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A panty raid was an American college prank of the 1940s, the 1950s, and the 1960s in which groups of male students would attempt to invade the living quarters of female students and steal their panties as trophies. The term dates back to February 1949.

History[edit]

Panty raids were the first college craze after World War II, following 1930s crazes of goldfish swallowing, and of stuffing numbers of people into a phone booth.^[1] The mock battles that ensued between male and female students echoed the riotous battles between freshmen and upperclassmen, which were an annual ritual at many colleges in the 20th century.^{[citation needed]}

The first documented incident occurred on February 25, 1949, at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois. Around 125 men entered the Woman's Building; the first party entered through heating tunnels beneath the building. Once inside, they unlocked the door for the remaining raiders to enter, locked the house mother in her apartment, and cut the light and phone lines. Although a few women reported missing undergarments, the goal was to cause commotion. The police arrived, and although no pranksters were charged, the news traveled, making headlines in the Chicago Tribune, Stars and Stripes, Time magazine, and The New York Times.^[2]^[3]^[4]

The next incident was on March 21, 1952, when University of Michigan students raided a dormitory, creating publicity that would spark panty raids across the nation.^[5] Penn State's first raid involved 2,000 males marching on the women's dorms on April 8, 1952, cheered on by the women, who opened doors and windows and tossed out lingerie.^[6] A May 1952 article in the Technique, Georgia Tech's student newspaper, reported that about 20 colleges had experienced panty raids, including several in the southeastern United States, such as Emory University, the University of Georgia, the University of Miami, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.^[7] By the end of the 1952 spring term the "epidemic" had spread to 52 campuses.^[1]^[8]

Students at Columbia College and Stephens College fought off groups totaling two thousand men from the University of Missouri.^[9]

Raiding continued, such as the raid by Princeton University men on Westminster Choir College in spring 1953.^[10] The University of Nebraska was credited with the first panty raid of 1955, when hundreds raided the women's dorms, resulting in injuries and seven suspensions.^[11] The University of California, Berkeley, had a 3,000-man panty raid in May 1956, which resulted in $10,000 in damage^[12] (equivalent to $112,069 in 2023). At the University of Michigan, panty raids were associated with fall football pep rallies in addition to being a spring ritual in the 1950s and early 1960s.^[13]^[14]

The spring ritual continued into the 1960s. In 1961, three students were expelled from the University of Mississippi at Oxford, Mississippi for panty raids.^[15]

In popular culture[edit]

A panty raid was also depicted in the episode "Mid-Life Crustacean" from the television show SpongeBob SquarePants. Originally aired on Nickelodeon in 2003, the episode was discontinued by the network in 2018 and later made unavailable for streaming on Amazon Prime Video and Paramount+, the latter of which acts as the service for Nickelodeon parent Paramount Global. While inappropriate content was given as the cause of its embargo, a specific scene was never identified. However, Petey Oneto of IGN surmises that the panty raid is the scene in question.^[16]

