In Touch ome said it was a band of gypsies that set up tents near the campus in the 1830s. Others said it was a circus. No matter, it certainly drew a crowd.
Several students snuck away to see the forbidden spectacle.
The administration found out and promptly drummed the culprits out of the corps. The administration suspended them as well. Before the affair was done, about three- fourths of the students had been suspended, forcing the state legislature to step in and reinstate the students to classes. Another outsider stirred up trouble in 1971. When anti-war protester Jerry Rubin spoke at Foster Auditorium, students burned Dressler Hall, which was named for a former military instructor.