NewsMarch 27, 2009

MORAGA, Calif. -- Twenty-two students at St. Mary's College of California have done something their predecessors did 50 years ago: cram into a phone booth. Teams competed to fit as many bodies as possible into a phone booth on the campus green Wednesday, a popular college stunt in the 1950s...

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MORAGA, Calif. -- Twenty-two students at St. Mary's College of California have done something their predecessors did 50 years ago: cram into a phone booth.

Teams competed to fit as many bodies as possible into a phone booth on the campus green Wednesday, a popular college stunt in the 1950s.

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Current students matched the number in the 1959 image, though they failed to break the campus record of 24 set in 1984.

St. Mary's officials say a South African team set the world record of 25 set in 1958.

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