But as HistoryLink.org—”the Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History”—reminds us, May 20 was the 57th anniversary of the University of Washington’s most humongous panty raid:
On May 20, 1952, about 1,000 male students at the University of Washington stage a panty raid, storming women’s dormitories and sororities and shouting “We want panties!” Panty fever also struck Washington State College (now Washington State University) and more than 50 other campuses around the same time, in what Time magazine called “the first really daffy outbreak by U.S. college students since the days before World War II” (June 2, 1952).
Full UW panty-raid history here. And lawyers: Were such a thing to happen today, what kind of lawsuits would be most likely to arise from a thousand male UW students storming women’s dorms to steal their panties?
(Thank you, Slog-tipper-without-peer Jake.)
This is why I keep my panties under lock and key.
Such a thing would not happen today, since dorms are coed and panties so readily accessible.
True story: freshman year, there was this really annoying girl on our floor who had her hooks into my roommate. She gave him a pair of her panties to use as an eraser for the dry-erase board on our door.
I think life may have been more fun then…
i know that dan wears the stranger panties, but you share with him, david?
armageddon days are here (again).
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@2,
Clean or dirty?
It didn’t make it into the Guinness Book Of World Records. Which means someone else’s panty raid was bigger and better than the 1,000 Fratboy Army. I’m thinking it was probably Arizona State. Does anyone know?
That’s so sickening. Men may still make 43% more money than women for the same job, but at least now it’s technically illegal for men to rape, beat, and steal from women.
@7: if it were Notre Dame it would probably have been a raid on camp Nearestyoungboy, and if it were Brigham Young University, eh, probably not, they all already have their own magic frillies.
Probably wouldn’t happen today… you have any idea how much woman’s underwear costs now? Nevermind why I know this.
I’d rather see the women raid the men’s dorms demanding tighty whities. With the men in them!
Today this would result in 1000 new records in the WA sex offender database.
Strange to think we’re more prudish now than in 1952.
come on, it’s not that we are more prudish… we are way less prudish. we are more respectful for someone to choose (especially a woman) for themselves how they want to be prude or not a prude instead of letting men decide for them.
@13 Totally.