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...that pride is not shared by all the students. Vandalism is a problem; a favorite prank is to smash the school's two-story glass windows, which cost $700 each. Last year's damage bill came to almost $30,000 ?close to what the school spent on textbooks. The great majority of students could not care less about their school. "The school spirit...
...generals largely endorsed the academy's superstrict honor code but urged officials to differentiate "between a college prank ... and a serious intent to deceive, which compromises honor." For example, the study noted the "classic dilemma [of] whether placing unauthorized articles in a laundry bag is an honor violation." As further morale boosters, the generals urged the Point to foster a sense of humor among cadets-and produce a winning football team...
...with One Black Shoe) juggles sever al subplots that are sometimes amusing but do nothing for the film's cohesiveness. The main one involves Rochefort's three colleagues in adultery - a sort of Gallic answer to John Cassavetes' Hus bands. Their best scene: on a prank, one of them wreaks havoc in a fancy restaurant by flailing about disguised as a blind man. Then, after further appalling on lookers by lurching off into the night be hind the wheel of a car, he murmurs to his pals, "It was more fun at Chauveron...
Carrington, who also founded the Harvard chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (an event that was followed by the burning of a cross as a "prank" in front of a suite of black students' rooms in the Yard), said that students who were involved in civil liberties issues were a distinct minority on campus. "Some of us were very active in fighting loosely defined 'anti-subversive' state legislation but on the whole ours was indeed the silent generation." Even those who were involved in civil liberties issues "were often hawks on foreign policy...
Telephone Prank No. 109 (Note: These mini-pranks are described only so that students may be enlightened as to the higher and more creative uses of the Centrex system.) When my freshman roommate was lonely, he would call, on the phone, every room in our dorm, and ask for himself. It was somehow reassuring to him to hear dozens of students tell him that "No, he doesn't live here, he lives downstairs," and it was double reassuring to have those same students come up to my roommate the next day and ask him if he ever got that call...