Students dropped a humongous candy-filled pumpkin from the 11th story of Tioga hall, at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 28 for the 42nd annual UCSD Monster Pumpkin Drop. Weighing at approximately 600 pounds, this is one of the largest pumpkins in Muir College’s Pumpkin Drop history. The students in the Muir Residents’ Council named the sacrificial fruit “My Lowest Test Score,” so the students dropped “My Lowest Test Score” during the annual tradition. Inside the pumpkin was an assortment of candy that dozens of students scurried to claim after the pumpkin explosion. After the drop there was a Halloween Carnival sponsored by Muir College. The pumpkin’s “splat” is measured each year. The largest splat in the history of the pumpkin drop occurred last year, when a pumpkin weighing more than 500 pounds spewed over 138 feet. This is the sixth year Jon Berndes, a local grower from Alpine, has donated the doomed pumpkin to Muir College at UCSD.
– Thomas Melville