A panty raid was also shown in the eleventh episode of the seventh season of "Married With Children".
The 1984 movie, "Revenge of the Nerds" depicted a panty raid.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Epidemic". Time. June 2, 1952. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved September 25, 2007. The newest and noisiest college craze—the pantie raid—reached the epidemic stage. Night after night from coast to coast last week college boys leaped and howled like Comanches under the windows of squealing coeds; by week's end, despite arrests, expulsions, editorial blasts, and the best efforts of police riot squads—a few of whom even used tear gas—panty raiders had made night raids at 52 different colleges and universities.
^ "Americana". Time magazine. March 7, 1949. Archived from the original on August 26, 2009. Retrieved January 22, 2009. Apparently stimulated by the approach of spring, 250 male students of Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill., raided a women's dormitory, tipped over beds and pushed screeching coeds into cold showers. The women seemed delighted. 'It was more fun than anything else,' said Senior Lois Taylor. 'In fact, we had an inkling they were coming.'
^ "Students Don Masks; Raid Co-Eds' Dorm". Chicago Tribune. February 26, 1949. Retrieved July 28, 2009.
^ Swanson, Kai. "Help! Police! -- Isn't This Wonderful". Augustana College. Archived from the original on August 10, 2014.
^ Winling, LaDale. Student Housing, City Politics, and the University of Michigan, 2007.
^ Bezilla, Michael (1986). Penn State: an illustrated history. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 0271003928.
^ Tarlin, Norman S. (May 27, 1952). "Ramblin' Recks want no part of "pantie raids."". Technique. Vol. XXXVII, no. 4. p. 2. Retrieved April 28, 2022.
^ Tobin, James (July 15, 2008). "Panty Raid, 1952". Michigan Today. Archived from the original on December 28, 2012. Retrieved September 12, 2012.
^ Batterson, Paulina A. (2001). Columbia College: 150 Years of Courage, Commitment, and Change. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-1324-3.
^ "The Rites of Spring". Time. May 11, 1953. Archived from the original on December 22, 2008. Retrieved September 25, 2007. "We want girls!" some of the boys yowled, "we want sex!" "We want panties!" screamed the rest. Not quite in the spirit of things, the girls threw shower curtains and pillows from the windows.
^ "Report Card". Time. April 25, 1955. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved September 25, 2007. At the University of Nebraska, hundreds of spring-feverish men students poured out of their rooms one day last week, rushed into a coed dormitory and sorority houses. There they snatched up as many flimsy garments as they could, paraded about the campus in this year's first manifestation of that modern collegiate custom, the panty raid. Net result: seven students suspended.
^ Sann, Paul, Fads, Follies, and Delusions of the American People. Crown Publishers, 1967. p. 294.
^ "This Week in Daily History". Michigan Daily. November 6, 2002. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved August 3, 2007.
^ "On campus". Michigan Daily. October 13, 2005. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved August 3, 2007.
^ "Life on the Campus". Time. November 9, 1962. Archived from the original on January 13, 2009. Retrieved September 25, 2007. But last week life at Ole Miss began turning really rough again. The university's white students had cause to think they could get away with violence. After all, eight students arrested during the bloody September riots were merely placed on campus probation (last year three students were expelled from Ole Miss for participating in a panty raid). University officials were mild and mellifluous in their rare admonitions against more student violence.
^ Petey Oneto (March 26, 2021). "SpongeBob SquarePants Episodes Pulled Over Storyline Concerns". IGN. Retrieved March 26, 2021.

[epidemic-1] "Epidemic". Time. June 2, 1952. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved September 25, 2007. The newest and noisiest college craze—the pantie raid—reached the epidemic stage. Night after night from coast to coast last week college boys leaped and howled like Comanches under the windows of squealing coeds; by week's end, despite arrests, expulsions, editorial blasts, and the best efforts of police riot squads—a few of whom even used tear gas—panty raiders had made night raids at 52 different colleges and universities.

[2] "Americana". Time magazine. March 7, 1949. Archived from the original on August 26, 2009. Retrieved January 22, 2009. Apparently stimulated by the approach of spring, 250 male students of Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill., raided a women's dormitory, tipped over beds and pushed screeching coeds into cold showers. The women seemed delighted. 'It was more fun than anything else,' said Senior Lois Taylor. 'In fact, we had an inkling they were coming.'

[3] "Students Don Masks; Raid Co-Eds' Dorm". Chicago Tribune. February 26, 1949. Retrieved July 28, 2009.

[4] Swanson, Kai. "Help! Police! -- Isn't This Wonderful". Augustana College. Archived from the original on August 10, 2014.

[5] Winling, LaDale. Student Housing, City Politics, and the University of Michigan, 2007.

[6] Bezilla, Michael (1986). Penn State: an illustrated history. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 0271003928.

[7] Tarlin, Norman S. (May 27, 1952). "Ramblin' Recks want no part of "pantie raids."". Technique. Vol. XXXVII, no. 4. p. 2. Retrieved April 28, 2022.

