Maybe it was some kids from what I misread as the "New School of Dharma" making the noise (that's actually the "Drama" school).
Thanks.
I have known a number of people in recent years who have chosen New School for its writing-intensive curriculum, small class sizes and Socratic seminar teaching method who were not liberal in the least. Environments like these are a great place for young conservatives to enter the belly of the beast and show liberals, via thoughtful discussion (for which there are many opportunities when a typical course has 10 students), the error of their ways. ;-)