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In this the 25 th anniversary year of MIT’s most famous student prank (known as hacking in campus parlance) the university has seen fit to formally remind its charges that a prank is not a prank if ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- Caltech students have reclaimed a 3-ton cannon that was swiped by pranksters from MIT. Caltech students recapture their cannon, which had been stolen and moved to MIT, on Monday.

Pranksters have perched replica police cruisers and airplanes atop MIT’s Great Dome, and have even turned it into the R2D2 character from “Star Wars.” But officials of the Massachusetts Institute of ...