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Pranks
Lack Originality
by Burke Morton Originality. Far and away one
of the most sought after gifts in the world today. Does the Senior Class have originality? Of course. Does it use it? In the classroom maybe, but not in the
inception of the Senior Prank. Y ear after year, senior classes have rolled the school in someform oranother.Itseems as if the classes have been afraid to break the tradition of rolling the campus. Apparently,
the seniors don't want to be known as "the first class that didn't roll the school." Granted, when the school awoke on the Friday before Homecoming, they saw classrooms set up out- side, a canoe atop the bell, and
Senior Prank Photo Courtesy of Will Jenkins
athletic goals planted on the front lawn. But there was one thing that detracted from it all: once again, V.E.S. had been rolled.
There are a plethora of prank possibilities, many of which should yield at least a hint of amusement from almost all of the faculty without marring the physical appearance of the cam- pus. Imagine the following scenario: The organ pipes in the chapel really work. A group of upper classmen invade the chapel during the wee hours of a Wednesday morning, being quiet and cautious. Each person has a small bag of feathers, each of which is emptied into a dif- ferent pipe. Later, in Chapel that morning, as the Offertory Hymn is begun, laughter pro- liferates throughout the chapel. Okay, so it would violate the spirit of the service, but the sight of streams of feathers erupting from the pipes, forming a cloud and descending on the Glee Club would be more than just a bit amusing. This could be done without real pipes; originality and brain power are all that are
required.
Last year, V.E.S. saw an ex- ample of how not to execute a Senior Prank. On the night of a faculty meeting, the seniors locked the teachers in the lec- ture hall, and proceeded to wreak havoc on the campus. Some teachers took the prank as a personal insult. Some seniors became the victims of their own brainchild. The insulted teachers refused to administer the customary loads of informa- tion into their notebooks and minds. A prank that achieves a faculty reaction of both alarm and grudging appreciation could put an end to the ordinary, and give birth to the sulphitic.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. The tired old cliche has a valid point, and where the senior prank is concerned, a point that needs to be heeded. With a unique and elaborate scheme that demonstrates original thinking, the Senior Class could gain a place in the annals of V.E.S. history worthy of the 75th Anniversary Cele- bration.
unavoidable occurrence, so my words of advice to the ad- ministration are to "grin and bear it" .
Thank God for Senior Pranks
by Erik Kern
An on the eighth day, God
looked over what he had created and saw that there was something missing. After hours of mental turmoil, he finally arose with a relieved smile, and spoke the words "Let there be senior pranks! ' ' and he saw that this was good.
Well, perhaps this is not en- tirely accurate, but I think we understand his intentions. Since the introduction of the senior, a coinciding phenomenon has also been present: the infamous senior prank. The beauty of the prank is to be able to bend the rules and get away with it. Whether it be a strategically placed whoopee cushion or lock- ing up the faculty , the essence of the prank is intended to be humorous and harmless fun.
This year our senior class, considered by many, the most ingenious, hopeful and best- looking class ever to graduate, committed perhaps the most original prank in world history. Clandestinely, they conspired to transplant all classroom facilities to adjacent fields out- side of the buildings, they mov- ed the hockey and field goals to
the front of Jett, instead of roll- ing the school the seniors decorated the pathway to the football field with toilet paper, and placed Mr. Jenkins canoe on top of the bell tower.
The most appealing aspect about this particular prank was that the school itself was not rolled. Though custom dictates that the front lawn should be snowed with Charmin, this year our senior class took the in- itiative to be more creative and targeted the football field as their victim. This in turn had a double advantage as it gave quite a spectacular proscenium for our team to make their debut into the game the following day, not to mention that it was one of the highlights of homecoming.
In retrospect I feel as if the seniors deserve slaps on their backs for not only being in- genuitive but also for their con- sideration of the decorum of the school and its property.
Though the prank may not ap- pear to be especially daring when compared to others, the seniors took delight in missing the first two periods the next day rectifying the situation. (The football decorations were allow-
ed to stay). This is probably not the only prank that will take place this year. I am sure several more are in the process
of being perfected. Perhaps a cow on second Jett would be alarming. I don't know. Never- theless, the senior prank is an
Se11ior Prank Photo Courtesy of Will Jenkins