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"Tutt Crunch" relay race
Tutt Library, Colorado College, 1990s. Participants wore flip-flops and carried books instead of batons. Photo from Colorado College Special Collections (PP95-62 #94).
Similarly, Swarthmore College has the “McCabe Mile,” a race through the library. The prize is a roll of Scott toilet paper, Swarthmore benefactor Edward McCabe being a former head of the Scott Paper Company. (Thanks, Christopher Densmore!)
Streaking
Streaking. Tutt Library, Colorado College, 1992. Photo from CC yearbook.
Streaking
Streaking. Tutt Library, Colorado College, March 5, 1976. Streakers zoom past Sallie Payne Morgan, former Dean of Women at CC. The CC yearbook for 1976 describes this streak as an annual event.
Similarly, the cross country team at Grinnell College has an annual streak including the library (thanks, Catherine Rod!) and the Ultimate Frisbee Team streaks through the library every spring during finals at Oberlin College, too (thanks, Ed Vermue!).
Chas in costume
Tutt Library, Colorado College, 1994-ongoing. Students dress up the statue of Charles Leaming Tutt, Jr. (“Chas”), for whom Tutt Library is named. The statue was installed in front of the library in 1992. The earliest CC Archives photograph of a statue decoration is from 1994. Many more images at www.flickr.com/photos/tuttlibrary/sets/72157627707737080/.
Library Shenanigans 