From the Academy

Campus Bugaboos

When the panty raids were at their most intense, the wife of a well-known professor of history informed her friends that this collegiate phenomenon was a reaction, conscious or subconscious, against McCarthyism. American students, she declared, were so much in dread of public denunciation and secret informers that their frustrated longing for free expression could find vent only in such demonstrations against Demon Conformity.