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<div>[[Image:TheScream.jpg|thumb|150px|''The'' Scream]]<br />
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'''Primal scream''' is an end-of-semester tradition, not to be confused with the [[w:Primal Scream|Scottish alternative rock group of the same name]]. It takes place at midnight on the last Sunday night of the semester, after the first Friday of exams and before the last week of [[finals|final exams]]. Students come out of their studying holes, open their room windows, and release their stress with howls of anguish and frustration. The screaming lasts up to 5 minutes and can be heard throughout the [[Morningside Heights campus|campus]]. Primal screams are not unique to Columbia and are known to exist at [[w:Dead week|other colleges]].<br />
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The origins of the scream are unknown, but has been confirmed by neighborhood residents to date back at least to 1872 (edit: this is assuming it took a random hiatus between fall 1983 and spring 1987, since it did not in fact happen those years...)<br />
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Since [[2006]], the spring-semester primal scream has coincided with and signaled the beginning of the [[Spring Pillow Fight]].<br />
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In 2005, [[NPR]]'s [[Soterios Johnson]] CC '90 presented a brief piece on the event, including a recording of the screaming.[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4648537]<br />
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During Fall 2010 to Spring 2014, the Primal Scream was actually a piece composed by [[Solomon Hoffman]] in which he successfully created a 5000 part harmony.<br />
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In Spring 2024, the primal scream took place outside [[President's House]] during popular dissatisfaction with [[Minouche Shafik]]'s handling of campus protests around the 2023 Israel-Hamas War[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*Johnson, Soterios (May 11, 2005). [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4648537 Spring Scream at Columbia] (Real Audio, Windows Media Player). [[w:All Things Considered|All Things Considered]]. [[National Public Radio]].<br />
* Bwog posts about primal screams:<br />
:* [http://bwog.com/2013/05/12/break-the-tension/ The Official Guide reposted every semester]<br />
:* [http://www.bwog.net/index.php?page=post&article_id=3629 Spring 2007]<br />
:* [http://www.bwog.net/publicate/index.php?page=post&article_id=4827 Fall 2007], [http://www.bwog.net/publicate/index.php?page=post&article_id=4828 Fall 2007]<br />
:* [http://www.bwog.net/articles/reminder_pillow_fight Spring 2008]<br />
:* [http://bwog.com/2010/12/20/primal-screamers/ Fall 2010]<br />
:* [http://bwog.com/2011/05/09/primal-scream-redux/ Spring 2011], [http://bwog.com/2011/05/09/primal-screampillow-fight-2011/ Spring 2011]<br />
* [http://eternalmiserablesuffering.blogspot.com/2007/05/primal-scream-is-retarded.html Eternal, Miserable Suffering: "Primal Scream" Is Retarded]<br />
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[[Category:Traditions]]</div>Nebechhoferhttps://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=User:Nebechhofer&diff=56795User:Nebechhofer2022-11-26T18:33:56Z<p>Nebechhofer: </p>
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Yeshiva --> FDU --> CU (moving up in the world)<br />
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