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...Administrative Board has forced a member of the Undergraduate Council to resign because of his involvement last year in a computer prank...
Mitchell and his fellow pranksters programmed the printer in the Science Center to print out, "This computer test sucks" continuously. The prank, for which seven of the eight freshman were originally required to withdraw, interrupted hundreds of freshmen who were waiting to pass the QRR test...
...first it sounded more like a high school prank than a sophisticated criminal enterprise. From 1976 to 1984, according to federal prosecutors, Massachusetts Police Officers Thomas Doherty and Gerald Clemente periodically filched police entrance and promotional examinations to raise the scores of people they favored while lowering the marks of their enemies...
...FROM CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT, read the message on the screen. $12.95/MONTH? NO WAY! (SHOWTIME/MOVIE CHANNEL BEWARE!). The complaint was directed at cable services that scramble their satellite-beamed signals so owners of home dishes can see programs only by buying a decoder and paying a monthly fee. The daring prank captured the nation's fancy but set in motion a high-tech manhunt. Last week, after a three-month investigation, Captain Midnight was unmasked...
...like a fraternity prank--foolish," says former Lowell House resident Richard H. Linden '61, now a member of the Massachusetts civil service commission...