B-School Traditions: Michigan MBAs Get on 'The Bus'

University of Michigan MBAs gather around 'The Bus' before a football gamePhotograph by Sam Chen
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College football and tailgating are big social events for B-schoolers on Saturdays in the fallBloomberg Terminal. But no one does a tailgate quite like the MBAs at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.

Before—and after—each Wolverines home game, Ross MBAs trek over to Fingerle Lumber Yard and set up their tailgate. The centerpiece: a 1985 Ford school bus, painted in Michigan maize and blue and outfitted with a DJ and dance floor on top and couches on the inside. It’s affectionately known as The Bus.