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Posters have been spotted all around campus touting Mather Lather, the newest exercise in foam festivity to hit Harvard. Promising to transform our puritanical little college into “Harvard State University,” flyers lure students with suggestions of suds-soaked decadence and endorsements from a well-known campus figure. What is behind this sudden rise in the popularity of frothy parties...
Mather HoCo is betting that 10,800 cubic feet worth of foam, blacklights and barbecue grills will combine to produce what Corker describes as Mather’s “second coming—a reawakening, if you will.” HoCo Secretary Darren S. Morris ’05 enthuses, “This event is totally unprecedented in what it will do for campus social life.” Publicity Chair Aditi A. Prabhu ’04 adds, “They are also hoping to create a tradition for people to rally around...
...party’s organizers are having a $2200 foam machine shipped in from Kentucky, a state apparently renowned for its foam industry. The party will feature foam dance floors, non-foam dance floors and lounges set up in the hallways in order to fully transform the cinderblock palace into “Club Mather.” Comfortingly, the promotional website (www.matherlather.com) assures the foam-fearing that “if you don’t want to dance in the foam, no one will force you. There will be multiple dance floors, some of which will be foam...
...people behind Mather Lather also repudiate the idea that the party is merely another attempt to ride the wave of foam currently sweeping the campus. There was the infamous Winthrop foam party, which featured mud wrestling and 80 cans of shaving cream—a more low-budget, down and dirty incarnation of Mather Lather. However, the foam tradition at Harvard may stretch back further than the past two weeks. Corker says that in the early ’70s, Tommy Lee Jones ’69 and Al Gore ’69 held a foam party in Dunster...
...Inside the city, near the military airport the Americans now use as a base, teenage boys gave high-fives to the American soldiers as they went in and out. When a car loaded with looted goods - a taxi with thirty foam mattresses piled high on the roof, for example - drove past, the boys hooted and pointed. The soldiers didn't do anything. The Americans, who numbered at most a couple of thousand, admitted they could do nothing. "It's a big city," said one American soldier. "We can't control it all. We did stop there from being any ethnic...