[8] Tobin, James (July 15, 2008). "Panty Raid, 1952". Michigan Today. Archived from the original on December 28, 2012. Retrieved September 12, 2012.

[batterson-9] Batterson, Paulina A. (2001). Columbia College: 150 Years of Courage, Commitment, and Change. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-1324-3.

[10] "The Rites of Spring". Time. May 11, 1953. Archived from the original on December 22, 2008. Retrieved September 25, 2007. "We want girls!" some of the boys yowled, "we want sex!" "We want panties!" screamed the rest. Not quite in the spirit of things, the girls threw shower curtains and pillows from the windows.

[11] "Report Card". Time. April 25, 1955. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved September 25, 2007. At the University of Nebraska, hundreds of spring-feverish men students poured out of their rooms one day last week, rushed into a coed dormitory and sorority houses. There they snatched up as many flimsy garments as they could, paraded about the campus in this year's first manifestation of that modern collegiate custom, the panty raid. Net result: seven students suspended.

[12] Sann, Paul, Fads, Follies, and Delusions of the American People. Crown Publishers, 1967. p. 294.

[13] "This Week in Daily History". Michigan Daily. November 6, 2002. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved August 3, 2007.

[14] "On campus". Michigan Daily. October 13, 2005. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved August 3, 2007.

[15] "Life on the Campus". Time. November 9, 1962. Archived from the original on January 13, 2009. Retrieved September 25, 2007. But last week life at Ole Miss began turning really rough again. The university's white students had cause to think they could get away with violence. After all, eight students arrested during the bloody September riots were merely placed on campus probation (last year three students were expelled from Ole Miss for participating in a panty raid). University officials were mild and mellifluous in their rare admonitions against more student violence.

[16] Petey Oneto (March 26, 2021). "SpongeBob SquarePants Episodes Pulled Over Storyline Concerns". IGN. Retrieved March 26, 2021.

