ESPN.com recently sent their Page 2 correspondent, their man about Campus, the "Bluto" Blutarsky (as in, you're not going to ever leave college even when you graduate) of writing, Jim Caple, to discover the "charm" of what has become a bigger than life event.
Wreckage at the 2005 Lil' 5Caple writes:
"While fraternities and sororities form the core of the 33 teams in each year's men's and women's races, squads from the dorms and independent housing are also among the Little 500 elite. Dodds House is part of the residence halls while Land's Cutters team broke off from the very successful Delta Chi team two decades ago and took its name from the "Breaking Away" team. Cutters is the insult used by the college students in the movie to describe the blue-collar townies whose fathers worked cutting limestone for the disappearing quarry companies. It becomes a source of pride when the Cutters team wins the climactic race and the current Cutters (all IU students) have so embraced this outsider persona that their victory chant goes like this:
"C-U-T-T-E-R-S! CUTTERS! CUTTERS! #&% THE FRATS!""
For the rest of the story, including some video shot at the infamous quarry, click HERE.
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