Strange and Unique Tradition World Campus

EDUCATION High is not just a place to study. Campus is also the place to do activities that could ultimately become a hereditary tradition.

Several universities in the United States and Britain have a unique tradition, ranging from the serious to the bizarre. What are these traditions? Following the tradition of college a strange and unique as quoted from the Telegraph, Thursday (17/11/2011).

1. Carnegie Mellon University

 

Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, the United States has a low fence in the middle of campus. This fence can be painted by students at the middle of the night until sunrise.However, the fence can only be painted with a paint brush (roller and spray is not allowed).

 

Fences made of wood was crowned by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most painted object in the world. And unique, students can be found up to a week camping near the fence so they target. They settled on the location of the fence that has been painted in order to protect their jobs snatched another person. While students often use this fence romantic to propose to his girlfriend.

2. University of Chicago

 

University of Chicago in the tradition of American Scavenger Hunt held every year and has been named the biggest in the world. The event is followed by a number of student teams will be held for four days. Students are assigned to track each item and complete the task from the list of instructions. Two physics students managed to achieve the ultimate goal and to build a plutonium-producing reactor at a cottage in the quad.

3. St Andrews University

 

The tradition of St Andrews is quite unique. Third-year students should adopt the first-year students at the beginning of the academic year. At the end of the second week of November or what is known as the Raisin Weekend, first-year students appear in their own homes 'father' and 'mother' them (which is a third-year students). There, new students will be 'bombarded' with alcoholic drinks and dressed in strange clothes.

 

The party house will last for two days without stopping, and the student union house turned into a mini hospital. After partying at the weekend, on Monday, new students who have been accepted on campus will be brought into the square, and the fight continued with foam.

4. Oxford University

Oxford is the oldest university in the world who use English. The campus has more than 20 thousand students at 30 campuses that are part of Oxford (colleges). Since the number of college at Oxford, there are some traditions that official and unofficial. One of the strange traditions is the Time Ceremony conducted Merton College student.

This ritual is performed on the last Saturday of October. At daybreak, a student walking backward in place to drink, Fellow of the square. The purpose of this activity to maintain a distance of time during the change from summer time in the UK (British Summer Time) to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). (In the UK, GMT is used as the official timepiece for the winter, while in the summer using BST).

5. Harvard University

 

This prestigious university has a unique tradition, the Primal Scream. Tradition that has lasted since 1960 has been metamorphosed. Previously, students used to perform the ritual with a shout for 10 minutes at night before the exam. Now, Primal Sream usually done by students at the university while running naked to the sound of the band Harvard University and cheers from the audience.

6. Stanford University

 

Scour the steamy tunnel or Steam-tunneling is a tradition at Stanford. Tradition of universities located in the U.S. is done by walking through an underground tunnel Stanford shaped maze. This tradition is very popular during the winter, because the campus steam tunnels hot enough. In doing this tradition, students should wear jeans and long sleeve shirts to avoid minor burns.

 

7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has a tradition of farce that intelligent action.The game is designed to make fellow students and professors wondered how students perform joke. Known as the 'hacks', the makers of this joke used to do at night and is known as the most outrageous tradition at MIT. One of the actions of the 'hacker' is to place the impressive Chevrolet car that was painted like police cars patrol the campus.The car is placed on building the MIT Great Dome.

8. Yale University

 

At Yale, graduation is a good time to do traditional campuses. Students who have passed smoking tobacco from a clay pipe and then destroy it with a stepped manner. This is a sign that sign that the enjoyment of campus life has ended.

 

9. Cornell University

 

Cornell University is steeped in the tradition of Dragon Day. This tradition is carried out architecture student who built a giant dragon who then paraded in the square Arts and then burned. This tradition is believed to be inspired by the legend of St. Patrick driving snakes from Ireland. The tradition is held every year on March 17.

 

10. Princeton University

 

Princeton has a tradition of the campfire ceremony, which only occurs during this college football team defeated the team from Harvard and Yale, in the same season. The last time the tradition was carried out in 2006, after the 'fasting' for 12 years.

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