Feeling that they needed to do something important to be remembered
by future students at the college, the men of Kappa Theta Xi fraternity
decided that they would break a record set by their brothers in
1958. In that year, 15 members of the fraternity stuffed themselves
in a telephone booth. The current brothers wanted to beat that
record, except that there no longer were any telephone booths
in town.
"Hey, there's a glass booth in the medical research lab in
the Science Building. It has the same dimensions as a telephone
booth. We can set the record in that booth," said frat member
Slim Barker. The other men agreed and were soon standing before
the booth in the lab.
One by one, the frat boys squeezed into the small enclosure, with
some perched atop other brothers for a better fit. As the last
man pushed his way in, the booth's door slammed shut. "We'll
suffocate in here! Help!" the lads cried, finally getting
the attention of the janitor. "Get us out," several
frat boys pleaded. The janitor thought a minute, then said, "I
think this lever activates the door." Instead, a combination
of growling and humming noises filled the booth, which began to
shake. The janitor scrammed.
Two hours later, lab chief Dr. Kwerty arrived, still in his pajamas.
"You say somebody fooled with our experimental machine, the
one that in low-dose tests removes wrinkles from old lab rats?
And this graph indicates that the dose delivered was 1,000 times
what we exposed the rats to. Find anything suspicious?" Dr.
Kwerty asked the security people. "Just these babies. There
were 17 of them in the booth," one officer said. "That
has to be some sort of a record," Dr. Kwerty said.
"They were naked when we found them. A female officer put
them in diapers and gave them their bottles. And they show no
ill effects of being in the machine when it was operating. In
fact, they seem to be having a good time now," the officer
added. Indeed, the babies did appear to be partying, attempting
to sing while waving their bottles of milk or juice. "They
look like frat boys at a kegger," Dr. Kwerty smiled, before
he placed a call to social services.