2A - Thursday, November 30, 2006 MONDAY: Ten Spot TUESDAY: Arbor Anecdotes WEDNESDAY: University Jobs F R IDAY. re You Were Here Why do freshmen walk through a fountain at orientation? Hint: It's not because they smell There are certain rites of passage once moat complete to become a University student: write essays, take the SAT, go on campus tours, then wade through knee- deep water in a foun- tain. The fountain walk is perhaps one of our strangest rituals. Dur- ing orientation sessions, groups of confused freshmen are made to wade through the foun- tain in front of Burton Tower near the Modern Languages Building. The origins of the tradition, like the water in the fountain, are murky. Orientation groups have been leading fresh- men through the foun- tain for countless years, and each year orienta- tion leaders continue the tradition because it's what groups did the year before. But orientation coor- dinator Drew Tinnin said where the tra- dition came from is unknown. 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