Outrageous College Traditions
#15 Ledyard Challenge
The folks at Dartmouth are no joke. Twice a year, students strip and then try to swim from the New Hampshire side of the Connecticut River to the Concord side. Once they reach it, they then must return back by foot.
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Ledyard Challenge
The folks at Dartmouth are no joke. Twice a year, students strip and then try to swim from the New Hampshire side of the Connecticut River to the Concord side. Once they reach it, they then must return back by foot.
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Bladderball
Check this out. This Yale tradition, which started in 1954, involves student teams vying for control of a six-foot inflatable ball. Administration officials banned it because the students kept falling into and disrupting traffic, but "revival games" continue to this day.
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Birthday Fountain Dunking
Wish people would notice your birthdays more? Then you'll love Occidental College, where your peers are apt to surprise you by kidnapping you and then dunking your birthday butt in the Oxy Fountain!
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Wacky Walk
Hate boring commencement marches? Then attend Stanford, where you'll end your journey with a "Wacky Walk" in which you and your peers strut your success while wearing creative outfits!
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Hoop Rolling
There's nothing quite like hundreds of Wellesley College female students gathering together to race their hoops -- and we don't mean their earrings!
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Hump It Aggies
All Texas A & M sporting events are celebrated during the game via a dance wherein students bend over, place their hands on their knees, stick out their booties and yell, "Hump it Aggies!"
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Toast Toss
After the competion of the 3rd quarter of football games, University of Pennsylvania students gather together to sing "Drink a Highball" and toss toast -- so as to "toast" their team -- into the air.
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Serenading
Hate Christmas carolers? Then stay away from Vassar College, where every year students walk through campus, battle singing and, of course, lacing one another with ketchup and water balloons!
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Ditch Day
Every year, during the spring, all the seniors at Caltech suddenly disappear from campus and leave behind super-duper complex puzzles, mazes and other challenges for the school's underclassmen (FRESHMEN!) to complete.
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Little 500
The Little 500 represents a week chockablock with concerts, parties and a full-fledged college bike race celebrated at Indiana University every April.
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Naked Quad Run
The Naked Quad Run at Tufts University allows students a once-in-a-lifetime moment to literally run naked laps around the Rez Quad building on the last night of classes prior to finals week.
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Mirror Lake Jump
Though discouraged by administrators to participate, many Ohio State University students amass at Mirror Lake on the night before an Ohio State vs. Michigan football game. Why? So they can risk hypothermia and death by jumping into a frozen lake.
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Midnight Breakfast
What better way is there to prepare for the first day of finals at Bernard College than by meeting up at midnight for a breakfast of epic proportions?
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Pumpkin Drop
The folks at MIT are into way more than just computers. They're also into dropping pumpkins from a roof on Halloween night. Why? To study the physics of falling objects, of course.
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Primal Scream
At approximately 10pm, on the night prior to the beginning of finals, students at Careleton College stick their heads out their windows and scream away all their pain, anguish and frustration, after which they return to studying.
