<p>Are there any funny pranks between colleges?<br>
Like the MIT - CalTech thing and the Cal - Stanford Axe?</p>
<p>The Cal - Stanford Axe isnt a prank.</p>
<p>could you guys elaborate on those two pranks? frankly i dont know much about either. sounds interesting</p>
<p>I know but the history is still funny...</p>
<p>Read this for the axe stuff: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanford_Axe%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanford_Axe</a>
Caltech v. MIT : <a href="http://www.caltechvsmit.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.caltechvsmit.com/</a></p>
<p>what about the harvard and yale one.. the alumni cheering for football prank?</p>
<p>Well... Army Navy and Air Force Usually pull some good ones. Other than the doing Recon Missions to steal the Mascots or whatever, last year Navy kids snuck onto the Air Force Academy and painted one of their jets to look like a Blue Angel.</p>
<p>They Yale kids getting the Harvard fans to hold up cards that spelled out "We Suck" or whatever was great a couple of years ago.</p>
<p>After the war (WWII or Vietnam, can't remember which), some of the Chapel Hill students (former soldiers) had their pilot's license, so they took an airplane and "bombed" Duke with blue paint-filled balloons. I haven't seen any paint stains, though.</p>
<p>Of course there's the recent MIT-Caltech cannon one.. and the CPW prank the year before.</p>
<p>I heard about a load of MIT-Harvard hacks at MIT CPW:
- An MIT kid cross-registering at Harvard conditioned birds with birdseed to swarm onto the football field whenever he blew a whistle. Thus, on the day of the big Harvard-Yale football game, the referee blows the whistle, and lo and behold, a huge mass of birds flies charging onto the fields - cue freaking out and general chaos.</p>
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<li>A few MIT kids released weather balloon things reading "MIT" out of a trap door on the field of a Harvard sports field once during a game - the Harvard president caught them and marched them back to MIT. The Harvard pres found batteries in the MIT kids pockets and took it as proof of their guilt (I think they had to replace batteries for controls or something?).. and asked the MIT pres why anyone would have batteries in their pocket if they hadn't pulled the prank. MIT pres thinks for a bit, then reaches into his pocket, pulls out a couple of batteries, and says "Because just about any student at MIT does." Kids get off scot-free.</li>
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<p>hmm.. are there any Princeton pranks? I'm going there next year, but haven't really heard about any, and I'd like to know more about any quirky sense of humor.</p>
<p><a href="http://hacks.mit.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://hacks.mit.edu/</a></p>
<p>Theres some good MIT hacks on there.</p>
<p>Watch the Harvard "we suck" deal: <a href="http://www.harvardsucks.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.harvardsucks.org/</a>.</p>
<p>Y was that video all choppy?</p>
<p>Yale is too aristocratic and old-fashioned to understand new technology such as "video cameras".</p>
<p>I remember seeing on tv this year when The Virginia Tech students snuck onto the University of Virginia fotball field at night and painted the University of Virginia to look like a Virginia Tech logo on the field. Then they showed on tv the University of Virginia grounds crew scrambling in the morning to clean up the field before the game.</p>
<p>I was there for that game. The UVA students were so pumped up in the beginning, then when we destroyed them 52-14 this one UVA student yelled "Oh well, let's go get drunk!!" Good times :)</p>
<p>This past year a group of UNC students who were going to Duke on some exchange program posed as Duke students and lived in Krzyzewskiville. The night of the Duke-UNC game at Duke, they went in wearing Duke apparell and proceeded to sit behind the Carolina bench and revealed their real Carolina blue colors.</p>
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This past year a group of UNC students who were going to Duke on some exchange program posed as Duke students and lived in Krzyzewskiville. The night of the Duke-UNC game at Duke, they went in wearing Duke apparell and proceeded to sit behind the Carolina bench and revealed their real Carolina blue colors.
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<p>so lame! I'm sure no Dukies cared, or even noticed. The UNC students obviously just wanted to stay in K-ville and knew they'd never be able to under their true identities. wannabes!</p>
<p>Ya that is pretty lame.</p>