Comments on: Boys Gone Wild http://www.vanderbilt.edu/magazines/vanderbilt-magazine/2008/10/boys-gone-wild/ the alumni magazine of Vanderbilt University Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:22:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Letters to the Editor | Vanderbilt Magazine | Vanderbilt University http://www.vanderbilt.edu/magazines/vanderbilt-magazine/2008/10/boys-gone-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-208 Letters to the Editor | Vanderbilt Magazine | Vanderbilt University Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:29:01 +0000 http://www.vanderbilt.edu/magazines/vanderbilt-magazine/?p=407#comment-208 [...] the panty-raid article, “Boys Gone Wild” [Fall 2008 issue, Collective Memory], I was appalled at the depiction of my classmates and felt [...] [...] the panty-raid article, “Boys Gone Wild” [Fall 2008 issue, Collective Memory], I was appalled at the depiction of my classmates and felt [...]

]]> By: Dr. David B. Davis II, BA’55 (Camas, Wash.) http://www.vanderbilt.edu/magazines/vanderbilt-magazine/2008/10/boys-gone-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Dr. David B. Davis II, BA’55 (Camas, Wash.) Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:27:26 +0000 http://www.vanderbilt.edu/magazines/vanderbilt-magazine/?p=407#comment-61 As I remember, the [panty] raid of 1952 was initiated by someone (I do not recall who) playing “charge” on a bugle from the roof or top floor of the very old Kissam Hall, which resounded all over the campus. It was also that year, I believe, that a parody of the newly created Playboy magazine with a cover picture of an undergraduate male (fraternity brother of mine) dressed in a Playboy bunny outfit was distributed by students. The students loved it, but the university administration did not take any more kindly to this magazine than they did the panty raid, and immediately confiscated all copies. It was a memorable year. As I remember, the [panty] raid of 1952 was initiated by someone (I do not recall who) playing “charge” on a bugle from the roof or top floor of the very old Kissam Hall, which resounded all over the campus. It was also that year, I believe, that a parody of the newly created Playboy magazine with a cover picture of an undergraduate male (fraternity brother of mine) dressed in a Playboy bunny outfit was distributed by students. The students loved it, but the university administration did not take any more kindly to this magazine than they did the panty raid, and immediately confiscated all copies. It was a memorable year.

]]> By: G. Marc Hamburger, BA’64 (Atlanta) http://www.vanderbilt.edu/magazines/vanderbilt-magazine/2008/10/boys-gone-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-60 G. Marc Hamburger, BA’64 (Atlanta) Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:22:23 +0000 http://www.vanderbilt.edu/magazines/vanderbilt-magazine/?p=407#comment-60 Regarding Vanderbilt panty raids, I disagree with Paul Conkin’s statement in his final paragraph: “Never again would such a raid take place at Vanderbilt. The last panty raid [occurred] in 1959 … .” In reality, pages 34–35 of the 1964 Commodore yearbook chronicle the nocturnal naughtiness that transpired when “one moonlit evening in early April, the quad dwellers of kindly Kissam decided the time was right for a romantic invasion upon the towering brick and steel of the Chaffin Hilton. The panty raiders gathered forces, and soon 500 screaming students accosted the quad from three directions. Campus FBI Head Albert Vaughn and football coach Jack Green stood watching helplessly as coeds responded with a dazzling assortment of undergarments. A few daring TVMs [typical Vanderbilt males] penetrated the inner sanctum, chased all the while by the faithful campus police. ‘We want sex.’ ‘Come and get it.’ ‘We are horny.’ ‘So are we.’ And thus went the taunts back and forth.” I know. I was there. Regarding Vanderbilt panty raids, I disagree with Paul Conkin’s statement in his final paragraph: “Never again would such a raid take place at Vanderbilt. The last panty raid [occurred] in 1959 … .”

In reality, pages 34–35 of the 1964 Commodore yearbook chronicle the nocturnal naughtiness that transpired when “one moonlit evening in early April, the quad dwellers of kindly Kissam decided the time was right for a romantic invasion upon the towering brick and steel of the Chaffin Hilton. The panty raiders gathered forces, and soon 500 screaming students accosted the quad from three directions. Campus FBI Head Albert Vaughn and football coach Jack Green stood watching helplessly as coeds responded with a dazzling assortment of undergarments. A few daring TVMs [typical Vanderbilt males] penetrated the inner sanctum, chased all the while by the faithful campus police. ‘We want sex.’ ‘Come and get it.’ ‘We are horny.’ ‘So are we.’ And thus went the taunts back and forth.”

I know. I was there.

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