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From Spring Day and Springfest to the current Slope Day fun, students have marked the occasion with Big Red revelry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As another spring semester winds down, another Slope Day<\/a> is set to mark the end of classes and continue a long-standing tradition\u2014one that has evolved over more than a century, but has always had a joyous air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The annual spring celebration traces its roots to March 1901, when a benefit concert was held to support the then-struggling Cornell Athletic Association. Preceded by a parade and \u201cfrolic on the Quadrangle,\u201d it was held again the following April\u2014and by 1903 had been officially named \u201cSpring Day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Costumes galore for an early 1900s Spring Day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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While this very early iteration was not tied to the end of classes and instead marked the close of winter, the carnival theme\u2014featuring a parade not to be confused with the one on Dragon Day<\/a>\u2014was similar. Midday classes were even suspended for the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World War I put Spring Day on hold for two years, but it returned in 1919 with a formal ball now on the slate of activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the following decades, it morphed into Spring Weekend: a live duck race was held on Beebe Lake, a Roman theme (in 1938) saw a \u201cCircus Maximus\u201d staged at Schoellkopf, a Fraternity Float parade became popular, and dances in Barton Hall featured Big Band-era musicians like Glenn Miller and Jimmy Dorsey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A massive crowd for the mainstage concert, 2009.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The first concert held on Libe Slope as part of Spring Weekend was in 1953, when the University Band performed; jazz concerts were often held on the Slope in the following years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 1960s saw Spring Weekend\u2019s expansive footprint shrink, as student activism and unrest turned attention to graver matters; the event vanished altogether for several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Barton still hosted concerts tied to Spring Weekend: Janis Joplin, James Taylor, and Mary Travers performed in the late \u201960s and early \u201970s, and the Cornell Concert Commission brought Seatrain, King Harvest, and Aerosmith in May 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, the ongoing free concerts on Libe Slope grew in popularity, and in 1977 a new era began as the University branded the last-day-of-classes party on the Slope as SpringFest\u2014with a free chicken barbecue, live music, and adult beverages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Since New York\u2019s drinking age was 18 back then, nearly all undergrads could imbibe legally by the end of the academic year.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SpringFest continued through most of the 1980s\u2014even as the drinking age rose to 21, with the University\u2019s alcohol policy following suit.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Cornell Store sales for SpringFest, late \u201970s.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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In 1986, the event was formally staged on North Campus\u2014though thousands of students disdained it in favor of an unofficial party dubbed \u201cTake Back the Slope.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alcohol remained an issue: after a number of students required medical treatment during the 1987 festivities (moved back to Libe Slope and featuring blues guitarist Robert Cray), SpringFest was canceled altogether in 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1977, a new era began as the University branded the last-day-of-classes party on the Slope as SpringFest.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By the early 1990s, an annual, far more informal celebration\u2014not University sanctioned and now called \u201cSlope Day\u201d\u2014took place at the end of the semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As professors Glenn Altschuler, PhD \u201976, and Isaac Kramnick dryly note in Cornell: A History, 1940\u20132015<\/em>: \u201cStudents began to skip the last day of classes and show up on the Slope already stoked and well-stocked with their own supplies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Slope
Fun with friends, 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Celebrating
Celebrating on the Slope, early 1980s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Slope
Fun in the sun, 2006.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Concertgoers
Concertgoers at the first SpringFest, 1977.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Carnival
Carnival fun, 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Hanging
Outside the Cornell Store, 1977.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Leaping
Frisbee frolicking, early \u201980s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\u201cToilet racers\u201d at SlopeFest, 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Carnival atmosphere outside the Straight, late 1970s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Concert crowd, 2007.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Hot
What two quarters would get you, late \u201970s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"SlopeFest
SlopeFest carnival games, 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Revelers
Early \u201980s revelers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Staffers survey the crowd, 2009.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Party scene, early 2000s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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A collage of vintage images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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The beverage queue, 2006.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Decked
Decked out for the Spring Weekend parade, mid 1900s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Surfin\u2019 U.S.A.? Early 2000s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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SlopeFest fun, 2011.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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The first Spring Day, reimagined in the 1940s for the musical \u201cOnce Upon a Hill.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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The University began efforts to counterprogram Slope Day, and in 1999 an alcohol-free SlopeFest was launched on West Campus, offering carnival games, rides, live music, and more. (It moved to Ho Plaza in 2006.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The early 2000s brought partnership between student organizations and the administration: a Student Assembly-funded board oversaw programming while the University took care of fencing the area, catering food and beverages, establishing a system for legal alcohol consumption, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slope Day continues to bring big-name performers to the Hill; in recent decades, acts have included Rusted Root, Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, Ben Folds, the Pussycat Dolls, Drake, Nelly, Kendrick Lamar, Ludacris, and Chance the Rapper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Famed rapper Snoop Dogg takes the stage in 2005.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The event (which, beginning in 2014, shifted to the day after the last day of classes) went virtual for two years due to the pandemic, but returned in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s festivities\u2014set for Wednesday, May 10\u2014will include performances by indie alt-pop rockers COIN, electronic dance duo Snakehips, and the \u201cdemon glam rock\u201d pair Coco & Clair Clair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top: Slope Day 2022 (Sreang Hok \/ Cornell University).<\/em> All vintage images courtesy of Rare and Manuscript Collections; all modern photos by Cornell University photographers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published May 8, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What are your fondest Slope Day memories?<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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