I can say from firsthand experience (albeit a data set of 1) that is happens in the US at the Ph.D level program in a rather well known school with a sculpture

I can say from firsthand experience (albeit a data set of 1) that is happens in the US at the Ph.D level program in a rather well known school with a sculpture of the founder whose shoe is as frequently rubbed for good luck as it is defiled by drunken frat boys.