Students enjoy the Michigan Drummer's Circle in 2008 while bearing the downpour that lasted all weekend. (Picture by Katie Fetters)

Many times beginning even before the 6:30 pep rally, the events for the day are all divided up to represent dorm pride right up until the midnight drummer’s circle.  Many dorms have their own events, which may be weekly or once a year.  Each dorm is in charge of co-sponsoring one pep rally each season.  For the pep rally, each dorm gathers together and walks over to the Joyce Center to represent their residence hall.  The dorms sits together during the pep rally in matching shirts and even compete together in  challenges ranging from crowd pushups to relay races and cheer-offs. Following the pep rally, in which the players who speak give recognition to their respective dorms, the students go back to their dorms and engage in social activity before reconvening at midnight as a unified student body for the midnight drummer’s circle.
 The following morning, the students don a different shirt that matches the rest of the student body. This transformation signifies the transition from a divided dorm experience to a unified effort by the student body. The students then mingle together in the student section to create a single block composed of one color regardless of dorm-status. Throughout the game they participate in cheer and stand together arm in arm as they sing the alma mater following the game.  On this website we will walk through the different traditions that each dorm has for football weekends in the fall at the University of Notre Dame.

Morrissey, the dorm which I lived in. (wpedia.com)