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University students participate in watermelon drop tradition
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Students enjoy unique tradition
- Duration 2:18
- Date Jun 9, 2012
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-- They have the music.
And the decorations.
All they needed was the queen and here -- student shared the title I title they worked for.
-- And I think.
It.
-- Gilani and -- -- that are you CST 2012.
Watermelon -- Other words the girls who would drop the summer fruit from the top story of a dorm.
It's the colleges all this tradition and it started with a physics teacher.
-- and it hasn't popped it.
Up a lot of options.
And -- How violent.
And -- -- it's an -- a lot of heat.
48 years later and -- -- continued its.
-- every -- -- and yeah.
And yeah.
Yeah.
-- -- and with that the Queen's Club night seven stories and it count down later.
Students witnessed physics at its finest and today it.
And let's see that again and.
-- what -- drop has become a much anticipated hard.
Hungry for students to shake off final exam jitters this -- a look at a lot of -- how -- yeah.
-- her finals the record for the biggest black is a 167.
Feet four inches set back in 1974.
This year was certainly impressive but not enough to -- -- history.
The far in his piece of watermelon delicious business.
Was found a 133.
Feet seven inches away from the drop zone hit the strengths are still this -- Don and maybe they're not ends.
You know early as they -- back in the day.
And we just do it for the fun fun that ends with none other than a watermelon filled lunch hour.
