Word: qrr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...completely lost hold of its senses. Last week it voted to throw seven freshmen out of school for a year for making the Harvard computer print out "This computer test sucks" several dozen times in a row and perform other electronic tricks as a way of protesting the pesky QRR computer test. It was, said one insider, a prank that "any idiot could have done...
...more troubling problem is that this phenomenal miscarriage of justice is hardly unprecedented. The case of the QRR Seven is just the latest example of the Ad Board meting out sentences way out of line with the severity of the crime. For example, just three months ago the Ad Board booted two Leverett House sophomores for a year after a series of intersuite practical jokes accidentally culminated in a cologne-soaked towel's briefly catching fire...
Yuriko Kuwabara, precept for the QRR testing,said, "I didn't realize they were being AdBoarded." She refused any further comment...
After two of the students involved failed their QRR computer test, they decided to play a "prank," Sugiura said. Using a modem on an Apple IIC computer, the eight hooked into the computer system, he said...
Seven of the eight students crashed the systemanother time that night and once another night.The students were caught when QRR administrators,trying to find the cause of the test-delayingsystem crashes, found one of their names had beenlogged into the system...