Word: prank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week after voting to punish seven freshmen with a year's suspension for a widely publicized computer prank, the Administrative Board yesterday overturned its decision, putting the students instead on disciplinary probation...
...prank came during the final days of testing for the computer portion of the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR), a mandatory test for all freshmen. The pranksters said that they were trying to relieve the frustration of the more than 600 freshmen who had still not passed their QRR test...
...seven also used another student's computer account, one said. However, freshmen familiar with the incident asserted that the prank involved nothing more than the rudimentary commands needed to pass the test...
...voted to throw seven freshmen out of school for a year for making the Harvard computer print out "This computer test sucks" several dozen times in a row and perform other electronic tricks as a way of protesting the pesky QRR computer test. It was, said one insider, a prank that "any idiot could have done...
...dumb prank. And one that, from the facts that have emerged and have been confirmed by Core Curriculum and Science Center officials, clearly called for some kind of College punishment. But these freshmen didn't get a warning. They didn't get academic or disciplinary probation. They didn't get kicked out for one semester. They got a year--a permanent and possibly devastating smear on their records--and absolutely no chance to appeal to another body...