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...gathered in Harvard Square to nominate Pogo, the comic-strip opossum, for President of the U.S., stayed on to battle the unsympathetic Cambridge cops for four hours. Both riots served chiefly to dramatize a newer and more outlandish form of campus disturbance which took form March 20, when a mob of University of Michigan males suddenly headed for the women's dormitories to steal and brandish girls' underwear...
Since the "pantie riot" at Ann Arbor, no U.S. coed has been sure that she would not be victimized by one. So far, pantie riots have broken out on at least 16 U.S. campuses. Most of them followed a set pattern. First came the rumble of the approaching male mob, a signal which sent every red-blooded girl running to a window. Then came an exchange of hoots, jeers, cries and threats between street and dormitory, the indignant protests of a faculty member, the struggle with hastily summoned cops. Then came the invasion, the slamming of doors, the thump...
...first play, The Center, suffers from contrived symbolism. Six people in pink union suits prance around the stage admiring an invisible object. These people, I presume can either represent a deluded mob believing in false gods or a group that has found true religion...
...hero of this play let is the individual or the skeptic who is outside the pale. He cannot see the object of beauty and failing to see refuses to believe in it. As he taunts the mob, it closes in on him; he falls into convulsions and dies. If your sympathies are with the mob his demise is a victory for the true faith. Otherwise it is a triumph of the group over individuality...
...individuals, most of whom were not even apprehended. Most of those in the Square last Tuesday, as many letters to the CRIMSON have pointed out, were dawdling on the sidebalk, waiting to see a cartoonist ride by and perhaps to cheer lustily when he did. There was no mob, as there is in a football riot, and few if any attended in the hope or expectation that there would be any "hell" raised...