Word: pranking
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Both locations of the Harvard Bookstore were closed briefly yesterday afternoon after the company's main office on Plympton Street received what appears to have been a prank phone call from a man threatening to set off a bomb in one of the stores...
More characteristic of the attitude toward problems outside of Cambridge was a prank perpetrated by Crimson editors two years earlier. After stealing the sacred mascot of the Lampoon--a large metal stork--the Crimson gave the bird to the Soviet embassy in Washington, a gift from American students to Joseph Stalin. The Lampoon promptly contacted McCarthy's committee to report an incident of obvious Communist sympathizing...
...student who was involved said he hopes the telephone company will be satisfied to get its money back. "It was only a prank, really. I realize how it was a stupid thing to do. We have all learned our lesson," he added...
Members of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity delivered a letter to Gays At MIT (GAMIT) yesterday apologizing for the incident, in which they handed out anti-gay leaflets, and saying it was only a prank...
...certainly didn't know it was a prank and I feared for my safety," she added...