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+A '''panty raid''' was an American college [[prank]] of the 1940s, the 1950s, and the 1960s in which groups of male students would attempt to invade the living quarters of female students and steal their [[panties]] as trophies. The term dates back to February 1949.
-A '''panty raid''' is a [[prank]] in which Al steal the [[panties]] of female students, usually by intruding into their living quarters. The term dates to February 1949. However, the term has also been used in connection with the theft of female underwear in general, notably in the criminal cases involving [[David Russell Williams]].<ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=David Russell Williams: The Kinky Killer Colonel|url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/david-russell-williams/from-panty-raids-to-assault.html|work=[[TruTV]] |date=|accessdate=2011-11-18 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Trail of crime finally leads to Williams|url=http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/872144--trail-of-crime-finally-leads-to-williams|work=[[Toronto Star]] |date=2011-10-07|accessdate=2011-11-18 }}</ref>
 ==History==
-Panty raids were the first college craze after [[World War II]], following the 1930s crazes of [[goldfish swallowing]] or seeing [[phonebooth stuffing|how many could fit in a phone booth]].<ref name="epidemic">{{cite news|title=Epidemic. |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,857203,00.html |publisher=[[Time (magazine)]] |date=June 2, 1952 |accessdate=2007-09-25 |quote=The newest and noisiest college craze — the pantie raid — reached the epidemic stage. Night after night from coast to coast last week college boys leaped and howled like Comanches under the windows of squealing coeds; by week's end, despite arrests, expulsions, editorial blasts, and the best efforts of police riot squads — a few of whom even used tear gas — panty raiders had made night raids at 52 different colleges and universities. }}</ref>
+Panty raids were the first college [[fad|craze]] after [[World War II]], following 1930s crazes of [[goldfish swallowing]], and of [[phonebooth stuffing|stuffing numbers of people into a phone booth]].<ref name="epidemic">{{cite news|title=Epidemic. |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,857203,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930153328/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,857203,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |publisher=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=June 2, 1952 |access-date=2007-09-25 |quote=The newest and noisiest college craze—the pantie raid—reached the epidemic stage. Night after night from coast to coast last week college boys leaped and howled like Comanches under the windows of squealing coeds; by week's end, despite arrests, expulsions, editorial blasts, and the best efforts of police riot squads—a few of whom even used [[tear gas]]—panty raiders had made night raids at 52 different colleges and universities.}}</ref> The mock battles that ensued between male and female students echoed the riotous battles between freshmen and upperclassmen, which were an annual ritual at many colleges in the 20th century.{{cn|date=February 2023}}
-The first documented incident occurred on February 25, 1948, at [[Augustana College (Illinois)|Augustana College]] in [[Rock Island, Illinois]]. Around 260 men led by the Omicron Sigma Omicron fraternity entered the Woman's Building (now Emmy Carlsson Evald Hall, a classroom building); the first party entered through heating tunnels beneath the building. Once inside, they unlocked the door for the remaining raiders to enter, locked the housemother in her apartment, and cut the light and phone lines. Although a few women reported missing undergarments, the goal was to cause commotion. The police arrived, and although no pranksters were charged, the news traveled, making headlines in the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', ''[[Stars and Stripes (newspaper)|Stars and Stripes]]'', ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine, and the ''[[New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Americana |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,853628,00.html |quote=Apparently stimulated by the approach of spring, 250 male students of Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill., raided a women's dormitory, tipped over beds and pushed screeching coeds into cold showers. The women seemed delighted. 'It was more fun than anything else,' said Senior Lois Taylor. 'In fact, we had an inkling they were coming.' |work=[[Time magazine]] |date=March 7, 1949 |accessdate=2009-01-22 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Students Don Masks; Raid Co-Eds' Dorm |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/488721592.html?dids=488721592:488721592&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&date=Feb+26,+1949&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Students+Don+Masks;+Raid+Co-Eds'+Dorm&pqatl=google |quote= |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=February 26, 1949 |accessdate=2009-07-28 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.augustana.edu/x19211.xml |title="Help! Police! -- Isn't This Wonderful"|first=Kai|last=Swanson|publisher=Augustana College}} </ref>
