NERA 2019 Summer Intern Training Icebreaker

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Across
  1. 2. At every home football game, fans throw tortillas on the field at this university, known as the Tortilla Toss.
  2. 3. This college hosts Ski/Beach day each year, where students can go skiing in the morning and surfing in the afternoon.
  3. 4. This school's mascot is the same as the university name (hint: something about a cherry tree).
  4. 6. When this school was first founded, calculus was not offered because it had not been invented yet.
  5. 7. This school’s mascot is the Fighting Scots.
  6. 9. This school’s campus is often used in movies and tv shows to replicate other colleges like Princeton, Harvard, and Yale. Some examples of movies and tv shows include Jobs, Old School, Legally Blonde, Californication, House M.D., and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
  7. 11. Students at this college start and end their time on campus the same way – gathering for a ceremonial event in Scott Amphitheater.
  8. 12. The movie “Good Will Hunting” with Matt Damon took place here.
  9. 14. President Gerald Ford was a star center and linebacker here.
  10. 15. Students here compete for the House Cup, which is awarded to students of the residence hall with the most wins during a year-long competition of intramural events.
  11. 17. President Henry Hoover met his wife, Lou, as a senior at this university.
  12. 18. There is a steam tunnel system under this school’s campus.
  13. 19. Canyon day is this school’s oldest tradition, where the community gathers to clean and restore a portion of Crystal Springs Creek.
  14. 20. Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s and her former townhouse to this college.
  15. 21. There is a spot on this school’s campus that has lines that point to where the old buildings of the university once stood before the fire in 1912. If students step on the “Point of Failure” they won’t graduate in four years.
  16. 23. Professor Josiah S. Carberry’s legacy lives on this campus through Josiah’s restaurant and the Carberry Fund for books.
Down
  1. 1. Roth Pond Regatta is a tradition at this university where groups make boats out of cardboard tape, with the challenge to get across the Roth Pond first without sinking.
  2. 4. This university has the largest entirely student run non-profit corporation in the country, commonly known as “The Corp”.
  3. 5. The Free Speech Movement started in 1964 at this university and led to a college campus phenomenon that was first inspired by the struggle for civil rights and fueled by opposition to the Vietnam War.
  4. 8. Gargoyle-esque sculptures, called “bosses” adorn many of the buildings here.
  5. 9. The Honeycrisp Apple was developed at this university in 1974.
  6. 10. One of this school’s oldest traditions is Flower Sunday, celebrated on the first Sunday of the school year where returning siblings (“bigs”) are matched with incoming students (“littles”) in their dorms and present them with flowers or small gifts.
  7. 13. This was the first school in the nation to adopt the Owl as its mascot, signifying its beginning as a night school.
  8. 16. This school has the distinction of being both a private and public institution.
  9. 21. Scav, this school’s 30-year-old annual scavenger hunt, is a 72-hour search for hundreds of encrypted clues, riddles, and seemingly impossible items on campus and city.
  10. 22. Taking up 30 square feet of space, the fastest computer in New York City sits here.