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When universities should refrain from targeting students

April 16, 2012 |

In the past weeks, two independent student newspapers, the Maneater at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the Daily Free Press at Boston University, saw their most prominent editors resign over content in April Fools’ issues of their papers—issues devoted entirely to jokes.

Top 5 April Fools’ Day pranks

April 01, 2011 |

The best thing about April Fools’ Day isn’t the pranks that people pull; It’s the fact that people believe them. Here are five of the best pranks from the last 20 years.

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