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Homecoming Cane Toss Traditions

This weekend, third year law students at the University of Wisconsin will honor an almost century long tradition (no one knows for sure) of the homecoming cane parade and toss. A recent article in On Wisconsin describes the tradition: When they arrive in the shadow of the Field House, students toss their canes over the goalpost. It's a decades-long tradition that holds that catching their canes means they'll win their first cases after graduation. Drop them and they lose. When the concept of read more

Full post as published by WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library on October 08, 2010 (boomark / email).