Adams Gong Found!

UPDATED: Apr. 15, 2010, 1:49 a.m.

The famed Adams gong, missing since before Housing Day, resurfaced early Wednesday afternoon—in Eliot House dining hall for all to see, no less. This happened the day before the gong's absence was about to be reported to the Cambridge police.

Merely four hours later, two Adams residents entered the Eliot dining hall to retrieve their prized emblem. According to Alana C. Ju '10—an Eliot national—“the pair stood around awkwardly and walked back and forth for a few minutes, then climbed up to take the gong while making obscene gestures at the honorable denizens of Eliot.”

She added that the two then went on to smear strawberry yogurt all over the white announcement boards. Considering the nature of this new act of vandalism—especially after Adams HoCo had threatened to file a police report for theft of the gong—Ju says that her Eliot compatriots momentarily considered reciprocating.

“For a moment,” she said, “we wondered if we should file a police report or something, but then thought—'No. That would be too douchey.'"

Ju said she herself had no role in stealing the gong and that it “was ‘borrowed’ by an unidentified cohort of brave Eliotites with no ties to our HoCo.”

Photo by Meredith H. Keffer/The Harvard Crimson.