable with the whole toast thing. There a a whole bunch of hungry kids that could use 30 thousand pieces of bread. Then again tradition is tradition and it probably would have not reached those kids anyways and i personally waste food all the time so i should not be talking.</p>
<p>can someone elaborate on spring fling at Penn?</p>
<p>you’re only uncomfortable with it because you haven’t seen it (i presume)</p>
<p>watching delicious slices being hurled like frisbees to create a magnificent hail of grain is a truly marvelous sight</p>
<p>fling is a big party / concert / bouncy-fest / fast food emporium, in which ~20,000 people (coming from all over the country, for whatever reason) go nuts</p>