A week, in college/university, where the aim of the game is to a) raise
money and b)
get pissed out of your head as is the tradition on college campuses(or is that campii?) around the world.
I don't know if this particular tradition extends any further than
Ireland but it's a good laugh and I hope that it does.
The word
rag in this case refers to either 2 things.
- Rags of cloths...many schools have a rag day which involves students getting to wear normal clothes instead of their school uniforms in exchange of small bits of money.
- Raise a Grand - referring to the collecting of money by all of the events, which can quite often exceed a grand
I'm not too sure which came first, perhaps
somebody else would be able to shed some light on this. (:
Highlights of last year's rag week in
my college included a
freak show, many excellent bands & DJs, lots of
bouncy things and an often undesirable amount of the aformentioned
alcohol.