When news broke a fortnight ago that two undergraduates had been arrested in connection with a nude, acid-fueled spectacle in the corridors of Quincy House's C-entry, one could have been forgiven for checking the calendar. Yes, it was 2006, not 1966 -- yet once again, the banks of the Charles were playing host to psychedelic excess.

Thirty-eight hits' worth of excess, to be precise -- the number that the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) allegedly found in the room of Soren J. Siebach '08, as first reported in a February 25 article on the Crimson's website. The other arrestee, whom HUPD has not yet named, was hospitalized for drug treatment after assaulting two officers; naked and "acting in an aggressive and threatening manner," in the words of police logs, he initially eluded capture because his skin was too sweaty to seize.

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