+The first documented incident occurred on February 25, 1949, at [[Augustana College (Illinois)|Augustana College]], [[Rock Island, Illinois]]. Around 125 men entered the Woman's Building; the first party entered through heating tunnels beneath the building. Once inside, they unlocked the door for the remaining raiders to enter, locked the [[house mother]] in her apartment, and cut the light and phone lines. Although a few women reported missing undergarments, the goal was to cause commotion. The police arrived, and although no pranksters were charged, the news traveled, making headlines in the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', ''[[Stars and Stripes (newspaper)|Stars and Stripes]]'', ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine, and ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Americana |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,853628,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826161316/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,853628,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 26, 2009 |quote=Apparently stimulated by the approach of spring, 250 male students of Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill., raided a women's dormitory, tipped over beds and pushed screeching coeds into cold showers. The women seemed delighted. 'It was more fun than anything else,' said Senior Lois Taylor. 'In fact, we had an inkling they were coming.' |work=[[Time magazine]] |date=March 7, 1949 |access-date=2009-01-22 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Students Don Masks; Raid Co-Eds' Dorm |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/488721592.html?dids=488721592:488721592&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&date=Feb+26,+1949&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Students+Don+Masks;+Raid+Co-Eds'+Dorm&pqatl=google |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=February 26, 1949 |access-date=2009-07-28 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.augustana.edu/x19211.xml|title=Help! Police! -- Isn't This Wonderful|first=Kai|last=Swanson|publisher=Augustana College|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810213351/http://www.augustana.edu/x19211.xml|archive-date=2014-08-10}}</ref>
-The next incident was on March 21, 1952, when [[University of Michigan]] students raided a dormitory. This led to panty raids across the nation.<ref>Winling, LaDale. [http://www.urbanoasis.org/MUPThesis.pdf Student Housing, City Politics, and the University of Michigan], 2007.</ref> [[Penn State]]'s first raid involved 2,000 males marching on the women's dorms on April 8, 1952, cheered on by the women, who opened doors and windows and tossed out lingerie.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.libraries.psu.edu/speccolls/psua/psgeneralhistory/bezillapshistory/083s10.htm|last= Bezilla|first= Michael|title=Penn State: an illustrated history.|publisher= Pennsylvania State University Press|year=1986|isbn= 0-271-00392-8|accessdate=August 3, 2007}}</ref> By the end of 1952 spring term the "epidemic" had spread to 52 campuses.<ref name="epidemic"/><ref>{{cite news|last=Tobin|first=James|title=Panty Raid, 1952|url=http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2008/07/raid.php|accessdate=12 September 2012|newspaper=Michigan Today|date=15 July 2008}}</ref>
+The next incident was on March 21, 1952, when [[University of Michigan]] students raided a dormitory, creating publicity that would spark panty raids across the nation.<ref>Winling, LaDale. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070614184654/http://www.urbanoasis.org/MUPThesis.pdf Student Housing, City Politics, and the University of Michigan], 2007.</ref> [[Penn State]]'s first raid involved 2,000 males marching on the women's dorms on April 8, 1952, cheered on by the women, who opened doors and windows and tossed out [[lingerie]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://libraries.psu.edu/about/collections/penn-state-university-park-campus-history-collection/penn-state-illustrated|title=Penn State: an illustrated history|last=Bezilla|first=Michael|publisher=The Pennsylvania State University Press|year=1986|isbn=0271003928|location=University Park, PA}}</ref> A May 1952 article in the ''[[Technique (newspaper)|Technique]]'', [[Georgia Tech]]'s [[student newspaper]], reported that about 20 colleges had experienced panty raids, including several in the [[southeastern United States]], such as [[Emory University]], the [[University of Georgia]], the [[University of Miami]], and the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tarlin |first=Norman S. |date=May 27, 1952 |title=Ramblin' Recks want no part of "pantie raids." |volume=XXXVII |page=2 |work=[[Technique (newspaper)|Technique]] |issue=4 |url=https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/33640 |access-date=April 28, 2022}}</ref> By the end of the 1952 spring term the "epidemic" had spread to 52 campuses.<ref name="epidemic"/><ref>{{cite news|last=Tobin|first=James|title=Panty Raid, 1952|url=http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2008/07/raid.php|access-date=12 September 2012|newspaper=Michigan Today|date=15 July 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121228234856/http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2008/07/raid.php|archive-date=28 December 2012}}</ref>
+Students at [[Columbia College (Missouri)|Columbia College]] and [[Stephens College]] fought off groups totaling two thousand men from the [[University of Missouri]].<ref name=batterson>{{cite book|last=Batterson|first=Paulina A.|title=Columbia College: 150 Years of Courage, Commitment, and Change|year=2001|publisher=University of Missouri Press|location=Columbia, Missouri|isbn=0-8262-1324-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4HTGLLZjCJcC&q=columbia+college%3A+150}}</ref>
