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E-PrinceOn May 9, 1994, MIT students woke up to find a cop car atop the dome of their main building. The car was, in fact, the metal shell of a Chevrolet Cavalier, painstakingly assembled and painted to look just like ...(back to the article)
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I'd like someone to fill every lawn on the whole campus—or maybe just Cannon Green, if that's too much—with little Princeton Pro-Life-style flags.
Can you imagine the fit the administration would throw when they realized that students were actually having fun on campus despite their best efforts? If a hack society started up at Princeton, the Prince would be bashing it constantly and the administration and USG would attempt to regulate it to the point where it wasn't fun anymore - just look at what happened to the Nude Olympics or stealing the clapper. Trust me, I'd be the first to join in some large scale hacks, but the hacks would soon go the way of Pickups - deemed dangerous and offensive, and subsequently banned and slandered in the Prince.
Other notable hacks
MIT students went to CalTech and stole their multi-ton cannon and drove across the country back to Cambridge.
"Wheel of tuition" located at the top of a dome as a protest to rising tuition.
Repainting of the "Smoots" markers on the Harvard bridge annually.
The placing of emergency chainsaws all around campus in glass cases reading "In case of zombie attack, break glass."
Though I never participated when I was there, it was refreshing to see clever and funny things around campus and that the administration condones fun. In the one time I heard that a student got fined for a hack, a professor paid the fine. Its unfortunate that Princeton doesn't have any creative or funny outlets.
Nice article! I always felt the same way. I chose Princeton over MIT, but I would like to see a little bit of nerdy fun (hey, we could even add our own little twist by incorporating all our beloved humanities departments...)
Ditto the above comment.