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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...complete surprise to me,” said Mootha. “I was walking in a parking lot when I received a call on my cell phone. At first, I thought it was a prank. I’m still in a bit of a daze...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New HMS Professor Nabs ‘Genius Grant’ | 10/1/2004 | See Source »

...school for sale on the site got a little more interest. The listing, said the Chicago Tribune, promised to throw in the school's chess team if offers topped $5. It garnered more than a dozen bids, the highest at $14,000, before the student declared the auction a prank. School officials, in a surprise move, got the joke and didn't punish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 6/13/2004 | See Source »

While Shofner characterizes himself as the sole architect of the prank, Kowal says he was also involved in the planning...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eight Female Students Punch All-Male Final Club | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

...Shofner told The Crimson that while two women were punched two years prior to his prank, they were refused membership when several influential alumni withdrew their financial support because of the incident...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eight Female Students Punch All-Male Final Club | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

...next morning, we’re on the front page of the Boston Globe,” Shofner recalls, adding that his friends in California heard the story on the radio, and that his father in Tennessee was even contacted by reporters. He attributes the national interest in the prank to surprise that a supposedly liberal university “still had its conservative niche...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eight Female Students Punch All-Male Final Club | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

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