As students cooled off with treats from the ice cream truck, they jammed to tunes with the Jayhawk.

Later that evening more than 4,000 students gathered in Memorial Stadium for Traditions Night, the annual indoctrination into native customs, including Waving the Wheat. Students heard a welcome from Chancellor Robert Hemenway and learned the origins of KU traditions from Professor Jim Carothers.

The evening also featured the passing of the torch from upperclassmen to freshmen. The Class of 2006 was represented by Steven Brown (left), Storm Lake, Iowa, and Patrick Bengtson, Lawrence, who are second cousins and fourth-generation Jayhawks descended from their great-grandfather, Silas Brown, an 1895 graduate.