Editing Student (section)

==Student pranks==
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University students have been associated with pranks and japes since the creation of universities in the [[Middle Ages]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/pranks.shtml |title=Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library: FAQ Student pranks |publisher=Princeton.edu |date=2012-04-24 |access-date=2012-12-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121202014416/http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/pranks.shtml |archive-date=2 December 2012 |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2006/10/student_pranks.html |title=Blog Archive » Student Pranks |publisher=Kiwiblog |date=2006-10-21 |access-date=2012-12-08 |archive-date=27 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927051051/http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2006/10/student_pranks.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Watts, Jonathan, [https://www.theguardian.com/china/story/0,7369,1075600,00.html "Student prank that gave the Chinese a fit of the willies"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', London, 1 November 2003.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.essaymama.com/blog/student-pranks/ |title=Student Pranks! Attention! |publisher=Essaymama |date=2014-09-03 |access-date=28 November 2014 |archive-date=4 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204031425/http://www.essaymama.com/blog/student-pranks/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Ayala, Jamie,  [http://www.fox11az.com/news/topstories/stories/kmsb-20070614-PEjc-prank.338b9df.html "Sticky student prank injures teacher"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927223648/http://www.fox11az.com/news/topstories/stories/kmsb-20070614-PEjc-prank.338b9df.html |date=2007-09-27}}, ''FOX11AZ.com'', Tucson, Arizona, 14 June 2007.</ref> These can often involve petty crime, such as the theft of [[traffic cone]]s and other public property,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unistudentlife.co.uk/advice-information/nightmare-student-street/|title=Nightmare on student street|date=15 February 2014|author=Tom|publisher=DesignForm|access-date=8 July 2020|archive-date=11 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711072141/http://www.unistudentlife.co.uk/advice-information/nightmare-student-street/|url-status=dead}}</ref> or hoaxes. It is also not uncommon for students from one school to steal or deface the [[mascot]] of a rival school.<ref>Miller, Eli, [http://archive.dailycal.org/article.php?id=10351 "Oski and Tree Have Rowdy, Long History"], ''The Daily Californian'', 22 November 2002. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040920041614/http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=10351 |date=20 September 2004}}</ref> In fact, pranks play such a significant part in student culture that numerous books have been published that focus on the issue.<ref>Peterson, T.F., ''Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT'', 2003.</ref><ref>Steinberg, Neil, ''If at All Possible, Involve a Cow: The Book''</ref>