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Police officials would release no details about the attack, and requested Pieper--apparently the only witness to the beating--not to talk with reporters. However, several of Pieper's friends and a group of Kirkland House students who arrived at the scene immediately after the hoodlums left have provided a still-unconfirmed account of what happened...
...attack was alledgedly provoked by an incident earlier in the night at the Waldorf cafeteria. After leaving the Pi Eta Club, Pieper and Vernaglia entered the cafeteria, where they saw a group of six or eight unidentified men "bothering" two other Harvard students and their dates, one of Pieper's friends said. Pieper and Vernaglia then tried to intervene, and asked the group to leave the couples alone...
After leaving the cafeteria, Pieper and Vernaglia ran down Dunster Street toward Eliot House. They didn't see anyone chasing them, and thought they were safe until a car full of seven people--apparently the same ones they had seen earlier--roared up behind them and hit Pieper, knocking him into a snowbank...
...gang jumped out of the car and beat Pieper and Vernaglia, kicking Vernaglia in the head, until the commotion drew a group of Kirkland House students outside. The seven then field in their car while a group of students--several of them on the track team--ran after them. The car's license plates were covered with rags, and none of the students could get close enough to pull off the rags or identify...
Meanwhile, other students had taken Pieper and Vernaglia to Stillman Infirmary. Pieper was soon released, but Vernaglia was rushed to Mass General...