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 ===== Spring Weekend activities in different (and not so different) times =====
-Throughout the mid-20th century, an early iteration of Spring Weekend was also variously called Senior Weekend, Prom Weekend, and Senior Ball, involving baseball games, prom, fraternity parties, and copious mischievous endeavors undertaken by students dizzy with spring fever. One early example of these antics is chronicled in the //[[tripod|Trinity Tripod]]// issue of May 9, 1951: “One sentimental senior, realizing that it was the last chance he had to walk head first into his old fraternity house wall, did so, inadvertently of course, but it evidently became a habit with him as he later smashed his numb noggin through a friend's windshield. This crude use of the old bean as a battering ram seemed to be the rage all along Vernon Street.... Down the hill, heads were still coming into play, in a situation where men weren't men until they had jumped up and punched a hole in the cellar ceiling with these same, overworked heads.” The weekend made the //Tripod// news in particular for including women in the festivities; the April 29, 1953 issue broadcasts that “The College will withstand the greatest invasion of women this year when over 350 lovelies arrive Friday afternoon for the beginning of Senior Ball Weekend.” Before Trinity became a co-ed institution, young women from women’s colleges around New England were invited to attend the Spring Weekend festivities, which in 1958 involved a “Queen Contest” wherein 12 women from various colleges in the area were invited to represent each of the ten fraternities, the Brownell Club, and the Neutrals. The winner of the contest led the following “Coronation Dance.”
+Throughout the mid-20th century, an early iteration of Spring Weekend was also variously called Senior Weekend, Prom Weekend, and Senior Ball, involving baseball games, prom, [[fraternities|fraternity]] parties, and copious mischievous endeavors undertaken by students dizzy with spring fever. One early example of these antics is chronicled in the //[[tripod|Trinity Tripod]]// issue of May 9, 1951: “One sentimental senior, realizing that it was the last chance he had to walk head first into his old fraternity house wall, did so, inadvertently of course, but it evidently became a habit with him as he later smashed his numb noggin through a friend's windshield. This crude use of the old bean as a battering ram seemed to be the rage all along [[vernon_street|Vernon Street]].... Down the hill, heads were still coming into play, in a situation where men weren't men until they had jumped up and punched a hole in the cellar ceiling with these same, overworked heads.” The weekend made the //Tripod// news in particular for including women in the festivities; the April 29, 1953 issue broadcasts that “The College will withstand the greatest invasion of women this year when over 350 lovelies arrive Friday afternoon for the beginning of Senior Ball Weekend.” Before Trinity became a [[coeducation|co-ed]] institution, young women from women’s colleges around New England were invited to attend the Spring Weekend festivities, which in 1958 involved a “Queen Contest” wherein 12 women from various colleges in the area were invited to represent each of the ten fraternities, the [[brownell_club|Brownell Club]], and the Neutrals. The winner of the contest led the following “Coronation Dance.”
 [{{::spring_weekend_1985.jpg?400 |Students compete in a game of tug-of-war as part of the 1985 Trinity Games. Photo credit: //Trinity Tripod//, 05-14-1985}}]
-In 1976, MHBOG decided to expand Spring Weekend from one weekend in April to span multiple weekends and weekdays from Friday April 16 to May 2, featuring musical events, films, a semi-formal dance, and a day of games on the Quad dubbed “Monkey Pharts Day,” which entailed "'events of skill,' such as gold fish swallowing contests, beer drinking relays, an all-campus tug of war, and pie eating contests." The following year, however, the festival was reduced back to a single weekend at the end of April, although Monkey Pharts Day was once again observed.
+In 1976, MHBOG decided to expand Spring Weekend from one weekend in April to span multiple weekends and weekdays from Friday, April 16 to May 2, featuring musical events, films, a semi-formal dance, and a day of games on the Quad dubbed “Monkey Pharts Day,” which entailed "'events of skill,' such as gold fish swallowing contests, beer drinking relays, an all-campus tug of war, and pie eating contests." The following year, however, the festival was reduced back to a single weekend at the end of April, although Monkey Pharts Day was once again observed.
 Alongside the musical acts and fraternity parties of the 1980s Spring Weekends, sporting competitions among the classes also took place. In 1985, the Senior class were the overall winners of the Trinity Games, a lively display of student athletic ability including a Long Walk Run, tug-of-war, and a human pyramid competition.
