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====== Snow Barrier on Memorial Drive (1959) ======


**Baker Builds Block**\\
**Snow HALTS Traffic**\\
The Tech (Tues march 17 1959)\\
http://tech.mit.edu/V79/PDF/N9.pdf

A barricade of snow graced Memorial
Drive for twenty minutes
around midnight, Thursday.

About twenty-five men from Baker
House contributed their labor to
the construction of a three-foot wall
of snow. The light traffic at the late
hour was first slowed and then halted.
After about twenty minutes a
snow plow, summoned from fighting
the natural snow barricades caused
by Thursday's storm, ended the students'
latest engineering feat.

The Security Force had already
arrived and started work when the
M.D.C. followed the snow plow to the
scene. No arrests were made.

Dean Rule commented, "I'll be happy
when they (the students) learn
to have their fun off the streets."

The head of the Security force,
Mr. Harvey Burstein, noted that
acts such as these created needless
friction between the M.D.C. and the
MIT student body. Such friction, he
felt, could be reflected by the parking
situation.