Word: pranking
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...Donnell ’07 said. “So, it should have been stolen.” Students speculated widely as to the identity of the perpetrator and his motives. “My inclination was to think it was a sort of freshman-welcome prank, but that’s a random trick to play,” said Leng. “Somebody who was drunk said, ‘I hate that thing,’ and just took it down,” proposed Joseph F. Medioli ’08, citing the frequent weekend...
James Cavanaugh, regional Special Agent in Charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, says the crime bears the marks of "thrill and excitement" arson rather than a prank. The fires, for example, were carefully set from inside the churches, not outside, as in an impulsive act of vandalism. At Old Union Baptist Church in Bibb County, a large artificial-flower arrangement had been moved to the piano top, under an American flag, presumably to serve as tinder...
...doesn’t alarm him, since he never truly recognized anyone but Andre Logan, Will Venable, and Judson Wallace off last year’s team anyway. So, he proceeds unfazed, even though Luke Owings, Noah Savage, and Scott Greenman seem to be playing a cruel prank on him by only answering to Matt, Jeremiah, and Allan, respectively.Finally, Dragutin Kravic and Dalen Cuff realize that they can’t pretend to be Kyle Koncz and Edwin Buffmire when Columbia comes to town on Jan. 13, so they confess, the real Princeton players are released from their lock...
...daunting test--more like a hazing or a prank--for unsuspecting English majors, Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. has for nearly 2 1/2 centuries been the least-read classic in the canon. The novel is such a wildly, willfully discursive history of its hero and narrator (whose birth does not occur until more than halfway through the book) that the notion of turning it into a 94-min. film raises two stubborn questions...
...also touched on the rivalry aspect, with shots of both a “Yale Sucks” pep-rally flyer and students wearing “Huck Farvard” t-shirts. Distressingly for Harvard students, there was also mention of a now-infamous 2004 prank in which a group of Yale students tricked spectators on the Harvard side of the stadium into spelling out “WE SUCK...