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 [{{ :spring_weekend_2011.jpg?400|Students at the headlining concert of 2011, with Major Lazer and Three-Six Mafia. Photo credit: //Trinity Tripod//, 04-19-2011}}]
-Throughout the 1980s, alt-rock bands like U2 (1983) and ‘Til Tuesday (1985), post-punk sounds from Modern English (1986), hard rock from The Smithereens (1987), and R&B and blues musicians Robert Cray and Ivan Neville (1989) were headlining Spring Weekend musical events. The 1990s brought world-class acts to campus like jazz hip-hop group Digable Planets (1995) and The Pharcyde (1996), and alt-rock legends Sonic Youth (1995) and Guster (1996). Beginning in 1994, Spring Weekend began to feature a distinct music festival dubbed “Hallapalooza,” taking place in [[st._anthony_hall|St. Anthony Hall]] with a lineup of bands.
+Throughout the 1980s, alt-rock bands like U2 (1983) and ‘Til Tuesday (1985), punk music from The Ramones (1985), post-punk sounds from Modern English (1986), hard rock from The Smithereens (1987), and R&B and blues musicians Robert Cray and Ivan Neville (1989) were headlining Spring Weekend musical events. The 1990s brought world-class acts to campus like jazz hip-hop group Digable Planets (1995) and The Pharcyde (1996), and alt-rock legends Sonic Youth (1995) and Guster (1996). Beginning in 1994, Spring Weekend began to feature a distinct music festival dubbed “Hallapalooza,” taking place in [[st._anthony_hall|St. Anthony Hall]] with a lineup of bands.
-Among the acts featured during Spring Weekend in the early 2000s included hip-hop trio Naughty By Nature (2000) and indie reggae fusion group Dispatch (2001). Students were very disappointed after hip-hop idol Busta Rhymes was contracted by TCAC to headline the weekend in 2002 and no-showed the day of the concert, leading the TCAC to seek legal compensation for the production costs. However, the following year proved more successful with Trinity’s own DJ Dafence playing to a raucous crowd, and Canadian hip-hop artist Kardinal Offishal bringing several excited girls up on stage during his set to compete in a belly-dancing contest. 2011 saw another successful lineup with Major Lazer, playing electronic reggae beats for lively dancing and Tennessee gangsta rap stars Three-Six Mafia performing to an enthusiastic crowd of 800. In 2018, EDM ruled the stage at Spring Weekend--or at least one of the stages--The Mill, a student-run art space and music venue, hosted an alternative concert featuring psychedelic rock, indie pop, and dreamy vocals.
+Among the acts featured during Spring Weekend in the early 2000s included hip-hop trio Naughty By Nature (2000) and indie reggae fusion group Dispatch (2001). Students were very disappointed after hip-hop idol Busta Rhymes was contracted by TCAC to headline the weekend in 2002 and no-showed the day of the concert, leading the TCAC to seek legal compensation for the production costs. However, the following year proved more successful with Trinity’s own DJ Dafence playing to a raucous crowd, and Canadian hip-hop artist Kardinal Offishal bringing several excited girls up on stage during his set to compete in a belly-dancing contest. 2011 saw another successful lineup with Major Lazer, playing electronic reggae beats for lively dancing and Tennessee gangsta rap stars Three-Six Mafia performing to an enthusiastic crowd of 800. In 2018, EDM ruled the stage at Spring Weekend--or at least one of the stages--[[the_mill|The Mill]], a student-run art space and music venue, hosted an alternative concert featuring psychedelic rock, indie pop, and dreamy vocals.
 ===== Funding =====
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 [[http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/tripod/394| Trinity Tripod]], 2002-04-30.
-[[http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/tripod/336| Trinity Tripod]], 2001-05-02.
 [[http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/tripod/370| Trinity Tripod]], 2001-04-17.
+[[http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/tripod/336| Trinity Tripod]], 2000-05-02.
 [[http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/tripod/256| Trinity Tripod]], 1996-04-30.
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 [[http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/tripod/2864| Trinity Tripod]], 1951-05-09.
-[[http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/tripod/3047| Trinity Tripod]], 1948-04-30.
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