[Ads-l] Elvavr=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=A5let_?=in the US?

[Amy West]

I just saw mention of this in Globe Magazine today, but in the context 
of Boston University and exam week: yup, students opening windows and 
screaming/shouting at 2 AM. There wasn't a particular term applied, but 
the behavior is parallel.

---Amy West

On 3/29/20 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:05:38 -0400
> From:    Mark Mandel<markamandel at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Elvavrålet in the US?
>
> For those who, like me, don't know Swedish, or at least not the word:
>
> Elvavrålet (Swedish: the eleven roar) is a student tradition where students
> at universities and colleges at a certain time every night in student
> residential areas (22:00 or 23:00, on Lappkärrsberget only Tuesdays) open
> their windows, go out onto balconies or rooftops and scream to relieve
> stress.
>
> The roar is also called the Delphi roar (after the student residential area
> Delphi in Lund), the Flogsta roar,[1][2] (after the neighborhood Flogsta in
> Uppsala) the Lappkärr cry (after the neighborhood Lappkärrsberget in
> Stockholm), the Ten cry, the Tuesday scream or Anxiety scream. The
> phenomenon has been known since the 1970s, and has been the subject of
> academic papers.
> *[citation needed] *
> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvavr%C3%A5let]

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