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NC State Traditions
Why is the Bell Tower so beloved?
What’s the brickyard (and why all the bricks, anyway)?
What do people do in the Free Expression Tunnel?
Where’s the Strolling Professor going and why do you rub his head?
What were the early university’s original school colors?
Who are Mr. and Ms.Wuf?
What’s behind our back in the Red & White Song?

Welcome to NC State, home of innovation and leadership in science, technology, and research... and some long-standing and proud traditions beloved by a devoted student body and alumni. For the juicy inside scoop on history and trivia, people and events, visit www.ncsu.edu/orientation/traditions/index.htm.

(And the answers to the questions? Commemorates war dead, the campus gathering place...and all the bricks are a mystery, scrawl graffiti, for luck, pink and blue, mascots, a hand).

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