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My Beloved Rochester

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Maddie Graham
Feb 01, 2016
University of Rochester
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My Beloved Rochester

It’s Spirit Week here at the University of Rochester and I am pumped. There’s obviously some really good reason(s) why we all ended up here, and that reason convinced us even with the notoriously terrible weather. To help those lacking in school spirit, and boost people who already have blue and yellow running through their veins, I’ve come up with a list of reasons why our university (and its surrounding area) is awesome:

Traditions:

  • Boars' Head Dinner
  • Garbage Plates
  • Jay’s Diner
  • Dfo Brunch
  • Mel Weekend
  • Sledding behind Sue B
  • Party on the Quad first day of spring
  • D-Day


Other Awesomenities:

  • Open Curriculum
  • Tunnels (and painting them)
  • Free lessons at Eastman


Athletics:

  • Squash beat Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia (2015-2016 Season)
  • Tara Lamberti one of just 30 girls invited to tryout for Team USA Field Hockey (2016)
  • Dave Deutsch played for the NY Knicks (1966 debut)


Vocal Groups:

Notable Alumni (creds to Wikipedia):

  • Francis Bellamy, wrote the original Pledge of Allegiance, published in 1892
  • Myles Brand, president of the NCAA
  • Andy Thomas, CEO of Heineken USA
  • Jeremy Glick, 1993 alumnus and member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, died aboard United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001, after he and others attempted to overtake the hijackers (http://www.rochester.edu/aboutus/pride.html)

Though I can brag even more about my wonderful university and its traditions, there is only so much I can write on one page. So this week, why not make some traditions of your own by taking part in spirit week? Win some free swag, hang out with friends, and everything will be ever better.

#gojackets

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