🚀 go-pugleaf

	I was witness to this snowball free-for-all last Thursday
night. It took place in the Ellicott Complex, which is a residence
hall complex comprised of six separate residence halls (this was 
discussed a while back in the Biggest Dorm thread). Anyway, from
what I saw, it started outside Red Jacket Hall when a fire alarm
went off. Public Safety showed up for the fire alarm, and the people
(10 or 15) thought *they* were in trouble. They went upstairs to
the terrace (a walkway connecting all the dorms from the outside) and
continued outside RJ. At this point it grew to about 50 people, and
was taking place below my RA's window. People from Wilkeson and 
Spaulding Halls showed up, and the conflagration moved down to 
the 'bowl', a central open are next to Lake Lasalle. At this
point, most of Ellicott saw what was happening, and they all joined in.
Mike's estimate of 300 os proabably pretty close. The battle went on 
for about 2 or three hours, and Res Life staff couldn't stop it. 
Public Safety claimed to have 'other things to attend to', and
didn't do anything. 
	I think around 2 or 2:30 is when it started to turn into a
real fight. I don't know how it started, but that's when Public
Safety came to the rescue and preserved law and order for us, our
children, and our children's children :)

mike