{"id":35281,"date":"2015-09-18T13:10:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T17:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=35281"},"modified":"2015-09-23T09:08:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T13:08:09","slug":"grape-stomp-turns-brock-purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/09\/grape-stomp-turns-brock-purple\/","title":{"rendered":"Grape Stomp turns Brock purple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 1,000 students participated in Brock University&#8217;s stickiest tradition Friday during the annual Grape Stomp.<\/p>\n<p>Stained purple and covered in grape juice and peels, students laughed, posed for pictures and slid in a tonne of Concord grapes.<\/p>\n<p>The popular ritual was recently ranked\u00a0second on the\u00a0list of Great Canadian Campus Traditions by University Affairs, a magazine published by Universities Canada.<\/p>\n\n\t    <style type='text\/css'>\n\t        #gallery-45263280 {\n\t            margin: 0 auto 50px auto 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height=\"225\" alt=\"Teams wasted no time getting into the grapes when the stomp started Friday.\">\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li class='gallery-item'>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GrapeStomp3-1600x900.jpg\" title=\"Elisa Damiani, left, Amanda Bava and Emily Sage had fun slipping and sliding during Grape Stomp.\" data-featherlight=\"image\" class=\"gallery-45263280\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GrapeStomp3-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Elisa Damiani, left, Amanda Bava and Emily Sage had fun slipping and sliding during Grape Stomp.\">\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li class='gallery-item'>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GrapeStomp2-1600x1067.jpg\" title=\"Grapes are piled on plastic before the annual Brock University Grape Stomp gets underway.\" data-featherlight=\"image\" class=\"gallery-45263280\">\n<img 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