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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.
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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
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