-At a number of colleges, panty raids functioned as a humorous, ''ad hoc''  protest against curfews and entry restrictions that barred male visitors from women's dormitories. This was particularly the case at colleges that had recently started admitting women in large numbers for the first time after World War II, where the role of female students on campus had not yet been worked out.{{citation needed|date = April 2012}} At some colleges the large, leaderless crowds which gathered around panty raids were co-opted by student politicians into protest and activism against dorm curfews and [[:wiktionary:parietal|parietals]]. These stirrings of student protest against restrictive campus rules fed the sudden emergence in the late 1950s of liberal activist parties in student government, such as [[SLATE]] at [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The beginning of the new left: UC Berkeley 1950s/1960s: Chronology|url=http://slatearchives.org/chronology.htm|publisher=SLATE Archives|accessdate=12 September 2012}}</ref>
+Raiding continued, such as the raid by [[Princeton University]] men on [[Westminster Choir College]] in spring 1953.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Rites of Spring. |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,935349,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222132518/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,935349,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 22, 2008 |quote="We want girls!" some of the boys yowled, "we want sex!" "We want panties!" screamed the rest. Not quite in the spirit of things, the girls threw shower curtains and pillows from the windows. |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=May 11, 1953 |access-date=2007-09-25 }}</ref> The [[University of Nebraska]] was credited with the first panty raid of 1955, when hundreds raided the women's dorms, resulting in injuries and seven suspensions.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Report Card. |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,861374,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930115335/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,861374,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |quote=At the University of Nebraska, hundreds of spring-feverish men students poured out of their rooms one day last week, rushed into a coed dormitory and sorority houses. There they snatched up as many flimsy garments as they could, paraded about the campus in this year's first manifestation of that modern collegiate custom, the panty raid. Net result: seven students suspended. |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=April 25, 1955 |access-date=2007-09-25 }}</ref> The [[University of California, Berkeley]], had a 3,000-man panty raid in May 1956, which resulted in $10,000 in damage<ref>Sann, Paul, ''Fads, Follies, and Delusions of the American People''. Crown Publishers, 1967. p. 294.</ref> ({{Inflation|US|10000|1956|fmt=eq}}). At the [[University of Michigan]], panty raids were associated with fall football [[pep rally|pep rallies]] in addition to being a spring ritual in the 1950s and early 1960s.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://media.www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2002/11/06/News/This-Week.In.Daily.History-1413676.shtml|title=This Week in Daily History|newspaper=[[Michigan Daily]]|date=November 6, 2002|access-date=August 3, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930201409/http://media.www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2002/11/06/News/This-Week.In.Daily.History-1413676.shtml|archive-date=September 30, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url= http://media.www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2005/10/13/News/On.Campus-1432117.shtml|title= On campus|newspaper= [[Michigan Daily]]|date= October 13, 2005|access-date= August 3, 2007|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070928015254/http://media.www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2005/10/13/News/On.Campus-1432117.shtml|archive-date= September 28, 2007}}</ref>
-Generally, the girls welcomed the raiders and in some cases raided men's colleges such as [[Georgetown University]]. At the [[University of Washington]], though, raiders broke windows, and coeds at [[Columbia College (Missouri)| Columbia College]] and [[Stephens College]] fought raiders from the [[University of Missouri]].<ref name=batterson>{{cite book|last=Batterson|first=Paulina A.|title=Columbia College: 150 Years of Courage, Commitment, and Change|year=2001|publisher=University of Missouri Press|location=Columbia, Missouri|isbn=0-8262-1324-3|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4HTGLLZjCJcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=columbia+college:+150&source=bl&ots=ukgr98SPMp&sig=TQDLhzzEbQDbh6Nb0guNnf-qUmY&hl=en#v=onepage&q=columbia%20college%3A%20150&f=false}}</ref>
