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When I was an undergrad we did a canned food drive (for you LCA's, this predated NAFD by a number of years--since we did this in 1975, how one chapter can claim to have started this thing in the 1980's is beyond me). Part of our publicity campaign involved the university president.
We arranged (through a politically-connected bro involved w/student government) to "kidnap" Dr. Gene Budig. The premise was that he wouldn't be "returned to his office" until the "ransom" (non-perishable food items) was given to the chapter members.
At a prearranged time a small contingent of Lamb Chops descended upon his office in the administration building and "kidnapped" the president. I contacted the local area newspaper and the student paper, and they got hilarious photos of six fraternity guys picking up Dr. Budig in his office chair. Okay, the description doesn't do the photo justice...trust me, it was funny.
In this new era of people getting expelled from high schools because of doing the old "atomic sit-up" prank, I don't think we'd be able to do this sort of thing today. And that's kinda sad...have we gotten to the point where we have to be so serious that this sort of "sophomoric behavior" will soon be banned?
Later-
BF
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Bill Foltz, B-O 130
Illinois State '77
"People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power."
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