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...take the 20-foot-high prank to its logical extreme. Raise over $30 million. Build a model of a Polaroid camera out of concrete and glass. Build it a hundred feet high. Pack it with elaborate devices and arcane knowledge and wisemen. Drop it on the campus of a large, prestigious university. If the smaller blow-up was funny, this must be hilarious. It would be Harvard's Science Center...
...Yale students who were suspended last month for participation in a dorm prank are suing the university for $25,000, charging that improper procedures were used in handling their discipline cases...
...damage occurred when one dorm decided to retaliate against a prank played on them by a rival dorm. Before the school's annual bladderball game, students climbed up to the dorm roof and dropped the vomit-smelling chemical through a grate into the dining hall during breakfast...
...significance of SAE's action goes far beyond that of a simple jock fraternity prank, rather it serves to symbolize the prevailing attitude towards Chicanos, at Harvard and the society Harvard represents. Actions such as these are but a small part of a more general, more subtle, and more sophisticated method of institutional racism. The total lack of a representative Chicano population at Harvard, the lack of Chicano faculty or courses, let alone a department (No concentration in Latin American Studies is offered), all testify to Harvard's systematic neglect of the Chicano population, or for that matter the Third...
...prank involving the dummy was billed on posters for the event as "Chevy Chase's last pratfall." Chase, no longer with the show, did not come to Cambridge, but he served as the butt of many of the afternoon's jokes...