Pranks & Antics
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Getting the wrong men
By Allan H. Taylor
My campus highlight was getting arrested on campus with Pat Costigan as we tried to quiet a riot of the boys raiding the girls' dorm in spring '59. The police needed to grab someone to show their efforts, so we were taken for a ride to the police station because we were standing among the mob trying to get the boys to cool their jets. Dean of Men Donovan Allen rescued us before the night was too far gone. But the real riot was when the word got around that the lead in the class play, and dorm director, were thought to be the instigators and taken to the slammer.
The great water fight
By Cecile Williamson Carey
On the lighter side, I remember the big water fight senior year!
Campus jokes
By Hugh C. Wooldridge
I remember the painted rock outside of Old Main, the VW under the Bell Tower, and when my roomies moved me into the hall of our suite in Kirk Hall. Learn more at the reunion.
Swimming up the stairs
By Dan Johnson
Kirk Hall water fights. There was no carpet in the men's dorm in those days and the bare cement hall and stairs would look like salmon should be going upstream to spawn as the water cascaded down.
'Dorm Dad' Bud Anderson
By Dan Johnson
We stuffed his Section 1 apartment with newspapers one weekend and when he and his wife returned, her shrieks could be heard for blocks. However, one of the hometown newspapers had the perp's name on it and this caused someone a lot of trouble.
Time to fess up
By Nancy Keyt Wright
Confession: We went down to the lower lever of the dorm and sat around the vending machine and drank all the drinks with straws, crushed the paper containers and pulled them out! We played pranks all the time and had secret pals whose rooms we would leave things in.
Throwing beer cans across Snelling
By David Elton
Following the Korean conflict, many of us veterans attended Mac under the GI Bill. One fall evening, probably following a football game, a number of excessively exuberant vets were caught throwing beer cans out Kirk Hall windows across Snelling. The next day offending culprits faced a dressing down by Dr. Turck. A good-natured reprimand, but no expulsions resulted.