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哥伦比亚03038columbia university's tradition
1 First Year March
2 The Varsity show
o Night
4 Alma Mater
5 primal Scream
6 40s on 40
7 Joyce Kilmer Memorial Annual Bad Poetry Contest
8 Tree-Lighting and Yule Log Ceremonies
9 Take Back The Night
First Year March
During orientation week before their first classes, first years exit Lerner Hall through its back doors, turn right and enter campus again through the main gates to officially e Columbia students.
The Varsity Show
An annual musical written by and for students, this is one of Columbia's oldest and finest traditions. Past writers and directors have included Columbians Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, Lorenz Hart, . Diamond, and Herman Wouk. The show has one of the largest operating budgets of all university events.
Orgo Night
On the day before anic Chemistry exam—which is often on the first day of finals—at precisely the stroke of midnight, the Columbia University Marching Band occupies Butler Library to distract diligent students from studying in an attempt to lower the curve on anic chemistry exam. After a forty-five minutes or so of jokes and music, the procession then moves out to the lawn in front of Hartley, Wallach and John Jay residence halls to entertain the residents there. The Band then plays at various other locations around Morningside Heights, including the residential quadrangle of Barnard College, where students of the all-women's school, in mock-consternation, rain trash - including notes and course packets - and water balloons upon them from their dormitories above. The Band tends to close o Night performances before Furnald Hall, known among students as the more studious and reportedly "anti-social" residence hall, where the underclassmen in the Band serenade the graduating seniors with an entertaining, though vulgar, mock-hymn to Columbia, composed of quips that poke fun at the various stereotypes about the Columbia student body.
Alma mater
Legend has it that the first freshman to