A Look Around The SSC: Rollins College

Rollins College is a private co-educational college in Winter Park,Florida. The School has a total undergrad enrollment of 1884 students.  The campus is  made up of 41 percent male and 59 percent female students. The campus covers over 70 acres.
  The college is named after Chicago businessman Alonzo Rollins (1832-1887.)  Rollins made substantial donations to enable the founding of the college, and was also a trustee and the first treasurer.
  The school campus contains a range of amenities including a Theater For Performing Arts, the Cornell Campus Center and the Alfond Sports Center.
  2013 was the ninth consecutive year that U.S news and World report ranked Rollins as the number one University in the South.  It is also ranked as one of the best in the nation in both academics and athletics.
  For a majority of it's sports Rollins competes at the DII level.  The school nicknamed the Tars (a sailor at the front of a ship) is the only school in the country with that nickname. They compete in  several sports. Men's sports include Baseball, Basketball, Golf, Cross Country, Lacrosse, Rowing, Sailing, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis and Water Ski. Women's Sports include Basketball, Cross Country, Golf, Lacrosse, Rowing, Sailing, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis, Volleyball and Water Ski. The Tars have won 22 national Championships and 65 Sunshine State Conference Titles.
  The school is  in Winter Park, Florida, not far from downtown Orlando,  A tradition that has started amongst Rollins students and alumni is Fox Day.  Fox Day is annual traditional at Rollins. Since 1956 each spring the President cancels all classes, providing students with a surprise day off to explore local beaches and amusement parks together as a college returning in the late afternoon for a barbecue. It is known as Fox Day because a statue of a fox is placed on Mills Lawn (the school's main lawn) to signify the day off.  The fox statue accompanied with a cat statue were a gift from Senator Murray Sams in 1934 to President Hamilton Holt.  The Fox is hidden and only brought out on Fox Day.