Recent Customs and Annual Events
For thirty years, through 2011, there was an annual concert called Rutgersfest, typically held on Busch or Livingston campus. The concert had novelties and stands nearby, and people from outside the campus came to crowd in and dance near the band. The concert met its demise when students and others got rowdy in New Brunswick after the 2011 Rutgersfest.
Since 2003, there has been an annual campout/protest called Tent State University. This is held on Voorhees Mall, and began in 2003 in response to proposed education budget cuts and tuition increases While other colleges and campuses hold Tent State campouts/protests, the movement began at Rutgers.
The newest annual event, Rutgers Day, has been held since 2009. While some might consider it too new to be a tradition, the event has been quite popular, with some 50,000 people estimated to have shown up to the first one. During a Rutgers Day festival, the departments and schools of Rutgers put on exhibits and displays for the general public, producing what is, in effect, an enormous one-day carnival. Rutgers Day now contains the New Jersey Folk Festival within it, which is an older annual event that happens on Douglass Campus, and which has been going on since the mid-1970s.
The Grease Trucks have been called a Rutgers institution, and so eating at those trucks can be said to be a Rutgers tradition. Those trucks serve sandwiches with various names, such as Fat Cat, Fat Sam, and Fat Darrell. While the trucks are currently opposite Scott Hall on College Avenue Campus, they are likely to be moved to a new location in the next few years.
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