Caltech Goes Low Tech to Get Its Cannon Back (from MIT)

[papau]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cannon11apr11,0,1900487.story?track=tottext

From the Los Angeles Times
Caltech Goes Low Tech to Get Its Cannon Back
A copter raid? A taunt on scaffolding? Calling MIT police first? What were they thinking?
By Paul Pringle
Times Staff Writer

April 11, 2006

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Cannon retrieval may not be rocket science, but a group of intrepid, cross-country-trekking Caltech students has learned it isn't much easier.

On Monday, two dozen of the Pasadena-based scholars used more brawn than brains here to recover a 111-year-old cannon that Massachusetts Institute of Technology pranksters had swiped from Caltech last month.

Shortly after 7 a.m., in a chill coming off the Charles River, Caltech junior Scott Jordan exhorted his schoolmates to roll the 3-ton Fleming Cannon off a cobbled MIT courtyard, where it had rested trophy-like since Thursday.<snip>

The latest skirmish in the two schools' recent prank war also provided some practical life experience to the budding scientists and engineers.<snip>

[dr.strangelove]

1. I LOVE these prank wars

CalTech are masters though. They will get revenge.

did you watch the pic in the Globe of the MIT bikini team around the cannon. Pasty white bikini clads nerds, reminded me of my friends in high school on our trip to Cancun.

[papau]

2. I saw that and it was neat - and my money is MIT to come out on top!

I have to be loyal to my old school.

We did simple things back then - the VW take apart and put together in someones room was popular.

And the take a police car apart and put back together on top the Building 10 Dome was excellent (even had a dummy cop holding coffer and a donut - but you could not see that detail from the street).

The hidden balloon that came up from the grass to around 15 feet in size in the middle of a Harvard football game was excellent (not done my class - done 25 years later - but still excellent).

It is hard to remember having that much energy and a body that could move easily!

[dr.strangelove]

3. Funny Stuff

It must have been a fun time in your life.

[papau]

4. It was - but it was also when I was young- I think I miss being young more

:toast:

:-)