Caltech Pranks MIT's Prefrosh Weekend

doughnuthole writes "Caltech students ventured to Massachusetts this past Wednesday to unleash a series of pranks at MIT's prefrosh weekend. They distributed shirts with MIT on the front and '...because not everyone can go to Caltech' on the back. They placed inflatable palm trees in the infamous Tomb of the Unknown Tool and around the great dome and floated Caltech balloons in building seven. A banner transformed Massachusetts Institute of Technology into That Other Institute of Technology. Saturday night a LASER spelling the letters C-A-L-T-E-C-H was directed at the top of the Green building. A full account of the pranks is located at www.caltechvsmit.com."

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The Last Caltech/MIT prank...

[boingyzain]

Last time, Caltech students hacked the 1961 Rose Bowl game:

One Caltech student posed as a reporter and 'interviewed' the director of the University of Washington card stunts (such stunts involve people in the stands who hold up colored cards to make pictures). The reporter learned exactly how the stunts were operated, and also that the director would be out to dinner later.

While the director was eating, the students (who called themselves the 'Fiendish Fourteen') picked a lock and stole a blank direction sheet for the card stunts. They then had a printer run off 2300 copies of the blank. The next day they picked the lock again and stole the master plans for the stunts -- large sheets of graph paper colored in with the stunt pictures. Using these as a guide, they made new instructions for three of the stunts on the duplicated blanks. Finally, they broke in once more, replacing the stolen master plans and substituting the stack of diddled instruction sheets for the original set.

The result was that three of the pictures were totally different. Instead of 'WASHINGTON', the word 'CALTECH' was flashed. Another stunt showed the word 'HUSKIES', the Washington nickname, but spelled it backwards. And what was supposed to have been a picture of a husky instead showed a beaver (nature's engineer-- the Caltech mascot).

I grabbed that one from here, which lists a bunch more hilarious ones. --
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[ari_j]

Apu graduated high in his class at Caltech. That is, Calcutta Technical Institute.

Where's the sticker?

[gardyloo]

Best theoretical college in physics and engineering. Best. In the world. Period.

OK, so does it have a big sticker on the front doors? Really, have we learned nothing lately?

Re:oi...

[javaxangel]

Just as soon as you get a login or use your real name :)

DO NOT MOD PARENT OR GRANDPARENT

[ari_j]

Don't mod either of Joe's comments up or down - he corrected his own mistake. We've all done this a bajillion times, especially in the wee hours of the morning, so let's not take it out on Joe just because we've lost karma over it in the past.

Mods: If you have to take out your anger on a comment, mod this one down instead.

Joe: You owe me one, bud. ;-D

34A

[atari2600]

That's the chick's bra size (i read the article and i guessed the size of her organs) - yes i don't belong here.

Great... student prank is stuff that matters ?

[bigmouth_strikes]

Can we please get a OFF-TOPIC topic that I can uncheck in my preferences ?

Thanks in advance.