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Smith Party Busted by Pipe,
Police and Prayer
Smith College (MA)

by Hallie Cowan

One prayer from our September Prayer Walk around campus was dramatically answered almost two months later. After we broke up into small groups to go pray in different parts of the campus, one small group went to a dorm and prayed that Smith College’s infamous “Immorality Party” (a wild, clothing-optional event that has been held there every Halloween weekend) would not be held that year. That prayer was lifted up by Smith Christian Fellowship all semester. The party was scheduled for a weekend that SCF was away for a retreat. When we left, there were ads for the party all over campus.

On Saturday night, at the hour the party was to begin, we huddled together at Toah Nipi Retreat Center in New Hampshire, and prayed again that the party would not happen. One first-year student felt led by God to pray that the dorm’s basement would flood to stop the party! When we returned to campus the next day, we heard a remarkable story. Hundreds of people from all over New England had come early for the party and they were so unruly that they attracted the police. Two male partiers came up to the dorm and, unable to get in the front door, broke into a basement window. As they climbed in, they stepped on the washing machine hook-up, breaking the pipe, and flooding the basement. At 10:30 p.m., a half hour after the party was to begin (and at the exact time we were praying in New Hampshire), the police shut down the party because of the flooded basement!

It doesn’t stop there. During the following week there were signs inviting students to a student government discussion about Smith’s “reputation in New England” and whether events like the Immorality Party should continue. We saw that this dramatic answer to prayer could also mark the beginning of a quiet reform movement on campus.