<p>I know students "Jump around" at the football stadium before the 3rd and 4th quarters.</p>
<p>yeah and who is our rival school and what are its colors?</p>
<p>halloween party
huge.</p>
<p>Rival--Minnesota--Gold and Maroon.</p>
<p>Fun facts...
<a href="http://www.uwalumni.com/waa/funfacts.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.uwalumni.com/waa/funfacts.html</a></p>
<ul>
<li>Bucky Badger's full name is Buckingham U. Badger. </li>
<li>Annual tuition in 1900 was $20. </li>
<li>Graduating law students toss white canes over the goalpost at Homecoming. Legend has it that if they catch the canes on the other side, they'll win their first case. </li>
<li>The Marching Band started wearing their caps backward after a Badger win in the 1920s to symbolize looking back at their victory. </li>
<li>Freshmen were forced to wear green Eton caps in 1901 as part of a dress code. </li>
<li>One in every 790 living Americans has at least one degree from UW-Madison. </li>
<li>The university has 10,649 acres of land and some 850 buildings. </li>
<li>17 Nobel Prizes and 24 Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded to UW faculty or alumni. </li>
<li>More than 30,000 doctorates have been awarded by UW-Madison. Few institutions in the world can match that record. </li>
</ul>
<p>Cool Stuff...
<a href="http://www.uwalumni.com/coolstuff/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.uwalumni.com/coolstuff/index.html</a></p>
<p>Trivia Questions...
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<p>Traditions</p>
<p>Band Caps
When one of the Badger teams wins a game, the members of the band all turn their hats around and wear them backward. According to Band Director Michael Leckrone, the practice started in the 1920s to symbolize the band looking back at their victory in days when they marched out with the
departing crowd.</p>
<p>Bonfires
For many years, bonfires played a central role in Homecoming and other student activities. Often one class, usually the freshmen, would build a bonfire and another class would attempt to ignite it ahead of schedule. Outhouses were often considered the best tinder, leading to some friction with townspeople. The pyrotechnic practices largely died out by World War II.</p>
<p>Burning the Boat
Pyromania again expressed itself in this crew tradition, popular in the 1910s and 1920s. Prior to leaving town for a meet, the crew would set an old shell afire and push it into the lake as symbol of good luck for the new shell going east for competition.</p>
<p>Bucky Badger
Although badgers in various forms had been the UW-Madison mascot for decades, the version that is currently known as Bucky was first drawn in 1940 by professional illustrator Art Evans. Evans worked for a California printing company and had done several college logo characters, including
the Minnesota Gopher and the Purdue Boilermaker. In 1949, a pep rally contest was held to determine the mascots name. Reports say there were between zero and 15 entries, and the rally committee opted for its own name: Buckingham U. Badger. The name is said by some to have originated in a line from On, Wisconsin that exhorts the UW to buck right through that line.</p>
<p>Freshman Caps
In 1901 it was decided that freshmen would wear small, dark green Eton caps, and strict rules were drawn up to enforce the new dress code. In 1912, however, following several cases of frostbitten ears, the cap law was partially rolled back to allow freshmen to wear heavier head gear through the
long Wisconsin winter. In 1923, the cap rule was repealed altogether, but not before UW-Madison students had come up with another tradition of fire. Cap Night, held in May to represent the end of servitude for the advancing freshman class, was celebrated by building a large bonfire, dancing
around and burning their caps. Sophomores tried to light the pile ahead of time, leading to several ncidents involving broken bones and serious burns and the ultimate abolition of Cap Night in 1923.</p>
<p>Graduating Law Students Cane Toss
At Homecoming, graduating law students marched down the field and threw white canes over the crossbar of the goal post. If they caught the canes coming down on the other side, the students were supposed to win their first cases. If canes were dropped, cases would be lost. The custom originated at Harvard and came to UW-Madison in 1910.</p>
<p>Halloween
For years, State Street was home to a raucous and loosely organized costume party on Halloween night. In 1979, the Wisconsin Student Association began sponsoring the event, which grew in size and fame each year as revelers crowded the eight blocks between the Capitol and Library Mall. Amid security concerns, the party was cancelled in 1990, but students have frequently attempted to revive Halloween traditions. In 1988, WSA sponsored a nonalcoholic indoor party at the Field House, and students enjoyed a nonalcoholic celebration on Bascom Hill in 1990. Students organized
a party and dance on Library Mall in 1995.</p>
<p>Kiekhofer Wall
