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History of the panty raid
Zindaihas
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The first recorded incident occurred on February 25, 1948, at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Around 260 men entered the women's dormitory, Carlsson Hall. The first party entered through heating tunnels beneath the building (reminiscent of the fall of Babylon). Once inside, they opened the door for the remaining raiders to enter. Although a few panties were taken, the goal was to cause commotion (on this front, the invasion was a tactical success). The police arrived, and although no pranksters were charged, news travelled, making headlines in the Chicago Tribune, Stars & Stripes, Time Magazine and the New York Times.
The next incident was on March 21, 1952, at the Univesity of Michigan. This event inspired invaders to lead to panty raids across the nation. The next month, on April 8th, some 2,000 raiders stormed the women's dorms at Penn State University. The co-eds, apparently viewing them as liberators, cheered on the invaders by opening the doors and windows and tossing out their lingerie. By the end of 1952, the panty raiding fires had spread to 52 campuses.
In general, the females welcomed the raiders and, in some cases, turned the tables on their counterparts by raiding men's colleges, such as Georgetown University. However, in one particular incident, defenders at Stephens College valiantly defended their ground against invaders from the University of Missouri.
Casualties varied from raid to raid. The famed panty raid of 1955 at the University of Nebraska resulted in several injuries and seven suspensions. And the following year, a 3,000-man panty raid at the University of California, Berkeley led to $10,000 worth of property damage.
Panty raids reached their peak in the 60s, but by the 1970s as more and more dorms became mixed, they began to die out. In 1969, Governor Ronald Reagan, decrying pemissive attitudes toward protestors on the Berkeley campus during the People's Park Riot, proclaimed, "How much further do we have to go to realize this is not just another panty raid?"
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