I don't remember any great pranks when I was at the University of Texas, though while living in Jester, we did get some slides of ants (yes the little things that walk on the ground) and project them on the side of the dorm from our window. Had a nice slide show going for an hour or so one night.
There was the usual bit about putting dorm furniture in the elevator (we had a poker game in one during finals). Some guys would put chairs on top of the elevator for a ride. Not recommended. Though it was interesting to talk to the drunks when they got back from pub crawls. (I was in the elevator last night and talked to God...nobody was there...)
Besides the soap in the University fountains (interspersed with food coloring) it was pretty tame. Though there was a marijuana plot (one plant) dedicated to the Board of Regents with a little paper sign.
I did hear from a student at the United States Air Force Junior College (what you called the AF Academy if you didn't graduate) that they moved the F-104 that was on their quad a few times. First time it was done, the AF in its wisdom brought in a crane, lots of engineers and put it back. After the second and third time the super finally declared and amnesty if they would show how it was done. Now the AF spent days moving it and this prank was done overnight. About 50 cadets looked at each other, shrugged, and marched over to the airplane, lifted it up, tilted the wings and got it through the barricade.
And like legions of students, pulled one over the administration.
College: an institution of higher learning where you learn to shoot tennis balls out of coke cans with lighter fluid. Fill soda machines with beer.
There was the usual bit about putting dorm furniture in the elevator (we had a poker game in one during finals). Some guys would put chairs on top of the elevator for a ride. Not recommended. Though it was interesting to talk to the drunks when they got back from pub crawls. (I was in the elevator last night and talked to God...nobody was there...)
Besides the soap in the University fountains (interspersed with food coloring) it was pretty tame.
Though there was a marijuana plot (one plant) dedicated to the Board of Regents with a little paper sign.
I did hear from a student at the United States Air Force Junior College (what you called the AF Academy if you didn't graduate) that they moved the F-104 that was on their quad a few times. First time it was done, the AF in its wisdom brought in a crane, lots of engineers and put it back. After the second and third time the super finally declared and amnesty if they would show how it was done. Now the AF spent days moving it and this prank was done overnight. About 50 cadets looked at each other, shrugged, and marched over to the airplane, lifted it up, tilted the wings and got it through the barricade.
And like legions of students, pulled one over the administration.
College: an institution of higher learning where you learn to shoot tennis balls out of coke cans with lighter fluid. Fill soda machines with beer.