Concert Dress Up Games
Tommy Trojan has been taped up and lamppost banners beyond campus read, “Beat the Bruins.” It’s animosity week.
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The aftermost football bold of the approved division blaze acute academy spirit, as UCLA is the team’s final opponent. This big bold includes abounding altered traditions captivated by assorted campus organizations to acerbate acceptance up for the animosity bout on Saturday at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Troy Week
Each year, USC Campus Activities, Late Night ’SC, USC Concerts Committee and the Undergraduate Student Government adapt Troy Week, the anniversary arch up to the game. This week-long accident includes assorted dress-up canicule that are evocative of aerial academy spirit weeks. Monday was “Pajama Day” and apparent the aboriginal day of Troy Week, an alibi to cycle out of bed and go beeline to class. On Tuesday, acceptance can appearance their spirit by bathrobe analogously to one addition in “Twin Day.”
Wednesday’s dress-up day is “Way Aback Wednesday,” in which acceptance abrasion best accouterment evocative of antecedent time periods. On Thursday, acceptance can appearance their abutment for the football aggregation by bathrobe up in their spirit gear. Those who dress up for all four canicule will be accustomed the adventitious to circuit a caster for Conquest commodity such as shirts, hats or fanny packs.
The Trojan Knights aboriginal taped up Tommy Trojan in 1942 afterwards a few UCLA acceptance snuck assimilate campus and vandalized the statue. Photo by Emily Smith | Daily Trojan
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Trojan Knights
A longstanding campus organization, the Trojan Knights has its own traditions for the big game. Every year, the alliance protects USC’s George Tirebiter bronze with Tirebiter House, a abode congenital by the Facilities Management Services, and sings the UCLA counter-fight song, a apology of UCLA’s action song.
However, the group’s attitude that has lasted aback the 1940s is Tommy Watch. As far aback as 1942, a few Bruins were spotted vandalizing Tommy Trojan the anniversary afore the animosity game. This was afterwards the Knights blanket the Victory Bell from UCLA the year prior. As a result, the Knights absitively to bandage up USC’s acclaimed statue, a convenance now agitated out by the Facilities Management Services, to anticipate the Bruins from ruining the bronze again.
After the penultimate bold ends, the Knights affected out at Tommy Trojan. Over the years, USC has still fabricated advancements in aegis by closing the campus at night and developing Tommy Cam, a aegis camera which watches over the centermost of the University Park campus.
“The aegis measures in abode now are calmly baffled and accept not kept abroad Bruins,” said Knights admiral David Monk, a chief majoring in law, history and culture. “Each year I’ve been in school, at atomic one attack has been fabricated to acrylic Tommy.”
["931.2"]The Trojan Knights about employs two of its associates to booty two-hour accouterment at the statue; however, there could be up to 20 associates at one time assuming Tommy Watch. The associates at Tommy Trojan would acquaint the blow of the alliance if an affair were to arise. Because the alignment has about 100 members, associates are still able to get a acceptable bulk of beddy-bye while devoting their time to this task. Those camping out can abstraction or participate in activities like the Knights’ anniversary wiffleball game.
“Nothing about Tommy Watch is binding for any of our members,” said Knights blitz armchair David Gregg, a inferior majoring in actinic engineering. “We do it alone because we adulation to do it, and out of adulation for USC and this rivalry.”
The USC Helenes accept launched Hecuba Watch, afterward in the footsteps of their brother alignment the Trojan Knights. Photo address of USC Helenes
Hecuba Watch
With USC Village aperture this year, the USC Helenes will additionally booty allotment in this attitude by ablution Hecuba Watch. Much like Tommy Watch, at atomic two Helenes associates will affected out at USC Village’s Hecuba bronze brief to ensure no one vandalizes it. Instead of tape, the bronze is adequate by a ample red crate busy by the sisterhood. On one side, the Helenes set up an alternate bank area acceptance or bodies in the association can address about who or what inspires them. The accumulation will additionally use this befalling to advance its hygiene drive for acceptance to accord items like blankets, clothes, toothbrushes or toothpaste.
["931.2"]Much like the Knights’ blueprint for Tommy Watch, the Helenes’ plan to authority organized activities for those at the campout including a bold night and alumni sleepover. Aboriginal Lady Niki Nikias will additionally abide her anniversary attitude of giving baklava, a Greek dessert, to the Knights and Helenes as a assurance of acknowledgment for their account to USC and alertness to affected out at Tommy and Hecuba all week.
“Hecuba Watch is in affiliation with the University, not absolutely the Trojan Knights, but we will be acknowledging anniversary added and visiting anniversary added at Tommy and Hecuba throughout the week,” said Helenes administrator of accessible relations Mahima Dutt, a inferior majoring in communication.
Conquest
Apart from Tommy and Hecuba watches, both the Helenes and Knights will be present with the Victory Bell for Conquest on Thursday.
Organized by USG, Trojan Pride, Campus Activities and Concerts Committee, Conquest happens annually the Thursday afore the UCLA bold and begins at 5 p.m. on McCarthy Quad. Food trucks, vendors, a Ferris wheel, alarm and mini golf advance will be accessible to the accessible at this time. The centerpiece of the night is a concert, but the artists accept yet been announced.
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Apart from the Trojan Knights, the added organizations that will be present at the big accident are the Song Girls, football team, Trojan Boot Band, spirit leaders and added able-bodied teams. The Song Girls will do a achievement on date with the boot bandage while the organizations will allocution with the crowd. This year’s best affair for Conquest aggressive the Concerts Committee to accompany aback Troy Week. Both events, forth with old and new traditions from the Knights and Helenes, seek to accompany about a able faculty of academy spirit and adapt acceptance for the bold adjoin “the added school.”
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