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...slept all day Saturday and then I just visited a bunch of friends in Thayer and a friend in Eliot. I went to the Callbacks concert, oh, and then I met a friend in Boston who goes to B.U. I stopped by one of his B.U. parties. For some reason there were a lot more people there than at the typical Harvard party. I think it’s because more people want to go into the city...
William K. Martin ’72: I was on the steps of my dorm—Thayer South—that morning in ’69 that the bust took place. The Beatles song “Revolution” was blaring from a stereo in Weld Hall. All that afternoon, as the tension was building, my room became Ground Zero for all the reporters. It was on the first floor, so when the guys from the Washington Post and The New York Times needed a phone, they’d come knocking. Something would happen and they...
...itself was very upsetting—at 5 a.m. there was a piercing shriek, a high-pitched buzz. The SDS had pulled all of the fire alarms in all of the dorms when they figured out that there was a bust coming. Buses pulled up between Mem Church and Thayer, right outside my window. The state police had come out for this. It was like a scene out of the movies, out of Spartacus—they got off the bus, lined up in phalanxes and marched over to University Hall. I wonder if this was just...
Gerald R. Toner ’72: I remember in ’69, my friend Bill [Martin] here called me at 5 a.m. to tell me that there was a bust coming. I lived in Matthews, he lived in Thayer. I knew about the takeover, but I’d fallen asleep. I think I heard the chaining of the gates, but I thought it was a dream...
...Brian D. Boesen ’03, notorious for pioneering the seduction technique of standing outside Thayer and grabbing random asses, has changed his game. The girls of Rindge and Latin are not pleased...