Brown and White Vol. 133 no. 20

              The Brown and White Vol. 133 No. 20
Friday, November 17, 2017 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
Student leaders continue tailgate tradition
By JESSICA HICKS
Deputy News Editor
Tomorrow morning, thousands
of people will gather in the area
surrounding Goodman Stadium
to celebrate the Lehigh-Lafayette
football game over food, drinks
and music.
Though tailgates often appear
to be an arbitrary mix of students,
alumni and friends, The Rivalry
game tailgates require extensive
planning to ensure safety and
overall success.
With 50 registered tailgates
and many unregistered tailgate
groups, planning begins far in
advance to accommodate their
size and needs.
Joe Sterrett, Lehigh’s director
of athletics, said the athletics
department is heavily involved
with the logistics of The Rivalry
tailgates.
Sterrett said his department
plays a role in laying out the
tailgate locations and providing a
set-up and clean-up crew, as well
as parking attendants.
This year’s Rivalry tailgates are
dispersed around the outside of
Goodman Stadium, with Lafayette
tailgates at the southernmost end
of the campus and Lehigh tail-gates
north of the stadium.
Sterrett said the registration of
tailgates and behavioral expec-tations
fall under the umbrella
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Turkey Trot marks 62nd annual race GOODMAN
SOLD OUT FOR
RIVALRY GAME
By CATE PETERSON
News Editor
The 153rd meeting of Lehigh-
Lafayette football is completely
sold out.
Lehigh has sold out about a
week ago, while Lafayette sold the
remaining tickets by Wednesday
night.r, “selling out” looks differ-ent
for each school.
“The home team gets more and it
is based off the size of the school,”
said Richard Haas, Lehigh’s assis-tant
athletic director for sales and
marketing.
Haas said about 10 years ago,
By SAMANTHA SILVERMAN
Associate News Editor
The Turkey Trot, an uphill, 2
1/2-mile race around campus, is
Lehigh’s longest-running Rivalry
Week tradition. This year’s run was
the 62nd annual race.
The tradition first started in 1953,
when Lehigh was still an all-male
university.
Jane Josephson, director of intra-mural
sports and recreation, has
been organizing the race for the past
29 years. She believes the Turkey
Trot is one of Lehigh’s greatest
Rivalry Week traditions.
“When we talk about tradition,
other than the football game, this
is No. 2,” Josephson said, “I’m all
about tradition. As a student, I️ was
involved in everything. I️ would like
to be the one 20 years from now and
say, ‘I️ did that.’”
However, Josephson has found
that participation in the run has
decreased over time.
“We have had numbers where 800
kids participated,” Josephson said.
“Back in the day, students didn’t
have all these others clubs and orga-nizations.
So as those things change,
what students like to do changes.”
This year, there were 320 partic-ipants
in the Turkey Trot and 73
participants in the Too Hot to Trot,
a 1-mile walk around the lower part
of campus.
The Turkey Trot starts by the UC
Front Lawn and loops up through
the Hill.
“It pretty much follows the
Packard Express bus route,” Emily
Krulik, ’18, said.
Krulik has participated in the
Turkey Trot for the past three years.
She said many students and profes-sors
run in the event, which inspires See TROT Page 4
school spirit. Krulik said the run
gets the school riled up and excited.
Josephson said it has become part
of the tradition to wear fun cos-tumes
in the race, as long as they’re
in good taste. She said years ago,
members of Delta Tau Delta, a for-mer
Lehigh fraternity, would dress
up as pilgrims.
“I️ ran with my best friend both
years, and the first time we ran for
time and tried to complete it as fast
as we could,” Hannah Plaza, ’18,
said. “But last year we made it more
fun and wore matching outfits and
went really slow and stopped at all
the fraternities and saw our friends.
It was a really fun time being with
her.”
Josephson said a lot of planning
and organization goes into the
event, including coordinating with
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Lehigh-Lafayette 152nd Rivalry game, 2016 (Roshan Giyanani/B&W Staff)
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