The senior class continued the tradition of senior pranks, decorating the school with eggs, flamingos and the customary stacked tables on the morning of Oct. 23.

    As the proverb goes, the early bird gets the worm. However, in this case, the early student got the prank, for the pranksters arrived at school at 4:30 a.m. to conduct their mischievous acts, according to a prankster who requested anonymity. “I don’t think many people got to see it,” sophomore Jennifer Hui said. “I just saw the prank through the courtyard windows because they were locking the doors leading into the courtyard.”
    Of those who did see the prank, many were impressed with its creativity. “The flamingos were pretty original,” sophomore Kimmie Wong said. Freshman Anhthu Tran had a mixed review. “It was funny,” she said. “But it was sort of weird because it was all over the place.”
The administration did not find the prank quite so amusing, however, and quickly cleaned it up before Mod 3 began.
    “I’m really against any type of pranks,” principal Andrew Ishibashi said. “Whenever it takes janitors to clean up, I disapprove of it. I wish (pranksters) would do something (with) more positive energy, something more constructive.”
    Ishibashi saved custodians the trouble of cleaning up this prank by asking students for help. “It took half an hour to clean up with nine other students,” he said. “I thank those students for helping me. We saved all the eggs and we gave them away to different staff members.”
Ishibashi did praise the pranksters for being responsible in cleaning up some of their prank. “At least they threw the egg cartons away in the trash can,” he said. “And to be honest, I didn’t really mind the flamingos. They were kind of cute.”
    Armed with 300 eggs and super glue, the pranksters decorated the courtyard entrances with eggs “every 10 inches or so for about 10 feet deep so it was nearly impossible to walk through,” the prankster said. They glued rows of eggs at the courtyard entrances from the catwalk near the library, as well as near the entrance of dean Ray Cordoba’s office.  

    Four tables stacked between the rows of eggs blocked off the catwalk entrance next to the library, and an inflatable pink flamingo was super-glued to the top of the tables.
For the next phase of their mission, the seniors advanced to the stairs next to the cafeteria. “We grabbed another table and put it sideways across the handrail in the middle and put a little superglue on it just for support,” the anonymous source said. “We also finished off our last 50 eggs or so on that staircase.” The seniors leaned several of the red mats by the Beanery against even more stacked tables for “protection,” according to a prankster. “As a finishing touch, we super-glued a dollar bill to the nose of the flamingo, sort of as a trophy,” the source said.
     More flamingos adorned the catwalk, including on the roof and in the bushes. “One of us also climbed up to the roof and super glued two pink flamingos upside down on the overhang over the catwalk so it made it look like they were walking up to the roof,” the source explained.
     The prank “looked tight and people saw it and were talking about it,” another prankster said.