In a news brief on the event, the official Harvard Alumni Bulletin was quick to note that Harvard has "few (if any)" pay toilets.

Kennedy was in town for a convention of the Feminist Party, which included quotations and the performance of a satirical "Cinderella."

Though her only pee-in, the Harvard protest was not Kennedy's only foray into urinary politics: She was involved in planning the "Hollywood Toilet Bowl" festival, a protest of the treatment of women in the media, which also took place in 1973.

And in her autobiography, she recalls a protest she attended in the '60s in which her colleague Kate Millett set up a toilet stool outside the Colgate-Palmolive building in New York City and covered it with Colgate products.

As Ellen Frankfort wrote in the Village Voice, Kennedy tried to use "illogic to prod into consciousness the undercover connections between the wastes of the body and the stench of the body politic."

Kennedy knew that lot of people thought she was off her rocker.

"A lot of people think I'm crazy," she is quoted as saying in Sydney Stern's biography of Gloria Steinem. "Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren't like me."