Word: pranks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...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...