So today, while I should have been studying for my fun and exciting finals, I was thinking about how amusing pranks are and why nobody ever does any on our campus. This needs to change. Right now.
There are plenty of opportunties too - like all those radom statues that were added to campus last year. They make perfect targets. That giant round one outside of Rand, for example, has only one purpose in my mind: to become a giant, wrapped peppermint - either that or a giant snail, if you added a cardboard head and tail on either side.
There is a fine line between pranks and vandalism though, but as long as nothing is damaged, you're fine. For example, I wouldn't recommend spreading fermented fish guts around campus. I've been on the receiving end of that one, and not only does it smell horrible, thus making it vastly less amusing, but it's also technically "toxic waste." In other words, you better have a license for that crap or your ass is going to jail. Along the same lines, taking a sledgehammer to a statue, like of a school mascot, and smashing its face off is probably not going to go over very well either.
Please, for the love of all things holy, SOMEONE PLEASE PULL A DECENT (and hopefully legal) PRANK! And what better time than finals week? As long as you don't somehow disable all the vending machines on campus, prank away my fellow students, prank away.


Senior pranks
My high school (New Trier) was featured on that MTV Show "High School Stories." The idiots that run the school instituted an insane locked door policy (which seemed to revolve around the idea that letting students have access to all of the bathrooms was bad). A couple of students got ahold of the master key, made about a thousand copies, and sent them out to 1/4th of the students, along with a letter pretending to come from the superintendent. It was pretty funny, I have to say. The administration was (obviously) less than pleased- but seriously, if you start locking bathrooms and forcing people to go from floor to floor in the desperate search for an unlocked one, then you deserve whatever you get.
We also are the ones that did the infamous three pigs prank - some group of seniors let three pigs loose in the school. The great part is that they were labeled 1, 2, and 4. So people spent hours searching for pig 3, thinking it had crawled into the airducts and died. V. amusing.
The only pranks that really bug me are the mean ones (like, "so and so's a big ho!") and the ones that just make work for other people. Like how practically every senior class releases a ton of grasshoppers at some point- that's just mean, because then the janitors have to deal with cleaning them up.