There is an excited anticipation buzzing in the air for members of the Senior Class Council.

Bands, free food, basketball players and more will all crowd about the free expression wall between Turlington and Alexander residence halls on Tuesday night, as students roast rams — or perhaps just a pig — at the second official Ram Roast.

Every year, UNC-Chapel Hill students paint the Free Expression Tunnel with their school’s trademark shade of blue. Beginning last semester, the Senior Class Council decided to put a stop to the midnight raids.

Carla Babb, the president of the Senior Class Council, founded the event with hopes of stopping “UNC evil villains from painting our tunnel, or wall, a hideous blue.”

Leigh Jones, a senior in meteorology and member of the Senior Class Council, said the Ram Roast is an attempt to counteract N.C. State’s rival school’s recurrent defacement of the campus landmark.

“The ram roast is a new tradition at NCSU in response to UNC painting our (Free Expression) Tunnel,” Jones said.

Although UNC-Chapel Hill students were able to paint the wall blue last semester, they did so before the actual Ram Roast commenced. The event was still a success, according to Babb.

“[The wall] was red all night long and in the morning. That’s all that matters,” Babb said.

Using money from the Senior Class Council budget, this year’s events consist of a pig pickin’, the Cary Strickland One-Man Band, the Marching Band and cheerleaders, basketball seniors, Grains of Time, Packabelles and free food.

This Ram Roast will have more events than last semester’s event, but it will be a shorter program so students have more time to do as they please. The food starts at 7:30 p.m. and is on a first come, first serve basis. Camping out is an option for those who are staying all night to protect the wall.

Approximately 350 people attended last semester’s Ram Roast, but Babb said she hopes more students will attend tonight’s event because it is a “great way to pump up the players, and what better way to support the players and thank the seniors?”

Olu Orelaja, a senior in business management, thinks more people will attend tonight because of recent student participation.

“There was such a great turnout with campout, this should be better,” Orelaja said.

So far, there has not been any violence at this newly implemented event and Jones said the atmosphere of the Ram Roast keeps everyone in a good mood.

“You really feel a sense of pride of this school and you get free food. What could be better?” Jones said.

Morgan Monday, a freshman in First Year College, said she had not previously heard about the Ram Roast event.

“I’m thinking about going for the free food and live music since I’ve never been,” Monday said.

Orelaja said he hopes the Ram Roast will be continued after his graduation and rising seniors would take over the execution of the event.

“This is a new tradition established, we’re excited and hope this continues,” Orelaja said.

As far as this year’s event goes, Babb said “[the Ram Roast] should sell itself.”