 By the end of the 1952 spring term the "epidemic" had spread to 52 campuses.At a number of colleges, panty raids functioned as a humorous, "ad hoc" protest against curfews and entry restrictions that barred male visitors from women's dormitories.This was particularly the case at colleges that had recently started admitting women in large numbers for the first time after World War II, where the role of female students on campus had not yet been worked out.