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Beer-Bike 2008

By Sarah Rutledge     3/20/08 7:00pm

In the early hours of Saturday morning, the campus was unusually active as members of the Rice community gathered together to don Beer-Bike t-shirts and, in some cases, college face paint. And although Willy Week may have seen its share of controversial jacks, colleges used this rivalry to fuel the water balloon fight that set them against each other. The parade took the colleges to Rice Stadium to cheer on their respective chugging and biking teams.





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