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.