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The Most LEGENDARY College Pranks (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post     First Posted: 06/03/10 06:51 PM ET   Updated: 05/25/11 05:40 PM ET

Some graduating college students feel it's a rite of passage to leave some kind of mark on campus before venturing off into the real world. This can mean anything from installing cars on top of campus landmarks to stealing a sacred cod. Here's a list of the most famous and outrageous pranks ever concocted.


Lady Liberty On Lake Mendota, University Of Wisconsin-Madison
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In 1979, the student body government of University of Wisconsin was led by the infamous Pail & Shovel Party. Their platform? Use the the school's budget for art projects and wacky pranks. Their masterpiece was putting a fake Statue of Liberty in the nearby (and, at the time, frozen) Lake Mendota, placing half of Lady Liberty's head and torch on top of it.
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Some graduating college students feel it's a rite of passage to leave some kind of mark on campus before venturing off into the real world. This can mean anything from installing cars on top of campu...
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Joe Aniol
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08:52 PM on 06/21/2010
The Flamingos on Bascom has also created another Wisconsin tradition, the "Flabongo".
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LMPE
I connect the most dissimilar things
1544 Fans
02:21 PM on 06/12/2010
I've heard about one where people dismantle a car and then reassemble it in someone's dorm.
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Allan Sugar
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11:51 PM on 06/11/2010
Fake plastic flamingos? How did they fake plastic? Plastic flamingos are fake live flamingos.
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Cryostatic
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04:06 PM on 06/17/2010
Semantics are so exciting!
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Randy Shepherd
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04:18 AM on 06/07/2010
i loved the statue of liberty in the middle of a frozen lake.
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carly after
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11:00 PM on 06/08/2010
They put it back up last winter as well.
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daylyly
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10:44 PM on 06/06/2010
Brilliance is thin on the ground here. We lack a vast pool to brag of. Painting cannons pink is lazy! Get to work people!
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Mildmannered
"Be excellent to each other"
322 Fans
06:58 PM on 06/06/2010
Any Army versus Navy pranks?
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Ben Mayne
Freshman, MIT, Biology
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12:22 AM on 06/05/2010
only one prank from MIT in the top 10 is a huge mistake. Caltech probably deserves another one too. especially over the cornell one.
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AlabamaProgress
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05:26 PM on 06/04/2010
Another legendary college prank comes from my Alma Mater, Auburn University. This prank goes all the way back to 1896, when football teams traveled by train to their games.

The night before Auburn was to play Georgia Tech, some clever students snuck out to the Auburn Train Station armed with buckets of grease and lard. They proceeded to grease the tracks for a half mile or so leading into and out of the station. The next morning when the train arrived carrying the Tech players attempted to stop in Auburn, it couldn't get any traction and skidded almost 5 miles before finally coming to a stop! The Georgia Tech players had no choice but to hoof it back to Auburn, where they were easily defeated 45-0.

War Eagle!
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NoahVail
...a curmudgeon from So. Arizona
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11:36 AM on 06/06/2010
Auburn still has an easy schedule.
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blondie471990
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04:31 PM on 06/12/2010
truth.
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jkredwine
and all this is folly to the world
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03:45 PM on 06/04/2010
In a prank which truly embodies the spirit of the University, Rice University's Statue of William March Rice was rotated 180 degrees by a group of engineering students in 1988. What cost them $400 and one hour of time to accomplish cost the university $2000 and three hours of work to undo. I consider that one of the greatest college pranks ever pulled.
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Millertime92
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03:36 PM on 06/04/2010
Their needs to be more pranks by MIT on the list, especially the time they hid a weather balloon under the field at the Harvard Yale Game.
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RightKickFoot
2911 Fans
07:00 PM on 06/04/2010
My alma mater.....

Yes

In 1975, they offered a seminar in Elevator Hacking.....

Someone had actually sealed and filled a dorm elevator with water..
Eventually it Opened on the bottom and those waiting there were drenched...

This seminar was cancelled because folks where starting to do stupid stuff ie.. Elevator Door opens - nothing there...

One time someone took a dead cat and immersed it into liquid nitrogen and then threw it into someone's dorm room. It shattered into a million pieces.... It's quite impossible cleaning up a million shattered pieces of dead cat....
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myjs
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03:16 PM on 06/04/2010
Better photos of the University of Wisconsin - Madison flamingos

www.wisconsinhistory.org/museum/artifacts/archives/001660.asp
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thaneb
75 Fans
03:10 PM on 06/04/2010
MIT Dome pic doesn't show the prank. see, from MIT Tech. Hackers Assn.
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bentz/tha/carondome.jpg
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Mildmannered
"Be excellent to each other"
322 Fans
06:59 PM on 06/06/2010
Thank you.
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PCMinistry
Your Father
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02:01 PM on 06/04/2010
They left out the Noble Noze Brotherhood of Baylor University. Every year this secret society stages numerous pranks on campus. One of which is to turn all the water in the Fountain Mall completely Pink. Another, was to paint numerous statues around campus pink. But in order to get on this list we could harken back to when they unfurled enormous banners on a campus building...http://www.thenoze.org/gallery/pictures/bestof/pictures/15.jpg. Or when they released thousands or ping pong balls on chapel classes one morning...
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truenews
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12:10 PM on 06/04/2010
Nice! There are many more point in time pranks that never were photographed... one is where coople of naked guys run out from some bushes and grab a "planted" potential college student from a college touring party and run with her...

And all the parents and the other real "highschool kids" and the tour conductor (a college kid) are left stunned.... it was beautiful....
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Bex DuSunshine
42 Fans
11:39 AM on 06/04/2010
MIT and C(alifornia)IT have awesome pranks going back and forth. One of my favorites was MIT stole a cannon from CIT and had it on their campus. When CIT tried to come back to get it, they had a bbq ready for them.
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cabaretchatnoir
Student
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04:10 AM on 06/13/2010
A mere copycat of Harvey Mudd's earlier prank of stealing the cannon.
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