Word: pranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...demand comes in wake of the Ad Board's decision to place William L. Kirtley '97 on disciplinary probation for making a prank telephone call for a story in The Crimson's weekly magazine, Fifteen Minutes...
Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III say prank-filled Halloweens are some of their fondest memories...
...have to admit that it did not strike me as that big a deal at first. As I was sitting in the Kirkland House Dining Hall, one of the heads of Room 13, a campus peer counseling service, approached me to complain about a column in Fifteen Minutes titled "Prank Files." She explained that the author of this column, William L. Kirtley '97, had prank-called Room 13, telling the counselor there that he was depressed over Harvard's fall to number three in the U.S. News and World Report rankings...
According to Kirtley, a University employee from the Bureau of Study Council Ad Boarded him for the prank call to Room 13 a few days after the column ran. When the Ad Board met, Kirtley was placed on disciplinary probation. Kirtley's parents received a letter, and his transcript now proclaims that he was on probation during the first semester of his senior year...
Indeed, the hysteria that Kirtley, Kelleher and Sozinho are inciting about the adminstration's violation of the freedom of the press is largely specious. Kirtley was not Ad Boarded for writing a column. On the contrary, he was Ad Boarded for making a prank phone call. In other words, the Ad Board does not only consider prank phone calls made for publication a violation of University rules but all such phone calls. If I had been sitting around making prank phone calls for fun and someone reported me, I too would be punished although I never had any intent...