According to Jon, during the “Purge of "75" Security officers took male drama and ballet students out of their classes to interrogate them and to get the names of any homosexuals they knew.

Because, as Jon said, one of the “codes of behavior” used by gays to identify each other in bathrooms was to tap their foot three times in the direction of the person sitting in the next stall, scores of students working undercover for Security acted as foot-tapping decoys arresting those who responded to their psuedo-advances,

Dave said that Security people also used the gay’s method of passing notes to the person in the next stall to identify homosexuals. Dave also made mention of the purge. “It was January of 1975. It happened within a matter of days and nobody expected it.” Dave described how one day during the purge there were Security officers with walky-talkies on every level of HFAC. “It was all a joke in the Drama department. We had T-shirts made at the Bookstore which read ‘I'm on the list--are you?’ Being that blatant helped people to look at the problem realistically,” said Dave.