2A - Friday, November 17, 2006 MONDAY: TUESDAY: Ten Spot Arbor Anecdotes WEDNESDAY: University Jobs THURSDAY: FRIDAY: Explained BeforeYu.WereHere The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 413 E. Huron St. Ann ArborMI 48109-1327 www.michsigandaily.com DONNM.FRESARD ALEXIS FLOYD Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-647-333 734-764-55 fresard@michigandaiy.com floyd@michigandaily.com ~ The glorious history of'U' class battles The rise and fall of inter-class rivalries Inter-class rivalries are rare on today's campus. But generations ago, freshmen and sophomores would annu- ally go head-to-head to see which class was the stron- gest, fastest and most limber. Once a year, University freshman and sophomore men faced off in a tug-of-war challenge across the Huron River. The contest, first held in 1890, remained a staple on campus through the 1970s, drawing crowds as large as 7,000. The tug-of-war was a part of the spring games, which picked up popularity in 1917. Prideful sophomores and egocentric freshmen took up posts on either side of the Huron River to see which class could drag the other into the water. The rules were simple: No one could stand in more than two feet of water. The first team to successfully pull the other into the water was the winner. Often, the contest lasted hours. In 1913, captains of varsity sports like football, baseball and track acted as referees to the rising underclassmen. Before 1890, the sopho- more class annually chal- lenged the freshman class to a football game during the fall Greek rush. But the student council deemed the activity too hostile, and the sophomore council suggested the tug-of-war and a rugby match instead. The council was also searching for a way to pro- mote class spirit and rivalry while avoiding the humilia- tion of previous traditions. Until 1906, the goalofevery sophomore was to kidnap the toastmaster - the freshman who served as master of cer- emonies at the spring fresh- man banquet - then cut his hair, further humiliate him and return him too late to fulfill his role. Often freshmen would retaliate, and the classes would continually clash for the remainder of the semes- ter. Other spring activities included a pushball contest, in which each class tried to maneuver a massive ball across a field; a military- style relay obstacle race, and a boulder contest in which freshmen tried to sneak a marked boulder onto a soph- omore-guarded campus. KATHERINE MITCHELL - Information for this story was gathered from documents in the Bentley Historical Library. 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Concerned caller, alerts police to lounge loiterer WHERE: Mary Markley Residence Hall lounge, 1503 Washington Heights WHEN: Wednesday at about 2 p.m. WHAT: Police were sent to investigate reports of a tres- passer, possibly a resident's boyfriend, loitering on the couch, DPS reported. When officers arrived, the man had already fled. Kenyan music and dance WHAT: A concert featuring Kenyan music and dance. Tickets are $5 with a valid student ID and $10 without WHO: Internationally renowned Kenyan band Jabali Afrika WHEN: Today at 8 p.m. WHERE: Duderstadt Cen- ter, Video and Performance Studio Presentation on sexual politics and Hebrew director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the Grad- uate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif. WHEN: Today from 11 a.m. to noon WHERE: Mason Hall, room G333 CORRECTIONS " A caption on page 1B of yesterday's Daily incorrectly described the photos on the page. Clockwise from top, the photos depicted a Wii video game controller, a PlaySta- tion 3 and crowds gathering around the Nintendo booth at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, a video game trade show. The expo photos were taken by Forest Casey. The state recently slashed funding for the Ann Arbor Film Festival because the films contained depictions of sex acts, a violation of the fesival's guidelines. >>FOR MORE, SEE PAGE 5A Even though no Ameri- can cable networks have picked up Al Jazeera English, the Eng- lish-language version of the Arab news network, it will be viewable worldwide on the network's website. It took 25 firefighters and two family members to rescue an Austrian farmer whose 1,764 pound cow called Lulu fell on him, Reuters reported yesterday. The farmer was airlifted to the hospital. 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