Tufts students tore across campus in rowdy celebration early Monday morning, while others traveled to Boston for a larger riot in celebration of the Red Sox's World Series win over the Colorado Rockies.
"[We] got really excited and ran around campus a little bit," sophomore Pat Tonelli said.
Different groups of reveling students met at the academic quad. From there, they went tearing around campus, stopping at various spots on their victory tour.
"We went to the quad," junior Kenny Fifer said. "There was a bunch of people and as soon as we got there we went down to [President] Bacow's house. He pretty promptly came down and waved at everybody ... He was giving double-thumbs up and waving to everybody and smiling."
From the president's house, the crowd proceeded to the library, which had been locked by the time most of the revelers arrived.
"A couple of us made it in, then [by the time] the large group tried to come I believe it was locked," Tonelli said.
Some students trekked all the way to Boston to watch the game and participate in a raucous post-game celebration in the streets. Thousands of people paraded around the Fenway Park neighborhood. Some fans climbed traffic-light poles and jumped off, and a pick-up truck was overturned as a casualty of the chaos.
"There was a lot of energy because the Red Sox [had] just won and nobody really knew what to do," said sophomore Jon Bornstein, who attended the rally. "So everyone just rioted."
Bornstein said that the youthful demographic of the participants gave the group a common sense of energy.
"It was all college students, so I think that had a lot to do with what the dynamic of what the scene was like," he said.
"It kind of escalated really fast," he added. "At first people started jumping off these lampposts, and then people started jumping off taller lampposts, and then the police came in, and everyone naturally turned their aggression towards the police."
Borstein said he saw some especially rowdy people getting tackled by police, some of whom were mounted on horseback or dressed in riot gear.
"At that point I think the rioting was police-caused, in my opinion," he said. "At the same time, I can't tell if they were right [to actively subdue rioters], because people were jumping off lampposts."
Police made at least 37 arrests, according to the Boston Globe.
-by Giovanni Russonello
