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toilet seat — the pranks people play on April Fool’s Day range
from simple tricks to elaborate plans, and as another April Fool’s
Day rolls around, students prepare for a day of mischief and may
lem.
I April Fool’s Day originated in the 16th century with the chang
ing of the calendar for the Christian world.
I In 1562, the new year was moved to January 1. Before this
olendar change, the new year fell on April 1.
I Some people did not believe or had not heard about the
.change in date, so they continued to celebrate the new
year on April 1.
I These people had tricks played upon them called
“April fool’s.” Since then, this tradition has been passed
down through societies to the celebrations of today.
I Nadim Nabi, a junior information systems major,
said April Fool’s Day is one of his favorite days because
there are so many things that can be done.
I “Every April Fool’s Day prank I have done has been
so elaborate,” Nabi said. “This day is my favorite be
cause you can be totally evil to someone, and they have
to forgive you because it is April Fool’s Day.”
I April fool’s pranks come in all shapes and sizes. They
can range from the typical high school and dorm pranks
to very elaborate plans that take weeks to plan out.
I Nabi said he has pulled many pranks in the past and has
had many pulled on him.
I “One prank that really got me was when a friend of mine
had me convinced an ex-boyfriend of hers, that I did not like,
had come back into town and proposed to her,” he said. “She
had a ring and was going to quit school and go away and marry
him.
I “She had two accomplices that were calling me and really roped
me into the story, and they led me on for about an hour.”
I April Fool’s Day tricks may be easy to believe for a variety of rea-
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sons. People might fall for these tricks because they are so believable,
or some might just walk into them by chance.
Nabi said he is the victim of pranks all the time because his friends
are good at pulling them.
“I fall for the pranks every time because I am so gullible when it
comes to my friends,” he said. “If they tell me something is wrong,
I just end up falling for it, but I always tend to get even.”
Mac Paradowski, a senior environmental design major, said
all of the pranks he has played or had played on him were the
kind people just walk into.
“Nothing 1 ever pulled was very elaborate, but they were
little pranks that we could pull on any of the guys down the
hall,” Paradowski said. “If we could not plan in the dorm
to get people down the hall, we did not do it.”
Revenge might also be a motive for planning an April
Fool’s Day prank.
Nabi said pulling pranks in revenge are the most fun
to plan.
“The best revenge prank 1 pulled was a collective ef
fort to get even with the two accomplices of the engage
ment incident,” he said. “We got a key to their apartment,
and when they were in class, we went and moved all of
the furniture out of the apartment. It was great! All that
was left was the phone sitting in the middle of the floor.”
For those who are short on ideas today, simple tricks are
the easiest to plan.
Paradowski said a variety of simple tricks people play do
not take a lot of planning.
“One thing you can do is take an envelope and fill it with shav
ing cream, put the open end under a door and then jump on it,” he
said. “That will get shaving creaming everywhere.
“Another simple trick is to take a rope and tie the ends to door knobs
across the hall from each other. The people in the rooms then can not
get out.”
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Hannibal Lecter’s Lewinsky scrawls
return done deal autograph in Paris
•7 pm - Blue Earth, a local pop band, is per-
■ forming at The Crooked Path.
|§ 7:30 pm - StageCenter presents, a pulitzer
prize winning play, “Picnic” at StageCenter.
T17 I • 7 pm - High Stakes Rollers, a bluegrass
yyitl band, is performing at the Brazos Blue Ribbon
Restaurant and Bakery.
• 8 pm - Slick 50 and Split 57, two rock bands,
will be performing at the Cow Hop.
Friday,
April 2
•7 pm - Inspector 12 is performing at The
Crooked Path
• 7 pm - High Stakes Rollers, a bluegrass
band, is performing at the Brazos Blue Ribbon
Restaurant and Bakery.
• 7:30 pm - StageCenter presents, a pulitzer
prize winning play, “Picnic” at StageCenter.
Saturday,
April 3
j.m.
•9 pm John Wick and Full House, two blues
band, will be performing at Sweet Eugene’s
House of Java.
• 9 pm - Last Free Exit is performing at The
Theater.
• 7:30 pm - StageCenter presents, a pulitzer
prize winning play, “Picnic” at StageCenter.
• 7 pm - High Stakes Rollers, a bluegrass
band, is performing at the Brazos Blue Ribbon
Restaurant and Bakery.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Fans of the
cannibal Hannibal Lecter will get another
serving of the character this summer.
Author Tom Harris has finished the se
quel to Silence of the Lambs, the book that
sold 10 million copies and was turned into
an Academy Award-winning movie starring
Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster.
Harris finished Hannibal on March 23.
Dell plans to release it June 8.
Hannibal features the reappearance of
FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. It opens
seven years after Lecter’s stunning escape
from authorities.
“One of his earlier victims uses agent
Starling as bait to draw the doctor into an
intricate and unspeakable design for re
venge,” according to the publisher’s news
release.
Harris created Lecter in his 1981 nov
el Red Dragon and reintroduced him in
1988 in Silence of the Lambs. Red Drag
on was made into the movie called Man-
hunter.
PARIS (AP) — “Bonjour,” Monica
Lewinsky said over and over. “Merci, mer-
ci. Si ... I’m sorry. I mean oui.”
About 300 people, including a healthy
sprinkling of tourists, waited Wednesday
on an unseasonably warm afternoon for
a quickly scrawled autograph in their
copies of Lewinsky book.
“I told her she was a model for mod
ern womanhood,” said Jennifer Turminel,
a Paris psychologist, after she got Lewin
sky’s autograph at a department store
book signing.
Lewinsky was cheerful but busi
nesslike, telling one dawdling autograph
seeker that she was “trying to keep the
line moving.” To each customer she
flashed a quick, broad smile.
‘Music Man’ star
gets birthday gift
SMITHTON, Pa. (AP) — They had trou
ble in River City when Shirley Jones
starred in “The Music Man.” Now the
trouble’s in her hometown.
Marty Ingels, Jones’ husband, wants
to give her a statue and a park for her
birthday, but city officials do not want to
have to maintain them.
Ingels is fed up with the town of 400,
about 30 miles from Pittsburgh, and may
put the statue at Westmoreland County
Community College 10 miles away.
Robertson presents
‘cool’ bible in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) —- It was quite a holy
coterie: gospel singers, tap dancers and
Pat Robertson introducing a “cooler”
Bible.
In what is being billed as “the largest
Bible-reading campaign in the history of
America,” the television preacher hit the
stage Wednesday at Grand Central Ter
minal.
“We want to make Bible reading cool
in America,” said Robertson, introduced
by actress Lynn Whitfield as strobe lights
flashed across the ceiling of the station’s
Vanderbilt Hall.
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