The members of PEACE LOVE UNITY RESPECT (PLUR) lip-sync pop favorites in the Pforzheimer House Dining Hall last night, including *N Sync’s “It’s Gonna Be Me” and DJ Funk’s “Ass and Titties.”

It happened for Backstreet, it happened for *NSync, and it happened for O-Town in front of millions on ABC’s “Making The Band” every Friday.

But for Peace Love Unity Respect (PLUR), Pforzheimer House’s very own “man band, not boy band,” last night was their turn to shine.

Last night, the boys of PLUR officially became men, spreading their positive message to a packed Pfoho Dining Hall at the house’s Thursdayfest, affectionately rechristened “Plursdayfest” for the night.

As O-Town has shown, the road to pop glory is a trying one, wrought with heartbreak, sweat, and toil.

It’s a tough game, but they are ready: For 25 rehearsals, the group has toiled in the Cabot dance studio, according to Albert J. “Kaptain Korea” Lim ’04, and they’ve perfected their turns, jumps and sways in pursuit of bubble gum greatness.

For PLUR, which also includes David B. “Jay-Dee” Adelman ’04 and Ryan G. “Arnold Schwarzenpecker” White ’04, the dream of greatness began while recovering from a Friday night party during their Yard days, when a passing remark was made about starting a boy band.

The next weekend, while watching a movie, the boys were struck with a flash of inspiration that solidified the deal.

“Ryan made us watch Groove,” he says, referring to a film which explores the San Francisco rave scene, “and they say ‘PLUR,’ which stands for peace, love, unity and respect.”

“We thought it would be the perfect name for the boy band we talked about starting the weekend before,” he recalls.

With White taking the helm of the choreography duties, the boys decided to make the dream a reality.

Sue Chang ’04 recalls hearing “lots of thuds” living under Adelman’s Canaday suite.

“When I finally went to go see what they were doing, I was captivated,” says Chang, the self-proclaimed “original PLUR fan.”

The next year, Chang and her blocking group, living in Pfoho along with the PLUR boys, were determined to make the dream a reality.

They begged the boys to enter their live act in Pfoho’s charity Dutch Auction. At the last minute, Adelman gave in and a single PLUR Thursdayfest performance was put up for auction.

Unfortunately for the girls, however, PLUR, which also included Seth N. “Fatboy” Kisch ’04 at the time, was sold for $90 to another blocking group. In the same auction, PLUR bought the naming rights to their Thursdayfest for $65.