-Raiding continued, such as the raid by [[Princeton University]] men on [[Westminster Choir College]] in spring 1953.<ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=The Rites of Spring. |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,935349,00.html |quote="We want girls!" some of the boys yowled, "we want sex!" "We want panties!" screamed the rest. Not quite in the spirit of things, the girls threw shower curtains and pillows from the windows. |work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=May 11, 1953 |accessdate=2007-09-25 }}</ref> The [[University of Nebraska]] was credited with the first panty raid of 1955, when hundreds raided the women's dorms, resulting in injuries and seven suspensions.<ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Report Card. |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,861374,00.html |quote=At the University of Nebraska, hundreds of spring-feverish men students poured out of their rooms one day last week, rushed into a coed dormitory and sorority houses. There they snatched up as many flimsy garments as they could, paraded about the campus in this year's first manifestation of that modern collegiate custom, the panty raid. Net result: seven students suspended. |work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=April 25, 1955 |accessdate=2007-09-25 }}</ref> The [[University of California, Berkeley]] had a 3,000-man panty raid in May 1956, which resulted in $10,000 damage.<ref>Sann, Paul, "Fads, Follies, and Delusions of the American People." Crown Publishers, 1967. page 294.</ref> At the [[University of Michigan]] panty raids were associated with fall football pep rallies in addition to being a spring ritual in the 1950s and early 1960s.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://media.www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2002/11/06/News/This-Week.In.Daily.History-1413676.shtml|title=This Week in Daily History|newspaper= [[Michigan Daily]]|date= November 6, 2002|note= Described efforts by officials to prevent panty raid following pep rally of November 8, 1956|accessdate=retrieved August 3, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://media.www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2005/10/13/News/On.Campus-1432117.shtml|title=On campus|newspaper= [[Michigan Daily]]|date= October 13, 2005|note= Describes panty raid of October 13, 1961, following football rally|accessdate= August 3, 2007}}</ref>  The spring ritual continued in the 1960s. Three students were expelled from the [[University of Mississippi]] for panty raids in 1961.<ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Life on the Campus. |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,829308,00.html |quote=But last week life at Ole Miss began turning really rough again. The university's white students had cause to think they could get away with violence. After all, eight students arrested during the bloody September riots were merely placed on campus probation (last year three students were expelled from Ole Miss for participating in a panty raid). University officials were mild and mellifluous in their rare admonitions against more student violence. |publisher=[[Time (magazine)]] |date=November 9, 1962 |accessdate=2007-09-25 }}</ref>
+The spring ritual continued into the 1960s. In 1961, three students were expelled from the [[University of Mississippi]] at [[Oxford, Mississippi|Oxford]], [[Mississippi]] for panty raids.<ref>{{cite news |title=Life on the Campus. |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,829308,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113115525/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,829308,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 13, 2009 |quote=But last week life at Ole Miss began turning really rough again. The university's white students had cause to think they could get away with violence. After all, eight students arrested during the bloody September riots were merely placed on campus probation (last year three students were expelled from Ole Miss for participating in a panty raid). University officials were mild and mellifluous in their rare admonitions against more student violence. |publisher=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=November 9, 1962 |access-date=2007-09-25 }}</ref>
+==In popular culture ==
-By the 1970s, mixed dorms and less inhibited attitudes to intercourse on campus led to fading of panty raids.{{Citation needed|date=August 2007}} In 1969, the [[Governor of California]], [[Ronald Reagan]], decried permissive attitudes to protesters on the [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley campus]] during the [[People's Park (Berkeley)|People's Park riots]], saying "How much further do we have to go to realize this is not just another panty raid?"<ref>{{cite book |title=The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space |author=Don Mitchell |chapter=From Free Speech to People's Park |year=2003 |publisher= Guilford Press}}</ref>
+*A panty raid was also depicted in the episode "[[Mid-Life Crustacean]]" from the television show ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''. Originally aired on [[Nickelodeon]] in 2003, the episode was discontinued by the network in 2018 and later made unavailable for streaming on [[Amazon Prime Video]] and [[Paramount+]], the latter of which acts as the service for Nickelodeon parent [[Paramount Global]]. While inappropriate content was given as the cause of its embargo, a specific scene was never identified. However, Petey Oneto of [[IGN]] surmises that the panty raid is the scene in question.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/spongebob-squarepants-episodes-pulled-over-storyline-concerns|title=SpongeBob SquarePants Episodes Pulled Over Storyline Concerns|work=[[IGN]]|author=Petey Oneto|date=March 26, 2021|access-date=March 26, 2021}}</ref>
+*A panty raid was also shown in the eleventh episode of the seventh season of "[[Married With Children]]".
+*The 1984 movie, "[[Revenge of the Nerds]]" depicted a panty raid.
+==See also==
+{{Portal|United States|Fashion}}
+* [[Panty tree]]
+* [[Phonebooth stuffing]]
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+[[Category:Student culture in the United States]]
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