Baker 13
Baker 13 is one of the most famous traditions at Rice University. At 10 p.m. on the 13th and 31st of every month (26th of months with no 31st), a group of students runs around the entire campus wearing nothing but shaving cream. Although the event usually only attracts a small number of students, on Halloween and the last relevant day of the schoolyear (usually April 26th), the event is very large, regularly attracting over 100 students. The event is so named because it begins and ends at Baker College.
The runners go by all the residential colleges and often make shaving cream impressions by rubbing their bodies on windows and doors. College members often throw water on the runners. The runners usually shout the college anti-cheer (e.g. "Sid Rich sucks, death from behind") of the college they are running by. They also shout the Baker 13 cheer, which goes like this: "Join us! Join us!"
Although the students are naked, the event is not sexual in nature, like NOD is. Instead the atmosphere of Baker 13 is silly and exuberant.
