My uncle is also Rose alumnus, from the 60's. He said when he was there, class hazing was on the decline, but some of the stuff they still did. Freshmen weren't allowed to walk on the sidewalk in front of the main building, or use the main entrance. He got his glasses broken, and he was thrown in the lake twice in one day for this, because he was running late to class. they had a freshman/sophomore baseball game, and at some point in the game, the freshmen took out their pipes (showing they were men i guess) and the sophomores rushed at them and tried to take their pipes away, to show they weren't men. it became a big brawl, and was called the pipe rush. they also had a cord day, where the freshmen and sophomores would wear their cords (corduroy pants) and they would end up in a brawl and it wouldn't stop until everyone had been stripped of their cords. also, the freshmen of course had beanies to wear.
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