Once standing on the 600 block of Langdon Street, the 120-foot wall was erected in 1884 and had long been used as an informal student bulletin board. Dozens of layers of paint covered it. Although efforts were made to save the wall, it was eventually destroyed to make room for the Jewish Student
Community Center. The wall was named for UW-Madison economist Wild Bill Kiekhofer, who owned the property on which the wall stood.</p>
<p>Lake Rush
Popular at the turn of the century, the lake rush was an annual student raid where sophomores attempted to throw freshmen into Lake Mendota. The practice was discontinued after a particularly violent clash and a fatality in 1908, but it was soon replaced by the bag rush, where classes fought for possession of 16 straw-filled bags lined up on the campus mall. Students used fire hoses to thwart opponents and often attempted to strip the opposing team, leading State Street neighbors to complain about indecently clad students. The short-lived tradition died in the mid 1920s.</p>
<p>Abraham Lincoln Statue
Unveiled in 1909 as a gift of the sculptor, Adolph Weinman, the statue is the only replica of a statue he previously erected in Hodgenville, Ky., Lincolns birthplace. However, the inscription attributes the gift to Madisonian Thomas Brittingham, who had paid for casting the statue and the pedestal on
which it was placed. Lincoln is considered a patron of the university because it he signed the Morrill Act in 1862 to provide federal aid to land-grant colleges such as UW-Madison. In 1999, the statue underwent a thorough restoration and cleaning that removed years of grime and restored its copper
color.</p>
<p>On, Wisconsin
The tune was composed in 1909 by William Purdy of Chicago, with words written by UW alumnus Carl Beck, who rewrote them in 1951. The song was an instant hit at the UW-Madison campus and soon spread throughout the world, being very popular with military bands. Some 2,500 schools and
colleges have adopted the music and changed the words to suit their needs.</p>
<p>Open Research
Actually more of a policy than a tradition, open research on the UW-Madison campus became the rule after World War II, when federal involvement in campus research had expanded. Open research means that all work conducted by university personnel must be publishable. This is an idea seen by the framers of the policy to be more closely in line with the mission of a state university. Although Wisconsin was one of the first major universities to move in this direction, concern over federal control of research dollars soon led to similar policies at campuses around the country.</p>
<p>Peace Pipe Ceremony
From 1890 through the 1930s, officers of the graduating senior class, appearing in Indian headdress and blankets, attached their class ribbons to the pipe and passed it on to officers of the junior class, similarly attired, as a symbol of the end of conflict between the classes. The pipe, currently in the
possession of the State Historical Society, was chosen in 1928 as part of the Memorial Unions coat of arms, superimposed on an Indian arrowhead symbol of war.</p>
<p>Sifting and Winnowing
These famous words are taken from a report of the universitys Board of Regents in 1894: Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe that the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which
alone the truth can be found. This statement was made in the wake of an investigation of charges that liberal UW-Madison economist Richard Ely openly advocated social revolution and was fomenting strikes in Madison. An investigating committee exonerated Ely. The words were written by Charles Kendall Adams, seventh president of the university, and are set on a bronze plaque affixed to the front of Bascom Hall, a gift of the class of 1910. The 100th anniversary of the statement was celebrated in 1994 and the plaque was rededicated.</p>
<p>St. Patrick
Begining in 1912, engineering students held an annual beard-growing contest to determine which of them would play St. Patrick during the traditional Spring Celebration. The contestants stopped shaving around the first of the year, and they were judged on a variety of criteria. The contest, which
lasted into the 1960s, eventually became a facet of the bitter debate between engineering and law students as to whether St. Pat had been a lawyer or an engineer (shyster or plumber). Often the two groups engaged in somewhat violent clashes following the engineers annual St. Pats parade. These confrontations were later institutionalized as basketball games.</p>
<p>Varsity
The traditional arm waving that comes at the end of the song Varsity was the 1934 brainchild of then-UW band leader Ray Dvorak. He originally got the idea from University of Pennsylvania students who waved their caps after a losing game. Dvorak later instructed UW students to wave as a salute to UW President Glenn Frank.</p>
<p>Venetian Night
Popular during the 1920s and early 1930s, Venetian Night was a colorful annual event celebrated in late May with lighted floats, illuminated piers and fireworks on Lake Mendota. Unpredictable weather often disrupted the occasion, however, and eventually lead to its demise.</p>
<p>According to PR. Just regained the lead after a few slow years.</p>