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Such tactics are not unique to the recent past; generations of Harvard students have fallen victim to "spring fever," tending to engaging in activism as the slush disappears and the weather warms. In the spring of 1952, students rioted to demonstrate their support for Pogo--a popular cartoon character--for President. In 1961, thousands of undergraduates marched on President Pusey's house to protest the College's decision to write diplomas in English...
...learned. Any biker worthy of his wheels knows the "Vander roll," a forward somersault over the handlebars as you pull the bike along behind you. Then there is the "cherry picker," in which you lock the brakes and bounce on one wheel as if the bike were a pogo stick...
Three Crimson photographers and two reporters were arrested during The Pogo riot of May 15, 1952, in support of cartoonist Walt Kelly One photographer had his film confiscated by Cambridge Police. They were charged with disturbing the peace and all released that night on $27 bail apiec
...lump the great mountaineer Reinhold Messner together with reckless rappellers and people who pogo off El Capitan insults the entire climbing community...
...when he says, "We have been trying to educate the public as to why we do it." This is a difficult educational problem, as he admits, because it involves, for one thing, explaining to an uncaring world why he on one occasion jumped off of El Cap on a pogo stick...