When the crowd started surging east, heading toward the stairs near Stover hall, up toward the Marriott Center and the Deseret Towers dorms, Preston, Brian Paris and I all looked at each other, and Brian once again uttered what we were all thinking: "oh crap"
What could we do but join the crowd, and see where things would go? So we all ran up the stairs and past the Marriott Center, and as we approached DT, the crowd settled into a steady chant of "DT sucks! DT sucks!" over and over again, in a driving rythm and chant similar to Queen's famous song 'We Will Rock You'. We saw a few people run out to join the crowd -- and each DT patron who dared approach the crowd was instantly pummeled by 20 or more frenzied Helaman Hall-ers. People were rattling the double glass doors of several of the high-rise dorm buildings, but apparently, according to reports the next day, campus police had alerted the resident assistants at DT of our approach, and they had locked all of the doors before we had arrived. Some claimed the doors were temporarily chained from the inside to keep people from joining the fray.
Things seemed to stall for a moment, and then someone yelled "Heritage!" meaning the other dorms on campus, Heritage Halls. The mob was suddenly on the move, running south across campus. But people didn't stop in Heritage, where scattered people attempted once again to come out and join the mass, and were clobbered by dozens -- a buzz started running through the crowd to head over toward the southwest side of campus. And then someone screamed it, inciting the crowd: "President Holland!"
It was at this point that we stopped. The three of us were now feeling sick. Once again I believe it was Brian who spoke for us all "oh crap, oh crap, oh crap"
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