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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 1, 2002)
Nfli ^ BATTALI rsen -d from pajj than others, t group affect; ^ho begin i® >r internship! 'ough the eli® Jersen reduces f interviews r many stude said he feels interviewing is week AggieLife THE BATTALION Monday, April 1, 2002 ni flaui alool other firms are interview),ait >ur students to ships,” Beni ^ are plenty o firms.” •>nd group affe, >e students cob :urrent intems! rrsen, w'ho v ed permanent d job offers in May 2003. icstion is whet Jersen can ho nmitments j ijamin said, ndersen car. commitmenti. that they will jobs.” mportantly, .iness school r third group of cted. Many o interned i ist spring and ng this May,* lermanent j his summer. Students celebrate April Fools with mnks and practical jokes By Jesse Wright THE BATTALION T.S. Eliot s poem The Wasteland begins with the phrase, “April is the cruelest month.” [though this may seem to be an exaggeration for the entire month, it can start in a slump for "ime. April 1 is a day when even the wisest may run the risk of being deemed a fool. | According to intoplease.com, April Fools Day dates back to the 16th century, when Pope Iregory VIII introduced the Gregorian calender. Before that period, the Julian calendar was used, Jhich marked New A ear s day as April first. Many die-hard conservatives, as well as those who I d not hear of the change, still continued to celebrate the New Year on April first. These people, tiowere behind the times, were regarded as fools. As the Gregorian years rolled by, April 1 evolved into the day of pranks and practical jokes that celebrated today. Thus anyone is susceptible to become an April Fool, despite their calendar of mice. Pranks can range anywhere from the simple to the extreme. Rebecca Harrison, a senior recreation, parks and tourism sciences major once played an April wlsjoke on her roommate. took a bunch of bubble wrap and lined her bathroom floor with it,” Harrison said. “Then I iscrewed the light bulbs so she couldn’t turn on the light and see the floor. She woke up early pril Fools day and went into the bathroom. When she walked in, the bubble wrap started popping L , she walked on it. She screamed, I laughed.” Some April Fools jokes go far beyond the popping of packaging material. Robert Parr, a graduate student in the department of mathematics, remembers some April Fools anks from when he was an undergraduate student at Southwestern University. “Iwas in a fraternity, and every year someone would do something crazy on April Fools Day,” arrsaid. "One year, a guy found a dead deer carcass and put it in another guy’s bed. It stunk up ; graduating , these stud rambling to en now, May Juation dates sblem is we dot going to n said it Anaen leentire frat h ouse so bad that we cou i dn ’ t even „ 0 inside.” rv ir TV ... Parr said retaliation was common from April Fools day victims. Often, the person doing the Parr said that, much to the chagrin of many on campus, several of the pranks pulled by his fra- trnity brothers involved roadkill. “Another time, one of my fraternity brothers mailed a dead raccoon to another frat member. The ! )Campus post office called him and said, ‘Sir, you have a package here, and it’s really starting to c mell,”’Parr said. The pranks and practical jokes that Parr remembers that did not include roadkill were still not _ - :asan t the April Fool who fell victim to them. He said one of the more common pranks played lealingwithasta was a practice called “Breakfast in Bed.” In this practice, eggs, syrup, ketchup, and any other time,’ Benjatni messy or gooey substance would be smeared, dripped and spread all over the unsuspecting April are goiri? to d 1 Pool’s bed. we cat to don’t commitment i also epartmerf s ;ess to:4 - ’ accountin'; * rsen loses iti ■■ able company ptcy. e big quesM; said, “is I' :rsen continins anization.’ FRANK CHANCE • THE BATTALION fooling would become the fool himself. “People would get mad at some of the pranks sometimes. But once they got the person was all okay, and we could all laugh about it,” Parr said. back, it foil can ... in just a few days hursday, an “TriathleJ :eives awa: aldo serves j opportunin • for the Te« g Extensifj Researj ice. --r' ..-**&* . SPORTS ' t~> ' ' , ' ‘ V " ::v : x- . ^ , >' : ^ <r : ; ■ 0m ■ ^ -v' - , - jz, i ' ■■ • v ^ s 'v. editor lief i rector o Editor p ro du« r naster Friday dll'" net sess'»»; als lattaliond 8 &M UnWj 5 r i45-2U 4 ' indorse" 1 ®’; 2696. F° r ; I student^ ,iisubsc" : summ e, 5 .26lf •scover The Backyard'—Spring into the nice weather outside ar >d discover your 'Backyard' facilities at the Rec Center. The a d<yard' is home to outdoor basketball courts, sand volleyball spurts, an outside lap pool and recreational pool, picnic tables, t a h nd locker room facilities. Take a break during lunch or after 31 Workout inside and get some sun lounging poolside, ornething for everyone in 'The Backyard'! 7 an 'Outdoors'Trip—Visit TAMU Outdoors to plan your next ^ ee kend adventure or sign up for one of our structured trips, utdoors is located behind the Rec across from Olsen Field. PBs With Rec Sports I < £ p k h i cU v ou ' Assistant—Creative? 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