This year’s Watermelon Royalty, sophomore Karlee Garcia, who along with her Watermelon Royalty runnerup Taylor Raymondo, climbed to the top of Urey Hall at UCSD to prove once again that gravity does exist by throwing a large fruit from the seventh floor on Friday, June 3. But before the annual Watermelon Drop and subsequent splatter, a 52-year-old tradition at the university in La Jolla, the two watermelon women, mathematics majors, performed a dance routine to entertain the hundreds of onlookers hoping to see a record-breaking bash. The first drop in 1965, performed by the college’s first undergraduate class, had a splat radius of 91 feet, and the record so far is 197 feet and 4 inches. This year’s splat radius didn’t quite come close, as it was measured at 80 feet and 7 inches. But after the fruit had been dropped, the fun began as students lined up in the court near Urey Hall for pieces of watermelon, cake, and music. The Watermelon Drop is one of the university’s oldest and most beloved events. Started by a physics professor, Bob Swanson, every year students from Revelle College at UCSD elect a student to drop a watermelon from the seventh floor of Urey Hall, an honor referred to as Watermelon Royalty, they proceed to have that student run up the seven flights of stairs that lead to the top of Urey Hall and drop the fruit over the edge.