Ivy privilege

Rowbottom and a listing of privilege.

1928: "March 20 - after the Penn basketball team defeated Princeton to become Intercollegiate League champions.... A crowd of about 1000 students set fire to trolley wires, pulled trolley poles from overhead wires, and lit bonfires in front of Psi Upsilon Fraternity. When firemen arrived, different groups of students carried off the fire hose, made away with a large red Philadelphia Rapid Transit automobile trailer, and changed the workings of the "automatic traffic semaphore." Seventeen students were arrested on a charge of inciting a riot.... Included among the arrested students were Jack McDowell, president of the senior class who was arrested as he tried to quell the disturbance, and Thomas S. Gates, Jr., manager of the football team who was arrested when he went to the station house to gain the release of McDowell. It is interesting to note that young Gates would become a banker and Secretary of the Navy under the Eisenhower administration; at the time of his arrest his father, Thomas Sovereign Gates, Sr., was a prominent lawyer and also a University trustee, who would be named Penn's President in 1930."

It goes on, item after item, until the practice died out in the 1970s. White riots indeed. The riots of the upper class? Well, it might be ivy but it's still Penn. So riots of the upper managerial class might be more accurate.