true aggie night

basically here at usu becoming a true aggie is a rule to graduating. it's comparable to byu where you have to get married.

well ladies and gents, now i can graduate!

so in 1916 there were some salt lake boys who started the beno club (a high school principal pronounced there would "be no" clubs and so thus this began). at usu, one beno member built the A, a wonderful four-tiered white A base with a blue platform top. tradition started when a young man had to kiss a willing young lady atop the A under a full moon at midnight.



i have been to true aggie multiple times but never to actually become one.

you see, at one point i started the true aggie judge tradition:

ok so it only lasted like a semester but when i googled true aggie night, i found the picture below. so don't worry, its still a legend of some sort. at least for this couple who will tell their kids how cool the judges were. (i can't remember if they were really that good or if they bribed us to hold up 10s)

being a judge and attending true ag night just to people watch, i have not been disappointed in the things i have seen.

exhibit A:

i don't really know how he was going to kiss anyone but maybe that's exactly why he decided to wear a pumpkin on his head...

i have seen times where one guy will stand and girls will file through, giving up his time to help them all become true ags, how generous.

i have seen two couples get up at the same time and switch partners.

this last weekend i even saw a proposal!

let's be honest here, i don't know of anywhere else that its that socially acceptable to kiss strangers, see older couples kiss... a lot, see one kiss multiple people, see that much (gross) PDA, and stand on top of an A platform for everyone to see and cheer.

and yes, now i can proudly call myself one of those true aggies.