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From homemade torpedoes to purloined police cars, these students’ shenanigans provide not just a chronicle of cleverness, but also shed some light on the history of technological education in America.
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My physics teacher in high school told us about some of the pranks that the engineering students at UBC pulled back in the day. My favorite story was one which is probably better summarized as such from the comments of this [1] article than poorly recalled by me:
I think it was the ingenuity of the “stunts” of these hard working students that leave the greatest impression of the struggles & joys of university life for me .
One that comes to mind was during “Art’s Week” at UBC,
the engineers went on a rampage smashing sculptures, public art work and such around the campus.
Outpouring of indignation for this group of students was huge. Those engineers, whose rallying call was “we can, we can, demolish 40 beer”.
As it turns out, the “priceless” artworks, were created, donated, (probably put in place) by these young engineering students [1] http://trekmagazine.alumni.ubc.ca/2012/januaryfebruary-2012/...