Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to Northeastern's United Fund Carnival, and its main attraction, Soak-a-Prof!

The rules of engagement? For two bits, you had three (count 'em, three!) shots to shower your prof with love. Professor Louis Cooperstein (right), chairman of the Modern Languages department, was one of the good-humored targets.

Other fundraising gimmicks included a kissing booth, a pool-shooting contest, and a dart board. The Student Union raised $153 for the United Fund and agencies combating starvation in Biafra. Good, clean fun for a worthy cause.

Was the success of Soak-a-Prof a sign that students felt increasingly less shy about challenging authority? Northeastern's campus culture was certainly more fluid in 1968. Student government was officially recognized for the first time. The role of faculty advisers was redefined. Compulsory attendance at convocation was dropped.

But the timing might be more coincidence than watertight theory. For now, let's just call it a wash.