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While Mather, Kirkland and Cabot House play the blame game over responsibility for the dead fish, Adams House—whose stolen gong supposedly led to the start of the inter-House war—just wants their dining hall treasure returned...
Mather House declared war on Kirkland during Primal Scream, Jan. 20, after concluding that Kirkland House had pilfered the Adams House gong. Mather residents organized their Department of War to combat what they call the “Kirkland brute” and help Adams retreive its gong...
...hoping that whoever took it took [the gong] in fun—as opposed to outright stealing it—and that we could have something fun like a series of skirmishes to get it back,” Adams Co-Master Sean Palfrey said. “But I haven’t heard a thing about the gong, and that makes me lose my sense of humor. I spent half a year looking for the gong before I bought...
Even more shocking are the growing questions surrounding Mather’s pretext for initiating aggression. Where is the evidence that Kirkland has the gong? At the outbreak of war, Mather pointed to circumstantial indicators including a UPS slip signed by a notable Kirkland resident, and let their hysterical rhetoric do the rest. But time has cast harsh doubt on that slip’s authenticity—indeed, some have even suggested that high-ranking officials of Mather’s House Committee altered the slip to implicate Kirkland...
These are serious charges, and their ultimate validity is yet to be determined. But still more uncertainty surrounds Mather’s motivations. It is well known that Adams had something resembling a gong in its dining hall, but no one knows whether it was more than a round, bronze symbol. The gong had not been heard to ring since Adams’ losing war with Pforzheimer House, now more than a decade in the past. Listen closely to the chatter in Mather’s dingy halls of power: those who once talked of earth-shaking malletted tones...